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And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Two examines the LP With The Beatles and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together...

And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Four examines the LP Beatles For Sale and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together...

And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Three examines the LP A Hard Day's Night and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together...

And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Eleven examines the LP Let It Be and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together to...

Maurice Ravel: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and theorist.

And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Six examines the LP Rubber Soul and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together to record,...

The official UK charts started in November 1952 with Al Martin's Here's In My Heart at the top. Since then, there have been over 50 years of changes and we have now reached the 1,000 number one.

In the last decade of the 19th century, modernist sensibilities reached a critical mass and emerged more frequently in music as composers began employing dissonance, polyrhythm, atonality, and densities. Conversely, many 20th-century composers eschewed modernist devices and wrote accessible works...

In this second edition of Orchestral “Pops” Music: A Handbook, Lucy Manning brings forward to the present her remarkable compendium of information about this form of orchestral music. Since the appearance of the first edition in 2008, this work has proven critical to successful “pops” concert...

The Italian singing technique Bel Canto instructs, "He who knows how to breathe and how to pronounce, knows how to sing." Singing: The First Art incorporates the techniques of Bel Canto along with those of masters like Berton Coffin and Manuel Garcia to promote and facilitate vocal excellence....

Take a deep dive into the innovative recording history of Led Zeppelin, in this newest addition to the fan-favorite All the Songs series. Fifty years after their first practice in a Soho basement, Led Zeppelin continues to fascinate new generations of listeners. While their legendary back-stage...

For four decades ABBA - the combined talents of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad - has been a global music phenomenon, clocking up record sales of over 360 million.  For the very first time The Complete ABBA compiles all of the Swedish supergroup's...

This e-book introduces the subject of song and everything you always wanted to know about singing. Learn where the history of song comes from. Have you always wanted to sing but were told you are tone deaf? Learn what muscles blocks the ability to sing and how to move them out of the way to sing....

I come from a very music family. My father played guitar and sang on radio in the Pittsburgh, PA area. My brother was in many classic rock bands and played in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all...