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by George T. Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
THE GREAT ITALIAN AND FRENCH COMPOSERS.
PALESTRINA.
PICCINI, PAISIELLO, AND CIMAROSA
ROSSINI.
VERDI.
CHERUBINI AND HIS PREDECESSORS.
MÉHUL, SPONTINI, AND HALÉVY.
BOÏELDIEU AND AUBER.
MEYERBEER.
GOUNOD AND THOMAS.
BERLIOZ.
THE...
by Nathalia Timberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Music is one of the best sources of entertainment. Today many musicians are famous throughout the world due to their amazing performance. They are very famous among their fans and earn millions of dollars in a year.
But all the musicians do not get the success. Only few can...
Composers
A Quick Reference Guide to Well Known Composers from The15th to the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
The book shows well known composers in chronological order from the Renaissance period to the twentieth century.
An Ideal reference guide.
Contents:
Introduction
Renaissance Period
Baroque Period
Classical Period
Romantic Period
20th...
Musicians That Changed Sound
Profiles of Four Musicians That Changed the Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Some musicians make music…and some change music. The four musicians profiled in this book, created sounds that other artists have tried to copy ever since.
This book covers the following bands / singers: Brian Wilson, Weezer, Marvin Gaye, and Elliott Smith.
This is a collection of previous published books, which may also be purchased separately.
Guide to the Blues,Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing Blues dance,
Blues Singer: List of blues musicians, blues albums, films about blues music,Blues guitar playing, British blues musicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Blues Singer: List of blues musicians, blues albums, films about blues music,Blues guitar playing, British blues musicians, Guide to the Blues,Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing, Blues dance,
The Influence Of...
by George Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
The sketches of composers contained in this volume may seem arbitrary in the space allotted to them. The special attention given to certain names has been prompted as much by their association with great art-epochs as by the consideration of their absolute rank as composers.
by Lewis Lockwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2005
An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books.
This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent...
by James Fritz
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Born in Venice, Italy, Antonio Vivaldi was one of the most influential and highly regarded Baroque composers, although his fame blazed only briefly. He is most remembered for his concertos, particularly “The Four Seasons,” but his overall production was enormous, ranging from orchestral and vocal...
Piano Player
Memoir and Master Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
What’s the life of a concert pianist really like? With wit, gentle humor, and abundant optimism Paul Bisaccia writes about his life making music and the friends he’s made along the way. From growing up in Hartford, Connecticut, to his home on Cape Cod, to travels all over the world, Paul writes about...
by Diane Lemertz
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Paul McCartney is one of the most successful musicians and composers in the history of pop music. Most famous for his time in The Beatles, Paul has released sixty gold discs and has sold over 100 million singles. McCartney began writing songs in his early teens. He met John Lennon and the Quarrymen...
At the Piano
Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists, Caroline Benser explores the kaleidoscopic world of twenty-first-century pianism through a series of extended interviews with eight major pianists: Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Simone Dinnerstein, Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Steven...
Leo Ornstein
Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and...
by Charles Bodman Rae
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Witold Lutosławski is widely regarded as one of the foremost composers of the post-war era and one of the truly great musicians of the 20th century. Charles Bodman Rae's examination of Lutosławski 's life and work draws on wide-ranging and meticulous research, including hours of recorded conversation...
I Wrote That One, Too . . .
A Life in Songwriting from Willie to Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
One of the most successful songwriters and composers of the last 25 years, Steve Dorff has penned over 20 Top 10 hits for pop and country artists around the world, including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Blake Shelton, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Anne Murray, Whitney Houston, George...