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Metzler Sachlexikon Musik
J.B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 1998; US$ 53.81Hauptbeschreibung Das kompakte Nachschlagewerk zu allen Bereichen der Musik. Das griffige Lexikon gibt Auskunft über alle Sachfragen zur Musik. Es enthält über 2.500 Artikel zu Sachen und Begriffen aus allen Bereichen der Musik - Klassik, Moderne, Weltmusik, Jazz und Unterhaltungsmusik. Rezension "Als gut gestaltetes und klar formuliertes... more...
Katalog der Texte. Älterer Teil (G - P)
De Gruyter 1988; US$ 224.00Katalog Der Texte. A"lterer Teil (G - P). more...
1860-1864
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 559.00Volume 8 closes this edition of Meyerbeer's correspondence, personal journals and pocket diaries and provides the reader with detailed information about public music life in Berlin, London and Paris during the time from 1860 to 1864. Especially interesting are the documents on his work as the Prussian general music director under Wilhelm I and his... more...
The 50th Law
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 15.99A hip hop icon joins forces with the best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power to write a bible for success in life and work living by one simple principle: fear nothing. more...
An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice
ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 139.00Spirituals were an intrinsic part of the African-American plantation life and were sung at all important occasions and events. This volume is the first index of African-American spirituals to be published in more than half a century and will be an important research tool for scholars and students of African-American history and music. The first collection... more...
The Liszt Companion
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 165.00Franz Liszt is most well-known for his compositions for piano and orchestra, but his influence is also strong in chamber music, choral music, and orchestral transcriptions. This new collection of essays presents a scholarly overview of all of the composer's work, providing the most comprehensive and current treatment of both his oeuvre and the immense... more...
To Do This, You Must Know How
University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 187.50To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals with formal choral music disciplines, and... more...
Ragged but Right
University Press of Mississippi 2007; US$ 75.00The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. "Coon songs," with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses.... more...
Out of Sight
University Press of Mississippi 2009; US$ 40.00"A product of old-fashioned, back-wearying, foundational scholarship, yet very readable, this book is certain to feature importantly in future studies of early jazz and its prehistory. Highly recommended." ? Library Journal. "This volume makes possible the study of the rise of black music in the days that paved the way for the Harlem... more...









