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  • Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky by Boretz, Benjamin
    Benjamin Boretz

    Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky

    This new series of Norton books, devoted to informed discussion of contemporary music, draws principally upon articles first published in Perspectives of New Music, which Richard Kostelanetz has described as "among the most consistently interesting magazines in America." The Perspectives books will comprise a...
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  • Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home by Wilson, Tom
    Tom Wilson

    Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home

    "I'm scared and scarred but I've survived" Tom Wilson was raised in the rough-and-tumble world of Hamilton--Steeltown-- in the company of World War II vets, factory workers, fall-guy wrestlers and the deeply guarded secrets kept by his parents, Bunny and George. For decades Tom...
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  • The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour by Clancy, Liam
    Liam Clancy

    The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour

    In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music...
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  • Beatles: Every Little Thing by MacKenzie, Maxwell
    Maxwell MacKenzie

    Beatles: Every Little Thing

    John, Paul, George and Ringo still rule! The music of the most important and popular group ever fills the airwaves to this day, winning a new generation of fans to the fold almost thirty years after the quartet disbanded. For everyone who has ever...
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  • The Freakiest Show: David Bowie Cover Versions 1964-2019 by Thompson, Dave
    Dave Thompson

    The Freakiest Show: David Bowie Cover Versions 1964-2019

    From Simple Minds to Stargaze, from Marilyn Manson to Morrissey, from Peter Gabriel to the Polecats, The Freakiest Show is a guide to ever known cover of a David Bowie composition recorded or performed since 1964, and updated to include the 2018 Howard Stern...
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  • The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-De-Si?cle Vienna by Cook, Nicholas
    Nicholas Cook

    The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-De-Si鐵le Vienna

    Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical...
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  • Musorgsky: His Life and Works by Brown, David
    David Brown

    Musorgsky: His Life and Works

    Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is...
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  • Metamorphosis in Music: The Compositions of Gy?rgy Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s by Levy, Benjamin R.
    Benjamin R. Levy

    Metamorphosis in Music: The Compositions of Gygy Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s

    From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer Gy�rgy Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman B�la Bart�k to his own individual style at the forefront of the Western-European avant-garde. Through careful study of the...
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  • The Pathetick Musician: Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence by Haynes, Bruce
    Bruce Haynes

    The Pathetick Musician: Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence

    What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional...
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  • The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition by Sposato, Jeffrey S.
    Jeffrey S. Sposato

    The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition

    Most scholars since World War Two have assumed that composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) maintained a strong attachment to Judaism throughout his lifetime. As these commentators have rightly noted, Mendelssohn was born Jewish and did not convert to Protestantism until age seven, his grandfather...
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  • Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition by Root, Gordon
    Gordon Root

    Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition

    Models for Beginners in Composition was one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts to reach a broad American audience through his pedagogical ideas. The novelty of MModels for Beginners in Composition lay in its streamlined approach-one basing all aspects of composition including motivic design, harmony,...
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  • Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies by Johnson, Julian
    Julian Johnson

    Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies

    Johnson considers how Mahler's body of music foregrounds the idea of artifice, construction and musical convention while also presenting itself as act of authentic expression and disclosure. This study of brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide-ranging cultural and...
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  • Benny Goodman and the Swing Era by Collier, James Lincoln
    James Lincoln Collier

    Benny Goodman and the Swing Era

    This biography of Benny Goodman's music and times attempts to recreate the colourful music world of the 1920s and 1930s, when Goodman was hailed the King of Swing. The author offers insights into the character and music of a man who helped transform the...
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  • Beethoven 1806 by Ferraguto, Mark
    Mark Ferraguto

    Beethoven 1806

    Between early 1806 and early 1807, Ludwig van Beethoven completed a remarkable series of instrumental works. But critics have struggled to reconcile the music of this banner year with Beethoven's heroic style, the paradigm through which his middle-period works have typically been understood.Drawing on...
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  • Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition by Root, Gordon
    Gordon Root

    Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition

    Originally published in 1943, Models for Beginners in Composition represents one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts at reaching a broad American audience through his pedagogical ideas. The novelty of this book was its streamlined approach, basing all aspects of composition including motivic design, harmony,...
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  • Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism by Kieffer, Alexandra
    Alexandra Kieffer

    Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism

    Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism explores the music of Claude Debussy and its early reception in light of the rise of the empirical human sciences in Western Europe around the turn of the twentieth century. In the midst of a...
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  • On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide

    She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of...
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  • The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner by McHugh, Dominic
    Dominic McHugh

    The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner

    Alan Jay Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway and Hollywood history. Most notably, with composer Frederick Loewe he created enduring hits such as My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot, and Brigadoon. In The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay...
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  • Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field by Burford, Mark
    Mark Burford

    Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field

    Nearly a half century after her death in 1972, Mahalia Jackson remains the most esteemed figure in black gospel music history. Born in the backstreets of New Orleans in 1911, Jackson during the Great Depression joined the Great Migration to Chicago, where she became...
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  • Strauss by L?tteken, Laurenz
    Laurenz L?teken

    Strauss

    Richard Strauss is an outlier in the context of twentieth century music. Some consider him a composer of the late romantic period, while others declare him a traitor of modernity for his role in National Socialism. Despite the controversy surrounding him, Strauss's works--even beyond...
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  • Hearing Bach's Passions by Melamed, Daniel R.
    Daniel R. Melamed

    Hearing Bach's Passions

    Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions--St. John and St. Matthew--are an essential part of the modern repertory, performed regularly both by professional ensembles and amateur groups. These large, complex pieces are well loved, but due to our distance from the original context in which...
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  • Tetrachords: A practical guide for songwriters by Carola, Massimo
    Massimo Carola

    Tetrachords: A practical guide for songwriters

    Tetrachords are the building blocks of most of the scales we use in modern music. This book offers a possibility to learn the importance of it and a way to use the 4 notes lines to state a mood. Become fluent with Tetrachords and...
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  • Mozart: A Life by Johnson, Paul
    Paul Johnson

    Mozart: A Life

    "Most satisfying . . . A highly accessible initial foray into an astonishing, and inexhaustible, subject." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer Mozart's music has enthralled listeners for centuries. In this brilliant biography, acclaimed historian Paul Johnson draws upon his expert knowledge of the era and...
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  • George Gershwin: A New Biography by Hyland, William G.
    William G. Hyland

    George Gershwin: A New Biography

    Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealing how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how his work reflected the turmoil of America in the Jazz Age, and how, despite his fame, he never achieved the happiness...
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  • The Words and Music of Joni Mitchell by Bennighof, James
    James Bennighof

    The Words and Music of Joni Mitchell

    In this book, the work of legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is explored, emphasizing the way text and music work together to create an artistic statement in her recorded songs. Few singer-songwriters have been as influential as Joni Mitchell. Her song "Both Sides, Now" has...
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  • Carole King: A Bio-Bibliography by Perone, James E.
    James E. Perone

    Carole King: A Bio-Bibliography

    Carole King's early compositional work in the 1970s paved the way for many women songwriters of popular music. Among her best-known compositions are You've Got a Friend, Up on the Roof, Will You Love Me Tomorrow? and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural...
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  • Benjamin Britten: A Bio-Bibliography by Craggs, Stewart R.
    Stewart R. Craggs

    Benjamin Britten: A Bio-Bibliography

    Benjamin Britten was arguably the greatest English composer of his time. His music crossed boundaries of genre and form to include opera, ballet, orchestral and chamber music, and film and incidental music. The result of twenty years of research, IBenjamin Britten R provides up-to-date...
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  • Groove Interrupted: Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans by Spera, Keith
    Keith Spera

    Groove Interrupted: Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans

    The recent history of New Orleans is fraught with tragedy and triumph. Both are reflected in the city's vibrant, idiosyncratic music community. In Keith Spera's intimately reported Groove Interrupted, Aaron Neville returns to New Orleans for the first time after Hurricane Katrina to bury...
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  • The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 by Rolling Stone Magazine
    Rolling Stone Magazine

    The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980

    From its early days in San Francisco, Rolling Stone has covered the music scene from the inside with colorful, penetrating, and brilliant interviews with the men and women who are rock and roll. This definitive collection represents the best of Rolling Stone's first decade...
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  • The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger by Wilkinson, Alec
    Alec Wilkinson

    The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger

    A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger. Throughout his life, Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson...
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  • Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014 by Brannigan, Paul
    Paul Brannigan

    Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014

    Into the Black begins on the eve of the release of Metallica's massive breakthrough with the eponymous LP that became known as "The Black Album." Suddenly, at the dawn of the '90s, Metallica was no longer the biggest thrash metal band in the world-they...
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  • Blue Rhythms by Deffaa, Chip
    Chip Deffaa

    Blue Rhythms

    "Somebody has to pay the dues," says LaVern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of six dazzlingly talented performers who blazed the R & B trail--the story of the performers' music and also of their struggle against racism and financial exploitation: Ruth Brown and...
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  • Cole Porter: A Biography by Schwartz, Charles
    Charles Schwartz

    Cole Porter: A Biography

    In 1933 Irving Berlin wrote to composer-lyricist Cole Porter, "I am mad about Night and Day." Millions of others throughout the world have been "mad about" that Porter gem, as well as dozens of others, including, to name just a few, Begin the Beguine,...
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  • Mozart's Operas: A Companion by Hunter, Mary
    Mary Hunter

    Mozart's Operas: A Companion

    This wise and friendly guide to Mozart's operas encompasses the full range of his most popular works - Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi, Magic Flute, Seraglio, Clemenza di Tito - as well as less known works like Mithridate and Il re pastore. Music historian Mary...
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  • Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power by Gabler, Neal
    Neal Gabler

    Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

    An enthralling appreciation of the monumentally gifted popular artist and cultural icon who challenged Hollywood's standards of beauty and glamour Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one...
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  • Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power by Gabler, Neal
    Neal Gabler

    Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

    From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an enthralling appreciation of Barbra Streisand--the monumentally gifted popular artist and cultural icon who challenged Hollywood's standards of beauty and glamour "This brief biography looks at a well-documented star in a new way."--Lisa Schwarzbaum, New York Times Book...
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  • The Atonal Music of Anton Webern by Forte, Allen
    Allen Forte

    The Atonal Music of Anton Webern

    The Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883-1945) is one of the major figures of musical modernism. His mature works comprise two styles: the so-called free atonal music composed between 1907 and 1924, and the twelve-tone serial music that began in 1924 and extended through the...
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  • The Leonard Bernstein Letters by Simeone, Nigel
    Nigel Simeone

    The Leonard Bernstein Letters

    For fans of Bradley Cooper's Maestro, an extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music "Leonard Bernstein's letters blow all biographies out of the water. . . . Full of fresh information and the authentic voice of...
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  • Ravel by Nichols, Roger
    Roger Nichols

    Ravel

    This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly translated and some derived from interviews with the composer's friends and associates. As...
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  • The Music of Alban Berg by Headlam, Dave
    Dave Headlam

    The Music of Alban Berg

    Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935), along with his contemporaries Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, dramatically altered the musical landscape of the Western world. Dave Headlam offers a comprehensive analysis of Berg's music in this original book. He examines each of the composer's works-including...
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  • Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony: Revised Edition by Levy, David Benjamin
    David Benjamin Levy

    Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony: Revised Edition

    Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a masterpiece that has influenced virutally every Western composer since its premiere, has become associated with the marking of momentous public occasions. In 1989, Chinese students played its finale through loudspeakers in Tiananmen Square, and Leonard Bernstein led a performance in...
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  • Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music by Stephens, Vincent L.
    Vincent L. Stephens

    Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music

    The all-embracing, "whaddya got?" nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume--but not see--their queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous...
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  • Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir by Rosenberg, Neil V.
    Neil V. Rosenberg

    Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir

    Neil V. Rosenberg met the legendary Bill Monroe at the Brown County Jamboree. Rosenberg's subsequent experiences in Bean Blossom put his feet on the intertwined musical and scholarly paths that made him a preeminent scholar of bluegrass music. Rosenberg's memoir shines a light on...
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  • George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait by Rimler, Walter
    Walter Rimler

    George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait

    George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no...
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  • Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker by Haddix, Chuck
    Chuck Haddix

    Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker

    Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of his life,...
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  • Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story by Goins, Wayne Everett
    Wayne Everett Goins

    Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story

    A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar style that made him one of the most revered sidemen of all time. Rogers also had a significant if star-crossed career as a singer and solo artist for Chess...
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  • Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance by Snyder, Jean E.
    Jean E. Snyder

    Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance

    Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) played a leading role in American music and culture in the twentieth century. Celebrated for his arrangements of spirituals, Burleigh was also the first African American composer to create a significant body of art song. An international roster of opera...
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  • Richard Wagner: A Life in Music by Geck, Martin
    Martin Geck

    Richard Wagner: A Life in Music

    Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as The Flying Dutchman,...
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  • Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy by Adorno, Theodor W.
    Theodor W. Adorno

    Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy

    Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that began...
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  • Unmasked: A Memoir by Lloyd Webber, Andrew
    Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Unmasked: A Memoir

    "You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre." One of...
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