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Bruce Springsteen's career has been covered many times over, yet many of the complexities and apparent contradictions of his music remain unresolved. Rob Kirkpatrick provides a comprehensive and coherent look at the work of this thoroughly complex and...

Throughout his life and perhaps even more since his death in 1981 at the age of 36, Bob Marley's music has demonstrated a unique ability to combine with almost any cultural setting, no matter how different the elements might at first appear. Through his...

Since his professional debut in 1962, Stevie Wonder has recorded sixty-four singles that have made the Billboard top 100, including ten that reached number one. Wonder was one of the first Motown artists to have complete control over the writing,...

Paul Simon is commonly acknowledged to be one of the most successful singer-songwriters of the pop-rock era. His work has flourished in the context of Simon and Garfunkel as well as in his own solo career. Starting with the folk-rock style that marked...

The five countries that make up Northern Europe-Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland-have, over the course of the last several centuries, developed and unique and viable art music history that easily rivals that of their continental neighbors...

Early in the century, a handful of American composers began creating a new musical culture in the United States. Abandoning the European musical tradition, they protested the marginalization of American-born composers and struggled to displace...

Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to...

In this powerful new study Mary Ellison demonstrates the unique role of black music as an articulation of black aspirations and fears, and as a reaction to a range of social, economic, and political realities. She reveals black music as a soundtrack for...

[This book is] a comprehensive illustrated history of the U.S. musical from its colonial origins to the present, tracing the connections and influences of the minstrel show, operetta, burlesque, melodrama, revues, circus, dance, musical comedy, the...

The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to...

This second volume of Song on Record covers the repertory of song not included in the category of Lieder. It contains chapters on the major French composers, on Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish and American song, on Bartok and Janacek, Britten and English...

Compiled in cooperation with the Antonin Dvorak Society of Prague, Czechoslovakia, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, this is the first book-length discography on Dvorak. It updates the discography appended to Jarmil...

Abracadabra Recorder Book 7, first tunes for treble recorder, is ideal for children who are ready to move from descant to treble. It starts with three-note pieces and moves gradually through a more challenging repertoire to nine-note pieces such as Swing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837106830Author Virgil ThomsonFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470659813Author Ralph FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 272g

Through intelligent discussion of Ives's musical compositions combined with solid research on the composer's lifelong love of the American pastime, Ives's pioneering spirit and unique creativity are highlighted most clearly in this fascinating work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832556471Author Juan Sebastián Correa CáceresFormat PaperbackPage Count 445Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832556280Author Fabian BakelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571514762Author Paul HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 181g

This book is full of clear, thorough notes covering all the GCSE Music Core Content for the AQA, Edexcel and OCR exam boards, and it's also useful for revising for Grade exams. It's designed to work perfectly alongside CGP's Areas of Study Revision...

William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide is a catalogue, discography and annotated bibliography of the nearly 500 works of this twentieth-century British composer. It will be invaluable to twentieth-century British composer researchers and...

This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction, focuses on...

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original sources.Book InformationISBN 9780815323631Author Anne SchnoebelenFormat...

Pioneering work on the musical material from the archives of the English court was undertaken by Nagel (1894), Lafontaine (1909) and Stokes (in the Musical Antiquary 1903-1913). Records of English Court Music (a series of seven volumes covering the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367672546Author Sara HaefeliPage Count 116Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Each volume in this series for the study of pictorial documents on musical subjects contains articles, a catalog (published in installments) devoted to the complete documentation of specific sources, and an annual bibliography that bridges the gap...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977256546Author Susan HasselFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 127g

Top Ten Lists: Music showcases the cream of the crop, mixing little-known talents and the big players throughout the years with wonderful colour photographs and interesting insider tips. With over 100 top ten lists paying homage to music's greatest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711905658Author Kenneth BakerPage Count 48Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

A delightful collection of 16 well-known songs such as She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain and The Grand Old Duke of York, with simple melody accompaniment to play on the keyboard or guitar. Brightly illustrated throughout, the tunes are suitable for...

The New Pocket Kobbe's Complete Opera Book is the world's leading reference work on opera, and (in the words of Bernard Levin) 'no single-volume operatic guide can possibly compare with it'. Kobbe is the only book which summaries the libretti of the...

With Pavarotti in Hyde Park and Nessun Dorma reaching number one in the pop charts, the enormous success of the Three Tenors concert, Kiri Te Kanawa singing the Rugby World Cup song, and Aida packing in crowds at Earl's Court, opera has never been more...

From Arctic Monkeys and ABBA to the Zutons and Ziggy Stardust, from 'Anarchy in the UK' to 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' - and over 30,000 hit singles in between - this collector's must-have contains everything you could possibly want to know about every single to...

Improve your sight-reading! Grades 1-3 for oboe is designed to help overcome the nerves that can cause sight-reading problems by giving sound technical advice and confidence boosting tips. Step by step it helps young oboeists to build up a complete...

Everyone remembers their first NOW! Each edition of the NOW That's What I Call Musicseries captures the essence of the pop charts at that precise moment in music history, striking a chord with music fans since 1983. Charting the story of NOWthrough album...

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. Held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, it is one of the strongest brand names in the music world and attracts...

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. It is one of the strongest brand names in the music world and attracts a glittering array of artists and orchestras from the...

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. It is one of the strongest brand names in the music world and attracts a glittering array of artists and orchestras from the...

Written in a clear and concise manner by an experienced examiner, this book includes: an introduction to the exam that explains what to expect comprehensive guidance on preparing for Unit 4, the written paper, in particular: preparation for the listening...

A forgotten and beautiful African American folk tradition reexaminedTogether Let Us Sweetly Live offers a rare look at the unique grassroots African American religious institutions called the Singing and Praying Bands. This folksong and ring shout...