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Beatle's Complete ScoreISBN 0793518326 (0-7935-1832-6)
Hardcover, Hal Leonard Corp
Find This BookBook summary:A fitting tribute to possibly the greatest pop band ever - The Beatles. This outstanding hard-cover edition features over 1100 pages with full scores and lyrics to all 210 titles recorded by The Beatles. Guitar and bass parts are in both standard notation [via]
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The Beatlesby Hunter DaviesISBN 0393315711 (0-393-31571-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beatles'Book summary:In this book, the author lets the singers speak for themselves, and anyone who believes the Beatles are four lovable mopheads full of sweetness and light is in for shock. This book is earthy pungent and wry, full of put-ons and put-down. No one's reputation is spared. The author traveled with them for sixteen months, has pieced together their complete story from school days to the years they spent in Hamburg up to the period of Beatlemania and beyond. Yearly group photos from 1963 to 1968 that show changes in appearance that are great. Also, includes family photos. [via]
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- The Beatles: ISBN 0070155267 (0-07-015526-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill - The Beatles: The Authorized Biography: ISBN 0070154570 (0-07-015457-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill - The Beatles: ISBN 0070154635 (0-07-015463-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill - The Beatles: ISBN 0393315711 (0-393-31571-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Beatles: ISBN 0070155267 (0-07-015526-7)
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The Beatles Illustrated Lyricsby Alan AldridgeISBN 1579126162 (1-57912-616-2)
Softcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics'Book summary:First published in 1969, this reissued collection of illustrated lyrics for 200 Beatles songs will be a treasure for any fan of the Fab Four. Editor and Beatle-buddy Alan Aldridge states in his introduction to the original edition: "What I have tried to do is present a book [that] is as entertaining to the eye and the imagination as a Beatles album is to the ear." Indeed, he more than succeeds, creating a lavish pageant of art and music that embraces not only the Beatles but also the psychedelic spirit of the entire era.
In 320 photos and illustrations, renowned artists offer their interpretations of various songs. "Help" is visualized by Ronald Searle; "Fixing a Hole," by Tomi Ungerer; "Glass Onion," by Peter Max; "I'm So Tired," by David Hockney; and "Oh, Darling," by Ralph Steadman. Aldridge also contributes his own trippy illustrations, which reflect the bold, bulbous, cartoons-on-acid style of 1960s poster art. This rich compilation also has brief quotes from the Beatles explaining the origins of the themes and lyrics of certain songs. For example, despite the buzz that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is about LSD, according to Paul, "What happened was that John's son Julian did a drawing at school and brought it home, and he has a schoolmate named Lucy, and John said, 'What's that?' and he said 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds.'" Band members also share their thoughts on superstardom, including this now weighty comment from John: "I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40." It can't bring them back, but The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics can take you on a long and winding road of nostalgia. --Brangien Davis [via]
The Beatles: Illustrated Lyricsby Beatles, Alan AldridgeISBN 157912058X (1-57912-058-X)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics'Book summary:First published in 1969, this reissued collection of illustrated lyrics for 200 Beatles songs will be a treasure for any fan of the Fab Four. Editor and Beatle-buddy Alan Aldridge states in his introduction to the original edition: "What I have tried to do is present a book [that] is as entertaining to the eye and the imagination as a Beatles album is to the ear." Indeed, he more than succeeds, creating a lavish pageant of art and music that embraces not only the Beatles but also the psychedelic spirit of the entire era.
In 320 photos and illustrations, renowned artists offer their interpretations of various songs. "Help" is visualized by Ronald Searle; "Fixing a Hole," by Tomi Ungerer; "Glass Onion," by Peter Max; "I'm So Tired," by David Hockney; and "Oh, Darling," by Ralph Steadman. Aldridge also contributes his own trippy illustrations, which reflect the bold, bulbous, cartoons-on-acid style of 1960s poster art. This rich compilation also has brief quotes from the Beatles explaining the origins of the themes and lyrics of certain songs. For example, despite the buzz that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is about LSD, according to Paul, "What happened was that John's son Julian did a drawing at school and brought it home, and he has a schoolmate named Lucy, and John said, 'What's that?' and he said 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds.'" Band members also share their thoughts on superstardom, including this now weighty comment from John: "I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40." It can't bring them back, but The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics can take you on a long and winding road of nostalgia. --Brangien Davis [via]
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The Beatles: The Authorised Biographyby Hunter DaviesISBN 0434176044 (0-434-17604-4)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beatles: The Authorised Biography'Book summary:Theres only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles and this is it. The landmark, worldwide bestseller that has grown with the Beatles ever since. During 1967 and 1968 Hunter Davies spent eighteen months with the Beatles at the peak of their powers as they defined a generation and rewrote popular music. As their only ever authorised biographer he had unparalleled access not just to John, Paul, George and Ringo but to friends, family and colleagues. There when it mattered, he collected a wealth of intimate and revealing material that still makes this the classic Beatles book the one all other biographers look to. Hunter Davies remained close with the band and as such has had access to more information over the years. This 40th anniversary edition contains new material which has never been revealed before, from the author's archives and from the Beatles themselves, that will bring new insights to their legend. [via]
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Beethoven: His Spiritual Developmentby J. W. SullivanISBN 0394701003 (0-394-70100-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beethoven His Spiritual Development'Book summary:Great men, especially creative artists whose work lives after them, engage people's imagination for centuries. Beethoven, as man and composer, has inspired innumerable books both by his contemporaries and later writers, and it is proof of his endlessly fascinating, controversial nature that they all throw a different light on some aspect of his life and work. Since J.W.N. Sullivan wrote his book in 1927, much new information about Beethoven, his character, his illnesses, and his relationships has come to light, but it is still a valid contribution to the literature on the composer. Sullivan's basic theory is that Beethoven's greatness lies in his extraordinary perceptions, his heightened experiences and "states of consciousness," and his ability to organize and synthesize these into a musical expression of a "view of life." He asserts that Beethoven's initial despairing, then defiant struggle against his suffering--especially his deafness and resulting isolation--gives his middle-period works their heroism, and that his ultimate acceptance of it as necessary to his creativity marks the peak of his "spirituality" and gives his latest works their unparalleled sublimity.
Like many biographies, the book reveals more about the author than the subject. Sullivan, who is not a musician, offers some interesting, if sometimes extravagantly extramusical, analyses of Beethoven's works (though elsewhere he decries injecting "meaning" into music). He sees Beethoven's late fugues as outbursts of "blind and desperate energy," another battle with hostile fate; many musicians see them as another battle with counterpoint. He also makes subjective, high-handed value judgments: he detests Wagner and dismisses Bach as too religious, while Haydn and Mozart are too shallow to equal Beethoven's struggle-generated "spirituality." The book also brings up questions about beauty and greatness in art, the relationship between moral character and genius, and the impact of a man's personal experiences upon his creativity--all age-old but forever timely. --Edith Eisler [via]
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Between Thought and Expression: Selected Lyrics of Lou Reedby Lou ReedISBN 1562829238 (1-56282-923-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayasby Michka Assayas, BonoISBN 1594481733 (1-59448-173-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas'Book summary:For the first time ever, Bono--the biggest rock star in the world--tells his life story.
Bono's career is unlike any other in rock history. As the lead singer of U2, Bono has sold 130 million albums, won fourteen Grammys, and played numerous sold-out world tours, but he has also lobbied and worked with world leaders from Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to Nelson Mandela on debt relief, AIDS, and other critical global issues. He has collaborated with the same musicians for nearly three decades and has been married to his childhood sweetheart since 1982. His life, at all turns, resists the rock star clichés.
In a series of intimate conversations with his friend Michka Assayas, a music journalist who has been with the band since the very beginning, Bono reflects on his transformation from the extrovert singer of a small Irish post-punk band into one of the most famous individuals in the world; and from an international celebrity to an influential spokesperson for the Third World. He speaks candidly about his faith, family, commitment, influences, service, and passion. Bono: A Self-Portrait in Conversation is the closest we will come, for now, to a memoir from the iconic frontman of U2. [via]More editions of Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas:
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Broken Music: A Memoirby StingISBN 0385338651 (0-385-33865-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Broken Music: A Memoir'Book summary:Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done.
And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know.
I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything thats ever happened to me. Instead I found myself drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became. [via] -
Country and Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopelessby John GindickISBN 0932592082 (0-932592-08-2)
Softcover, Klutz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Country and Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless'Book summary:There is no other book on harmonica playing that comes even close to this one in number of sales. Packaged with an instructional cassette and a harmonica manufactured by Hohner, the world's largest maker, this book is a musical first-aid kit that picks up where your third-grade piano teacher quit. [via]
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The Essential Phantom of the Operaby Gaston Leroux, Leonard WolfISBN 1596871970 (1-59687-197-0)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Phantom of the Opera'Book summary:This edition of Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera" is fully annotated, and includes facts, bibliographical information and legends. It also features a full bibliography of works by and about Gaston Leroux, including critical works on "The Phantom of the Opera". [via]
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The Essential Phantom Of The Operaby Leonard Wolf, Gaston Leroux, Max DouglasISBN 0743498364 (0-7434-9836-4)
Softcover, Pgw
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Phantom Of The Opera'Book summary:The Essential Phantom of the Opera is the most comprehensive edition ever produced of the classic 1911 novel of romance, mystery, and psychological suspense, fully annotated with thousands of fascinating facts and legends. Here is the complete, authoritative edition of literature's most bizarre tale of love, obsession, and aberration-a story that has held an irresistible fascination for audiences and readers for nearly a century. [via]
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The Essential Rock Discographyby M. C. Strong, Martin C. StrongISBN 1841950173 (1-84195-017-3)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Rock Discography'Book summary:It took Strong 10 years to compile this discography, and the rock music world is in his debt. More accurate and comprehensive than other books attempting to accomplish the same ends, more readable and better organized, The Great Rock Discography title may toot its own horn, while Strong calls his opus "the ultimate rock book of all time," but it's entirely merited.
It starts at A with ABBA and spends over a page on them (and these are rather large pages, with very small print), describing the history of the band and their albums, then compulsively listing their every recorded musical output from October '73 until October '96, including a jungle of code notations (you can refer back to the formats-and-abbreviations page whenever needed) with catalog number and recording label, whether the A- or B-sides differ in their U.K. and U.S. versions, which are essential to your collection, and whether the vinyl was a long player, a double-long player, a colored long player, or a mini-long player. Covering Adam & the Ants, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Tom Petty, Linda Rondstadt, and Muddy Waters on up through the Zombies and ZZ Top, Strong lists every track by more than 1,000 groups. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd - The Essential Rock Discography: ISBN 1841950793 (1-84195-079-3)
Hardcover, Pub Group West - The Essential Rock Discography: ISBN 1841953113 (1-84195-311-3)
Hardcover, Canongate Books Ltd - The Essential Rock Discography: ISBN 1841950173 (1-84195-017-3)
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- The Essential Rock Discography: ISBN 1841953121 (1-84195-312-1)
The Gaston Leroux Bedside Companionby Gaston Leroux, Peter HainingISBN 0575028262 (0-575-02826-2)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Get In The Vanby Henry RollinsISBN 1880985764 (1-880985-76-4)
Softcover, 2 13 61
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Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flagby Henry RollinsISBN 1880985241 (1-880985-24-1)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag'Book summary:A day-by-day journal from the journals of the ever-volatile Henry Rollins on tour from 1981 to 1986 that captures the irrationality and violence of punk specifically, and the stresses of being on the road in a rock band generally. [via]
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The Great Pianistsby Harold C. SchonbergISBN 0671638378 (0-671-63837-8)
Softcover, Fireside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Pianists'Book summary:From Mozarts fabulous legato that flowed like oil to Beethovens oceanlike surge, from Clara Schumanns touch sharp as a pencil sketch to Rubinsteins volcanic and sensual playing, The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities of historys greatest pianists.
Pulitzer Prizewinning critic and author Harold C. Schonberg presents vivid accounts of the artists performances, styles, and even their personal lives and quirky characteristics such as Mozarts intense competition with Clementi, Lizsts magnetic effect on women (when he played, ladies flung their jewels on stage), and Gottschalks persistent nailbiting, which left the keys covered with blood.
Including profiles of Horowitz and Van Cliburn, among others, and chapters detailing the playing and careers of such modern pianists as de Larrocha, Ashkenazy, Gilels, Gould, Brendel, Bolet, Gutierrez, and Watts, The Great Pianists is a comprehensive and fascinating look at legendary performers past and present. [via]
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The Great Rock Discography: Complete Discographies Listing Every Track Recorded by More Than 1,200 Artistsby Martin C. Strong, John PeelISBN 1841956155 (1-84195-615-5)
Softcover, Canongate Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Rock Discography: Complete Discographies Listing Every Track Recorded by More Than 1,200 Artists'Book summary:It took Strong 10 years to compile this discography, and the rock music world is in his debt. More accurate and comprehensive than other books attempting to accomplish the same ends, more readable and better organized, The Great Rock Discography title may toot its own horn, while Strong calls his opus "the ultimate rock book of all time," but it's entirely merited.
It starts at A with ABBA and spends over a page on them (and these are rather large pages, with very small print), describing the history of the band and their albums, then compulsively listing their every recorded musical output from October '73 until October '96, including a jungle of code notations (you can refer back to the formats-and-abbreviations page whenever needed) with catalog number and recording label, whether the A- or B-sides differ in their U.K. and U.S. versions, which are essential to your collection, and whether the vinyl was a long player, a double-long player, a colored long player, or a mini-long player. Covering Adam & the Ants, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Tom Petty, Linda Rondstadt, and Muddy Waters on up through the Zombies and ZZ Top, Strong lists every track by more than 1,000 groups. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Writings on Punk, 1977-1992by Greil MarcusISBN 0140149406 (0-14-014940-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Fascist Bathroom: Writings on Punk, 1977-1992'Book summary:This is a chronicle of the punk years that includes critical writings on the performers and music and follows what the author calls the punk sensibility of "dread, release, negation, empowerment and excitement as it developed from about 1975 to the present". [via]
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Incredibly Strange Musicby Andrea Juno, V. ValeISBN 0940642212 (0-940642-21-2)
Softcover, V/Search
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The Land Where the Blues Beganby Alan LomaxISBN 1565847393 (1-56584-739-3)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Land Where the Blues Began'Book summary:Co-founder--with folklorist father John A. Lomax--of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, Alan Lomax traveled the South "from the Brazos bottoms of Texas to the tidewater country of Virginia" in search of the wellspring of American blues. Previously the author of Mister Jelly Roll, Lomax stalks the ghosts of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy and Charlie Patton, among many other blues pioneers. This winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction is more than just another profile of a musical genre. It's an intimate diary of a purely American art form born of a powerful mix of despair and hope. [via]
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Last Night a Dj Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockeyby Frank Broughton, Bill BrewsterISBN 0802136885 (0-8021-3688-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Night a Dj Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey'Book summary:From the first time a record was played over the airwaves in 1906, to a modern club economy that totals $3 billion annually in New York City alone, the DJ has been at the center of popular music. Starting as little more than a talking jukebox, the DJ is now a premier entertainer, producer, businessman, and musician in his own right. Superstar DJs, from Junior Vasquez to Sasha and Digweed, command worship and adoration from millions, flying around the globe to earn tens of thousands of dollars for one night's work. Increasingly, they are replacing live musicians as the central figures of the music industry. In Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, music journalists Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have written the first comprehensive history of the mysterious and charismatic figure behind the turntables -- part obsessive record collector, part mad scientist, part intuitive psychologist of the party groove. From England's rabid Northern Soul scene to the birth of disco in New York, from the sound systems of Jamaica to the scratch wars of early hip-hop in the Bronx, from Chicago house to Detroit techno to London rave, DJs are responsible for most of the significant changes in music over the past forty years. Drawing on in-depth interviews with DJs, critics, musicians, record executives, and the revelers at some of the century's most legendary parties, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is nothing less than the life story of dance music.[via]More editions of Last Night a Dj Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey:
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Le Fantome De L'Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0844212334 (0-8442-1233-4)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co Trade
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Fantome De L'Opera'Book summary:A French reader for intermediate through advanced students
Le Fantôme de lOpéra (Leroux) is an adaptation that captures the meaning and mood of the original 1910 Gaston Leroux novel and includes all major scenes. It is 152 pages in length. [via]More editions of Le Fantome De L'Opera:
Listenby Joseph Kerman, Vivian KermanISBN 1572590580 (1-57259-058-0)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Listen'Book summary:An introduction to Western music from the Middle Ages through Bach and Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Stravinsky, Aaron Copeland and Duke Ellington. Aiming to teach students to listen critically, the book presents the vocabulary, elements, structures, styles and forms of music. Supplementary cassettes or CDs are also available. [via]
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Listenby Gary Tomlinson, Joseph Kerman, Vivian KermanISBN 1572594225 (1-57259-422-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Listen'Book summary:This classic introductory text, which changed the way the course was taught when it was first introduced, teaches students how to listen to music better than any other music appreciation text. Listen helps students become active listeners, and it places music in a cultural context that makes music more accessible to students. The new brief edition, now in a handsome full-color design, appeals more than ever to today's diverse student body by adding substantial coverage of non-Western music throughout and by offering more online resources to help students become active and intelligent listeners. [via]
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Listen 3E Briefby KermanISBN 1572591307 (1-57259-130-7)
Softcover, Worth Publishers, Incorporated
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hellby Neil Strauss, Marilyn MansonISBN 0060987464 (0-06-098746-4)
Softcover, Regan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Hard Road Out of Hell'Book summary:From the world's most controversial rock star comes his shocking, confessional and revealing life story. In The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson candidly and vividly recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered celebrity in America.
A cross-dressing grandfather, a sexually abusive neighbor, a brainwashing faith healer and a schoolteacher searching for satanic messages in rock songs are only a few of the characters who populate his bizarre childhood.
From backstage to jail cells, from recording studios to emergency rooms, from the pit of despair to the top of the charts, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell chronicles Manson's rise to fame at the price of his humanity and his descent through the circles of Dante's Inferno: Lust, Violence and Treachery.
His story is illustrated with dozens of previously unpublished photographs, and it features a behind-the-scenes account of his headline-grabbing Dead to the World Tour -- vilified, banned and protested by politicans, preachers and parents alike.
In his 29 years, Manson has experienced more than most people have -- or would want to -- in a lifetime. [via]
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Messiahby George Frideric HandelISBN 0793505070 (0-7935-0507-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Messiah'Book summary:Anyone attending a Messiah sing-along is most likely to fit in when using this old favorite edition. The musicological work has been superseded by Watkins Shaw's edition for Novello, but his piano reductions are idiosyncratic. This piano-vocal score has no measure numbers or rehearsal figures, but the reduction is pianistic in scope. The choral lines are in smaller type but are workable. The price is of course also highly attractive. Listeners who truly love this work may be interested in the full orchestral score--also at a great price--from Dover, edited by Alfred Mann. --William R. Braun [via]
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Miles: The Autobiographyby Miles DavisISBN 0671725823 (0-671-72582-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miles: The Autobiography'Book summary:For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life.
"Miles: The Autobiography, " like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year silence. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he has encountered in the music business and in American society generally. And he discusses the women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has played with over the years: Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Trane, Mingus, and many others.
The man who has given us some of the most exciting music of the past few decades has now given us a compelling and fascinating autobiography, featuring a concise discography and thirty-two pages of photographs. [via]
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Mozart: His Character, His Workby Alfred EinsteinISBN 0195007328 (0-19-500732-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart: His Character, His Work'Book summary:Written by one of the world's outstanding music historians and critics, the late Alfred Einstein, this classic study of Mozart's character and works brings to light many new facts about his relationship with his family, his susceptibility to ambitious women, and his associations with musical contemporaries, as well as offering a penetrating analysis of his operas, piano music, chamber music, and symphonies. [via]
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Musicby Neil ArdleyISBN 0756607094 (0-7566-0709-4)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music'Book summary:Full-color photos. "Ardley introduces types of musical instruments in a scintillating blend that spans ancient to modern. Interesting historical asides and highlights about famous musicians contrast with the precisely labeled parts of the numerous illustrated instruments. The double-page spreads display an array of full-color photos, sketches, and explanatory text. Holds wide appeal for research and browsing."--(starred) Booklist. [via]
Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guideby Gary Graff, Daniel DurchholzISBN 1578590612 (1-57859-061-2)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Operaby Fred PlotkinISBN 0786880252 (0-7868-8025-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Paul McCartneyby Barry MilesISBN 0805052496 (0-8050-5249-6)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul McCartney'Book summary:If you think John Lennon was the smart, arty Beatle while Paul was an empty head twittering prettily, this book will hip you to the facts. While John sat in the suburbs getting stoned to numb the pain of his imminent divorce, bachelor Paul was feeding his head by immersion in the London avant-garde. He pioneered the Beatles' experimental stuff, though his witty song-by-song account proves that it really was a 50-50 partnership--and some of the best innovations, like the snarling 1964 feedback intro to "I Feel Fine," happened by pure accident. Paul's insight into John's genius, which sprang from howling paranoia and a stark childhood, is still deeper than his insight into himself, but the book's true glory is its inside info on all those songs--the six tunes about John's marriage on A Hard Day's Night; Paul's heist of the "I Saw Her Standing There" bass line from Chuck Berry's "I'm Talking About You" (found on Berry's The Chess Box); the true meanings of "Norwegian Wood" (pine paneling, which the song's narrator burns to avenge the girl's refusal to have sex with him), "Got to Get You into My Life" ("you" is marijuana), and "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" ("life goes on" in Yoruba). This book is even better than A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song and Revolution in the Head. Here is the last word on the Beatles, inevitably slanted toward McCartney but generally more convincing than Lennon's own recollections. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Paul McCartney : Many Years from Nowby Barry MilesISBN 0805052488 (0-8050-5248-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 1404324232 (1-4043-2423-2)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom of the Opera'Book summary:[via]The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:The Paris Opera is hauntedeveryone knows it. Everyone, that is, except for the new managers, who spark a violent dispute with the Opera Ghost when they refuse to acknowledge his existence or submit to his demands. Sometimes surfacing as a disembodied voice in Box Five or appearing as a gentleman in evening dress with a deaths-head, the phantom is obsessed with Christine Daaé, a lovely and enigmatic novice singer endowed with an amazing voice. But impetuous Viscount Raoul de Chagny is in love with Christine, and he and his brother, Count Philippe, are swept into the phantoms deadly illusion with horrifying consequences.
Police reports, newspaper clippings, and witness interviews help a sleuthing narrator reconstruct the events of French author Gaston Lerouxs most famous tale, one that had a significant impact on contemporary detective fiction. First published in 1911, The Phantom of the Opera has since been the basis for many adaptations, including Lon Chaneys silent film and Andrew Lloyd Webbers Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Today, this thriller is recognized not only as a compelling yarn with gothic overtones, but an engrossing romance of stirring theatricality.Isabel Roche has a Ph.D. in French literature from New York University and teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. She wrote the book Character and Meaning in the Novels of Victor Hugo and has published articles in The French Review and French Forum.More editions of Phantom Of The Opera:
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The Phantom Of The Opera: Illustrated And Unabridged Editionby Gaston Leroux, Jean Marc Lofficier, Randy L'OfficierISBN 1932983139 (1-932983-13-9)
Softcover, Black Coat Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom Of The Opera: Illustrated And Unabridged Edition'Book summary:Paris, 1881. A mysterious wraith-like being is terrorizing the Opera, blackmailing its Directors and murdering those who dare challenge him. Young diva Christine Daae is abducted. Can her lover, Raoul de Chagny, assisted by the mysterious Persian, the only man to know the Phantom's identity, uncover the secret of the tragic figure who lurks beneath the famous monument? This classic 1911 novel of suspense and terror has been entirely retranslated and is now UNABRIDGED AND UNCUT! The book includes a new story about Erik's past by J.-M. & Randy Lofficier and a portfolio of 45 all-new illustrations by renowned international artists. [via]
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The Phantom of the Opera the Original Novelby Gaston LerouxISBN 0060809248 (0-06-080924-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessonsby Igor Fedorovich StravinskiISBN 0674678567 (0-674-67856-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons'Book summary:One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution. Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first presentation in English of an unusually interesting book.
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The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desireby Wayne KoestenbaumISBN 0306810085 (0-306-81008-5)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire'Book summary:Why do so many gay men love opera? What makes an "opera queen"? What is the connection between gay sexuality and the full-throated longing that emerges from the diva's mouth? In The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, self-proclaimed opera queen Wayne Koestenbaum investigates the hidden--and unexpected--mysteries that opera and sexuality produce. At once a personal meditation and an iconoclastic, highly entertaining survey of divas, The Queen's Throat is ultimately a profoundly moving, and at times curiously disturbing, investigation of the intricate interplay between art and sexuality, between beauty and eroticism. Koestenbaum is not afraid to challenge, and he more or less grabs readers by the hand to drag them, with nonstop exuberance, through the ornate, highly stylized world of diva worship. Traipsing through descriptions of classic performances, musical autobiographies, personal recollections, historical notations, and the music itself, Koestenbaum creates for us the daring, frenzied, disordered, highly sexual--and ultimately ecstatic--world of the opera queen. --Michael Bronski [via]
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A Short History of Music/American Editionby Alfred EinsteinISBN 0880290978 (0-88029-097-8)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Divisionby Deborah CurtisISBN 0571174450 (0-571-17445-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The United Methodist Hymnal: Book of United Methodist WorshipISBN 0687431328 (0-687-43132-8)
Hardcover, Abingdon Pr
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United Methodist Hymnal Book of United Methodist Worship: Pew Bright RedISBN 0687431344 (0-687-43134-4)
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Visions of Jazz: The First Centuryby Gary GiddinsISBN 0195132416 (0-19-513241-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions of Jazz: The First Century'Book summary:As Gary Giddins makes clear in his introduction to Visions of Jazz, he's not attempting to draw a canonical line in the sand: "Everyone has his or her vision of jazz, and this is mine." Modesty aside, though, it's hard to imagine a critic with a more encyclopedic grasp of detail, or a more lucid, funny, and appropriately musical style. Weighing in at almost 700 pages, the magnificent Visions of Jazz consists of 70 profiles, beginning with a dual portrait of blackface pioneers Bert Williams and Al Jolson and concluding with the klezmer-infatuated clarinetist Don Byron. These sketches mingle musical, biographical, and cultural insights--indeed, one of Giddins's great gifts is to break down the very distinction between such categories. Yet Giddins is hardly an unhinged generalizer, and he loves to zero in on a particular chorus and disclose its charms on a bar-by-bar basis. The pinnacle of this musical microscopy occurs in his Dizzy Gillespie essay, with an almost biblical exegesis of 64 measures from the 1989 version of "Salt Peanuts." But even in these nuts-and-bolts passages, Giddins is always accessible, combining precisely the right proportions of edification and old-fashioned entertainment. The only problem with Visions of Jazz, in fact, is that it makes you so itchy and impatient to hear the music. Fortunately, Giddins has taken care of the problem by curating a companion disc called (you guessed it) Visions of Jazz. This isn't, it should be said, a predictable journey from one jazz milestone to the next. Instead he's assembled a delightfully idiosyncratic anthology, which testifies to the music's irresistible pulse and all-American parentage. --James Marcus [via]
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War For The Oaks: The Screenplayby Will Shetterly, Emma BullISBN 1932983082 (1-932983-08-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War For The Oaks: The Screenplay'Book summary:Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself drafted against her will in a faerie war between the Summer and Winter Courts, the WAR FOR THE OAKS. While trying to cope with her new otherworldly bodyguyard, the Pooka, Eddi also struggles to build a new life, a new band, survive the schemes of the Queen of Air and Darkness -- and discover the magic that is truly her own. Emma Bull and Will Shetterly write novels, short stories, screenplays, comic books, poetry and essays. Emma was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award for Bone Dance. Will won the Minnesota Book Award for Elsewhere. In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is dedicated to presenting some of those scripts. [via]
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Zin! Zin! Zin!by Lloyd Moss, Marjorie PricemanISBN 0671882392 (0-671-88239-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zin! Zin! Zin!'Book summary:"The STRINGS all soar, the REEDS implore, / The BRASSES roar with notes galore. / It's music that we all adore. / It's what we go to concerts for." In this exuberant tribute to classical music and the passionate, eccentric musicians who play it, author Lloyd Moss begins with the mournful moan and silken tone of one trombone. A trumpet sings and stings along, forming a duo, then a fine French horn joins in, "TWO, now THREE-O, what a TRIO!" The mellow cello ups it to a quartet, then ZIN! ZIN! ZIN! a violin soars high and moves in to make a quintet. The flute that "sends our soul a-shiver" makes a sextet, and "with steely keys that softly click," a sleek, black, woody clarinet slips the group into a septet. We move on! A chamber group of ten! And the orchestra is ready to begin. Moss should be congratulated for creating a playful, musical stream of rhyming couplets that seamlessly, slyly teaches the names of myriad musical groups. Marjorie Priceman, the whimsical, masterful illustrator of Elsa Okon Rael's When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street and Jack Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud, won a Caldecott Honor Award for this swirling, twirling, colorful musical world worthy of thunderous applause and a standing ovation. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violinby Lloyd Moss, Marjorie PricemanISBN 1416908382 (1-4169-0838-2)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin'Book summary:"The STRINGS all soar, the REEDS implore, / The BRASSES roar with notes galore. / It's music that we all adore. / It's what we go to concerts for." In this exuberant tribute to classical music and the passionate, eccentric musicians who play it, author Lloyd Moss begins with the mournful moan and silken tone of one trombone. A trumpet sings and stings along, forming a duo, then a fine French horn joins in, "TWO, now THREE-O, what a TRIO!" The mellow cello ups it to a quartet, then ZIN! ZIN! ZIN! a violin soars high and moves in to make a quintet. The flute that "sends our soul a-shiver" makes a sextet, and "with steely keys that softly click," a sleek, black, woody clarinet slips the group into a septet. We move on! A chamber group of ten! And the orchestra is ready to begin. Moss should be congratulated for creating a playful, musical stream of rhyming couplets that seamlessly, slyly teaches the names of myriad musical groups. Marjorie Priceman, the whimsical, masterful illustrator of Elsa Okon Rael's When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street and Jack Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud, won a Caldecott Honor Award for this swirling, twirling, colorful musical world worthy of thunderous applause and a standing ovation. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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