Why We Sing

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‘A must-read for anyone moved by the power of song’ – Lesley Garrett, CBESinging has always been there for us, at the root of what it is to be a human being. Through personal anecdote and scientific f …

Music Advantage

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Brain research has revealed something extraordinary: learning music and listening to music can grow and repair our brains at any age.Simply clapping in time can assist a young child who is struggling …

Last Chance Texaco

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A Book of the Year in Rolling Stone, Uncut, Mojo, The Telegraph and the Glasgow HeraldThis troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and …

Girls at the Piano

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Virginia Lloyd spent much of her childhood and adolescence learning and playing the piano and thought she would make a career as a pianist. When that didn’t happen, she spent a long time wondering abo …

Danger Music

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Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience — from learning the viola as a child, to playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and moving to Australia to present an extremely successful ABC Class …

Every Note Played

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A virtuoso performance by the bestselling author of Still Alice, Lisa Genova delivers a stunning novel of finding harmony amidst the most tragic of situations.An accomplished concert pianist, Richard …

The Prague Sonata

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Pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript – the gift of a Czech immigrant living in Queens – come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short b …

Anatomy of a Song

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Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits transcend commercial value, touching a generation of listeners and altering the direction of music. In Anatomy of a Song, writer and …

Mozart in the Jungle

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Now a major Amazon.com TV series starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal.From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to performing with the orchestras of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, oboist Blair Tindall has be …

Orfeo

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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORYLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDComposer Pete …

Where Have All the Good Times Gone?

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Louis Barfe’s elegantly written, authoritative and highly entertaining history charts the meteoric rise and slow decline of the popular recording industry. Barfe shows how the 1920s and 1930s saw the …

Jazz

This collection includes Leonard’s classic photographs of the greats of jazz: from Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dexter Gordon to Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. His uniquely evocative and cinem …

This Is Your Brain On Music

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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book AwardThe Independent best books of the yearThe Guardian best books of the year This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experie …