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  • Reflections of A Love Supreme: Motown Through The Eyes of Fans by Ingrassia, Tom
    Tom Ingrassia

    Reflections of A Love Supreme: Motown Through The Eyes of Fans

    Sit back, relax, and enjoy this pictorial journey back to the magical-and turbulent-1960s. It was a time when culture, society and politics were changing at a rapid pace. And it was the music of Motown that brought people together in a way never before...
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  • In the Steppes of Central Asia: Study score by Borodin, Alexander
    Alexander Borodin

    In the Steppes of Central Asia: Study score

    Dedicated to the father of the to symphonic poem Franz Liszt, Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia is a musical depiction of a caravan traveling through the steppe lands of the Caucasus under the protection of Russian troops. The premiere took place in...
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  • The Music of Harrison Birtwistle by Adlington, Robert
    Robert Adlington

    The Music of Harrison Birtwistle

    Harrison Birtwistle (1934- ) is one of the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive view of his large and varied output, containing descriptions of every published work, and also a number of withdrawn...
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  • George Gershwin by Starr, Larry
    Larry Starr

    George Gershwin

    In this welcome addition to the immensely popular Yale Broadway Masters series, Larry Starr focuses fresh attention on George Gershwin's Broadway contributions and examines their centrality to the composer's entire career. Starr presents Gershwin as a composer with a unified musical vision--a vision developed...
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  • Franz Schubert: A Biography by McKay, Elizabeth Norman
    Elizabeth Norman McKay

    Franz Schubert: A Biography

    In his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His "Trout" Quintet, his "Unfinished" Symphony, the last three piano sonatas, and above...
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  • Mozart: A Musical Biography by Küster, Konrad
    Konrad K?ter

    Mozart: A Musical Biography

    Although there are many accounts of Mozart's life, and countless descriptions and analyses of his music, this is the first attempt to portray Mozart's creative life as a composer. K?ter selects forty works or groups of works covering virtually every important stage in Mozart's...
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  • Beethoven's French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration by Beghin, Tom
    Tom Beghin

    Beethoven's French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration

    Using a replica of Beethoven's Erard piano, scholar and performer Tom Beghin launches a striking reinterpretation of a key period of Beethoven's work. In 1803 Beethoven acquired a French piano from the Erard Fr鑽es workshop in Paris. The composer was "so enchanted with it,"...
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  • John Cage: Composed in America by Perloff, Marjorie
    Marjorie Perloff

    John Cage: Composed in America

    When the great avant-gardist John Cage died, just short of his eightieth birthday in 1992, he was already the subject of dozens of interviews, memoirs, and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory, and performance practice. But Cage never thought of himself as...
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  • Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor's Music by Nakai, You
    You Nakai

    Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor's Music

    David Tudor is remembered today in two guises: as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His early realization of indeterminate graphic scores and his...
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  • Lyrics by Ferry, Bryan
    Bryan Ferry

    Lyrics

    Bryan Ferry's evocative lyrics of aspiration and romantic longing, introduced by the author and published on the 50th anniversary of the first Roxy Music album. Bryan Ferry's work as a singer and songwriter, both as a solo artist and with Roxy Music, is legendary....
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  • Special Deluxe by Young, Neil
    Neil Young

    Special Deluxe

    The perfect gift for music and car lovers, Special Deluxe is Neil Young's New York Times bestselling follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace that "reads like a great Neil Young song plays." (The Buffalo News) In this acclaimed new memoir, New York Times bestselling author...
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  • The Lizard King Was Here by Opsasnick, Mark
    Mark Opsasnick

    The Lizard King Was Here

    THE LIZARD KING WAS HERE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JIM MORRISON IN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - REVISED EDITION is an in-depth study of a greatly overlooked period in the mercurial life of Jim Morrison, the late poet and lyricist-vocalist of the rock and roll...
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  • Luigi Nono: A Composer in Context by Nielinger-Vakil, Carola
    Carola Nielinger-Vakil

    Luigi Nono: A Composer in Context

    The anti-fascist cantata Il canto sospeso, the string quartet Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima and the 'Tragedy of Listening' Prometeo cemented Luigi Nono's place in music history. In this study, Carola Nielinger-Vakil examines these major works in the context of Nono's amalgamation of avant-garde...
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  • The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger by Straus, Joseph N.
    Joseph N. Straus

    The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger

    This book is the first full-length analytical study of the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Crawford was a pivotal figure in the American avant-garde, the so-called 'ultra-modern' movement of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to her historical significance, as part of the first...
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  • Haydn: The 'Paris' Symphonies by Harrison, Bernard
    Bernard Harrison

    Haydn: The 'Paris' Symphonies

    Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 82-7 are seminal works in Haydn's output and mark a new level of compositional attainment, launching the important cycle of mature Haydn symphonies written for an international audience. This book considers both stylistic aspects of the symphonies and their broader cultural...
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  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto by Stowell, Robin
    Robin Stowell

    Beethoven: Violin Concerto

    This is the first individual study of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. It explores the work's background and the influences that combined in its creation, and describes its indifferent initial reception. It considers the numerous textual problems that confront the performer, including discussion of Beethoven's adaptation...
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  • Shostakovich Studies by Fanning, David
    David Fanning

    Shostakovich Studies

    Few composers' posthumous reputations have grown as steadily as Shostakovich's. Yet outside the concert hall the focus of attention seems to have been on the extraordinary circumstances of his life rather than on the music itself. This book seeks to show that the power...
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  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 by Cook, Nicholas
    Nicholas Cook

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

    Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is acknowledged as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Western tradition. More than any other musical work it has become an international symbol of unity and affirmation. Yet early critics rejected it as cryptic and eccentric, the product of a...
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  • Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology by Badura-Skoda, Eva
    Eva Badura-Skoda

    Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology

    This collection of articles, written by European, American and British scholars, clarifies problems of style and chronology in the music Schubert composed during the last decade of his life. Althought O. E. Deutsch's documentary biography and memoirs set new milestones in Schubert research, they...
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  • Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks by Morrison, Simon
    Simon Morrison

    Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks

    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...
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  • Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across Disciplinesvolume 20 by Schaeffer, Pierre
    Pierre Schaeffer

    Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across Disciplines Volume 20

    The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concr te to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting...
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  • The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750 by Kerman, Joseph
    Joseph Kerman

    The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries,...
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  • Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803 by Denora, Tia
    Tia Denora

    Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803

    In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of...
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  • Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics by Murdoch, Stuart
    Stuart Murdoch

    Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics

    From the imagined lives of the passengers riding Glasgow buses in the early 1990s to questions raised about the status quo and musings on the meaning of religion, Stuart Murdoch, front man of Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian, has written some of...
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  • Haydn Studies: Proceedings of the International Haydn Conference, Washington, D.C., 1975 by Larsen, Jens P.
    Jens P. Larsen

    Haydn Studies: Proceedings of the International Haydn Conference, Washington, D.C., 1975

    In October, 1975, the International Haydn Conference was held in Washington, D.C., during the last eight days of the Haydn Festival at Kennedy Center. Scholars and musicians from all over the world were brought together for the conference, participating in panel discussions, round tables,...
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  • The Monteverdi Companion by Arnold, Denis
    Denis Arnold

    The Monteverdi Companion

    This book is not meant to be a comprehensive account of Monteverdi's life and works. What it sets out to do is to study certain aspects of his music and environment which have been insufficiently stressed in most of the existing books about him...
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  • The Creative World of Mozart by Lang, Paul Henry
    Paul Henry Lang

    The Creative World of Mozart

    Every phase of his career and output, the workings of his mind, and his relations with other composers are being studied by scholars in various countries. This collection of articles were written for the Musical Quarterly by internationally known authorities who examine various aspects...
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  • Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy: A Film Score Guide by Sciannameo, Franco
    Franco Sciannameo

    Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy: A Film Score Guide

    Released in 1972, 1974, and 1990 respectively, Francis Ford Coppola's three-part saga is one of the greatest artistic accomplishments (and financial successes) in the history of Hollywood cinema. The latest in Scarecrow's Film Score Guides series, Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy: A Film Score...
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  • Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Film Score Guide by Leinberger, Charles
    Charles Leinberger

    Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Film Score Guide

    This guide demonstrates Morricone's unique and enduring contributions to the art of film music through a discussion of his compositional and orchestrational processes, many of which are evident in his music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in a way that can...
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  • New Mattheson Studies by Buelow, George J.
    George J. Buelow

    New Mattheson Studies

    This 1984 collection of essays brings together the research on Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), an influential musician and chronicler of musical thought in eighteenth-century Germany. The essays explore the cultural climate of Hamburg during Mattheson's lifetime; Mattheson as a composer; Mattheson's relationship to his contemporaries;...
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  • Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia by Wilson, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Wilson

    Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia

    The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work--a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting relevance."--Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal Maria Yudina...
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  • Far and Away: A Prize Every Time by Peart, Neil
    Neil Peart

    Far and Away: A Prize Every Time

    Following in the tradition of Ghost Rider and Traveling Music, Rush drummer Neil Peart lets us ride with him along the backroads of North America, Europe, and South America, sharing his experiences in personal reflections and full-color photos. Spanning almost four years, these twenty-two...
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  • Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy by Sciannameo, Franco
    Franco Sciannameo

    Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy

    Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone's position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian composer has reached world fame...
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  • Music Is History by Questlove
    Questlove

    Music Is History

    New York Times bestselling Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past 50 years. Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes, whether investigating how...
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  • The Beautiful Ones by Prince
    Prince

    The Beautiful Ones

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words--featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death NAMED ONE OF...
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  • Six-String Stories by Clapton, Eric
    Eric Clapton

    Six-String Stories

    'These guitars have been really good tools; they're not just museum pieces. They all have a soul and they all come alive.' - Eric Clapton 'In his own words, Clapton tells his story through the history of his instruments.' - Rolling Stone In Six-String...
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  • Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encountersvolume 19 by Lizie, Arthur
    Arthur Lizie

    Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters Volume 19

    The life of rock's most durable troubadour in his own words Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters is a revealing anthology of Young's most significant, fascinating, and entertaining discussions, declarations, and dreams, chronicling fifty years of conversations, feature stories, and press conferences....
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  • Prince: A Portrait of the Artist by Sexton, Paul
    Paul Sexton

    Prince: A Portrait of the Artist

    Explore the seductive story of the unique artist that was Prince through this stunning collection of rarely-seen items and photographs.Prince: A Portrait of the Artist in Memories & Memorabilia is a beautifully illustrated biography of a musician of unparalleled talent. Featuring a foreword by...
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  • Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues by Dann, David
    David Dann

    Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues

    Named one of the world's great blues-rock guitarists by Rolling Stone, Mike Bloomfield (1943-1981) remains beloved by fans forty years after his untimely death. Taking readers backstage, onstage, and into the recording studio with this legendary virtuoso, David Dann tells the riveting stories behind...
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  • Kid a Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork by Yorke, Thom
    Thom Yorke

    Kid a Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork

    A celebration of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac, this book showcases more than 300 color artworks. It features a dialogue between Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood about the creative process and a specially commissioned essay, Kid Alphabet by Gareth Evans about Radiohead's...
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  • Keith Jarrett: A Biography by Sandner, Wolfgang
    Wolfgang Sandner

    Keith Jarrett: A Biography

    Keith Jarrett is one of the great pianists of our times. Before achieving worldwide fame for his solo improvisations, he had already collaborated with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. His Kn Concert album (1975) has now sold around four million copies and...
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  • Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings by Mitchell, Joni
    Joni Mitchell

    Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings

    A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world,...
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  • Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track Expanded Edition by Margotin, Philippe
    Philippe Margotin

    Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track Expanded Edition

    An updated edition of the most comprehensive account of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning work yet published, with the full story of every recording session, every album, and every single released during his nearly 60-year career. Bob Dylan: All the Songs focuses on Dylan's creative...
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  • Unleashed: The Story of Tool by McIver, Joel
    Joel McIver

    Unleashed: The Story of Tool

    The very first book about the Anglo-American metal band Tool explores not only their uncompromising music but also their unsettling, self-made image based on mythological symbols and arcane theories.The quartet of master musicians - Maynard James Keenan, Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor and Adam Jones...
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  • Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Cross, Charles R.
    Charles R. Cross

    Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

    The New York Times bestseller and the definitive portrait of Kurt Cobain--as relevant as ever, as we remember the impact of Cobain on our culture twenty-five years after his death--now with a new preface and an additional final chapter from acclaimed author Charles R....
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  • John Prine's John Prine by Osmon, Erin
    Erin Osmon

    John Prine's John Prine

    He is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happenings of regular people into plainly profound statements on war, industrialization, religion, and the human condition. Marking the 50th anniversary of the album's release, John Prine chronicles the...
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  • The Little Guide to Dolly Parton: It's Hard to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World by Hippo! Orange
    Hippo! Orange

    The Little Guide to Dolly Parton: It's Hard to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World

    The ultimate pick-me-up to save you from the nine-to-five heartbreak blues.The Little Book of Dolly Parton is your bible of devastating Dolly-isms.Yes, that's right, the most iconic and acclaimed female country singer in the history of music is so inventive and brilliant with her...
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  • Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book by Yorke, Thom
    Thom Yorke

    Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book

    In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together. This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards nirvana, as were sent between the two authors during the period 1999 to...
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  • Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax by Bello, Frank
    Frank Bello

    Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax

    Frank Bello, bassist with the legendary New York thrash metal band Anthrax since 1984, has sold over ten million albums, travelled the globe more times than he cares to count, and enthralled audiences from the world's biggest stages. His long-awaited memoir would be a...
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  • Boho Days: The Wider Works of Jonathan Larson by Collis, J.
    J. Collis

    Boho Days: The Wider Works of Jonathan Larson

    "I'm writing one great song before I..."When Jonathan Larson died, he left behind a musical poised to become a world-spanning phenomenon. When RENT struck, Larson became a legend - and his work legendary.But legends and overnight successes are never spawned from nothing, and the...
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