Music

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Updated November 2, 2024
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Read 'em and weep : the songs you forgot to remember
Spaeth, Sigmund
Paper Book
Women and the piano a history in 50 lives
Tomes, Susan
Ebook
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano--but how many women pianists can you name?   Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the modern...
NoMeansNo from obscurity to oblivion : an oral history
Lamb, Jason
Ebook
They were unlike any other band in the punk scene they called home. NoMeansNo started in the basement of the family home of brothers Rob and John Wright in 1979. For the next three decades, they would add and then replace a guitar player, sign a record deal with Alternative Tentacles and tour the...
Music, authorship, narration, and art cinema in Europe 1940s to 1980s
Baumgartner, Michael
Ebook
Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European cinema after the Second World War up to the fall of the Berlin wall, a period when composers and directors embraced experimentation. Through analyses of music and sound...
All the years combine the Grateful Dead in fifty shows
Robertson, Ray
Ebook
A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life. Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia's heart did, what the band left behind is the next...
BORN IN THE U.S.A bruce springsteen in american life, 3rd edition, revised and expanded
CULLEN, JIM.
Ebook
Pioneering the field of Springsteen scholarship when it first appeared in 1997, Born in the U.S.A. remains one of the definitive studies of Springsteen's work and its impact on American culture. Moving beyond journalistic and biographical approaches, Jim Cullen situates the...
Harmony at the piano using keyboard harmony to learn advanced piano music
Johansen, Ken
Ebook
Harmony at the Piano adapts the traditional study of keyboard harmony to the practical needs of modern piano students, using innovative exercises to help students practice their repertoire more deliberately, consciously, and creatively. The author introduces the essential elements...
The horn
Meucci, Renato
Ebook
A rich and fascinating account of one of music history's most ancient, varied, and distinctive instruments   From its origins in animal horn instruments in classical antiquity to the emergence of the modern horn in the seventeenth century, the horn appears...
Murder Ballads Old & New a Dark & Bloody Record
Jones, Steven L.
Ebook
Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and multiple styles, including punk, post-punk, alt...
Improvising across abilities Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument
Ciufo, Thomas
Ebook
Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) brings together scholars, musicians, and family members of people with disabilities to collectively recount years of personal experiences, research, and perspectives on the societal and community...
The devil prefers Mozart on music and musicians 1962-1993
Burgess, Anthony
Ebook
The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgess's writings about music. In this extensive compilation of essays and reviews, he covers a vast range of musical topics, from the hurdy-gurdy to Beatlemania and the Sex Pistols, with Burgess's love of English music...
Let me take you down Penny Lane and Strawberry fields forever
Cott, Jonathan
Ebook
The conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles' "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" John Lennon wrote "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Almería, Spain, in fall 1966, and in November, in response to that song, Paul McCartney wrote "Penny Lane" at his home...

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