Performance psychologist Dr David Roland analyses how anxiety affects performing and looks at the ways of managing it — and even harnessing it to improve performance.

The book examines the role of relaxation, health, lifestyle, mental imagery and positive self-talk in preparing the performer to give their best performance.

One of the world’s most popular pianists, Percy Grainger, was also one of our most innovative composers and instrument-makers. He was also a significant folk-song collector with a teeming intellect. He was known for his masochistic sexuality, his lifelong absorption with his mother, his Nordic triumphalism and his curious Anglo-Saxon form of language.

This biography includes a prefatory note by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and an appreciation by Leopold Stokowski. Included in the extensive appendices are a list of Grainger's published compositions, a discography, a list of his Duo-Art Piano Rolls and two essays on Free Music and Elastic Scoring.

The Australian bass baritone who was the most widely recorded singer in history.

In his day Peter Dawson was an Australian icon moulded by a nationalistic loyalty to the British crown and empire. Remembered by some as the voice of British imperialism, of Kipling ’s Boots and The Road to Mandalay, to others he is the man who made Waltzing Matilda the anthem it is today. In his record-breaking career lasting over fifty years, Dawson made nearly 2,000 recordings, from cylinders to LPs, in a more diverse repertoire than any other artist in history.

In this, Dawson’s first and definitive biography, basso Russell Smith and sound archivist Peter Burgis have revealed a tough-minded, dedicated artist who was also a bon viveur and practical joker and whose personality, as much as his voice, contributed to his universal popularity.