Illustrating A Little History of Music: Q+A with The Diggingest Girl
Each book in our Little Histories series is illustrated by a different contemporary artist-illustrator, whose specially commissioned work is designed to enliven and enhance…
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The Story of Auld Lang Syne
Murray Pittock’s Scotland is an engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years…
The Origins of Christmas Carols
In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon at a moment when we can access all…
Illustrating Playing with Fire: A Q&A with Jo Walker
Book designer Jo Walker created a powerful and evocative cover for Maria Yudina’s biography, bringing together flames and music. We asked Jo to walk us through her influences, her creative process, and what is her advice for new book designers.
The Piano: a playlist by Susan Tomes
In celebration of the upcoming publication of The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces, we asked author and concert pianist, Susan Tomes, to curate a…
Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols – An extract
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
The Classical Music Lover’s Playlist by Robert Philip
To celebrate the publication of The Classical Music Lover’s Companion To Orchestral Music, we asked Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster and musician, to curate a…
Greil Marcus on Real Life Rock
Greil Marcus is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to cultural criticism. For three decades Marcus has written a popular column…
Who was Béla Bartók?
The Hungarian musician and composer Béla Bartók is the subject of a comprehensive new book by David Cooper, bringing audiences the most complete biography of Bartók…
David Cooper on Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók is widely acknowledged as one of the most important musical composers of the early 20th century. He is considered to be one of the…
Before Pop… There was Folk
When we consider the term Pop Art, images that spring to mind might be Andy Warhol’s immortalising screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, Roy Lichtenstein’s Ben-Day dot…
A Book Lover’s Gift Guide: Books for mods, rockers and all that jazz
This winter we have gathered together some of our favourite books – books for Biography Buffs, History Lovers and Globetrotters – books for every Dedicated…
‘Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis’. Author Article by Michael Haas
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis explores the legacy of those musicians persecuted by the Third Reich. When National Socialism arrived in…
Another Side: Extract from ‘Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown’ by David Yaffe
In Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (out now in paperback) iterary scholar and music critic David Yaffe offers an appreciative yet incisive look at the…
From Bach to Berg: Piano virtuoso Charles Rosen examines how composers represent emotion
In his acclaimed book Music and Sentiment (out in paperback this month), the acclaimed pianist and writer Charles Rosen explores music’s profound ability to…
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