Jessica Khoury

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Indiana

Humor and heart shine in this middle grade fantasy about a girl who attends a boarding school to learn how to use music to create magic, perfect for fans of Nevermoor and The School for Good and Evil series.

Amelia Jones always dreamed of attending the Mystwick School of Musicraft, where the world's most promising musicians learn to create magic.

So when Amelia botches her audition, she thinks her dream has met an abrupt and humiliating end--until the school agrees to give her a trial period. Amelia is determined to prove herself, vowing to do whatever it takes to become the perfect musician. Even if it means pretending to be someone she isn't.

Meanwhile, a mysterious storm is brewing that no one, not even the maestros at Mystwick, is prepared to contain. Can Amelia find the courage to be true to herself in time to save her beloved school from certain destruction?

The Mystwick School of Musicraft

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#hardcover #firstedition #africanamerican #music 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

African American Divas of Opera and Concert

Profiles of great black American female singers whose careers broke color barriers, such as Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price.

And So I Sing

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Sheila E.

Wendy Holden

Michigan

A Memoir

The Grammy Award-nominated music artist traces four decades of Latin and pop music, sharing intimate details from her tours with fellow artists and her solo career while revealing how her faith has helped her work through her painful experiences with sexual abuse. 75,000 first printing.

The Beat of My Own Drum

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David M. Huber

First edition. Very slight wear on the corners. Great manual for audio engineers/recording engineers. Crisp, clean copy.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New Mexico

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Design and Application

The Microphone Manual

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#beatles #autobiography #compilation #music #vintage

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Beatles In Their Own Words

Anton Corbijn

1997 first English edition by Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, New York. Printed in Italy. Preface from Bono of U2. This volume is the collection that catapulted Corbijn’s career even more forward as a photographer. Many, many iconic photographs of pop/rock/jazz/funk stars - including U2, Kate Bush, Miles Davis, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits and many more. Highly collectible and scarce volume. There is very little to no wear on the book itself or it contents. The jacket is showing some shelf wear with slight folds and small tears. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Photographs, 1976-88

A collection of his earlier photographs, "Famouz" clearly and eloquently presents the origins of the artistry that has made Corbijn one of the most sought-after portrait artists of his generation. From a pensive Peter Gabriel to an aerial view of Sinead O'Connor to U2 in front of a real Joshua tree, the signature of Corbijn's work is its resolute lack of glitter, showing the stars stripped of stardom, their humanity on display. 105 duotone photos.

Famouz (1997, 1st English Edition)

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Bastien Scales, Chords and Arpeggios Pf

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Berry Gordy

First Edition, First Printing 1994. Motown Museum sticker on cover. Minor scuffs on dj from reshelving. Book is new and unread! 

The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown

To Be Loved

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Extremely rare new edition in never-opened Mylar bag. Book is in perfect condition. Highly collectible. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Jeremy McCarter

Ohio

The Revolution

Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions of theater, this once-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap, and claims our country's origins for a diverse new generation. HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION gives readers an unprecedented view of both revolutions, from the only two writers able to provide it. Miranda, along with Jeremy McCarter, a cultural critic and theater artist who was involved in the project from its earliest stages--"since before this was even a show," according to Miranda--traces its development from an improbable performance at the White House to its landmark opening night on Broadway six years later. In addition, Miranda has written more than 200 funny, revealing footnotes for his award-winning libretto, the full text of which is published here. Their account features photos by the renowned Frank Ockenfels and veteran Broadway photographer, Joan Marcus; exclusive looks at notebooks and emails; interviews with Questlove, Stephen Sondheim, leading political commentators, and more than 50 people involved with the production; and multiple appearances by President Obama himself. The book does more than tell the surprising story of how a Broadway musical became a national phenomenon: It demonstrates that America has always been renewed by the brash upstarts and brilliant outsiders, the men and women who don't throw away their shot.

Hamilton

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Judith Chernaik

Very good clean tight unread condition. Very good intact dust jacket. First edition.

The Faces and the Masks

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann’s nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many “masks” that gave voice to each corner of his soul. The son of a book publisher, he infused his pieces with literary ideas. He was passionately original but worshipped the past: Bach and Beethoven, Shake­speare and Byron. He believed in artistic freedom but struggled with constraints of form. His courtship and marriage to the brilliant pianist Clara Wieck—against her father’s wishes—is one of the great musical love stories of all time. Chernaik freshly explores his troubled relations with fellow composers Mendelssohn and Chopin, and the full medi­cal diary—long withheld—from the Endenich asylum where he spent his final years enables her to look anew at the mystery of his early death. By turns tragic and transcendent, Schumann shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly—and timelessly—to the heart.

1st ed. * Schumann

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Philip Glass

 Very good clean tight copy. Very good dust jacket. Collector’s.

The long-awaited memoir by “the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers” (New York Times). A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art. "If you go to New York City to study music, you'll end up like your uncle Henry," Glass's mother warned her incautious and curious nineteen-year-old son. It was the early summer of 1956, and Ida Glass was concerned that her precocious Philip, already a graduate of the University of Chicago, would end up an itinerant musician, playing in vaudeville houses and dance halls all over the country, just like his cigar-smoking, bantamweight uncle. One could hardly blame Mrs. Glass for worrying that her teenage son would end up as a musical vagabond after initially failing to get into Juilliard. Yet, the transformation of a young man from budding musical prodigy to world-renowned composer is the story of this commanding memoir. From his childhood in post–World War II Baltimore to his student days in Chicago, at Juilliard, and his first journey to Paris, where he studied under the formidable Nadia Boulanger, Glass movingly recalls his early mentors, while reconstructing the places that helped shape his artistic consciousness. From a life-changing trip to India, where he met with gurus and first learned of Gandhi’s Salt March, to the gritty streets of New York in the 1970s, where the composer returned, working day jobs as a furniture mover, cabbie, and an unlicensed plumber, Glass leads the life of a Parisian bohemian artist, only now transported to late-twentieth-century America. Yet even after Glass’s talent was first widely recognized with the sensational premiere of Einstein on the Beach in 1976, even after he stopped renewing his hack license and gained international recognition for operatic works like Satyagraha, Orphée, and Akhnaten, the son of a Baltimore record store owner never abandoned his earliest universal ideals throughout his memorable collaborations with Allen Ginsberg, Ravi Shankar, Robert Wilson, Doris Lessing, Martin Scorsese, and many others, all of the highest artistic order. Few major composers are celebrated as writers, but Philip Glass, in this loving and slyly humorous autobiography, breaks across genres and re-creates, here in words, the thrill that results from artistic creation. Words Without Music ultimately affirms the power of music to change the world.

First edition , first printing *Words Without Music

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The Garden paperback book & popular song by Joe Raposo, illustrated by Lorraine Shirkus. Song was sung on Sesame Street. A beautifully illustrated educational children’s book on the earth/planet & environment & keeping it clean. This book is rare/hard to find. 

The Garden

Priscilla Presley

Sandra Harmon

Book is in excellent condition for its age. Does have an “old book” smell.  

Tennessee

The woman whom Elvis decided to marry when she was an innocent fourteen-year-old writes candidly about their twelve years together, about Elvis the husband and father, and about his drug-wracked decline and death

Elvis and Me

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Still wrapped copy of Take Me Down dark and quirky edition with artwork

Virginia

Special edition dark and quirky with artwork

Take You Down

Dayton Duncan

Ken Burns

Never opened. Given as a gift years ago and just sat around. Retails for $73

An Illustrated History

A gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the eight-part film series.

This fascinating history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today.

But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.

Country Music

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Kentucky

Legendary recording artist Billie Eilish shares an intimate inside look at her life--both on and off the stage--in this stunning, photo-filled book.



Billie Eilish is a phenomenon. With distinctive visual flare and darkly poignant lyrics that are unparalleled among music icons of the 21st century, Billie is a musician who stands out from the crowd. Between her record-shattering award-winning music and her uncompromising and unapologetic attitude, it's no surprise that her fanbase continues to grow by millions month after month. She is that rare combination of wildly popular and highly respected for her prodigious talent, a once in a generation superstar.



Now in this stunning visual narrative journey through her life, she is ready to share more with her devoted audience for the first time, including hundreds of never-before-seen photos. This gorgeous book will capture the essence of Billie inside and out, offering readers personal glimpses into her childhood, her life on tour, and more. A must-have for any fan.

Billie Eilish

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Cecil J. Sharp

Art, music, drama/theater

Lyrics and piano music for traditional ballads and songs collected from singers throughout Britain are accompanied by notes on their probable origins, related versions, and historical allusions

One Hundred English Folksongs

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#vintage #published1962 #Architecture #Painting #Music 

Georgia

Painting, Architecture, and Music

The Arts of Mankind

Hal Leonard Corp. Staff

(Easy Fake Book). The sequel to Your First Fake Book and The Easy Fake Book , this new collection includes 100 favorite songs all in the key of C, complete with lyrics and simplified chords that remain true to each tune. It also features convenient stay-open binding, introductions to make the arrangements sound more polished, and large, easy-to-read music notation that beginning or older players will love! The songs come from all musical genres standards, rock, Broadway and the movies, love songs and more and include: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown * Besame Mucho * Change the World * Could I Have This Dance * Crying * Danny Boy * Endless Love * Fever * Fire and Rain * Fly Me to the Moon * From a Distance * Heartbreak Hotel * I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face * It's a Small World * More * Piano Man * The Rainbow Connection * Sentimental Journey * So Far Away * Sunshine on My Shoulders * That's Amore * There's No Business like Show Business * A Time for Us * Twist and Shout * Unexpected Song * Yellow Submarine * You Are My Sunshine * You'll Be in My Heart * and many more!

The Simplified Fake Book

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Rolling Stone

Rare first edition in excellent condition. Small tear in upper spine of dust jacket. Collectible. 

A gallery of 179 striking photographs, arranged by theme, explores the variety of rock 'n' roll styles over the years and includes images previously published in Rolling Stone and some never published before. 100,000 first printing. BOMC.

Rolling Stone Images of Rock and Roll

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Priscilla Presley’s account of her life with Elvis Presley. First Edition. This book is in excellent condition with previous owner name on back of cover.

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Texas

Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks-the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular culture.
Paying tribute to this art form, Rock Covers brings you a compilation of more than 750 remarkable album covers, from legendary to rare record releases. Artists as varied as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Iron Maiden, and Sonic Youth are gathered together in celebration of the cover art that defined their albums and their cult status. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing the art director, photographer or illustrator, year, label, and more, while nearly 250 records that marked particular turning points for a band, an artist, or the music genre, are highlighted with short descriptions.
This far-reaching catalog of visualized rock is contextualized with insider interviews with five professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors.

Rock Covers

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Claire Detels

This 60-page supplement begins with the basic concepts necessary to understand music: sound, rhythm, and form. The development of music is then traced chronologically using numerous selections from the compact disks/cassette tapes that are available to instructors and students. An appendix on writing about music is included, as are "Key Terms and Names" and "Essay Questions" for each chapter.

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Jessica Khoury

The Mystwick School of Musicraft

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And So I Sing

Sheila E.; Wendy Holden

The Beat of My Own Drum

David M. Huber

The Microphone Manual

Miles

Beatles In Their Own Words

Anton Corbijn

Famouz (1997, 1st English Edition)

James Bastien

Bastien Scales, Chords and Arpeggios Pf

Berry Gordy

To Be Loved

Madonna

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Lin-Manuel Miranda; Jeremy McCarter

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Judith Chernaik

1st ed. * Schumann

Philip Glass

First edition , first printing *Words Without Music

Joe Raposo; Lorraine Shirkus

The Garden

Priscilla Presley; Sandra Harmon

Elvis and Me

Michae Marie

Take You Down

Dayton Duncan; Ken Burns

Country Music

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Billie Eilish

Cecil J. Sharp

One Hundred English Folksongs

International Graphic Society

The Arts of Mankind

Hal Leonard Corp. Staff

The Simplified Fake Book

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone Images of Rock and Roll

Priscilla Presley; Sandra Harmon

Elvis and Me

Robbie Busch; Jonathan Kirby

Rock Covers

Claire Detels

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