Best of
Music

1989

Miles: The Autobiography


Miles Davis - 1989
    Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life.Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year silence. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he has encountered in the music business and in American society generally. And he discusses the women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has played with over the years: Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Trane, Mingus, and many others.The man who has given us some of the most exciting music of the past few decades has now given us a compelling and fascinating autobiography, featuring a concise discography and thirty-two pages of photographs.

Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess


Danny Sugerman - 1989
    Excessive, scandalous, comic, cautionary and horrifying, it chronicles the 60s dream gone-to-rot and the early life of a Hollywood Wild Child who was just brilliant at being bad.

The Real Frank Zappa Book


Frank Zappa - 1989
    Along the way, Zappa offers his inimitable views on many things such as art, politics and beer.

Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson


Dr. Licks - 1989
    His tumultuous life and musical brilliance are explored in depth through hundreds of interviews, 49 transcribed musical scores, two hours of recorded all-star performances, and more than 50 rarely seen photos in this stellar tribute to behind-the-scenes Motown. Features a 120-minute CD Allan Slutsky's 2002 documentary of the same name is the winner of the New York Film Critics "Best Documentary of the Year" award

Beatlesongs


William J. Dowlding - 1989
     Drawing together information from sources that include interviews, insider accounts, magazines, and news wire services, this is a complete profile of every Beatles song ever written -- from recording details such as who played which instruments and sang what harmonies to how each song fared on the charts and how other musicians and critics felt about it. Chronologically arranged by U.K. release date, Beatlesongs nails down dates, places, participants, and other intriguing facts in a truly remarkable portrait of the Liverpudlian legends. Behind each song is a story -- like Paul's criticism of George's guitar playing during the Rubber Soul sessions, John's acid trip during the Sgt. Pepper's session, and the selection process for the Revolver album cover. And carefully examined along the way are the Beatles' evolving musical talents, their stormy private lives, and their successful -- and unsuccessful -- collaborations. Beatlesongs is truly an inside look at the Fab Four and a treasure for all their fans.

Forces In Motion: The Music And Thoughts Of Anthony Braxton


Graham Lock - 1989
    Graham Lock writes from the perceptual plane of insight and dedication-coupled with a keen wit and a dynamic intellect.

The Heart Of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made


Dave Marsh - 1989
    The illuminating essays—complete with music history, social commentary, and personal appraisals—double as a mini-history of popular music. Here you will find singles by artists as wide-ranging as Aretha Franklin, George Jones, Roy Orbison, the Sex Pistols, Madonna, Run-D.M.C., and Van Halen. Featuring a new preface that covers the hits—and misses—of the '90s, The Heart of Rock & Soul remains as provocative, passionate, and timeless as the music it praises.

Metallica - ...and Justice for All


Metallica - 1989
    Matching folio to the double album. Nine smashing metal songs, including: Eye of the Beholder * One * The Shortest Straw * and more. Also includes an introduction by Wolf Marshall.

The Cure Songwords: 1978-1989


Robert Smith - 1989
    Illustrated with photographs from the group's own files.

The AB Guide to Music Theory: Part I


Eric Taylor - 1989
    Arising out of this, it provides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. In the main, this book deals with the subjects of the Associated Board's theory syllabus for Grades 1-5. However, for the sake of continuity, the information has not been broken up to correspond with individual grades. Printed Music THEORY ~ THEORY TUTORS Grade level: 1,2,3,4,5 BEST SELLER!

The United Methodist Hymnal


United Methodist Church - 1989
    

The New Trouser Press Record Guide (Revised Edition)


Ira A. RobbinsDave Schulps - 1989
    

Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 in Full Score


Ludwig van Beethoven - 1989
    Perfect in their fusion of emotion and form, filled with drama and great beauty, they are among the best-known and best-loved works in all classical music. This volume contains complete scores for Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21; Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36; Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major ("Eroica"), Op. 55; Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60.Meticulously reproduced from the authoritative Litolff edition, each score features large, clear noteheads and wide margins for ease of use in studying and following the music. Far less expensive than comparable full-score editions, this volume belongs in the library of any music lover who wishes to study the masterly innovation and creativity Beethoven brought to the symphonic form.

Defining Music Therapy


Kenneth E. Bruscia - 1989
    This book takes an in-depth look at the unique problems of defining music within a therapeutic context, and defining therapy within a musical context. Over 40 definitions of music therapy am examined and compared. A new definition is offered to address the myriad issues raised, and to embrace the diversity of clinical practice. Each segment of the definition is discussed, and in the process, boundaries are suggested for what music therapy is and what it is not. In the final chapters, eleven areas of clinical practice are identified, and each area is further differentiated by four levels of treatment. Specific examples are given of each area and level, and implications are drawn.

100 Great Operas and Their Stories: Act-by-Act Synopses


Henry W. Simon - 1989
    Written in a lively anecdotal style, entries include character descriptions, historical background, and much more.

Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes and Other Works for Piano


Erik Satie - 1989
    The eccentric French composer loved to satirize academic rules in general and the impressionistic titles of Debussy's compositions in particular, giving his own works such surrealistic names as Pieces in Pear Form and Dried Embryos, and annotating them with equally bizarre musical directions: "Tres 'neuf heures du matin" (Very "nine in the morning"), "Corpulentus" (Corpulent), and so on. His comic spirit is equally embodied in the music itself, as this delightful selection of seventeen piano works amply proves. They are as spare, lively, and capricious as they are hauntingly melodic. In addition to the well-known Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes, the pieces reproduced here include Sarabandes, Pièces froides, Poudre d'or, En habit de cheval, Morceaux en forme de poire, Embryons desséchés, Aperçus désagreables, Descriptions automatiques, and more.This volume, the largest collection of Satie's piano works yet published, has been reprinted on fine-quality paper from authoritative original editions, and sturdily bound to provide you a lifetime of study and enjoyment. In its pages are some of the most original and appealing achievements of a turbulent era in music, compositions that influenced such modern masters as Ravel, Milhaud, and Poulenc.

Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory


Joseph N. Straus - 1989
    A "primer" rather than a survey this text offers exceptionally clear, simple explanations of basic theoretical concepts for the post-tonal music of the twentieth century. Emphasizing "hands-on" contact with the music through playing, singing, listening, and analyzing it provides six chapters on theory, each illustrated with musical examples and fully worked-out analyses, all drawn largely from the classical pre-war repertoire by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Berg, and Webern. "Straus takes a paced, methodical, logical approach to each topic. He introduces it in context and perhaps most significantly of all uses language that's so transparent that merely to follow his descriptions, explanations and illustrations carefully is to understand each aspect of the theory under consideration." Mark Sealey, Classical.net "

The Musical Life of Gustav Mole [With] (Child's Play Library)


Kathryn Meyrick - 1989
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Studying Rhythm


Anne C. Hall - 1989
    Suitable not only for reading, but for dictation, improvisation, and composition -- and for different methods -- the collection contains one- and two-part rhythmic studies -- mostly 12 to 16 measures long -- that are intended to be sung, spoken, and tapped or clapped. The volume examines the full range of meter studies, rests and syncopation, triplets, beats, small subdivisions, changing simple and compound meter, notes in two and three beats, four against three, four notes in three beats; three notes in four beats, quintuplets and septuplets, meters with unequal beats, changing meters with unequal beats, cross-rhythms and tempo modulation. For those interested in the rhythmic patterns most frequently encountered in Western art music.

Stormy Applause: Making Music in a Worker's State


Rostislav Dubinsky - 1989
    Dubinsky was the founder and for 30 years the first violinist of the Borodin String Quartet, one of the supreme ensembles of its kind. Here he describes a musician's life under a totalitarian regime: the soul-destroying restrictions and constant dangers, exacerbated by a pervasive anti-Semitism--officially illegal but actively encouraged and ruthlessly practiced by the authorities. The quartet's original players were all Jews, though the cellist was a half-Jew who passed as Russian; the second violinist and violist were eventually replaced by Russians. Dubinsky was the "artistic director" in charge of rehearsals and musical decisions, but the quartet's activities, including the members' personal interrelationships, were completely dominated by politics. And indeed so is the narrative: Dubinsky only rarely talks about music, though always movingly and with insight, and never explains how the group attained its greatness. Certain scenes stand out: Stalin's and Prokofiev's deaths on the same day; vignettes of Russia's greatest musicians, such as Shostakovich (whose quartets they played), Oistrakh, Richter, and Rostropovich; the group's tours abroad, affording the first, overwhelmingly tempting glimpse of freedom; an anti-Russian demonstration in Cincinnati, defused when Dubinsky confronted the crowd; and the cellist's near-fatal automobile accident in California. Ever present is the paralyzing fear of the mercenary, soulless Russian bureaucracy. Dubinsky emigrated to America in 1975, formed the Borodin Trio with his wife, pianist Luba Edina, and was chairman of the Chamber Music Department at Indiana University until his death not long ago. --Edith Eisler

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland


Jimi Hendrix - 1989
    Exact note-for-note transcriptions for drum for the 16 songs from this classic Hendrix album: All Along the Watchtower * And the Gods Made Love * Crosstown Traffic * Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) * Little Miss Strange * Voodoo Child (Slight Return) * and more.

Bound for Workbook for Tonal Harmony


Stefan Kostka - 1989
    Each set of Workbook exercises begins with problems similar to those found in the corresponding Self-Test, but the Workbook exercises also include problems that are too open-ended for the Self-Test format as well as more creative types of compositional problems for those instructors who like to include this type of work.

Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love


Hal Leonard Corporation - 1989
    13 songs from the album, including: Bold as Love * Castles Made of Sand * Little Wing * Spanish Castle Magic. The Guitar Recorded Versions edition has been newly revised with a 24-page full-color section.

The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (History of Jazz)


Gunther Schuller - 1989
    When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat Hentoff called it aremarkable breakthrough in musical analysis of jazz, and Frank Conroy, in The New York Times Book Review, praised it as definitive.... A remarkable book by any standard...unparalleled in the literature of jazz. It has been universally recognized as the basic musical analysis of jazz from itsbeginnings until 1933. The Swing Era focuses on that extraordinary period in American musical history--1933 to 1945--when jazz was synonymous with America's popular music, its social dances and musical entertainment. The book's thorough scholarship, critical perceptions, and great love and respect for jazz puts thiswell-remembered era of American music into new and revealing perspective. It examines how the arrangements of Fletcher Henderson and Eddie Sauter--whom Schuller equates with Richard Strauss as a master of harmonic modulation--contributed to Benny Goodman's finest work...how Duke Ellingtonp usedthe highly individualistic trombone trio of Joe Tricky Sam Nanton, Juan Tizol, and Lawrence Brown to enrich his elegant compositions...how Billie Holiday developed her horn-like instrumental approach to singing...and how the seminal compositions and arrangements of the long-forgotten John Nesbitthelped shape Swing Era styles through their influence on Gene Gifford and the famous Casa Loma Orchestra. Schuller also provides serious reappraisals of such often neglected jazz figures as Cab Calloway, Henry Red Allen, Horace Henderson, Pee Wee Russell, and Joe Mooney. Much of the book's focus is on the famous swing bands of the time, which were the essence of the Swing Era. There are the great black bands--Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Earl Hines, Andy Kirk, and the often superb but little known territory bands--and popular white bands likeBenny Goodman, Tommy Dorsie, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman, plus the first serious critical assessment of that most famous of Swing Era bandleaders, Glenn Miller. There are incisive portraits of the great musical soloists--such as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Bunny Berigan, and Jack Teagarden--and such singers as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and Helen Forest.

Berlioz, Vol. 1: The Making of an Artist, 1803-1832


David Cairns - 1989
    After long being regarded as an oddity and an eccentric figure, Berlioz is now being accepted into the ranks of the great composers. Based on a wealth of previously unpublished sources, and on a profound understanding of the humanity of his subject, David Cairns's book provides a full account of this extraordinary and powerfully attractive man.Berlioz, Volume I, previously published only in Britain, is now available to American readers in a revised edition, together with the eagerly awaited, new Volume II. These two volumes together comprise a monumental biographical achievement, sure to stand as the definitive Berlioz biography. In researching Berlioz's life, Cairns has had access to unpublished family papers, and in Volume I he is able to portray all the people close to Berlioz in his boyhood, and to evoke a detailed picture of their lives in and around La Côte St.-André in the foothills of the French Alps. No artist's achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz, whose passionate sensibility began to absorb the material of his art long before he had heard any musical ensemble other than the local town band. Volume I also traces the student years in Paris and Italy and discusses Berlioz's three great love affairs, shedding remarkable light on his later character and development. Volume I ends on the afternoon of December 9, 1832, the day of the concert that launched the composer's career.

Mozart: The Golden Years: 1781-1791


H.C. Robbins Landon - 1989
    Richly illustrated with contemporary paintings and engravings and authoritatively written, this book provides a vivid account of the composer's life in the European music capital, Vienna, from 1781 to 1791. This creative yet turbulent decade witnessed a crescendo of activity. Mozart married Constanze Weber in 1782, and in the ensuing years produced an astonishing wealth of new music, rich in quality as well as quantity. A host of immortal works belong to this period, among them the great trilogy of symphonies (numbers 39, 40, and 41), operatic masterpieces--The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, and The Magic Flute--and the Clarinet Concerto of 1791. Through a close examination of Mozart's public successes and failures; his relationship with his father, Leopold; his devotion to his wife, Constanze; his Masonic associations; and his friendship with Franz Joseph Haydn, H. C. Robbins Landon provides an intimate and eminently readable portrait of an extraordinary musical genius. 242 illustrations, 32 in color.

The Beatles a Diary: An Intimate Day by Day History


Barry Miles - 1989
    Uncovering the quarrels, the sex and the drugs, as well as the personal triumphs, The Beatles Diary is simply the most revealing personal history of the group ever published. Features hundreds of photographs.

Complete Preludes, Books 1 and 2


Claude Debussy - 1989
    Each book contains twelve preludes for the piano, many of them known to today's musical audiences because of their great popularity with pianists worldwide. Ranging from the mystical "La Cathédrale engloutie" to the capricious "Ondine" to the explosive "Feux d'artifice," they offer special joys to pianists of varying levels of ability.Other favorites from the piano repertoire in this collection include: "Danseuses de Delphes," "Ce qu'a vu le Vent d'Ouest," "La fille aux cheveux de lin," "La danse de Puck," and "Feuilles mortes." Some are technically simple, others comparatively difficult. All of them afford pianists an unparalleled opportunity to explore and develop their expressive range.This authoritative edition of the complete Preludes, with a helpful glossary of French terms, has been carefully printed on durable paper and sturdily bound to provide students and lovers of fine music a lifetime of study and enjoyment of these beloved masterpieces of piano composition.

Strict rules


Andrew McMillan - 1989
    The story of the tour of Australia by the politicized rock band, Midnight Oil, a tour of remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory accompanied by the desert-bred Warumpi Band.

Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll


Black Sabbath - 1989
    * Paranoid * Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath * Snow Blind * Sweet Leaf * Tomorrow's Dream * War Pigs (Interpolating Luke's Wall) * Warning * The Wizard.

Music, My Love


Jean-Pierre Rampal - 1989
    Along with Beverly Sills, Luciano Pavarotti, and Itzhak Perlman, Rampal has a great following who will be interested in this publication. 8 pages of photos.

Les Miserables: History in the Making


Edward Samuel Behr - 1989
    

Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology


Leonard B. Meyer - 1989
    He explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others.Meyer devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music. He shows explicitly how the beliefs and attitudes of Romanticism influenced the choices of composers from Beethoven to Mahler and into our own time. "A monumental work. . . . Most authors concede the relation of music to its cultural milieu, but few have probed so deeply in demonstrating this interaction."—Choice"Probes the foundations of musical research precisely at the joints where theory and history fold into one another."—Kevin Korsyn, Journal of American Musicological Society"A remarkably rich and multifaceted, yet unified argument. . . . No one else could have brought off this immense project with anything like Meyer's command."—Robert P. Morgan, Music Perception"Anyone who attempts to deal with Romanticism in scholarly depth must bring to the task not only musical and historical expertise but unquenchable optimism. Because Leonard B. Meyer has those qualities in abundance, he has been able to offer fresh insight into the Romantic concept."—Donal Henahan, New York Times

Daphnis and Chloe in Full Score


Maurice Ravel - 1989
    Commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, it premiered in Paris in 1912, with Nijinsky in the role of Daphnis, and Anna Pablova and Tamara Karsavina alternating in the role of Chloe.Ravel's lush scoring for this Greek pastoral dramatically displays his genius for transmuting a traditional musical idiom into a fresh and stirring language of his own — now audacious and driving, now softly and hauntingly beautiful. It reveals, too, in the logic and sweep of its technical effects, Ravel's constant striving for perfection of form and style. (Stravinsky compared him to "the most perfect of Swiss watchmakers.") This definitive full-score edition, reprinted from the original French edition, duplicates the full ballet score, not merely the orchestral suites adapted from it.

Counterpoint in Composition: The Study of Voice Leading


Felix Salzer - 1989
    -- Stanley Persky, City University of New York

Nineteenth-Century Music


Carl Dahlhaus - 1989
    But he keeps us constantly on guard against generalization and cliché. Cherished concepts like Romanticism, tradition, nationalism vs. universality, the musical culture of the bourgeoisie, are put to pointed reevaluation. Always demonstrating the interest in socio-historical influences that is the hallmark of his work, Dahlhaus reminds us of the contradictions, interrelationships, psychological nuances, and riches of musical character and musical life.Nineteenth-Century Music contains 90 illustrations, the collected captions of which come close to providing a summary of the work and the author's methods. Technical language is kept to a minimum, but while remaining accessible, Dahlhaus challenges, braces, and excites. This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore.

Jacqueline Du Pre: A Life


Carol Easton - 1989
    Jacqueline du Pré (the subject of the recent film Hilary and Jackie) was the music world's "golden girl," with what appeared to many to be a fairytale career and storybook marriage to Daniel Barenboim. But away from her cello, du Pré was achingly human. As a child, she was isolated by her phenomenal talent. As an adult, she was confined to the rarefied, insular concert world. And during the last fifteen years of her life, she lived in the inexorably shrinking world of the invalid, as multiple sclerosis took its toll. The Baltimore Sun said, Carol Easton tells this extraordinary story "with feeling befitting du Pré's own."

I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story


Willie Dixon - 1989
    These are just a few of Willie Dixon's contributions to blues, R&B, and rock'n'roll—songs performed by artists as varied as the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, ZZ Top, the Doors, Sonny Boy Williamson, the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Megadeth, Eric Clapton, Let Zepplin, Tesla, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jeff Healey.I Am the Blues captures Willie Dixon's inimitable voice and character as he tells his life story: the segregation of Visksburg Mississippi, where Dixon grew up; the prison farm from which he escaped and then hoboed his way north as a teenager; his equal-rights-based draft refusal in 1942; his work—as songwriter bassist, producer, and arranger—with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Bo Diddley, and Chuck Berry which shaped the definitive Chicago blues sound of Chess Records; and his legal battles to recapture the rights to his historic catalog of songs.

Rolling Stone: The Photographs


Laurie Kratochvil - 1989
    Reprint.

The Roar of Silence: Healing Powers of Breath, Tone & Music (Quest Books)


Don G. Campbell - 1989
    Breath, tone, and music are explored through meditations and exercises by the bestselling author of The Mozart Effect. Don guides us into the world of overtoning and chanting, awakening vibratory awareness by exploring the energy beneath sound.

Hor Mit Schmerzen/Listen with Pain: Einstürzende Neubauten


Klaus Maeck - 1989
    A photo book in both English and German with lyrics, interviews and essays from friends like Nick Cave, Chris Bohn, A. Hilsberg, Diedrich Diedrichsen, a.o., including a discography.

Satie Seen Through His Letters


Ornella Volta - 1989
    Gathered by a determined iconographer, thedirector of the Satie Foundation in Paris, and arranged somewhat chronologically by topic, such as "Friends," and "Lawsuits," these lettersto Cocteau, Debussy, Milhaud, Picasso, Ravel and Stravinsky, among others,many of which have not been previously published, give us a picture of Satie the friend, student, neighbor, composer and musical influence, and of the only adherent to a religion that he founded. Illustrated with line line drawings by Cocteau, Magritte and Picasso, as well as Satie's own musical scores and logos, this book will entrance and delight those interested in Parisian cultural life in the early 20th century.

Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations


Otto Friedrich - 1989
    He was a tireless advocate of the technology of recording, an artist who looked forward to a time when mere musicians would be rendered obsolete. He was a notorious -- and, some thought, a deliberate -- eccentric, who muffled himself in scarves and gloves, liberally dosed himself with pills, and once sued Steinway & Sons because one of its employees had shaken his hand too roughly. He lived in hermetic solitude and liked to call himself "the last Puritan," but those who watched Glenn Gould play piano saw an eroticism so intense it was almost embarrassing.Drawing on extensive interviews and on archival materials that were previously inaccessible. Otto Friedrich has written a biography of exemplary depth and stylishness. Ranging over Gould's brief but spectacular public career and his prodigious exploits as teacher, author, and lecturer, his public opinions and his intensely private life. Glenn Gould; A Life and Variations does justice to a multifaceted and perverse genius.

Woodstock: The Oral History


Joel Makower - 1989
    In 1969 four young men-two budding entrepreneurs who really wanted to write sitcoms, a former head shop proprietor turned rock band manager, and a record company executive who smoked hash in his office-had a dream: to produce the greatest rock concert ever held. Little did they know how enormous a reality their dream would become. Woodstock is the fascinating story of how it all came together-and almost fell apart-told exclusively in the voices of the men and women who made it happen. It shares the adventures of a ragtag bunch of businessmen and bohemians, of hippies, hucksters, handymen, and hangers-on, working against all odds to unite a generation for one wild, glorious weekend in August 1969. You'll get behind-the-scenes stories from such people as David Crosby, Abbie Hoffman, Miriam Yasgur (who, along with her husband, Max, owned the land on which the festival was held), Richie Havens, Wavy Gravy, Paul Kantner, Chip Monck, and a host of others. This special 40th anniversary edition features a new foreword by Michael Lang and Joel Rosenman, two of the original coproducers of Woodstock, as well as updated information on the people who made the music festival happen.

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?*


Jimi Hendrix - 1989
    All 17 songs from the re-released album including: Are You Experienced * Foxy Lady * Hey Joe * Purple Haze.

Rubank Elementary Method: Trombone or Baritone


Newell H. Long - 1989
    One of the most widely used series of methods for individual or like-instrument class instruction. Using a very well-rounded approach including scales, arpeggios, technical studies, studies for musicianship, articulation studies, solos, duets, and studies devoted to the special needs of each instrument, this series provides a fantastic wealth of material for all student musicians.

Ball the Wall: Nik Cohn in the Age of Rock (Picador Books)


Nik Cohn - 1989
    This is a compilation of the best works by Nik Cohn, one of the great British feature writers on pop music.

The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky


Louis Andriessen - 1989
    This non-analytical discussion of Stravinsky's music by two distinguished composers provides, in episodic fashion, new perspectives on the style, attitude, and historical presence of selected works by this giant of twentieth-century music.

The A to Z of Foreign Musical Terms: From Adagio to Zierlich - A Dictionary for Performers & Students


Christine Ammer - 1989
    This is a FANTASTIC reference for your music library

Cosmic Music: Musical Keys to the Interpretation of Reality


Joscelyn Godwin - 1989
    In this book, Joscelyn Godwin brings together three contemporary German thinkers who exemplify this tradition in its modern variants: Marius Schneider, Rudolf Haase, and Hans Erhard Lauer. The selections draw on ancient Indian sources and mythology; Kepler's Platonic vision of a musical, geometric universe; and the evolution of the tone systems of music. While every music lover senses the power and truth that reside in music, very few actually approach music as a path to cosmic knowledge. Godwin takes literally Beethoven's assertion that "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom or philosophy." Godwin writes, ". . .to penetrate the mysteries of music is to prepare for initiation into those fathomless mysteries of man and cosmos."

Rubank Intermediate Method - Clarinet


Joseph E. Skornicka - 1989
    One of the most widely used series of methods for individual or like-instrument class instruction. Using a very well-rounded approach including scales, arpeggios, technical studies, studies for musicianship, articulation studies, solos, duets, and studies devoted to the special needs of each instrument, this series provides a fantastic wealth of material for all student musicians.

Useful Measurements for Violin Makers: A Reference For Shop Use


Henry A. Strobel - 1989
    Size and adjustment. Tables, text, diagrams. Concise, objective explanations. Bridge templates. Illustrated, with select bibliography. Cross reference of 200 violin terms in four languages. For anyone working with bowed instruments. The Strobel books for violin makers are professional, concise, and convenient, reflecting traditional, conservative, and artistic work. Some forty thousand sold, they are used internationally by student, amateur and professional makers in shops and schools, and referred to by manufacturers, sellers, users, and lovers of bowed instruments. High quality 8.5 by 11 in. paperbacks made to lie flat and last on your workbench.

Threat by Example: A Documentation of Inspiration


Martin Sprouse - 1989
    

Love Me


BUCK-TICK桶口 豊 - 1989
    Each member has a section with his biography and photographs of his childhood; the heading for each section includes original artwork by guitarist Hisashi Imai. There is also a lengthy section about the band's formation and early history, with many old pictures, and a "schedule" section that includes TV performances and concerts.

Benny Goodman's Clarinet Method


Benny Goodman - 1989
    This book, written by Benny Goodman himself, has been out of print for many years. It teaches the beginning student clarinet tone, style, technique and musicianship. It covers such basics as assembling and tuning the clarinet, proper position, scales, expression and many exercises. Features 11 tunes and includes a biography of his career up to 1940.

A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews


Maurice Ravel - 1989
    This compilation of articles by Ravel (who was a brilliant critic) features reviews, interviews, and some 350 letters from Cocteau, Colette, de Falla, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, and others.

Selected Studies: For Clarinet


H. Voxman - 1989
    These excellent studies are the next step for students who have completed the advanced level method for their instrument. The full-page etudes in this series, key-centered and supported by scale and arpeggio exercises, take the student to that next level of performance wherein their accumulated skills allow them to play full-length performance pieces with a high level of musicianship and competence. As such, many states include these pieces in their all-state audition lists.

BigTime Piano, Level 4 (Intermediate): Popular


Nancy Faber - 1989
    Faber Piano Adventures This new collection features 11 hits that students will love to learn, including: Dancing Queen * I Saw Her Standing There * Lean on Me * 100 Years * Pachelbel Canon * Pure Imagination * Star Wars (Main Theme) * You Raise Me Up * and more.

Creating Original Porcelain Dolls: Modeling, Molding, and Painting


Hildegard Gunzel - 1989
    

The Grateful Dead Family Album


Jerilyn Lee Brandelius - 1989
    Filled with anecdotes and never before seen photos of the most famous personalities of the time compiled by a band insider.Paperback: 256 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 0.67 x 10.86 x 8.43

Harp Exercises for Agility and Speed


Deborah Friou - 1989
    This book was designed to help harp players develop and maintain strength, suppleness, and agility in the fingers and hands. It is intended for use by players of all levels. The repetition of patterns common to the harp should enable the player to perform with greater ease and confidence.

Operetta: A Theatrical History


Richard Traubner - 1989
    Beginning in mid-19th century Europe, the book covers all of the key developments in the form, including the landmark works by Strauss and his followers, Gilbert and Sullivan, Franz Lehar, Rudolf Friml, Victor Herbert and many more. The text captures the champagne-and-ballroom atmosphere of the greatest works in the genre and it should appeal to all fans of musical theatre history.

The Violin-Makers of the Guarneri Family (1626-1762)


William Henry Hill - 1989
    The Hills were unrivaled connoisseurs with a family tradition of violin-making, restoration, and scholarship. Several of their books form the basis of our knowledge of old stringed instruments. This generously illustrated volume offers both a history of the Guarneri family and a commentary on their craftsmanship.The Hills describe and analyze the life and work of each of the five great master craftsmen of the Guarneri family, from Andrea Guarneri (c. 1626–98), the founding father, to his grandsons Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesú (1698–1744), the most illustrious member of the family, and Pietro Guarneri of Venice (1695–1762). Over 130 photographs, 16 in full color, illustrate Guarneri craftsmanship in consummate detail. The craft of each master is explored in terms of forms, dimensions, materials, favored varnishes, and work methods. The authors compare Guarneri instruments to those of Stradivari and Amati, and list those still known to exist. Filled with fascinating detail, this definitive work is essential to violinists, musical historians, connoisseurs, and collectors.

Franz Liszt: A Chronicle Of His Life In Pictures And Documents


Ernst Burger - 1989
    Ernst Burger presents an enormous amount of new information about the life, times, and works of this quintessential nineteenth-century musical genius, and he organizes that information in a beautiful and accessible format. He supports his account of Liszt's dramatically successful career as performer and composer with an exceptional range of gloriously reproduced illustrations. The text is further enhanced by running chronologies of Liszt's compositions and of the salient events in his life. A large proportion of the documents presented here are being made available for the first time, and the numerous testimonies of Liszt's contemporaries include many that have not appeared in any other Liszt biography. "When Liszt died, he made the mistake of leaving behind an unusual legacy of envy," Alfred Brendel points out in his foreword to the volume. Liszt's boundless pianistic skill and his originality as a composer were "barely forgivable," especially when combined with his personal magnetism, masculine beauty, and energetic love life. He began his concert career as a child prodigy, hailed by a dazzled public as a second Mozart. In his later years, he took Holy Orders--a decision that may have been the culmination of a personal quest for the numinous, or the crowning public-relations coup, or both. Objective and yet contagiously enthusiastic, this book has a unique place in the current rehabilitation of any part of Liszt's prestige that was tarnished by resentment or jealousy. It enriches our appreciation of Liszt's genius and his musical influence, and of the selflessness and generosity that were important parts of his character. "In its wealth of (in part unpublished) material, in the manageability and care with which the material has been arranged, and in the extraordinary visual quality of the layout as chosen by the author himself, Ernst Burger's astonishing documentary study of Liszt must be reckoned among the most important and lasting works to be published on nineteenth-century cultural history; as such, I hope that it may open many readers' eyes, if not also their ears, to Liszt."--Alfred Brendel Ernst Burger was born in Munich in 1937. After attending his local grammar school, he studied at the Munich Conservatoire. In addition to his activities as a concert pianist, he teaches at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium in his home town. The present study is the result of many years of intensive interest in the music, literature, and painting of the nineteenth century, and in particular in the life and works of Franz Liszt. Stewart Spencer is a free-lance writer and translator living in London. He is the editor, with Barry Millington, of Selected Letters of Richard Wagner (Norton).

Perfect Circle: The Story of R.E.M.


Tony Fletcher - 1989
    However, R.E.M. – being R.E.M. – were disinclined to reveal this at the time the book was first published in 1989 and Tony was thus obliged to keep this under his hat. All such restrictions have since been lifted for newer editions, of which there have been several, and this latest incarnation of the book – now retitled Perfect Circle – brings the story to its natural conclusion with R.E.M.’s decision to disband in September, 2011. Discussing fame, fortune and sexuality with the same keen eye he casts on the group's astonishing musical catalogue, Perfect Circle is neither blind fan worship nor jaundiced critical cynicism, but a balanced and thorough telling of one of the most compelling rock stories of our time. Drawing on dozens of interviews with friends, associates and the band members themselves, this is not just the story of one group's rise through cult status, but the story of American alternative rock.

Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music


Stefan Kostka - 1989
    "The text provides students with a comprehensive but accessible and highly practical set of tools for the understanding of music."

U2 - Rattle and Hum


U2 - 1989
    Includes lyrics, bandw photos and a poster. 17 songs, including: Desire * Angel of Harlem * When Love Comes to Town * I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For * Pride (In the Name of Love) * Bullet the Blue Sky.

Backstreets: Springsteen: The Man and His Music


Charles R. Cross - 1989
    

Conversations with Von Karajan


Richard Osborne - 1989
    

Pretime Piano, Primer Level (Beginning Reading): Christmas


Nancy Faber - 1989
    No eighth notes or dotted rhythms are used and the hands remain in middle C position. Contents include: Jolly Old Saint Nicholas * Jingle Bells * Good King Wenceslas * Away in a Manger * We Three Kings of Orient Are * Up On the Housetop * Over the River and Through the Woods * Silent Night * I Saw Three Ships.

The Definitive Jazz Collection


Hal Leonard Corporation - 1989
    Includes: Ain't Misbehavin' * All the Things You Are * Birdland * Body and Soul * A Foggy Day * Girl From Ipanema * Here's That Rainy Day * The Lady Is a Tramp * Love for Sale * Mercy, Mercy, Mercy * Midnight Sun * Moonlight in Vermont * Night and Day * Skylark * Stormy Weather * Sweet Georgia Brown.

The Works of John Wesley Volume 7: A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists


John Wesley - 1989
    As the culmination of a lengthy process of preparing a 'general hymn-book, ' he selected the 525 hymns presented here from more than fifty hymnbooks published during the preceding forty-three years. It was very distinctly Methodist in character. The arrangement of the hymns was carefully designed to reflect the Wesleyan concept of the way of salvation and the pattern of Christian experience

Joel Whitburn's Top Country Singles, 1944-1988


Joel Whitburn - 1989
    COMPILED EXCLUSIVELY FROM BILLBOARD

Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-Century Music


Joel Lester - 1989
    The first focuses on aspects of musical structure other than pitch, such as rhythm, texture, timbre, form, and relationship of tonal music to the musics of our time. Units 2 and 3 deal with pitch structure: Unit 2 with pitch-class sets and Unit 3 with serial music. Unit 4 surveys music during the second half of the 20th century.The author admits freely that the perception of a work of art is a personal matter. In this book, he does not pretend to teach the way to listen to or to analyze contemporary music. Rather, he seeks to lead the reader to more informed listening through an understanding of how musical materials are used achieve both sonic and expressive effects.

The Complete Guitar Player Songbook - Omnibus Edition


Russ Shipton - 1989
    This compilation of all four of The Complete Guitar Player Songbooks contains over 180 songs written by such great songwriters as Lennon and McCartney, Paul Simon, John Denver, Bob Dylan, and many more. In standard notation, with chord boxes and full lyrics.

Masterwork Classics: Level 5, Book & CD


Valery Lloyd-Watts - 1989
    These pieces are from the standard classical literature, chosen to appeal both to teacher and student. Each volume comes with a corresponding CD.Pianist Valery Lloyd-Watts studied at the Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Royal College of Music in London. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied with Paul Badura-Skoda.

How They Became the Beatles, A Definitive History of the Early Years 1960-1964


Gareth L. Pawlowski - 1989
    

More Drum Techniques of Rush: Drum Transcriptions


Rush - 1989
    Overture, II. The Temples of Syrinx, IV. Presentation, V. Oracle: The Dream, VI. Soliloquy, VII. Grand Finale.

Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: My Life In The Jazz World


Val Wilmer - 1989
    An autobiography that details her development as an artist/journalist and her coming out as a lesbian in a largely heterosexist musical milieu.

Rock on Almanac: The First Four Decades of Rock 'n' Roll: A Chronology


Norm N. Nite - 1989
    A popular chronology covering four decades of rock music--with a foreword by Dick Clark and more than 400 dazzling photos of stars, groups, and album covers.

Cajun Music: Its Origins and Development


Barry Jean Ancelet - 1989
    Concise and readable account of Cajun music's origins and development.

Jazz Matters: Reflections on the Music Some of Its Makers


Doug Ramsey - 1989
    It stirs the reader to discover or rediscover the music and performers Ramsey describes. His accounts of recording sessions and live performances enhance this excellent review of the history, variety, and artistic depth that make jazz so profound an element in modern culture.Jazz Matters gives the reader a basis for understanding jazz improvisation Ramsey’s sensitive, straightforward, and entertaining pieces promote appreciation of the accomplishment of artists from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.

50 Gershwin Classics: Piano/Vocal/Chords


George Gershwin - 1989
    An American in Paris * Bidin' My Time * By Strauss * Embraceable You * Funny Face * Isn't It a Pity * I Got Rhythm * In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden * Maybe * My Cousin in Milwaukee * Slap That Bass * Swanee * They All Laughed * Love Is Sweeping the Country * High Hat and many more.

New Sounds: the Virgin guide to new music


John Schaefer - 1989
    

Concert And Contest Collection C Flute: C Flute Piano Accompaniment (Rubank Educational Library)


Hal Leonard Corporation - 1989
    This top-rated collection of solo literature from the celebrated Rubank catalog is known by teachers and students everywhere. Each edition offers a superb variety of solos customized for that instrument. Most state solo/ensemble contest lists include several solos from this collection. Also available: * Solo Book (HL04471610) * Solo Book with Online Media (Performance/Accompaniment Recordings (stream or download) and Printable Piano Accompaniments) (HL04002506) Contents: Andalouse (Pessard) * Bergamask (Koepke) * Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakoff) * Gavotte (Gossec) * Menuet and Spirit Dance (Gluck) * Menuet from L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 (Bizet) * Pan/Pastorale (Donjon) * Polonaise and Badinerie (J.S. Bach) * Romance, Op. 41 (Brun) * Scherzino, Op. 55 No. 6 (Andersen) * Serenade (Haydn) * Serenade, Op. 3 (Herbert) * Siciliana and Giga (Handel) * Valse Gracieuse (Popp).

Lullabies and Good Night: A Collection of Lullaby Poetry


Mary Cassatt - 1989
    Music by Stephen Elkins.

The Very Best of Elton John (Piano Vocal Guitar)


Elton John - 1989
    Included in this superb folio are seven pages of photos and a comprehensive discography.

The Healing Drum: African Wisdom Teachings


Yaya Diallo - 1989
    The authors explore the Minianka view of humanity, music, and the cosmos relative to work, celebration, herbal medicine, dance, trance, initiation, and death. The first book of its kind, delivering a message of untapped wisdom and power from a little-known culture through the universal medium of music.

Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music


Peter Van Der Merwe - 1989
    The author surveys Western popular music in all its forms - blues, ragtime, music hall, waltzes, marches, parlour ballads and folk music - and uncovers the common musical language which unites these disparate styles. The book examines the split between classical and popular Western music in the 19th and early 20th centuries, shedding light on the serious music of the time. With musical illustrations ranging from Strauss waltzes to Mississippi blues and from the Middle Ages to the 1920s, the author lays bare the tangled roots of the popular music of today.

The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town


Ruth Finnegan - 1989
    Back in print with a new preface.A landmark in the study of music and culture, this acclaimed volume documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes. It presents in vivid detail the contrasting yet overlapping worlds of classical orchestras, church choirs, brass bands, amateur operatic societies, and amateur bands playing jazz, rock, folk, and country. Notable for its contribution to wider theoretical debates and its influential challenge to long-held assumptions about music and how to study it, the book focuses on the practices rather than the texts or theory of music, rejecting the idea that only selected musical traditions, "great names," or professional musicians are worth studying. This opens the door to the invisible work put in by thousands of local people of diverse backgrounds, and how the pathways creatively trodden by amateur musicians have something to tell us about both urban living and what it is to be human. Now with a new preface by the author, this long-awaited reissue of The Hidden Musicians will bring its insights and innovations to a new generation of students and scholars.