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Symphonies Nos. 5, 6, and 7 in Full ScoreBeethoven's symphonies are among this greatest works -- in the opinion of many, the greatest orchestral compositions in the history of music. Perfect in their fusion of emotion and form, filled with drama and great beauty, they are among the best-known and best-loved works...
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Mass in B Minor in Full ScoreThe B Minor Mass, a cornerstone of Western music, is a composition of truly monumental dimensions, one that occupied Bach intermittently from the 1720s to the 1740s, and the work often regarded as the crowning glory of the great composer's lifework in the field...
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French Song from Berlioz to DuparcInvaluable as a work of reference, in addition to being full of sound judgments and happy suggestions. -- Jacques Barzun, MLA NotesA distinguished musicologist explores 19th-century French art songs in this fascinating study of the melodies of Berlioz, Liszt, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Fauré, and...
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Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in MusicWritten by a pupil of the late Heinrich Schenker, this outstanding work is the most thorough exposition in English of Schenker's work. Developing and extending the Schenker approach to include modern music, it explores the phenomenon of tonal organization in Western music by means...
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The Led Zeppelin Curse: Jimmy Page and the Haunted Boleskine House"This book is so well-researched and so well-written that I read it non-stop from cover-to-cover because it was so engrossing. Add to it the unsettling possibilities of unknown forces at work, and you have one hell of a story.""This is a well written, exhilarating...
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A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America". . . extraordinarily far-reaching. . . . highly accessible." --Notes "No one has written this way about music in a long, long time. Lucid, insightful, with real spiritual, political, intellectual, and emotional grasp of the whole picture. A book about why music matters,...
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Punk FarmFrom the author of National Book Award finalist Hey, Kiddo. After a long day of work, Farmer Joe goes home to bed. But meanwhile, back at the barn . . .Cow sets up her drums.Pig plugs in his amp.Goat tunes his bass.Chicken sets up...
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Selena: Como La FlorA lovingly documented biography of music superstar Selena Quintanilla's life, work, and musical legacy. Selena Quintanilla was a vibrant musical performer, wildly pouplar in the growing field of Tejano music. But her rising star suddenly fell when she was murdered at the age of...
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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing InkThe perfect gift for music lovers and Elvis Costello fans, telling the story behind Elvis Costello's legendary career and his iconic, beloved songs. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink provides readers with a master's catalogue of a lifetime of great music. Costello reveals the process...
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Basic Harmonic ProgressionsIn this new text, designed to follow SCALES, INTERVALS, KEYS, TRIADS, RHYTHMS, AND METER by the same authors, the procedures of programmed instruction are utilized to promote the student's mastery of part-writing fundamentals and understanding of the basic concepts of harmonic progression.Author: John CloughPublisher:...
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Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War Through the Cold WarDangerous Melodies vividly evokes a time when classical music stood at the center of twentieth-century American life, occupying a prominent place in the nation's culture and politics. The work of renowned conductors, instrumentalists, and singers--and the activities of orchestras and opera companies--were intertwined with...
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Beethoven: The Music and the LifeThis brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music. The result is that rarest of achievements,...
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Thoroughbass MethodIt contains excerpts from the theoretical works by Praetorius, Niedy, Telemann, Mattheson, Heinichen, J. S. and C. P. E. Bach, Quantz, Padre Mattei; numerous examples, including complete pieces, from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and many exercises for the student.Author: Hermann KellerPublisher: W. W....
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Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western CivilizationFew music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today's pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy....
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A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel SilversteinFew authors are as beloved as Shel Silverstein. His inimitable drawings and comic poems have become the bedtime staples of millions of children and their parents, but few readers know much about the man behind that wild-eyed, bearded face peering out from the backs...
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Behind Sad Eyes: The Life of George HarrisonShrouded in a sea of mystery, the elusive George Harrison has long been the most private and enigmatic member of the Beatles. From his hard knock childhood in Liverpool to his ascendance into rock infamy, George Harrison's life has been a torpid ride filled...
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Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth CenturyWith John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray's Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of this musician whose extraordinary career spanned over fifty years and included...
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Marilyn MansonFor the public, the triumph of Marilyn Manson happened in the blink of an eye, beginning with the debut of their 1994 Album Portrait of an American Family, an event which led to a cover on Rolling Stone and the group's MTV smash Sweet...
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Alanis Morissette: A BiographyJust two years ago Alanis Morissette was a former teen pop star, dismissed by some as a footnote in Canadian pop history. Then her album Jagged Little Pill sold over 13 million copies worldwide, and a new queen of alternative rock was crowned. Here...
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Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, 1960-1994Clinton Heylin has devoted his career to Bob Dylan's work and presents here a comprehensive study of all of Dylan's recording sessions.Author: Clinton HeylinPublisher: St. Martin's GriffinPublished: 03/15/1997Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.20w x 0.56dISBN: 9780312150679About the AuthorClinton Heylin is the cofounder...
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