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1	Jazz Styles: History & Analysis more books like this by Mark C Gridley add to wishlist For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Jazz and History of Jazz. This broad and encompassing survey provides a rich, informative, and chronological study of jazz, with insightful commentaries on it's origins, and full descriptions of the various styles of jazz and the personalities that have contributed to this innovative form of music. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.88! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Blues people; Negro music in white America. more books like this by LeRoi Jones add to wishlist The author traces the influence of jazz and blues on white America, not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. He aims to illuminate the influence of African Americans on American culture and history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Sound I Saw more books like this by Roy Decarava add to wishlist A photographic portrait of the world of jazz music. Presented as a stream of 196 images interspersed with DeCarava's own poetry, this volume is, in its form and overall effect, a printed equivalent of jazz -composed of overlapping passages of pain, sweetness, optimism and suffering. Roy DeCarava has documented the people, both famous and anonymous ... see all copies from $25.76! new only from $31.48! \| first editions
4	Music for Analysis: Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century more books like this by Thomas Benjamin add to wishlist This text is intended for a typical two or three year theory sequence taught at all four year collages, universities and conservatories as well as many two year schools. Music theory is in-depth analysis that requires a text and an anthology of music - the musical scores that illustrate the theory. This text is an anthology that is designed to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $76.95! \| first editions
5	The Technique of Orchestration more books like this by Kent Wheeler Kennan add to wishlist Instruments of the orchestra are clearly described and supported by numerous musical examples and photos. "Suggested Assignments" and "Suggested Listening" lists follow each chapter helping students master and further explore subject matter. Includes updated chapter on writing score and parts with inclusion of material on computer notation and has ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $67.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Orchestration more books like this by Cecil Forsyth add to wishlist Probably best general book on the subject. Thorough discussion of 57 instruments, technical aspects of writing for each, much else. see all copies from $4.42! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The big bands more books like this by George T Simon add to wishlist The "definitive volume" on the sounds of swing is back, with the complete story of hundreds of bands, bandleaders, vocalists and instrumentalists. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $58.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Jazz: A History more books like this by Frank Tirro add to wishlist The first edition of "Jazz" took the history of jazz up to 1960. Now, in recognition of the developments in jazz study since then, Frank Tirro has rewritten and expanded this text to include many of the latter-day giants, such as Miles Davies, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis. The early chapters have also been modified to take ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.35! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Study of Orchestration more books like this by Samuel Adler add to wishlist This work enables students to understand the basics of orchestrations by choosing the most appropriate instruments, instrumental combinations and instrumental techniques to write an effective orchestral score. It deals with orchestral writing for individual instruments, combinations of instruments, and full orchestra, and this edition has a new ... see all copies from $13.90! new only from $62.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The big band almanac more books like this by Leo Walker add to wishlist With more than 500 pictures, and extensive entries on more than 350 orchestras, this complete coverage of black and white bandsfrom the almost-forgotten Basie, Ellington, Miller, Shaw, and Dorseywill prompt memories and establish important facts about a glorious era of jazz and popular music. Forewords by Les Brown and Harry James and an index ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Glenn Miller and his orchestra more books like this by George Thomas Simon add to wishlist Moonlight Serenade, Sunrise Serenade, Little Brown Jug, In the Mood...These and other memorable tunes endeared Glenn Miller to millions in the Swing Era and all who recall those times. After playing trombone and arranging for leading orchestras of the Dorsey brothers, Ray Noble, Ben Pollack, and Red Nichols, Glenn Miller formed his own "sweet" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 in Full Score more books like this by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Composer) add to wishlist Superb, highly authoritative editions (Henry Litolff's Verlag) of "Symphony No. 8 in F Major," "Op. 93, " and "Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125." Large, clear noteheads and wide margins. see all copies from $8.83! new only from $9.15! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus more books like this by Charles Mingus add to wishlist Part novella, part autobiography, BENEATH THE UNDERDOG is the legendary jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus's eccentric history of himself. He cracks his head on the bedroom dresser when he is two, becomes a teenage pimp, and shares a California bandstand with trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist Charlie Parker, and pianist Dodo Marmarosa. ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Complete Symphonies more books like this by Johannes Brahms (Composer), Hans Gal (Editor) add to wishlist Full orchestral scores. No. 1 in C. Minor, Op. 68; No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73; No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90; and No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $11.27! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Understanding Toscanini more books like this by Joseph Horowitz add to wishlist Combining biography with musical criticism, this study reveals why Arturo Toscanini became the object of unparalleled veneration as a classical conductor in the USA. It explores the cultural and commercial mechanisms that fostered the Toscanini cult and created a new audience for classical music. see all copies from $3.25! new only from $4.62! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 in Full Score more books like this by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Composer) add to wishlist Superb authoritative German editions (Henry Litolff's Verlag) of 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; more. see all copies from $5.65! new only from $9.15! \| SVS
17 view cover	Symphonies Nos. 5, 6, and 7 in Full Score more books like this by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Composer) add to wishlist Superb, authoritative editions of great orchestral masterworks: "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67"; "Symphony No. 6 in F Major" ("Pastoral"), "Op. 68"; "Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92." see all copies from $4.75! new only from $9.15! \| SVS
18 view cover	Orchestration more books like this by Walter Piston add to wishlist see all copies from $18.95! new only from $49.79! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Beethoven Quartet Companion more books like this by Robert Winter (Editor), Robert Martin (Editor) add to wishlist While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works. This collection offers Beethoven lovers both detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a stimulating range of more general ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $22.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Handbook for Non-Musicians more books like this by Ethan Mordden add to wishlist Relaxed and accessible in style, this is the first symphony handbook written especially for the beginning listener. More comprehensive than any other symphony guide--yet more compact--it describes for the radio buff, record collector, and sometime concertgoer over seven hundred orchestral pieces, including symphonies, concertos, suites, tone poems ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s more books like this by Ira Gitler add to wishlist Over a ten-year period, Ira Gitler interviewed more than fifty of the major figures in jazz history to preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late 1930s and 1940s into the modern jazz period. The musicians interviewed recreate their own experiences and also evoke the legendary figures of bop who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.61! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Essays in Musical Analysis more books like this by Donald F. Tovey add to wishlist This is a collection of 115 critical essays based upon the author's programme notes for concerts with the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh. They include all of Brahms' overtures and symphonies, 11 symphonies by Haydn, six by Mozart, three each by Schubert, Schumann and Sibelius and many works by Beethoven. Sir Donald Tovey, perhaps best known for his ... see all copies from $2.49! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Hear Me Talkin' to YA more books like this by Nat Shapiro (Editor), Nat Hentoff (Editor) add to wishlist In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years. see all copies from $3.66! new only from $8.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Symphonic Music more books like this by Homer Ulrich add to wishlist This book attempts to survey this large field afresh, and to do so in connected, chronological fashion. It takes notice of the fact that concertos, overtures, ballets, and suits- often overlooked or minimized in other books on symphonic music- are also parts of the literature. see all copies from $2.51! new only from $67.17! \| first editions
25 view cover	A Sound Approach to Teaching Instrumentalists: An Application of Content and Learning Sequences more books like this by Stanley L Schleuter add to wishlist A SOUND APPROACH TO TEACHING INSTRUMENTALISTS applies contemporary methodologies and theories to the instrumental classroom. It examines the application of musical content and learning sequences in teaching instrumental music to students from elementary school through adulthood. see all copies from $37.16! new only from $39.41!

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