The Rock Bible

Written by Henry Owings

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Price: $15.95

Like Moses delivering forth the Ten Commandments, Chunklet magazine presents you with The Rock Bible—the complete rules for living an authentic life of rock ’n’ roll.  Here are hundreds of wise and witty guidelines for
 
Drummers: “If you’re one of those drummers who sets up at the front of the... Read more >

The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell
How to Create Hits in Today's Music Industry
Written by Eric Beall

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $19.95

The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell unveils the secrets to climbing the charts and reaching success in today’s ultracompetitive music industry. Eric Beall supplies his firsthand knowledge of today’s record business, as well as interviews with successful writers, producers, and executives from the worlds of pop, hip-hop... Read more >

Can't Buy Me Love
The Beatles, Britain, and America
Written by Jonathan Gould

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $17.00

Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and... Read more >

Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer

Written by Tom Lehrer

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1981
Price: $19.95

The subversive songs of Tom Lehrer, the sardonic piano-wielding fugitive from Harvard, have corrupted generations of Americans since he first began recording and performing in the 1950s. His uniquely depraved wit has been forced again on an unsuspecting public' via Tom Foolery, the stage revue based on his ever-trenchant observation of... Read more >

Temperament
How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
Written by Stuart Isacoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $16.00

Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient... Read more >

Classical Music
The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
Written by Phil G. Goulding

Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $13.99

MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from a sonata?
Maybe... Read more >

Stradivari's Genius
Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Written by Toby Faber

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $16.00

Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by any subsequent violin-maker. In this... Read more >

Johannes Brahms
A Biography
Written by Jan Swafford

Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $21.00

A New York Times Notable Book

"This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to...become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms."--The Plain Dealer

Judicious, compassionate, and full of insight into Brahms's human complexity as well as his music, Johannes Brahms is an indispensable biography.

Proclaimed the new messiah of Romanticism by Robert... Read more >

Days That I'll Remember
Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Written by Jonathan Cott

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $12.99

Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book... Read more >

Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition

Written by Daylle Deanna Schwartz

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2010
Price: $18.99

For everyone interested in starting a record label–to market new talent or to release and promote their own music–there has never been a better time to do it!

Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and music-business consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz (who started... Read more >