Composers and songwriters Books

""Five Great Painters Of The Victorian Era: Leighton, Millais, Burne-Jones, Watts, Holman Hunt"" is a book written by Bayliss and Wyke in 1902. The book is a comprehensive exploration of the lives and works of five of the most prominent painters of the...

Sir Arthur Sullivan: Life Story, Letters, and Reminiscences is a biographical work that explores the life and career of the renowned British composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. Written by Arthur Lawrence and first published in 1899, the book provides a...

If the MC5 were Detroit’s political spokesmen for the disenchanted youth of the 1960s, then the Stooges were the loutish kids, heckling from the back of the room. While conventional wisdom says they could barely play their instruments, the Stooges...

Charles Hallé was one of the leading musicians of the nineteenth century and intimate with almost all of the great composers and performers of his time, as well as a friend of the Royal Family and known as much as a pianist and chamber musician as a...

Foreign correspondent Ivor Davis was embedded with the Beatles on their triumphant l964 North American tour-as the only daily newspaper reporter to travel with them from start to finish. Rock and Roll history was writ large. Criss-crossing North...

Born with a beat in his soul and a drumstick in hand, Warren I. Smith's destiny with music was inevitable. His musical chops took him from the smoky jazz clubs of Chicago, through the intoxicating energy of New York's music scene, to global tours,...

American composer John Zorn is arguably one of the most important composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Zorn's concert works for keyboard from 1982 to 2019.John Zorn is a prolific...

Author Zolisha L. Ware does a great job of using songs to implying the importance of activating our hearing spiritual that we can hear the voice of the Lord. "Ears to Proclaim God's Splendor" allows readers to hear from on high while asking a...

Wind in the Aspens is a different Gina Browning. This collection of her poetry allows us to perceive a woman growing into an understanding of the sparseness of life. Without blinking, she lets us observe secrets usually kept concealed beneath the folds...

Bryan Adams is a one man rock'n'roll success story: he went from washing dishes for $2.50 per hour to becoming a multi-millionaire by making music that people liked. Adams' 'Reckless' album sold over 10 million units globally whilst his ballad...

The touring band life of a full-time student is full of dichotomies. From 2011-2017, Alex Dontre performed 505 concerts with his band Psychostick while simultaneously pursuing a college education. It culminated with a master's degree in Business...

Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records is less a standard history and more an idiosyncratic memoir written by one of the three Rounder founders.Rounder Records was born in 1970, a "hobby that got out of control," a fledgling record company...

Formed in the heyday of punk, Madness were true originals who mixed ska and reggae rhythms with social comment and music hall humour to become a British group like no other.Their appeal endures to this day, Madness' latter-day concerts having become...

Illustrated throughout with rare photographs and memorabilia, The Anarchy Tour tells the story of why the 'Anarchy in the UK Tour' was so important, examining along the way punk rock's impact on the nation in the Seventies. In December...

The extraordinary story of a counterculture legend  Even in the 1960s, there was nothing on earth like Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. After conventional rock beginnings The Captain - aka Don Van Vliet - formed his legendary band in 1964 and...

Formed in Boston in 2001, Arcade Fire quickly relocated to Montreal and started performing in art galleries and lofts while hoping for a record deal.The early line-up quickly changed following rifts, first between co-founder Win Butler and...

Scott Verbout turned to the music of his favorite singers to get through an especially difficult time while coping with depression and autism in 2020.In this book, he reflects on his love of the music that has provided such a comfort to him over the...

This book is a personal journey behind the scenes into the world of music-makers who created the film scores, television music, sound recordings, commercials and concert evenings over the last sixty years.It's about a long singing career that began in...

This Shit Crazy is a look into society from the intellectual viewpoint of a divine spirit that is incarcerated physically but not mentally, inside an imprisoned society of the mind.This here is a memoir of humor, truth, and personal events that gives...

160 pages, 84 color and 101 black & white illustrations, size 8.5 x 11 inches (216 x 279 mm).The 1960’s were a time of change and uncertainty. In 1961 the Berlin wall was built, in 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted, in 1963 JFK was...

Does God still work miracles? Does He still give courage to those facing doubt? Strength to overcome overwhelming obstacles? How often has the Lord extended mercy unto you and it was simply overlooked?The Chosen Boy in a House of Darkness is proof that...

Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps most famous for producing Michael...

I am Sweet Water Shadow Woman, and the author of this book. If you are silently suffering emotional pain from past events or avoiding the full self-expression of your innate gifts, my story is for you. It will reveal how the roots of pain take hold, how...

"A true story of Love & Hip Hop." - Keandra Clay"Such a thought-provoking story." - Jerrod Williams"... displays a vivid image into the mind of a child, growing up without a father figure. With no proper guidance throughout his life, he resorted to...

Este libro es una recopilación de las obras de Johannes Brahms, destacado compositor y pianista alemán del siglo XIX. El libro incluye un completo registro temático y sistemático de todas sus obras publicadas, además de descripciones detalladas de cada...

Dieses Buch ist ein Klassiker der Musikliteratur und ein Muss für jeden Musikliebhaber. Der Autor Eduard Hanslick analysiert die moderne Oper und betrachtet sie in Bezug auf ihr Verhältnis zum klassischen Musikstil. In diesem Werk wird die moderne Oper...

Une biographie du compositeur et musicien canadien Guillaume Couture. Le livre offre un aperçu de la vie et de l'œuvre de Couture, considéré comme l'un des pionniers de la musique classique au Canada.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851) è stato un compositore italiano noto soprattutto per le sue opere liriche, tra cui il famoso 'Fernand Cortez'. Questa biografia accurata e coinvolgente offre uno sguardo approfondito sulla vita e l'opera di uno dei più grandi...

An engaging literal account of how three prodigious talents ply and impact a nation of millions with their reactionary music.Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music in the...

The first analytical study of the pioneering English  musician. The historian, Paul Sutton begins by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to “a delta of Mississippi mud...

The Great Tompall: Forgotten Country Music Outlaw provides an in-depth look at the life of one of country music's least recognized - but most iconic and influential performers and business owners. Given unprecedented access to Tompall, this book tells...

A revised edition of this bestseller. From the days when the staff wore white coats, through the rock 'n' roll years to today's big stars, Abbey Road's fascinating history is brought to life for everyone who's ever wondered what goes on behind the...

Legendary names. Names that helped create and shape this music we call jazz. I’m deeply blessed because each of these musical legends and others have sat with me on my local New York CableTV show in a one -on- one conversation. My show airs every...

This is an essay on Wagner's musical and literary works. Dallas unfolds Wagner's enlightening and exceptionally intelligent contribution to our understanding of the human condition and the psyche of modern man in his quest for freedom, historical renewal...

With over 80,000 followers on Spotify, composer Tito Abeleda has found another way for fans to enjoy his music with his piano book Passionate Piano Moments. Passionate Piano Moments is a 155 page collection of emotional, dramatic piano music for...

In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Götterdämmerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapiro advances an ambitious new interpretation which uncovers intriguing new facets to the work's...

Fans of BTS known as A.R.M.Y. share their love and support for the Bulletproof Boy Scouts and their community by providing a travel guide to BTS's iconic locations in South Korea.Korea is not easily accessible for foreigners as learned first-hand. ARMY...

Esther Joyce Wasserman was the precocious, eldest daughter of Ukrainian and Belarussian immigrants who settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the turn of the last century. She began studying violin at a young age and debuted nationwide before she was even ten...

"Marjorie White" details the life story of an actress of the '20s and '30s, a top starlet of her day, but virtually forgotten today. She was among the most talented of young comediennes of her era, and had she not died tragically at such a young age, on...

This chronological Index covers every issue of the English Harpsichord Magazine andHarpsichord & fortepiano, vols. i-xxviii, and includes all of the content apart from reports,reviews and advertisements. For a Subject Index (including Interviews and...