Composers and songwriters

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf gathers together for the first time every poem Wolf set to music.

The current generation knows him as the serenity-seeking Frank Costanza from Seinfeld.

How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful?

Cobain on Cobain places the reader at the key moments of Kurt Cobain's roller-coaster career, telling the tale of Nirvana entirely through his words and those of his bandmates.

The first scholarly discussion on the band, Pearl Jam and Philosophy examines both the songs (music and lyrics) and the activities (live performances, political commitments) of one of the most celebrated and charismatic rock bands of the last 30 years.

Eric Clapton is acknowledged to be rock's greatest virtuoso, the unrivalled master of its most essential tool, the solid-body electric guitar.

A fresh perspective on two well-known personalities, Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship beginning in fin-de-siecle Vienna and ending in 1950s Los Angeles.

The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century.

100 years after the Dada soirees rocked the art world, the author investigates the role that music played in the movement.

Sarah Caldwell: The First Woman of Opera is the first biography of this significant musician, conductor, and director and documents Ms.

The essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative approaches to medieval music and culture.

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The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late period, has an involved and complicated history.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe definitive autobiography from the nation's best-loved broadcaster.

A study of nineteenth-century composer Hugo Wolf and his settings of Eduard Mörike''s poems.

Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton is a comprehensive and revealing biography which includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with Dolly over the years.

Winner of the 2022 Open Publication Prize by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ)A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer a detailed presentation of the band's social and cultural impact as understood through the experiences and lives of women.

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David Damschroder''s new analytical perspective sheds fresh light on Beethoven''s harmonic structures.

Everyone has a story to share in there own way am I the last of the Prince Charmings?

Gifted harpist Edna Phillips (1907-2003) joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1930, becoming not only that ensemble's first female member but also the first woman to hold a principal position in a major American orchestra.

Martin provides a new overall assessment of the importance of Charlie Parker through an analysis of his improvisations in a variety of genres.

A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain''s foremost living composers.

Mahler's Voices brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide-ranging cultural and historical interpretation, unique in being a study not of Mahler's works as such but of Mahler's musical style.

A collection of essays investigating the life and work of the complex, important and iconic composer Shostakovich.

Documents the contexts for The Beatles'' cultural achievements, exploring the significance of their lives and works.

When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences.

Winner of the 2015 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological SocietyWhen Leonard Bernstein first arrived in New York City, he was an unknown artist working with other brilliant twentysomethings, notably Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green.

In a relatively short time span, grunge music exploded out of its native Seattle and became the most dominant force of the early '90s.

A new look at one of the most important composers of the twentith centuryStravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky.

Minefields is a compelling exploration of a foreign correspondent's life - proof of Hugh's belief that 'if you go looking for trouble, you'll probably find it'.

Shortly after Chopins death in 1849, Franz Liszt wrote the first full-length biography of his fellow composer.

In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory.

Twice a year, in summer and in winter, appointments to the Order of Canada are posted in newspapers across the country.

The more I thought about it, the more I realised my career has been unusual.

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Very amusing Daily MirrorBeloved wit and raconteur, star of stage and screen, multitalented writer, director and humanitarian few stars of the twentieth century were as highly regarded as Sir Peter Ustinov.

In this New York Times bestseller, legendary actor and star of the acclaimed documentary Val shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography.

As a founding father of bebop and brilliant jazz improviser, Charlie Parker has secured a reputation and legacy second to none since his birth nearly 100 years ago.

A firsthand look into Kim Walker-Smith's journey from a place of shame and fear to stages around the world where she boldly proclaims the unconditional love of God.

For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout!

In this fascinating autobiography Erics son, Gary Morecambe, describes what it s like to grow up in the presence of one of the best-loved and most fondly remembered of all British comedy greats.

From their commanding role in the so-called British Invasion of the early 1960s to their status as the elder statesmen (and British Knight) of rock and roll, the Stones have become more than an evanescent phenomenon in pop culture.

In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Gotterdammerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H.

One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire.

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century.

First English-language study of Anton Heiller (1923-1979), one of the twentieth-century's most influential organistsAnton Heiller is one of the twentieth century's most renowned and influential organists.

This is the first full-length introduction to the life and works of significant American composer Marga Richter (born 1926), who has written more than one hundred works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, dance, opera, voice, chorus, piano, organ, and harpsichord.