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Agroundbreaking Black artist and his career in the Jim Crow South This book is the first biographyof Graham Jackson (1903‒1983), a virtuosic musician whose life story displays the complexities of being aBlack professional in the segregated South. David Cason discusses how Jacksonnavigated a web...

Margaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers in the first half of the twentieth century. In her desire to be both serious composer and mother, Sutherland was atypical of her era and faced significant challenges--public and private--in blending these...

Imaginations will be sparked by the title alone, but the music of this duet will be the real inspiration for students. The driving rhythm patterns in 4/4 meter defy the bar lines and are exciting to play. Written in D minor, both parts are...

The Christmas season brings many wonderful traditions, but the music of the season remains the highlight. And sharing this music with someone else can become a tradition of its own. Melody Bober has arranged some of her favorite carols for one piano, four hands....

Fr馘駻ic Chopin's four ballades, composed between 1835 and 1842, are some of the most challenging pieces in the standard piano repertoire. The term ballade" was associated with French poetry until the mid-19th century, when Chopin was among the first to pioneer the ballade as...

This book "" Handel "" has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for decades.So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present...

An album-matching folio containing: The Lifting * I've Been High * All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star) * She Just Wants to Be * Disappear * Saturn Return * Beat a Drum * Imitation of Life * Summer Turns to...

A B-Flat Clarinet Solo, composed by Carl Maria von Weber.Author: Carl Maria Von WeberISBN-10: 1633611728ISBN-13: 9781633611726Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2020Pages: 999Format: Paperback

Harvey Lichtenstein looks ahead and back over a trailblazing career as the shaman, iconoclast and impresario of America's avant garde with many of the major performing artists of our time, including Philip Glass, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, Steve Reich, Pina Bausch, Bill T. Jones,...

BOWIE'S PIANO MAN: THE LIFE OF MIKE GARSONAuthor: Clifford SlapperISBN-10: 161713693XISBN-13: 9781617136931Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2018Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

The Clash thought they could change the world. They never did, but they created some of the greatest rock music of all time in the attempt. Clash interviews were mesmerizing. Infused with the messianic spirit of punk, the Clash engaged with the press like...

She was beautiful. She was a musical genius. She was married to another prodigious musician, the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim. Their fairy-tale marriage turned them into a royal musical couple. This definitive biography charts du Pr 's meteoric career from her early twenties,...

The first publication and exploration of a pathbreaking treatise on what would become a crucial element in the music of Stravinsky and Ravel: the octatonic scale. In 1879, French amateur composer Edmond de Polignac (1834-1901) painstakingly devised a new way to create melodies and...

John Bell Young explores some of the richest and most memorable instrumental music ever written. How did this prolific musician compose more than a thousand masterpieces in a career that spanned less than two decades? Young's colorful analysis of a Schubert's greatest orchestral, piano...

Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music - 2020 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence The Other Toscanini is the only book in English about the Argentine conductor and composer H ctor Panizza (1875-1967). Known all over the...

Melody Bober's varied collection provides a wide range of original pieces that will sustain the interest of an intermediate student over many months. Titles: Crystal Palace Waltz * Daybreak in Dublin * Magnificent Monarch * A Reflection of Love * Rodeo Roundup! * Rusty...

This exciting collection includes some of Melody Bober's best-loved solos for early intermediate to intermediate piano students. Titles: Black Cat Scherzo * Medieval Kingdom * Music Box Melody * Raspberry Rag * Setting Sail (from A Sailor's Journey) * Summer Romance.Author: Melody BoberISBN-10: 1569391998ISBN-13:...

Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a prodigy who loathed the word, a brilliant pianist who disliked performing, and a public figure who craved solitude. With his recording of the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, Gould became an international celebrity. Gould's unusual interpretations, quirky stage mannerisms,...

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman...

A renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward. In this entrancing memoir, timeless questions about music and life are explored by a master musician in his 85th year....

As featured in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, Consequence, Mashable, Mental Floss, Book Riot and more!"Weird Al" Yankovic continues as one of our most beloved comedians, actors, and musicians. A skilled accordion player and lyricist, the California native not only crafts meticulous parodies,...

This book presents new information about Rachmaninoff accessed from unique sources previously unavailable in English. From the extraordinary women who inspired him, to his humanitarian work, to his religion, Nollan interweaves Rachmaninoff's personal struggles and triumphs into his concert career.Author: Valeria Z. NollanISBN-10: 1666917591ISBN-13:...

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the United States. BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC BOOK RELEASE OF 2019 by Classical-music.com, the official website of...

Bella Ciao is the album that kick-started the Italian folk revival in the mid-1960s, made by Il Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, a group of researchers, musicians, and radical intellectuals. Based on a contested music show that debuted in 1964, Bella Ciao also featured a double...

In this book, Ronald Ebrecht has meticulously studied each of Duruflé's works and put together the first book to discuss in detail all of Duruflé's music. With encouragement from Duruflé's editor and the foundation established in his name, Ebrecht has compiled copious examples from...

Who would have thought you could play classical music on a ukulele? But you can! Here are 56 Renaissance Lute pieces by Giulio Abondante in tablature and modern notation arranged for the Low G ukulele. Have fun!Author: Michael WalkerISBN-10: 1387754726ISBN-13: 9781387754724Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2022Pages:...

This Practical Performing Edition is a well-rounded introduction to Chopin's easiest piano pieces. It contains the familiar Prelude in A Major," "Prelude in B minor" and "Prelude in E minor," three waltzes (published posthumously), six mazurkas and additional works. Ornaments are realized and fingering...

This beautifully laid out edition of Debussy's Suite Bergamasque has large, readable scoring as well as footnotes, performance suggestions, and historical information about the work.Author: Claude DebussyISBN-10: 0739022296ISBN-13: 9780739022290Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1970Pages: 32Format: OtherWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 12.00h x 8.70w x 0.20d

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not...

Beethoven wrote 32 sonatas for piano. Volume 2, edited by Stewart Gordon, includes Sonatas 9--15 (Op. 14, Nos. 1--2; Op. 22; Op. 26; Op. 27, Nos. 1--2; and Op. 28), written between 1798 and 1801 and published shortly after they were written. Of the...

The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and...

Composer, conductor, and pianist, Thomas Adès is one of the most diversely talented musical figures of his generation. His music is performed by great opera companies, symphony orchestras, chamber groups, and music festivals throughout the world. But Adès has resisted public discussion of the...

Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts I and II, The Leopard, the Zeffirelli Shakespeares,...

The story of Bowie's life told through 300 encounters with fellow icons, from Dylan to Dalí, Lennon to Lydon, Princess Margaret to Prince. *** With consultant editor Tony Visconti David Bowie's story has never been told quite like this. Tracing the star's encounters with...

Paul McCartney's songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with his co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years. Now, taking 50 key songs from his five-decade career since the break-up of the Fab Four, Paul McCartney: The Stories Behind...

Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), violinist, composer, teacher, and founding director of Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, was one of the most eminent and influential musicians of the long nineteenth century. Born in a tiny Jewish community on the Austro-Hungarian border, he rose to a position...

First full monograph to focus entirely on the English-language songs set to music by Byrd. As he grappled with the challenges of composing for various instrumental and vocal ensembles, William Byrd (c. 1540-1623), England's premier Renaissance composer, devoted considerable attention to the poetry and...

Leonard Cohen: The Music and the Mystique provides an indispensable guide to the music of this legendary songwriter and musician, including a track-by-track analysis of every song recorded on officially released albums by Cohen, from his 1969 Songs of Leonard Cohen to his most...

Are You Ready To Write The Next Big Hit And Become A Legend?Have you ever listened to a song and thought "wow, if only I could write a song like that?"Well, you can now learn all the secrets on how to write beautiful music...

Warren Zevon was one of the most original songwriters to emerge from the prolific 1970s Los Angeles music scene. Beyond his most familiar song--the rollicking 1978 hit "Werewolves of London"--Zevon's smart, often satirical songbook is rich with cinematic, literary, and comic qualities; dark narratives;...

The famous piece by Mozart is one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire. Using Mozart's original dynamic indications, this beautifully engraved performance edition from the Belwin Classic Library is presented in its original piano solo form.Author: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN-10: 0757916678ISBN-13: 9780757916670Publisher:...

Recording and performing in the early 1950s, Jesse Belvin, Guitar Slim, and Johnny Ace produced at least thirteen top-25 hits between the three of them. All but forgotten in the annals of rock 'n' roll, these artists have influenced musicians as varied as Elvis...

On Ice-T's 1991 classic O.G. Original Gangster, he introduced his all-Black hardcore band Body Count with lead guitarist Ernie C, bringing them on the first-ever Lollapalooza tour that summer. The next year, Body Count's self-titled debut album, rounded out by rhythm guitarist D-Roc the...

In 1989, Bob Mould took a left turn. Already legendary before his 30th birthday for his noise-and-nuance work in H sker D , Mould had recently walked away from his old band. He re-emerged with his debut solo album: Workbook. Filled with chiming acoustic...

Over the past decade, Chris Wade has written extensively about Bob Dylan's music. This book brings together all the interviews and Q & As Chris has done with some of the many varied people who've worked with Dylan over the years, from violinist Scarlet...

In a 1969 conversation with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, Bob Dylan proclaimed, "I don't give interviews." But in truth, he has spoken at length with print publications large and small and with broadcast media around the world, given numerous press conferences, and even...

The first history of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to describe and document its origins in 1887 to the present day, relating its changing fortunes in light of the economic, demographic, and cultural history of the city of Detroit. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Grace, Grit,...

William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and professor of music. In William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator, Mark Hugh Malone tells the fascinating tale of Dawson's early life, quest for education,...