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Beethoven for a Later Age: Living with the String QuartetsBeethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. Originally composed and performed between 1798 and 1826, they have inspired artists of all kinds--not only musicians--and have been subject to endless reinterpretation. But what is it...
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A Listener's Guide to Free ImprovisationImprovisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar extrapolations--all these sounds seem like so much noodling or jamming, indulgent self-expression. "Just" improvising, as is sometimes said. For...
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On Repeat: How Music Plays the MindWinner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music TheoryWinner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAP What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again,...
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The Orchestra: A Very Short IntroductionIn this Very Short Introduction, D. Kern Holoman considers the structure, roots, and day-to-day functioning of the modern philharmonic society. He explores topics ranging from the life of a musician in a modern orchestra, the recent wave of new hall construction from Berlin to...
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The Simple Flute: From A to ZDrawing from his highly praised French work, Une simple flute, distinguished flutist and teacher Michel Debost has compiled a useful and imaginative introduction to playing the flute. This alphabetically arranged compendium of advice and insight covers essential topics such as breathing, articulation, and tone,...
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Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th CenturyWhat makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken language behind a taqsim (traditional instrumental improvisation) that performers and listeners implicitly know? How can Arabic music be so rich...
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Loving Music Till It HurtsCan music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been somehow mistreated. A singer butchered or mangled the "Star-Spangled Banner" at...
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Holding the Note: Writing on MusicThe Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time. The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing "Respect" or Bob Dylan performing "Blind Willie McTell," have a way of embedding...
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Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones"Should be unfailingly interesting to any Stones fan."--Larry Rhoter, New York Times The Rolling Stones' rise to fame is one of rock 'n' roll's epic stories. Yet one crucial part of that story has never been fully told: the role of Brian Jones, the...
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Garcia: An American LifeHe was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most...
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The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered AmericaJoining the ranks of Please Kill Me and Can't Stop Won't Stop comes this definitive chronicle of one of the hottest trends in popular culture--electronic dance music--from the noted authority covering the scene.It is the sound of the millennial generation, the music "defining youth...
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Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music StoppedThe definitive account of Whitney Houston's astonishing life, ground-breaking career, and tragic death -- complete with never-before-seen photographs -- from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston.Cissy has said little publicly about Whitney's heart-breaking death. Now,...
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Being Kendra: Cribs, Cocktails & Getting My Sexy BackIn the intimate follow up to her New York Times bestselling memoir Sliding Into Home, Kendra Wilkinson reveals the naked truth about her life after Playboy--the secrets behind regaining her trademark sexy body, the trials of her life as a new mother, the tricks...
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Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin UncensoredNo one knew Led Zeppelin like Richard Cole. The band's tour manager for more than a decade, Cole was there when they burst onto the music scene, achieved cult status, cut platinum records, and transformed popular music. Second only to the Beatles in sales...
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Madonna: Like an IconMaterial Girl . . . Immaculate sexpot . . . Superstar . . . Mother . . . Kabbalah enthusiast . . . For three decades she has defied categorization. . . . She remains one of our greatest living pop icons.Here is the...
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Midnight Mischief: Conductor Score & PartsBeginning string students will have a diabolically good time with this all-pizzicato selection. Gleefully sinister melodies pass between all sections and simple quarter and half note accompaniment parts help keep everyone together. The optional piano accompaniment sets the pace with even 8th notes, helping...
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Dance of the Bowless Basses: A String Bass Section Feature, Conductor Score & PartsA cute, pedagogically-based (get it?), first-year bass section feature, this piece will be fun and is sure to make your beginners sound fabulous. This piece is in first position for all players except basses. Basses shift up to C and D on the G...
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Resilience: Conductor Score & PartsIf there is one thing music educators are it is resilient! Resilience, by Chris M. Bernotas, is dedicated to all music educators in recognition of how they always adapt to the unknown and rise to every challenge. This overture is the perfect concert opener...
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Disney Favorites for Two: Easy Instrumental Duets - Alto Sax Edition(Easy Instrumental Duets). This collection features 23 Disney hits arranged for duets among two alto saxes or an alto sax in combination with flute, clarinet, trumpet, or trombone! Songs include: Be Our Guest * Into the Unknown * Reflection * That's How You Know...
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Artie Shaw: A Musical Biography and DiscographyArtie Shaw, the world famous clarinet-playing bandleader who became popular during the Swing Era, was immersed in the music business as a performer for 30 years, from the summer of 1924, when he began to study saxophone, until the summer of 1954, when he...
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