Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969000410Author Ludger BrdmmerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Carl Dahlhaus here treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine (and, more generally, in romantic musical aesthetics); the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between...

Here are most of the previously unpublished writings of Charles E. Ives: a primary source book on this unique American composer. These "Memos," as Ives called them, were on separate leaves and dealt with his music, composition, criticism, autobiography,...

A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair - Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce,...

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It was 1967. Judy Huddleston's parents had just gotten divorced, and she spent her last year of high school attending Doors concerts. Transformed from a perceptive child into a rebellious teenager bent on attracting boys and fueled by psychedelics, she...

Despite the voluminous literature on Wagner's operas, little has been published that does justice to all the elements of their performance. This book, addressed to both specialists and the opera-going public, brings together a team of authorities from...

As charismatic and gifted as he was volatile, Jimmy Martin recorded dozens of bluegrass classics and co-invented the high lonesome sound. Barbara Martin Stephens became involved with the King of Bluegrass at age seventeen. Don't Give your Heart to a...

Ricky Nelson (he later preferred "Rick") was 8 years old when he began his career in show business. After a successful run on radio, his family's situation comedy The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet enjoyed a 14 year television tenure. On the April...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413430561Author Alan J PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 143mm * 10mm

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Originally published in 1995 and now available in paperback, a biography of the rock band Midnight Riders, which draws on interviews to provide insight into the band's origins and development, as well as various personal problems faced by its members...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096756Author Joseph VolpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648189114Author Marylou BadeauxFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Marylou BadeauxPublisher Marylou BadeauxWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Frank Sinatra was only one of a handful of popular entertainers who dominated Western popular culture for six decades. From his early fame as 'the Voice' in the early 1940s, through to the high rolling, fast living 'Rat Pack' era, to the protracted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615689463Author Bruce A HawesFormat PaperbackImprint Mawa.com Inc. Publishing House DivisionPublisher Mawa.com Inc. Publishing House...

In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin' Hopkins became one of America's greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American...

From his days as the "quiet Beatle" - a tag he quite disliked - to his immensely successful and critically admired solo career, George Harrison produced one of the most memorable bodies of music in modern times. His "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun"...

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The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Through a coincidence of time and place, Gaetano Guadagni was on the forefront...

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...

John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933, arrived at his Chair by a circuitous route through a variety of disciplines, encountering a host of prominent people in pre-war political, cultural and intellectual life. It was this...

In 1919, the world stood at the threshold of the Jazz Age. The man who had ushered it there, however, lay murdered - and would soon plunge from international fame to historical obscurity. It was a fate few would have predicted for James Reese Europe; he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733560207Author Rima ShoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Rima ShorePublisher Rima ShoreWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115489Author Dean WarehamFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 141mm *...

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From the moment Joni Mitchell's career began -- with coffee-house bookings, serendipitous encounters with established stars, and a recording contract that gave her full creative control over her music -- the woman from the Canadian wheat fields has...

Liszt's career at the centre of the Romantic Movement encompassed the legendary virtuoso tours, the composition and transcriptions which revolutionized the possibilities of the instrument, his important period as conductor in Weimar, his creation of new...

Why is Elvis Presley's body of recorded work still so relevant nearly 60 years after he began recording? EElvis Music FAQE is for anyone who has been inspired by an Elvis Presley record. Following in the tradition of the FAQ series in EElvis Music FAQE ...

The stories in this here anthology may in fact be true true wild tales I've absorbed over time. Perhaps drenched with generous hyperbole? I'll let you decide.As one of the founding members of the seminal punk band Angry Samoans, Gregg Turner has seen his...

No one can argue that Morrissey is one of the best lyricists and charismatic front men in music history. But people love to argue about other things a his mysterious personal life his pompous attitude and the history and meaning behind his biggest hits...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574670530Author Mary Jane Phillips-MatzFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 1089g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306922787Author Mark LaneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Composers give a unique and powerful voice to stories on the big screen. Those who work principally with one genre may leave a unique imprint. James Bernard was one such composer. From 1952 to the late 1990s, he was one of horror's definitive and...

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...