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MIA Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution
Just Kids for the grunge era. Seattle band, The Gits and their charismatic front person Mia Zapata were on the verge of international rock stardom but on July 7, 1993, days before their third US tour, Mia Zapata, The Gits 27-year-old singer-songwriter, was brutally...- $28.95
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Dolly Parton: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life
Explore 100 remarkable moments in the extraordinary life of Dolly Parton with this illustrated retrospective of her most amazing achievements. Everyone's favorite country music star and American icon, Dolly Parton, has accomplished incredible things in her life, from releasing the hit "I Will Always...- $24.99
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This Is Your Song Too: Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity
Phish has a diehard fan base and a dedicated community of enthusiasts--called Phishheads--who follow the band around the country, some fans attending every show. What may be surprising is that a significant percentage of Phishheads are Jewish.Two members of the band--bassist Mike Gordon and...- $37.95
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Solo Acoustic Musician 3: Booking a Gig
The third volume of the Solo Acoustic Musician series expands on the booking chapter in SAM 1. Michael Nichols has done a deep dive into the business side of booking a gig by interviewing managers, owners, and agents who are in charge of hiring...- $14.99
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Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer
An authoritative guide to Prokofiev's nine piano sonatas by the pianist and teacher Boris Berman Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the world's foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev's work...- $35.00
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Bollywood Odyssey: The Singing Taxman's Journey Into Film Music
How did OP Nayyar 'disrupt' the Hindi film song? Why Ravi did not find his rightful place at the hightable? How did Usha Khanna give Rafi his confidence back? Why did Jaidev die in penury? What didLeo Tolstoy have to do with Khayyam? Why...- $15.99
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Chris Rea: The Untold Story
Christopher "Chris" Anton Rea, born on 4th March 1951, Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK, is a rock and blues singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Chris is of Italian and Irish descent, being known for his distinctive, husky-gravel voice and slide guitar playing....- $14.48
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Gerry Rafferty: The Untold Story
Gerald 'Gerry' Rafferty, born on 16th April 1947, Underwood Lane, Ferguslie Park, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK was a musician, singer, songwriter & record producer. His solo hits of the late '70s included Baker Street, Right Down the Line and Night Owl, following another with...- $13.89
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Playing To Win: The Definitive Biography of John Farnham
Teen idol. King of Pop. Voice of the common man. Australian of the Year. Friend. Icon. Superstar.John Farnham is the quintessential Aussie legend. As a teenager he gave up an apprenticeship to chase his musical dreams, hitting the big time with 'Sadie (The Cleaning...- $16.00
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The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia
George Frideric Handel was born and educated in Germany, flourished in Italy, and chose to become British. One of the most cosmopolitan of the great composers, much of Handel's music has remained in the popular repertory since his lifetime, and a broad variety of...- $59.99
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Kylie Minogue: The Untold Story
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE, born on 28th May 1968, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is a singer and actress, who came to fame when starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, playing tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson. While appearing in the series for two years, Charlene married...- $12.65
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Gary Numan, An Annotated Scrapbook: 1977-1981
Gary Numan was one of the first pop artists to place equal emphasis on image and sound, a true Warholian artist who advanced on Andy's light and sound experiments with The Velvet Underground, by bringing a real grandeur to live performances, and by changing...- $75.00
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Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer
Gary Carner is the editor of The Miles Davis Companion. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.Author: Gary CarnerISBN-10: 1438494351ISBN-13: 9781438494357Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2023Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d- $26.95
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The Blue Monday Diaries: In the Studio with New Order
The fastest selling 12 single ever recorded, 'Blue Monday' is an infectious dance anthem that will never age. Released by New Order in 1983, it helped cement the band's identity like no other track. Three decades on, author Michael Butterworth - a close friend...- $19.95
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Singing Archaeology: Selected Poems 1943-1993
While Philip Glass's operas, film scores, symphonies, and popular works have made him America's best-known classical composer, almost no analysis of his compositional techniques grounded in current cultural theory has yet been published. John Richardson's in-depth examination shows how the third opera of Glass's...- $26.95
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Sting and The Police: Walking in Their Footsteps
During the 1980s, when pop icons like Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, and U2 reigned supreme, many regarded The Police as the biggest band in the world. Yet after only five albums--and at the peak of their popularity--The Police disbanded and Sting began a...- $53.00
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Bruce Springsteen: American Poet and Prophet
Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and...- $60.00
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Benny Goodman: A Supplemental Discography
Over the 100 years since Benny Goodman's birth, interest in his life and music remains as intense as ever--yet there has been no new discographical information since 1996. Benny Goodman: A Supplemental Discography fills that gap, gathering materials uncovered since the last bio-discography of...- $115.00
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott: The Never-Ending Highway
The American singer and guitarist Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931- ) is a seminal figure in the folk music revivals of the United States and Great Britain. Declared an American treasure by former President Bill Clinton, Elliott has traveled and performed for more than 50...- $97.00
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B駘a Bart: Life and Work
This book is the first comprehensive biographical study of Bartok as man, composer, and folklorist, including the background and development of his unique musical language and the impact of his pioneering investigations of multinational musical folklore on his composed works.Author: Benjamin SuchoffISBN-10: 0810840766ISBN-13: 9780810840768Publisher:...- $87.00
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Vendor: Richard Wagner
Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays
"Saint Beethoven!. . . . He was clad in somewhat untidy houseclothes, with a red woolen scarf wrapped round his waist; long, bushy grey hair hung in disorder from his head, and his gloomy, forbidding expression by no means tended to reassure. . ....- $21.95
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Rising Son: The Life and Music of Arlo Guthrie Volume 10
One of America's most beloved folk singers, Arlo Guthrie was at the pinnacle of his fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his best-selling album Alice's Restaurant and his iconic appearance at Woodstock. Yet Guthrie's career as a musician, humorist, and storyteller...- $34.95
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The Music of Elliott Carter: A Short History
Arguably the most important American composer of the century, Elliott Carter often has been more highly regarded in Europe than in his native land. Interest in his work has grown rapidly in recent years, however, and the celebration of his ninetieth birthday in December,...- $73.95
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Composers Who Changed History
This intricate visual celebration of the world's most celebrated composers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Whether you have an interest in classical music and opera or you are a music student or musician, this book would be great for you....- $40.00
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Vendor: Claude Debussy
Debussy: Children's Corner Suite for Piano [With CD (Audio)]
Debussy's six-movement suite for solo piano, Children's Corner (L. 113), was published in 1908. It is dedicated to Debussy's daughter, Claude-Emma (known as Chou-Chou"), who was three years old at the time. The pieces are not intended to be played by children; rather they...- $10.99
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Especially in Jazzy Style, Bk 1: 11 Stylized Solos for Early Intermediate Pianists
The goal of this series is to introduce students to the rhythms, harmonies and other unique characteristics of jazz. Students will be motivated by the variety of styles and sounds that have that special Dennis Alexander sound. From lyrical melodies to infectious rhythms and...- $7.99
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Vendor: Jim Brickman
The Essential Jim Brickman: Christmas
The music of Jim Brickman has delighted music lovers for nearly 20 years. This collection features his most popular and beloved compositions for the holiday season. Titles: Angels * Early Snowfall * Even Santa Fell in Love * The Gift * Greensleeves/Carol of the...- $19.95
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Minimalists
This accessible yet informative book, the first in its area aimed at a general readership, offers a unique overview of the controversial musical style of Minimalism - a name originally attributed to the movement as a derogatory term, in the same way as Impressionism...- $14.95
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Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga
Thoughtrave is the immediate and most detailed archive of Lady Gaga's emotional, intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual evolution, a reclaiming of her art (and humanity) from within the center of her celebrity during one of the most difficult transitions of her career: Summer 2013-Fall 2014.Lady...- $21.00
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Stephen Stills: The Untold Story
Stephen Arthur Stills, born on January 3rd, 1945, Dallas, Texas, US, is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer & political activist, best known for his part in Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. As both a solo act and member of two successful...- $16.12
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Richard Wagner and His World
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in...- $37.00
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Vendor: Susan Youens
Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder
Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under fire for the preponderance of mediocre talent, and yet many of these writers were highly esteemed in their day. The author has chosen four such poets--Gabriele von Baumberg, Theodor K rner, Johann Mayrhofer, and Ernst Schulze--in...- $58.99
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Vendor: Cliff Eisen
The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
Mozart's enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. This reference book functions both as a starting point for information on specific works, people, places...- $57.99
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Vendor: Timothy L. Jackson
Sibelius Studies
Sibelius Studies presents a new portrait of this popular and prolific composer. Sibelius's symphonies often have been mentioned in the same breath with Beethoven's; indeed, in the twentieth century, they have enjoyed a commensurate popularity. The book contextualizes Sibelius' symphonies and tone poems in...- $135.00
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C.P.E. Bach Studies
Focusing on his activity in Hamburg from 1767 until his death in 1788, this collection of essays explores the literary and aesthetic contexts of C.P.E. Bach's later work. It includes essays on Bach's position on contemporary concepts of responsiveness, his sacred music and views...- $60.99
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Vendor: Marguerite Boland
Elliott Carter Studies
Over the course of an astonishingly long career, Elliott Carter has engaged with many musical developments of the twentieth and now twenty-first centuries - from his early neo-classic music of the interwar period, to his modernist works of conflict and opposition in the 1960s...- $135.00
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Bach Studies
This volume of essays reflects the increasing breadth and scope of Bach research. The fifteen essays by American and European scholars address a wide range of topics and issues: Magnificat, Cantata, and Passion; Parody and Genre; The Well-Tempered Clavier; and Transmission and Reception. Many...- $46.99
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Bruckner Studies
This volume contains historical and analytical essays on Anton Bruckner and his music. For the past century the principal concerns of scholars of Bruckner's music have been his personal and musical relationship with Wagner, editorial problems in his scores, his enigmatic personality, and the...- $65.99
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Vendor: Peter Bloom
Berlioz Studies
This book contains nine essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great nineteenth-century musician's life and work. Among the pieces studied closely are Romeo et Juliette, La Damnation de Faust and Les Nuits d' t . An essay on newly discovered...- $62.99
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Vendor: Christopher Chowrimootoo
Middlebrow Modernism: Britten's Operas and the Great Divide Volume 24
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the...- $34.95
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Vendor: Luigi Nono
Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews Volume 21
Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924-1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his...- $95.00
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Vendor: Ulf Olsson
Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation Volume 1
Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, the Grateful Dead provides a unique lens through...- $95.00
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Vendor: Elliott Antokoletz
The Music of Bela Bartok: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music
The basic principles of progression and the means by which tonality is established in Bart k's music remain problematical to many theorists. Elliott Antokoletz here demonstrates that the remarkable continuity of style in Bart k's evolution is founded upon an all-encompassing system of pitch...- $33.95
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Vendor: Kimberly Dillon Summers
Justin Timberlake
This revealing biography of pop star Justin Timberlake documents his background, childhood career, achievements, and disappointments. From his first taste of fame as an 11-year-old contestant on the TV show Star Search to making it big with the boy-band 'N Sync and his subsequent...- $43.00
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U2: A Musical Biography
This is the story of the phenomenally popular, critically acclaimed Irish band from its Dublin beginnings to the present. U2: A Musical Biography tells the story of the phenomenally popular Irish rock band whose passionate songs and performances have taken them from their Dublin...- $43.00
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Vendor: Allen Cohen
Howard Hanson in Theory and Practice
In this exciting new study of a largely overlooked but nevertheless extremely important figure in American music, author Allen Cohen explores the relationship between theory and practice in the works of Howard Hanson, a prominent twentieth-century composer, conductor, and educator. In Hanson's book Harmonic...- $95.00
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Vendor: Thomas Delio
The Music of Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is today widely regarded as one of America's foremost experimental composers. His unique body of compositions, as well as his numerous writings and interviews, provide a vast amount of source material for scholarly research. Yet, few have seriously examined his work....- $95.00
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Vendor: Judith Cody
Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography
Despite having composed 140 major works of music, all while pursuing an active and productive career in teaching, Vivian Fine (1913-2000) has not, until now, been the subject of a significant biography or bibliography. Regarded by many as the finest American female composer of...- $83.00
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Vendor: Harry Shapiro
Eric Clapton: Lost in the Blues
Eric Clapton's position as the world's greatest rock guitarist is unlikely to change in our lifetime. His career over the past four decades has been closely followed by millions of fans, as a member of the influential Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Michael S. Begnal
The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71: Lost in the Future
The Stooges have come to be considered one of the most important rock bands. By emphasizing their influence on later developments, however, critics tend to overlook the significance of the band in their own context and era. The Music and Noise of the Stooges,...- $52.95
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