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A discussion of White Limozeen, from Dolly's self-fashioning to a rigorous critique of her genre.White Limozeen (1989) was a commercial recovery after Dolly Parton's first major failure two years previously with the release of Rainbow. This book is a case study in how an...

Ricardo Averbach places Heitor Villa-Lobos as the top exponent of Cultural Cannibalism in music, an aesthetic movement that has been neglected due to traditional Eurocentric views of Modernism. Villa-Lobos and Modernism shows how much our present aesthetics owes to the Modernist ideas introduced by...

The last of the Romantics, Widor narrated his recollections in 1936, bringing to life his diverse experiences from the time of Louis Philippe to the cusp of World War II. Widor's Toccata is the most famous organ piece composed in the past three hundred...

Stravinsky's influence on Debussy in 1910-13, rarely discussed, is demonstrated here in the many modernistic features of such works as the Preludes Book II, Khamma, and Jeux. This book reassesses the relationship between Debussy and Stravinsky, two of the most important composers of the...

"More popular than Jesus."Despite the uproar it caused in America in 1966, John Lennon's famous assessment of the Beatles vis-?-vis religion was not far off. The Beatles did mean more to kids than the religions in which they were raised, not only in America...

Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in das Leben und Werk von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Es enthält detaillierte Analysen seiner wichtigsten Werke sowie Informationen über sein Leben, seine Beziehungen und seine Einflüsse. Eine unverzichtbare Ressource für Musikliebhaber und Musikhistoriker.This work has been selected by...

Discover the life and works of one of the greatest composers in history with this biography by Frederick J. Crowest. From his early years in Bonn to his remarkable career in Vienna, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Beethoven. With...

Glinka is a comprehensive biography of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka, known as the father of Russian classical music. This book examines Glinka's life and work in detail, including his influences, his collaborations with other artists, and his contributions to the development of Russian...

29 solo guitar pieces. Collection of original classical and finger style guitar solos composed by Roger Hudson in the years 2007-2020. This edition is in tablature (TAB). This collection includes works recorded on the 2009 Delta album as well as unrecorded/or performed works. Selections...

2nd ed -- with an Addendum & now an Index -- 40% longer than 1st ed. "Baby boomers" dealing with death - especially death "definitely on the calendar" - feel free to choose from an array of "hymns" beyond "Amazing Grace," and have been...

Despite the nearly universal fame of the Beatles, many people only know the fairytale version of the iconic group's rise to fame. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Liverpool, Francis Kenny reveals the real John Lennon who preceded the legend, showing how his childhood...

La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) is one act comic opera first performed in Venice on May 9, 1812. Although the opera is only rarely performed today, its overture (or sinfonia) has remained a concert-hall favorite and is programed often. The opera's title...

Dedicated to "my friends pictured within", Elgar's orchestral showpiece started life as a simple improvisation at the piano after a day of teaching violin in October of 1898. Upon playing the theme, his wife Alice asked that he repeat it. This led him to...

Frank W. Meacham was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 31, 1856. While still a child his family moved to nearby New York City and Meacham spent his entire career there. He started composing at age 10, at first mainly writing songs, but...

Parker's first Christmas cantata was composed in 1893 just before his departure from New York to his new post as organist for Trinity Church in Boston. The text was written after scriptural accounts by the composer's mother Isabella Graham Parker (1839-1904). This new vocal...

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, The Chrysanthemum, originally composed in 1904. Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was known as the "King of Ragtime". Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the...

The GUITAR GODS series are the perfect books for music lovers and guitar afficianados. Nine books promote and cover over 200 of the best musicians of the genres with pictures of each guitarist, a short bio, a list of top videos with live performances...

The GUITAR GODS series are the perfect books for music lovers and guitar afficianados. Nine books promote and cover over 200 of the best musicians of the genres with pictures of each guitarist, a short bio, a list of top videos with live performances...

This book includes four pieces composed by Javier MarcAuthor: MarcISBN-10: 1475148097ISBN-13: 9781475148091Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2012Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.05d

These new essays written specifically for this volume explore the various aspects of Olivier Messiaen's spiritually committed musical language, drawing on his own remarks in subheadings and prefaces, his biblical and theological citations, his allusions to works of visual art, and on the language...

A Flute Solo, composed by Gabriel Faur .Author: Gabriel FauréISBN-10: 0757978452ISBN-13: 9780757978456Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 24Format: Paperback

Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognized as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer. In 1971, Virgil Thomson hailed it as "a classic." For this new edition, David Nicholls...

This book looks at the music of Webern from several new perspectives. The most recent Webern scholarship has emphasized Webern's lyricism, and this is a theme running through Webern Studies. Other techniques not generally associated with Webern are also explored: two chapters illustrate and...

Hailed by many as the world's greatest harmonica player, John Popper has redefined the instrument. As the lead singer and principal songwriter of Blues Traveler, Popper has performed for more than 30 million people over 2,000 live dates and composed such radio staples as...

What do Wagner's operas really mean? How much room do they leave for different perspectives? In this fresh and inventive book, James Treadwell lays open the rich possibilities for interpretation offered across the full range of Wagner's art. Focussing steadily on Wagner's music, dramas...

Author: Henry Kaleialoha AllenISBN-10: 1566479940ISBN-13: 9781566479943Publisher: Mutual PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2018Pages: 112Format: SpiralWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.60w x 0.40d

1963 - tail fins were in, sock hops were hot, and a fairytale white knight was president., That summer, sixteen year-old singer Lesley Gore released her debut single, It's My Party propelling her to Number One on the charts., For the next several years,...

Henry Mancini (1924-1994) is renowned as the Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer of such timeless standards as "Moon River" and "Days of Wine and Roses," as well as such memorable instrumental themes as "The Pink Panther" and "Baby Elephant Walk." But preceding all of them...

A founding member of Babes in Toyland takes readers on the roller coaster ride of the rock-and-roll lifestyle and her own journey of self-discovery.Author: Michelle LeonISBN-10: 1681343002ISBN-13: 9781681343006Publisher: Borealis BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2024Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.52d

From Robert Frost's road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift's lyrics are filled with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays...

She performed her compositions for royalty and mingled with dignitaries and revolutionaries across Africa...yet today's audiences have rarely even heard her name. Famous from a young age, Harlem's Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) fearlessly traveled the globe, performing in nearly eighty countries and developing a second...

From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel's Messiah George Frideric Handel's Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever...

Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and blues fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume includes over 150 of the genre's greatest players and performers from the prewar era to present. From blues pioneers like Robert Johnson, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Memphis...

Comissioned by the Committee for the Completion of the National Theatre, Dvorak composed this work in exactly one month (August 9 to September 9) of 1883. The original plan was as an introduction to a proposed triology set the the Hussite era by the...

Featuring 28 music examples this book takes an innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song, offering new perspectives on Robert Schumann's Lieder and song cycles. Robert Schumann's Lieder are among the richest and most complex songs in the repertoire and have long...

Exploring the emotional and cultural influences on Pierre Boulez's early works as well as the role surrealism and French culture of the 1930s and 40s played in shaping his radical new musical concepts. Pierre Boulez's (1925-2016) creative output has mostly been studied from an...

This book was initially a way of putting my compositions in one place. But after a few pipers took an interest in my tunes, I wanted to make something for pipers to pick up, play and hopefully enjoy. This book includes a handful of...

Bound for the bilingual (English, German) junior and lover of the grand Baroque music, this book presents the pivotal times of a man who made his point. Every year across the world, the Messiah is performed for Christmas and Easter. Played in reprise, the...

The M俍ica Latina para Dos series by Wynn-Anne Rossi introduces students to the rhythms, styles, and musical characteristics of Latin American music. Each duet includes a short rhythm exercise to prepare students for the rhythm patterns featured in the piece, as well as a...

Here's a great six-movement work for piano duet. Included are relatively short duets entitled: Petite Marche * Impromptu a la Schumann * Cantabile * Souvenir Douloureux * Berceuse * Scherzo Rustique.Author: C駸ar CuiISBN-10: 0757979823ISBN-13: 9780757979828Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.70h x...

On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores and tidal surges of the Salish Sea trundling through the interior, this bioregion has long attracted loggers, fishing fleets, and land developers,...

George is the story of two extraordinary lives - the private man and the public legend.Georgios Panayiotou was just eighteen when he decided to adopt the stage name of George Michael. Sometimes his two worlds would collide with shattering consequences.Bestselling biographer Sean Smith has...

This is a day-by-day account of Bowie's life from the start of 1970 to the end of 1980, his golden era that defined his work as a major artist a dozen inspired studio albums, five major tours, two feature films and critically acclaimed theatrical...

As a co-founder of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, Chris Hillman is arguably the primary architect of what's come to be known as country rock. He went on to record and perform in various configurations, including as a member of Stephen Stills's...

Hound Dog Taylor made guitars howl and hips shake. A founding father of lo-fi blues rock--that gritty, stripped-down sound played on cheap guitars with no bass--Taylor and his band The Houserockers played loud, wild gut-bucket boogie that was raw and ferocious, earning them a...

From growing up in Texas, to living in his car, to landing his first publishing deal, to writing fifteen #1 songs, Word for Word is a lavishly illustrated look at the lyrics of an icon among songwriting giants.Emmylou Harris--who once employed Rodney Crowell as...

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." --The Washington PostA Rolling Stone best music book of 2023 One of Pitchfork's ten best music books of 2023 A Variety best music book of the year A Kirkus Reviews best nonfiction book of 2023...

The classic authorized biography that told it all.Foreword by Sir Paul McCartneyWhen Little Richard burst onto the scene in the early 1950s, he was utterly unique. Drenched in sweat, screaming, hollering, and pumping his piano, he made all who followed sound tame. His stage...

Weighted Down is the first biography of the legendary '60s cult musician Skip Spence.As a member of era-defining bands Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane, Spence played a large part in setting the agenda and aesthetic for many other groups of the...

Max Roach was one of the drummers who most contributed to forging the modern drumming style. He was active as a percussionist, composer, and bandleader throughout six decades of cultural and musical change. His early contributions to bebop opened up rhythmic and creative possibilities...