In this second edition of Orchestral "Pops" Music: A Handbook, Lucy Manning brings forward to the present her remarkable compendium of information about this form of orchestral music. Since the appearance of the first edition in 2009, this work has proven critical to successful "pops" concert programming. With changes in publishers and agents, the discontinuation of the publication of certain original material or, worst of all, presses going out of business, music directors, orchestra conductors, and professional instrumentalists face formidable challenges in tracking down accurate...

Musicians who work professionally with ballet and dance companies sometimes wonder if they haven't entered a foreign country--a place where the language and customs seem so utterly familiar and so bafflingly strange at the same. To someone without a dance background, phrases and terms--boy's variation, pas d'action, apotheose--simply don't fit their standard musical vocabulary. Even a familiar term like adagio means something quite different in the world of dance. Like any working professional, those conductors, composers, rehearsal pianists, instrumentalists and even music librarians working...

This book provides a practical guide for the professional musician who works with ballet companies. It addresses the daily routine of the modern ballet company, outlines the various roles, and examines the complete process of putting a dance performance on stage. Includes a listing of classic ballets in standard repertoire.

This is a one-stop sourcebook for orchestras, opera companies, conductors, and librarians programming vocal excerpts for concert performance. Includes detailed information on a vast repertoire of vocal pieces commonly extracted from operas, operettas, musicals, and oratorios --more than 1,500 excerpts from 400 parent works.

Each entry includes the title, date of composition, date and performer of premiere, key, duration, instrumentation, and movements of the work. Entries provide historical, technical, and performance information crucial to study of the work, concluding with a list of several recordings by famous artists and recommended books for further information.

This book supplies conductors, music administrators, and librarians with all the information needed to plan performances of modern chamber music. It provides details on 4,000 titles composed during the 20th or 21st centuries, and the appendix allows users to search for pieces based on various criteria.

The American Piano Concerto Compendium, the new and enlarged edition, goes well beyond what is available in this genre for professional musicians and amateurs in helping them understand and appreciate the broad sweep of available compositions by American composers. Readers will find abundant listings of recordings of many of the 1,595 concertos.