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  • Peter Sculthorpe

    The Making of an Australian Composer

    by Graeme Skinner ...
    Peter Sculthorpe, who died in 2014, remains Australia's best-known composer and is widely held to be the most important creative musical spirit the country has produced. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorized biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe's formation years: his quest for personal voice, and his arrival – through many creative friendships and collaborations ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eliza Hamilton Dunlop

    Writing from the Colonial Frontier

    by Katie Hansord, Jason Rudy, Stuart Gibson, Dr Peter Minter, Dr Graeme Skinner, Dr James Wafer, Professor Duncan Wu ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796–1880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and became almost immediately notorious for her poem “The Aboriginal Mother,” written in response to the infamous Myall Creek massacre. She published more poetry in colonial newspapers during her lifetime, but for the century following her death her work was largely neglected. In recent years, however, critical interest in Dunlop has ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

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  • A Lasting Record

    by Stephen Downes ...
    The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius.A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime, William Kapell was acknowledged to be 'the greatest pianistic talent since Horowitz'. Yet his return flight from Australia - where he toured in 1953 - ploughed into a mountain south of San Francisco and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Give Me Excess of It

    by Richard Gill ...
    Richard Gill is one of Australia's best-known - and best-loved - musical figures. His career has taken him from teaching music in Sydney's western suburbs to Music Director of the Victorian Opera, and along the way an involvement with almost every major opera company and orchestra in Australia.What truly distinguishes Richard is his passion and enthusiasm for spreading not just the joy of music, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Electric Eden

    Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

    by Rob Young ...
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleIn the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots music and update them for the new age. The records of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, and Nick Drake are known as "folk rock" today, but Rob Young's epic, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Life and Death of Classical Music

    Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

    by Norman Lebrecht ...
    In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording has reached its end ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Australian Classics

    50 great writers and their celebrated works

    by Jane Gleeson-White ...
    What are the classic works of Australian literature? And what can they tell us about ourselves and the land we live in? Providing a selected overview of Australia's greatest literature, Australian Classics is an accessible companion to our literature and a story of writing in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present.Australian Classics celebrates many of the country's beloved novels, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Beethoven Obsession

    by Brendan Ward ...
    A fast-paced drama of frustration, envy, rivalry, struggle and success, this work tells the story of the intertwined lives of four people: Ludwig von Beethoven; a concert pianist who was a self-taught child prodigy; a fanatical inventor who disassembled pianos as a child; and a television cameraman who became a music entrepreneur in order to translate the music he loved into the first recording of ... Read more

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  • The Classical Music Map of Britain

    by Richard Fawkes ...
    The Classical Music Map of Britain is a charming and thoroughly interesting journey around our country from a classical music perspective. From Frith Street in Soho, where Mozart stayed and performed free street concerts during his only trip to England, to Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan, where Joseph Parry was born and raised until he was 13, The Classical Music Map of Britain is an enchanting ... Read more

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  • Britten's Children

    by John Bridcut ...
    Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Man with the Golden Flute

    Sir James, a Celtic Minstrel

    by Sir James Galway ...
    The internationally acclaimed, widely beloved flutist reflects on his storied careerSir James Galway is one of the top musicians of our time, with a dazzling career that has spanned five decades and many genres of music. Now he celebrates his seventieth birthday with a look back on his incredible career, during which he has traveled around the world many times over and made countless friends, ... Read more

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  • W. H. Auden

    A Biography

    by Humphrey Carpenter ...
    W. H. Auden disapproved of literary biography. Or did he? The truth is far more equivocal than at first seems apparent. There is no denying he delivered himself of such unambiguous pronouncements as 'Biographies of writers are always superfluous and usually in bad taste.'; and that he asked for his friends to burn his letters at his death, but, against that, Auden himself often reviewed literary ... Read more

    $18.99 USD