Music: styles and genres

The first detailed study of the vital role that Norway played in the life and work of Frederick DeliusThis is a study of the vital role that Norway played in the life and work of Frederick Delius.

Examines the genesis of Ernest Newman's major publications in the context of prevailing intellectual trends in history, criticism and biography.

Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century, hashad a seminal impact in musical realms.

Combines fresh approaches to the life and music of the beloved nineteenth-century composer with the latest and most significant ways of thinking about rhythm, meter, and musical time.

Probing analyses, from the renowned music theorist, of Schubert's great, yet still little-studied piano-solo, chamber, and symphonic masterpieces.

Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten.

The influence of Rome on medieval plainsong and liturgy explored in depth.

John Sigismond Cousser, as performer and composer, was a pioneering figure in the musical history of the European Baroque era.

Covering Brahms's 32 song opuses published during four decades of song-writing, this book offers a way of understanding what Brahms believed to be the right poetic basis for his immortal music.

Granville Bantock's letters to the Scottish composer William Wallace and the music critic Ernest Newman provide a fascinating window into British music and musical life in the early twentieth century and the 'dawn' of musical modernism.

The perfect teen's guide to Billie Eilish, one of music's coolest success stories.

This is a fascinating, detailed firsthand eyewitness account of the Sioux Indian massacre at Lake Shetek in Minnesota that took place on August 20, 1862 by one of its survivors, Mrs.

First published in 1946, "e;this day-by-day narrative of events on a scout expedition will interest every ex-scout by reviving memories of his own experiences and his fondest daydreams.

Comanche, first published in 1935 and beautifully illustrated by the book's author Barron Brown, is an account of the U.

First published in 1935, this book by famous film actress Mary Pickford is an essay on death and her belief in an afterlife and the undying human spirit.

First published in 1962, this is a wonderful collection of humorous articles on feminine topics written by actress and stuntwoman-turned-writer Cynthia Hobart Lindsay.

Music lessons, Joe Maddy has always felt, should not be painful.

Dale Van Every's soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both.

Kings Will Be Tyrants by Ward Hawkins is a 1959 novel about fighting in Cuba.

The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history.

HE DISCOVERED GARBO AND GABLE.

The difficult early years.

"e;We are dealing here with a living literature,"e; wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians.

"e;I am Shanghai Pierce, Webster in Cattle, by God, Sir.

First published in 1951, this book recounts the nostalgic antics of hell-raising pistol shooters of the 1930's.

A major novel of the Indian wars in the far West, told from both points of view-the Apache's and the white man's.

Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was an early pop icon and a sex symbol of the 1920s, having starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik, and he became known as the "e;Latin lover"e; or simply "e;Valentino.

Sensible, Entertaining Answers To Everyone's Problems-Including YoursA fresh new look at:* The common-sense approach to marriage* Getting older* The importance of sex in marriage* The battle of the bottle* Teenagers and sex* And much more.

General George Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier.

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

Throughout his career as composer, conductor, and pianist, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was an intensely private individual.

In his foreword, Jim Bishop says of Jackie Gleason that when the comedian read the manuscript for the Fust time "e;he did not ask that anything be either omitted or altered.

Jesse James is Dead!

From 1832 to 1891 the states from the Great Lakes west to Oregon and south to Mexico saw scenes of massacre, bloody rout, ambush, fire, and pillage as the great Indian tribes-Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Modoc, and Apache-fought desperately to turn back the invading white men.

Jack Paar, America's midnight maverick, has become the most talked-about, most controversial personality in television by speaking out frankly and frequently-and letting the ratings fall where they may.

First published in 1962, on the suggestion of his readers throughout his expansive writing career, this is the self-penned biography of Upton Sinclair, author of hundreds of novels, plays, homilies, diatribes and pamphlets.

In this electrifying bestseller, the shrewd and voluble trial lawyer Louis Nizer, who made a long career of representing famous people in famous cases, recounts some of his significant civil and criminal cases.

When Robert Benchley died in 1945, his obituaries read like love-letters from the world.

First published in 1936, this book is a collection of sixteen stories recounting James ("e;Uncle Jimmie"e;) McKenna's tales of prospecting, Indian Fights, exploration, town life and all the characters from the early days of the Black Range, the Mogollons, and the rest of the Gila Country of southwest New Mexico.

Following on from her successful 1949 memoir "e;With a Feather on My Nose,"e; here we have a further biography, first published in 1959, from famous Broadway and early silent film actress Billie Burke, best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz and widow of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld of Ziegfeld Follies fame.

A young English couple sail to the new land where fortunes like plums are for the taking.

This 1960 novel by acclaimed author John H.

100 years ago women in the UK won the vote and 50 years ago the Women's Liberation Movement began a sustained campaign for equal rights.

100 years ago women in the UK won the vote and 50 years ago the Women's Liberation Movement began a sustained campaign for equal rights.

There's never been a better time to be a woman.

There's never been a better time to be a woman.

The autobiography of Ted Macauley, award-winning newspaper reporter, columnist, and sports journalist.