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With an illustrious career stretching back almost six decades and encompassing nearly 50 solo studio albums alone, Neil Young is one of the most prolific, compelling figures in the history of popular music, equally revered as both an acoustic singer-songwriter and as the force...

The dramatic story of the unlikely partnership that led to Hybrid Theory, the biggest-selling debut album of the twenty-first century. From the unique perspective of the executive who discovered them, One Step Closer reveals how Brad Delson's college internship was a catalyst for a...

David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Chopin's own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health. Here too the reader will find Chopin's personal insights on his own musical studies, his creative process and his resulting compositions. Chopin has...

Author: Charles Villiers StanfordISBN-10: 1528707230ISBN-13: 9781528707237Publisher: Classic Music CollectionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2018Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.36d

An die Ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98, is a composition by Ludwig van Beethoven written in April 1816. It is considered to be the first example of a song cycle by a major composer. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was...

'Everything was just so intense. There was an alienation and awkwardness about Josef K, but that was actually very true to life for me. Listening today I find really difficult because it brings back so many memories, so many ghosts and characters from the...

Between Two Sounds follows the life of world-famous composer Arvo P舐t from his birth in Estonia in 1935 through 1980, when the Soviets forced him to emigrate because of the nonconformist and religious nature of his music.Based on years of research and close collaboration...

This suite of eight pieces portrays the ethnic or folk character of a child's dolls, drawing freely on national folk tunes. The set is edited by the Villa-Lobos scholar David P. Appleby, who was honored by the Brazilian government with the Villa-Lobos Centennial Medal...

Despite Vaughan Williams' seminal importance in British music, international stature as a symphonist, and wider significance as an icon of Englishness, very little new research on his life or music has been published since the mid-1960s. The ten essays presented here examine diverse subjects...

In this original study, Christopher Alan Reynolds examines the influence of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. During 1845-46 the compositional styles of Schumann and Wagner changed in a common direction, toward a style that was more...

Celebrate Dolly's extraordinary life and style in living color! She's the Queen of Country, the Smoky Mountain Songbird. Everyone knows and everyone loves the inimitable Dolly Parton. From her roots back in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Dolly burst onto the country scene and captured everyone's...

An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces...

A powerful personal journey with multi-platinum country star John Denver, featuring intimate stories and never-before-seen photographs. This memoir from Lowell Norman, a close friend and videographer of the late star, offers a rare and fascinating look inside Denver's successful but turbulent life. The award-winning...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach's vocal compositions--including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas--with particular attention...

This book explores the album 'K?male maale' (To The Cold Land, 1989) by J.M.K.E. - the most legendary punk rock band in Estonia - concentrating on the meaning of the album in different sociocultural contexts from its release until today. In 35 years, the...

The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys' 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well as heralding the boldest run of genre-defiant albums of their 67-year career. The 1973 watershed was their first multiplatinum release...

Willard A. Palmer's excellent edition which includes performance suggestions in the footnotes, editorial additions to the score in gray print, and Klindworth's variant (ossia) for measure 72.Author: Fr馘駻ic ChopinISBN-10: 0739008269ISBN-13: 9780739008263Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1985Pages: 12Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 11.56h x 5.19w x 0.03d

This is the first book thoroughly to explore the musical style of Henry Purcell. In this comprehensive study, Martin Adams identifies music by other composers, both within England and from abroad, which influenced Purcell's compositional decisions. Using a mix of broad stylistic observation and...

For fans of Bradley Cooper's film Maestro, a fresh appreciation of the great musical figure that gives him his due as composer as well as conductor "Luscious slices from the massive cake that was the life of the great pianist, composer, conductor and public...

A who's who of photographer and subject featuring 150 of the most striking images from Fragile Beauty: The Elton John and David Furnish Photography Collection. Over the past three decades, Sir Elton John and David Furnish have carefully built an unrivaled collection of photography....

A massive photographic archive of Lee "Scratch" Perry's legendary recording studioA 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer Lee...

""Chimie Du Gout Et De L�������Odorat Ou Principes Pour Composer Facilement, Et A Peu De Frais, Les Liqueurs A Boire, Et Les Eaux De Senteurs"" is a French book written by Polycarpe Poncelot in 1755. The title translates to ""Chemistry of Taste and Smell...

The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic--inspired by her wildly popular Instagram....

The first extensive study of the life and music of the Swiss composer, Richard Flury (1896-1967). The late-Romantic composer Richard Flury (1896-1967) was born in Biberist, a tiny town outside the Baroque city of Solothurn in northern Switzerland. He went to school in Solothurn,...

At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the late Middle Ages. Rather than focus on a single strand of his remarkable career, Elizabeth Eva Leach gives us a...

The terms of structuralist and post-structuralist theory have been widely debated within the field of music analysis in recent years. However, very few analyses have attempted to address the repertoire of large orchestral works of the turn of the century - works which seem...

For fans of Bradley Cooper's film Maestro, an appreciation that gives Bernstein his due as composer as well as conductor Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium...

Talent, energy, dedication, discipline, passion, innovation, education, drive, mind, body, spirit, vision, honor, truth, and drums make the man: Kenny Aronoff. Voted by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest drummers of all time, Aronoff is arguably the most sought-after recording and touring...

"Volume 1 focuses on my timeline, on the work I've done all along, parallel to the band and back to my early 20s." --Michael Stipe Volume 1 is the first in a series of publications presenting different aspects of Michael Stipe's multifaceted artistic practice....

Exploding onto the music scene at the tender age of 16, Joss Stone took the U.K. and then the world by storm with her powerful and compelling soul interpretations. Our album-matching folio for The Soul Sessions includes seven pages of beautiful photos. Titles are:...

As charismatic and gifted as he was volatile, Jimmy Martin recorded dozens of bluegrass classics and co-invented the high lonesome sound. Barbara Martin Stephens became involved with the King of Bluegrass at age seventeen. Don't Give your Heart to a Rambler tells the story...

Aus Holbergs Zeit, Suite im alten Stil, Op.40 - now more commonly known as the Holberg Suite - was written in 1884 for the 200th anniversary celebration of playwright Ludvig Holberg's birth. Originally for piano, the composer scored it for strings the following year,...

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) was an Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of music. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and continued his studies in Berlin and Leipzig. He was a very influential composer, responsible for making Cambridge University Musical...

This book includes four pieces composed by Javier MarcAuthor: MarcISBN-10: 147514962XISBN-13: 9781475149623Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2012Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.05d

Some of the most beautiful music for the lute in the Renaissance was included in Thomas Robinson's book published in 1603 - Schoole of Musicke. Here are solo and duet compositions from this work transcribed and arranged for the Guitar. These are delightful pieces...

After Nirvana, everything changed. Kurt Cobain and his band ushered in a new era in music, bringing the authenticity of US underground punk to mainstream rock audiences. Award-winning biographer and music critic Marc Burrows dives into the world of Nirvana, providing an exhaustive day-by-day...

Chopping Wood is Pete Seeger up close and personal like never before. Derived from years of conversations between Seeger and his close friend and collaborator David Bernz, it takes readers on a uniquely personal journey through this legendary folksinger and songwriter remarkable life and...

This book is a fascinating biography of the legendary composer Frederick Delius, written by his friend and fellow musician Peter Warlock. With intimate insights into Delius's life and work, this book is an essential read for music lovers and anyone interested in the creative...

-Maria Callas told through the words of colleagues, beloved, close collaborators and unpublished images-Features stunning black and white photography and previously unseen documentsThe sound of Maria Callas, artist and woman.Maria Callas was one of the most influential and renowned opera singers of the 20th...

An expert fiddler and a magnetic showman, Bob Wills (1905-1975) popularized a style of Southwestern dance music known as western swing, a rhythmic hybrid of fiddle music, blues, and big band swing. In 1938, when Wills was thirty-three and nearing the height of his...

The Swell Season, the Oscar-winning duo consisting of Frames frontman Glen Hansard and Czech ing nue Marketa Irglova, have released Strict Joy. The album is the follow-up to their 2007 surprise hit film Once and its gold-certified, Academy-award winning soundtrack. The twelve new, original...

This guide to Mozart's two most popular piano concertos--the D minor, K. 466, and the C major, K. 467 (the so-called "Elvira Madigan")--presents the historical background of the works, placing them within the context of Mozart's compositional and performance activities at a time when...

From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to call him the "dean of American church musicians." Yet in time, Sowerby's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Canticle of the Sun and the rest of his corpus...

He defied his family's expectations and society's norms.From the very beginning, Congyu Wang was a true underdog, not a musical prodigy, and even once dismissed the piano as being "for girls." However, one teacher, one movie, and a new status in his young life...

"A shattered-mirror insight into the bizarre world of hitting things with sticks." -- Neil Peart, bestselling author, lyricist and drummer for Rush "By turns reflective and dramatic, poignant and hilarious, Sticking It Out offers an irresistible portrait of the artist as a young percussionist."...

Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall is a comprehensive history of the legendary band featuring photos, album covers, and posters as well as insight into their iconic songs and albums.Author: Hugh FielderISBN-10: 078584371XISBN-13: 9780785843719Publisher: Chartwell BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2023Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.48lbsSize: 10.90h x 9.30w x...

Miley Cyrus first shot to fame at a young age playing Hannah Montana but she has long-since said goodbye to her good girl image, and is now best known for pushing the boundaries - both on and off stage. This biography tells Miley's amazing...

The story of a particular Javanese group of "matching" musical instruments, the gamelan Digul, built in a notorious Dutch East Indies prison camp by a master musician and political activist, and the role in played in helping to foster Australian-Indonesian friendship. This is the...

Yma Sumac: Exotica World Music Vocalist -- The next Musician Snapshots book in the 'Music You Should Hear Series' is a profile of singer Yma Sumac. With a four-octave range, Peruvian vocalist Yma (pronounced EE-ma) Sumac shocked and captivated 1950s America and became a...