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Edward MacDowell's European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism.

The Technique of Orchestration, Seventh Edition, is the definitive textbook on the study of orchestration, offering a concise, straight-to-the-point approach that prepares students to score their own compositions with confidence.

In a career that spanned 60 years, Paul Whiteman changed the landscape of American music, beginning with his million-selling recordings in the early 1920s of ';Whispering,' ';Japanese Sandman,' and ';Three O'Clock in the Morning.

Known collectively as The Priests, Fr Martin, Fr Eugene and Fr David, have taken the music world by storm.

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

In this first comprehensive examination of the music of the most prolific Bach son, David Schulenberg offers new perspectives on the career, style, and originality of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide presents the most extensive annotated bibliography of its subject yet produced.

Spanning more than fifty years of modern music history, Peter Asher: A Life in Music highlights every turn in Peter Ashers amazing career.

This book is pretty much our official story so far.

Sie sitzt auf dem Boden bei obdachlosen Menschen, besucht Geflüchtete in Zeltstädten, singt in Gefängnissen, öffnet ihr Zuhause und vor allem ihr Herz, um anderen Heimat und Liebe zu schenken.

What happened to contemporary music in the Soviet Union after Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev?

William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide is a catalogue, discography and annotated bibliography of the nearly 500 works of this twentieth-century British composer.

"Gerrit Meijer verkörpert eine Haltung, konsequenter als jede Tätowierung, der längste Irokese oder fünf Tage wach.

Reveals how Aaron Copland's complex relationship with the music of Gustav Mahler shaped his vision for American music in the twentieth century.

Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century provides short biographical and critical essays of over 100 American conductors-and conductors in America-in the twenty-first century.

Zwischen den amerikanischen Südstaaten und dem heimatlichen Bayern bewegt sich Martin Wimmer in seinem akrobatischen Text, der uns bisher ungeahnte deutsch-amerikanische Verflechtungen vor Augen führt.

Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach's music and the reasons for his 'borrowing', and adaptation within his oeuvre.

Alex Norths A Streetcar Named Desire: A Film Score Guide examines the acclaimed score for Elia Kazans much-celebrated adaptation of Tennessee Williamss A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies.

In over 4,000 performances in 19 countries to date, the award-winning Swiss boogie and blues pianist Nico Brina has experienced the magic of improvised music, how it affects people and what it triggers in their souls.

Warum werden Lieder verboten oder zensiert?

Die größte Challenge ihres Lebens: Eva Ries und der Wu-Tang ClanSie sind unangepasst, wütend und stets auf Ärger aus – und sie erfinden den Hip-Hop neu.

Celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary of Anita ODays Birth.

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention.

Described by music critic Alex Ross as "e;the most original musical thinker of our time"e; and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is considered by many to be America's greatest contemporary composer.

Performer and researcher Peter O'Hagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed consideration of the ensemble work sur Incises, which stands at the heart of Boulez's later output.

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

Follow a multi-faceted journey by an improviser and a musicosopher, Eric Antoni, from the cobbled streets of Paris to the Far East.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her storya memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids.

A new, deeply researched biography of the great French organist, who composed some of the best-loved works in the organ repertory -- and the masterful Requiem.

Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative in scope and authoritative in scholarship.

This intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatrafrom the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his lifefeatures never-before-seen photos and new revelations about celebrities like Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono.

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era.

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

Von Oasis bis Primal Scream – das rasante Leben einer britischen Rocklegende und ein Stück Musikgeschichte.

**Shortlisted for the Women s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025**The joyous and electric memoir from beloved music icon Neneh CherryA SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, UNCUT AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 Intoxicating .

The life of an icon, in his own words.

'This book really brings those early years back to me.

Erste autorisierte und einzige deutsche Ausgabe von Springsteens LyricsBruce Springsteens Lyrics erscheinen zusammengenommen als Kapitel eines großen amerikanischen Romans, den er in den 1970ern begonnen hat und der in diesem Buch nachvollzogen wird.

Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer, reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer.

'Mark Lewisohn knows the Fab Four better than they knew themselves' The GuardianThis extended special edition of Mark Lewisohn's magisterial book Tune In is a true collector's item, featuring hundreds of thousands of words of extra material, as well as many extra photographs.

When Shane, Kian, Mark, Nicky and Bryan celebrated the beginning of 2001 in true Irish style, they had no idea of the adventures that lay ahead.

Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach's music and the reasons for his 'borrowing', and adaptation within his oeuvre.

»Mit guten Manieren und schlechtem Atem kommt man nirgendwo hin.

Described by music critic Alex Ross as "e;the most original musical thinker of our time"e; and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is considered by many to be America's greatest contemporary composer.

Buck 'Em!

Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period.

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice.