Musicians, singers, bands and groups

Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (19241990).

The Venezuelan youth orchestra program known as "e;El Sistema"e; has attracted much attention internationally, partly via its flagship orchestra, The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, headed by Gustavo Dudamel, and partly through its claims to use classical music education to rescue vulnerable children.

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.

La historia detrás de sus 188 canciones* Quince álbumes míticos: este libro desentraña las 188 canciones de culto de la banda que cambiaron la historia del rock.

It might seem obvious that time lies at the heart of archaeology, since archaeology is about the past.

Beyond Reasonrelates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career:Der Ring des Nibelungen,Tristan und Isolde,Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, andParsifal.

Edmund Rubbra's music has given him a reputation as a 'spiritual' composer, who had an interest in Eastern thought, and a mid-life conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Leo Black, a pupil of Rubbra in the 1950s, presents a full-scale study of his symphonies (the first for fifteen years).

In 1941, at age twenty-five, Sinatra told a friend, 'I'm going to be the best singer in the world'.

First Published in 2007.

The Vivaldi Compendium represents the latest in Vivaldi research, drawing on the author's close involvement with Vivaldi and Venetian music over four decades.

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.

By presenting the New Testament books in the order they were written, bestselling Bible scholar Marcus Borg reveals how spiritually and politically radical the early Jesus movement began and how it slowly became domesticated.

Celebrate 40 years of WHAM!

David Schnasa Jacobsen draws together the strengths of two exegetical approaches to the Gospel of Mark in this volume of the Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries series.

Aspects of beauty in the music of MozartIt is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'THE ROCK 'N' ROLL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Essential for fans and great reading for anyone else' Classic RockBreak-ups, make-ups, groupies, band politics, court battles, the tragic death of Rick Parfitt .

A pioneering study of how American composer Aaron Copland helped shape the sound of the Hollywood film industry and introduced the moviegoing public to modern musical styles.

Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) composed some of the most enduring masterpieces in a Spanish style, works that remain favourites with guitarists, pianists, and music lovers the world over.

Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music.

- Links-politischer Rapper der ersten Stunde- Hintergründe zu seiner Musik- Anekdoten aus seinem politischen LebenEntgegen des allgemeinen Medienechos ist Rap nicht nur rechts, sondern auch links-politisch aktiv.

A detailed and long-overdue study of Frank Bridge's music and its socio-cultural and aesthetic contextsThe English composer, violist, and conductor Frank Bridge (1879-1941), a student of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, was one of the first modernists in British music, developing the most radical and lastingly modern musical languageof his generation.

This book explores Bruckner''s Eighth Symphony (1890) from several angles, offering an accessible guide to its musical design.

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

The first comprehensive biography of any American woman musician born before the Civil War brings to life a composer whose story is both old-fashioned and strikingly modern.

Conversing with Cage draws on over 150 interviews with John Cage conducted over four decades to draw a full picture of his life and art.

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sources surrounding Kinkel, this book explores the extent to which Kinkel's Lieder reflect and transcend compositional-aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political facets typically associated with the first half of the nineteenth century.

A synchronic study that highlights the importance of printed packaging, rather than notes on the page, to the complex relationship between composers, publishers, and consumers of music.

In dieser Dissertationsschrift wird das Textproblem des deuterokanonischen Buches Tobit neu aufgerollt.

The Next Great Rock and Roll NovelOn a September afternoon in Santa Barbara, a private jet carrying the members of Poor Ghostone of Americas most storied rock bandsplunges into the backyard of Caleb Crane, a retired insurance salesman.

This book breaks new ground in the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century music in Britain through the study of a hitherto neglected resource, the lists of subscribers that were attached to a wide variety of publications, including musical works.

Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time.

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.

This book examines the succession of events toward the potential standardization of the music for "e;The Star-Spangled Banner"e; from an initial letter to President Roosevelt in 1907 to the 1958 congressional hearings on the National Anthem, and the later work of the Swiss-Born American pianist, Rudolph Ganz.

**A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** **INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH** **GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY** **FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022' PICK** 'Incredibly moving.

If you want to be a rock and roll star, you've got to talk like a rock and roll star.

Warum werden Lieder verboten oder zensiert?

Arthel Doc Watson (19232012) is arguably one of the most influential musicians Appalachia has ever produced.

Robert Johnson did not sell his soul to the devil.

Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984), a premier composer of American Popular Song during the mid-20th century, has been overlooked by historians.

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A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life.

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.

The Art of Tango offers a systematic exploration of the performance, arrangement and composition of the universally popular tango.

The Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944) is commonly positioned in the history of twentieth-century music as a representative of Leos Janacek's compositional school and as one of the Jewish composers imprisoned by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Terezin (Theresienstadt).