Composers and songwriters

Picturing Price sees the late icon's former art director, Steve Parke, revealing stunning intimate photographs of the singer from his time working at Paisley Park.

Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide provides scholars in Hensel studies with a resource to navigate the research surrounding the composer's over 450 musical works.

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A collection of insightful essays, interviews, and commentaries on music, art, and those who make it, from acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ned RoremIt is a rare artist who can deftly cross the boundaries separating one artistic endeavor from another.

In 1950, as Arnold Schoenberg anticipated the publication of a collection of 15 of his most important writings, Style and Idea, he was already at work on a second volume to be called Program Notes.

Contributory volume examining the life and musical works of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.

The majority of gun deaths in the United States are suicide deaths, and the majority of suicide deaths are gun deaths.

This one-of-a-kind reference investigates the music and the musicians that set the popular trends of the last half century in America.

Alexander Glasunow war eine der prägendsten Figuren der russischen Musikszene des ausgehenden 19.

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

This book reviews the 13 songs of Coke Studio's 14th season and highlights how those innovations resulted in a successful reboot of the show.

A new memoir from internationally renowned musician Liona Boyd.

The New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Ludwig van Beethoven brings to life the works, the key performances and the personal story of one of the world's greatest composers with rich illustrations.

As American classical music struggled for recognition in the mid-nineteenth century, George Frederick Bristow emerged as one of its most energetic champions and practitioners.

In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as "e;imposed simplicity.

Just Kids for the grunge era.

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'.

A fascinating and comprehensive resource for information on Verdi''s works, his life and career, and his cultural influence.

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.

Sarah Caldwell, the leader of the Opera Company of Boston from 1958-1990, was a groundbreaking and idiosyncratic woman who established her own career as a conductor and stage director in an environment resistant to change.

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer.

UPDATED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONOffering an intimate and indispensable window onto the gifted and impassioned, yet vulnerable and uncertain human behind the hip-hop legend of Tupac Shakur, this collection of original poems, letters, and conversations from his time spent incarcerated in 1995 reveals the artist and activist as never seen before.

The composer's diaries, translated for the first time, with commentary on his distinctive musical aesthetics and his relationship to artistic cross-currents in Czechoslovakia, France, and America.

The Times Do Not Permit is the first extended overview of the life, times, and music of Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1904-1980), a composer brought up in rural South Africa in the early twentieth century.

Ludwig van Beethoven wies einmal einen Musikerkollegen zurecht: "Glaubt er, dass ich an eine elende Geige denke, wenn der Geist zu mir spricht und ich es aufschreibe?

- 456 temas de leyenda en la obra de uno de los artistas más significativos de la historia del pop, desde su primer single "Liza Jane" bajo el nombre de Davie Jones with The King Bees en 1964, hasta su álbum testamento   [Blackstar], publicado el 8 de enero de 2016, dos días antes de su muerte.

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.

Radikal, queer und urkomisch!

The inspirational and honest first book from S Club legend Rachel StevensWhether as part of the iconic S Club or as a successful solo artist, Rachel Stevens was in the eye of the Noughties pop storm when she was catapulted to fame in her teens.

Die Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs ist fester und vertrauter Bestandteil des kirchlichen und weltlichen Musiklebens.

Saxophonist Carlos Garnett, despite being blind in his later years, was an integral part of Miles Davis' nonet.

This book studies George Crumb's The Winds of Destiny (2004) and Black Angels (1970) as artifacts of collective memory and cultural trauma.

The Organs of J.

This book asks what theological messages theologically educated Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in Mozart's late opera seria La clemenza di Tito.

Renowned music historians Floyd and Margaret Grave present a fresh perspective on a comprehensive survey of the works.

The second volume of the extraordinary life of the great music and literary icon Leonard Cohen, in the words of those who knew him best.

A detailed and moving account of the life of Anneliese Landau, who, in Nazi Germany and later in emigre California, fought against prejudice to do notable work in music.

Modeselektor, the Berlin electronic duo consisting of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, released Happy Birthday!

The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian BachIn Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives.