Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of the entire jazz life in this society."--Ralph Gleason"Inspired by great affection and dedication, Bird Lives! provides a vivid and accurate picture not only of the saxophonist-composer as artist and human being but of his zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. Parker was an immensely complex personality; saint and satyr, loving father and footloose vagabond, with a limitless appetite for sex, music, food, pills, heroin, liquor, life. A man of vast influence, the most admired and imitated creator of the mid-1940s bop revolution, he was forced to work in dives, reduced to bumming dollars when he should have been respected as a reigning virtuoso. . . . A sensitive, penetrating portrait."--Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times"One of the very few jazz books that deserve to be called literature . . . perhaps the finest writing on jazz to be found anywhere. . . . Those aware of Parker's genius cannot do without this book."--Grover Sales, Saturday Review

    The personal recollections of the piano virtuoso provide a record of his life and creative development from his childhood days in Poland to the years of the First World War.

    In writing the first edition of this classic work--which appeared to great acclaim in 1973--Julian Budden mined the vast resources of European archives to provide a groundbreaking interpretation of Verdi's work, and along the way discovered much new material, including an unpublished additional aria for I Due Foscari. Now available in a revised edition, The Operas of Verdi is now brought up to date in light of the most recent scholarship, making it more useful and entertaining than ever. Volume 1 traces the organic growth and development of the composer's style from 1839 to 1851--from Oberto to Rigoletto--and examines each opera in detail, offering a full account of its dramatic and historical origins as well as a brief critical evaluation. More than 350 musical examples make the significance of these early operas to Verdi's developing style especially clear. In the second volume, Budden covers those operas written during the decadence of the post-Rossini period. During this time Verdi, having exhausted the simple lyricism found in such works as Il Trovatore and La Traviata, found new life as he directly confronted the masters of the Paris opera with his Les V�pres Siciliennes. The new scale and variety of musical thought that can be sensed in the Italian operas which followed is shown here to culminate in La Forza del Destino. The third and final volume of the study covers the quarter century which saw grand opera on the Parisian model established throughout Italy, and the spread of cosmopolitan influences that convinced many that Italian music was losing its identity. Verdi produced his four last and greatest operas during this time--Don Carlos, Aida, Otello, and Falstaff--operas which helped inaugurate versimo, in which a new, recognizably Italian idiom was realized. These three volumes cover every aspect of Verdi's rich and varied operatic achievement. Every lover of opera in particular and music in general will want a set in their library.

    The passionate brooding which pervades his nine symphonies, his choral and vocal works, has led others to hail him as the artist who best articulated the inner conflicts and struggles of his neurotic and driven age.Henry-Louis de La Grange, in this huge biography, looks at the tempestuous life of this man whose impact on music--as conductor and composer--was extraordinary. There is nothing written about Mahler, no page that he himself ever wrote, no sketch of music that he ever made that M. de La Grange hasn't studied. He is as systematic a biographer as Mahler was conductor and creator of music. The result is the only definitive biography of Mahler ever written.Born in 1860, one of fourteen children of a modest Jewish innkeeper in Kalischt, Bohemia, Mahler studied at the Vienna Conservatory. Afterwards, came years of deprivation and disappointment as he served as conductor to small provincial orchestras. He moved from Kassel to Prague to Leipzig, then worked his way up in 1888 to an important post in Budapest and then in 1891 to a position in Hamburg. The book culminates in Mahler's triumphant period as the director of the Vienna Opera House. The present volume culminates in Mahler's triumphant period as the director of the Vienna Opera House. The present volume takes up to meeting with Alma Mahler.Throughout, Mahler is revealed as an often difficult man, full of complexities and contradictions, insecurities and surprises. Always in sharp focus is the picture of Mahler, the perfectionist, tirelessly pursuing his art, often ignoring family and friends, relentlessly battling anyone who stood in the way of his music. Performers stormed off the stage during rehearsals with the "tyrant." Audiences walked out on the "revolutionary" interpretation of the classics. And anti-Semitic critics denounced him as that "Jewish conductor."The whole turbulent cultural ferment of the era is reflected in this book and the author has provided extraordinary thumbnail sketches of some of the giants of the time: Bruckner, Brahams, Strauss, and the conductor Bruno Walter, among others.

    and includes "Mureau"-composed from the writings of Henry David Thoreau.

    Compositions cover the standard repertoire for American orchestra. Features from the previous edition that have changed and new additions include: - Larger physical format (8.5 x 11 vs. 5.5 x 8.5) - Expanded to 6400 entries and almost 900 composers (only 4200 in 3rd Ed.) - Merged with the American Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS (Orchestra Library Information Service) - Enhanced specific information on woodwind & brass doublings - Lists of required percussion equipment for many works - New, more intuitive format for instrumentation - More contents notes and durations of individual movements - Composers' citizenship, birth and death dates and places, integrated into the listings - Listings of useful websites for orchestra professionals Also Available: Orchestral Music Online

    Includes: Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You * Bring It on Home * Dancing Days * Dazed and Confused * Immigrant Song * The Lemon Song * Ramble On * Rock and Roll * Tangerine * Thank You * You Shook Me * Your Time Is Gonna Come and more.

    Features transcriptions of all the songs from Pink Floyd's 1973 landmark release that spent an incredible 741 weeks on the Billboard album chart: Any Colour You Like * Brain Damage * Breathe * Eclipse * The Great Gig in the Sky * Money * On the Run * Speak to Me * Time * Us and Them. Also available: 00306363 P/V/G $10.95

    Now updated and expanded, it's better than ever, with 120 more composers, expertly guiding pianists to solo literature and answering the vital questions: What's available? How difficult is it? What are its special features? How does one reach the publisher?The "new Hinson" includes solo compositions of nearly 2,000 composers, with biographical sketches of major composers. Every entry offers description, publisher, number of pages, performance time, style and characteristics, and level of difficulty. Extensively revised, this new edition is destined to become a trusted guide for years to come.

    It achieves a well-rounded treatment of the entire spectrum of the pianistic repertoire, from the pavanes and galliards of Byrd and Gibbons to the bewildering diversity of forms composed today. In a format making for quick and easy reference, it comprises direct and carefully researched brief characterizations of every major work, as well as an enormous number of minor works, composed for the piano by more than 500 composers between 1580 and 1952. The annotations to each piece touch on form, type of fingerwork, degree of difficulty, technical requirements and interpretative treatment, and always include the publisher's name. Critical essays on periods and styles appear where necessary.No other single publication covers such a wide range of material. Not only the solo piano literature is included, but also works for four hands at one and two pianos as well as concertos for piano and orchestra. The selection has many remarkable features, not least of which is a comprehensive view of Latin American music that sends the pianist beyond Villa-Lobos to the works of such lesser-known masters as Bosmans, Paz, Ginastera, Guarnieri, and the Castros. In the case of such outstanding composers of keyboard music as Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, and Ravel, there is a short section with a separate list of earlier compositions, as a guide to the student. The piano outputs of Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, and Bartók are listed almost entire. And the numerous lesser-known composers of individual worth — Portugal's Carlos Seixas, America's Edward MacDowell, Britain's John Ireland, Poland's Karol Szymanowski, and many others — help make this manual an almost unfathomable cornucopia for the pianist.This is an indispensable volume for all performers, teachers, and students of the piano, to be referred to constantly throughout a lifetime. "It should be the constant companion of every pianist and teacher." — Virgil Thomson. "This book should be an eye-opener for those who seek piano repertory. The best and fullest listing of piano repertory available in English and well set up for quick reference." — Catherine Keyes Miller, Librarian, New York Public Library."

    Thirty-nine sections, each containing as many songs as can be found in some songbooks. For schools, camps, and churches. Melody line format.

    Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart information, wisdom, and moral guidance to their audiences; both place a high value on improvisation; and both fiction and the blues create a delicate balance between the holy and the obscene, essential human values and cosmic absurdity. Encompassing artists from Ernest Hemingway to Duke Ellington, and from Thomas Mann to Richard Wright, The Hero and the Blues pays homage to a new black aesthetic.

    One of the most distinguished lyric-writers of his time, Ira Gershwin wrote for his brother George as well as Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen and others. Limelight presents a selection of stage and screen lyrics written for sundry situations and now arranged in arbitrary categories, to which have been added many informative annotations and disquistions on their why and wherefore, their whom-for, their how, and matters associative. "Gershwin's comments, witty and irreverent, and his anecdotes about the making of many favorites, are invariably interesting and frequently surprising." Chicago Tribune

    

    The editor-translator, a renowned music scholar and critic, has contributed an introductory essay on the relationship between lyrics and music, as well as notes on each poet and on the composer or composers who set each poem to music.Here are over three hundred poems by such writers as Heine, Goethe, Ibsen, Villon, Verlaine, D'Annunzio, and Pushkin. Among the composers represented are Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Beethoven, Liszt, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky; a brief critical evaluation of each song is included, with notes on textual variations or omissions. The Ring of Words brings together a repertory of songs well known to every collector of recordings and everyone who attends concerts and recitals. It is a valuable reference work for students and teachers of singing.

    

    Matches their albums Workingman's Dead and American Beauty.

    This volume in Dover's continuing series of musical scores presents the best of Scriabin's works, his complete etudes and preludes for the solo piano. There are the Chopinesque works from his early period, including the 12 etudes from Op. 8 and the 24 Preludes, Op. 11. The works of the middle period, when he began working out his new harmonies based on a series of fourths, include the outstanding sets of Preludes, Opp. 33 and 48, and the Etudes, Op. 42. The 5 Preludes, Op. 74, and the Etudes, Op. 65, from the final period reveal perhaps most about his joyous ecstasy and languid contemplation, moods which no other composer could express to such a degree. There are also the preludes and etudes from Opp. 2, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 22, 27, 31, 35, 37, 39, 45, 49, 51, 59, and 67, each containing miniatures working out some subtle harmonic, rhythmic, or melodic idea with a perfect pianistic sense of writing. This book has been especially designed as a playing edition ― the noteheads are large and easily readable at the piano, and the margins and spaces between staves are adequate for written notes, fingerings, and turnovers. It is also most useful for analysis, or simply for following along with the actual music.

    In these pages Lennon discusses the breakup of the Beatles, his favorite tracks with the group and how they were made, fellow musicians including the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, his attitude toward revolution and drugs, and the tenderness of his relationship with Yoko Ono.

    It analyzes what objective, physical properties of sound are associated with what subjective psychological sensations of music, and it describes how these sound patterns are actually generated in musical instruments, how they propagate through the environment, and how they are detected by the ear and interpreted in the brain. Using the precise language of science, but without complicated mathematics, the author weaves a close mesh of the physics, psychophysics and physiology relevant to music. A prior knowledge of physics, mathematics, physiology or psychology is not required to understand most of the book; it is, however, assumed that the reader is familiar with music - in particular, with musical notation, musical scales and intervals, and some of the basics of musical instruments. This new edition has been substantially revised and brought up to date throughout.

    Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen interviewed by Jonathan Cott for Rolling Stone magazine & beyond.

    That's the weird thing about it." —Bob Dylan"Pioneers are often written out of history but never let it be forgotten that Scaduto was the man. It's scandalous that this book has been out of print for so many years. Its return (Kindle) should be greeted with dancing in the street."—Jimmy Rogan, composerHe was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota. He surfaced in Greenwich Village nearly twenty years later with a new name and a reinvented personality. He went on to become the most influential-and elusive-culture hero of our time. This is the first full story of Bob Dylan. It ‘s based on interviews with people like Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk. Lovers and haters. Apostles and apostates. Plus reminiscences from Dylan himself. It's all here. The good. The bad. And the gritty. Written at the dawn of the seventies by reporter Anthony Scaduto this book was the first serious study of Dylan's life and work. By applying the rigorous standards of research and analysis it elevated popular music journalism to a respected discipline.In addition to a Bob biographer's wish-list of interviews, Scaduto pulled the remarkable coup of getting Dylan's full co-operation without conceding an editorial veto. Dylan has read this book cover to cover and discusses its uncomfortable contents with the author at length!Includes an exclusive interview between Anthony Scaduto and Bob Dylan and a Postscript written by Scaduto in 2008...."In the beginning was Scaduto," wrote Clinton Heylin at the start of own Dylan bioography. We'll never know the whole story of Minnesota's most noted mouth organist but Anthony Scaduto's 1971 book was the pioneering protrait of this legendarily elusive artist. Now, in a welcome reprint it's a real treat to read the still-classic Bobography, methodical and lean, Scaduto's style reflected his background as a New York crime reporter, with a "just the facts, ma'am" technique that built the right tension...---New Musical Express

    For these are the last remaining drops of the living essence of English country life.”This begins SONGS AND SOUTHERN BREEZES, the story of Bob Copper’s wanderings in Sussex and Hampshire in search of old songs and stories of the English countryside. By now [1973] the last generation of country people to be brought up in a way unchanged in centuries has begun to die out; there is a danger that the wealth of spoken dialect anecdote and old songs handed down from father to son might disappear with them – for what has been a living tradition is now rapidly becoming history.A well-known countryman and folk singer, Bob Copper makes vivid portraits of some of the men and the women he has met; the story-tellers like ex-steam threshing machine driver Len Page, for example, who could make a mousetrap of his shirt whilst still wearing it; Frank “Mush” Bond, fairground hand and casual farm labourer who turned out to have been a startling literary magpie and home philosopher in his spare time; and splendid old Fanny Thorn who, awarded the British Empire Medal for a lifetime of service on the land, was still going strong at ninety-three.Then there are the singers; fishermen of Hastings recalling contemporary accounts of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in their songs; the council hedger keeping alive memories of long forgotten crimes such as a young girl’s murder in ‘Poison in a Glass of Wine’, and many others. Fifty songs are collected with full words and music at the back of this book, some wistful, some earthily comic, telling of the old life, its hardships, its rewards, and perhaps, most appealing of all, the rich sense of fun of the people who lived it.

    Definitive collection for lovers and performers of ragtime.

    This classic reference text considers the theory and practice of sound behaviour in closed spaces; a key area for acoustical engineers worldwide. It is of particular interest to those working on auditoria and will therefore stand as an excellent complement to Barron's Auditorium Acoustics. This new edition includes important new material on the growth of digital technology and sound intensity.

    With guitars and the melancholic power of their voices these musicians developed a form of music, explaining its origins and evolution, the conflicts among blues scholars, and the hardship and danger that marked the lives of professional bluesman. Based on original interviews, it includes profiles of people like Leadbelly, Mance Lipscomb, Skip James, Bessie Smith, Son House, Muddy Waters and B.B. King.

    The music is edited by Eusebius Mandyczewski and Joseph Hellmesberger. Included are the Quintet in C Major (1828), the 15 quartets, and two trios for violin, viola, and violoncello. Noteheads have been reproduced in a size large enough to be read easily while you play, and there is ample space between staves and in the margins for any notes, harmonic analyses, fingerings, or annotations that you may want to record on the score. The edition is practical for almost any use, whether as a study guide, a reference, or just a companion for your greater musical enjoyment.

    Madisonville's most famous family is about to get aboard. It's early Thursday afternoon, and the Happy Goodmans are preparing to get on the road, as they do every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of the year. America's number onee gospel singing group is booked two years in advance, and their concerts carry them from the Mexican border to the cold climes of Canada, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In 0 Happy Day Jamie Buckingham presents a behind-the-scenes account: of what it's like to be the best-known gospel singers in America. He traveled with the Goodmans off and on for almost a year, riding, sleeping, and eating aboard the Silver Eagle, the huge, three-bedroom, sixtythousand-dollar, custom-made bus that carries the ten-member entourage. He worked with them behind stage, setting up sound equipment; he listened to their stories; and he observed the response of thousands of Goodman fans as they thronged coliseums, parks; concert halls, churches. and auditoriums to participate in an evening of gospel music with the Happy Goodmans. But, says Jamie Buckingham, things haven't always been this way. And to get the story straight, one has to hear it from Howard "Happy" Goodman. In his own words he takes the reader back many years to the poverty-stricken coal mining hills of north Alabama. There. at the close of World War I, Sam and Gussie Goodman started raising a family. Their first son was called Willie Howard, and that's where the story begins.

    This is a collection of nine short pieces by Wagner, selected for their readability and the light they shed on his development as a composer. They include the short stories about an unsucessful Beethoven-worshipping composer, which Wagner first published in Paris, the essays "On Opera Libretti and Composition", "The Niebelungen - World History as Told in Saga" and "What is German?", and the notorious and influential antisemitic essay.