Browsing the "Music" category: 192 books
Learn to play the guitar using this quick and easy guide. Whether you dream of playing classical guitar, a B.B. King lick, or just the opening bars to "Stairway to Heaven," this book can get you there. This easy-to-use guide introduces the beginning ...more »
ISBN: 078653396X / Alpha / Pub Date: Feb 2003 / File Size: 2654K
A comprehensive guide to Mozart's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the opera and its composer. ...more »
ISBN: 1930841051 / Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 273K
A piano is one of the most expensive consumer purchases many people will ever make. Yet when you shop for a new piano, you'll find that honest and unbiased price information is mysteriously scarce. This Annual Supplement to The Piano Book fills ...more »
ISBN: 1929145101 / BROOKSIDE PRESS / Pub Date: Jul 2002 / File Size: 343K
Aiming to create a work that "capture[s] the language and preserve[s] the culture of hip-hop, [while also serving] as a tool for education," New York City-based journalist Westbrook here offers a "hoptionary" defining roughly 2500 terms. The book is ...more »
ISBN: 0767913957 / Broadway Books / Pub Date: Oct 2002 / File Size: 208K
A remarkably detailed examination of the recording sessions for the bestselling jazz album of all time: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue ...more »
ISBN: 0312276273 / St Martins / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 319K
This is a tale of friendship, greed, and betrayal in the music industry -- and a definitive history of America's biggest rap mogul. No one knows more about creating hits than Sean "Puffy" Combs. For years he virtually ran hip-hop. It seemed the p ...more »
ISBN: 074343417X / Pocket Books / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 283K
In 1993, a quirky California boy named Beck burst onto the scene with the irony warped anthem "Loser." He has since earned a reputation as one of the most innovative, stylish, and vital recording artists of our time -- selling millions of records in ...more »
ISBN: 0743424484 / Pocket Books / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 194K
A follow up to the highly successful Ultimate Beatles Quiz Book. ...more »
ISBN: 0312276478 / St Martins / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 2037K
When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's go ...more »
ISBN: 1400802369 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 295K
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detaile ...more »
ISBN: 1400803896 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 8322K
Creed is a rock group hailing from Tallahassee, Florida. They are the first band in history to have four number one rock singles from a debut album. Their success story is all the more genuine because the album was recorded for a mere $6,000 and re ...more »
ISBN: 0312276370 / St Martins / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 214K
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 s ...more »
ISBN: 1588362655 / Random House Group / Pub Date: Dec 2002 / File Size: 1068K
Do YOU have what it takes to be a star? Simon Cowell reveals the answer and takes you behind the scenes of American Idol in this wickedly entertaining tell-all. Since the debut of American Idol, puckish Brit judge Simon Cowell has become America's mo ...more »
ISBN: 0767918010 / Broadway / Pub Date: Dec 2003 / File Size: 368K
If the opera world is full of "intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics," then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center ...more »
ISBN: 1400075890 / Knopf / Pub Date: Sep 2003 / File Size: 1237K
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was one of jazz's greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the age of seventy-five. Interviewing Duke&apo ...more »
ISBN: 0759238561 / e-reads / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 2992K
This Rock 'n' Roll survey covers 38 of your own "top 40" hits, focusing on every single that broke new ground or topped the charts. It bounces with the excitement of rock music and the vibrant personalities who create it. ...more »
ISBN: 0875862276 / Algora Publishing / Pub Date: May 2003 / File Size: 2089K
Few journalists have staked a territory as passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Night Beat gathers, for the first time, Gilmore's cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning ...more »
ISBN: 0385500297 / Doubleday / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 954K
Behind the gold curtains of the Metropolitan Opera House, amidst the elaborate sets, bejeweled costumes, and labyrinth of administrative offices, the Met has traditionally operated in great secrecy. Until now.Johanna Fiedler, who was the Met ...more »
ISBN: 0385504993 / Doubleday / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 437K
With over 35 million albums sold in their thirty-year career, the Canadian rock trio Rush clearly has been embraced by discerning music fans around the world. The band’s musical and lyrical depth and complexity has inspired everything from comi ...more »
ISBN: 059572423X / Writers Club Press / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 162K
These lyrics by Jimmy Lyons spin a linguistic opus of love and family, existentialism and politics, planetary consciousness, myth and meaning, for everyone. I write lyrics for the journey on the mystical backroads, the word hustlers, so ...more »
ISBN: 0595727735 / Writers Club Press / Pub Date: Mar 2002 / File Size: 528K
A study of jazz from two perspectives: as a cultural and musical form. Discusses how literary and cultural theory can contribute to our understanding of jazz. ...more »
ISBN: 0203901029 / Routledge / Pub Date: Dec 2000 / File Size: 549K
Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film. ...more »
ISBN: 0203900820 / Routledge / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 926K
Luciano Pavarotti's longtime manager and friend tells all. All. The King and I is the story of the thirty-six-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and his manager, Herbert Breslin, during which Breslin guided what he calls, ...more »
ISBN: 038551414X / Doubleday Publishing / Pub Date: Oct 2004 / File Size: 1782K
ISBN: 1414218834 / IndyPublish / Pub Date: Dec 2004 / File Size: 158K
In The Rebirth of Music you will discover why music is mentioned 989 times in the Scriptures and why God places such a major priority on it. ...more »
ISBN: 1424501156 / Treasures Media Inc / Pub Date: Nov 2005 / File Size: 385K
