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Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp And Brilliance of the Brill Building Eraby Ken EmersonISBN 0670034568 (0-670-03456-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Amsterdamby Ian McEwanISBN 0676972179 (0-676-97217-9)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amsterdam'Book summary:When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to Amsterdam's outcome--it's only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Molly's most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top. Ian McEwan is master of the writer's craft, and while this is the sort of novel that wins prizes, his characters remain curiously soulless amidst the twists and turns of plot. --Lisa Jardine [via]
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Anne McCaffreyby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0553188445 (0-553-18844-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Another Brick in the Wall : The Stories Behind Every Pink Floyd Songby Cliff JonesISBN 0553067338 (0-553-06733-8)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Brick in the Wall : The Stories Behind Every Pink Floyd Song'Book summary:This in-depth, revealing look at the music that has made Pink Floyd one of the most phenomenally successful bands in rock history is being published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the group's debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, as well as a major stadium tour. A comprehensive discography and a list of sources and references are also included. 160 photos, 110 in color. Radio & online promos. [via]
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The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750by Joseph KermanISBN 0520243587 (0-520-24358-7)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750'Book summary:Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are among the greatest, most influential, and best-loved works in all of Western music. They have long been the foundation of the keyboard repertory, played by beginning students and world-famous virtuosi alike. In a series of elegantly written essays, eminent musicologist Joseph Kerman discusses his favorite Bach keyboard fugues--some of them among the best-known fugues and others much less familiar. Kerman skillfully, at times playfully, reveals the inner workings of these pieces, linking the form of the fugues with their many different characters and expressive qualities, and illuminating what makes them particularly beautiful, powerful, and moving.[via]
These witty, insightful pieces, addressed to musical amateurs as well as to specialists and students, are beautifully augmented by a CD with new performances made specially for this volume. In addition to the complete scores for all the music discussed in the book, the CD features Karen Rosenak, piano, playing two preludes and fugues from TheWell-Tempered Clavier--C Major, book 1; and B Major, book 2--and recordings by Davitt Moroney of the Fughetta in C Major, BWV 952, on clavichord; the Fugue on "Jesus Christus unser Heiland," BWV 689, on organ; and the Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904, on harpsichord.More editions of The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750:
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Bach: The Brandenburg Concertosby Malcolm BoydISBN 0521387132 (0-521-38713-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Beatles Complete Chord Songbookby Hal LeonardISBN 0634022296 (0-634-02229-6)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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The Beethoven Quartet Companionby Robert Winter, Robert MartinISBN 0520204204 (0-520-20420-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Beethoven String Quartetsby Basil LamISBN 0563101660 (0-563-10166-0)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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Beethoven Symphoniesby Robert Wilfred Levick SimpsonISBN 0563092718 (0-563-09271-8)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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Berg : Violin Concertoby Anthony Pople, Julian RushtonISBN 0521399769 (0-521-39976-9)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Berlioz: Servitude and Greatnessby David CairnsISBN 0520222008 (0-520-22200-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness'Book summary:The conclusion to David Cairns's epic biography of Hector Berlioz has been eagerly awaited ever since the first volume, Berlioz: The Making of an Artist, appeared in 1989. With an achievement as massive as that highly praised volume, part of the tension of waiting for the follow-up involves wondering whether Cairns can capture again the sweep, the vividness, and the power of his first book. But he has managed to do exactly that.
Cairns picks up the story at the time of Berlioz's marriage to Harriet Smithson in 1833, with whom he had been obsessively infatuated for so long. It's a mournful story, with her alcoholism, their separation in 1844, and her premature death in 1854. Cairns links the vicissitudes of Berlioz's own life directly with his music: the composition of La Mort d'Ophélie marks the symbolic end of their marriage. "The elegiac significance of this infinitely sad melody would be hard to miss." Cairns writes sensitively and evocatively about Berlioz's music, and one of the central pillars of this second volume is a compelling defense of the composer's Les Troyens (1856), his much-maligned and chopped-about operatic masterpiece. Critics of the day were not kind: "so vulgar, so badly designed and so distorted with impossible modulations that one would take it to be the music of a deaf man," said one. There were many cartoons, which Cairns reprints, along the lines of "new method of killing cattle to be introduced at all slaughterhouses," in which an ox is pictured felled by having The Trojans played to it through a large tuba. But Cairns convincingly demonstrates just how far ahead of his time Berlioz was and how heroic was his struggle to have this titanic opera performed and accepted in the teeth of persistent obstacles. It is Cairns's opinion that Berlioz, "like the biblical man, was born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards." His biography follows the tragedies and the triumphs of this larger-than-life individual with a narrative force as gripping as a good novel. --Adam Roberts [via]
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Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness 1832-1869by David CairnsISBN 0520240588 (0-520-24058-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Blackbird Singing: Poems And Lyrics 1965-1999by Paul McCartney, Adrian MitchellISBN 0571207898 (0-571-20789-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Rollby Julie Burchill, Tomy ParsonsISBN 0571129927 (0-571-12992-7)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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Brittenby Imogen HolstISBN 0571180000 (0-571-18000-0)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber
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Cart and Cwidderby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0613359143 (0-613-35914-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Cart and Cwidderby Jones Diana W.ISBN 0614044596 (0-614-04459-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Cello Of Mr. Oby Jane Cutler, Greg CouchISBN 0525461191 (0-525-46119-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Century of Jazzby Roy CarrISBN 0600616096 (0-600-61609-6)
Softcover, Book Sales
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Classical Music Top 40/Learn How to Listen to and Enjoy the 40 Most Popular and Important Pieces of Classical Musicby Anthony J. RudelISBN 0671794957 (0-671-79495-7)
Softcover, Fireside
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 060619472X (0-606-19472-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Musicby Tess Knighton, David FallowsISBN 0520210816 (0-520-21081-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Complete Operas of Mozart: A Critical Guideby Charles OsborneISBN 0575022213 (0-575-02221-3)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicologyby Joseph KermanISBN 0674166787 (0-674-16678-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Courtney Love : The Queen of Noiseby Melissa RossiISBN 0671000381 (0-671-00038-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Courtney Love : The Queen of Noise'Book summary:"I am not a woman. I'm a force of nature."
Courtney Love knows exactly what she is. She created herself: demon diva, goddess of grunge, media super-icon, wife of the late rock megastar Kurt Cobain. Lead singer of the band Hole, her persona is larger than life -- bellowing, ranting, riling up the masses. She was made for the spotlight, and she rules it like a dark angel, her on- and offstage presence seething with such power, venom, and raw sexual fury that she obliterates everyone else on the music scene today.
"I want to be the girl with the most cake."
Courtney Love may have achieved her goal of becoming a self-made celebrity, but her hungry climb to fame wasn't easy. It took her from a troubled childhood to the sleazy underworld of strip joints to the hardcore drug scene. She was institutionalized as a juvenile delinquent, tormented as a rock groupie, and driven to near suicide as a grieving widow. Then there was her tumultuous relationship with Kurt Cobain -- a sweet-and-sour marriage of twisted passion that ended tragically with a shotgun blast.
Here at last the true Courtney Love is revealed...the headstrong hellraiser in a baby-doll dress...the raucous performer ripping up the airwaves, at war with her public image and herself...the unstoppable survivor forever rising from the ashes only to burn more brightly.... [via]
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The Devil in Musicby Kate RossISBN 0670863599 (0-670-86359-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Faber Book of Operaby Tom SutcliffeISBN 0571206840 (0-571-20684-0)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Faber Book of Opera'Book summary:A wide-ranging anthology covering the written record of opera -- from Tchaikovsky on Wagner's Ring to Cecil Beaton on Turandot at the Met. Opera.[via]
Opera has always generated strong, uncompromising views and opinions. For example, what did Berlioz write about Weber's Der Freischutz in 1841? What was the idea behind Gluck's Reform operas? How did Mozart himself view his collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte? What is the legacy of Maria Callas?
These are among the myriad questions that are addressed in The Faber Book of Opera, an exceptional collection of writings about opera--in theory, in practice, in review and in fiction--all drawn from prime sources by acclaimed music critic Tom Sutcliffe. From Gustave Flaubert's description of a performance of Lucia di Lammermoor in Madame Bovary to Voltaire's exploration of the difficulties of conveying true tragedy within the operatic form to Virginia Woolf's views on Wagner's Parsifal, which seemed to her to have been "poured out in a smooth stream at white heat," this is a collection that covers, in over 75 short, carefully chosen excerpts, just what it is that makes opera so extraordinary. After all, the history of opera is not just the musical masterpieces that have been written during the last 400 years; it is also the record of what people--ranging from Goethe to Rousseau to Verdi and Stravinsky--thought about the process and about what composers through the centuries have tried to do through this unique form.More editions of The Faber Book of Opera:
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The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder: The Texts of over 750 Songs in Germanby Dietrich Fischer-DieskauISBN 0575018526 (0-575-01852-6)
Hardcover, Gollancz : Pan Books
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Four Musical Minimalists: LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glassby Keith PotterISBN 0521015014 (0-521-01501-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Free Bardsby Mercedes LackeyISBN 067187778X (0-671-87778-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Garcia : An American Lifeby Blair JacksonISBN 0670886602 (0-670-88660-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Guitar Girlby Sarra ManningmISBN 0525472347 (0-525-47234-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guitar Girl'Book summary:Sex, drugs, and rock & roll... a common high-school fantasy, right? In British author Sarra Manning's debut novel Guitar Girl, this oft-trumpeted triple-temptation proves to be terribly trying for a budding pop star. Molly Montgomery and her friends Tara and Jane live largely unnoticed until they form a fledgling girl band that will "be part of the new girl revolution." Fragile-yet-feisty Molly writes songs about Hello Kitty and boy crushes because that's the stuff of her world--a childhood closely guarded by her "crunchy granola," rule-oriented parents she dramatically deems "power-crazed fascists." But when her band is joined by a couple of older boys and attracts the attention of a fancy manager, "The Hormones" start racing--big gigs, an American tour, the whole bit. During her wild ride to stardom, Molly gets her first kisses from both a boy and a girl, gets drunk for the first time (but not the last), and loses her virginity and her sense of self, too. Any teenager who romanticizes celebrity will get a good dose of the reality of drug overdoses, morning-after pills, legal battles, exploitation, humiliation, and exhaustion with Guitar Girl...still, Manning manages to communicate the rush of wowing an audience and the joy and power of music through the often bittersweet, often bitingly funny voice of Molly. For a variation on the same theme, investigate Rachel Cohn's Pop Princess. (Ages 13 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Musicby Don Michael RandelISBN 0674372999 (0-674-37299-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Hedwig And The Angry Inch: Piano/Vocal SelectionsISBN 0634068814 (0-634-06881-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
Find This BookBook summary:(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The title character of this darkly comic off-Broadway hit, the winner of two Obie Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award, is transsexual singer Hedwig, and the Angry Inch refers both to her back-up rock band, and her botched sex change operation. Our songbook features standard piano/vocal arrangements of 11 great songs, ranging from rocking to touching. Includes: Angry Inch * Exquisite Corpse * Hedwig's Lament * The Long Grift * Midnight Radio * The Origin of Love * Sugar Daddy * Tear Me Down * Wicked Little Town (& Reprise) * Wig in a Box. [via]
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Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boysby Steven S. GainesISBN 0517679167 (0-517-67916-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Holstby Imogen HolstISBN 0571180329 (0-571-18032-9)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber
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How to DJ (Properly): The Art and Science of Playing Recordsby Frank Broughton, Bill BrewsterISBN 0593049667 (0-593-04966-7)
Hardcover, Bantam
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simoneby Nina Simone, Stephen ClearyISBN 0679410686 (0-679-41068-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Ipod & Itunes: The Missing Manualby J. D. BiersdorferISBN 0596006586 (0-596-00658-6)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ipod & I Tunes: The Missing Manual'Book summary:[via]Whether it's the ultra-thin, pocket-sized iPod or the vast music library known as iTunes, it seems like everyone is relying on these marvels of technology for their musical needs. CDs and cassettes? They're so twentieth century!
But like any cutting-edge technology, improvements come fast and furious. To keep up with all the recent changes to iPod and iTunes, O'Reilly has once again fully updated and refreshed its bestselling Missing Manual. This third edition now reflects the following cool advancements:
- the fourth-generation iPod, which has a capacity of 10,000 songs
- iPod Photo and iPod Shuffle: the two newest members of the iPod family
- Airport Express (featuring AirTunes), a gadget that streams iTunes music wirelessly through the speakers of a nearby stereo
- the latest version of iTunes (4.7)
Like the rest of the Missing Manual series, iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual is written in a witty and entertaining style that makes it an easy read for even the most non-technical of consumers.
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Jim Morrison: Dark Starby Dylan JonesISBN 0670834548 (0-670-83454-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relationsby Brian WardISBN 0520212983 (0-520-21298-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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But as with nearly anything associated with race relations in the U.S., there is a flip side to this record, and Ward offers ample evidence that suggests R&B also served to reinforce white stereotypes of blacks and promoted continued segregation. As he points out, many of the same white fans who packed venues to see Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin never supported the notion of equal rights or integration. In other words, entertainment was fine as long as it didn't challenge the status quo. It is precisely this lack of acceptance--combined with the snail's pace of civil rights legislation--that led to the emergence of the Black Power movement and the concurrent rise of funk and soul, the self-consciously inclusive offspring of R&B originally geared specifically for black audiences. Of course, the fact that James Brown's "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" or Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready" carried undeniably political messages for blacks didn't mean the average white music fan couldn't "get up, get into it and get involved." Ward's insistence on this point clearly suggests, despite his attempt at objectivity, that he believes the music made a difference.
Ward's coverage of R&B stretches from the release of the Chords' single "Sh-Boom" in 1954 through the mid-1970s, so it is far from a complete history of the genre, but his work is to be applauded for both its ambition and enthusiasm. Though his theorizing may wear thin at times, Just My Soul Responding is exhaustively researched (the notes and sources stretch nearly 100 pages) and packed with the kind of anecdotes that music lovers will savor. Particularly adept coverage of Chuck Berry, James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Motown founder Berry Gordy, and the roles of many other prominent artists who either supported and avoided the civil rights cause stand out as some of the book's highlights. In all, a rousing hybrid of history, social commentary, and the literate liner notes of an ardent fan. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Keith Richards: The Biographyby Victor BockrisISBN 0671700618 (0-671-70061-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imaginationby Maynard SolomonISBN 0520243390 (0-520-24339-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Life and Times of Little Richardby Charles WhiteISBN 0671601326 (0-671-60132-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Maskeradeby Terry PratchettISBN 0613237420 (0-613-23742-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maskerade'Book summary:There are strange goings-on at the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork. A ghost in a white mask is murdering, well, quite a lot of people, and two witches (it really isn't wise to call them "meddling, interfering old baggages"), or perhaps three, take a hand in unraveling the mystery. Fans of the popular Discworld will be happy to see some old friends again in Maskerade, the 18th novel in the series. --Blaise Selby [via]
Memories and Commentariesby Igor Stravinsky, Robert CraftISBN 0571211631 (0-571-21163-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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More Dark Than Sharkby Brian Eno, Russell MillsISBN 0571138837 (0-571-13883-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Mozart Wind and String Concertosby Alec Hyatt KingISBN 0563127708 (0-563-12770-8)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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Mozart, the Wonder Boyby O. WheelerISBN 0525353046 (0-525-35304-6)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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The Music Packby Ron Van der Meer, Michael BerkeleyISBN 0679430989 (0-679-43098-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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New Musical Resourcesby David Nicholls, Henry CowellISBN 0521499747 (0-521-49974-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Nineteenth-Century Musicby Carl DahlhausISBN 0520076443 (0-520-07644-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteenth-Century Music'Book summary:This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today.[via]
Dahlhaus organizes his book around "watershed" years--for example, 1830, the year of the July Revolution in France, and around which coalesce the "demise of the age of art" proclaimed by Heine, the musical consequences of the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, the simultaneous and dramatic appearance of Chopin and Liszt, Berlioz and Meyerbeer, and Schumann and Mendelssohn. But he keeps us constantly on guard against generalization and cliché. Cherished concepts like Romanticism, tradition, nationalism vs. universality, the musical culture of the bourgeoisie, are put to pointed reevaluation. Always demonstrating the interest in socio-historical influences that is the hallmark of his work, Dahlhaus reminds us of the contradictions, interrelationships, psychological nuances, and riches of musical character and musical life.
Nineteenth-Century Music contains 90 illustrations, the collected captions of which come close to providing a summary of the work and the author's methods. Technical language is kept to a minimum, but while remaining accessible, Dahlhaus challenges, braces, and excites. This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore. 
Outside Is America: U2 in the U.S.by Carter AlanISBN 0571129269 (0-571-12926-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Pet Shop Boys, Literallyby Chris HeathISBN 0670836168 (0-670-83616-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Peter Pears: A Biographyby Christopher HeadingtonISBN 0571170722 (0-571-17072-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Poverty Knockby Roy PalmerISBN 0521204437 (0-521-20443-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Bookby Marcia Pankake, Jon PankakeISBN 0670821594 (0-670-82159-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural Historyby Edward A. BerlinISBN 0595261582 (0-595-26158-2)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Rhythms and the Blues: A Life in American Musicby Jerry Wexler, David RitzISBN 0679401024 (0-679-40102-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Sacred in Musicby Albert L. BlackwellISBN 0664224865 (0-664-22486-5)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Sarah McLachlan Collection: Easy PianoISBN 0634016407 (0-634-01640-7)
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Sarah McLachlan+ SurfacingISBN 0634004964 (0-634-00496-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
Find This BookBook summary:(Guitar Recorded Versions). Note-for-note transcriptions of all 10 songs from her hit album: Adia * Angel * Black & White * Building a Mystery * Do What You Have to Do * Full of Grace * I Love You * Last Dance * Sweet Surrender * Witness. Includes art pages for each song. [via]
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Schubert: The Music and the Manby Brian NewbouldISBN 0520219570 (0-520-21957-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Gifted with an intuitive know-how, coupled with a Mozartian facility for composition, Schubert combined the relish and wonder of an amateur with the discipline and technical rigor of a professional. He moved quickly and comfortably among genres, and sometimes composed directly into score; but many pieces required painstaking revision before they satisfied his growing self-criticism. Examining afresh the enigmas surrounding Schubert's religious outlook, his loves, his sexuality, his illness and death, Newbould offers above all a celebration of a unique genius, an idiosyncratic composer of an astonishing body of powerful, enduring music.More editions of Schubert: The Music and the Man:
The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation and the History of the Bodyby Richard LeppertISBN 0520203429 (0-520-20342-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology: Mezzo-Soprano/Belterby Richard Walters, Mark Carlstein, Milton GrangerISBN 0634009753 (0-634-00975-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology: Sopranoby Richard Walters, Mark Carlstein, Milton GrangerISBN 0634009745 (0-634-00974-5)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabweby Paul BerlinerISBN 0520042689 (0-520-04268-9)
Softcover, Daedalus Books
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Stravinsky in Pictures and Documentsby Robert Craft, Vera StravinskyISBN 0671243829 (0-671-24382-9)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Tchaikovsky Discovers Americaby Esther Kalman, Laura Fernandez, Rick JacobsonISBN 0531071685 (0-531-07168-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Techniques and Materials of Tonal Music: With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Techniquesby Thomas Benjamin, Robert Nelson, Michael HorvitISBN 0534166806 (0-534-16680-6)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrieby Elizabeth PartridgeISBN 0670035351 (0-670-03535-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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True Storiesby D ByrneISBN 0571146287 (0-571-14628-7)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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The Twinkie Squadby Gordon KormanISBN 0590452509 (0-590-45250-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Various Positionsby Ira NadelISBN 0679308849 (0-679-30884-9)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Vaughan Williams Symphoniesby Hugh OttawayISBN 0563205571 (0-563-20557-1)
Hardcover, Parkwest Pubns
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A Virgil Thomson Readerby Virgil ThomsonISBN 0525481028 (0-525-48102-8)
Softcover, E.P. Dutton
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Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conductby David SudnowISBN 0674948335 (0-674-94833-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Who Is Bugs Potterby Gordon KormanISBN 0590442074 (0-590-44207-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Who's Afraid of Opera?: A Highly Opinionated, Informative, and Entertaining Guide to Appreciating Operaby Michael WalshISBN 0671884026 (0-671-88402-6)
Softcover, Fireside
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Wishing on the Moonby Donald ClarkeISBN 0670837717 (0-670-83771-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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