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With its own fashion, culture, and chaotic energy, punk rock boasted a do-it-yourself ethos that allowed anyone to take part. Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change. John Robb talks to many of those who cultivated the movement, such as John Lydon, Lemmy, Siouxsie Sioux, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Malcolm McLaren, Henry Rollins, and Glen Matlock, weaving together their accounts to create a raw...
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Jacques Offenbach (1819–80) ranks among the greatest composers of lighthearted operettas, and his famous songs continue to charm millions who know neither their names nor their composer. This volume features the sheet music for 38 popular songs from 14 operettas. All are reproduced from the original sheet music - a few from the original piano-vocal scores, and some with lively pictorial covers. Contents include four songs from Orpheé aux enfers...
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One of the most frequently performed of all choral works, this splendid oratorio unfolds in an inspired series of solo and choral passages filled with compelling drama and rich musical symbolism. Reprinted from an authoritative German edition, complete with both German and English texts.
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This book introduces the reader to the wisdom of Art Blakey's teaching through his quotes and reaching into the deepest grotto of the meaning of each one of them.
I see the need for this book at every gig, whether I play or sit at a club and listen. Every concert, rehearsal, every time I deal with musicians, hear them talk, make announcements, conduct themselves on stage etc. Professional ones, not only students. Brilliant players, but, almost always,...
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On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice."Little did Steve Boone know that the path of...
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For the first time in one volume, here is the best of Relix magazine: the ultimate, spectacular history of the Grateful Dead and their fans. Relix magazine - much like the Grateful Dead, the band they captured relentlessly - was not just the backdrop for a generation, it was an inspiration. Begun in 1974 as a newsletter to connect Deadheads, the magazine exploded along with the tie-dyed community that embraced it. Relix: The Book is a compilation...
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In August of 1969, a dairy farm in the state of New York hosted a
pivotal moment in the history of pop music. Taking place only two years
after the "Summer of Love" and one year after the tumultuous events of
1968, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair put an exclamation point on the
transformational decade of the 1960s. Joni Mitchell did not attend
Woodstock, but her song of the same name captures an opposition inherent
to the turbulent and divisive...
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The dark moments of rock history fascinate and tantalize like the pathos of Greek tragedy. The bottom sinks lower, the air seems colder, the bad endings--when they are bad--seem beyond bad. The unlucky practitioners of our most thriving form of communal experience seem to hit rock bottom in ways only the most glamorous among us can--publicly. The stories remain obscure, half-seen in the shadowlands. In her familiar style, Pamela Des Barres shines...
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Four popular opera fantasies in one volume for violin with piano accompaniment, each with separate violin part: Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Piano (Hubay); Fantasia on Themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 20 (Wieniawski); Fantaisie sur La Flute enchantee de Mozart, Op. 54 (Sarasate); and Fantaisie Brillante sur la Marche et la Romance d'Otello de Rossini, Op. 11 (Ernst).
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La guía más completa del género que ha hecho evolucionar el rock hasta nuevas sonoridades y formas estilísticas.
Auténtica esponja musical, capaz de absorber, amalgamar y destilar un sinfín de influencias, si algo caracteriza al rock sinfónico es su voluntad de mestizaje, su falta de complejos a la hora de aceptar otras músicas para incorporarlas al andamiaje básico del rock. Así, ya sea desde la primera psicodelia (de la que deriva en...
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Edward MacDowell (1860–1908) was America's most prominent nineteenth-century composer. Championed by Franz Liszt, he was one of the first U.S. composers to gain international recognition. A leading exponent of the Romantic tradition, he was a prolific composer for the piano. This outstanding collection presents his best, most characteristic works, reprinted from original editions. They include: Woodland Sketches, Op. 51 Sea Pieces, Op. 55 Fireside...
92) Rachmaninoff
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The musical child of Russia's golden age, Sergei Rachmaninoff, was the last great romantic. Scorned by the musical establishment until very recently, his music received hostile reviews from critics and other composers. Conversely, it never failed to find widespread popular acclaim. Michael Scott's book investigates Rachmaninoff's intense and often melodramatic life, following him from imperial Russia to his years of exile as a wandering virtuoso and...
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This volume is geared toward organists seeking a brief, convenient guide to developing technical grounding for the scoring of compositions. Noted musicologist Cecil Forsyth takes readers bar by bar through a complete choral orchestration in this excellent and inexpensive tutorial. Forsyth discusses general principles in terms of their application to everyday orchestral necessities. He further presents a complete composition and explores each note,...
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Esta obra nos ofrece un recorrido singular del espectáculo operístico desde un punto de vista inédito: el trágico final de muchos personajes al que se ven abocados tras el desarrollo de una trama en la que suelen primar temas como la locura, la enfermedad, la pena, la angustia o el amor. A través de estas cuestiones y muchas otras, la ópera responde a momentos trascendentales de la vida en boca de sus protagonistas.
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Claude Debussy dedicated "Children's Corner" to his daughter, Chou-Chou, when she was three years old. Some of the movements were inspired by her toys. The six lovely pieces expertly presented here by Christopher Harding are an excellent starting point for introducing late-intermediate to early-advanced piano students to impressionism. Includes a special appendix with suggested pedaling, a glossary of French terms, and audio recordings.
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The tiny Sun studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee may not have looked like much from the outside, but inside musical miracles were being performed daily by its enigmatic owner, Sam Phillips. Phillips began more or less as a talent scout for other record labels, such as the legendary Chess Records of Chicago. However, after discovering a wealth of talent in his own backyard in the Mid-South area, Phillips began his own record label –...
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There is a world of music, beautiful, thrilling, powerful and romantic music, that one composer wrote to express the theme of Redemption Through Love! He wrote this music for "sacred music dramas" he believed could transform the world through art. His stories come from legends and mythology and folk tales, and he meant them to resonate deep within the subconscious mind, long before modern psychology knew this could be done. And they do.
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Get the Summary of Chris Payne's Where Are Your Boys Tonight in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Where Are Your Boys Tonight" by Chris Payne chronicles the evolution of the emo and punk music scenes through the experiences of various bands and industry figures. The book delves into the personal and professional lives of artists from bands like My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, and Paramore,...
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A universal statement of Christian faith and the crowning glory of Bach's lifework in the field of sacred music. Scored for a massive ensemble - 2 sopranos, alto, tenor, bass, chorus, orchestra and continuo - this towering masterpiece is reprinted here from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Includes translation of the text.
100) Keyboard Works
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Near-complete collection of great English composer's keyboard compositions, including the 8 suites, the core of his keyboard works. Also included are many miscellaneous one-movement pieces: airs, trumpet tunes (for harpsichord solo), grounds, preludes, dances, etc. Edited with a preface by noted music scholar William Barclay Squire.
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