Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609805760Author James A MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 355g

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There have been many books written about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine Cash's incredible life through the lens of the songs he wrote and recorded. Music journalist and historian John Alexander has drawn on decades of studying...

Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412068239Author Dan DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

" . . . a rare kind of biography and autobiography: a clear and elegant exposition of fact, as well as a humane portrait of a great piano virtuoso, composer, teacher, and democratic soul, as told to and seen through the eyes of one close to him." -Mark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681885865Author Paul Du NoyerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Weldon OwenPublisher Weldon OwenWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 282mm * 218mm * 23mm

Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall of fear built by the Cold War, won the hearts of the American and Russian people, and eased tensions between...

In the nearly eight decades since his death from tuberculosis at age thirty-five, singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers has been an inspiration for numerous top performers--from Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Bill Monroe and Hank Williams to Elvis Presley, Johnny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641600057Author Kenneth WomackFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (1909-76) remained in the forefront of American entertainment from the 1930s through the 1960s, writing over fifteen-hundred songs, collaborating with all the great popular composers and jazz musicians of his day, working in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655385Author Paul StenningFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

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Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250191175Author Lamont "U-God" HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Launched in 1967 EGuitar PlayerE was the only guitar publication in existence when the '60s and '70s six-string explosion ignited across the globe. As a result EGuitar PlayerE interviewed scores of seminal guitar stars as the magic happened. Now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956841367Author Michael FrizellFormat HardbackPage Count 28Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937667108Author Katherine De Marne WernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Distinction PressPublisher Distinction PressWeight(grams)...

"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."-Syd Barrett's last interview, Rolling Stone, 1971 Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (1946-2006) was, by all accounts, the very definition of...

Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton's compositions like "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" have...

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Twenty years after Bob Marley's untimely death he remains a powerful worldwide presence. His music is at the top of the reggae charts, while his memory is indelibly etched in the minds of millions of his followers. In the last two years of his life...

American composer, pianist, and orchestra leader Duke Ellington was the first genuine jazz composer of truly international status. In this book Ken Rattenbury offers the most thorough musical analysis ever written of Ellington's works, assessing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708688Author Benita EislerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

First published in 1953, Halsey Stevens's The Life and Music of Bela Bartok was hailed as a triumph of musicology and quickly established itself as the classic text. Stevens combined an authoritiative, balanced account of the Hungarian composer's life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806164359Author George Harwood PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma...

Like Heifitz and Horowitz, Rudolf Serkin was a virtuosic solo performer who made European classical music an important part of American middle class culture in the mid-20th century. This book, the first biography of this influential pianist, chronicles...

Over the past three decades, Tom Waits has achieved the kind of top-shelf cult status most artists only dream about. In his varied career, he has acted alongside Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and Lily Tomlin his songs have been covered by artists as...

Hundreds of the letters that Gustav Mahler addressed to his parents and sisters survive in the Mahler-Rose Collection at the University of Western Ontario, yet are almost entirely unknown. These family letters, which date from the mid-1880s through 1910,...

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Tchaikovsky's death in October 1893 in St Petersburg, shortly after the premiere of his sixth symphony, the `Pathetique', is one of the most thoroughly documented deaths of a prominent cultural figure in modern times. He was treated by no fewer than four...

In 1935 the French baritone Pierre Bernac formed a duo with the composer Francis Poulenc that became a legend throughout the world. Unprecedented in the history of music, it was the first duo in which the singer and pianist were perceived as equals. It...

The life and works of one of the most difficult yet rewarding composers of modern time. Jean Barraque is increasingly being recognized as one of the great composers of the second half of the 20th century. Though he left only seven works, his voice in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345472762Author Jo SgammatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 247g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594772788Author Abd al MalikFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

Edward MacDowell was born on the eve of the Civil War into a Quaker family in lower Manhattan, where music was a forbidden pleasure. With the help of Latin-American emigre teachers, he became a formidable pianist and composer, spending twelve years in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948216319Author Jayfri HashimFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364114Author Norman LebrechtFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 161mm *...