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1	Jazz Styles: History & Analysis more books like this by Mark C Gridley 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	Study of Orchestration more books like this by Samuel Adler 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 $10.74! new only from $29.85! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Blues people; Negro music in white America. more books like this by LeRoi Jones ""The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.51! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The big bands more books like this by George T Simon 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 $28.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Music for Analysis: Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century more books like this by Thomas Benjamin 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 $56.51! \| first editions
6	Glenn Miller and his orchestra more books like this by George Thomas Simon } 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 $3.00! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The big band almanac more books like this by Leo Walker }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 $9.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz more books like this by Mr. Barry Kernfeld (Editor) The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz constitutes the most definitive volume on the music, history, performers, and venues of jazz. It contains the broadest coverage of the subject of jazz to appear in one work and seeks to give detailed attention to all periods and styles from many countries, making it the largest dictionary of jazz ever published. ... see all copies from $21.29! new only from $49.99! \| first editions
9	Orchestration more books like this by Walter Piston see all copies from $14.95! new only from $24.60! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Music is my mistress more books like this by Duke Ellington }Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. This is the story of Duke Ellingtonthe story of Jazz itself. Told in his own way, in his own words, a symphony written by the King of Jazz. His story spans and defines a half-century of modern music.This man who created over 1500 compositions was as much at home in Harlems Cotton Club ... see all copies from $8.95! first editions
11 view cover	The Symphony more books like this by Preston Stedman This comprehensive reference delivers a chronological history of the symphony with an emphasis on musical style. It takes the reader on a musical journey from the preclassical period to contemporary time, punctuated with specific examples by all major composers from Corelli to Riegger. Everyone from orchestral conductors to concert goers and music ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $59.54! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture more books like this by Ted Gioia This stimulating and perceptive study of jazz relates the work of jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman to such subjects as primitivism in the arts, neoclassicism, good and bad taste, improvisation and recordings and the imperfection of art, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.23! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie more books like this by Count Basie One of the great jazz memoirs. Count Basie (19041984), pianist, composer, and icon of big-band jazz, known for such classics as "Jumpin' at the Woodside," "Cherokee," and "One O'Clock Jump," recounts his life story to Albert Murray with all the charm and dry humor of two friends sitting at the kitchen table. Good Morning Blues is both testimony ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $9.52! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Orchestration more books like this by Cecil Forsyth Probably best general book on the subject. Thorough discussion of 57 instruments, technical aspects of writing for each, much else. see all copies from $4.03! new only from $11.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 in Full Score more books like this by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Composer) 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 $9.95! new only from $12.35! \| SVS
16 view cover	Beneath the Underdog more books like this by Charles Mingus These memoirs are of the great bassist and jazz composer Charles Mingus. Completed years before his death in 1979, this is the story of: growing up in the Watts, Los Angeles of the 1920s and 30s, ruled by a strap-wielding father and Bible-quoting stepmother; Mingus's outcast adolescent years ("a yella kid, running with the mongrels"); his ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $8.99! \| first editions
17 view cover	Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 in Full Score more books like this by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Composer) 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 $9.00! new only from $13.20!
18 view cover	Toscanini more books like this by Harvey Sachs Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) is the most famous operatic and symphonic conductor in history. When Harvey Sachs' Reflections on Toscanini was first published in 1978, it was acclaimed internationally as the definitive biography of the extraordinary maestro. Now Sachs has revised and expanded this classic book, further exploring the conductor's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $75.42! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961-1971 more books like this by Philip Larkin see all copies from $7.13! new only from $21.47! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Beethoven Quartet Companion more books like this by Robert Winter (Editor), Robert Martin (Editor) 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 $14.76! new only from $16.49! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Handbook of conducting more books like this by Hermann Scherchen The distinguished German conductor Hermann Scherchen, 1891-1966, became a legend in his own time as a supremely knowledgeable, inspiring, and uncompromising advocate of the most demanding orchestral repertoire. The founder of the Berlin Society of New Music, he was an ardent champion of twentieth-century music, especially that of Schoenberg, with ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $35.94! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Bass Line: The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton more books like this by Milt Hinton, David G Berger Milt Hinton, the 'dean of bass players', has experienced the jazz world firsthand for more than five decades. A member of Cab Calloway's orchestra for sixteen years, he has played with most of the jazz greats of this century including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie. Throughout his ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $169.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Story of Jazz more books like this by Marshall Stearns Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans and its adoption by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York. From swing and bop to the early days of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.02! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Jazz: A History more books like this by Frank Tirro 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 $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25	The big band years more books like this by Bruce Crowther, Mike Pinfold see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions

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