Composers and songwriters

Two-and-a-half centuries after his death, the complex life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach continues to fascinate.

Finalist: PROSE Awards 2023 - Media and Cultural StudiesMichael Jackson died in 2009, but he has never really left us and there are no signs he ever will.

The story of a world-beating multi-instrumental band with a unique creative dynamic.

The thirty-two Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven form one of the most important segments of piano literature.

This book discusses thoroughly the major ethical, legal and clinical issues involved in the euthanasia debate.

A stimulating, up-to-date overview of the genesis, analysis, and reception of this landmark symphony.

When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Noel Gallagher in 1995, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news.

Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu.

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Dancing Barefoot is the full and true story of Patti Smith, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant American artists of the rock 'n' roll era, a performer whose audience and appeal reach far beyond the parameters of rock.

Throughout his life, German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill was fascinated by the idea of America.

Titles in the Listener's Companion Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers.

Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year'Magisterial, warm, and engaging .

New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s.

Elvis Presley and his two faithful sidekicks tore up Texas highways, crisscrossing the state, always late for their next high school hop, car dealership opening, or Lion's Club fund raiser.

How one extraordinary pianist, scholar, and editor prepared for publication important scores by Ives, Copland, and Ruggles, and reshaped the history of American musical modernism.

During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music.

Explore the defining musical artists and moments of the punk rock and new wave eras - one of the most transformative times in rock and roll history.

Originally published in 1943, Models for Beginners in Composition represents one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts at reaching a broad American audience through his pedagogical ideas.

In a stretch of just seven years, the Beatles recorded hundreds of songs which tower above those of their worthy peers as both the product of cultural leadership and an artistic reflection of their turbulent age, the1960s.

The Performing Life: A Singer's Guide to Survival is the first-hand account of the 35-year career of singer, music professor, and recording artist Sharon Mabry, who draws on personal experience to explore how professional singers survive in the face of personal and professional pressures, exorbitant expectations, illness, and the demands of their public.

Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Moulin Rouge - the names popularly associated with film composer Georges Auric's career conjure visions of a distant and glamorous early twentieth-century Parisian art world.

Edvard Grieg's collection of 44 Norwegian folk songs and dances, originally published in 1895 in Norwegian.

Piano Concerto No.

The oldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centenary of his birthilluminating a man, a city, and an era that defined modern culturein a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir reminiscent of Alexandra Styrons Reading My Father and Richard Fords Between Them.

Among his numerous children, Johann Sebastian Bach sired five musically gifted sons.

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

Die Aufsatzsammlung zur Literar- und Redaktionsgeschichte der Bücher Genesis bis Josua bietet programmatisch forschungsgeschichtlich und einzelexegetisch orientierte Beiträge, die die Problematik der Jahwistenhypothese aufzeigen und neue Wege zu einer redaktionsgeschichtlichen Interpretation des literarischen Befundes im Hexateuch, zumal in seinen nichtpriesterschriftlichen Teilen, beschreiten.

Ben Earle''s study explores twentieth-century music and politics in two of their most extreme forms: modernism and fascism.

In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside--generally unknown and seldom acknowledged.

A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach''s Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

At lunchtime on a bitterly cold January day in 1969, the strains of guitar chords could be heard in the streets surrounding London's Savile Row.

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This book explores the works and influence of the eighteenth-century British composer Charles Avison.

The one-hit wonder has a long and storied history in popular music, exhorting listeners to dance, to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, to ponder mortality, to get a job, to bask in the sunshine, or just to get up and dance again.

This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world, including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; his autobiographical writings and commentary on his own works.

This collection of 30 well-loved original compositions and arrangements for piano presents a selection of pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that will delight any pianist.

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843 - 1907) was a Norwegian pianist and composer.

The defining sounds of popular music - blues, rock 'n' roll, punk, hip-hop - were shaped and driven by rebel voices: whether that was Robert Johnson and Billie Holiday in the 1920-40s, or the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Joe Strummer in the 1960s and 70s.

Offering commentary, musical analysis, and detailed interpretation of her songs' lyrics, this book examines the qualities of Sheryl Crow's music that have served to establish the artist's success and popularity.

In Arranging Gershwin, author Ryan Ba?

From his anthemic early hits ("e;I Want to Take You Higher,"e; "e;Family Affair,"e; "e;Dance to the Music"e;), through the moody meditations of "e;There's a Riot Going On"e; and beyond, Sly & the Family Stone left an indelible stamp on rock, funk, pop, and hip hop, and their enigmatic frontman in particular continues to inspire fascination and speculation.