Includes a 30-page bibliographical essay, numerous illustrations, and a full-color pictorial biography of the composer.

    Covering the dynamic period 1960-1976, Valerie Wilmer powerfully evokes a remarkable revolutionary musical era that continues to inspire generations of musicians. Valerie Wilmer evaluates the musical careers of both the famous names of the time - Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor - and those of less well-known artists. It is her unique approach - placing the 'new jazz' in its political and social context - that makes As Serious As Your Life a classic of jazz criticism.

    As a black musician himself, Arthur Taylor was able to ask his subjects hard questions about the role of black artists in a white society. Free to speak their minds, these musicians offer startling insights into their music, their lives, and the creative process itself. This expanded edition is supplemented with previously unpublished interviews with Dexter Gordon and Thelonious Monk, a new introduction by the author, and new photographs.Notes and Tones consists of twenty-nine no-holds-barred conversations which drummer Arthur Taylor held with the most influential jazz musicians of the ’60s and ’70s—including:

    Beatles.

    Science of breath, law of rhythm, the creative process, healing power and psychological influence of music.

    Beginning with the primordial sounds of nature, we have experienced an ever-increasing complexity of our sonic surroundings. As civilization develops, new noises rise up around us: from the creaking wheel, the clang of the blacksmith’s hammer, and the distant chugging of steam trains to the “sound imperialism” of airports, city streets, and factories. The author contends that we now suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and a proportionate diminishing of our ability to hear the nuances and subtleties of sound. Our task, he maintains, is to listen, analyze, and make distinctions. As a society we have become more aware of the toxic wastes that can enter our bodies through the air we breathe and the water we drink. In fact, the pollution of our sonic environment is no less real. Schafer emphasizes the importance of discerning the sounds that enrich and feed us and using them to create healthier environments. To this end, he explains how to classify sounds, appreciating their beauty or ugliness, and provides exercises and “soundwalks” to help us become more discriminating and sensitive to the sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, and an attempt to imagine what it might become in the future.

    . . . In its general theoretical argument on the relations of culture to economy, but also in its specialized concentration, Noise has much that is of importance to critical theory today.” SubStance“For Attali, music is not simply a reflection of culture, but a harbinger of change, an anticipatory abstraction of the shape of things to come. The book’s title refers specifically to the reception of musics that sonically rival normative social orders. Noise is Attali’s metaphor for a broad, historical vanguardism, for the radical soundscapes of the western continuum that express structurally the course of social development.” EthnomusicologyJacques Attali is the author of numerous books, including Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order and Labyrinth in Culture and Society.

    Bach, the last and unquestionably the least of the great Johann Sebastian Bach's many children.

    Blum has captured in great detail the little things that so often make a great teacher. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Art of Interpretation."—Music Teacher"The volume belongs to an exceptional class of literature: it is to be welcomed as a significant contribution. In his Forward, Antony Hopkins in a most eloquent way makes us fully aware of our possible great loss had the subject material forming this book not been preserved for posterity...throughout the book one remains not only an absorbed reader, but very much an active participant."—Violoncello Society Newsletter"Now we have an authoritative guide to this great artist's approach to interpretation...a book which should be compulsory reading for every player, conductor and teacher."—Music Journal of the Incorporated Society of Musicians"Blum has elegantly combined precise music terminology with meticulous music examples to present lucid and revealing details of interpretation that can be quickly and easily grasped. Only superlatives apply to this book, and all serious musicians would find immense pleasure and musical profit from reading this work. Highly recommended at all levels."—Choice

    Books I and II of this traditional edition in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics have been combined in an affordable new volume. An excellent resource for Late Elementary to Early Intermediate pianists. Contents: Minuet in G Major, BWV App. 114 * Minuet in G minor, BWV App. 115 * Minuet in G Major, BWV App. 116 * Polonaise in G minor, BWV App. 119 * March in D Major, BWV 122 * Minuet in G Major from Overture in G minor, BWV 822 * Minuet in G minor from Overture in G minor, BWV 822 * Minuet in G minor (II) from Overture in G minor, BWV 822 * March in G Major, BWV App. 124 * Minuet in D minor, BWV App. 132 * Musett in G Major from English Suite No. 3, BWV 808 * Bourree in E minor from Lute Suite No. 1, BWV 996 * Musette in D Major, BWV App. 126 * Minuet in C minor, BWV App. 121 * Gavotte in G minor from Overture in G minor, BWV 822 * March in E-flat Major, BWV App. 127 * Polonaise in G minor BWV App. 125 * Gavotte in D Major from English Suite No. 6, BWV 811 * Polonaise in G Major, BWV App. 130 * Gavotte in G minor from English Suite No. 3, BWV 808 * Minuet in F Major from Overture in F Major, BWV 820 * Polonaise in G minor, BWV App. 123 * Gavotte in G Major from French Suite No. 5, BWV 816 * Minuet in E Major from French Suite No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817 * Scherzo in A minor from Partita No. 3, BWV 827 * Sarabande in E minor from English Suite No. 5, BWV 810 * Minuet in C minor from French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813 * Prelude in F minor from Suite in F minor, BWV 823

    Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.

    "Will no doubt become the standard lieder-resource for the English-speaking world..." - Choice

    This led to the release of six follow-up hits, inspired a host of imitations, and generated a long-playing sub-genre in art and design publishing.Album Cover Album is edited and compiled by two designers who were among the most innovative pioneers of the work that it celebrates. Storm Thorgerson's Hipgnosis earned world renown for the epic photo shoots and iconic designs that went so perfectly with the music of Pink Floyd. Meanwhile, Roger Dean's dreamscapes and unique typography became as much a part of the rock generation as the Yes albums they adorned. Album Cover Album features their selection of more than 600 sleeves in full color, and showcases the astonishing diversity and excellence of design that the medium produced in its first three decades.This new edition retains the lavish 12-inch format of the original and replays the ingeniously themed compositions of each page. The album is given a fresh spin by a new preface from Peter Gabriel and new forewords by Storm Thorgerson and John Wetton, plus a 21st-century typographic facelift. The result is a celebration of the enduring appeal of vinyl.

    Songs include: Pigs on the Wing * Dogs * Sheep * Pigs (Three Different Ones) * Pigs on the Wing Part II * and more.

    Lyrics written out in full before each song. The introduction was written by Donald Swann and the book also includes numerous illustrations by distinguished artists and cartoonists.Titles: In the Bath * Design for Living * Misalliance * The Gas-Man Cometh * A Song of the Weather * Pillar to Post * Rain on the Plage * Motor Perpetuo * Slow Train * A Transport of Delight (Omnibus) * Last of the Line * Twenty Tons of TNT * The Reluctant Cannibal * Pee-Po-Belly-Bum-Drawers * Budget Song * Ballad for the Rich * All Gall * Philological Waltz (Tonga) * Song of Patriotic Prejudice * The Lord Chamberlain's Regulations * The Album * Ill Wind * Guide to Britten * Song of Reproduction * Bedstead Men * Excelsior * Vanessa * Twice Shy * Madeira, M'dear? * The Armadillo * The Hippopatamus * The Ostrich * The Elephant * The Gnu * The Rhinoceros * The Sloth * The Spider * The Wild Boar * The Whale (Mopy Dick) * The Warthog * The Wompom.

    Caroline Coon managed The Clash from 1978 to 1980, through the UK Sort It Out tour and the USA Pearl Harbour tour.

    He has thereby left a unique record whose importance cannot be overestimated. Each of the 137 poems is annotated for pronunciation, with a line-for-line translation into English by Winifred Radford, who also translated the text of the book.

    A complete guide to the pennywhistle for beginning to advanced players. Contains information on modal playing and 56 traditional pennywhistle tunes from America and Britain. It also covers how to read music, fingering, modes and ornamentation. With guitar accompaniment chords.

    This is a biography of the World's greatest Opera Diva, Maria Callas; All of her commercial & pirated recordings are discussed in this year-by year survey of her career by John Ardoin-the lead crtitic for the Dallas Morning News, a musicologist, and close friend.

    While reading these beautiful devotional thoughts, listen to the songs on the CD that is included.

    As well as describing the circumstances in which Ravel composed, the book explores new evidence to present radical views of the composer’s background and upbringing, his notorious failure in the Prix de Rome, his incisive and often combative character, his sexual preferences, and his long final illness. It also contains the most detailed account so far published of his hugely successful American tour of 1928. The world of Maurice Ravel—including friendships (and some fallings-out) with Debussy, Fauré, Diaghilev, Gershwin, and Toscanini—is deftly uncovered in this sensitive portrait.

    

    These elements collectively imply a new tonality as "natural" and coherent as the major-minor tonality that was the basis of a common musical language in the past. His book describes the foundational assumptions of this post-diatonic tonality and illustrates its compositional functions with numerous musical examples.The second edition of Twelve-Tone Tonality is enlarged by eleven new chapters, some of which are "postscripts" to earlier chapters—clarifying, elucidating, and expanding upon concepts discussed in the original edition. Others discuss new developments in the theory and practice of twelve-tone tonality, including voice-leading implications of the system and dissonance treatment.

    He compared the historic and then current techniques practiced in the four major Western European schools of vocalism and evaluated technical maneuvers found within each.Recent years have placed greater demands on the vocal talents of professional singers with the growth of performance spaces, the emergence of the stage director, louder orchestral sound, and even the infusion of pop culture sounds into traditional music. As "world culture" continues to expand, and vocal talent becomes more homogenous, the need for continued recognition of lingering national and regional vocal training techniques becomes more important for the singer's quest to develop a certain style. This update of Miller's original study incorporates these new concerns with a continued investigation into which techniques within the national schools are common to them all and which idiosyncratic regional tendencies remain.

    Sample songs: And I Love Her * Gigi * I Love Paris * I'll Be Seeing You * I've Got a Crush on You * Mockin' Bird Hill * The Shadow of Your Smile * The Way We Were * You're the Cream in My Coffee. The lyric booklet ""Sing Along!"" is included.

    Dena J. Epstein's classic work traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. Anchored by groundbreaking scholarship, it redefined the study of black music in the slavery era by presenting the little-known development of black folk music in the United States. Her findings include the use of drums, the banjo, and other instruments originating in Africa; a wealth of eyewitness accounts and illustrations; in-depth look at a wide range of topics; and a collection of musical examples. This edition offers an author's preface that looks back on the twenty-five years of changes in scholarship that followed the book's original publication.

    A time-tested chord approach method that really works!Suggested Use of Materials with The Older Beginner Piano Course, Level 1:When the student reaches page 5, he is ready to begin Musicianship, Level 1 (WP34)When the student reaches page 14, he is ready to begin Music Flashcards (GP27)When the student reaches page 15, he is ready to begin Notespeller, Level 1 (WP20)When the student reaches page 44, he is ready to begin Classic Themes by the Masters (WP40)When the student reaches page 46, he is ready to begin Religious Favorites (WP41) When the student reaches page 48, he is ready to begin Favorite Melodies the World Over, Level 1 (WP37) When the student reaches page 53, he is ready to begin Pop, Rock 'N Blues, Book 1 (GP37)

    

    A reference guide to rock music, from rock's roots to the present.Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, from Abba to ZZ Top, the book appeals to both the dedicated fan and the casual reader, and is filled with all the information you ever wanted to know about the legends, superstars and cult heroes of yesterday and today.

    Country music grew up in Tennessee, drawing from sources in the white rural music of East and Middle Tennessee, from the church music of country singing conventions, and from the black music of the Memphis area.  The author traces the vital role played by Tennessee and its musicians in the development of this unique American art form.

    The effect of what happened to music in Liverpool of the early sixties is still being felt today. 'Mersey Beat' was the center of the Liverpool sound right from the start

    His training program consists of a set of exercises to develop each of the skills required of a singer-actor: energizing, concentrating, structuring, imagining, stylizing, and coordinating.

    

    These enchanting melodies supply students of the first and second levels of study with an introduction to the world's finest music.

    which can improve emotional communication and lead to a profound sense of well-being.

    One of the great voice teachers of his day, J. Clifford Turner here uses simple and direct language to impart the necessary technical 'basics' of speech and voice.

    In this attractive anthology of more than 600 selections, the entire spectrum of religious verse acquires radiant new reflection for today's more meaningful assimilation and practical employment.Arranged under 33 topics of universal Christian interest and concern, here are enduring poetic works conveying the deepest emotion of the soul... the essentials of Christian faith... the outreach of that faith in the home, the nation, the Church... the dream world of peace.The widely honored writings of bygone eras merge impressively with compositions of current popularity and acclaim in The Treasury of Religious Verse. Represented in these pages are such contemporary lyricists as Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and T.S. Eliot, and such poetic masters as Browning, Tennyson, Bunyan, and Cowper.Comprehensive indexing enhances the value of this anthology as an outstanding resource volume for minister, speaker, teacher, and writer as well as for schools and libraries. All selections are catalogued according to Titles and First Lines, Subjects, Authors, and Special Days and Occasions.Here is inspirational reading to which one will return often and which will be joyfully shared - an eminent treasury indeed of man's most immortal song.

    It was based on the original edition of 1651, with the music edited and put into modern notation by Leslie Bridgewater. The book gives performing instructions and melody lines for over 100 community country dances.

    

    The story of The Who's first decade, with interviews and pictures but mostly consisting of music (with tabs) and lyrics.

    It's meant to signify the writer destroying his rough drafts." - R.C. Despite the fact that most people view Robert Calvert as a rock musician, Robert actually viewed himself as a poet and a writer. It is of course easy to see where the confusion arises as Robert was for many years a member of British rock band Hawkwind. Robert recorded numerous albums with the band between the years 1971 and 1978 including important releases such as Space Ritual and Quark, Strangeness and Charm.Originally published in 1977, Centigrade 232 is seen amongst the Robert Calvert fans as being an important publication gathering together as it did some of Robert Calvert’s best work up to this point including Centigrade 232, Beach Combing, First Landing On Medusa and Fly On The Screen.In 1986 Robert Calvert recited Centigrade 232 and sold the tape through his mailing list. These cassette tapes are like the book - now incredibly rare and treasured collectible items in part due to their rarity. Original copies of the book and cassette now change hands for inflated sums on the traders and collectors markets.This Voiceprint limited edition is a reprint of Centigrade 232. The book was issued as a limited edition package which included a CD of the original Robert Calvert recording of Centigrade 232.This edition was limited to just 500 copies with each copy being individually numbered.

    The book is comprised of 24 chapters that are organized into two parts. The first part of the text details the various aspects of nervous function involved in musical activity, which include neural and mechanicals aspects of singing; neurophysiological interpretation of musical ability; and ecstatic and synesthetic experiences during musical perception. The second part deals with the effects of nervous disease on musical function, such as musicogenic epilepsy, the amusias, and occupational palsies. The book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of disciplines that deal with the nervous system, such as psychology, neurology, and psychiatry.