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  • Eighteenth Century Piano Musicby Robert Marshall

    Routledge 2003; US$ 50.00

    18th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 18th century repertoire. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar in the field, and includes history, musical examples, and analysis. more...

  • Motownby Gerald Posner

    Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95

    In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters. The building?s entrance was adorned with... more...

  • The Life and Death of Classical Musicby Norman Lebrecht

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00

    In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world?s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso?s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan. Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates... more...

  • Ginger Baker - Hellraiserby Ginger Baker

    John Blake Publishing 2010; US$ 1.68

    Peter 'Ginger' Baker is a legend. A pioneering drummer who transcends genre, he's done much to popularise world music with his fierce passion for the rhythms of Africa. He is that rare thing - both critically acclaimed and globally successful. He has also lived a life more rock'n'roll than most.Ginger tells his story for the first time. It's often... more...

  • Wagner's Melodiesby David Trippett

    Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 88.00

    Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age. more...

  • Slavonic and Romantic Musicby Gerald Abraham

    Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 21.86

    Gerald Abraham's reputation as an authority on Russian music has tended to obscure his deep interest in the music of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and of the nineteenth-century generally. From a lifetime's devoted scholarship in these fields Abrahams selected his best work to make up this volume (first published in 1968), one of exceptional breadth... more...

  • Alexander Zemlinskyby Marc D. Moskovitz

    Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 29.15

    From Zemlinsky's early success as a composer and widely recognized achievements as a conductor to his eventual descent into obscurity, this new biography places Zemlinsky (1871-1942) against the backdrops of Vienna, Prague and Berlin and illuminates his relationships with figures like Johannes Brahms, Alma Schindler, Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg.... more...

  • Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composersby Balint Andras Varga

    Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 36.46

    Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences or from, say, the natural world? What influences, past and present, have influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style, and when does this degenerate into self-repetition? These are questions about which some of the most important composers... more...

  • Bluesby Dick Weissman; Richard Carlin; Craig Morrison

    Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 67.00

    Born out of the field hollers, work songs, and spirituals sung by African-American slaves and tenant farmers as they were forced to work in the fields of the South, blues music often speaks of oppression, sadness, and love, topics that transcend racial and ethnic boundaries. Early musicians such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and W.C. Handy established the... more...

  • The Book of Exodusby Vivien Goldman

    Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00

    Follow the Sacred Journey to Create One of the Lasting Musical Masterpieces of Our Time Bob Marley is one of our most important and influential artists. Recorded in London after an assassination attempt on his life sent Marley into exile from Jamaica, Exodus is the most lasting testament to his social conscience. Named by Time magazine as ?Album... more...