28 Music and Dance


MUSIC AND DANCE A love song is just a caress set to music. - Sigmund Romberg


73223 DVD BOOK OF PAVAROTTI: Pavarotti Live in Barcelona 75th


Anniversary Edition written by Guy Cavill October 12th 2010 marked the 75th anniversary of the birth of Luciano Pavarotti, perhaps the greatest and most widely acclaimed tenor of the 20th century. This DVD Book of Pavarotti covers the whole life of


this pre-eminent opera singer, from the first performances he staged for his parents and neighbours at the age of five, to the televised concerts he gave in the 1990s, singing at stadiums and great open spaces, such as La Bombonera in Buenos Aires and Hyde Park in London. When Pavarotti died at his home in Modena in September 2007, the outpouring of public grief was reminiscent of the heart-breaking scenes at the funeral of his good friend, Lady Diana, ten years before. It was a testament to the affection that people had for this most talented and likeable of men. The DVD runs for 78.14 minutes and encompasses the concert recorded live at the Gran Teatre Del Liceu, with Leone Magiera on piano, plus interview, biography, discography and list of songs, including such favourites as O Sole Mio and Una Furtiva Lagrima. 77 pages with DVD Play List, Recordings of Complete Operas and First Performances of Operatic Roles, with photos in colour and b/w. £12.99 NOW £6


73079 CELEBRATE THE


PIANO: Book Four by Gail Smith


Approximately 40 musical scores in a very large softback which will lie flat on the music stand, the pieces include Amazing Grace, Loch Lomond, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Sonatina, Für Elise, Silent Night, The Blues Scale and Havah Nagilah in this super series


for today’s pianist. The idea is to present a variety of piano music from blues, jazz and pop idioms, folk songs and Native American songs to hymn arrangements, Christmas carols and classical music. It also includes exercises, palindromes and a duet. Only book four is available for the reasonably competent pianist. A Mel Bay publication with a certificate for you to complete on the inside back cover and with a space to compose your own song with blank musical score. $9.95 NOW £5.50


73082 FRENCH TANGOS FOR PIANO


by Uri Ayn Rovner


The tango is a ballroom dance of Latin American origin characterised by long pauses and stylised body positions. With full musical scores, this 60 page very large softback will lie flat at the piano or on the music stand and provides arrangements which are romantic using sometimes


avant-garde harmonies supporting emotional melodies. They include a Tango Gitano, Sacre Tango and La Paloma and a list is given of the approximate order of playing level for each tango with easiest titles continuing to the more advanced. 64 page large softback. £9.95 NOW £6


72420 JAZZ: New York in the Roaring Twenties: Book and CD by Robert


Nippoldt and Hans-Jürgen Schaal A beautifully designed new book from Taschen. It’s the Roaring Twenties, and New York is exploding with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Harlem to see the likes of Louis Armstrong with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra playing at the Kentucky Club, or Duke Ellington at the Roseland Ballroom or the world-famous Cotton Club. Designed, illustrated, and edited by Robert Nippoldt, this award-winning book pays homage to this exceptional era, via an entertaining blend of illustrations, facts, and amusing anecdotes presenting 24 leading lights of New York’s jazz scene in the 1920s, complete with a CD containing 20 original jazz tracks, some of their best tunes. The texts, contributed by Hans-Jürgen Schaal, give a vivid account of the club scene and the “band battles,” as well as the legendary recording sessions. A splendid read, a groovy CD, and not strictly for jazz fans only! Huge, tall hardback with CD, 8.5 x 13.4", 144 pages.


NEW ONLY £35


70739 ORIGINAL JELLY ROLL BLUES by William Schafer


In the rough-and-tumble world of black showbusiness, jazz and pop music, Jelly Roll Morton was an improviser and a consummate entertainer. The self-styled ‘Originator of jazz’ he was a virtuoso pianist, composer and band leader whose famous songs include Wolverine Blues, Shake It and the virtual anthem of the swing era, King Porter Stomp. He was also a conflicted husband and lover, a gambler, a dandy and much more. 256pp, illus softback. £12.99 NOW £3.50


71194 BEATLES FOR SALE by John Blaney We know the songs, the albums and the films, but how did The Beatles and their mercurial manager Brian Epstein end up pioneering so much of what we now recognise as the modern music business? Here is a work of cultural excavation, rock history, and the inner circle who went about promoting, advertising and selling records, playing concerts and selling merchandise, making films and setting up publishing and recording companies. Illus. 288pp in softback. £14.95 NOW £4


72542 STRINGS ATTACHED: The Life and Music of John


Williams by William Starling One of the world’s great guitarists, John Williams’s early life was dominated by his father Len, himself a jazz guitarist who worked as a manager and designer for Aristone instruments. When John played for Segovia at the age of 12 he was given a place at Segovia’s guitar summer school in Siena, where he


returned every year and became friends with Daniel Barenboim. Studying with Segovia, Williams met Julian Bream, six years his senior, who was to become a great friend and collaborator. In 1952 Len Williams founded the Spanish Guitar Centre. At 17 John made a bid for independence by moving into his own flat with friends, one of whom, Christopher Nupen, was later to prove a key influence in John’s work for cinema and television. The same year he played a solo recital in the Wigmore Hall and his future was assured. The book also covers John’s work commissioning new music, his collaboration with rock musicians such as Pete Townshend, his marriages and his political views. 400pp, photos, discography.


£25 NOW £7.50


72886 l,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE: A


Listener’s Life List by Tom Moon


He presents the entries dictionary- style, alphabetically by artist. There are genre indices at the back, but Moon hopes that adventurous readers will flip through the pages, find something at random that looks interesting, seek out the music and ‘have an unexpected eureka!


moment’. From classical to jazz, opera to hip-hop, techno-ska to heavy metal, folk to R and B, and from Abba and Amy Winehouse to Frank Zappa via Bach, Chopin and the Comedian Harmonists, here are a vast 1,007 informed and opinionated paperback pages illus. websites.


£19.95 NOW £3


71617 PLAY FLAMENCO by Michael Heatley and Alan Brown Olé! A handy, chunky spiral bound softback with step- by-step technique photos, 100 examples teaching you how to play chords, rhythms and melodies with these simple and effective musical samples with notation and TAV tabs. Flamenco guitar combines chord progressions with falsetas or sequences of individual notes. Playing picato and with capo completes the introduction before we go on to the palos, alegrías, bulerías, fandangos, farrucas, rumbas, sevillanas, tangos and more. 384 pages packed with musical scores, spiral bound softback. £9.99 NOW £3.50


72206 PENGUIN GUIDE TO THE 1000 FINEST


CLASSICAL RECORDINGS by Ivan March et al Sub-titled ‘The Must-Have CDs and DVDs’. The generous selection contains every kind of music, from the medieval to the modern period, and readers will discover new areas they had not previously considered. It also includes an essay on downloads, a history of recording and sections on composers, ballet and opera as well as a list of abbreviations to facilitate your search. There is a historical timeline for opera, and another timeline for key composers who are included in the authors’ choices. Alphabetically listed by composer. From Adolphe Adam to Alexander von Zemlinsky. 409 paperback pages. £20 NOW £5.50


72303 ROCK HARDWARE: 40 Years of Rock Instrumentation


by Tony Bacon and Paul Trynka The dominance of rock music in the 20th century owed as much to advances in sound technology as to celebrity scandals. The Beatles used Gibson and Epiphone acoustics throughout their career. The electric guitar arrived in the 1950s, but Jazz players used Gibson’s hollow-body instrument while Blues players were much quicker to pick up on the solid body and it took two decades before players were realising its full potential. Keyboards also made a vital contribution to the sound of rock, through jazz organists who created hip riffs or gospel players comping on a piano. This book covers all aspects of the hardware of rock music, drums, brass and recording gear. 144pp, softback, colour photos. £21.50 NOW £4


72304 ROCK ROADIE


by James “Tappy” Wright and Rod Weinberg These memoirs of Tappy Wright, road manager for The Animals and later for Jimi Hendrix, created a sensation on their publication in 2009, claiming as they do that when Hendrix died in 1970 from a lethal cocktail of drugs, he was in fact murdered by a vengeful colleague rather than being the victim of an overdose. Surrounded by groupies, The Animals could have all the women they wanted, but internal relations in the band were strained. One night Tappy was told to pull the van over so that Eric Burdon could sack Chas Chandler, though when Chas burst into tears they gave him a second chance. Encounters with Elvis, Little Richard, Jayne Mansfield and Ike and Tina Turner are all in a day’s work for Tappy as he flips from one unbelievable situation to another. 236pp. $25.99 NOW £3.75


72312 THE YARDBIRDS by Alan Clayson This was the band that launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page onto the unsuspecting music world and this account looks at the Yardbirds’ rise from the quiet suburbs of South London to rock immortality, five years of frenetic activity and considerable success in the 60s. It then looks at the subsequent careers of the individual members including Jimmy Page’s Led Zeppelin, the Jeff Beck Group, Keith Relf’s Renaissance, the Eighties Yardbirds reformation as Box of Frogs and Jimmy McCarty’s later career as a guru of new age music. Drega and McCarty still tour to packed auditoria. Over 50 photos. 208pp in softback. $22.95 NOW £4.50


MYTHOLOGY


Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.


- Joseph Campbell


73408 GHOSTLY BEASTS by Joan Aiken


The stories and poems in this collection were written over a span of more than 60 years by the much- loved children’s author, but there is a freshness and lightness of touch which render them still entrancing today. Two stories are published for the first time, The Dogs, the Cats and the Mice and The


Dancers. Also includes a selection of Aiken’s poems, never before in print. Animal stories are high on the list of those that are often reprinted in magazines or anthologies and the one about Lob, here, is based on a real incident. A girl was hurt in a street accident and her dog was found at all the different entrances, in turn, of the hospital where she was taken - even though it was not in the town where she lived, but another one miles away. Potter’s Grey, too, is a real horse. You can find him in the Louvre museum in Paris. Not all the ghostly tales told here are based on real life, but they are all magical, and this is a book to be treasured. 144 paperback pages 25cm x 19cm illus with line drawings and watercolours by the talented Amanda Harvey. £7.99 NOW £4


72978 ELEMENT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE


CELTS by Rodney Castleden Historians have changed their views on the Celts in recent years and this user friendly A-Z of everything Celtic brings the reader up to date. The author’s introduction


summarises the old and new images of the Celts: no longer a single tribe pushed to the margins by the Romans, it is more probable that the


Celts were two distinct peoples, one of which inhabited the Atlantic coast from very early times and from whom a large number of people living in Britain are descended. The encyclopedia section is divided into People and Lifestyle, Celtic Places, Celtic Religion, Myths, Legends and Stories, and finally Symbols, Ideas and Archetypes. The last chapter covers the Celtic Twilight and Revival, with discussions of Sir Walter Scott, the Golden Dawn and 21st century concepts of “Celticness”. The author believes that King Arthur did exist, arguing that there is even an oblique reference in the chronicler Gildas, widely thought to be silent on the subject. The book’s explanation of the location of Camelot makes fascinating reading. Other topics include the Celtic Cross, Stonehenge, Tintagel, the Cerne Giant, the Grail Quest, the History of Taliesin, Hooded Dwarves, the Doomed Rider, shapeshifting and much else. 543pp, paperback, bibliography, line drawings. £12.99 NOW £6


72194 LORE OF THE LAND: A Guide to England’s Legends from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys


by Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson In this gripping, county-by-county compendium of headless horsemen, unplumbed pools and screaming skulls, the authors evoke an England spooked by spooks, tantalised by hidden treasure and beleaguered by apparently non-existent bells. However, this is no fairy tale. The whole collection is penned, according to ‘The Times’, ‘with that beguiling mixture: a storyteller’s enthusiasm and a scholar’s detachment’. We could not have expressed it better ourselves. From King Arthur to Sweeney Todd, this will take you on a magical journey through England’s legendary past. 918 paperback pages with illus in b/w and colour. £20 NOW £8


72232 ATLANTIS: The Antediluvian World by I. Donnelly


Atlantis was destroyed by a catastrophe remembered in the Bible as the Great Flood, a myth common to scores of cultures from around the world. With dazzling arguments and scores of astonishing facts, Ignatius Donnelly sets out to prove that Plato’s account of Atlantis, as told in Timaeus and Critias, is largely factual, and that subsequent civilisations are descended from this lost land, with Egypt as its purest manifestation. 1882 facsimile reprint edition with 128 original illus. 480pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4


72358 THE CLASSICS by Caroline Taggart A fabulous offering subtitled ‘All You Need to Know From Zeus’s Throne to the Fall of Rome’. The great thinkers from this period laid the foundations for much of our language, art, architecture and science. Everyday phrases still in common use, religion and mythology, a detour to Crete, Ancient Greek history, Roman, classical literature, art and architecture, maths, science and inventions, philosophy and the liberal arts through to a light relief with games. 174pp, dedication page. $14.95 NOW £4


72774 LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY by Zachary Mason


Nearly three millennia ago, Homer told the story of the ten-year journey of Odysseus. Here is a radical and thrilling retelling of classical legend, in which Homer’s linear narrative is exploded. Here are fragments of alternative and contradictory retakes and outtakes of the same familiar stories - the Trojan Horse, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens - all broken up and put together into new shapes. Turned inside-out, these tales become glosses, mirrors and mazes that explore and re-examine Odysseus’ journey and allow readers to see it afresh in all its ambition, sadness and futility. These pages capture the spirit of the original Odyssey while at the same time feeling fresh and contemporary. 228 pages. £12.99 NOW £5.75


NATURE


In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.


- Aristotle


73177 BIRDS: Mini Archive with DVD


by Fiorella Congedo Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1789) was one of the greatest French naturalists and a master of copper engraving. His extraordinarily ambitious work, the 36-volume Histoire Naturelle,


Generale et Particulière, was intended to showcase the world’s three kingdoms - animal, vegetable and mineral. Beginning the project in 1749, by the time of his death 40 years later the 36 published quarto volumes only covered the minerals, quadrupeds and birds of the world - his students and other aficionados of his work would eventually complete the work some 20 years later. This book showcases 350 of the best of his coloured engravings of the world’s birds, creatures which he soon realised were far more numerous than he had ever expected and would take several lifetimes to fully catalogue. So those he did illustrate were a representative selection of types, all rendered exquisitely. The vibrant hues of their feathers, the tiniest variations in lengths of wings, tails and legs, the wide- eyed expressions and alert stances, as if ready to flee an attacker or catch their prey, all these are hallmarks of Leclerc’s style and quite stunning to regard. In addition we have Leclerc’s original text from the Histoire Naturelle which provides descriptive information such as their habitat and unique characteristics, plus a DVD containing the images. 288pp softback. £14.99 NOW £7


73183 HOW TO PLANT A TREE: A Simple Celebration of Trees and Tree-Planting


Ceremonies by Daniel Butler You have to admire a man who recently planted his own 1,000 tree wood! We all know that trees are the ‘lungs of the planet’ and we need them to live and breathe. Scientists have demonstrated that the world relies on their photo- synthesizing power to absorb the


so-called greenhouse gases that will otherwise warm the globe’s weather systems with potentially disastrous consequences. To help combat climate change, environmentalists are now urging the developed and developing world to commit to helping to reduce its carbon footprint by initiating programs to plant and protect forests. This book is a celebration of our love of trees as well as practical advice on how to grow, protect, graft and fertilize a tree, how to keep it healthy, timber responsibly, encourage wildlife and even clone it. You could plant a tree to celebrate a new baby, a coming of age, a new home, engagement, marriage, anniversary, retirement or in memoriam and there are suggestions for how to arrange this so that your ceremony will be useful, enjoyable and unforgettable. 128 pocket-sized pages with line drawings. £9.99 NOW £4


73179 BUGS BRITANNICA


by Peter Marren and Richard Mabey One glance at the enquiring look on the face of the red damselfly on the jacket of this heavyweight volume tells you we are talking really good nature photography here. The beauty of the book lies in that it is not a biological guide as such - although obviously there is much biology and ecology involved - but more a cultural guide, where British bugs are seen through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists, photographers and naturalists and with vivid (and we mean vivid!) contributions and observations. Other than the incredible photography, the most enjoyable aspect is the staggering amount of folklore attached to the creatures, enough itself to create several normal volumes, as the book moves through the list of our invertebrate friends on a roughly evolutionary path, from amoeba to worms to crustacean to insects, spiders, butterflies, bees and molluscs right up to the lancelets, the “almost-fish” regarded as the link between invertebrates and vertebrates. If you like bees, the book is worth it for that alone! A shelf-bending 500pp, 8¾”×11¼”. £35 NOW £12


72614 IVORY’S GHOSTS by John Frederick Walker


These graceful, sociable herbivores who grieve for their dead have long been the tragic target of human exploiters. On the other hand it is impossible to deny the beauty of ivory carving, dating from the dawn of civilisation to intricate European medieval reliquaries or Chinese medals and ornaments. In the post-medieval world, piano keys and billiard balls accounted for huge quantities of ivory, and the ivory trading business made itself even more morally reprehensible by the use of slave labour. In spite of 20th century conservation programmes, however, elephants continue to be killed for ivory. The author visits former game warden and ivory expert Ian Parker in the suburbs of Nairobi and provides multiple viewpoints, facts and figures about an emotive subject. 312pp, paperback, photos. £9.99 NOW £2.50


72240 PHILIP’S GUIDE TO BUTTERFLIES OF


BRITAIN AND IRELAND by J. A. Thomas Brown Hairstreak, Orange Tip, Clouded Yellow, Swallow Tail, Large Skipper, Lulworth Skipper, here are all the emperor, admiral and vanessids, large fritillaries, yellows and whites and all 60 species of butterfly, from seven different families, which are regularly seen in Britain. Having identified the family group from the beautiful colour illustrations, notes point out features, distribution and status, habitat and behaviour, young


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