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Kaija Saariaho
This book is the first comprehensive study of the music and career of contemporary composer Kaija Saariaho. Born in Finland in 1952, Saariaho received her early musical training at the Sibelius Academy, where her close circle included composer and conductor ...more |
Pirkko Moisala |
10 Dec 2012 |
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George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait
A dynamic, fast-paced biography of George Gershwin that has the verve and staccato drive of a book the composer himself might have written. Rimler gives us a fuller, more complex, more humorous, and more vulnerable picture of Gershwin than has yet appeared ...more |
Walter Rimler |
10 Dec 2012 |
$26.96 |
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George Szell: A Life of Music
This book is the first full biography of George Szell, one of the greatest orchestra and opera conductors of the twentieth century. From child prodigy pianist and composer to world-renowned conductor, Szell's career spanned seven decades, and he led most ...more |
Michael Charry |
9 Dec 2012 |
$31.50 |
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Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J. D. Crowe
In this first biography of legendary banjoist J. D. Crowe, Marty Godbey charts the life and career of one of bluegrass's most important innovators. Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Crowe picked up the banjo when he was thirteen years old, inspired ...more |
Marty Godbey |
9 Dec 2012 |
$17.96 |
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Carla Bley
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist. Amy C. Beal gives fastidious attention to Bley's diverse compositions ...more |
Amy C. Beal |
8 Dec 2012 |
$19.80 |
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Christian Wolff
In this first interpretive narrative of the life and work of Christian Wolff, Michael Hicks and Christian Asplund trace the influences and sensibilities of a contemporary composer's atypical career path and restless imagination. Written in full cooperation ...more |
Michael Hicks &
Christian Asplund |
8 Dec 2012 |
$22.50 |
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Robert Ashley
_x000B_This book explores the life and works of the pioneering opera composer Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and ...more |
Kyle Gann |
8 Dec 2012 |
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Marga Richter
This is the first full-length introduction to the life and works of significant American composer Marga Richter (born 1926), who has written more than one hundred works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, dance, opera, voice, chorus, piano, organ, and harpsichord. ...more |
Sharon Mirchandani |
8 Dec 2012 |
$19.80 |
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Beatles for Sale: How Everything They Touched Turned to Gold
(Book). Beatles for Sale is a brand new way of looking at a story you may think you know inside out. Author John Blaney shows for the first time how the group and their inner circle invented so much of what we now recognize as the modern business of making ...more |
John Blaney |
2 Dec 2012 |
$19.95 |
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Memories of Dr Shinichi Suzuki: Son of His Environment
Suzuki may be a name renowned for automobiles, but this book introduces us to a very different Suzuki - the Suzuki who was a world leader in the teaching of music. Dr Shinichi Suzuki, creator of "The Suzuki Method", is well remembered for his extraordinary ...more |
Lois Shepheard |
1 Dec 2012 |
$15.00 |
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Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline
This definitive biography, based on exclusive and extensive interviews with Patsy Cline's mother, husband, and the country stars who knew and loved her, is now updated to feature a host of never-before-published photographs and letters and an afterword |
Ellis Nassour |
29 Nov 2012 |
$13.95 |
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Elmer Iseler: Choral Visionary
In a career that spanned five decades, Elmer Iseler, who became the country's most decorated musician, was pivotal to the development of choral music in Canada. ...more |
Walter Pitman |
28 Nov 2012 |
$40.00 |
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Dameronia: The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron
Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band. He arranged for names like Count Basie, ...more |
Paul Combs |
28 Nov 2012 |
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Strings Attached: The Life and Music of John Williams
Strings Attached is the much anticipated authorised biography of John Williams, one of the most accomplished and celebrated musicians of his generation. From his childhood in Australia to his stellar career in London and around the world, John Williams ...more |
William Starling |
21 Nov 2012 |
$32.08 |
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Passion vs. Duty
The prodigiously gifted Felix Mendelssohn astounded audiences everywhere with his prowess as pianist and conductor, and he caused them to marvel at his phenomenal memory and the power and sensitivity of his public performances. But already in his early ...more |
Helen Martens |
31 Oct 2012 |
$9.99 |
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Far from Over: The Music and Life of Drake, The Unofficial Story
Spotlighting one of today's most talked about and successful musicians, this unauthorized biography showcases the Grammy-nominated talent of hip-hop artist Aubrey Graham, aka Drake. The account reveals the entertainer as a triple threat: a rapper, a singer, |
Dalton Higgins |
26 Oct 2012 |
$12.95 |
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The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro: Infatuation
This is the first comprehensive study of the music and life of Theodore 'Fats' Navarro. It provides biographical, discographical, and analytical information on the trumpeter and his recorded legacy, offering new perspectives on Navarro's role in the history ...more |
Leif Bo Petersen &
Theo Rehak |
11 Oct 2012 |
$57.99 |
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The Impossible Dream: The Story of Scott Walker and the Walker Brothers
(Book). Not actually brothers, John (Maus), Gary (Leeds) and Scott (Engel) succeeded against the odds, becoming one of world's biggest bands of 1966/67. With that came hit records including two British chart-toppers, "Make It Easy on Yourself" and "The ...more |
Anthony Reynolds |
11 Oct 2012 |
$19.95 |
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Rockin' in the Desert
In the early days of recording in Arizona. Phoenix was isolated from National record distribution. Local musicians that wanted to record, had to drive out to the West Coast. In the mid-1950's this all changed when Floyd Ramsey set up Audio-Recorders of ...more |
Bob Morritt |
7 Oct 2012 |
$499.00 |
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Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult
Luigi Russolo (1885-1947)-painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement-was a crucial figure in the evolution of twentieth-century aesthetics. As creator of the first systematic poetics of noise ...more |
Luciano Chessa |
7 Oct 2012 |
$34.95 |
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