Music-Individual Composer & Musician

Indeed there is logic and reasoning behind a good melody.This book reveals how to use certain factors to compose catchy songs.No need of proficiency in any musical instrumentAuthor: Romalee Anant Amolic, Mitalee AmolicISBN-10: 1500476943ISBN-13: 9781500476946Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize:...

Much like other volumes in the series, this book focuses on the background and development of Elmer Bernstein, a brief discussion of his notable scores, and the context in which he created the music The Magnificent Seven. Author Whitmer provides an analysis of the...

Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan is the complete biography of the first female jazz vocalist to record on the prestigious Blue Note record label. In this book, biographer Ellen Johnson reveals the challenges Jordan confronted to become an influential recording artist and...

Glam Rock investigates the origins, development, and impact of an often under-valued and misunderstood musical genre. Exploring artistic, political, psychological, sexual, and commercial contexts, this book brings a fresh perspective to the transatlantic cultural history of this unique movement in popular music.Author: Simon PhiloISBN-10:...

JoAnne O'Connell reveals a prolific composer who concealed his sympathies for slaves in his plantation songs and wrote in diverse styles to satisfy the changing tastes of his generation. This intimate biography offers an invaluable portrait of the musical, political, economic, social, racial, and...

Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs explores the full range of Presley recordings, from his earliest number to his end-of-career (and even posthumous) hits, combing through gold record hits and unpolished gems to distill the best Presley had to offer his generation, his...

An icon of musical talent and independence, Bessie Smith's contributions to the blues and the music industry earned her the title of "Empress of the Blues." Learning how to listen to Smith's work in turn develops a greater understanding of how her successors extended...

Today, the number of African Americans who hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras are few and far between, and Watt is the first in many years to write about this uniquely exhilarating--and at times painful--experience.Author: Robert Lee WattISBN-10: 1442239387ISBN-13: 9781442239388Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield...

Carey Fleiner examines English rock group the Kinks and their social and cultural influences both on and by the group from the early '60s to present day. In and around the biographical survey of the band's career, The Kinks looks at the several contexts...

George Plasketes provides a comprehensive chronicle of Warren Zevon's 40-year, 20-record career and his enduring cultural significance. Throughout, Plasketes explores the musical, cinematic, and literary influences that shaped Zevon's distinctive style and songwriting themes.Author: George PlasketesISBN-10: 1442234563ISBN-13: 9781442234567Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2016Pages:...

In Counting Down Bruce Springsteen: His 100 Finest Songs, rock writer Jim Beviglia reflects not only on why each song has earned its place on list but lays out the story behind each of the 100, supplying fresh insights on the musical and lyrical...

Neil Young cannot be simply labeled. He has recorded as a solo artist, as a member of a hard rock trio, and with numerous other musician configurations. He can move from the soft sounds of early 1970s acoustic folk to the distorted, fuzz guitar...

Through an examination of her music, videos, philanthropic work, and biographical details, this book gives insight into Alanis Morissette's musical career and day-to-day life, from her early pop beginnings in Canada to her work today. As a whole, Alanis Morissette's work has never been...

"One of the greatest artists our country has is Benny Golson. He is not only a great musician, but an original and fabulous composer. He is inventive and creative and his work is loved the world over. Benny is a rare, creative genius. All...

In time for the band's twentieth anniversary, the inside story of the Dave Matthews Band--from the early days playing small gigs in Charlottesville to their current sold-out annual summer concert tours...and more than thirty-five million records sold. Dave Matthews Band has one of the...

(Guitar Solo). 15 Ellington classics, including: Caravan * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * I'm Just a Lucky So and So * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got...

There is a stream that courses through American roots music. Its source is in the Appalachian foothills in a place called Maces Springs, Virginia. It was there that A.P. Carter, his wife Sara, and his sister-in-law Maybelle began their careers as three of the...

THE JAM WERE THE RUNTS WHO BECAME KINGS. Initially derided by New Wavers for being uncool suburbanites, Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler unexpectedly proceeded to fulfil every promise ever made by punk as they took social protest and cultural authenticity to the...

Few would dispute U2's position as the biggest rock band in the world. Active and relevant for nearly thirty-five years, Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen, Jr. have been masters of reinvention, thriving artistically while continuing to sell out concerts across the...

Now in paperback, Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man is the first-ever biography of Led Zeppelin's legendary guitarist and producer. Never before has the story been told in such sharp detail, leaving no stone unturned, from the heady days of swinging London in the 1960s...

Many different voices, all speaking of the vibrant lives and times of four young men, and the legacy that touched the whole world. As long as popular culture exists, the music, image and legend of the Beatles will never fade. The Beatles: Paperback Writer...

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throughout the islands and the Caribbean diasporas in North America and Europe. Part ethnography, part biography, and...

In Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listener's Companion, musician and writer Gregg Akkerman looks behind the curtain of "rock gods" sensationalism at this performing act's musical legacy. Putting readers right where the band was performing its iconic numbers, Akkerman is the guide for anyone intent...

Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, author, and educator. In What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist,...

In The Clash: The Only Band That Matters, respected music critic Sean Egan examines The Clash's career and art through the prism of the uniquely interesting and fractious UK politics of the Seventies and Eighties, without which they simply would not have existed. Tackling...

In this first in-depth look at the series, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk illustrates how the cultural, social, political, and musical upheavals of the long sixties impacted Bernstein's life and his Young People's Concerts.Author: Alicia Kopfstein-PenkISBN-10: 0810888491ISBN-13: 9780810888494Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2015Pages: 354Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize:...

Since the vibrant production of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2010, interest has grown in the work's French composer, Georges Bizet. First published in 1991, Christoph Schwandt's biography of Georges Bizet is now widely recognized as the definitive work on...

Produced in 1958, The Big Country featured an all-star cast that included Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, and Oscar-winner Burl Ives. One of the most enduring elements of the film has been Jerome Moross's score. In Jerome Moross's The Big Country: A Film Score Guide,...

In Bach's Testament: On the Philosophical and Theological Background of The Art of Fugue, Gcz probes the philosophic-theological background of The Art of Fugue, revealing the special structures that supported the 1993 reconstruction. Bach's Testament investigates the reconstruction's metaphysical dimensions, focusing on the quadruple...

In Experiencing Stravinsky, music historian Robin Maconie takes a completely fresh approach to understanding the great composer's works, explaining what makes Stravinsky's "sound" unique and what we, as listeners, need to know in order to appreciate the variety and brilliance of his compositions. In...

During his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted by his entrée into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time. In this second volume of Janita Hall-Swadley's The Collected Writings...

Although fans and scholars alike recognize the Grateful Dead as icons of the psychedelic music, the band's improvisatory approach still remains an enigma to the uninitiated. In Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation, Malvinni unravels this mystery, walking readers through the band's...

In this book, Roger Hickman focuses on the confluence of traditions, trends, and innovations that shaped one of film's greatest scores.Author: Roger HickmanISBN-10: 0810881004ISBN-13: 9780810881006Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2011Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d

This is the first comprehensive study of the music and life of Theodore 'Fats' Navarro. It provides biographical, discographical, and analytical information on the trumpeter and his recorded legacy, offering new perspectives on Navarro's role in the history and emergence of Bebop.Author: Leif Bo...

This book studies the music and sound in Ang Lee's film The Ice Storm, providing a unique insight into the collaborative processes that influenced the development and evolution of the score, and illustrating how the politics of filmmaking interacts with creativity.Author: Miguel MeraISBN-10: 0810859416ISBN-13:...

Winner of the Academy Award for best dramatic score in 1938, the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood is seen by many as the archetypal accompaniment to a Warner Brothers swashbuckler, and it established the score's composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, as one of...

A culmination of Friedberg's years of performing and teaching, offering piano students, teachers, and performers useful advice for many stages along the path to becoming a pianist.Author: Ruth C. FriedbergISBN-10: 0810843064ISBN-13: 9780810843066Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 153Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Now in paperback! This volume sums up features of Parker's style and discusses his contribution in the context of Western music history. Paperback edition available 2001.Author: Henry MartinISBN-10: 081084155XISBN-13: 9780810841550Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.54w x 0.50d

This book is an ambitious attempt to separate what is actually known (and can be known) about Mozart from the many myths and legends that have grown up about his life, character, and death. It subjects individual myths to critical and scholarly scrutiny--weighing the...

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...

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

Forty-six Celtic arrangements for folk harp solo. Includes Blind Mary; Berceuse (excerpt), Martin Wynnd's Air; Blackberry Blossom; Give Me Your Hand; Moon Over the Rising Castle; and more!Author: Kim RobertsonISBN-10: 078660297XISBN-13: 9780786602971Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1995Pages: 87Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 11.68h x 8.69w x...

Expertly arranged piano solo from our Kalmus Edition.Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 0769280862ISBN-13: 9780769280868Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 28Format: Paperback

To provide greater availability for a work of such importance, the original publishers secured from Gershwin a solo piano version wherein the orchestral parts are fused together with the solo piano part (PS0047). Due to concerns that the composer's arrangement presented too many technical...

Completely edited, including fingerings and rehearsal letters, this latest volume in the Popular Piano Duet Series is a must for aspiring advanced pianists.Author: Johann PachelbelISBN-10: 0769263712ISBN-13: 9780769263717Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1983Pages: 16Format: OtherWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 12.00h x 9.00w x 0.10d

Alexander Borodin's Scherzo in A-flat major and his Petite Suite (a suite of seven piano pieces), were written in 1885 and were later orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. The Petite Suite consists of 7 movements, with descriptions supplied by the composer: 1. Au couvent, Andante...

Author: Francisco T疵regaISBN-10: 0769252052ISBN-13: 9780769252056Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 12Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.30d

The piano works of Johannes Brahms, Opus 118, in this collection include: No. 1, Intermezzo * No. 2, Intermezzo * No. 3, Ballade * No. 4, Intermezzo * No. 5, Romance * No. 6, Intermezzo.Author: Johannes BrahmsISBN-10: 076924016XISBN-13: 9780769240169Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 24Format:...

A collection of vocal solos composed by Henry Purcell.Author: Henry PurcellISBN-10: 075799525XISBN-13: 9780757995255Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 11.87h x 8.77w x 0.28d

Giuseppe Concone (1801-1861) was an Italian choral director, originally from Turin, Italy. This collection of 25 easy and progressive" melodic studies, Opus 24, will be especially appropriate for the late intermediate to early advanced pianist in developing touch and finger dexterity."Author: Giuseppe ConconeISBN-10: 0757990452ISBN-13:...