Composers and songwriters Books

Focusing on Messiaen's relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux. Messiaen Perspectives 1:...

How does one go about writing the history of musical composition in the late twentieth century when, on the one hand, so much of it seems impossibly fractured and disassociated, and, on the other, there has been so little certainty about what the notion...

Kaija Saariaho is internationally recognized as a leading figure in contemporary music, enjoying a well-deserved reputation for works that are both creatively original and of considerable appeal. Her music communicates with a refreshingly broad audience,...

As Robert Schumann put it, 'Only few works are as clearly stamped with their author's imprint as his'. This book explores Schubert's stylistic traits in a series of chapters each discussing an individual 'fingerprint' with case studies drawn principally...

Some of the most beautiful music for the lute in the Renaissance was included in Thomas Robinson's book published in 1603 - Schoole of Musicke. Here are solo and duet compositions from this work transcribed and arranged for the Guitar. These are...

Who would have thought you could play classical music on a ukulele? But you can!Here are compositions from the Romantic Era by Henrik Rung. These pieces have been transcribed for low G ukulele and begin fairly easy but become more complex as you...

A guide to the albums of rock legends Jethro Tull, by writer and musician Chris Wade. Also includes interviews with Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick.

«... Le séjour au château d’Antonin, dans l’été de 1826, fut pour Chopin la révélation des joies que peuvent donner, lorsqu’elles sont réunies entre des mains expertes,...

« Le lendemain de la bataille de Bautzen, le samedi 22 mai de 1813, naquit le petit Richard Wagner dans la ville de Leipzig. C’était un incident infime. Il ne préoccupait même pas beaucoup les habitants du second...

The hoopla surrounding the purported fiftieth anniversary of rock & roll didn't quite ring true. Bill Haley might have lobbied for 2001 ... fifty years after he'd covered Rocket '88'; or 2002 ... fifty years after he'd recorded Rock The Joint; or 2003 .....

Eddy Raats estas multflanka aŭtoro, liaj antaŭaj verkoj pruvas tion. Liaj libroj tuŝas diversajn temojn - biografio, sagaoj, alpistsporto kaj rakontetoj. La nova libro de Eddy pruvas lian grandegan amon por muziko.Pri la unua parto de la nova verko mi...

From humble beginnings as a student of music in the Bronx to the founding of one of New York City's iconic performing arts organizations, Eve Queler ventured into the male-dominated world of orchestral conducting in the 1960s when there were few, if any,...

Gertrude Lawrence's life in her own words. The autobiography of an English actress and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End and on Broadway.

Folk Music is partially responsible for this new release of Drawdey 99. This personal memoir is a true life story, mostly. Read the lyrics before ya hear the songs. Drawdey 99 is a complete list of songs in chronological order. With exception of a...

In this narrative history and memoir, journalist, musician, and Monctonian Jason Murray follows the rise of the band that put the Maritimes on the map.Eric's Trip was a band defined as much by its DIY ethos as its low-fi, discordant music. The...

A brooch. A violin. A genealogical mystery. An unfinished portrait.Lady with a Brooch begins with a simple question: who was the arresting, enigmatic woman portrayed in Edvard Munch's famous...

All your favorites from Eric Satie and a few never before arranged for fretted instruments. This is a magnificent collection of music from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries transcribed for the baritone ukulele. Have fun!

CLARA & JOHANNES follows the relationship between composer/musicians Johannes Brahms and Clara Wieck Schumann over a time period of 35 years. The play is based on the letters of Clara and Johannes.

100% musician-made, and containing almost 300 pages of delicious recipes and heartfelt stories, Musicians Cook! is the first-ever cookbook of its kind: some of our country's finest professional musicians banding together, sharing their culinary talents,...

ANDY KAHN, producer/composer of the #1 dance hit, “Hot Shot”  is a jazz pianist, record producer and arranger, educator, vocalist, composer, businessman, music historian and archivist. He divides his time between residences in...

There are two sides to the BTS story. The all too familiar rags to riches odyssey in which seven young South Korean boys (RM, Suga,V, J-Hope, Jin, Jimin, Jungkook) emerge from obscurity to become true superstars in the pop music universe. Of equal...

Based on one-on-one interviews with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, their families, friends, business associates, and fans, Freebird: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story is the first narrative biography to fully examine the roots, evolution, and success of the most...

Considered to be one of the most revolutionary composers of the twentieth century, Iannis Xenakis pushed the boundaries of classical music. As a largely self-taught composer, Xenakis drew from his technical training in engineering and architecture to...

ИГОРЬ КОХАНОВСКИЙ "БУНТАРЬ-ОДИНОЧКА". Эта книга - воспоминание о Владимире Высоцком. Образ великого человека здесь отличается от привычного. Автор книги его самый наипервейший, распронаединственный друг - так в одном из писем обращался Высоцкий к поэту...

Das Buch ""Die Davidsbundler: Aus Robert Schumann's Sturm Und Drangperiode (1883)"" von F. Gustav Jansen besch�����ftigt sich mit der musikalischen Bewegung der Davidsb�����ndler, die von dem Komponisten Robert Schumann im 19. Jahrhundert gegr�����ndet...

Singers and music lovers, read this book! It encompasses every aspect of the magnificent career of the great tenor from Ireland, John McCormack. Here you will read his heretofore unpublished memoirs, a chapter on his early career, and learn how to access...

A man who made getting out, not only possible but certain.  When mob boss Gino Suraci is gunned down after a confrontation with a rival boss doing good in the world is the last thing on his mind. After all, he's dead.But in the most...

Sit back, relax, and enjoy this pictorial journey back to the magical-and turbulent-1960s. It was a time when culture, society and politics were changing at a rapid pace. And it was the music of Motown that brought people together in a way never before...

A pictorial history of the first eighteen years of Opera Siam, the maverick Thai opera company, lavishly illustrated.From its beginnings as a company producing works "akin to community theater" to creations, in the words of London's Opera...

Northern Lyrebird is the definitive and long-overdue history of one ofAustralia's finest music schools, painstakingly compiled from extensivewritten and oral memoirs, state archives, regional libraries, andpromotional and media artefacts from concert...

This is a wonderful rhyming book about the different things that Ninnie's Day Care children enjoy doing. All the way from A-Z, come along and have a great learning experience with your child.

Singing is the key to opening the mysteries of the Psalm writers' historic faith.Mysterious truths are from everlasting to everlasting.  This means that singing the Psalms are full of power for living today's life.  For navigating its...

Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story recounts the life of bluesman Sam Myers (1936-2006), as told in his own words to author Jeff Horton. Myers grew up visually handicapped in the Jim Crow South and left home to attend the state school for the blind at Piney...

2020 Blues Hall of Fame Classic of Blues LiteratureJimi Hendrix called Earl Hooker "the master of the wah-wah pedal." Buddy Guy slept with one of Hooker's slides beneath his pillow hoping to tap some of the elder bluesman's power. And B...

August 1961 was a month to remember for Jim Pike. That was the month his song "The Way You Look Tonight" hit the charts at number thirteen in the nation. From that moment on, Jim Pike and The Lettermen would be known around the world. Jim had everything...

A first biography of one of Britain's leading lyric songwriters. The Man Who Wrote The Teddy Bears' Picnic tells the story of Irish-born Jimmy Kennedy, one of the last - and arguably the finest - of the professional Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the...

Have you ever wondered if you're on the right path? For decades, veteran music and entertainment executive Lanny West thought he was living the rock 'n' roll life of his dreams ... until one day, when he woke up to the nightmare it had become. In Father,...

Imagine a world that can scarcely be imagined – the Old Detroit, at its lowest decline, spanning Early 80's – May 2002.Imagine the life of a strange teen; a young male of Punk Rock logic & Heavy Metal obsession – reading comic...

This book studies Crumb's Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumb's output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions and...