Composers and songwriters

James Joyce, Rome and other Stories outlines the months in which Irish author James Joyce (Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) lived in Rome, between 1906 and 1907.

Memories of You is a compilation of author Veta Gardners recollections of her marriage with The Coasters lead singer Carl Gardner.

It's Going to be a Bright New Day: Would You Rather, with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is Max Porter asking Will Oldham questions.

Ryan Howland is a seventeen-year-old violinist who enjoys life like any other ordinary person.

The sixties gave rise to a whole new generation of music.

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THE LIFE of Serge Koussevitzky reads like a modern fairy tale.

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In 1963, author Tommy Janette and his neighborhood buddies in West Haven, Connecticut, were looking for something to do.

Legends are said to be those individuals who soar above the limitations of the average human experience.

Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Berlioz, Rossini, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Rubinstein.

It was the five young men who called themselves The Original Dixieland Jazz Band who raised jazz from being a curious, local, and peculiarly Negro phenomenon into the greatest popular artform in history.

Robert Simpson (1921-1997) is widely regarded as the most important British composer in the generation following Benjamin Britten.

This book, which was first published in 1895, is a wonderful collection of some 300 anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers since time began.

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At the dawn of the eighties, small crowds of concertgoers gathered to catch a new sensation named Prince.

Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer.

'All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

One fifth of Britains hottest girl group, super-WAG, X Factor judge and all round celebrity, Cheryl Cole has been a runaway success since her first appearance on Popstars: The Rivals.

The story in this book is about a young man who left his home and family in Tyler, Texas at the age of twenty three and moved to Los Angeles to follow his dream of becoming a big band singer or to be another Nat King Cole or Billy Esktine.

Continuing the insights into the creative processes of contemporary composer David Cope, Tinman Too presents another 150 vignettes from the author's life begun in his previous book Tinman.

Here we go, you think, another entertainers autobiography.

Catherine Drinker Bowen was a Philadelphian with music in her veins.

The beloved and iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs.

O “Guia de Repertório da Música Brasileira para Piano” foi concebido tomando-se por base modelos pré-existentes de guia de repertório, como: “Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire”, de Maurice Hinson; “Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature”, de Jane Magrath; “Masterwork Classics”, de Jane Magrath e Kim O'Reilly; “First Impressions”, de M`lou Dietzer.

Lo sentimos Britney"… como si fuera el estribillo de una de sus pegadizas canciones, la frase se convirtió en trending topic cuando el documental Framing Britney Spears salió al aire.

In diesem Buch geht es um Tipps, die ich Ihnen zum Thema Improvisation geben möchte.

La imagen de un compositor tan genial como Johann Sebastian Bach suele prestarse a simplicaciones que pueden ser confusas.

Desde su clamoroso redescubrimiento mediada la pasada centuria, la figura de Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (Venecia, 4 de marzo de 1678-Viena, 28 de julio de 1741) no ha hecho sino ganar adeptos, provocar estudios, protagonizar ciclos de conciertos, propiciar ingentes grabaciones discográficas, suscitar, en suma, una creciente, justificada fascinación que aún hoy, recién comenzado el siglo xxi, parece estar lejos de su techo.

Pocas biografías como ésta dan cuenta de una personalidad tan implacable como prolífica, de un ansia conquistadora y de renovación tan intensa como la de Astor Piazzolla.

"Por qué Beethoven tiró el estofado" es un apasionante recorrido por la vida y la obra de seis compositores geniales, Johann Sebastián Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms e Igor Stravinsky, por los cuales el gran violonchelista siente una especial admiración.

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Robert Burns - Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) called himself "e;an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven.

Pocas biografías como ésta dan cuenta de una personalidad tan implacable como prolífica, de un ansia conquistadora y de renovación tan intensa como la de Astor Piazzolla.

Dass böse Menschen keine Lieder kennen, ist der süßliche Archetyp einer Vorstellung, die das Wesen des Bösen vermutlich ebenso missdeutet wie das der Musik.

Lo sentimos Britney"… como si fuera el estribillo de una de sus pegadizas canciones, la frase se convirtió en trending topic cuando el documental Framing Britney Spears salió al aire.

The son of an 18th century Austrian wheelwright, Haydn is acknowledged for refining the symphony and string quartet and praised for his oratorios and masses.

Tai Chi Chuan began as a martial art in China over 1000 years ago and is now widely recognized for its great health benefits.