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Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians.

So können Musiker gut und gesund ein Leben lang spielenErfahrene Musiker kennen die Warnzeichen ihres Körpers: Ein leichter Spannungskopfschmerz, Schwindel oder Gelenkschmerzen sind ein sicheres Zeichen, dass ihnen die Musik in letzter Zeit wichtiger war als die eigene Gesundheit.

The finest book on Britain's most popular rock 'n' roll band'Read on .

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.

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NOW A LIMITED SERIES DIRECTED BY DANNY BOYLE_____________________Foreword by Chrissie HyndeWithout the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols.

Since forming on YouTube in 2012, The Vamps have become one of the biggest bands in the UK.

In Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Backstage, James L.

The Grateful Dead rose out of San Francisco's '60s underground rock scene with an unprecedented sound and image.

In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Gerry Mulligan was revered and recognized as a groundbreaking composer, arranger, bandleader, and baritone saxophonist.

Over the last decade or more, classical music programming has expanded to an unprecedented extent, now including works by less familiar composers and underappreciated works by familiar names.

Special Deluxe by Neil Young - the second installment of the iconic musician's memoirsQuirky and wonderfully candid, Neil Young's new book of reminiscences is as compelling as his first book.

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).

Baton Basics offers a unique approach to teaching conducting based upon the concept of conveying weight, resistance, and energy in order to communicate a better concept of musical sound to the musicians.

Digital technology is transforming the musical score as a broad array of innovative score systems have become available to musicians.

It is well known that Bela Bartok had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe.

An occasion to appreciate Dexter's resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation.

By age 16, Pat Martino was already working as a member of R&B star Lloyd Price's touring musical revue.

This is Volume 18 of eighteen in a book series on Musicology.

Mina (Anna Maria Mazzini, born Lombardy, 1940) is an Italian popular music icon who throughout her sixty-year-long career has come to represent a range of diverse meanings.

'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily ExpressSunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon: Harry Styles.

For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music.

Contemporary Orchestration: A Practical Guide to Instruments, Ensembles, and Musicians teaches students how to orchestrate for a wide variety of instruments, ensembles, and genres, while preparing them for various real-world professional settings ranging from the concert hall to the recording studio.

Sie war der größte Star der Rockmusik in den 60er-Jahren, bis heute sind ihre Stimme und ihre Auftritte beim Monterey Festival oder in Woodstock unvergessen: Janis Joplin.

This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency.

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds, musician Karen Reynolds, and musically inspired composer, engineer, and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) to create a house design, The Reynolds Desert House.

This no-holds-barred account of Kelly Obsourne's upbringing is as shocking as it is disarmingly funny.

Barocke Musik – geistliche wie weltliche – wurde im Zuge der Kolonialisierung von Europäern nach Südamerika gebracht und verbreitete sich dort in verschiedenen Kontexten.

Verrauchte Clubs, rotes Licht, treibende Musik und verborgene Ecken und Winkel.

Christopher Fifield's remarkable study explores the personality, life and work of a conductor who influenced and inspired the leading composers, singers and instrumentalists of his day.

"e;Masterworks of 20th-Century Music"e; introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory.

From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music's legendary royal couple—George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

What if you had the chance to tell your hero just how much they meant to you?

A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.

In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "e;American sound"e; and in the process served as architects of modern American identity.

'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so'The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, systematically set about committing each of the Seven Deadly Sins.

From the author of the million-copy selling Shout!

Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians.

Black Sabbath has often been credited with inventing heavy metal with their first album released in 1970.

**WINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD**'This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets.

London 1977: Daniel Treacy drops out of school, bored to death.

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer.

Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written.

An original telling of the Fab Four's story.

Noch heute gilt Enrico Caruso (1873–1921) als Inbegriff des italienischen Tenors.

Scholars have long recognized Carl Maria von Weber as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music.