A lively and honest biography that graphically traces the emergence of Victor Jara's theatre, music and poems, and the crucial role they played in the Chilean workers' movement.

    These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the lectures: "Nobody anywhere presents this material so warmly, so sincerely, so skillfully. As musical mind-openers they are first class; as pedagogy they are matchless."Mr. Bernstein considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel, to Copland, suggesting a worldwide, innate musical grammar. Folk music, pop songs, symphonies, modal, tonal, atonal, well-tempered and ill-tempered works all find a place in these discussions. Each, Mr. Bernstein suggests, has roots in a universal language central to all artistic creation. Using certain linguistic analogies, he explores the ways in which this language developed and can be understood as an aesthetic surface. Drawing on his insights as a master composer and conductor, Mr. Bernstein also explores what music means below the surface: the symbols and metaphors which exist in every musical piece, of whatever sort. And, finally, Mr. Bernstein analyzes twentieth century crises in the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, finding even here a transformation of all that has gone before, as part of the poetry of expression, through its roots in the earth of human experience.These talks, written and delivered when Leonard Bernstein was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, are the newest of the author's literary achievements. In addition to a distinguished career as conductor, pianist, and composer, Mr. Bernstein is the recipient of many television Emmys for the scripts of his Young People's Concerts, Omnibus programs, and others, and is the author of The Infinite Variety of Music and The Joy of Music, for which he received the Christopher Award.

    Through surreal texts and images, Cohn and Peelaert paint an imaginary world where the great gods of mid-century popular music appear in their own settings (the drifters under the boardwalk, Otis Redding on the dock of the bay, the Beach Boys on the beach). Here, rock music is a "secret society, an enclosed teen fantasy" treated with the same kind of passion and obsession famously generated by the most fanatic of lovesick, pimply adolescents. All of the founding heroes of rock, soul, and pop appear in Peellaert and Cohn's colorful hallucinations, including Buddy Holly, Elvis, Ray Charles, Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Who, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, and many more. Taschen's revival of this unique book comes at a time when rock is making a strong comeback and young musicians are taking inspiration from the very stars featured in rock dreams.

    The second edition of this world famous book puts into clear pictures and language how anyone handy with tools can repair, regulate, maintain, and even completely rebuild a piano.

    "A beautifully written, evocative tribute to an elusive art... Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, and Gato Barbieri." Performing Arts

    This masterful measure-for-measure two-hand adaptation of the complete modern concerto for piano and orchestra incorporates all orchestral parts and piano passages into two staves while retaining the clarity, sonority, and brilliance of the original. Advanced pianists will enjoy the experience of playing one of the 20th Century's most famous compositions, arranged by the composer himself to retain all the grandeur and sparkle of the original work.

    

    Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians, these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the orchestra, could compose a satisfying piece for almost every kind of ensemble, and who was one of the most stimulating teachers of his day. It is therefore not surprising that nearly forty years later these books should remain essential reading for the student and the professional musician. Preface * Construction of the Simplest One-Voice Melodic Patterns * Beginning of Two-Voice Setting * Elaborated Melody (Auxiliary or Teturning Tones, Passing Tones) * Elaborated Melody (Continuation) * Principles of Melodic Construction * Elaborated Melody (Conclusion) * Tonal Higher-Units * Tonality of the Melodies * Elaboration of the Melody Model * Free Two-Voice Setting I and II

    This book contains a summary of the author's analytical approach before each sonata is dealt with in detail.

    "He was it." And indeed he was, especially for the thousands in the Southwest who knew and loved the King of Western Swing. The colorful band leader-composer-fiddler from Turkey, Texas, lassoed the emotions of country-and-western fans nationwide. In the early 1940s, his records outsold those of any other recording artist. He was voted not only into the Country Music Hall of Fame but also into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, the only performer other than Gene Autry to be so honored. Affectionately written by a Texan who responded to the legendary fiddler's style, San Antonio Rose captures Wills's magnetism and the musical excitement he created. Charles R. Townsend traces Wills's dynamic life from his birth into a family of frontier fiddlers through his career and stardom and on to the poignant last recording session in 1973 and his death two years later. Townsend shows how Wills brought black and white music together and examines the tremendous impact he had on both popular and country music through the more than 550 selections he recorded and the forty years he and his Texas Playboys performed in dance halls and on radio.

    A summary in English of the German-language editors' prefaces has been newly prepared. The scores are printed in large, clear format that is convenient for performance, use, study, and reference.

    First to Weatherford, Texas, where she was born on a horse-trading day. Then to the early days on Broadway, where she stormed the town singing "Daddy" in Leave It To Me. To a stint in Hollywood where she met her lifelong leading man, and back to Broadway as a shining star in Lute Song, One Touch Venus, South Pacific, Peter Pan and The Sound Of Music. She'll take you on whirlwind trips across continents and oceans, into television studios, behind the scenes with the theater greats and into the homes of her friends and family. There, as the wife of Richard Halliday, as mother, and as grandmother, she has played her favorite roles. Come on a dazzling journey!

    

    Suitable for the beginner to the advanced.

    He sang and danced like no other performer of his time. Tall, slender, handsome and resplendent in a white zoot suit, his presence on stage was electric. 'Hi-de-hi-de-ho,' he'd sing. 'Hi-de-hi-de-ho,' the audience would answer. 'Wah-de-do-de-way-de-ho,' he'd intone. 'Wah-de-do-de-way-de-ho,' they'd roar back. And on it would go until the crowd was singing and stomping and dancing in the aisles. It was the Great Depression, but he made them forget. More than that, he made them happy. That has always been Cab Calloway's profession - and the secret of his monumental success - knowing how to make people happy. He has entertained presidents and crowned heads of Europe, Mr. and Mrs. America (as they were then called) over network radio and the first integrated audiences in the South - as well as those still segregated by a rope down a concert hall. He has starred in Broadway shows, made scores of movies, and written hundreds of songs. He has worked - and played - with the greats of his profession from Louis Armstrong to Lena Horne, Duke Ellington to Al Jolson, Dizzy Gillespie to Bill Robinson...."

    Its paperback format makes it a comprehensive guide for bookstore customers as well.

    This pocket-sized reference book includes a broad range of important information, from basic principles of theory and concise biographies of composers to pronunciations of foreign terms and ranges of instruments and voices. The Essential Dictionary of Music is an easy-to-use reference covering every major aspect of music. Over 330 pages.

    It describes the important, formative years in Wagner's life and reconstructs his role in the Dresden rising of 1849. Newman also discusses the changes that the Ring poem underwent during this period and illuminates Wagner's relations with his wife Minna, his mentor Liszt, and his circle in Zürich.Volume III covers the years 1859-66 including the Tannhäuser debacle in Paris, the crisis with Minna, the first production of Tristan und Isolde and the flight from Munich.Volume IV completes the story from 1866 to Wagner's death in 1883. It covers the composition of Die Meistersinger and Parsifal, the completion of the Ring, Wagner's marriage to Cosima Liszt von Bülow, and the building of Bayreuth.

    His pioneering work continues under the guidance of teachers and educators in many countries. The five basic German volumes of "Music for Children" by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman were published between 1950 and 1954. The considerable growth of Orff-Schulwerk in the United States led to the publication of the American Edition (1977) to satisfy the requirements of a different educational system and national heritage. Music for Children is a stimulating source of material for music teaching. Contents of this third volume: The instrumentation and range of keys are increased. The settings include the chords on the fourth and fifth notes of the major scale. The Dominant Triad: If all the world were paper * Bass parts for timpani * For recorder and timpani * The riddling knight * Ten short pieces for dancing * Carillon de Vendome * The old woman and her pig * A good-night * Morning * Other Keys: Deux chansons de jeu: Sur le pont d'Avignon * En revenant de Versailles * No John, No * Beauty's spell * Riddles * The Sudominant Triad: Street song * Pieces for xylophone * The man in the moon * Malbrough * Dance-song * Festive procession * Lord Thomas of Winesbury * Dashing away with the smoothing-iron * Sevenths and Ninths: This old man * Fior di viola * La Violette * Rundadinella * Sacred yodelling song * Mater et filia * Polka from the Ennstal * Two polkas * English dances: Rufy Tufty * Rakes of mallow * Hunt the squirrel * Up tails all * The phoenis * Time-change dances * Two dances for singing and playing: Dance-song * Hector Protector

    It is a fitting memorial to an outstanding critic and writer."--Jazz Journal Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on "America's greatest composer," the Duke himself.Foreword by Studs TerkelNew introduction by Ira Gitler

    Over 130 songs in several styles, from old-time, traditional and newgrass, to gospel and novelty tunes. For each song, words, chords and melody line in tablature for guitar and banjo are given.

    Lauded as nothing less than the "greatest musical figure" of his time by Canadian musician, Glenn Gould, in 1962, Strauss also has attracted his share of posthumous epithets: in summary, an artist who lived off his own fat during his later years. As recently as 1995, the English critic Rodney Milnes wrote, "the court of posterity is still reserving judgment." In Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma, biographer Michael Kennedy demonstrates that the many varying shades of criticism that have painted this figure in the past half century resemble the similar understandings and misunderstandings held by his contemporaries--perceptions that touched almost every aspect of Strauss' life and career. Introducing his detailed work more as a broad explication than a firm answer to the Straussian riddle, Kennedy's scope includes the exuberant, extroverted Strauss of young adulthood as well as the phlegmatic and aloof middle-aged man who resembled a "prosperous bank manager;" the arch-fiend of modernism and the composer who redefined the term; a man who professed to lack all spiritual curiosity and a musician who penned the touching ballet Der Kometentanz; an at times almost humble family man and an artist who claimed to be as interesting as Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Kennedy clearly elucidates his enigmatic subject by building his analysis around the few constants in Strauss' life: his profound admiration for German culture, his dependence on his own family for guidance, and his "Nietzschean total absorption in art." This frame offers everyone from Straussian scholars to general readers an insightful and easy-to-follow biographical narrative. Kennedy also deals at length with Strauss' problematic relationship with Nazi authorities, detailing his incompatible roles as the father-in-law of a Jewish woman and as one of the country's leading composers. Michael Kennedy is the chief music critic of the (London) Sunday Telegraph and the author of many books about music.

    The technique allows the banjo player to create complex note-for-note renditions of bluegrass fiddle tunes, as well as ornamenting solos with melodic fragments and motives. Along with a full step-by-step guide to developing the skills of the melodic style, this book also features Bill Keith's personal explanation of how he developed his formidable technique, in his own words and music. It also includes 37 tunes in tablature, with a section of fiddle tunes. Interviews with the stars of the melodic style including Bobby Thompson, Eric Weissberg, Ben Eldridge and Alan Munde are also presented. Includes a CD featuring Trischka himself with backing band, demonstrating many of the fiddle tunes presented in the book.

    Includes arrangements of melody/lyrics/chords, plus hundreds of rare photographs, annotations and discographies. It also features an extensive introduction by John Cohen, Mike Seeger and Hally Wood.

    Book of hymns both old and new.

    

    From Show Boat and Oklahoma! to West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, and A Chorus Line, the musical has attracted our finest actors, composers, writers, directors, and choreographers. The greats and near-greats are finally brought together in this essential reference guide to over 2,000 personalities, productions, and songs of the musical theatre in both New York and London from the late nineteenth century right up to Sweeney Todd and Evita. Scholars, professionals, critics, and devoted fans alike will find a wealth of fascinating information on the backgrounds, plots, casts, scores, and credits of the leading musicals; biographies of their artists; and complete lists of Broadway, off-Broadway, and London productions, long runs, and awards. With a complete bibliography and discography.

    This study of the blues by one of America's premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular music—a blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good times.

    This book is perfect for fiddle as well as guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, flute, accordion or concertina. With guitar chords. A CD with 15 tunes, played by Williamson, is included for demonstration. Songs include: All in a Garden Green * Newcastle * The Ploughboy * Greensleeves * Welsh Morris Dance * Lady Owen's Delight * The Bonny Grey * Waterloo Hornpipe * Sweet Molly * Welcome Whiskey Back Again * My Darling Asleep * Back of the Haggard * Carolan's Farewell * and more.

    Includes several indexes, including scripture references and composers and sources clearly organized.

    Other selections include intermediate-level transcriptions from operas and orchestral works. Arranged in the order of difficulty, each piece is prefaced by a short description. A biographical sketch of the composer is also provided.

    More advanced than 14 of His Easiest Piano Selections, familiar preludes, waltzes and mazurkas are joined by Fantaisie-Impromptu, Etude in E Major and Polonaise in A Major. This versatile collection could be used over the span of several years as a student's facility develops. Helpful biographical and historical materials are provided for each work.

    Contents: *How to interpret the diagrams *How to memorize chords *Homonyms *Diatonic chord progressions in major keys *I iii IV V (I) *Diatonic chord scales (major keys) & string transference *Progressions built from scale wise root movements & progressions built from scale wise bass lines (Major key) *I vi ii V & iii vi ii V - short, longer, repeated *The diatonic cycle of 4ths in major keys *Progressions using substitute chords (major key) *iii7 VI7 ii7 V7 (and I VI7 ii7 V7) *iii7 vi7 II7 & V7 & (and I vi7 II7) V7 *III7 VI7 II7 V7

    

    A collection of 16 Joplin classics as performed live and on records from 1963-70: Me And Bobby McGee * Piece Of My Heart * Mercedes Benz * Tell Mama * Get It While You Can * many others. Includes b&w photographs.

    

    The singers and musicians of the time were expected to add elaborate ornamentation according to very precise rules, but exactly how these rules should be interpreted and applied has always presented considerable problems to the modern performer. This clear, concise, and practical guide to the kinds of ornamentation appropriate to sixteenth-century music is a valuable handbook for those desiring to perform the music of the period.

    Miles Krassen has gathered and re-edited over 1,000 tunes, bringing up to date Capt. Francis O'Neill's famed collection of Irish dance music, airs, jigs, reels, hornpipes, and marches. Includes an introduction on the history of Irish music with tips on playing with an authentic feeling. Features new settings from the playing of Michael Coleman & the Sligo Fiddle Masters.

    Includes: Carefree Highway * Early Mornin' Rain * If You Could Read My Mind * Sundown and more.

    French opera of this time was like the Eiffel Tower, a spectacle of gaiety and epic passions, and, like the Tower, the posters reprinted in this book are theatre pieces of surprising charm. Rare opera souvenirs, most of which advertise premiere performances, these posters also illustrate the full flowering of the illustrated poster which, at mid-nineteenth century, was virtually a new graphic art.This collection concentrates on the French poster (and opera) of the Belle Epoque, while also dipping back to include rare early examples of the illustrated poster and forward to some remarkable pieces of French Art Deco design. Included are posters by Jules Chéret (the acknowledged father of the modern poster), Steinlen, Grasset, and over 30 other artists. Jules Massenet, the most prolific composer for the French operatic stage, is amply represented by posters for Manon, Le Cid, Grisélidis, his ballet Cigale, and others. Offenbach, Ambroise Thomas, Léo Delibes, Gabriel Fauré and Henry Février are among the other composers whose works these posters herald.The posters have been reproduced by originals in the collection of Lucy Broido, who has also provided an introduction, a bibliography and extensive notes on each poster with biographies of the artists, printers and composers, anecdotes about the premiere performances and plot summaries. Poster and opera buffs, historians of art and the stage and everyone even slightly fascinated by this time in French music and graphic arts will find this book a particular delight.

    The world's most famous ballets are included, with detailed illustrations depicting memorable scenes for you to color and enjoy.

    Excellent 243 page book on Tiny's amazing life and career with eight pages of black & white photos. "Tiny tells his side of the story. Because he believes it his religious obligation, he describes everything; the times as a young man he was almost committed to a mental institution; his years of struggle in gay clubs; his startling success; his sexual escapades; his highly publicized marriage to Miss Vicky; his often acrimonious relationships with an army of managers, agents and lawyers".