Composers and songwriters

A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church.

Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Pine Apple Rag, originally composed in 1908.

The music of Antonin Dvorak defies fashion.

THE MUSIC, THE MAKEUP, THE MADNESS, AND MORE.

Seit diesem Befund des Sozialhistorikers Norbert Ortmayr aus dem Jahr 1990 hat sich wenig verändert.

A muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011.

Bohemian composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) was exceptionally prolific, composing over 400 imaginative, well-crafted, and diverse pieces, including symphonies, operas, ballet scores, and other orchestral works.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its breadth of appeal.

The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.

Guitarist Michael Bloomfield shot to stardom in the '60s with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Dylan, the Electric Flag and on Al Kooper's "e;Super Session.

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Beethoven's Lives will be required reading for anyone interested in understanding how Beethoven biography has evolved through the ages.

Features interviews with Bill Bruford, Peter Giles, Gordon Haskell, Judy Dyble and more .

Ty Pennington shares stories from his life and offers a behind-the-scenes look at your favorite home shows!

Through film composer Henry Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture--an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has not dated.

This book assesses the influence and reception of many different forms of guitar playing upon the classical guitar and more specifically through the prism of John Williams.

This book makes a substantial collection of Vaughan Williams's writings widely available to music lovers, students, and researchers alike.

Serge Gainsbourg is arguably the Francophone songwriter whose contribution to the international appeal of French popular music has been the most significant in the post-war era.

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "e;The Girl from Ipanema,"e; is not the best bossa nova record.

Saturday Night Fever is simultaneously one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled.

The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk.

In early 2005, an engineer at the Library of Congress accidentally discovered, in an unmarked box, the recording of Thelonious Monk's and John Coltrane's performance at a 1957 benefit concert at Carnegie Hall.

For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within.

Violations of religious freedom and violence committed in the name of religion grab our attention on a daily basis.

Celebrates the richness and diversity of Cage''s achievements, providing a rounded portrait of an influential composer.

This research is focused on three Istanbulite composers, Leyla Hanimefendi, Nazife Aral-Guran, and Yuksel Koptagel, who lived and produced in consecutive and overlapping periods, from the Tanzimat Era of the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic of the 1980s.

Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation.

What roles do King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of ancient Babylon, and Donald J.

Sex, violence, power, and redemption.

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A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss, who, from the early years, was a member of the group that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New YorkThe Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 is an invaluable account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art.

Please note: this edition is text only and does not contain images.

What is hip-hop, and how does it impact the Black Church?

A collection of favourite Christmas carols for piano, voice and guitar with full texts.

Jan Ladislas Dussek, einer der herausragendsten Pianisten und Komponisten des 18.

Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to retain its unofficial status as the German national opera.

Composer, conductor and operatic polymath Daron Hagen has written five symphonies, a dozen concertos, 13 operas, reams of chamber music and more than 350 art songs.

Ein Arbeitsbuch für leidenschaftliche Musikhörer und Musikliebhaber ohne Notenkenntnisse.

Paul the apostle is usually imagined as a man of prestige and power - comfortably conversing with philosophers, seeking an audience with the emperor, and composing compelling letters for Christians throughout the Mediterranean.

If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair with a musician, you're holding it in your hands.

Born and raised on the streets of Southtown, two exits from the Mexico border, Sonny Sandoval was always going to go his own way.

There has never been a band like Pearl Jam.