J. S. Bach held it in high esteem, Leopold Mozart trained his famous son from its pages, Haydn worked out every lesson with meticulous care, and Beethoven condensed it into an abstract for ready reference.

    His career took him from the concert hall to Broadway and Hollywood, to radio and television, to drug addiction and the psychiatric ward of Mr Sinai hospital. Through a collection of anecdotal vignettes, Levant offers the reader a roller-coaster ride through the ups and downs of an often troubled, often brilliant artist and critic of the human condition, let loose on the uneasy ground where art and commerce overlap.

    The program has showcased Sendak's varied and distinctive styles, from the serious to the silly, the dreamlike to the dramatic.In the program's final season, we are happy to reintroduce a book that uses all of those styles to explore the wonders of the most beloved verses and songs from childhood. Sendak created some of his loveliest and most endearing full-color art for this book, which is perfect for bedtime or any time at all.

    'This Land is Your Land,' 'So Long, It's Been Good to Know You,' 'Hard Traveling,' 'Pretty Boy Floyd,' & 'The Dust Bowl Ballads,' are just a few of the Guthrie songs that have made his name a byword in American music. Born to Win is a great new collection of his stories, drawings, poems, previously unpublished songs & reminiscences. Their themes are the themes oa whole new generation of balladeers have triumphantly taken up: War. Love. Justice. Wandering. Children. Injustice. Sex. The American scene. together they convey a vivid & immediate sense of what Woody Guthrie is all about.

    The bestselling biography of Allan Sherman, parodist (Hello Mutha Hello Fatha) and TV Producer (I've Got A Secret).

    The few published ballad editions that existed were unreliable, filled with unacknowledged editorial changes and distortions of the original manuscripts. Professor Child compiled all the extant ballads with all known variants, and made them available for the first time — together with his invaluable commentary that prefaces each work — in a single source that maintained absolute fidelity to the original texts. Published between 1882 and 1898, the original ten-part study became the definitive collection of popular ballads in the English language, never to be superceded. To this day, scholars and devotees speak of "The Child Ballads" with the awe and respect generated by few other literary works. Volume 1: Parts I and II of the original set, ballads 1-53 including "Edward," "Lord Randal," "Tam Lin," "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight," "Earl Brand," "Thomas Rymer," more. Biographical sketch of Child by Prof. Kittredge, Child's portrait, additions and corrections.

    A survey of the development of jazz piano from 1950 to the present, with illustrations of left-hand chord voicings, right-hand modes, turnarounds, harmonic distortions, blues, and modal fragments.

    Songs such as A Room with a View, The Stately Homes of England, Mad Dogs and Englishmen and Mrs Worthington are known, sung and loved the world over. This edition gathers together over 250 of Coward's lyrics, arranged in chronological order and grouped by show. In addition, these masterpieces of verse are accompanied by an introduction and notes from the Master himself.

    Includes these songs: A Winter Tale (Bartok) Dance (Kabalevsky) Ecossaise In G [Beethoven, Ludwig Van] Little Song [Kabalevsky, Dmitri] March [Shostakovich, Dmitri] March In D Major (Notebook For Anna Magdalena Bach) [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Minuet In F Major [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Minuet In G [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Minuet In G Minor [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Quick March (Kabalevsky) Soldiers' March [Schumann, Robert] Sonatina (Fritz) Sonatina In G (Beethoven) The Lonely Traveler (Bartok) The Merry Farmer Op.68 No.10 [Schumann, Robert] The Wild Horseman Op.68 No.8 (Album For The Young) [Schumann, Robert] Waltz [Kabalevsky, Dmitri]

    The period covered ranges from approximately 1500, when concrete data became available, to 1800, after which the nature of the instrument is no longer of musicological significance.The author's aim is to "give enough information to make it possible for builders of harpsichords to base their work on certain knowledge of the designs and methods of earlier makers; to guide players of the harpsichord in their search for appropriate instruments, dispositions, and registrations in recreating the music of the past; and to serve as a useful body of information for historians and editors of early keyboard music."A chapter each is devoted to the five most important schools of harpsichord making. Over forty plates illustrate the most typical harpsichords of each country. Each set of drawings includes a plan drawn to scale, the interior of the instrument, and interesting details of action and construction. These are supplemented by reproductions of illustrations taken from early sources. The appendixes contain texts of relevant documents, including inventories of the shops of some prominent French makers and contemporary descriptions of instruments.Frank Hubbard has drawn material from contemporary descriptions of instruments and the mechanical arts such as those found in encyclopedias, technical treatises, books on music theory, and manuals for craftsmen. In addition he has examined hundreds of instruments in European and American collections. His exceptional position as an internationally known harpsichord maker as well as a student of harpsichord history allows him to discuss technical as well as historical matters that would be outside the competence of a musicologist.

    "A comprehensive approach to arranging and orchestration for the contemporary stage band, dance band, and studio orchestra."(1965)

    Richard Hadlock has chapters on each, with a discography and descriptions of all the players who made the '20s swing.