Piano duet arrangements of eight beautiful favorites from Les Mis: Bring Him Home * Castle on a Cloud * Do You Hear the People Sing? * A Heart Full of Love * I Dreamed a Dream * In My Life * On My Own * Stars.

    This souvenir folio features full-color photos from the stunning production as well as piano/vocal arrangements of 9 songs, including: All I Ask of You * Angel of Music * Masquerade * The Music of the Night * The Phantom of the Opera * The Point of No Return * Prima Donna * Think of Me * Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again.

    Rather than a step-by-step method book, the information is presented in a general essay format, discussing ways that the various techniques covered may be applied by the advancing guitarist to enhance his/her own style of playing, some of the areas discussed include: basic fingerboard mechanics - modes, scales and chords - contemporary harmony, - harmonica and overtone influences - being self-critical - improvising short pieces - different playing situations.

    Over 450 photographs, drawings, and diagrams reveal in exquisite detail the hows, whys, and how-to's of the traditional craft of guitarmaking, all accompanied by fascinating historical and technical notes. A comprehensive bibliography; a list of tools, materials, and supply sources; and a full index complete this uniquely authoritative reference -- and essential acquisition -- for guitar and craft enthusiasts, woodworkers, and students of instrument making everywhere.

    Since their formation in 1977 they had the talent, determination and stamina to climb to the heights of international stardom, capped by their mega-million sales album PYROMANIA...But nothing could have prepared them for personal tragedies and professional disasters that inflicted their lives and plunged them back to relative obscurity in the mid 1980s.More than anything, though, Def Leppard had good instincts. And in rock & roll instinct spells survival.ANIMAL INSTINCT is the story of that survival, from the early days in Sheffield, England to their triumphant return to the international rock arena and HYSTERIA in the charts.

    Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications.

    Matching folio to his best-selling acoustic album. 14 songs, including: Tears in Heaven * Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out * Layla * Alberta * Old Love * and more.

    There are carols suitable for both sacred and secular occasions, and both accompanied andunaccompanied material. The Order of Service for a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is included.

    sweet life adventures on the way to paradise by barry manilow

    Published in Association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Full color.

    Ranging in their technical demands from the relatively easy Sonata in C Major, K545 (one of the most popular piano works ever composed), to the profoundly moving Fantasy in D Minor, K397, and the challenging Sonata No. 19 in D Major, K576, these works are imbued with the clarity, grace, variety, and limitless invention that have made them perennial favorites with performers and audiences alike. Reprinted from authoritative editions, including Breitkopf & Härtel's Complete Works, this volume is among the lowest-priced and most thorough editions now available.

    For the first time ever! 200 of the Beatles' hits arranged in fake book format, featuring guitar chord frames and lyrics. All My Loving * All You Need Is Love * And I Love Her * Baby, You're a Rich Man * Back in the U.S.S.R. * The Ballad of John and Yoko * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Come Together * A Day in the Life * Day Tripper * Dear Prudence * Do You Want to Know a Secret * Drive My Car * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Get Back * Glass Onion * Good Day Sunshine * Got to Get You into My Life * A Hard Day's Night * Help! * Helter Skelter * Here Comes the Sun * Here, There and Everywhere * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * I Saw Her Standing There * In My Life * Lady Madonna * Let It Be * The Long and Winding Road * Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds * Michelle * Money (That's What I Want) * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * Paperback Writer * Penny Lane * Revolution * She Loves You * Something * Strawberry Fields Forever * Twist and Shout * While My Guitar Gently Weeps * With a Little Help from My Friends * Yellow Submarine * Yesterday * and many more!

    These early works are seen by some critics as attempting to "establish some ultimate ground for existence in the face of pain, death, doubt, and despair." The composer's spiritual quest, as well as the vivid orchestration, innovative symphonic structure, and rich emotional expression that characterized his music can be clearly studied and appreciated in this volume, which contains complete scores of Mahler's first two symphonies.Of the Symphony No. 1 in D Major ("Titan"), the Encyclopaedia Britannica notes, "The program of the purely orchestral Symphony No. 1 in D Major … is autobiographical of his youth; the joy of life becomes clouded over by an obsession with death in the macabre "Funeral March in the Manner of Callot (basically a parody of popular music), which is eventually routed in the arduous and brilliant finale."Of Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, ("Resurrection"), Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians states: "Symphony II is a good example of all Mahler's works … scored nearly always heavily for a large orchestra, restless and stormy in places, monumentally exalted in others."Now both works are available in this handsome, inexpensive edition, reproduced directly from the original editions published by Josef Weinberger in Vienna in 1897 and 1899. Beautifully printed with wide margins and clear noteheads, this edition of the symphonies offers an unparalleled resource for studying and enjoying the seminal works of a modern master.

    A great collection of 21 huge hits from this pop superstar: Allentown * Big Shot * Don't Ask Me Why * It's Still Rock and Roll to Me * Just the Way You Are * The Longest Time * Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) * My Life * New York State of Mind * Only the Good Die Young * Piano Man * Pressure * She's Always a Woman * Tell Her About It * Uptown Girl * You May Be Right * You're Only Human * more.

    Drawing on unprecedented access to previously unknown or unavailable Russian-language sources, including extensive archival material, Harlow Robinson traces Prokofiev's extraordinary life from the fairy-tale world of Czarist Russia, through his many years abroad in America and Europe, to his perlexing permanent return to Moscow in 1936 under the Soviet Regime. That Prokofiev died on the very day as Josef Stalin, his principal persecutor, was the final irony of his intense and enigmatic career.

    Each of the 12 lessons includes instructions, exercises and folk and classical pieces using the new skills and techniques taught in the lesson. This is an excellent book for any student, regardless of previous musical training.

    Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theories of celestial harmony, the author follows the path of musical inspiration on its descent to Earth, illuminating the archetypal currents that lie beneath Western musical history.

    This lush arrangement was made from the original orchestral score and lays easily under the hands. The flow of the melody from piano to piano is nice. This arrangement is perfect for advancing pianists, and will be a welcome addition to any recital.

    After Primer A and B the student would continue with Level 1.

    Veteran musician and educator Mick Goodrick presents practical information for guitarists who want to improve their playing technique and style and simply become better musicians. Rather than a step-by-step method book, the information is presented in a general essay format, discussing ways that the various techniques covered may be applied by the advancing guitarist to enhance his/her own style of playing, some of the areas discussed include: basic fingerboard mechanics * modes, scales and chords * contemporary harmony * harmonica and overtone influences * being self-critical * improvising short pieces * different playing situations.

    King, and Howlin' Wolf; the multicolored psychedelic hallucinations promoting the Grateful Dead, Dylan, and the Doors; the deliciously tasteless art for the Sex Pistols, Crime, and the Clash. From the Red Dog Saloon in San Francisco, where the psychedelic scene started, to CBGB, New York's punk Mecca, and beyond. 1,500 images searched out world-wide from clubs, attics, and bedrooms—as well as more formal collections—are reproduced in their original blazing colors.Replete with firsthand history—including exclusive interviews with scores of insiders, poster artists, musicians, and promoters—this is the ultimate high for the rock music fan, required reading for the poster collector, a treasure trove for the graphic artist, and a riotous feast for anyone who digs pop culture.

    This best-selling progressive 46 page encyclopedia of rock/funk patterns for all tempos, utilizes a new contemporary teaching style for independence, rudiments, styles, and more.

    A virtual Who's Who of people who've done the most in the eighties to drag music out of commercial confinement."--NMEContributors: Marc Almond, Dave Ball, Cabaret Voltaire, Nick Cave, Chris & Cosey, Coil, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Fall, Diamanda Galas, Genesis P-Orridge, Michael Gira, The Hafler Trio, Matt Johnson (The The), Laibach, Lydia Lunch, New Order, Psychic TV, Boyd Rice, Henry Rollins, Clint Ruin, Silverstar Amoeba, Mark E. Smith (The Fall), Sonic Youth, Stevo, Mark Stewart, Swans, Test Dept, David Tibet (Current 93), Touch.

    Corrina, Corrina - Delia Gone - Drill Ye Tarriers Drill - Foggy Foggy Dew - John Henry - Lonesome Road - Old Chisholm Trail -- On Top Of Old Smoky - Roving Gabmbler - Shenandoah - Stag O' Lee - This Train - Go Tell It On The Mountain - And 106 More!

    Titles are: Where the Streets Have No Name * I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For * With or Without You * Bullet the Blue Sky * Running to Stand Still * Red Hill Mining Town * In God's Country * Trip Through Your Wires * One Tree Hill * Exit * Mothers of the Disappeared.

    Its reception, which was overwhelming, was the first unqualified success that he had ever enjoyed. Eight months later he was dead." — Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.Mahler's massive complex "Symphony of a Thousand" has been called a crowning achievement of his career, a work that integrates on a truly grand scale the musical ideas, forms, and media that dominated his creative life. The symphony is in two parts. The first is a setting of words from the medieval Latin hymn "Veni, Creator Spiritus." The words of the second part are taken from the final scene of Goethe's Faust. The theme of this amalgam is the redemptive power of love, and its form is a powerful synthesis of motet, dramatic cantata, oratorio, song cycle, and symphony.Mahler scored the work for orchestra, eight solo voices, double chorus, boys' choir, and organ, eliciting from this mighty consortium the most subtle of musical nuances one moment and majestic torrents of sound the next. This authoritative full-score edition makes the Symphony No. 8 available at a reasonable price to all students and performers of Mahler, and all music lovers who wish to immerse themselves in the glories of this monumental masterpiece.

    Written by many of the top professionals in the field, including Glen Ballou, Ken Pohlmann, David Miles Huber, Dr. Eugene Patronis, Bill Whitlock, Pat Brown, Ray Rayburn, Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert.

    Matching folio to the sensational live album, featuring: Suicide Solution * Believer * Iron Man * and more. Plus feature story and photos.

    Edited by Singer. (LB230)

    Each is arranged in an easy version and a more difficult version. Each carol also contains lyrics and chord indications for harpists or other instrumentalists. The two arrangements can also be played as a duet. Songs include: Angels We Have Heard on High * The Boar's Head Carol * Coventry Carol * Deck the Hall * The First Noel * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Hark! the Herald Angels Sing * I Saw Three Ships * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * O Holy Night * Silent Night * The Twelve Days of Christmas * Up on the Housetop * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * and more.

    Chapin is known for his ballads and "story songs," among them his signature song, the hugely popular "Taxi." He died in an auto crash in 1981, just as his fame was burgeoning and his albums were selling out in record stores. Though the broader recognition due him has been late in coming, his music, his beliefs, and his social activism are now widely appreciated by increasing numbers of fans here and abroad.

    Subjects include chord construction, embellishment, substitution, connection, resolution and chromatic movement. Also covers whole tone, blues, altered scales, chord scales and much more.

    

    This intriguing forum later inspired Terrence McNally's acclaimed play Master Class. Outspoken and uncompromising in her artistic beliefs, Callas worked through her legendary arias from Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, and others. John Ardoin brilliantly captures the insights of a thoughtful singer who reveals herself to be not the imperious diva of her reputation, but a supremely self-aware artist concerned with passing along a great musical tradition.

    150 black-and-white illustrations.

    These songs and games, recorded in Step It Down by folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes, capture the shape and color of the crowded, impoverished, life-demanding, and life-loving days of the black family of sixty years ago, revealing the strength and vitality of African and slave traditions in black American life.The power of music and motion to transform a world of scarcity and hardship into one of laughter and joy echoes throughout Bessie Jones's words:"And the other childrens and I would go in the bottom and have a frolic, instead of going to bed. I was just up for that singing, and I remembered they used to say . . . 'Come on, Lizzie!' and we'd go down a way and we'd have a dance. Oh it was pretty. . . . You know, it was just as good as the blues--better, better in a way. When the old folks would go to work or go off or something, we'd put on them long dresses and, boy, we'd have a time."Step It Down weaves together the lyrics, music, and description of traditional Afro-American children's songs as well as Jones's comments on their meaning and "feel." Whether reciting "Tom, Tom, Greedy Gut" or demonstrating the more complex steps of "Ranky Tank" and "Buzzard's Lope," Bessie Jones always viewed the amusements of the young as preparation for adult roles and relationships, and as a teacher, she developed her own philosophy of how a black child is socialized into the larger community. Grounded in the values of black society, her songs taught children about cooperative interaction and mutual concern, not about competition and individual achievement, showing them how to create fun out of nothing more than their hands, feet, voices, and imaginations.

    As builder of some thirty keyboard instruments, Kottick is well qualified to speak on the subject.

    All new piano/vocal arrangements of 124 of the Beatles greatest hits. A truly remarkable collection including: All My Loving * And I Love Her * Come Together * Eleanor Rigby * Get Back * Help! * Hey Jude * I Want To Hold Your Hand * Let It Be * Michelle * many, many more.

    Official sheet music of The Smiths album "Strangeways, Here We Come"

    A collection of in-depth profiles of celebrated musicians including Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, master violin teacher Dorothy DeLay, James Galway and Yo Yo Ma.

    This unique publication contains 52 favorite Beatles songs arranged exclusively for the guitar. It is designed to provide an accurate look into the lead and rhythm guitar styles of George Harrison and John Lennon. Instead of providing transcriptions of the guitars off the record, these arrangements use the musical elements of the bass, drums, keyboards and guitars all incorporated into one guitar so that they can be played alone or in a band. Written in tablature, this book also provides numbers, strums, accents and picking patterns for those who do not read music.

    It is a vast universe defined by all that Elvis stands for: the music, of course, and the movies, the life and the legend, but also the cascade of material things he collected and consumed (from pink Cadillacs and the cheese-burgers to diamond rings and Graceland), the glitter, and the mammoth success (one billion records sold, more than anyone else in history). Starting with its four-page gate-fold title page, this book is bursting with rare photographs, with wonderful Elvis memorabilia (1950s' fans magazines: "Elvis - hero or heel?", Elvis wallets, Elvis hankerchiefs, Elvis bedroom slippers), with the Elvis phenomenon as it exists today. Elvis Presley has become an American symbol as recognizable as the American flag. He is a landmark in almost everyone's life, and his image continues to mesmerize. Elvis has transcended his previous status as merely the most popular entertainer in history, and "Elvis world" explains and revels in this phenomenon. With affection and wit - and a touch of irreverence - the Sterns guide us through Elvis world, showing us an Elvis we've never seen before.

    This book is a supplement to the first volume of Drum Machine Patterns. In it you will find over 260 rhythm patterns and breaks. These are original patterns that can be programmed easily on any drum machine. This book contains the rhythms most often used in contemporary music, and many patterns incorporate flams, to be used on the latest generation of drum machines.

    This book is the result of those conversations, and is, quite simply, a masterpiece that reveals the agony, triumphs, and the religiosity inherent in the creative mind. **Lightning Print On Demand Title

    Arranged for beginning and advanced harpers, this book contains 40 of the best tunes by O'Carolan, the most famous of the Irish harpers and composers who lived from 1670-1738. Each of the 40 tunes has two arrangements: an easy play version and a more difficult version. Each tune includes chord indications that can be used by harpers or other instrumentalists. Playable on both lever harps and pedal harps.

    60 four-color plates.

    For each element, a model is given and, where appropriate, simple drills provided.In part II, the ELEMENTS ARE COMBINED and the student is introduced to considerations of spacing, changes of meter, clef, and key as well as the notation of syncopation and irregular divisions of the beat.Part III delineates SCORING PRACTICES ranging from notating two lines of music on one staff to discussions of transposing instruments, orchestral score layouts, and the extraction of instrumental parts.The author provides an appendix designed for those who wish to achieve more professional results; copying tools, materials, and techniques, as well as popular-music notation are described in detail.George Heussenstamm is a frequently-performed composer who has prepared his own scores for years. The copying skills he developed enabled him to give very successful courses in music notation at several California universities. The present book is the practical result of his experience as a teacher and professional copyist.

    This book has been written to improve that art for guitar, vibes and all keyboard instruments. A careful study of these solos will give you a thorough understanding of chordal playing and substitutions. It is great for voicing as well as improvisation.

    

    This updated edition offers 60 of Elton's best: Bennie and the Jets * The Bitch Is Back * Candle in the Wind * Crocodile Rock * Daniel * Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues * The One * Rocket Man * Sad Songs (Say So Much) * Tiny Dancer * Written in the Stars * Your Song * and more!

    Every term from previous editions has been reconsidered and often rewritten. Guest entries are by Dennis Bohn, cofounder and head of research and development at Rane Corporation, and film sound expert Larry Blake, whose credits include Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven. The appendixes--tutorials that gather a lifetime's worth of experience in acoustics--include both new and greatly expanded articles.

    It will thus remain a source of first-hand information on Britten's final operatic achievement. Donald Mitchell was Britten's publisher at the time of Death in Venice and his Introduction includes many personal observations on the genesis of the work. The latter part of the book contains essays by T. J. Reed and Patrick Carnegy on the libretto's source in Thomas Mann's novella and Philip Reed compares briefly Visconti's cinematic interpretation of the novella. The volume is richly illustrated with music examples, sketches and extracts from the autograph score, and pictures from the first production. It will make an essential reference work and indispensable companion for opera-goers, students and scholars alike.

    "--Race and ClassIn clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author presents not only an account of African American music from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of the music act and of its function in human life. The two streams of discussion occupy alternate chapters so that each casts light on the other. The author offers also an answer to what the Musical Times called the "seldom posed though glaringly obtrusive" question: "why is it that the music of an alienated, oppressed, often persecuted black minority should have made so powerful an impact on the entire industrialized world, whatever the color of its skin or economic status?"

    Each of the five volumes contains important songs chosen because of their appropriateness to that particular voice type. All selections are in their authentic form, excerpted from the original vocal scores. The songs in The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology, written by such noted composers as Kurt Weill, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Kern, are vocal masterpieces ideal for the auditioning, practicing or performing vocalists. 46 songs, including: Where Or When * If I Loved You * Goodnight, My Someone * Smoke Gets In Your Eyes * Barbara Song * more.

    Thus begins The Swan Prince, an affectionate, humorous takeoff of classical ballet conceived by none other than classical ballet's greatest living dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov. 80 pages of photographs. (Performing Arts)

    Scott Fitzgerald's—embodied the glamorous success and lost possibilities of the Jazz Age.

    In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's Why Suyá Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suyá--and by extension for other groups-- through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in the initiation ceremony.   Based on over twenty-four months of field research and years of musical exchange, Seeger analyzes the different verbal arts and then focuses on details of musical performance. He reveals how Suyá singing creates euphoria out of silence, a village community out of a collection of houses, a socialized adult out of a boy, and contributes to the formation of ideas about time, space, and social identity.   This new paperback edition features an indispensable CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suyá in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers.

    Includes a "Just for Fun" section and an "Ambitious" section for the student who will devote a little extra effort toward learning some of the great masterworks that require additional practice.

    The combination of original, folk, and seasonal songs, and full-color artwork makes learning a treat. Students who complete both Primers A & B are ready for study in Level 1 of Bastien Piano Basics. The Primer B Level is a continuation of the method for students who have completed Primer A. Product Details: 10-digit ISBN Number: 0849793181 Media: Music Books Level or Grade: Primer Instrumentation: Piano Series: ? Bastien Piano Basics

    This publication, for advanced fingerstyle guitar players, is the first book in the United States of Bensusan's arrangements. It contains sections on all aspects of guitar performance, emphasized with pieces by various composers, including Mr. Bensusan's traditional Irish fiddle tunes, French ballads and more.

    The book that helped spur interest in the techniques of west African polyrhythms.

    Now this seminal volume of portraits is available in a stunning paperback edition. Legendary throughout the jazz world, Claxton began photographing musicians while still a student at UCLA, during the early days of the burgeoning West Coast jazz scene. A personal friend of many of the artists, Claxton captured on film the intimate relationship between the musicians and their music, and his award-winning photographs have graced the covers of innumerable albums. Collected here are 77 evocative full-bleed duotones of the world's great jazz icons, including Sarah Vaughan, Chet Baker, Dave Brubreck, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Pepper, Thelonious Monk, and many others. For anyone who loves jazz or fine photography, Jazz is a timeless volume and an outstanding gift.

    The songs are presented with singers and guitarists in mind, but the complete lyrics and many photographs will be of great interest to her fans.

    1637-1707), released to celebrate the tercentenary of the composer's death. Originally published in 1987 and long out of print, Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lubeck is considered by most musicologists to be the definitive biography. It also includes close description of Buxtehude's compositional output, from trio sonatas to the famed Abendmusiken: Buxtehude's yearly oratorio presentations. The young J. S. Bach traveled to Lubeck on foot in 1705 to learn as much as he could from the great master of the organ and of Lutheran church music. The revised edition contains new information on the organs that Buxtehude played in Scandinavia and Lubeck, excerpts from the newly available account books from St. Mary's in Lubeck, a discussion of newly discovered sources, including one written by J. S. Bach, an evaluation of recent scholarship on Buxtehude, and an extensive bibliography. Written for both the casual reader and the serious scholar. The accompanying CD provides examples of all genres discussed in the book -- vocal works, a trio sonata, harpsichord music, and organ music newly recorded on the North German meantone organ in Gothenburg, Sweden, by a noted specialist in this repertoire, Hans Davidsson, who is professor of organ at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the founder of the Goteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt). Kerala J. Snyder is professor emerita of musicology, Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester).

    This book teaches harpers step-by-step the music theory and techniques they need to make their own arrangements. Subjects covered include chords, inversions, keys, accompaniment patterns, transposing, and much more. The book gives plenty of examples and includes more than 90 pieces on which the students can practice their newly gained skills as they progress through the book. Spiral-bound.

    In an era when almost all stars were manufactured by the music industry, he wrote his own material, led his own group, played a Fender Strat, and recorded classic songs like “That'll Be the Day,” “Peggy Sue,” “Not Fade Away,” and “It's So Easy,” in the process influencing everyone from the Beatles to Elvis Costello. Remembering Buddy Holly traces in consumate detail Holly's life from his birth in Lubbock, Texas in 1936 to his tragic death in a plane crash twenty-three years later. In celebration of Holly's sixtieth birthday, this definitive biography was once again made available.

    

    Full transcriptions of Holdsworth's original composition and performancenotes complete with photo/ biography section. In notes and tab. Songs: The Abigndon Chasp * Fred * Home * Letters of Marque * Shallow Sea * Temporary Fault * Three Sheets to the Wind * Tokyo Dream * The Unmerry-Go-Round * White Line.

    The world's most trusted source for great theatre literature for singing actors. The book features authentic editions of each song in the original keys. The songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type and are culled from a wide selection of classic and contemporary shows. Contents: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: I Got the Sun in the Morning, Doin' What Comes Natur'lly * ANYONE CAN WHISTLE: Anyone Can Whistle * BABES IN ARMS: The Lady Is a Tramp * CABARET: Don't Tell Mama, What Would You Do?, Cabaret * CALL ME MADAM: The Hostess with the Mostes' on the Ball * CATS: Memory * CHICAGO: Funny Honey * A CHORUS LINE: Dance: Ten; Looks: Three * CINDERELLA: Stepsisters' Lament * EVITA: Don't Cry for Me Argentina * FINIAN'S RAINBOW: How Are Things in Glocca Morra?, Look to the Rainbow * FLOWER DRUM SONG: I Enjoy Being a Girl * FOLLIES: Broadway Baby, Could I Leave You, In Buddy's Eyes, Losing My Mind * GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES: Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, Ain't There Anyone Here for Love? * GODSPELL: Turn Back, O Man * GUYS AND DOLLS: Take Back Your Mink * GYPSY: Some People * HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING: Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm * KISS ME, KATE: Always True to You in My Fashion, Why Can't You Behave? * A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC: The Miller's Son, Send in the Clowns * OKLAHOMA!: I Cain't Say No * ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER: He Wasn't You, What Did I Have That I Don't Have? * SOUTH PACIFIC: A Cock-Eyed Optimist, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy * SWEENEY TODD: By the Sea, The Worst Pies in London * TWO BY TWO: An Old Man * THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN: I Ain't Down Yet

    But one day Fiddler bear came and, with a song and a fiddle, won their hearts and taught them the importance of sharing.

    

    Beyond the extraordinary power of his music, he is also, as he says, “somewhat known as a talker.” In fact, he is renowned as an energetic teacher and inspired lecturer.    In 1983 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Babbitt presented a concise summary of his most essential musical insights in a series of lectures and seminars. These are gathered here, presenting for the first time in book form a comprehensive overview of the subjects that have formed the core of his teaching for the past forty years.    Babbitt’s central concern in these lectures is the twelve-tone tradition with which he is so closely identified. His discussion of this tradition ranges from close consideration of specific compositional problems to frank evaluation of his own position in that tradition. In his characteristically penetrating way, Babbitt discusses the most controversial issues in twentieth-century music, from serialism and atonality to the responsibility of the listener and the place of music in the university.    Until now, few have had direct exposure to Babbitt’s ideas. In Madison, he spoke to a variety of audiences and, because of the pedagogical context, his presentation was direct and explanatory. This volume preserves the dazzling constructions and spontaneous excitement of his spoken language.    At the time of publication, Milton Babbitt was William Shubael Conant Professor of Music Emeritus at Princeton University. He has been showered with awards during his long and distinguished career, including the Pulitzer Prize (1982) and a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (1986). He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

    One by one, the memorable geniuses make their appearance: Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt. Other highlights include the great piano duels (Bach v. Marchand, Mozart v. Clementi), the dawning era of the concert tour and the music critic, and the obsessions of the leading figures.

    Short, easy-to-read text, historical photos, and eye-catching illustrations introduce the beginning reader to interesting people who helped shape history. Includes timeline.

    This profusely illustrated biography reveals the warm and witty personality of Rossini and draws a vivid picture of musical life in Europe after the fall of Napoleon.

    Each of the 5 music book volumes contains important songs chosen because of their appropriateness to that particular voice type. All selections are in their authentic form, excerpted from the original vocal scores. The songs in The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology, written by such noted composers as Kurt Weill, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Kern, are vocal masterpieces ideal for the auditioning, practicing or performing soprano vocalists. The 46 songs in the music book include "Where Or When," "If I Loved You," "Goodnight, My Someone," "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," "Barbara Song," "Poor Wand'ring One," "All Through The Night," "And This Is My Beloved," "Another Suitcase In Another Hall," "A Call From The Vatican," "Dear Friend," "The Glamorous Life," "Gooch's Song," "The Greatest Of These," "Gypsy In Me," "How Could I Ever Know?," "I Don't Know His Name," "I Loved (J'aimais)," "I Whistle A Happy Tune," "I'll Follow My Secret Heart," "I'll Know," "If I Were A Bell," "Is It Really Me?," "It Wonders Me," "Look For A Sky Of Blue," "Moonfall," "My True Love," "Raunchy," "Rosa's Confession," "Simple,Simple Little Things," "Take Me To The World," "This Place Is Mine," "Unusual Way (In A Very Unusual Way)," "Vilia," "Warm All Over," "What Will It Be For Me?," "When Did I Fall In Love," "Will He Like Me?," "Without You," "Art Is Calling For Me," "The Sun," "Whose Rays Are All Ablaze," "Like A Woman Loves A Man," "I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You," "I Hate Men," "So Far," "The Sound Of Music," "A Very Special Day" and more!

    So comprehensive that it can indicate even facial expressions, the system is also simple enough for a child to learn easily as an integral part of athletic or dance training.

    In The Rebirth of Music you will discover why music is mentioned 989 times in the Scriptures and why God places such a major priority on it.

    This book examines some of the most gifted of these singers--people like Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, Sarah Vaughan, and AndyRussell. Far from being the simple intuitive performers the public thought it knew, these people emerge as intelligent, skillful, and fully conscious artists dedicated to their work. Lees's insights and anaylsis reveal Sinatra in particular as we've never seen him before. Calling him our poetlaureate, the best singer we've ever heard, Lees points out Sinatra's technical virtuosity--his extraordinary breath control and ability to link one phrase to another, his exquisite enunciation (especially the way he can brilliantly sustain consonants like m, n, l, and r), his uncanny ability tosing into a microphone so that it seemed as natural as speech. As Julius LaRosa said, He was able to turn a 32-bar song into a 3-act play. But the book is not just about singers. It is also about composers, including the great film composer Hugo Friedhodfer, and the supremely talented lyricist Johnny Mercer. It is about language: a fascinating chapter compares English with French, revealing the implications for lyricists (forexample, only four words rhyme with love in English while 51 rhyme with amour in French!). It is about the social history of twentieth century America, seen through the mirror of popular music. And it's about war--a theme that runs through the book, from the Viking conquest of northwesternFrance through World War II to the present. Humanity's creative impulse--the yearning to raise our voices in song--is contrasted to mankind's increasing destructivenss. The book's themes are linked at the end in the story of the making of one extraordinary album created by an international group of figures, with Lees himself as lyricist translating and adapting poems of Pope John Paul II, and Sarah Vaughan as the featured singer.

    Asking such questions as what is a musical work and what constitutes music, Nattiez draws from philosophy, anthropology, music analysis, and history to propose a global theory for the interpretation of specific pieces, the phenomenon of music, and the human behaviors that music elicits. He reviews issues raised by the notion of the musical sign, and shows how Peircian semiotics, with its image of a chain or web of meanings, applies to a consideration of music's infinite and unstable potential for embodying meaning.In exploring the process of ascribing meaning to music, Nattiez reviews writings on the psychology of music, non-Western metaphorical descriptions, music-analytical prose, and writings in the history of musical aesthetics. A final analytical chapter on the Tristan chord suggests that interpretations of music are cast in terms of analytical plots shaped by transcendent principles, and that any semiological consideration of music must account for these interpretive narratives.

    A biography of the opera and concert singer who, among other achievements, was the first black soloist to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1955.

    Tim Carter discusses the composition of the opera and the social, cultural and musical context in which it was produced, its critical reception and performance history. He provides a full analytical synopsis, a chapter on the verse structure of the libretto and a discussion of Mozart's matching of music to drama. Other chapters also consider relevant topics, including the 'comic' possibilities of the Classical style, and Michael Robinson writes on opera buffa in the 1770s and 1780s.

    An entire psalter of one hundred fifty psalms in The Book of Common Prayer translation set to Anglican chant inthe time-honored "speech rhythm" pointing ofThe Parish Psalter from England as refined by Ray Francis Brown during his thirty-year tenure as Director of Music atThe General Theological Seminary in New YorkCity.The Standing Commission on Church Music followed Brown's principles in pointing the psalms of this book.A brief introduction gives a description of chanting and the performance notes are helpful with the specifics of reading pointing.

    This volume includes 51 works — remarkable for their wide emotional appeal, advanced choromatic techniques and pianistic devices, and ranging in difficulty from relatively easy, for advanced beginnings, to quite challenging, for the accomplished pianist.Edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin, the works in this inexpensive and attractive volume extend from the radiant joyfulness of the Mazurka in B-flat major, Op. 7, No. 1, to the aching sadness of the Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4, and from the brevity of the Mazurka in E-flat minor, Op. 6, No. 4, to the breadth of the C-sharp minor Mazurka, Op. 50, No. 3.Pianists and music lovers will welcome this attractive, sturdy volume reproduced directly from the authoritative Kistner edition. It comprises a treasury of Chopin's most characteristic and appealing works in one convenient, inexpensive source.

    Book by Chowning, John, Bristow, David

    

    the unit sections include:WORDS AND IDEAS to define in your own terms. All relevant information may be found in the corresponding chapter of the main text.EXERCISES, which are, for the most part, drills requiring a sort of mental calisthenics. You are to do these in a concentrated fashion, striving for accuracy and speed.Analysis, the section designed to help you develop basic skills that are not discussed at great length in the text. In the first few units, a system is developed by which you learn to record data resulting from your analytical efforts.COMPOSITION ACTIVITIES, consisting of a special set of activities to introduce you to a new world of creativity. You are called upon to utilize the principles covered in each chapter in a personal, highly individualized way.SELF TESTS, which are brief summaries of a chapter's contents and are useful for spot-checking information. The answers to the Self Tests be found in Appendix 1.

    Includes: Fire and Rain * In My Mind * Night Owl * Mud Slide Slim * You Can Close Your Eyes * You've Got a Friend * Gorilla * Mexico * How Sweet It Is * Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight and many more.

    12.00x9.00x0.20 Ed.1725 Book of carefully graded material for any teachers approach to playing the HARP. One, Two, Three, Four Finger Exercises. Interval Exercises. Three Finger Chord Exercises. Four Finger Chord Exercises.

    For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their weddings, and eulogized them at their funerals. He has caroused with them in bars and clubs from New Orleans to New York, from Paris to Singapore -- and survived to tell the story. The result has been a lifetime of friendship with some of the music world's most engaging and rambunctious personalities. In I Remember Jazz, Rose draws on this unparallelled experience to recall, through brief but poignant vignettes, the greats and the near-greats of jazz. In a style that is always entertaining, unabashedly idiosyncratic, and frequently irreverent, he writes about Jelly Roll Morton and Bunny Berigan, Eubie Blake and Bobby Hackett, Earl Hines and Louis Armstrong, and more than fifty others.Rose was only twenty-two when he was first introduced to Jelly Roll Morton. He quickly discovered that they had more in common than a love of music. Something of a peacock at that age, Rose was dressed in a "polychromatic, green-striped suit, pink shirt with a detachable white collar, dubonnet tie, buttonhole, and handkerchief" -- and so was Jelly Roll. About Eubie Blake, Rose notes that he was not only a superb musician but also a notorious ladies' man. Rose recalls asking the noted pianist when he was ninety-seven, "How old do you have to be before the sex drive goes?" Blake's reply: "You'll have to ask someone older than me." Once in 1947, Rose was asked to assemble a group of musicians to play at a reception to be hosted by President Truman at Blair House in Washington, D.C. The musicians included Muggsy Spanier, George Brunies, Pee Wee Russell, Pops Foster, and Baby DOdds. But the hit of the evening was President Truman himself, who joined the group on the piano to play "Kansas City Kitty" and the "Missouri Waltz."I Remember Jazz is replete with such amusing and affectionate anecdotes -- vignettes that will delight all fans of the music. Al Rose does indeed remember jazz. And for that we can all be grateful.

    Black-and-white photographs.

    Describes singers, composers, operas and more. 250 black-and-white photographs.

    450 AD - newly translated from the original Greek, Latin, and Syriac. As there are no musical sources of the period, music historians must rely upon remarks about music in literary sources to gain some knowledge of early Christian liturgical music. This volume makes a large and representative collection of the material conveniently available. The passages are arranged chronologically and regionally in eleven chapters with brief commentary. An introduction sets out the major subjects and themes of the original source material.

    In this piano picture book, composer Howard Blake and animator Dianne Jackson have recreated the story in words, music and vivid color illustrations, based on the scenes from the film. The music, which includes the hit song Walking in the Air, is easy enough to be played by pianists of intermediate ability. This unique and irresistible book will bring the story to life, both at home and in the classroom!

    The eighty-four pieces were chosen for their musical value; great masters as well as lesser knowncomposers, who made significant contributions to the genre, are represented. Primarily, the chansons are for four mixed voices. A number of settings for other combinations, from two-part to seven-part, are also included. he

    This collection combines all of the songs from Denver's three best-selling greatest hits albums. 34 songs in all, including: Leaving on a Jet Plane * For Baby (For Bobbie) * Thank God I'm a Country Boy * Annie's Song * Perhaps Love * I Want to Live.

    

    Parents trust these colorful books to teach their children Bible stories from Genesis through Acts in a fun, memorable way.The Arch Books series of 100 titles is conveniently divided into 8 sections that include related stories for an organized journey through the Bible.

    Titles include: Dance of Little Swans * Mazurka * Neapolitan Dance-Song * Pas de Deux * Spanish Dance * Swan Lake * Waltz.