A National Treasure - Celebrating the Life and Achievements of Larry Sitsky by Jeanell Carrigan AM and Rita Crews OAM
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Not just a biography, this book traces the family history from Sitsky's childhood in China, the family's emigration to Australia, his studies at the NSW Conservatorium, the inspiration for his many works and his teaching at the Canberra School of Music, ANU of which he was a foundation member. With defi ...Show more
The Shortest History of Music by Andrew Ford
27.99 AUD
Category: Music
From award-winning broadcaster and composer Andrew Ford, The Shortest History of Music is a lively, authoritative tour through several thousand years of music. Packed with colourful characters and surprising details, it sets out to understand what exactly music is - and why humans are irresistibly draw ...Show more
Radio Birdman: Retaliate First by Murray Engleheart
36.99 AUD
Category: Music
The first-ever in-depth biography of iconoclastic Sydney punk band Radio Birdman. Sydney's legendary Radio Birdman were a stake through the satin and scarfed hearts of the early seventies' music scene, revolutionising the conservative Australian industry in the process. Regarded as one of the earliest ...Show more
Jazzy Adventures for Two Hands
18.99 AUD
Category: Music
A mix and match book which provides the tools for a young pianist to learn some very simple left hand bass patterns and improvise with groups of notes in the right hand which are found in easy, well-worn jazz blues patterns.
Aussie Rock Anthems - Top 40 by Glen Humphries
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Stunningly designed flexibound book profiling the top 40 most famous Australian pop and rock songs. What a famous song is about and what you think it's about aren't always the same thing. National Anthems names the top 40 classic Australian songs and tells the stories behind them - many unknown. From Hu ...Show more
Music Theory Note by Note: Your Guide to How Music Works-From Notes and Rhythms to Complete Compositions by DK
42.99 AUD
Category: Music
This concise and clear guide to simplified music theory teaches readers who play music by ear how to read musical notation by guiding them through the basics of reading and composing music to share with others.In this revised edition, renowned music author Michael Miller will help you learn: The basi ...Show more
Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly by Paul Kelly
29.99 AUD
Category: Music
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music. Have you ever wondered where our music comes from? How did we arrive here, a place where we can have a hundred musicians on stage playing the wildest rhyth ...Show more
Captain Thunderbolt's Recital by Jane Jolly
24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Age range 4+Captain Thunderbolt was known as the ‘gentleman bushranger’. He didn’t like violence, was always polite, and even paid back most of the money he stole. In Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital, author Jane Jolly retells the true tale of one of the bushranger’s most famous robberies with comic effect ...Show more
New York City Glow (Graphic) by Rachel Coad
34.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
A snake, an octopus and the near death of Johnny Ramone. The almost true account of the 1977 New York City blackout.Set in the 1970s, the story's capstone is the 1977 New York City blackout.Ray the snake is a sad, lonely, middle aged insurance salesman from Midway Kentucky, looking for a better life. St ...Show more
No Bull by Linda Bull, Vika Bull
35.00 AUD
Category: Music
While most music careers stalled during the pandemic, Vika and Linda Bull soared with two chart-topping albums as they became beacons of warmth in uncertain times. For three decades they were best known as backing singers and collaborators to some of Australia's biggest artists, but it was when the worl ...Show more
Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Story of Modern Pop by Bob Stanley
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Stanley is both a fine writer and an impassioned celebrant of pop in all its mongrel, misfit glory.'STUART MACONIE, THE TIMESThere have been many books on pop music but none have attempted to chart its entire story, from thedawn of the charts in the fifties to pop's digital switchover in the year 2000, ...Show more