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Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Hans Mersmann (Selected by); M. M. Bozman (Translator)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Mozart was a faithful correspondent, and this full and expert collection of more than 100 letters covers his brief and tumultuous life, from the years when the child prodigy astonished the courts of Europe to his final days, when he wrote loving notes to his wife and long, money-seeking letters to frien ...Show more
Opera in New Zealand - Aspects of History and Performance by Adrienne Simpson (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater by Garry Wills
$14.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In "Verdi's Shakespeare, " Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: "Macbeth, Othello, " an ...Show more
Tikopia Songs - Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands by Raymond Firth; Mervyn McClean
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sir Raymond Firth is the most distinguished living British anthropologist, and one also internationally acclaimed. His latest work forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a nonindustrial people, an account which extends over many years. This ...Show more
Piano Forte: Stories and Soundscapes from Colonial New Zealand by Kristine Moffat
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The phrase 'colonial New Zealand piano' immediately and inevitably conjures up the image of the grand piano on a deserted beach that is the leitmotif of Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano: both a powerful symbol of the incongruity of the piano in this context, its status as 'alien' intruder, and a movin ...Show more
Hawaiian Music and Musicians - An Illustrated History by George S. Kanahele (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Lennon Legend - An Illustrated Life of John Lennon by James Henke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Presented in a handsome slipcase, Lennon Legend is both an illustrated and an interactive biography of the creative genius - songwriter, artist, social activist - who changed his times. Created with the cooperation of Yoko Ono Lennon, who has opened her archives for this project, the book offers insight ...Show more
Faithfully Mozart - The Fantastical World of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Donovan Bixley
$16.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In this charming and very personal tribute, artist Donovan Bixley offers a portrait of the composer that will change forever the way he is viewed. Share in his triumphs and his despair, his laughter and his tears, as Mozart and his world are brought to vivid life in nearly one hundred original drawings ...Show more
Roger Steffens & Peter Simon's Reggae Scrapbook by Roger Steffens & Peter Simon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
From its birth in the vibrant Kingston ghettos through it phenomenal popularity in the 1970s to its iconic standing in today's global culture, reggae and its close relations - ska, rock steady, dj, dub, dancehall, and raggamuffin - have taken the world by storm. In The Reggae Scrapbook, scintillating wo ...Show more
Private Presley - Elvis in Germany- The Missing Years
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
The photographic material and extensive research undertaken for this book over an eight-year period by a German private detective, Andreas Shroer, shed light on Elvis Presley's US Army posting to Germany between 1958 and 1960. First-hand accounts of the life-style he enjoyed expose short-lived love affa ...Show more
Bernie Taupin - The One Who Writes the Words for Elton John by Bernie Taupin
$16.00 NZD
Category: Music