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Composer Roger Sessions was a commanding figure on the American musical scene. He enjoyed the solid respect of his peers, and as a teacher of a generation of composers and author of compelling writings on his craft, his influence on musical thought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898751499Author S ShlifsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as High Noon. Extremely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780894960888Author Patricia Fallows-HammondFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Ross BooksPublisher Ross BooksWeight(grams) 1016g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648273707Author Fiona PorchFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint F.P. PublishingPublisher F.P. PublishingWeight(grams) 418g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952582786Author St. John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Hunt (John)Publisher Hunt (John)Weight(grams) 324g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952582779Author St. John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hunt (John)Publisher Hunt (John)Weight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759625785Author Frank JosserandFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 299g

A biography of jazz trumpeter and singer, Henry "Red" Allen, long regarded as Louis Armstrong's chief rival. As a close friend of Allen's, John Chilton brings to light various aspects of Allen's personality, as well as analyzing his recordings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759696174Author Shony Alex BraunFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702262531Author Andrew StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645732610Author Kirsten VC MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Kirsten MoorePublisher Kirsten MooreWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578869704Author Brien StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Settle for It RecordsPublisher Settle for It RecordsWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578569345Author Jeremy NeelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint 121 Records, Inc.Publisher 121 Records, Inc.Weight(grams) 508g

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 direction from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385194488Author Edward KiershFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359993789Author Alex DontreFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Alexander DontrePublisher Alexander DontreWeight(grams) 245g

A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem, The Cantos, and the mother of his only daughter, Mary. Strong-minded and defiant...

Perhaps best remembered as the writer and composer of the ever-popular Guys and Dolls and the Pulitzer Prize-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Frank Loesser was one of the great songwriters of the twentieth century. Lyricist of...

An engaging personal account of the jazz scene in Paris in the '80s and '90s In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack Kerouac, Mezz Mezzrow, or Hunter S. Thompson-writers to whom, for different...

A celebrated jazz writer offers fascinating portraits of friends he's known during a lifetime in jazz For more than half a century, jazz writer and lyricist Gene Lees has been the friend of many in the world of jazz music. In this delightful book he...

Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, " and "The Way You Look Tonight." In Pick...

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The Polish composer Henryk Gorecki (born 1933) achieved world-wide renown in 1992 when his Third Symphony, written in 1976, was recorded on CD and became an international bestseller. It is now one of the best known musical compositions of recent years,...

A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz , he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the...

Georges Barrere (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that are dedicated to him-the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varese-he was the most...

From the Jim Crow world of 1920s Greenville, South Carolina, to Greenwich Village's Cafe Society in the '40s, to their 1974 Grammy-winning collaboration on "Loves Me Like a Rock," the Dixie Hummingbirds have been one of gospel's most durable...

In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as "imposed simplicity." Works like El Salon Mexico, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring feature a tuneful idiom that brought the composer...

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. Joining Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell as a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde, she went on to study with modernist theorist...

James Reese Europe is one of the most important transitional figures in American music. As a composer and band leader at the height of ragtime, he had a strong influence on the first generation of jazz musicians who were to follow. Europe's life reveals...

Louis Armstrong. "Satchmo". Tomillions of fans, he was just a great entertainer. But to jazz aficionados, he was one of the most important musicians of our times-not only a key figure in the history of jazz but a formative influence on all of...

Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisted by his foremost interpreter,weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing timesThe book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the...

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life is well known. Austrian-born to a tyrannical father who worked him --fiercely; unhappily married to a spendthrift woman; a child-like character ill at ease amid the aristocratic splendour of the Viennese court;...

A revealing biography detailing how Katy Perry made her transformation from demure choir girl to sexy household name and one of the most popular female singers in the world today. Accounts of the conflict Katy had growing up with a deeply religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823083213Author Marley BrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Billboard Books,U.S.Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905139187Author Dee Dee RamoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Helter Skelter PublishingPublisher Helter Skelter PublishingWeight(grams) 225g

Sir Paul McCartney first picked up a guitar as a bereaved teenager in 1956. In the fifty years since he's become the most successful pop music composer in history, enjoying a virtual season ticket to the "Guinness Book of Records". McCartney's...

The biography of the legendary musician and songwriter Lou Reed. Lou Reed wrote songs about drugs, squalor, transgressive sexuality, honourable prostitutes, visionary gutter queens and dollar-hustlers. He also wrote some of the most moving love songs of...

A biography of the influential and chameleon-like rock icon, David Bowie, who created the fantastical rock star and revenge of the suburbs, Ziggy Stardust. It seeks to unravel the Bowie enigma, via interviews, biography and academic analysis.Book...