Musicians, singers, bands and groups

Shortly after Chopins death in 1849, Franz Liszt wrote the first full-length biography of his fellow composer.

A SUNDAY TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO AND UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARNew York, 2001.

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.

The Pre-history of 'The Midsummer Marriage' examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett's first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.

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Die große Autobiographie der größten Tänzerin ihrer ZeitJosephine Baker schaffte es aus einfachsten Verhältnissen ganz nach oben und inspirierte mit ihrer Energie Generationen von Frauen – bis heute.

From Palace to Palais, the musicians who played in the big bands tell their own stories, bringing to life an unforgettable era.

A half-century after their first single release, ';Surfin' ' the Beach Boys continue to define California popular culture and the sunshine-infused sound that will forever be its living soundtrack.

In this significant study of the music of Pierre Boulez, Dr.

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).

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sources surrounding Kinkel, this book explores the extent to which Kinkel's Lieder reflect and transcend compositional-aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political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.

Anthony Minghella's 1996 film The English Patient won nine Academy Awards(TM), including one for Best Original Score.

A Music Transcription Method: Notating Recorded Music by Ear teaches how to leverage music dictation in the modern music industry.

In When Rock Met Reggae, Steven Blush takes a spirited, cross-genre perspective in this illuminating chronicle (Booklist) of the crossover of Jamaican, British, and American sounds that changed the face of popular music.

In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain's Got Talent touched the hearts of millions all over the world.

'The thought behind this book is not just me wanting to tell my story in the standard autobiographical fashion but to create a kind of self-help book that includes my story.

An NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music CriticismThis is the best book about the Beatles ever written Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.

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

Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889) revolutionierte die Welt der klassischen Musik und stellte den Kontrabass in ein neues Licht.

Renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of different perspectives on Mozart''s chamber music with keyboard.

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

This book develops an innovative approach for understanding the relationship between music and words in the works of five major composers of the English Renaissance: John Taverner, Christopher Tye, John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd.

Every orchestra in the world oscillates between crisis and survival.

The complete collection of Nick Cave lyrics spanning his entire career, from 1978 until 2013, revised and updated by the cult rock star'He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist - beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute' - from Nick Cave's induction into the Australian Hall of FameThis complete collection of Nick Cave's lyrics spans his entire career, from his writing for The Birthday Party through the highly acclaimed Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call to recent work with Grinderman and his 2013 album, Push the Sky Away.

First Published in 2001.

A bold application of the concept of "e;canonical"e; works to the development of French operatic and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs and desolate lows.

The Pre-history of 'The Midsummer Marriage' examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett's first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.

'Offers an enormous amount of insight into the man and his artistry.

The intent of any discography is comprehensiveness, aiming to include every recording within its chosen area, and to list all the important details of each.

How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century?

This book discusses microtonal tunings in the Arabic maqam, prevalent in the Middle East and Central Asia, which employs microtonal intervals from Pythagorean tuning by perfect fifths.

Once musicians such as Mozart were little more than court servants; now they are multimillionaire superstars wielding more power than politicians.

The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history.

In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Gotterdammerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H.

"e;These images are great and have been tucked away for years"e;RONNIE WOOD "e;The REAL Rolling Stones.

'For all these years I've told stories.

Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making-as well as creatively cannibalizing-electronic circuits for artistic purposes.

Originally published in 2003, Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself is an annotated collection of the memoirs of Charles Edward Horn.

In 1925, MGM produced a screen version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which became a classic of silent cinema.

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Eric Clapton has been a rock god for half a century.

Bohemian composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) was exceptionally prolific, composing over 400 imaginative, well-crafted, and diverse pieces, including symphonies, operas, ballet scores, and other orchestral works.

First Published in 1997.

It is impossible to contain Henry Cowell within the boundaries of the consistencies of forms, styles, ensembles, and genres of Western art music.

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

Pearl Jam FAQ is what the British refer to as a ';spanner ' covering the entire arc of the band's career, from their pre-Pearl Jam days to the present.

'A searing, triumphant story.