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Benny Goodman: A Supplemental Discography
ISBN: 9780810876859 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the 100 years since Benny Goodman's birth, interest in his life and music remains as intense as ever--yet there has been no new discographical information since 1996. Benny Goodman: A Supplemental Discography fills that gap, gathering materials uncovered since the last bio-discography of Goodman in 1996. The annotated discography, presented chronologically, updates some previously known information and adds nearly 100 new discoveries, including over 65 previously unknown radio broadcasts, airchecks, and films. Jessup presents new details about live appearances ranging from the mid-1980s...
Over the 100 years since Benny Goodman's birth, interest in his life and music remains as intense as ever--yet there has been no new discographical in...
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451,77 |
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The Life and Music of Kenny Davern: Just Four Bars
ISBN: 9780810876927 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first biography of jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern. Drawing from Davern's many interviews and the recollections of his friends and family, Meyer tells the story of the man and his music and why both were unique and irreplaceable.
This is the first biography of jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern. Drawing from Davern's many interviews and the recollections of his friends and family, M...
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476,07 |
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John Lennon: A Biography
ISBN: 9780313379383 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Lennon was a singer, songwriter, activist, artist, and writer whose life and work left an indelible mark on rock music and the world. Lennon first became famous as the founding member of The Beatles, and his songwriting partnership with bandmate Paul McCartney remains legendary in the history of pop music. Lennon's creative work, which extended well beyond his years as a Beatle and lasted until his final days, still provides enjoyment and inspiration to millions around the world. This biography provides a comprehensive account of John Lennon's life for students and general readers,... John Lennon was a singer, songwriter, activist, artist, and writer whose life and work left an indelible mark on rock music and the world. Lennon f... |
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173,86 |
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Life Lessons I've Learned From The Beatles
ISBN: 9781434844606 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about lessons gleaned from decades of my following the group, not to rehash their life stories, but to learn from them. It features lessons about business, spirituality, education, family, dreams & aspirations, and character. What better way is there to teach someone to guard his hand during negotiations than to tell how Epstein lost countless millions by jumping at the first offer? How better to ease into discussing the afterlife than to detail Julian Lennon's chimney exploding the night his father died half a world away? The book has examples to emulate, such as George's...
This book is about lessons gleaned from decades of my following the group, not to rehash their life stories, but to learn from them. It features lesso...
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59,83 |
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Benny Goodman and the Swing Era
ISBN: 9780195052787 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography of Benny Goodman's music and times attempts to recreate the colourful music world of the 1920s and 1930s, when Goodman was hailed the King of Swing. The author offers insights into the character and music of a man who helped transform the Depression years into the Swing Era.
This biography of Benny Goodman's music and times attempts to recreate the colourful music world of the 1920s and 1930s, when Goodman was hailed the K...
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259,42 |
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The Bible Spelled Backwards Does Not Change the Fact that You Cannot Kill David Arquette and Other Things I Learned in the Black Math Experiment
ISBN: 9781449988388 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For every rock and roll success story there are a thousand tales of failure, but none are as odd or inspiring as that of Houston's Black Math Experiment. Four years of busting genres, bomb scares, religious protests, toilet paper cannons, adulation, and out and out weirdness made them legends in their own time. Told by singer Jef With One F, a former hypnotist, transvestite, and luchador turned rock star, "The Bible Spelled Backwards Does Not Change the Fact That You Cannot Kill David Arquette and Other Things I learned in The Black Math Experiment" is a hilarious look at life at the bottom...
For every rock and roll success story there are a thousand tales of failure, but none are as odd or inspiring as that of Houston's Black Math Experime...
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43,86 |
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Another Book Of New Pieces For The Classical Guitar
ISBN: 9781452812571 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains the work entitled "Sentimiento." Another beautiful tremelo piece for the classical guitar composed by Maestro Kaufmann. Volume 2 is a continuation of 10 more great new original compositions for the classical guitar from Maestro Kaufmann for the beginning student to the more advanced player. Also included is a rare bonus piece from Frederic Chopin entitled "Tristeza" (Tristesee) transcribed for the classical guitar by Kaufmann. Another must have book to add to your classical guitar collection
Contains the work entitled "Sentimiento." Another beautiful tremelo piece for the classical guitar composed by Maestro Kaufmann. Volume 2 is a continu...
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99,74 |
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Weinzweig: Essays on His Life and Music [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9781554582563 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Weinzweig (1913-2006) was the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation. Influenced by European modernists such as Stravinsky, Berg, and Webern, he was the first Canadian composer to employ serialism, thereby bringing a spirit of innovation to mid-twentieth-century Canadian music. A forceful advocate for modern Canadian composition, Weinzweig played a key role in the founding of the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre during a buoyant and expansive period for the arts in Canada. He was an influential force as a teacher of composition, first with the Royal... John Weinzweig (1913-2006) was the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation. Influenced by European modernists such as Stravinsky, Berg, an... |
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194,31 |
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Stravinsky: A New Appraisal of His Work
ISBN: 9780393001990 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,23 |
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The Gospel According to Bob Dylan: The Old, Old Story of Modern Times
ISBN: 9780664232078 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the early 1960s, music fans have found Bob Dylan's spirituality fascinating, and many of them have identified Dylan as a kind of spiritual guru. This book, written by a scholar who is a longtime fan, examines Dylan's mystique, asking why audiences respond to him as a spiritual guide. This book reveals Bob Dylan as a major twentieth- and twenty-first-century religious thinker with a body of relevant work that goes far beyond a handful of gospel albums.
Since the early 1960s, music fans have found Bob Dylan's spirituality fascinating, and many of them have identified Dylan as a kind of spiritual guru....
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83,62 |
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Rethinking Debussy
ISBN: 9780199755646 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Composer, pianist, and critic Claude Debussy's musical aesthetic represents the single most powerful influence on international musical developments during the long fin de siecle period. The development of Debussy's musical language and style was affected by the international political pressures of his time, beginning with the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the rise of the new Republic in France, and was also related to the contemporary philosophical conceptualization of what constituted art. The Debussy idiom exemplifies the ways in which various disciplines - musical, literary, artistic,...
Composer, pianist, and critic Claude Debussy's musical aesthetic represents the single most powerful influence on international musical developments d...
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282,43 |
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Rethinking Schumann
ISBN: 9780195393859 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts, cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film. Traditionally, research has focused on biographical links between the composer and his music, encouraging the assumption that Schumann was solitary, divorced from reality, and frequently associated with "untimeliness." These eighteen new essays argue from a multitude of perspectives that Schumann was in fact very much a man of his time,...
A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its recepti...
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337,66 |
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Rethinking Schumann
ISBN: 9780195393866 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts, cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film. Traditionally, research has focused on biographical links between the composer and his music, encouraging the assumption that Schumann was solitary, divorced from reality, and frequently associated with "untimeliness." These eighteen new essays argue from a multitude of perspectives that Schumann was in fact very much a man of his time,...
A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its recepti...
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254,81 |
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Gaubert Vivant!
ISBN: 9781453606667 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941) was the father of the modern French school of flute playing, a notable composer, and the conductor of both the Paris Conservatory Orchestra and the Paris Opera Orchestra. This book, a companion volume to a concert-lecture series celebrating Gaubert's memory, is his first published biography, drawn in large part from family memoirs and other unpublished sources.
Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941) was the father of the modern French school of flute playing, a notable composer, and the conductor of both the Paris Cons...
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99,78 |
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Messiaen Studies
ISBN: 9780521174534 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The French composer Olivier Messiaen is one of the major figures of twentieth-century music. This collection of scholarly essays offers new cultural, historical, biographical and analytical perspectives on Messiaen's musical oeuvre from 1941 to 1992. The volume includes: a fascinating snapshot of Messiaen's life in occupied France; a study of the Surrealist poetics of Messiaen's song cycle Harawi; a chapter on Messiaen's iconoclastic path to the avant-garde heritage that he bequeathed to his pupils; discussion on Messiaen's place in twentieth-century music; and detailed analysis of specific...
The French composer Olivier Messiaen is one of the major figures of twentieth-century music. This collection of scholarly essays offers new cultural, ...
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284,96 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss
ISBN: 9780521899307 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Summarizing the recent resurgence of scholarly interest in Strauss, this volume focuses on genres, social context, and perennially controversial topics.
Summarizing the recent resurgence of scholarly interest in Strauss, this volume focuses on genres, social context, and perennially controversial topic...
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411,29 |
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Why pamper life's complexities?: Essays on The Smiths
ISBN: 9780719078408 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For five short years in the 1980s, a four-piece Manchester band released a collection of records that had undeniably profound effects on the landscape of popular music and beyond. Today, public and critical appreciation of The Smiths is at its height, yet the most important British band after The Beatles have rarely been subject to sustained academic scrutiny. Why pamper life's complexities?: Essays on The Smiths seeks to remedy this by bringing together diverse research disciplines to place the band in a series of enlightening social, cultural and political contexts as never before....
For five short years in the 1980s, a four-piece Manchester band released a collection of records that had undeniably profound effects on the landscape...
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434,65 |
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Why Pamper Life's Complexities?: Essays on the Smiths
ISBN: 9780719078415 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For five short years in the 1980s, a four-piece Manchester band released a collection of records that had undeniably profound effects on the landscape of popular music and beyond. Today, public and critical appreciation of The Smiths is at its height, yet the most important British band after The Beatles have rarely been subject to sustained academic scrutiny. Why pamper life's complexities?: Essays on The Smiths seeks to remedy this by bringing together diverse research disciplines to place the band in a series of enlightening social, cultural and political contexts as never before. Topics...
For five short years in the 1980s, a four-piece Manchester band released a collection of records that had undeniably profound effects on the landscape...
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102,22 |
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Miklós Rózsa's Ben-Hur: A Film Score Guide
ISBN: 9780810881006 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Roger Hickman focuses on the confluence of traditions, trends, and innovations that shaped one of film's greatest scores.
In this book, Roger Hickman focuses on the confluence of traditions, trends, and innovations that shaped one of film's greatest scores.
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208,89 |