As the only authorized biographer, Davies had full access to the Fab Four as well as their help and encouragement. He spent eighteen months with them when they were at the peak of their musical genius and at the pinnacle of their popularity, and he remained friends with each of the members as they went their separate ways. This updated edition addresses recent changes in the lives of the Beatles: Paul's marriage, George's death, and their new books and records.

    "A very readable book which portrays the human being behind the music, increasing our love of both." Yehudi Menuhin, from inside cover.

    Schirmer Preludes for Piano By Chopin

    In his own words, Shankar describes his transformation from a young traveling dancer to a Grammy Award-winning, internationally known musician. An autobiography, a history of Indian classical music, and a manual on how to play the sitar, this book is about music as a both a lifestyle and an art. It embodies Ravi Shankar’s unique approach to his craft.

    Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, BixBeiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and others--and the big bands and arrangers--Fletcher Henderson, Bennie Moten, and especially Duke Ellington--placing their music in the context of the other musical cultures of the twentieth century and offering analyses of many great jazz recordings. Early Jazz provides a musical tour of the early American jazz world. A classic study, it is both a splendid introduction for students and an insightful guide for scholars, musicians, and jazz aficionados.

    Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary.

    An unrivaled raconteur, a neurotic without peer, he is the jongleur of our times. Like those medieval satirists, Levant is allowed to say anything he chooses about contemporary civilization because everyone thinks he's kidding. One can open this book at almost any page and find instant entertainment. When Levant's best-selling Memoirs of an Amnesiac was published, one critic said of it: 'line for line, the funniest book available.' This may also be said of this new work. For again, Mr. Levant presents us with a dazzling, irreverent potpourri f anecdotes, ad libs, witticisms, reminiscences, commentaries about show biz, TV, Hollywood, writers, politicians, musicians - not to mention the Levant family and the whole zany, brilliant, bizarre world of Oscar Levant. Among the notables about whom Levant writes in this new work - many of them are or were his friends - Dorothy Parker, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Leonard Bernstein, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, S. N. Behrman, Truman Capote, Clare Boothe Luce, Arnold Schoenberg, Aldoph Green, George and Ira Gershwin, Noel Coward, Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, Billy Rose, Artur Rubinstein, Benny Goodman, Kenneth Tynan, and Humphrey Bogart. Levant has a passion for the people he impales or praises - especially the great and near great. He is their vicarious confessor, a man who has experienced the gamut of emotion. Born to see the world awry and to immortalize his vision in semantic splendor, in instant, inimitable confections of wit, Levant laughs when it hurts."

    has stood as the book in its field; this new edition secures that position. Scholars, music lovers, and general readers will all find it rewarding, whether for the first or second time." -- Journal of the West "A book to be read, re-read, and savored." -- Southwest ReviewSince its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone's Country Music, U.S.A. has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music's folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This second revised edition includes an extensive new chapter that continues the story from 1985 to 2000, along with anannotated listing of books and recordings which came out during that time.

    

    The author's intention is to avoid a pedantic exposition of serial principles and to include many technical details which are also valid in non serial contexts, being the common property of contemporary musical languages. Richard Smith Brindle (born 1917) is a native of Lancashire. He studied at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in Rome at the Academia di Santa Cecilia, and in Florence privately with Dallapiccola. His own music is influenced by he Italian avant-garde school of berio, Maderna, non, and others. From 1970 until his retirement in 1985 he was Professor of Music at the University of Surrey.

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    It is the music of Brahms as the composer himself conceived it, without any editor's additional markings of dynamic change, tempo variation, slurrings, phrasings, etc. As the pure, authentic text for the music of Brahms, the edition is unlikely ever to be superseded.This volume is an unabridged republication of Volume 7 of the Complete Works. It contains the Sextets Opp. 18 and 36 (2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cello); the Quintets Opp. 88 and 111 (2 violins, 2 violas, cello); the three Quartets Opp. 51, No. 1, 51 No. 2, and 67 (2 violins, viola, cello); and the Quintet for Clarinet, Op. 115 (2 violins, clarinet — or viola — viola, cello).Hans Gal, the editor for this and many of the other volumes in the series, states in a short preface the sources for the texts of the eight compositions. In every case these include at least two sources, and often as many as four; the edition in score and in parts as published by N. Simrock, Berlin; Brahms's personal copy of the Simrock score; and the original manuscript. The preface discusses the few corrections and significant variant readings. In the Dover edition, this preface is provided in both German and English.

    Ernst Bacon offers valuable tips on working, listening, and playing habits in five sections that cover "The Performer," "The Learner," "The Player and Writer," "The Observer," and "Technically Speaking." This edition features an informative Introduction by virtuoso pianist and professor Sara Davis Buechner.

    Frank Walker spent nearly fifteen years researching and writing this authoritative work, drawing on inter views with dozens of Wolf's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians and on the letters, diaries, and documents he uncovered to create a portrait of this head strong and fascinating man. Wolf was a passionate advocate of Wagner, whom he first met by befriending a chambermaid in a Vienna hotel to gain an introduction to his idol. Like Wagner, Wolf was a combative personality, and he would become almost as notorious for his outbursts of temper and scathing critiques as he was for his over two hundred masterful settings of poetry by Goethe, Mörike, and others. His songs were composed during periods of intense inspiration that were followed by lengthy fallow periods. Walker vividly portrays the extremes to which the composer was prone and interweaves an account of Wolf's creative triumphs with the tale of his life.

    A basic method of building finger technique, intonation and tonguing through the performance of folk, classical and familiar songs.

    And That's Phil Ochs--Andy WickhamAbout the Author--Judy HenskeEncoresOutside of a Small Circle of FriendsIs There Anybody Here?I've Had HerThe Harder They FallRhythms of RevolutionCannons of ChristianityThe PartyTape From CaliforniaFlower LadyHalf a Century HighSung OutCross My HeartSanto DomingoWhen I'm GoneLove Me, I'm a LiberalThe Floods of FlorenceThe Critics RavedGuitar Chord Chart--Jerry SilvermanCops of the WorldThe Newport Pneumonia Fuzz FestivalChangesWhite Boots Marching in a Yellow LandCobbwebsJoe HillMirandaAn Interview with Phil OchsWhen in RomeI'm Going to Say it NowBraceroThe Torture GardenCrucifixiomThat Was the Year that Weren'tPleasures of the HarborHave You Heard? The War is Over!The War Is OverComing AttractionsCredits & Discography

    It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

    

    Arthur Penn's movie version, which stars Guthrie, James Broderick, and Pat Quinn, has a shambling, good-natured feel, much like Guthrie's epic tall tale. But as it follows Guthrie's adventures (he gets arrested for improper disposal of Thanksgiving garbage and the arrest renders him unfit for military service, in the draft board's eyes), it also examines the freewheeling nature of relationships in that period--and the toll that freedom took on those relationships. Guthrie is a natural performer, particularly funny during the draft board sequence; but the heart of the film is Quinn and Broderick's troubled marriage. --Marshall Fine