Composers and songwriters Books

This book recounts the fascinating life of famed opera singer, Maria Malibran. Born into a family of musicians, Malibran became a highly successful performer, captivating audiences in Europe and the Americas. Her tumultuous personal life, marked by...

Dieses Werk enthält eine vollständige Sammlung von Briefen und Aufzeichnungen des berühmten Komponisten Ludwig van Beethoven. Es bietet einen einzigartigen Einblick in seine persönlichen und künstlerischen Entwicklungen und seine Beziehung zu anderen...

Dieses Buch enthält eine Sammlung von Briefen, die von und an den berühmten Geiger und Dirigenten Joseph Joachim geschrieben wurden. Andreas Moser und Johannes Joachim, der Sohn von Joseph Joachim, waren verantwortlich für die Zusammenstellung und...

Julius Kapp liefert eine faszinierende Darstellung des Lebens und des künstlerischen Schaffens eines der größten Pianisten des 19. Jahrhunderts, Franz Liszt. Kapp gibt eine detaillierte Beschreibung der Entwicklung von Liszts Stil und zeigt auf, wie er...

Discover the fascinating and inspiring life of Philip P. Bliss, one of the most important hymn writers of the 19th century. From his humble beginnings to his tragic death, this memoir provides an intimate glimpse into the man behind the music. Perfect...

Le memorie di Antonio Longo, scritte da lui stesso, raccontano la sua vita da musicista e compositore. Il libro è una testimonianza preziosa sulla musica e la cultura del suo tempo, e offre uno sguardo affascinante sulla vita di un artista del...

Benny More (1919-1963) was one of the giants at the center of the golden age of Cuban music. Arguably the greatest singer ever to come from the island, his name is still spoken with reverence and nostalgia by Cubans and Cuban exiles alike.Unable to read...

The Tommy Keene Handbook is a comprehensive reference guide to the music of underground pop-rock legend Tommy Keene, including: Musical History: an overview of Tommy Keene's entire musical career from his days as a member of the Rage, Razz, and the...

" . . . a valuable book of scholarly yet highly readable studies . . . every organist and anyone interested in the music of J. S. Bach should have it." -Early Keyboard Journal

"Excellent."--John Lahr, The New Yorker"A useful and informative anthology of essays, interviews, and criticism drawn from a diversity of published and unpublished sources.... The Richard Rodgers Reader is like surfing the Internet. One can dip into it...

In this book, Jason Davis shares his journey through the world of jazz music. From his early days as a child listening to Cannonball Adderley and Charlie Parker to his later years performing with some of the biggest names in jazz, Davis offers a unique...

Redd Stewart's journey began as more than just another rags-to-riches story, but with an essential heritage of family love and music that would later shape him into one of the music world's greatest 'unsung heroes.'His life inspired others to do better,...

FOREWORD BY PETER GABRIEL. School friend, aide-de-camp and tour manager, Richard Macphail was for almost five years the glue that held Genesis together, and in his affectionate memoir My Book of Genesis he tells his own unique story of the group's...

Steve Hackett has been at the forefront of inventive music and original playing for almost four decades. After his origins and "apprenticeship" in 70's progressive rock group; Genesis, he moved on through the passing trends of time in a unique and...

"A composer of delicate and 'otherworldly' music, Catalani demands the re-evaluation that David Chandler herewith provides in a fascinating book which gathers together the earliest biographical writings on Catalani, the composer's earliest surviving...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and graduated from University College London, in German Language and Literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of...

There is neither in the music history nor in the history of art such a closed and contradictory composer and creator as Galina Ustvolskaya. The music of Galina Ustvolskaya (excepting commissioned works written not for internal reasons but for necessity)...

'James Hetfield is a guitarist of otherworldly ability... this book tries to understand, de-mystify and even humanise a rock legend who, for most of his career, has remained impenetrable.' Metallica's ascension from thrash metal obscurity to becoming...

This updated edition of the first ever book about Queens Of The Stone Age takes in nine years of chaos. Since the first edition appeared in 2005, Josh Homme's band has undergone multiple line-up changes, toured the world and released two acclaimed albums...

An in-depth, meticulously researched, and entertaining biography, examining the life and work of Lou Reed, from birth to death, including his time as the leader of The Velvet Underground-one of the most important bands in rock'n'roll history

Bill Worrell's personal journal begins with phrases that ring true--as he says, I came from the desert, from the dust of the desert ... I must return again and again to the desert that gave me life. The life he speaks of is a spiritual one and this book...

There's a Buddhist saying, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." That teacher is Pamela Des Barres, known to her students -and to the world over -as Miss Pamela.  Miss Pamela has created a safe space for hundreds of women across...

Yank Rachell and his mandolin playing style moved every musician lucky enough to hear him perform in the early sixties. When he died in April 1997, he left behind a stack of unanswered requests to tour Europe and to play blues festivals in the United...

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Arranged here for Low G ukulele, Brescianello's Partitas for Gallichone had between three and eight parts in each, often beginning with an Aria or an "Entrée". Other parts of the Partita might be an Allegro, Andante, Menuet, Rigaudon, Scherzo and/or...

Who would have thought you could play classical music on a ukulele? But you can!Here are three Partitas and a Suite by the Early Baroque composer Johann Anton Logy, (Compte d'Logy) transcribed for the Low G ukulele. These delightful pieces which were...

In 1992, the Screaming Trees were expected to become the next big band to come out of the Seattle music scene during the heyday of grunge. Except it never happened. It wasn't because the band didn't have great songs-indeed, the Trees were revered...

Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Issac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rythmi, a late seventeenth-century work of Continental musical humanism, all the more interesting for being...

Biographie de Gioachino Rossini, compositeur italien du XIXe siècle connu notamment pour ses opéras.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the...

Glinka is a comprehensive biography of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka, known as the father of Russian classical music. This book examines Glinka's life and work in detail, including his influences, his collaborations with other artists, and his...

"CJ Sleez. The name evokes fantasies of the slender blonde writhing on stage to a driving rock beat punctuating songs she belts out with screaming intensity. Poor Little Bitch Girl is a raw recounting of pain, loss, and hard times from the Queen of...

Like Mephisto, Pathetic Symphony is a novel about important artists and their milieu. Drawing his material from documented sources, and without ever distorting historical truth or sacrificing biographical accuracy for the sake of the...

"It brings to life not only Mahalia (Jackson) but an entire ethos for people who will never be able to have any other contact with it". Choice

In the winter of 1964, three weeks after defecting from Poland and the night after playing a flashy holiday performance with the Rockettes at Radio City, Leshek Zavistovski was arrested and faced deportation to a gulag. His troubles started, however,...

This first full-length biography of the legendary pianist/composer in English tells the story of the tragic life and creative genius of Thelonius Monk. Based on scores of interviews with his family, friends and compatriots, along with voluminous...

The perfect companion for professional and amateur musicians performing music of the eighteenth century, this book distinguishes various types of appoggiaturas and trills, shows how to perform them, and notes differences between baroque and rococo...

This is the author's memoir of her parents' life, based on letters, old photos, anecdotes, with an extra dollop of fictional interpretation. This is a journey taking us from pre-war England to present-day Australia. One parent in theatre and the other in...

If a person's life could be depicted in a painting, mine, as I neared the age of 40, was a picture of contentment. Content and secure with my chosen career in music and song which had filled my life with so many beautiful people and wonderful places...

Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy's music through the lens of Bergson's philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his 'revolution' in musical time.