More than any other music appreciation text, "Listening to Music, 5th Edition", helps students to develop and refine their listening skills. Wright covers traditional Western music from medieval to modern and integrates non-Western music throughout the text where appropriate, drawing comparisons between Western and non-Western musical cultures. ...
This book is the leading text for the nonmajors' introduction to music courses. Some of the books distinctive features include the listening outlines (created by Kamien), the clear concise writing style, the well chosen examples, and the strong elements section. The fifth edition includes new selections throughout, additional listening outlines, ...
The Jacksons are the most famous family in show business, a clan of superstars that has sold more than 200 million records since 1969. To the uninitiated, their story looks like the American Dream come true, but their shocking success came at a high price. . . . La Toya Jackson tells a tale of child abuse, physical violence, and psychological ...
By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis, here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obstacles, help improve concentration, and reduce nervousness, allowing them to reach new levels of performing excellence and musical artistry.
For junior- to graduate-level courses in Introduction to Conducting (advanced techniques included), Band, Orchestra, Chorus. Requires background in Music Theory, Music History, and Music Analysis. Building upon a classic conducting text, this edition updates references and expands sections to provide students with more comprehensive explanations ...
This controversial biography of the singer and actor led to a two-million dollar lawsuit by Sinatra. Kelly reveals every detail about Sinatra's history and musical career, including alleged Mafia connections, his marriage and breakup with Ava Gardner, and affairs with Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, and others.
The most complete, colorful, and authoritative package of its kind, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Third Edition, examines popular music in the United States from its beginnings into the 21st century. Highlighting the contributions of diverse groups, Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman trace the development of jazz, blues, ...
This picture book features photographs of Michael Jackson's world tour, and contains a report on the opening shows which hit Wembley in July 1997 and continued in Europe. A colour poster is also included.
Conducting Technique has been accepted as a standard text for both choral and orchestral conducting courses taught at universities, colleges, and conservatories throughout the English-speaking world. For this revised edition the author has made a number of corrections and additions, including a new preface.
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 ...
POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA is a wide-ranging survey of almost two centuries of popular music. It offers a coherent and integrated account of the evolution of popular music -- from the parlor songs and minstrel show music of the 1840s, to rock, rap, techno, and other contemporary styles. Because it takes a broad view of popular music, the text ...
From the classic days of Red Foley, Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash to the country super-stars of today like the Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith, "Billboard" magazine has been keeping tabs on the best-sellers in country music and today, country music is hotter than ever before. Now, all the information since the earliest Billboard charts - compiled in ...
Details the life and career of Diana Ross. From her early success with The Supremes to the ongoing string of solo hits, Diana Ross' career is charted and her immense contribution to pop music analyzed. Her tempestuous romances and ill-fated friendships are described.
"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and ...
During the 1970s disco was the sound track to the lives of millions. Its hedonism, drive, and sweet, catchy melodies made dancers worldwide experience the bliss of complete abandon. This book traces its entire history, from the underground dives of New York to the glittering clubs of Rome. Along the way, the book provides instruction on how to do ...
This title is a collection of readings following the evolution of American popular music from the 1920's to the present. Pulling together articles, excerpts, and critical commentary from scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and biographies, the reader provides a vivid history of pop, rock, and soul in America.
This text contains practical instruction in choral and instrumental conducting, for both beginning and intermediate students, along with a large selection of scores for classroom practice.
From the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated "In the Name of the Father", Byrne's memoir is a frank, intimate account that captures the spirit of our times as it reveals the man behind this actor's many faces. "Delightful memoir . . . a fine . . . reminiscence that will have the reader calling for more".--"Publishers Weekly". 39 b&w ...
A survey of the development of popular music from the 19th century to the present, this text combines a listening approach to music appreciation with a study of the history of American music, and the influences upon it. It is accompanied by a set of compact discs, a set of cassettes, and a demonstration cassette, all available separately. After a ...
This unparalleled resource provides complete, cross-referenced information for all songs and artists to make the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart from 1955 through mid-2003. Every artist entry opens with biographical information, followed by the date for each Top 40 single hit, its highest position and number of weeks on the chart, and ...
The relationship between Freddie Mercury and Jim Hutton evolved over several months in 1984 and 1985. Even when they first slept together Button had no idea who Mercury was, and when the star told him his name it meant nothing to him. Hutton worked as a barber at the Savoy Hotel and retained his job and his lodgings in Sutton, Surrey, for two ...
Written with the co-operation of Richard Carpenter and his family, this is a biography of Richard and his sister, Karen. It focuses not only on The Carpenters' pop-music career but also on Karen's anorexia, as a result of which, unhappily married and a millionairess, she died at the age of 32. With Richard as musical director and songwriter, she ...
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