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One of a Kind Solos represent a very personal journey with music. Some pieces reveal a quirky, playful side. Others delve into the mysterious, exhilarating, or beautiful. Throughout the series, you will discover musical surprises, from humorous lyrics and unusual modes to odd meters...

One of a Kind Solos represent a very personal journey with music. Some pieces reveal a quirky, playful side. Others delve into the mysterious, exhilarating, or beautiful. Throughout the series, you will discover musical surprises, from humorous lyrics and unusual modes to odd meters...

Expertly arranged Violin with Piano Accompaniment music by Edouard Lalo from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Romantic era.Author: Edouard LaloISBN-10: 1458426505ISBN-13: 9781458426505Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.50d

The Life of Chopin is a biographical work written by the renowned composer and pianist Franz Liszt. The book details the life of Fr�����d�����ric Chopin, a Polish composer and pianist who is widely considered one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Liszt...

Experience the extraordinary career of "The Boss" with this richly illustrated package featuring two gatefolds, exclusive pullout poster, 8" ﾗ 10" glossy, and a sturdy slipcase. Twenty-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and best-selling author...Bruce Springsteen is, of course, also...

Analog photographic and film works from a key figure of the New York musical avant-gardeOne of the great experimental composers of our time, Phill Niblock (born 1933) has during his more than 60-year career produced minimalist music, structural cinema, dance performance, improvised theater, systematic...

A unique tribute from David Bowie's official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie's blessing. In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie's Stardust...

A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century. This biography from distinguished...

Written with teenagers in mind, these seven late-intermediate solos will inspire students to learn through imagery and play with feeling. Each piece is aptly named and will stretch students' imaginations to new heights. Titles: Lemon Zest * Fields of Lavender * Black and White...

Inspirational and breathtaking, I Dreamed a Dream is the highly anticipated debut album from international sensation Susan Boyle. Susan surprised the world with her powerful, heart-stopping voice when she appeared on Britain's Got Talent. Now, Alfred Music presents this stunning album-matching folio with piano/vocal/guitar...

Author: Peter SculthorpeISBN-10: 0571565751ISBN-13: 9780571565757Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2003Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.20d

On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was certainly a genius--in that, the legends are correct, and the evidence abounds--but he was also a working...

A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022 Roland White's long career has taken him from membership in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys and Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass to success with his own Roland White Band. A master of the mandolin and acclaimed...

The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music is a must-have resource for anyone looking to release their music-equally valuable for first timers as well as for seasoned experts who want the latest information on technology and industry developments. Matthew Whiteside focuses on the areas that...

Some of Chopin's best-loved works are contained in this volume. More advanced than 14 of His Easiest Piano Selections, familiar preludes, waltzes and mazurkas are joined by Fantaisie-Impromptu," "Etude in E Major" and "Polonaise in A Major." This versatile collection could be used over...

Contained within this book is a collection of letters written by or to Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven's musical prowess was recognised from an early age, and he soon became famous as a virtuoso pianist and composer....

This is a collection of 86 gypsy jazz tunes by Pere Soto, from 1989 to 2014.Author: Pere Soto TejedorISBN-10: 1981778136ISBN-13: 9781981778133Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2017Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.23d

The composer and pedagogue Adolph von Henselt (1814--1889) can truly be considered one of the founding fathers of the Russian School of piano playing. He counted among his pupils Nicolai Sergeyvich Zverev, the teacher of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Rachmaninoff considered Henselt's Etudes the equal...

Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983, from Sayreville, New Jersey, comprising lead singer Jon Bon Jovi, pianist and keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, lead guitarist Phil X, and bassist Hugh McDonald. The band's lineup has since been fairly static,...

The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time. 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner. Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins stand as giants of the musical-theatre world, but it was...

365 scores for listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros. A Year of Deep Listening is a publication of 365 scores for listening gathered by the Center for Deep Listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros....

The most famous pop band in the world, even today The Beatles hold center stage. Anyone who lived through the 1960s remembers them and the digital remastering of their output has ensured that younger generations know them too. How could they not? The songs...

Author: August Joseph FranchommeISBN-10: 0757909310ISBN-13: 9780757909313Publisher: Kalmus PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.90w x 0.30d

Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, edited by Thomas M. Kitts, begins to correct the scholarly neglect of John Fogerty, one of America's great songwriters, one of the rock era's great vocalists, and one of its underrated guitarists and...

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...

Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street JournalA unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer...

Paul Robeson's Voices is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned...

Welcome to Creative Writing and Songwriting 101! We are excited to explore the wonderful process of creativity with you. Both creative writing and songwriting require the artist to seek inspiration and transform it into a form that expresses an idea, mood, or emotion that...

This is Taylor Swift's life story, in albums so far, in a beautifully illustrated hardback edition. Her record sales top 200 million worldwide and she is the most streamed female artist on Spotify. Her 2022 album Midnights added to her many billions of streams...

This is the first full-length survey in English of the music of the Flemish composer Orlando di Lasso, one of the most important musical figures of the later 1500s. Eleven essays discuss Lasso's sacred and secular music from many perspectives, including close analysis of...

The piano works of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) are among the most treasured musical compositions of the 20th century. In this volume, pianist and Russian music scholar Sofia Moshevich provides detailed interpretive analyses of the ten major piano solo works by Shostakovich, carefully noting important...

The greatest musical prodigy since Mozart (some would say he was even greater), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) excelled in everything he did, musical or otherwise, and during his brief life became Europe's most respected and beloved composer. Yet no musician suffered more drastic swings in...

Across five decades and counting, New Zealand-born singer/songwriter and Crowded House founder Neil Finn has become one of the best-loved figures in popular music, crafting enough hits along the way--'Weather With You', 'Locked Out', 'I Got You', 'Fall At Your Feet', 'It's Only Natural',...

The story of the legendary trumpeter, in his own words Jazz trumpeter Lee Collins made "a powerful noise" that he brought to his own music as well as collaborators like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong. A cornerstone figure in early New...

This music journal is PERFECT for all songwriters and composers. It is conveniently sized at 8.5 x 11 and contains high quality interior stock, Designed for musicians, students, and teachers. (Great Gifts for Music Lovers)Author: MilfordISBN-10: 1718690495ISBN-13: 9781718690493Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2018Pages:...

Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone offers, in detailed interpretative commentaries of his best songs, a sustained assessment of the work and career of Scott Walker, one of the most significant and perplexing artists of the late 20th and 21st century. For...

Seeking the Infinite: The Musical Life of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski is the riveting biography of one of classical music's most eminent artists. Like the legendary Leonard Bernstein, Skrowaczewski is one of the few conductor-composers of his generation whose achievements in both realms uphold a tradition...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Composer, pianist, editor, writer,...

Fr馘駻ic Fran輟is Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was...

Details the musical, psychological, and metaphysical secrets in twenty-seven of Beethoven's greatest works.Author: David TameISBN-10: 0835607011ISBN-13: 9780835607018Publisher: Quest Books (IL)Language: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1982Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.99h x 6.00w x 0.62d

Arlo Guthrie, the son of America's legendary dust bowl troubadour Woody Guthrie and Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, was reared in the rarefied atmosphere of New York City's remnant Old Left culture, a period that brought together art, political action, and folk music....

Each book in the Ultimate Play-Along series features the finest professionally recorded tracks, complete transcriptions, detailed explanations, and performance notes. Each song has demonstration tracks that can be used for learning and practice and then turned off to allow playing parts along with the...

Beethoven wrote 32 sonatas for piano. The final installment, Volume 4, edited by Stewart Gordon, contains Sonatas 25-32, written between 1809 and 1822 and published shortly thereafter. Of the eight sonatas in this volume, autographs exist in whole or in part for all but...

A must-have for every New Kids fan, this beautifully designed volume traces 40 years of the groundbreaking boy band through photos, interviews, and all the fascinating facts. Donnie, Danny, Jonathan, Jordan, and Joey: they are Boston's own New Kids on the Block, an iconic...

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Maple Leaf Rag, originally composed in 1899. 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 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...

Marguerite Long, the most important French female pianist of the 20th century, left her stamp on a whole epoch of musical life in Paris. The Pedagogical Writings of Marguerite Long presents English translations of the two major contributions of Marguerite Long to the literature...

The Dead C's Clyma est mort (1993) is the record of a live gig for one person. Tom Lax was running the Siltbreeze label in Philadelphia and had come to New Zealand to meet the artists he was releasing. He heard The Dead C...

The success of the Hip-Hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of Hip-Hop in Australia. It launched a formerly 'underground' scene into the spotlight, radically transforming the group members' lives and creating new opportunities for...

An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics--everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism--from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and "jazz's greatest living improviser" (The New York Times). Sonny...