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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bach Studies
Book SynopsisThis volume draws together a collection of Robin A. Leaver's essays on Bach's sacred music, exploring the religious aspects of this repertoire through consideration of three core themes: liturgy, hymnology, and theology. Rooted in a rich understanding of the historical sources, the book illuminates the varied ways in which Bach's sacred music was informed and shaped by the religious, ritual, and intellectual contexts of his time, placing these works in the wider history of Protestant church music during the Baroque era.Including research from across a span of forty years, the chapters in this volume have been significantly revised and expanded for this publication, with several pieces appearing in English for the first time. Together, they offer an essential compendium of the work of a leading scholar of theological Bach studies.Table of ContentsPrefacePart I Liturgy1. Bach’s Cantatas and the Liturgical Year2. Bach’s Music and the Leipzig Liturgy3. Bach’s Agnus Dei Compositions4. Bach’s Parody Process: From Cantata to Missa5. Bach and the Cantata Controversy in the Early Eighteenth CenturyPart II Hymnology6. Bach and Johann Christoph Olearius7. Bach’s Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4): Hymnology and Chronology 8. Bach’s Orgelbüchlein9. Bach and the Hymnic Aria10. Bach and the Letter Codes of the Schemelli GesangbuchPart III Theology11. Bach and Pietism12. Bach, Gesner, and Johann August Ernesti13. Bach and Erdmann Neumeister14. Bach’s Clavierübung III15. Bach and Anniversaries of the ReformationBibliography
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WW Norton & Co Louis Armstrong Master of Modernism
Book SynopsisThe definitive account of Louis Armstrong—his life and legacy—during the most creative period of his career.Trade Review"Thomas Brothers has brought together startling new discoveries and insights, a fresh look at hallowed recordings, and an understanding of the multifold influences that helped shape Louis Armstrong. In so doing, he has written by far the most complete and original look at an American icon whose influence continues into its second century." -- Loren Schoenberg, artistic director, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem"Honest, uncompromising, and wholly sympathetic to its subject, Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism is the ideal for jazz biography and criticism." -- Scott DeVeaux, author of The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History"Brothers proves his thesis and then some…an encyclopedic authority." -- C.W. Mahoney - American Spectator
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WW Norton & Co Songs of Love and Horror Collected Lyrics of
Book SynopsisThe definitive collection of lyrics from three decades of songwriting.Trade Review"Songs of Love and Horror feels significant; [Will Oldham is] able to make a connection directly, without the protective veil of a moniker. The blue annotations that accompany each lyric in the book offer his personal reflections. But as much as Oldham attempts transparency, his music, which radiates humour, tenderness, frustration and audacity, remains seductively mysterious." -- Wired"There aren't too many popular songwriters whose words can withstand being read and scrutinised as poetry. Oldham's not only stand up, but stripped of their melodic context, offer different insights... Honest, wry, confessional, occasionally harrowing and frequently laugh-out-loud funny, Oldham's lyrics make for enjoyable and illuminating reading." -- fRoots"His [Will Oldham's] book was more fascinating for me because I knew fewer of the songs." -- Jude Rogers - New Statesman
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Taylor & Francis Creative Music Composition The Young Composers
Book SynopsisCreative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. Creative composition-composing in your own style, rather than in the style of a composer of the past-is embraced by music educators not only for composition students, but for beginning performers and music educators, and is often offered to all music students and non-music majors who wish to enhance their musical creativity. With 25 years of experience teaching fledgling composers, the author tackles the key ingredients that make for successful composition, including: stimulus to the musical imagination; discussion of a variety of current musical languages; analysis of many examples from contemporary scores; technical exercises; suggestions as to how to start a composition; structures; and examinations of works from particular genres. Wilkins covers several musical languages, from folk and popular to serialism; analyses various rhythmic forms; suggests approaches for composing for a variety of instruments, from traditional to electronic ones, as well as for the human voice; addresses the nuts and bolts of score preparation; and offers career advice. For all composition students-and for music students in general-Creative Music Composition offers a clear and concise introduction that will enable them to reach their personal goals.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Glossary of Terms. 1. Young Composers and a Creative Environment. 2. Concepts of the Imagination 3. Structures 4. Musical Languages 5. Technical Exercises 6. Exploring Instruments 7. Composing for Traditional Ensembles 8. Composing for Voices 9. Composing for a Monodic Instrument 10. Moving Ahead. Music Examples. Contents of the CD. Bibliography. Index
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Faber Music Ltd CAPS LOCK ON Lyrics Debris 20072022
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsMY KZ, UR BF; Qwerty Finger; Schoolin'; Leave The Engine Room; Final Form; Photoshop Handsome; Two For Nero; Suffragette Suffragette; Come Alive Diana; NASA Is On Your Side; Tin (The Manhole); Weights; Hiawatha Doomed; Wizard Talk; Luddites And Lambs; DNA Dump!; Making Some New Sense; Riot On The Ward; Cough Cough; Kemosabe; Torso Of The Week; Duet; Choice Mountain; Feet For Hands; Undrowned; Arc; Armourland; The House Is Dust; Radiant; The Peaks; Don't Try; Awe/Arc; No Plan; Justice; Distrikt!; A.D.; Treasure Set ; Pendolino; To The Blade; Distant Past; Get To Heaven; Regret; Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread; The Wheel Is Turning Now; Fortune 500; Blast Doors; Zero Pharaoh; No Reptiles; Warm Healer; We Sleep In Pairs; Hapsburg Lipp; President Heartbeat; Brainchild; Yuppie Supper; Only As Good As My God; Pressure; Magnetophone; Live Intro; I Believe It Now; Night Of The Long Knives; Can't Do; Desire; Big Game; Good Shot, Good Soldier; Run The Numbers; Put Me Together; A Fever Dream; Ivory Tower; New Deep ; White Whale; Breadwinner; The Mariana; Lost Powers; Big Climb; It Was A Monstering; Planets; Moonlight; Arch Enemy; Lord Of The Trapdoor; Black Hyena; In Birdsong; The Actor; Violent Sun; Supernormal; Mercury & Me; Teletype; I Want A Love Like This; Bad Friday; Pizza Boy; Jennifer; Metroland Is Burning; Leviathan; Shark Week; Cut Up!; Hex; My Computer; Kevin's Car; Born Under A Meteor; Software Greatman
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The Crowood Press Ltd A Players Guide to Chamber Music
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Prentice Hall Press No Walls and the Recurring Dream
Book SynopsisA candid, fascinating memoir from celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco.
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Ebury Publishing Daniel ODonnell My Story
Book SynopsisFrom humble beginnings in County Donegal in Ireland to worldwide recording success, Daniel O''Donnell recounts the incredible story of his life, charting the ups and downs with remarkable honesty.Through wonderful anecdotes, Daniel recalls his early years and the moment he set his heart on becoming a singer, and gives a personal acount of his speading popularity and subsequent perfomances all over the world. With distinctive charm and modesty, he takes us behind the scenes of his phenomenal professional success, providing unique access to the man behind the hits and headlines.A bestseller when it was first published, Daniel O''Donnell: My Story has been fully revised and updated with a wealth of brand new material. for the first time Danel gives an intimate account of his romance and high-profile wedding to Majella McLennan as well as his deeply personal observations on worldwide success and his recent breathrough to stardom in the USA.Trade ReviewGripping and entertaining. * Sunday World *Ireland's number-one statesman. * Irish Post *
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Ebury Publishing Elvis My Best Man
Book SynopsisWhen George Klein was thirteen, he couldn''t have known how important the new kid in class - the one with the guitar, the boy named Elvis - would become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis Presley was someone extraordinary. In this heartfelt, entertaining and affectionate memoir, George Klein writes candidly about their close friendship, which began at school and continued through Elvis''s rise to fame and the wild swirl of his tumultuous life, right up to the singer''s tragic death. Writing with the authority of someone who was in the midst of it all, from the good times at Graceland and hanging out with Hollywood stars to butting heads with Elvis''s iron-handed manager, Colonel Tom Parker, GK reveals who the King really was and how he acted when the stage lights were off. Full of anecdotes and first-hand accounts of some of the most defining moments in the legend''s life, Elvis: My Best Man cTrade ReviewGK was there from the beginning, and there 'til the end. This book is fact. * Jerry Lee Lewis *This memoir has the authentic twang of someone who was really there to see it all...If you like Presley, you'll love this book -- Mike Simkins * Daily Mail *
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Elton John at 75
Book SynopsisElton John celebrates the rock icon's incredible career and art in a beautifully produced retrospective examining key achievements and life events.
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McFarland and Company, Inc. Richard Wagner and the Jews
Book SynopsisThe contradictions between Wagner's antipathy toward the amorphous entity ""The Jews"" and his genuine friendships with individual Jews, are the subject of this book. Drawing on sources, including his autobiography and the diaries of his second wife, this book places Wagner's anti - Semitism in perspective with his life and work.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Texas Flood
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Penguin Random House LLC Lester Leaps In
He was jazz''s first hipster. He performed in sunglasses and coined and popularized phrases like that''s cool and you dig? He always wore a suit and his trademark porkpie hat. He influenced everyone from B. B. King to Stan Getz to Allen Ginsberg, creating a lyrical style of playing that forever changed the sound of the tenor saxophone.In this groundbreaking biography of Lester Young (1909-1959), historian Douglas Daniels brings to life the man and his world, and corrects a number of misconceptions. Even though others have identified Young as a Kansas City musician, Daniels traces his roots to the blues of Louisiana and his early years traveling with his father''s band and the legendary Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Later we see the jazz culture of New York in the early 1940s, when Young was launched to national and international fame with the Count Basie Orchestra and began to accompany his close friend Billie Holiday. After a year spent in an Army prison on a conviction for marij
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McNidder & Grace Bob Dylan in London Troubadour Tales
Book Synopsis'A must have for Dylan enthusiasts, lovers of London, and anyone with even a passing interest in the history of music. I devoured it in two sittings - and I loved it!' Conor McPherson, playwright, Girl from the North CountryTrade Review'Meticulously researched and packed with delicious detail, this highly enjoyable book reveals both Bob Dylan and London in all of their compelling originality. With wry observation and entertaining incident, this is the story of Dylan's earliest visits to London as an unknown folk singer, crashing in friends' bedsits, right through to his sell-out concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and Earls Court.' Conor McPherson, playwright, Girl from the North Country
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Return to Riemann
Book SynopsisThis book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Götterdämmerung.First, in terms of music theory, it proposes a new theory of tonal function that returns to the theories of Hugo Riemann to rediscover a development of his thought that has been covered over by the recent project of neo-Riemannian theory. Second, in terms of its philosophical approach, it reawakens the critical-theoretical examination of the relation between music and the late capitalist society that is sedimented in the musical materials themselves, and which the music, in turn, subjects to aesthetically embodied critique. The music, the theory, and the listeners and critics who respond to them are all radically reimagined.This book will be of interest to professional music theorists, undergraduates, and technically inclined musicians and listeners, that is, anyone who is fascinated by the chromatic magic of late-nineTable of Contents1. Riemannian Theory and the Problem of Chromatic Function 2. Waltraute’s Plaint: Riemannian Tonal Function and Dramatic Narrative 3. Two Nineteenth-Century Examples of Hexatonic-Diatonic Tonal Function 4. The Multiple Lives of Seventh Chords 5. ‘Here Time Becomes Space’: Schenkerising Riemann/Riemannising Schenker
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Singers Scores and Sounds
Book SynopsisThis book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing. Centred around materials from the mid-twentieth century, this book focuses on a time when composers and performers were questioning the idea of authorship within their musical practice. Materials drawn upon include recordings, scores, archival content, visual art, interviews, and liner notes to develop a rich conception of practices of performance. Analysis of performances include recordings of singers such as Cathy Berberian, Linda Hirst, Loré Lixenberg, Angelika Luz, and Meredith Monk. Compositions by Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Manuel De Falla are considered. The book utilizes these sources to examine the collective way in which singers and composers form practices as multiple, transforming, emergent, and not hierarchical. The book articulates with a detailed, close consideration of specific iTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Performing Transformations (a risky approach) 3. Transforming Black Square 4. Transforming Fictions 5. Transforming scores, stable performances: Cathy Berberian, Stripsody and Pop art. 6. Transforming analytical assumptions: What is Sequenza III? 7. Epilogue
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Indy Pub Pump it up Magazine
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Cambridge University Press Stravinsky in Context
Book SynopsisIgor Stravinsky's strikingly original compositions continue to fascinate scholars and music-lovers across the globe. This volume brings together a collection of 35 short, specially commissioned essays that illuminate the varied contexts from which emerged Stravinsky's impressive catalogue of innovative and richly creative music.Trade Review'a fascinating read for more-seasoned musicians … Recommended.' M. Neil, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsPreface; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Part I. Russia and Identity: 1. Memory and truth: Stravinsky's childhood (1882-1901) Catriona Kelly; 2. Religion, life and death in St Petersburg Natalia Braginskaya; 3. Kashperova and Stravinsky: the making of a concert-pianist Graham Griffiths; 4. Reminiscences of Rimsky-Korsakov, his family and artistic circle Lidia Ader; 5. Orthodoxies and unorthodoxies: Stravinsky's spiritual journey Ivan Moody; 6. The Russian soul Rowan Williams; Part II. Stravinsky and Europe: 7. Sergei Diaghilev and Stravinsky: from world of art to ballets russes John E. Bowlt; 8. Paris and the Belle Époque Davinia Caddy; 9. Paris, Art Deco, and the spirit of Apollo Jonathan Cross; 10. Stravinsky's Spain: fan or mirror? Graham Griffiths; 11. 'It is Venice that he loves…' Mauricio Dottori; Part III. Partnerships and Authorship: 12. Stravinsky's sphere of influence: Paris and beyond Inessa Bazayev; 13. Stravinsky and his literary collaborators Maureen Carr; 14. Assuming co-authorship: Stravinsky and his 'ghost-writers' Valérie Dufour; 15. Nadia Boulanger and Stravinsky: the transition to America Kimberly Francis; 16. Conversations with Craft Anna Schmidtmann; Part IV. Performance and Performers: 17. Challenges to realism and tradition: Stravinsky's modernist theatre Massimiliano Locanto; 18. Igor Stravinsky and ballet as modernism Stephanie Jordan; 19. Stravinsky's ear for instruments Chris Dromey; 20. Towards a conductor-proof ideal Hannah Baxter; 21. The pianist in the recording studio: re-imagining interpretation Daniel Barolsky; 22. The legacy of Stravinsky as recorded history Per Dahl; Part V. Aesthetics and Politics: 23. Stravinsky versus literature Emily Frey; 24. Stravinsky and Greek antiquity Katerina Levidou; 25. Stravinsky's response to 'Japonisme' Mai Ikehara; 26. Stravinsky, modernism and mass culture Ross Cole; 27. Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky: Adorno and others Alan Street; 28. Stravinsky's 'problematical' political orientation during the 1920s and 1930s Erik Levi; Part VI. Reception and Legacy: 29. The Apollonian clockwork re-wound Elmer Schönberger; 30. Stravinsky reception in the USSR Philip Ewell; 31. The Stravinsky/Craft conversations in Russian and their reception Olga Manulkina; 32. Publishing Stravinsky Nigel Simeone; 33.Copyright, the Stravinsky estate, and the Paul Sacher foundation Heidy Zimmermann; 34. Evoking the past, inspiring the future Lynne Rogers; 35. 'Music is, by its very essence, powerless to express anything at all' Daniel K L Chua; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Age of Musical Arrangements in Europe
Book SynopsisThis Element focuses on Vienna, and an important era in the culture of arrangements in which they were widely and variously cultivated, and in which canon formation and the conception of musical works underwent crucial development. Musical arrangements have shaped the social, musical, and ideological landscape in this era to a great degree.Table of Contents1. The idea of arrangement; 2. From stage to salon in Vienna c.1800; 3. Repackaging the classical symphony; 4. Rearranging Mozart's operas; 5. Arrangement history around 1850: losing touch.
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Cambridge University Press A Philosophy of Playing Drum Kit
Book SynopsisThe author is a drummer with experience in a variety of musical genres and contexts, with emphasis on rock and related styles. This auto ethnographic Element presents the author''s philosophy of playing drum kit. The text explains how playing drum kit matters to this musician and may resonate with others to whom making music matters in similar ways. The Element contains audio files of music in which the author plays drum kit in the ensemble settings described. There are photos of the author''s drums and of him drumming. Based on June Boyce-Tillman''s non-religious model of holistic spirituality and Tim Ingold''s notion of correspondences, the author describes how playing drum kit enables him to experience transcendence the magical nexus at which Materials, Construction, Values/Culture and Expression meet. Each of these domains, and the magic derived from their combination, is illustrated through examples of the author''s live and recorded musical collaborations.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Materials; 3. Construction; 4. Values /culture; 5. Expression; 6. In closing (button); References.
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Orion Publishing Co People Funny Boy
Book Synopsis''David Katz''s in-depth portrayal of his genius is to be commended and is an essential addition to any serious music fan''s collection'' David Rodigan MBE OD''For the complete picture of this musical genius you can''t get better than David Katz''s People Funny Boy - if you''re into Scratch, it''s essential'' Don LettsArguably the most influential force in Jamaican music, Lee Perry brought Bob Marley to international stardom and has since collaborated with artists such as Sir Paul McCartney, The Clash and The Beastie Boys. The book delves behind the myth of Perry to give a fuller examination of his life and work through extensive interviews with family members, fellow artists, friends, lovers, enemies, as well as the man himself to present a complex portrait of a unique soul driven by unseen spiritual forces. This revised and expanded edition has been thoroughly updated and completely overhauled to render a more nuanced, accurate and accessible read, wiTrade ReviewLee Perry was one of Reggae's most enigmatic creators; an incomparable phenomenon who's sonic sound waves transformed out lives. David Katz's in-depth portrayal of his genius is to be commended and is an essential addition to any serious music fan's collection -- David Rodigan MBE ODLee 'Scratch' Perry blew my 13 year old mind back in '69 with a track called 'Tackro'. From that time till this the surreal sonic adventures of Jamaica's Salvador Dali of sound have been an essential part of my life. For the complete picture of this musical genius you can't get better than David Katz's People Funny Boy - if you're into Scratch, it's essential -- Don LettsLee Perry's importance in the reggae sphere is that he nurtured much Jamaican roots talent, including Bob Marley and his backing musicians. His legacy contains some of the finest reggae recordings known to appreciators of the genre. People should read this book to discover more -- Dennis BovellA biography that, in many ways, is the story of an entire musical genre . . . If his story is not the greatest ever told, then it is certainly one of the most entertaining, and Katz duly relates many of the more lunatic anecdotes . . . Seldom less than definitive * Q *Going beyond the standard portrait . . . Katz offers up a vast tome that works as a psychological portrait of a complex artist, and a fascinating history of post-war Jamaican music and culture . . . Marvellous stuff * Mojo *An exhaustive, brilliantly researched and well-written biography . . . Every recording and motivation is detailed, along with his legion of eccentricities . . . A very good tale * NME *[Katz's] perseverance has paid off, creating a detailed portrait wide enough in focus to take in all the people around Perry - nearly the whole of the Jamaican scene . . . This book is especially strong on the music, guiding us through the minefield of his enormous output from the Sixties and Seventies * The Times *Everything in Katz's biography is well documented . . . Fascinating . . . A must-read for the legion of Jamaican music fans world-wide * Independent on Sunday *Thoroughly engrossing -- Martin Chilton * INDEPENDENT *This weighty, in depth and definitive tome is not to be passed up. * ELECTRONIC SOUND *
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Hal Leonard Corporation Red Hot Chili Peppers the Getaway Guitar Recorded
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University Press of Mississippi The Jazz Masters
Book SynopsisThe Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight features twenty-one conversations with musicians who have had at least fifty years of professional experience, and several as many as seventy-five. In all, these voices reflect some seventeen hundred years'' worth of paying dues. Appealing to casual fans and jazz aficionados alike, these interviews have been carefully, but minimally edited by Peter Zimmerman for sense and clarity, without changing any of the musicians'' actual words. Five of the interviewees--Dick Hyman, Jimmy Owens, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, and Yusef Lateef--have received the National Endowment for the Arts'' prestigious Jazz Masters Fellowship, attesting to their importance and ability. While not official masters, the rest are veteran performers willing to share their experiences and knowledge. Artists such as David Amram, Charles Davis, Clifford Jordan, Valery Ponomarev, and Sandy Stewart, to name a few, open their hearts and memories and reveal who they a
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Lexington Books Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal
Book SynopsisCompositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach's vocal compositionsincluding his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantataswith particular attention to how such meaning arises out of the intentionality of Bach's own compositional choices or (in Part IV in particular) how meaning is discovered, and created, through the reception of Bach's vocal works. And the authors do not consider such compositional choices in a vacuum, but rather discuss Bach's artistic intentions within the framework of broader cultural trendssocial, historical, theological, musical, etc. Such questions of compositional choice and meaning frame the four primary approaches to Bach's vocal music taken by the authors in this volume, as seen across the book's four parts: Part I: How might the study of historical theology inform our understanding of Bach's compositionaTrade ReviewDon Franklin is a preeminent Bach scholar, and this volume of enlightening case studies on meaning in Bach’s vocal music by his colleagues and former students is a marvelous tribute that does both Franklin and Bach a signal honor. -- Michael Marissen, author of Bach & GodAn admirable set of essays about an important body of music. Taken together, this collection significantly advances scholarly discourse about the vocal works of J. S. Bach. -- Stephen Crist, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsSeries Editor ForewordRobin A. LeaverPrefaceMark A. Peters and Reginald L. Sanders Paragram for Professor Dr. Don O. FranklinRuth TatlowPart I: Bach’s Vocal Music in Theological Context1. In Honor of God and the City: Strategies of Theological and Symbolic Communication in Bach’s Cantata Gott ist mein König (BWV 71)Markus Rathey2. Two “Johannine” Cantatas: Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes (BWV 40) and Sehet, welch eine Liebe (BWV 64)Eric Chafe3. Death to Life, Sorrow to Joy: Martin Luther’s Theology of the Cross and J. S. Bach’s Eastertide Cantata Ihr werdet weinen und heulen (BWV 103)Mark A. Peters4. Toward an Understanding of J. S. Bach’s Use of Red Ink in the Autograph Score of the Matthew PassionMary Greer5. The Theological in Bach Research (2007)Martin PetzoldtPart II: Analytical Perspectives6. Formal and Motivic Design in the Opening Chorus of J. S. Bach’s MagnificatReginald L. Sanders7. The Tonally Open Ritornello in J. S. Bach’s Church CantatasKayoung Lee8. The Christian Believer and the Sleep of Jesus: “Mache dich, mein Herze, rein” from J. S. Bach’s Matthew PassionWye J. Allanbrook Part III: Bach’s Self-Modeling: Parody as Compositional Impetus9. Parody and Text Quality in the Vocal Works of J. S. BachHans-Joachim Schulze10. J. S. Bach’s Parodies of Vocal Music: Conservation or Intensification?Robin A. Leaver11. J. S. Bach’s Dresden Trip and His Earliest Serenatas for KöthenGregory Butler12. Bach’s Second Thoughts on the Christmas Oratorio: The Compositional Revisions to “Bereite dich, Zion,” BWV 248/4Steven Saunders13. The Passions as a Source of Inspiration? A Hypothesis on the Origin and Musical Aim of Well-Tempered Clavier IIYo TomitaPart IV: The Reception of Bach’s Vocal Works14. The Leipzig Audiences of J. S. Bach’s Matthew Passion to 1750Tanya Kevorkian15. The Vocal Music of the Bach Family in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete WorksJason B. Grant16. The Need for a New Music: J. S. Bach in Contemporary Context (1946)William H. Scheide17. Bach at the Boundaries of Music History: Preliminary Thoughts on the B-minor Mass and the Late Style ParadigmRobert L. MarshallAbout the Authors
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth
Book SynopsisWelsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock ''n'' roll historyrelegated to cult status among post-punk and indie rock fans. Their lasting appeal owes itself to the band's singular approach and response to punk rock. Instead of employing overt political ideology and abrasive sounds to rebel against the status quo, Young Marble Giants filled their songs with restraint, ambiguity, and silence. The trio opened up their music to new sounds and ideas that redefined punk's rules of rebellion.Where did their rebellious ideas and impulses come from? By tracing Colossal Youth's artistic origins from Ancient Greece to the 20th-century avant-garde, Michael Blair and Joe Bucciero uncover the intricacies of Young Marble Giants' idiosyncratic take on musiTrade ReviewFans of this album – and it is a great one – should find something to chew on here. * Buzz Magazine *Table of ContentsTrack Listing Acknowledgements 1. For You are Movement… 2. Eaten Out of House and Home 3. Everything Comes from Chaos 4. Showing the Way to Go 5. The World is Not You 6. Let’s Be a Tree 7. Don’t Label Me 8. Sit at Home and Watch the Tube 9. No Rain Outside 10. Blind as the Fate Decrees 11. The Editors Agree 12. They Were Good, They Were Young 13. ...and That is Nothing Bibliography Endnotes
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Pharcydes Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Book SynopsisAndrew Barker is a Senior Features Writer for Variety.Trade ReviewThe book traces the album’s fitful creation through its release, and shows how five guys who were never as good apart as they were together could shine so bright on a single album. * Vinyl Me, Please *Barker's journalistic study offers a vivid insight into how five hip-hop everymen came to make one of the genre's defining works. * Record Collector *Table of ContentsTrack Listing Interlude: 4 Better and 4 Worse Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Interlude: If I Were President Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Interlude: Quinton’s Here Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Interlude: The Pipe Chapter Fifteen Acknowledgements Works Cited
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Los Rodriguezs Sin Documentos
Book SynopsisSin Documentos is a landmark album in Spanish popular culture and continues to maintain considerable popularity more than two decades after its release. The characteristic guitar riff of the title song, a kind of rumba-rock, still occupies a place at every party in Spain. Los Rodríguez's success came after a decadecharacterized by the rise and fall of local-language punk and new wave bands. By the time Sin Documentos appeared, however, rock journalism was fascinated by the thriving indie scene, where the bands were singing in English and had turned to grunge and noise rock.This book evaluates the influence of Latin American pop-rock in the modernization of Spanish popular music from the 1950s, despite the Anglophilia of Spanish rock scenes, especially in the 1990s. Through interviews with members of the band and members of the record label DRO, analysis of the media coverage of the album anda cultural analysis of its meanings, it delves into the cultural trends of Spain tTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sin Documentos 2. Mi Rock Perdido 3. Pequño Salto Mortal Conclusions References Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Regurgitators Unit
Book SynopsisRegurgitator's second full-length album, Unit (1997), was produced in a DIY warehouse studio at a time when this was unusual for a major label band. The album went three times Platinum in Australia and won five esteemed ARIA Awards in 1998, including Album of the Year. The album's success is indicative of a particular point in time in popular music trends, when the world was recovering from the impact of grunge and post-grunge bands. Regurgitator's subversive attitude toward pop music, punk aesthetic, unique lyrical narratives and an ironic view on their own creative product made their music potent in an alternative market defying the prevailing music trends. Unit and Regurgitator were the focus of divisive critical reviews, yet they continue to rank highly as a quintessentially Australian band. This volume situates the development of Unit amongst the DIY culture of a politically charged Brisbane scene, and breaks down the album through the lens of recording and soTable of ContentsList of Permissions Acknowledgments About the Authors Unit Track Listing Preface Introduction 1. Alternative Nation 2. The Dirty Room 3.Phase One 4. Phase Two 5. Phase Three Conclusion Glossary References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bic Rungas Drive
Book SynopsisHenry Johnson is Professor of music at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His books include Many Voices: Music and National Identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2010); Global Glam (2016); Migration, Education and Translation (2020); and Nenes' Koza Dabasa (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is Associate Director of the Centre for Global Migrations.Trade ReviewA "must have" book for your library. * DustyShelves Book Reviews and BookBits *Table of ContentsList of Figures 1. Introduction 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Bic Runga: A Short Biography 1.3. Focus 1.4. Structure 1.5. Summary 2. Break 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Rockquest 2.3. Drive EP 2.4. Music Awards 2.5. Case Study: “Drive” 2.6. Summary 3. Drive and Beyond 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Musical Output 3.3. Style and Production 3.4. Case Study: “Bursting Through” 3.5. Summary 4. Identity 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Ethnicity 4.3. Gender 4.4. Case Study: “Sway” 4.5. Summary 5. Performance 5.1. Introduction 5.2. National Scene 5.3. International Scene 5.4. Case Studies: “Suddenly Strange” and “Roll Into One” 5.5. Summary 6. Conclusion References Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Drive: Track Listing and Personnel Appendix 2: Bic Runga: Discography (New Zealand Album Releases) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Prince and Popular Music
Book SynopsisPrince's position in popular culture has undergone only limited academic scrutiny. This book provides an academic examination of Prince, encompassing the many layers of his cultural and creative impact. It assesses Prince's life and legacy holistically, exploring his multiple identities and the ways in which they were manifested through his recorded catalogue and audiovisual personae. In 17 essays organized thematically, the anthology includes a diverse range of contributions - taking ethnographic, musicological, sociological, gender studies and cultural studies approaches to analysing Prince's career.Trade ReviewPrince and Popular Music interrogates how each changed the other, offering a spectrum of approaches to an iconographic and enigmatic presence who graced any number of vibrant culture scenes with 40 years of innovation and invention. The contributors to this book got the music, and they got the look. * Benjamin Halligan, Director of the Doctoral College, University of Wolverhampton, UK *In a detailed examination of one of the most important and eclectic popular artists of all time, Alleyne and Fairclough curate a wide range of perspectives which detail music, aesthetics, representation and politics. This impressively comprehensive study is essential to any study of Prince but is also an important contribution to musicology, celebrity studies, American studies, issues of identity, gender, race and more. The significance of Prince is reflected in the significance of this book. * Robert Edgar, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, York St John University, UK, and co-editor of Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019) *This collection from the first-ever Prince symposium offers a compelling look into a wealth of interdisciplinary research inspired by and devoted to a pop artist of rare depth and complexity. The diversity of scholarship herein is a fitting tribute to Prince’s opulent creativity and unbound persona. * Albin Zak, Professor of Music, University at Albany, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Mike Alleyne and Kirsty Fairclough Part One Sound and Vision 1. Baby, I’m a Star: Prince's Purple Rain Jason Wood, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 2. Under the Cherry Moon: Prince as His Most Authentic Self De Angela L. Duff, New York University, USA 3. Before the Rain, 1980-1984: How Prince Got 'The Look' Casci Ritchie, Independent Scholar, UK 4. Prettyman in the Mirror: Dandyism in Prince’s Minneapolis Karen Turman, Harvard University, USA 5. The Sound of Purple: Prince and the Development of Minneapolis Sound Maciej Smólka, Jagiellonian University, Poland Part Two Purple Performance and Presence 6. Glam Slammed: Visual Identity in Prince’s Lovesexy Mike Alleyne, Middle Tennessee State University, USA, and Kirsty Fairclough, University of Salford, UK 7. For You: The Neglected Guitar Style of Prince Michael Ugrich, University of South Dakota, USA 8. To Make Purple, You Need Blue: Prince as Embodiment of the Postmodern Blues Aesthetic Tom Attah, Leeds Arts University, UK 9. 'Tears Go Here': Commemorating the Minneapolis Prince and the International Prince Suzanne Wint, Independent Scholar, USA Part Three Gender 10. Re-Imagining Masculinity: Prince’s Impact on Millennial Attitudes Regarding Gender Expression Natalie Clifford, Independent Scholar, USA 11. 'We Can’t Hate You, Because We Love You': A Look at Prince, Queerness, Misogyny and Feminism Leah Stone McDaniel, Independent Scholar, USA, and Shannan Wilson, Virginia Union University, USA 12. "Flying Aboard the Seduction 747": Prince, Humour and Horizontal Erotics Annie Potts, University of Canterbury, New Zealand 13. When Were You Mine?: Prince’s Legacy in the Context of Transgender History Joy Ellison, Ohio State University, USA Part Four Politics and Race 14. Prince: Introduction of a New Breed Leader Kamilah Cummings, DePaul University, USA 15. 'Microchip in Your Neck': Prince’s 'War' Zack Stiegler, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA 16. Prince: Conscious and Strategic Representations of Race Twila L. Perry, Rutgers University School of Law, USA 17. It’s All About What’s in Your Mind: The Origins of Prince’s Political Consciousness Crystal N. Wise, University of Michigan, USA Index
£999.99
Pan Macmillan All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with
Book SynopsisThe last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction that reflects on the fortieth anniversary of Lennon's death.Originally published in Playboy in 1981 just after John Lennon's assassination, All We Are Saying is a rich, vivid, complete interview with Lennon and Yoko Ono, covering art, creativity, the music business, childhood beginnings, privacy, how the Beatles broke up, how Lennon and McCartney collaborated (or didn't) on songs, parenthood, money, feminism, religion, and insecurity. Of course, at the heart of the conversation is the deep romantic and spiritual bond between Lennon and Ono.Sheff's insightful questions set the tone for Lennon's responses and his presence sets the scene, as he goes through the kitchen door of Lennon and Yoko's apartment in the Dakota and observes moments at Lennon's famous white piano and the rock star's work at the stove, making them grilled cheese sandwiches. Sheff's new introduction looks at his forty-year-old interview afresh, and examines how what he learned from Lennon has resonated with him as a man and a parent. This is a knockout interview: unguarded, wide-ranging, alternately frisky and intense.Trade ReviewA fascinating, detailed glimpse into the workings of a musical genius . . . a valuable piece of work * The New York Times Book Review *This interview is lively proof that some of the best Lennon-Ono art was their life * Time *
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Darker with the Dawn: Nick Cave's Songs of Love
Book SynopsisFrom his early work with The Birthday Party to the future sounds of Ghosteen, Nick Cave has rewritten the language of rock ‘n’ roll.Darker with the Dawn uncovers the history and deeper meanings behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ most well-known songs from “Tupelo”, “The Mercy Seat”, “Red Right Hand”, “Stagger Lee”, “Into My Arms”, to “Higgs Boson Blues” and beyond. The book explores Nick Cave’s life in music drawing upon his inspirations of the Bible, Greek myth, and literature, as well as his enduring passion for gospel, blues, and progressive rock. Steiner reflects upon Cave's journey from his childhood in Australia, struggles with drug addiction, his young fascination with the nightmare landscapes of America's wild west and the southern gothic towards a reckoning with his own sense of Christian spirituality. In a career spanning four decades Cave's songwriting has moved from the saints and sinners of the traditional murder ballad to piano-based heartbreak songs, deconstructed garage rock and ambient fever dreams delivered through minimalist electronica. Adam Steiner dives into the world of a complex songwriter who, in his universal expressions of love and death, continues to speak to us of the light and shade of humanity.
£23.75
Serenissima Music Ode to Death, H.144: Study score
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University Press of Mississippi Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the
Book SynopsisCarter and Ralph Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generation of bluegrass musicians. In this first biography of the brothers, author David W. Johnson documents that Carter (1925-1966) and Ralph (b. 1927) were equally important contributors to the tradition of old-time country music. Together from 1946 to 1966, the Stanley Brothers began their careers performing in the schoolhouses of southwestern Virginia and expanded their popularity to the concert halls of Europe. In order to re-create this post-World War II journey through the changing landscape of American music, the author interviewed Ralph Stanley, the family of Carter Stanley, former members of the Clinch Mountain Boys, and dozens of musicians and friends who knew the Stanley Brothers as musicians and men. The late Mike Seeger allowed Johnson to use his invaluable 1966 interviews with the brothers. Notable old-time country and bluegrass musicians such as George Shuffler, Lester Woodie, Larry Sparks, and the late Wade Mainer shared their recollections of Carter and Ralph. Lonesome Melodies begins and ends in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. Carter and Ralph were born there and had an early publicity photograph taken at the Cumberland Gap. In December 1966, pallbearers walked up Smith Ridge to bring Carter to his final resting place. In the intervening years, the brothers performed thousands of in-person and radio shows, recorded hundreds of songs and tunes for half a dozen record labels, and tried to keep pace with changing times while remaining true to the spirit of old-time country music. As a result of their accomplishments, they have become a standard of musical authenticity.
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Cure FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the
Book SynopsisLed by the iconic frontman Robert Smith, the Cure remain one of the most beloved and influential bands in the history of alternative rock. Thanks in part to classic singles like "Just Like Heaven," "Boys Don't Cry," "Lovesong," "In Between Days," and many others, the Cure have sold millions of records worldwide and have performed in front of countless fans in every corner of the globe. Albums like Disintegration, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, and The Head on the Door are universally hailed as landmarks of the genre. For the first time, The Cure FAQ covers the band's forty-plus year career while offering fresh insight into each song in the Cure's vast canon. Each album is dissected and reviewed with candid commentary and extensive research. With their March 2019 entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame firmly establishing the Cure's place in the musical stratosphere, the timing for a career overview is perfect and The Cure FAQ delivers.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Hole's Live Through This
Book SynopsisCourtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, Live Through This, awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of young listeners. Live Through This arrived in 1994, at a tumultuous point in the history of American music. Three years earlier Nirvana's Nevermind had broken open the punk underground, and the first issue of a zine called Riot Grrrl had been published. Hole were of this context and yet outside of it: too famous for the strict punk ethics of riotgrrrl, too explicitly feminist to be the world's biggest rock band. Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives – so why is Courtney Love’s achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on?Trade ReviewWhile many may not admit to it immediately, it's probably a safe bet that your average rock fan from the ’90s keeps Hole's Live Through This in their collection. And why not? … The immensely successful 33 1/3 series from Bloomsbury examines the album track-by-track through the eyes of writer Anwen Crawford (The Monthly), giving both a historical frame of mind to the album, as well as deconstructing the themes behind seven tracks … If you haven't had a chance to experience this album, give it a listen, then give this book a read, and then give the album a second shot … it will definitely give you an appreciation for what Hole was trying to make and the impact they had on grunge. -- Gavin Sheehan * SLUG Magazine *Crawford's book in the 33 1/3 series about Hole's Live Through This is passionate, thoughtful, empathetic and well-argued, an explanation of what the album meant to smart suburban teenagers trying to figure out where they fit into the world. -- Tim Byron * The Vine *This book made me care about an artist I had long ago written off. Yes, Courtney Love has pretty much retired from making meaningful music, but for Anwen Crawford, an Australian journalist and critic, that only makes Hole’s 1994 album Live Through This all the more compelling. As she chronicles the decisions that produced the band’s grunge-era breakthrough—which was released just days after Kurt Cobain’s suicide—Crawford writes movingly about the effect these songs had on herself and on other women around the world … In that regard, the album’s anger and ferocious self-determination haven’t diminished in two decades. -- Stephen M. Deusner * Pitchfork *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Violet 2. Miss World 3. Asking for It 4. Credit in the Straight World 5. Softer, Softest 6. I Think That I Would Die 7. Rock Star Notes Bibliography
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PM Press The Last Of The Hippies: An Hysterical Romance
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Booklocker.com Your Secrets Are Safe with Me
Book SynopsisThe story of a brief music career, 'Your Secrets Are Safe With Me' is much more a narrative of the quest for meaning. At once funny and sad, poignant and absurd, it is not the exploration of one life. Rather, it marks the convergence of many lives linked by music--lives that became intertwined on a journey to discover what it means to be human. For most, the end of the journey came much too soon. It is left to the one who remains to speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves, to express gratitude for all they gave and love for all they were, to show that their lives mattered, to insist that they not be forgotten, and, finally, to recall the music that they made together.
£18.01
Rare Bird Books The Beatles 100: One Hundred Pivotal Moments in
Book SynopsisWas John Lennon meeting Paul McCartney more significant than John Lennon meeting Yoko Ono? Rubber Soul or Revolver? Which Wings album was Paul McCartney’s solo pinnacle?In 100 brief chapters, John M. Borack discusses and ranks the greatest moments in Beatles history. An avid Fab Four fan since childhood and a music journalist for more than thirty-five years, Borack has created a book to agree with and disagree with, and one that is sure to spark conversations. A love letter to the greatest rock band of all time, The Beatles 100 is a book for Beatles buffs and casual fans alike.
£17.09
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein: A Study of
Book SynopsisThe first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein. Theodor Adorno famously proclaimed that the model of Kurt Weill could not be repeated. Yet Weill's stage works set an inescapable precedent for composers on both sides of the Atlantic. Rebecca Schmid explores how Weill's formal innovations in particular laid the groundwork for operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein, although both composers resisted or downplayed his aesthetic contribution to American tradition. Comparative analysis based on Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence and other modes of intertextuality reveals that the principles of Weill's opera reform would catalyze an indigenous movement in sophisticated, socially engaged music theatre. Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein: A Study of Influence focuses on works that represent different phases of Weill's mission to renew the genre of opera, evolving from Die Dreigroschenoper to the musical play Lady in the Dark and the Broadway Opera Street Scene. Blitzstein and Bernstein in turn defied formal boundaries with The Cradle Will Rock, Regina, Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, and West Side Story - part of a short-lived movement in mid-twentieth century America that coincided with a renaissance for Weill's German-period works following the premiere of Blitzstein's translation, The Threepenny Opera, under Bernstein's baton. The unpublished A Pray by Blecht, for which Bernstein rejoined Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins, his collaborators on West Side Story, deepens the connection of Bernstein's aesthetic to Weill.Trade ReviewSchmid traces the tutelage of Blitzstein to Bernstein and back to Weill through performance anecdotes, personal letters, and documentation by previous researchers. Schmid's research is sound [and] the book is full of diverting production history and insights into the lives and minds of the three composers and their close circles. * The New England Theatre Geek *Deserves a warm welcome from anybody with an interest in the emergence of 'serious' Broadway shows after the Second World War. Weill's fundamental role in this is explored thoroughly, and the significance of his influence is brought into the light for the first time. This really is a fine read. A fascinating and original study. * Gramophone *Sheds considerable light on a fascinating subject and is well worth reading [since] Schmid writes so well. * SOUNDWORDSIGHT: AN ARTS MAGAZINE *Schmid's comprehensive archival research and revealing musical analysis offer new perspectives to support the many ways in which the "spectre of Weill" hovers gently over American opera. * KURT WEILL NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Why Influence? 2 "Have You Seen My New Opera?" 3 "Something Like Opera" 4 "Make Our Garden Grow 5 "This Isn't Worth drei Groschen" 6 A Pray by Blecht 7 "The Saga of Lenny" Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing
Book SynopsisThe first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life. In the 1950s, composers and librettists in the United States were busy seeking to create an opera repertory that would be deeply responsive to American culture and American concerns. They did not break free, however, of the age-old paradigm so typically expressed in European opera: that is, of women as either saintly and pure or sexually corrupt, with no middle ground. As a result, in American opera of the 1950s, women risked becoming once again opera's inevitable victims. Yet the sopranos who were tasked with portraying these paragons of virtue and their opposites did not always take them as their composers and librettists made them. Sometimes they rewrote, through their performances, the roles they had been assigned. Sometimes they used their lived experiences to invest greater authenticity in the roles. With chapters on The Tender Land, Susannah, The Ballad of Baby Doe, and Lizzie Borden, this book analyzes some of the most performed yet understudied works in the American-opera canon. It acknowledges Catherine Clément's famous description of opera as "the undoing of women," while at the same time illuminating how singers like Beverly Sills and Phyllis Curtin worked to resist such undoing, years before the official resurgence of the American feminist movement. In short, they ended up helping to dismantle powerful gendered stereotypes that had often reigned unquestioned in opera houses until then.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 American Opera at Midcentury Chapter 2 A Conniving Gold Digger: Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor Chapter 3 A "Really Vicious Monster": Lizzie Andrew Borden Chapter 4 A Chaste White Woman: Laurie Moss Chapter 5 A Dangerous Jezebel: Susannah Polk Epilogue "The World So Wide": Beyond the Virgin or the Whore in the Twenty-First Century Bibliography Index
£81.00
Double M Books Inc. Bronislaw Huberman: From Child Prodigy to Hero,
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Greystone Books,Canada Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography
Book Synopsis"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary—an authorized insight into the making of a legend." —Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart BerriesA powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist.Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie’s first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven years (and counting).Since her groundbreaking debut, 1964’s It’s My Way!, the Cree singer-songwriter has been a trailblazer and a tireless advocate for Indigenous rights and freedoms, an innovative artist, and a disruptor of the status quo. Establishing herself among the ranks of folk greats such as Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, she has released more than twenty albums, survived being blacklisted by two U.S. presidents, and received countless accolades, including the only Academy Award ever to be won by a First Nations artist. But this biography does more than celebrate Sainte-Marie’s unparalleled talent as a songwriter and entertainer; packed with insight and knowledge, it offers an unflinchingly honest, heartbreakingly real portrait of the woman herself, including the challenges she experienced on the periphery of showbiz, her healing from the trauma of childhood and intimate partner violence, her commitment to activism, and her leadership in the protest movement.Trade Review"Sainte-Marie’s voice shines through—funny, sharply incisive, never bitter... a heartfelt portrait."—Publishers Weekly"Merriment and perseverance together – the image Warner’s writing casts is one of an insightful leader, whose commitment to joy in learning has only grown over the years. This is at the heart of the biography – one which arguably is decades overdue."—Globe and Mail"At the core of Warner's portrait of Sainte-Marie lies a courageous, creative, funny woman who was decades ahead of her time."—Exclaim!"Warner['s]... biography of this soaring icon powerfully reveals Sainte-Marie’s cultural advocacy while shining a much-needed light on her essential humanity, life experiences, and prodigious musical talent."—Booklist"This well-rounded and thorough authorized biography is perfectly timed – not just welcome but vita...Warner understands how intrinsically art and activism coexist for Sainte-Marie. There wouldn’t be one without the other. "—Quill & Quire"I admired Buffy’s forthrightness, and her boldness and courage. "—The-BookReview.com"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary—an authorized insight into the making of a legend."—Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries"A crucial and compelling book that further cements Buffy Sainte-Marie's place in music history."—Jessica Hopper, author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic"Buffy Sainte-Marie is a beacon: she shows us how unwavering vision and fierce independence go hand-in-hand with the work of creating solidarity, community, justice, and beauty. This book is the captivating story of that achievement."—Naomi Klein, author of No is Not Enough and This Changes Everything“Buffy Sainte-Marie’s career is enormously more impressive and significant than has been acknowledged or understood. This book draws decades of incredible, world-changing accomplishments together to make an irrefutable case for her place among the rock ‘n’ roll and songwriting greats. ”—Tanya Tagaq, Inuk songwriter and throat singer; winner of the 2014 Polaris Prize for Animism as well as multiple Juno Awards."A wonderful read! Buffy Sainte-Marie's creative soul has led her, as surely as a compass, in her art, political engagement, and a life of moral purpose."—Dar Williams, author of What I Found in A Thousand Towns“Long overdue, Andrea Warner’s expansive, authorized biography reveals the astonishing range and breadth of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s work as a musician and writer, activist, educator, and spiritual leader. She is a true star, and this book goes a long way toward showing us how and why.”—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker: A Biography“This book serves as proof that one person can make a world of difference. Buffy Sainte-Marie is a wonder—and the writing here reflects her truth, gentle forcefulness, intellect, and thoughtfulness.”—Tracey Lindberg, author of Birdie"Warner has composed an extraordinary portrait of one of our most extraordinary artists, a book that feels suffused with Buffy Sainte-Marie's personality and spirit."—Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors"In this heartfelt and revealing book, Buffy Sainte-Marie helps us to realize that out of loss and denial can come enormous gifts and beauty."—Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada (1999-2005)
£999.99
Omnibus Press Rihanna: Rebel Flower
Book SynopsisHere is an in-depth look at the life of one of pop music's hottest international stars. This book reveals the details of Rihanna's unhappy childhood, her wild child past that earned her the nickname of Rebel Flower, and how she found it therapeutic after her parents' troubled marriage to join the army. A fascinating story of her transformation from schoolgirl Robyn Fenty to one of the most successful R&B artists in the world. Explores her turbulent relationship with singer Chris Brown which resulted in a photograph of her battered face making headlines around the globe. Features exclusive interviews with Rihanna's old schoolfriends, producers, songwriters, video directors, journalists and many more who witnessed her transformation over the years. A must-read for fans new and old. "
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Omnibus Press Looking Through You: The Beatles Book Monthly
Book SynopsisIn 1963, it was unusual for a pop group to have a monthly magazine devoted exclusively to their career. Only Elvis Presley had been considered important enough to warrant such an honour. But then the Beatles were unusual. Within the space of that pivotal year, the Fab Four became the biggest thing in British popular culture and their worldwide fame was soon inescapable. One of the first to astutely recognise their greatness was Sean O'Mahony and the monthly magazine he launched with the full blessing of The Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein - The Beatles Book.Looking Through You presents a selection of over 300 images from the precious Beatles Book photo archive, many unpublished or unseen in their original form from the original negatives, as well as the story behind the success of the regular Beatle bulletin.With each new issue, Beatle fans worldwide would voraciously devour the contents from cover-to-cover, discovering the Fab Four's latest news and activities and most of all, savouring the exclusive B&W photographs, captured by in-house photographer, Leslie Bryce. During the magazine's six-year run only a small fraction of these photographs were printed - and then often altered in some way. The Beatles Book Monthly captured the Beatles' development from British provincial theatres - through foreign tours including their ground-breaking first American visit - and onwards to the band's withdrawal into the recording studio. It was unique in its access - as well as concert tours and television shows, the band were photographed off duty, at their homes and in the studio - locales that were generally out-of-bounds to most Beatle observers. This unique and original photographic record preserves many important moments within the Beatles' career, providing a historically important glimpse into the world's greatest ever entertainment phenomenon.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Orchestral Masterpieces under the Microscope
Book SynopsisA must-have for any conductor, conducting student and orchestral librarian. How does a conductor know whether the score they use is what the composer wrote? How do orchestral players know that their parts are reliable and reflect the latest scholarship? As Jonathan Del Mar reminds us in this ground-breaking book, editions of the orchestral repertoire are beset by textual problems: simple misprints, mistakes in the score or player's part, or hopelessly outdated scores at odds with current scholarship. Driven by a fundamental respect for what the composer actually wrote, Jonathan Del Mar addresses these problems through textual reports on over 100 orchestral masterpieces of classical music. Each report is introduced with essential guidance and succinct commentary on the first performance and publication of the work. Critical editions are compared with commonly used editions, and in those cases where no Urtext Edition exists, this much-needed reference work functions as a replacement for an Urtext Edition. Orchestral Masterpieces under the Microscope will be an indispensable reference tool for all who care about performances honouring the correct text that composers have left us. It serves as an essential survival guide for conductors and musicians to make informed choices, and it offers much-needed clarity on the latest scholarship for musicologists and music librarians alike.Trade ReviewAt last our orchestral prayers will be answered! -- Sir Mark ElderJonathan Del Mar is the outstanding music editor of our time. His book will be invaluable to all conductors as well as of great interest to other musicians and scholars. -- David MatthewsDecision making is at the heart of conducting,and in almost every major piece we work on there are a wealth of problems and conundrums to solve. Short of telephoning the composer ourselves,an option rarely available,we all need assistance. What did the composer REALLY write, and what exactly does it mean? Jonathan Del Mar has characteristically cut to the chase by compiling this treasure trove of answers to so many of those thorny questions. This book is beyond valuable: it will doubtless be on every conductor's bookshelf and countless scholars as well. Bravo!! -- Sir Simon RattleHis book is an indispensable reference for all musicians. -- Mary Nemet * AUSTA *This book is probably unique in its detail and coverage of the most important composers in Western classical music and will help veteran and student musicians alike. * MUSIC OPINION QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsPreface Editorial Conventions Bartok Piano Concerto No.1 Violin Concerto No.2 Dance Suite Beethoven Symphonies: some supplementary remarks Overture Leonore No.2 Overture Leonore No.3 Overture King Stephen Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Harold in Italy Overtures Bloch Schelomo: Hebraic rhapsody for cello and orchestra Brahms Four Symphonies Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor Violin Concerto in D Hungarian Dances: a brief guide Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor Busoni Piano Concerto Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Dvořák Scherzo capriccioso Symphonic Variations Romance for violin and orchestra Serenade for strings Elgar Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma') Concert-Overture: Froissart Concert-Overture: Cockaigne Concert-Overture: In the South (Alassio) Sea Pictures Serenade for Strings in E minor Fauré, orch. Aubert Fantaisie for Flute Franck Symphony in D minor Haydn Symphonies with High Horns Symphony No.100 in G ('Military') Symphony No.104 in D ('London') Liszt Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat Piano Concerto No.2 in A Mahler Symphony No.2 in C minor Martinů Rhapsody-Concerto for viola and orchestra Mendelssohn Symphony No.3 in A minor ('Scottish') Symphony No.4 in A ('Italian') Violin Concerto in E minor Overture The Hebrides Mozart Piano Concertos Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition Nielsen Sinfonia espansiva (Symphony No.3) Prokofiev Classical Symphony (Symphony No.1) Peter and the Wolf Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 in E minor Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor Ravel Piano Concerto La Valse Le Tombeau de Couperin Pavane pour une infante défunte Respighi Fontane di Roma Rimsky-Korsakov Symphonic Suite: Scheherazade Capriccio Espagnol Rossini Overture William Tell Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3 in C minor Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor Schubert Overture Die Zauberharfe ('Rosamunde') Schumann Symphony No.4 in D minor Overture, Scherzo and Finale Cello Concerto in A minor Overture Genoveva Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1 in E flat Sibelius Symphony No.2 in D Symphony No.3 in C Symphony No.4 in A minor Symphony No.5 in E flat Symphony No.6 in D minor Symphony No.7 in C Violin Concerto in D minor Tapiola Smetana Má Vlast: 2. Vltava Má Vlast: 3. Šárka Strauss Ein Heldenleben Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Oboe Concerto Metamorphosen: Study for 23 Solo Strings Tchaikovsky Symphony No.2 in C minor Symphony No.3 in D Symphony No.4 in F minor Symphony No.5 in E minor Symphony No.6 in B minor, 'Pathétique' Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor Violin Concerto in D Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Tippett Symphony No.2 in C Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3) Tuba Concerto Wagner Prelude Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Walton Cello Concerto Weber Overture Der Beherrscher der Geister Overture Der Freischütz Overture Oberon Bibliography
£55.25
Quercus Publishing Dead Gods: The 27 Club
Book SynopsisRobert Johnson. Brian Jones. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain. Amy Winehouse. They were inspirational, controversial, talismanic and innovative. They lead lives full of myth, scandal, sex, drugs and some of the most glorious music that has ever heard. Though each of their lives were cut tragically short at the age of 27, they would all leave the world having changed it irrevocably. Chris Salewicz tells, in intimate detail, the stories behind these compelling figures. From Robert Johnson and his legendary deal with the devil, to Jimi Hendrix appearing like a psychedelic comet on the London scene, through to Amy Winehouse's blazing talent and her savage appetite for self-destruction.Trade ReviewOne of the most rivetingly detailed, revealing music biographies ever written - The Sunday TimesA great read. Brutally frank and full of insights - MojoA riveting read that will keep you gripped to the end - Daily Mirror
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