Author: Stein Crease, Stephanie Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The life (1912-1988) and career of Gil Evans paralleled and often foreshadowed the quickly changing world of jazz through the 20th century. Gil Evans: Out of the Cool is the comprehensive biography of...
Author: Thompson, Dave Publisher: Krause Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 1000 Songs That Rock Your World is the ultimate visual guide to the best rock music ever produced. From Abba to ZZ Top, it's not simply the ideal playlist, it's a one-stop catalog of a half-century of...
Author: Clover, Joshua Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "the end of histo...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, ...
Author: Arnold, Bruce E. Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bruce Arnold is a guitarist, composer, educator, and author. As a musician, he has achieved a sound that sets him apart by applying jazz improvisational techniques to 20th century-12-tone compositiona...
Author: Arnold, Bruce E. Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bruce Arnold is a guitarist, composer, educator, and author. As a musician, he has achieved a sound that sets him apart by applying jazz improvisational techniques to 20th century-12-tone compositiona...
Author: Fisher, Burton, D. Publisher: Opera Classics Library Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive history of opera that traces each milestone in opera history from the 16th century Camerata through the next 400 years, and featurrd in depth analysis of all important genres: the Baro...
Author: Fisher, Burton, D. Publisher: Opera Classics Library Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Giuseppe Verdi A MASKED BALL, featuring Brief Story Synopsis, Principal Characters in the opera, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a newly translated LIBRETTO wit...
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Verdi's A MASKED BALL featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the opera and...
Author: Schnittke, Alfred Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with mus...
Author: Newman, Del Publisher: Apex Publishing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The book is an expose of more than fifty rock stars, written by someone who has thirty-five years experience working as an arranger and producer with them in the recording studios. It is an observatio...
Author: Newman, Del Publisher: Apex Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book is an expose of more than fifty rock stars, written by someone who has thirty-five years experience working as an arranger and producer with them in the recording studios. It is an observatio...
Author: Ashby, Arved Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "absolute" instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording ...
Author: Ashby, Arved Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Arved Ashby writes with a keen sense of the historical processes, ironies, and reversals that seem to characterize the ways that musicologists think about, and contemporary listeners experience, wor...
Author: Sutcliffe, Phil Publisher: Voyageur Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Formed in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, AC/DC has become one of the most popular rock ’n’ roll bands in history. This massive new title follows the band from its roots in Sydne...
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe Publisher: Opera Classics Library Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Everything about Verdi's AIDA: Commentary and Analysis, Principal Characters, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight examples, a COMPLETE LIBRETTO that is newly translated and incl...
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Libretto Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Complete LIBRETTO of Verdi's AIDA. A NEW TRANSLATION by Opera Journeys Publishing that features Music Highlight Examples placed appropriately within the dramatic flow of
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Verdi's AIDA featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the opera and its comp...
Author: Streissguth, Michael Publisher: DaCapo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1973, Rosanne Cash's father gave her a list of 100 songs, many from the Southern tradition, that he felt a young musician had to know. Always Been There tells the inside story of the album that, mo...
Author: Cateforis, Theodore Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music." -Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out Pop New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement ...
Author: Hentoff, Nat Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian-"I'm a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"-has lived through much of jazz's history and has known many of j...
Author: Kun, Josh Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over Ameri...
Author: Williams, Peter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its...
Author: Berger, Karol Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eight...
Author: Jaquette, Jaquette Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Are you a romantic optimist with a cheery disposition? You might be a "Paul." Brooding, introverted, and artistic? You are probably a "John." If you tend to take life as it comes with a happy go-lucky...
Author: Jaquette, Jaquette Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Are you a romantic optimist with a cheery disposition? You might be a "Paul."Brooding, introverted, and artistic? You are probably a "John."If you tend to take life as it comes with a happy go-lucky a...
Author: Rumph, Stephen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his l...
Author: Jones, Timothy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Even in Beethoven's day the 'Moonlight' Sonata was a popular favourite. This book provides an accessible introduction to the Sonatas Opp. 27 and 31 (including The 'Moonlight' and 'The Tempest'), aimed...
Author: van Beethoven, Ludvig Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent classical music figures of the Western world. This German musical genius created numerous works that are firmly entre...
Author: Levy, David Benjamin Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a masterpiece that has influenced virtually every Western composer since its premiere, has become associated with the marking of momentous public occasions. In 1989, Chines...
Author: Fisher, Burton D. Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Beethoven's FIDELIO, featuring Brief Story Synopsis, Principal Characters in the opera, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, PLUS an insightful and in depth Commenta...
Author: Fisher, Burton D. Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Bellini's NORMA, featuring Brief Story Synopsis, Principal Characters, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful Commentary and Analysis.
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a highly influential essay, Rose Rosengard Subotnik critiques "structural listening" as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of the musical structure itself. The author...
Author: Fisher, Burton, D. Publisher: Opera Classics Library Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Bizet's CARMEN, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with over 30 music highlight examples Music Highlight Examples, a complete, ...
Author: Weaver, David E. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been one of the first black artists to appear in grand opera. Althou...
Author: Congress, Richard Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
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Author: Meadows, Eddie S Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
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Author: Horton, Julian Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Few works in the nineteenth-century repertoire have aroused such extremes of hostility and admiration, or have generated so many scholarly problems, as Anton Bruckner's symphonies. Julian Horton seeks...
Author: Manuel, Peter / Bilby, Kenneth / Largey, Michael Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Music is the most popular and dynamic aspect of Caribbean expressive culture. From the well-known genres-salsa, merengue, reggae, calypso, and bachata-to more localized forms like chutney and kaseko, ...
Author: Meyer, Stephen Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Stephen C. Meyer details the intricate relationships between the operas Der Freischutz and Euryanthe, and contemporary discourse on both the "Germany of the imagination" and the new nation itself. In ...
Author: Bizet, Georges Publisher: Opera Classics Library Series Format: Adobe PDF
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Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Complete LIBRETTO of Bizet's CARMEN. A NEW TRANSLATION by Opera Journeys Publishing that features Music Highlight Examples placed appropriately within the dramatic flow of the text.
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Bizet's CARMEN featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the opera and its co...
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