Sometime in August 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota.
By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas - The Marriage of Figaro, Cos fan tutte and Don Giovanni.
Literary scholars face a new and often baffling reality in the classroom: students spend more time looking at glowing screens than reading printed text.
Literary scholars face a new and often baffling reality in the classroom: students spend more time looking at glowing screens than reading printed text.
Finalist, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword ReviewsPunk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcades first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming immersed in the early punk rock scene.
Originally published in 1934, this is an exhaustive examination of one of Bach's greatest works, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in this great composer.
A fascinating book for any fan of classical music and the composers that have created some of the most marvelous symphonies, but how did certain people create these quantum leaps in music single handedly?
Winner of the Penderyn Music Book PrizeIn the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music.
Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musical output with traditions drawn from classical, folk, jazz, and world music.
This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip Glass, Mark Anthony Turnage, Thomas Ades and George Benjamin.
"Zouglou, rythmes et résistance" vous invite à revivre l’histoire fascinante d’un mouvement musical qui a profondément marqué l’identité de la Côte d’Ivoire.
The popularity of Carmen endures across generations and continents, with one of the most frequently performed and instantly recognizable operatic scores of all time and a libretto derived from Prosper Mrime's novella of the same name, written 30 years prior to the opera's 1875 debut.
Richard King's account of the several years he spent working in a Bristol independent record shop in the early 90s is destined to become a classic of music writing.
A fascinating look into the world of the Geisha through the 400-year-old art of Ko-Uta, the traditional song form sung to three-stringed shamisen music.
