Music-History & Criticism

An interdisciplinary study of how early nineteenth-century science and opera articulated a transnational romantic vision of harmony between self and nature, and how this ideal gave way to mid-century realism and social conflict. The end of the Napoleonic era ushered in a transnational outlook...

A surprising, charming, and kaleidoscopic history of the Beatles, told through 100 people close to them The story of the Beatles is more than just their omnipresent songs and their iconic albums. It's more than the hair, the clothes, the generational defining spirit. It's...

A complete chronicle of one of the greatest postwar jazz labels.Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records recorded the leading jazz artists of its day, many of whom were at or approaching their creative peak, from its inception in 1949 until 1972. It...

A Night at the Disco is a celebration of groundbreaking dance music from 1970-79, with an unprecedented collection of photographs of more than 100 artists. A Night at the Disco is a celebration of groundbreaking dance music from 1970-'79. An unprecedented collection of photographs...

conic Albums - George Harrison - All Things Must Pass is the definitive deep dive into one of the most beloved and influential albums in rock history. More than fifty years after its release, All Things Must Pass remains a landmark of musical genius,...

Author: Charles BurneyISBN-10: 1904331769ISBN-13: 9781904331766Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2008Pages: 424Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d

Revisit America's Golden Age of classical music through the witty and wildly popular reviews of our greatest critic-composer For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An...

The Tutelo Spirit Adoption Ceremony is a book written by Frank Gouldsmith Speck that delves into the traditional practices of the Tutelo tribe. The book is divided into two parts. The first part describes the Tutelo Spirit Adoption Ceremony, which is a ritual that...

How To Memorize Music: With Helpful Hints By World Famous Musicians is a book written by James Francis Cooke that provides practical tips and techniques for memorizing music. The book is designed to help musicians of all levels improve their ability to memorize music...

One of the foremost composers of the twentieth century, Olivier Messiaen wrote widely on his music and on his beliefs. This is the first edition of his early journalism and provides both the original French text and an English translation. The writing in this...

Cultural, historical and reception-related contexts are central to understanding Mozart, one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time. Widening and refining the lens through which the composer is viewed, the essays in Mozart Studies 2 focus on themes, issues, works and...

Explore the rich history of the symphony orchestra with Esther Singleton's "The Orchestra and Its Instruments," a meticulously prepared reprint of a classic work. Delve into the fascinating world of instrumentation and orchestration as Singleton guides you through the evolution of the orchestra and...

Discover the intimate and insightful "Life of Chopin" by Franz Liszt, a captivating biography of the legendary composer Frédéric Chopin. Written by a contemporary and fellow musical giant, this book offers a unique perspective on Chopin's life, artistry, and the romantic era in which...

Delve into the heart of Wagnerian drama with George Ainslie Hight's insightful essay, "Wagner's Tristan und Isolde: An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama." This meticulous print republication explores one of opera's most enduring and influential works: "Tristan und Isolde." Hight's study offers a considered...

Learn all about the fascinating world of the orchestra with this informative guide. Covering everything from the history of orchestral music to the instruments and players that make it all possible, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in classical music. With...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The amazing story of how a young cockney lad went from 'barra boy' to a teen singing idol. A unique insight into the 1960's rock 'n' roll scene when Tommy Bruce and contemporaries such as Billy Fury, Johnny Kidd and Joe Brown were doing...

How Aussies came to belong to the hip-hop nation.Ian Maxwell's sophisticated story of Australia's hip-hop scene follows the lives of a small, influential group of rappers from Sydney's Westside in the early 1990s. Maxwell conveys the excitement of the scene and the struggles of...

Music industry insiders on the nature of fame Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often those categories are blurred. From the principled punk refusal of celebrity to hip-hop's...

The purpose of this monograph is threefold: to explore the development of modern black nationalist thought of the 1960s and 1970s and locate it within the tradition of modern black nationalism and cultural revitalization that emerged during the early decades of the 20th century;...

This collection is a tribute to the talent, teaching, and humanism of Alfred Einstein, whose scholarship and criticisms affirm his position as one of the foremost musicologists of the twentieth century. Written by a former student of Einstein's, this portrait draws on the influences...

This book is a study of the manufacture of brass instruments, particularly trumpets, in Nuremberg during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Barclay discusses the history of the instrument, the metals used, their chemical and physical structure, solders used, the tools and workshops involved, and...

MacNeil narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe of the late Renaissance, focusing in particular on the representation of women on stage and on the role of music-making in their craft. She provides a rich context for the study of musical-theatrical...

Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer...

Author: Simon TrowbridgeISBN-10: 1738421570ISBN-13: 9781738421572Publisher: Englance PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2025Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d

Step into the sun-drenched world of Fun in Acapulco - Elvis Presley's colorful 1963 musical that blended romance, cliff-diving drama, and Latin-inspired rhythms into one of his most successful early-'60s films.This book takes you behind the scenes of the movie and its soundtrack, exploring...

Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite - Elvis Presley's Global TriumphOn January 14, 1973, Elvis Presley stepped onto a stage in Honolulu and into history. Dressed in the dazzling American Eagle jumpsuit, he became the first solo performer to be broadcast live around the world...

One of the world's greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the African diaspora made it the world's most popular form Why do Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone...

Hungarian composer Béla Bartók declared his Cantata profana, composed in 1930 and premièred in London in 1934, his "credo," the composition of which was inseparable from the history of his involvement with folklore. Not only was Bartók one of the twentieth century's most important...

TikTok is one of the world's most popular digital platforms. Although it may seem unusual at first, many jazz musicians have large followings on this short-form video platform. Benjamin Burkhart examines how popular jazz musicians use TikTok and how jazz is represented on the...

Situating the band and its groundbreaking debut within the context of The Troubles, this book explores the band's complicated and controversial relationship with the Belfast punk scene, a scene that actively defied violent social divisions to create important non-sectarian spaces through which an "Alternative...

If there is anything that can be said to define the music scene in the Nordic countries, it is that it is tremendously diverse, something that this engaging and informative guide to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland's folk music will demonstrate. After reading...

In the Blue Ridge Mountains along the Virginia-North Carolina border, an extraordinarily rich musical heritage survives and flourishes. Even before the legendary Bill Monroe coined the term "bluegrass" in the mid-1950s, the traditional music of this area was coming into its own as a...

""White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands"" by George Pullen Jackson is a comprehensive study of the Fasola Folk, a group of singers who preserved the tradition of shape-note singing in the American South. The book delves into the history and cultural significance of this...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Although the music of Franz Liszt is becoming ever more popular in the concert-hall and the subject of much recent research, there are few books available for a general reader that present up-to-date scholarship on the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field,...

Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula provides a pioneering overview of folk and traditional urban music, along with dance and rituals, of Saudi Arabia and the Upper Gulf States of Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. The nineteen chapters introduce variegated regions and subcultures and...

This volume examines the powerful ways in which identity can be shaped by rock music. Through the music, imagery and discourse surrounding one of the most innovative and commercially successful rock bands ever, Susan Fast probes such issues as constructions of gender and sexuality,...

Author: Brett MilanoISBN-13: 9798273416987Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2025Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

Author: Craig MakiISBN-13: 9798218833039Publisher: Wax Hound PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2025Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.21d

Wishbone Ash formed in London, UK, in 1969, going on to tour constantly, forging their own approach to songwriting and playing. During that decade, the band created a distinctive, original sound, with twin lead guitars often playing in harmony. They are best known for...

This book offers a deep analysis of Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos, Op. 6, a part of Handel's repertoire which has remained relatively understudied. Bringing together an analytical approach to the concertos with their historical context, the author shows how studying these concertos offers new...

Investigates the dialogue and tensions between Percy Grainger's public biography and his self-conscious autobiographical construction via his own writings and autobiographical museum. The Australian-American composer Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a true polymath: composer, pianist, ethnographer, essayist, folk-song collector and more. This book considers the...

A heartbreaking yet uplifting memoir, The Most Beautiful Girl opens with a scene at Johnny Cash's funeral when the author is struck with grief about unfinished business with her father. Saviano's sorrow leads her on a journey to rediscover her father and examine the...

Immerse yourself in the captivating and surprisingly contentious world of opera with this compelling unveiling of the art form's bold characters and the fierce struggles that are redefining its future."Opera breeds fanatics. There are opera groupies. Opera diehards. Opera obsessives. I'm not one of...

Black and Blue is one of the Rolling Stones' most misunderstood albums - dismissed at its release in 1976, yet now recognized as a bold experiment that kept the band alive during a time of chaos and change.In this in-depth study, Richard Ward takes...

Author: Richard WardISBN-13: 9798264445521Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2025Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

Elvis Presley's final studio album - revisited in full depth.In July 1977, just four weeks before his untimely death, Elvis Presley released Moody Blue-a record that at the time was seen as another late-career release but has since become one of the most poignant...

The definitive deep dive into the making, meaning, and legacy of one of pop's greatest albums.In 1987, Michael Jackson faced the ultimate challenge: following Thriller, the best-selling album of all time. The result was Bad - a bold, genre-spanning masterpiece that redefined pop music...

Author: Richard WardISBN-13: 9798296753618Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d