Best of
Music

1974

Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star


Ian Hunter - 1974
    Ian Hunter's revealing tour diary was first published in 1974 to coincide with the band's global success. It gives an insight into life with a rock group on the road.

Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes


Hampton Hawes - 1974
    Among his peers from California the self-taught Hawes was second only to Oscar Peterson. At the time of his celebration as New Star of the Year by downbeat magazine (1956), Hawes was already struggling with a heroin addiction that would lead to his arrest and imprisonment, and the interruption of a brilliant career. In 1963 President John F. Kennedy granted Hawes an Executive Pardon. In eloquent and humorous language Hampton Hawes tells of a life of suffering and redemption that reads like an improbable novel. Gary Giddins has called it "a major contribution to the literature of jazz." This book includes a complete discography and eight pages of photographs.

Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond


Michael Nyman - 1974
    First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing that developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the postwar modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather than purely musical starting point and radically challenge conventional notions of the musical work. Nyman's book traces the revolutionary attitudes that were developed toward concepts of time, space, sound, and composer/performer responsibility. It was within the experimental tradition that the seeds of musical minimalism were sown and the book contains reference to the early works of Reich, Riley, Young, and Glass. This second edition contains a new Foreword, an updated discography, and a historical overview by the author.

Elementaria: First Acquaintance with Orff-Schulwerk


Gunild Keetman - 1974
    Elemantaria is a fundamental and practical handbook to Orff-Schulwerk . The author gives suggestions and examples without insisting dogmatically on one exclusive method. She offers well-tried solutions without excluding other possibilities and individual variations. It is not only a valuable personal document, but also a practical and essential guide for educationalists concerned with Orff-Schulwerk. The book is divided into two sections: Part One includes rhythmic, melodic and speech exercises. Part Two contains a detailed study of elementary movement training. There is an important appendix, with illustrations, on how to play the instruments used in the earley stages of teaching. Music examples, movement diagrams. Illustrated. Author's Preface * Part One: Rhythmic-Melodic Exercises * Fundamentals * Rhythmic Exercises * Disposition and posture * Reaction trainig * Finding 'rhythmic building bricks' * Games with 'rhythmic building bricks' * Leading a group, making up accompainments, completing phrase * Melodic Exercises * Disposition and posture when playing barred percussion instruments * Accompaniements, songs, pieces * Making up accompaniements and completing phrases * Hints on the early stages of recorder playing * Speech Exercises * Word series and sayings with rhythmic accompainment * Part Two: Elementary Movement Training * Introduction * Reaction training * Gymnastic exercises * Movement training * Movement variations and combinations * Movement pieces * Elementary movement improvisation * Movement accompaniment * Suggestions for movement lessons for beginners * Appendix

New Skin for the Old Ceremony


Leonard Cohen - 1974
    On it, he begins to evolve away from the rawer sound of his earlier albums, with violas, mandolins, banjos, guitars, percussion & other instruments giving the album a more orchestrated, but nevertheless spare, sound. A remastered CD was released in 1995. The album is silver in the UK, but never dented the Billboard Top 200. In 2009, it was included in Hallelujah-The Essential Leonard Cohen Album Collection, an 8-CD box set issued by Sony Music in the Netherlands."Is This What You Wanted" – 4:13 "Chelsea Hotel #2" (Cohen, Ron Cornelius)– 3:06 "Lover Lover Lover" – 3:19 "Field Commander Cohen" – 3:59 "Why Don't You Try" – 3:50 "There Is a War" – 2:59 "A Singer Must Die" – 3:17 "I Tried to Leave You" – 2:40 "Who by Fire" – 2:33 "Take This Longing" – 4:06 "Leaving Green Sleeves" – 2:38

Complete Symphonies in Full Score


Johannes Brahms - 1974
    1 in C Minor, Op. 68; Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73; Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90; and Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98. Do not confuse this with a piano rendering; it is a full orchestral score. In addition to its obvious uses for study, this score is also an indispensable associate for anyone listening to record sets or broadcasts. In no other manner can the listener appreciate the full orchestral richness of these works.

Young Men With Unlimited Capital: The Story of Woodstock


Joel Rosenman - 1974
    It led Rosenman and Roberts to stage a gathering that changed the face of popular culture: the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969. Woodstock is rightly remembered as the pivotal event that united a generation, but the behind-the-scenes story is less utopian -- and absolutely fascinating.Rosenman and Roberts describe their shock as they realized, after a long struggle to find a site and placate area residents, that the festival was attracting a crowd ten times larger than expected, stalling traffic for miles around, and forcing thousands of ticket holders to be turned away. The instant city of Woodstock created mind-boggling logistical and medical help, a death, births, bad drugs -- and waking up their local banker in the middle of the night to get $15,000 for The Who and the Grateful Dead, who refused to go onstage without cash in their pockets.By the time Jimi Hendrix played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at 6:30 Monday Morning, there were "only" 25,000 people left, but Rosenman and Roberts faced a sea of mud and trash, irate neighbors, bad press ("Nightmare in the Catskills"), staggering debts, and some seventy separate legal proceedings against them. But the ultimate impact of that weekend was far greater -- and far more triumphal for all involved. Young Men With Unlimited Capital is both an amazing and humorous story, and one that chronicles a defining event of 1960's America.

The Contemporary Arranger, Definitive Edition


Don Sebesky - 1974
    This beautifully bound edition contains a compact disc with examples performed by jazz greats such as George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws and Don Sebesky's complete orche

Conducting Technique: For Beginners and Professionals


Brock McElheran - 1974
    This latest edition takes into account avant-garde music and new music notation.

Piano Music 1888-1905


Claude Debussy - 1974
    In each case the music as been reproduced photographically from original or early editions. Designed for years of use at the piano, the book features large and clearly printed noteheads and margins and spaces adequate for written notes. It opens flat and binding will not crack or split.

The Baroque Guitar


Frederick Noad - 1974
    The pieces are graded in difficulty, including pieces for beginners as well as others suitable for the concert stage. Includes CD.

The Renaissance Guitar [With CD]


Frederick Noad - 1974
    Taken from original sources, and carefully fingered for the modern player, the transcriptions are as faithful as possible to the original while at the same time offering a practical performing score.

Bix: Man and Legend


Richard M. Sudhalter - 1974
    Along with Louis Armstrong, he towered over jazz in the Twenties. And, together with Louis, he brought jazz to maturity

Clawhammer Banjo


Miles Krassen - 1974
    Traditional Appalachian banjo tunes in tablature based on the music of Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, Henry Reed and others. With tunings and all basic right and left hand techniques: drop-thumbing, the Galax lick, pull-offs, slide & plucking.

The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock


Jan Reid - 1974
    At now-legendary venues such as Threadgill's, Vulcan Gas Company, and the Armadillo World Headquarters, a host of country, rock-and-roll, blues, and folk musicians came together and created a sound and a scene that Jan Reid vividly detailed in his 1974 book, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock.The breadth of talent still astounds--Willie Nelson, Janis Joplin, Jerry Jeff Walker, Doug Sahm, Delbert McClinton, Michael Martin Murphey, Willis Alan Ramsey, Kinky Friedman, Steve Fromholz, Bobby Bridger, Billy Joe Shaver, Marcia Ball, and Townes Van Zandt. Reid's book even inspired the nationally popular and long-running PBS series Austin City Limits, which focused attention on the trends that fed the music scene--progressive country, country rock, western swing, blues, and bluegrass among them.In this new edition, Jan Reid revitalizes his classic look at the Austin music scene. He has substantially reworked the early chapters to include musicians and musical currents from other parts of Texas that significantly contributed to the delightful convergence of popular cultures in Austin. Four new chapters and an epilogue show how the creative burst of the seventies directly spawned a new generation of talents who carry on the tradition--Lyle Lovett, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earle, Jimmy LaFave, Kelly Willis, Joe Ely, Bruce and Charlie Robison, and The Dixie Chicks.

The Teaching Of Action In String Playing: Developmental And Remedial Techniques [For] Violin And Viola


Paul Rolland - 1974
    Rolland was a remarkable violinist, and he left a unique legacy for the string playing and teaching world. Here he discusses principles of movement in playing, rhythm training, holding the bow, left hand and finger placements, shifting, and developing flexibility. This first-hand account of his method is now considered a standard teaching resource for string teachers. This remarkable violinist has left a unique legacy for the string playing and teaching world. 228 pages.

Piano Literature for the Early Advanced Grades: Volume 4


Jane Smisor Bastien - 1974
    "The compositions in this collection provide suitable material for study, recital, auditions and musical recreation at the early advanced level."

Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History


Vivian Perlis - 1974
    Charles Ives (1874-1954) was publicly an insurance executive but privately a composer whose eccentric works and paradoxical life would intrigue, perplex, and inspire generations to come after him. Moving from Ives's childhood and years at Yale to his business and musical careers, the memories and reflections assembled in this Kinkeldey Award-winning volume provide a multifaceted and humanizing view of an American musical icon.

Later Symphonies (Nos. 35-41) in Full Score


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 1974
    35 in D Major, K.385 ("Haffner"); Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K.425 ("Linz"); Symphony No. 37 in G Major, K.444; Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K.504 ("Prague"); Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K.543; Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K.550; and Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K.551 ("Jupiter").Do not confuse this with a piano rendering; it is the full orchestral score. In addition to its obvious uses for study, this score is also an indispensable associate for anyone listening to record sets or broadcasts. In no other manner can the listener appreciate the full orchestral richness of these works.

Music At Your Fingertips: Advice For The Artist And Amateur On Playing The Piano


Ruth Slenczynska - 1974
    Drawing from more than forty years experience as a teacher and highly acclaimed performer--as well as from her studies with Rachmaninoff, Schnabel, and Cortot--Slenczynska clearly demonstrates such basics as the proper use of hand positions, fingering, pedaling, ornamentation, various fingering touches, and counting. She also gives detailed instructions on the art of program building, carefully analyzing the concert programs of Horowitz, Rubinstein, and Serkin and pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of their program construction. She includes repertoire lists for performance at various levels of ability, a complete chart of ornament interpretation, and authoritative advice on posture, sight-reading, rhythm, note-learning, and memorization. Her book is essential reading for all who enjoy in the piano-beginners, serious students, teachers, and listeners.

Soul Music: The Birth Of A Sound In Black America


Michael Haralambos - 1974
    This pioneering study documents the birth of soul music in America during the 1950s and '60s when, in response to the black community's new self-awareness and pride, musicians such as James Brown, The Impressions, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, Stevie Wonder, and others were discovering in the urban blues, gospel, and r&b a new sound--soul--that expressed fresh musical and social ideals.

Season With Solti; A Year in the Life of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra


William Barry Furlong - 1974
    

Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1974


Tracy Y. Cannon - 1974
    Hardcover Spiral Bound. Dark Navy Blue Color. 1974 Third Edition. 10-7/8" x 7-3/4" x 1-1/4". Weight = 3 lbs. ISBN 0741948737. Special Limited Edition.

The Interpretation of Early Music


Robert Donington - 1974
    Each book is divided into its relevant parts, thus allowing the reader immediate access to the specific subject under consideration. There are also nine invaluable appendices plus an in-depth annotated bibliography.This edition is actually the third revision of The Interpretation of Early Music; it was greatly expanded in 1974, and again for the present volume, in which Professor Donington took into account the very latest research, the explosion of interest in accurate historical performance practice, and recently formulated theories.

Piano Scales & Arpeggios, Grade 3


Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music - 1974
    This new edition contains all the scales and arpeggios required for the Grade 3 ABRSM piano exam.• All scales and arpeggios for the revised syllabus from 2009• Suggested fingering provided• Helpful introduction including advice on preparing for the exam• User-friendly format and clear page layout

Learning Music with Synthesizers


David Friend - 1974
    Part II is a hands-on guide that walks you through principles learned in Part I on the actual ARP Odyssey. Part III gets into experimentation and studio techniques (admittedly of the 1970's).

Bluegrass Guitar (Guitar Books)


H. Traum - 1974
    Over 30 bluegrass and traditional songs are included in the styles of Clarence White, Dan Crary, Charlie Waller, Peter Rowan, and others. The tunes are graded from easy to advanced in both standard music notation and tablature. Includes photos and a CD.

A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies


Hector Berlioz - 1974
    This compact volume gathers brief, pithy essays Berlioz wrote on Beethoven's nine symphonies, his opera, Fidelio, and his piano sonatas and trios. Berlioz vividly depicts the salient features of the music with observations that are acute and passionate, as valuable for musicians as for amateurs. Beyond its astute commentary on the music, however, Berlioz's book offers a rare firsthand look at the reception and reputation accorded Beethoven's music in the decades following his death. Berlioz transcribes the comments of amateurs leaving the conservatoire after a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and provides a mocking glimpse of the French appreciation of the great German composer: What stands in the way of the music of 'Fidelio' as regards the Parisian public is ... the great disdain of the composer for sonorous effects which are not justified. He addresses Beethoven's skillful use of the orchestra as an instrument of drama and the general disapprobation that greeted this approach. He also includes a satirical piece on the fad of calling up the spirit of a composer and transcribing new, posthumous compositions. Berlioz's essays testify to the tumult caused by Beethoven's music in his time and offer ways to approach the music that remain enlightening and fresh.

The Complete Carcassi Guitar Method


Mel Bay - 1974
    Although regarded as moderately archaic in terms of modern guitar technique, Carcassi's time- proven method is second to none in its presentation of a graded learning system featuring scales, exercises, and engaging compositions in various keys. Written in standard notation only.

The Rolling Stone Rock 'n' Roll Reader


Ben Fong-Torres - 1974
    

Walk Together Children


Ashley Bryan - 1974
    A collection of familiar and lesser-known spirituals including "Walk Together Children, " "Little David Play on Your Harp, "" I Got Shoes, " and others.

Through It All


Andrae Crouch - 1974
    

The Harmonics Of Aristoxenus (1902)


Aristoxenus - 1974
    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Callas: The Art and the Life - The Great Years


John Ardoin - 1974
    It illuminates her power and offers insights into the phenomenon of her art.

Glenn Miller His Orchestra


George T. Simon - 1974
    These and other memorable tunes endeared Glenn Miller to millions in the Swing Era and all who recall those times. After playing trombone and arranging for leading orchestras of the Dorsey brothers, Ray Noble, Ben Pollack, and Red Nichols, Glenn Miller formed his own "sweet" band, which from 1938 to 1942 achieved widespread popularity second only to Benny Goodman's. Miller learned all he could from these and other bands like Jimmie Lunceford's and Artie Shaw's, going on to create a uniquely rich sound with clarinet over four saxes and four trombones ("three-part harmony sounds too thin," he once exclaimed). Simon tells of both the successes and hard times of Miller's illustrious career, up to his celebrated Army Air Force band and his untimely death.

Musical Instruments of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia


The Diagram Group - 1974
    It's a browser's delight."--The New York TimesIt's the best-looking musical encyclopedia ever! Using a completely visual approach, this ultimate reference has over 4,000 drawings showcasing the evolution of instruments--and music--from primitive whistles to electric guitars (complete with fuzz box and pedal). Exquisite illustrations accompany each entry, with painstaking detail and attention to structure, function, and decoration. Most extraordinary is the range of instruments included: orchestral, popular, classical, ancient, and folk. Classed by family groups, they are cross-referenced with material on geographical distribution and historical periods. Plus scores, diagrams of correct playing techniques, major figures, and other fascinating information provided by over forty researchers, writers, and illustrators, in cooperation with 200 scholars from 20 countries!