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1) Mad scenes and exit arias: the death of the New York City Opera and the future of opera in America
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From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt--and what it means for the future of the arts.--
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Nine Disney standards arranged for beginning piano students to enjoy, including: Alice in Wonderland * Best of Friends * Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) * Heigh-Ho * Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) * Little April Shower * Some Day My Prince Will Come * Whistle While You Work * You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!.
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Drawing on interviews with such women as Verna Griffin, Dr. Dre's mother; Marianne Stipe, Michael Stipe of REM's mother; Janis Winehouse, Amy Winehouse's mother; Hester Diamond, Mike D of The Beastie Boys' mother; and many more, the mother of Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl presents an exposé of what it's like to be a rock 'n' roll mom.
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Two of the world's preeminent music journalists tackle the liveliest debate in rock history: which band is the greatest ever-the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? More than two dozen topics of debate are addressed, with cases being made both for the lads from Liverpool and rock's proto bad boys. From the Cavern and Crawdaddy clubs through head-to-head comparisons of specific albums (e.g., Exile or "the White Album"?), members' roles within the bands,...
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"An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya"...
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The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world's most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names. By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, it's been out of print for years and has now been...
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The perfect holiday song can really go a long way to amping up your Christmas spirit. Selecting the right songs for a playlist can be a daunting task though. The timeless aspect of the genre means that you have options that span 1,000s of titles from artists going back to the 1950s, or earlier, to choose from.This book, The 101 Best Christmas Songs, helps you conquer this task by filtering out the best loved Christmas classics and then takes it a...
9) Crap Lyrics
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Even the greatest songwriters (and Spandau Ballet) have had the odd bad day at the office. Or more likely, a bad few minutes in the studio toilets scribbling the first words they can think of on the back of their tranquiliser prescription shortly before the vocal has to be recorded. Johnny Sharp has trawled half a century of lyrics to find the funniest examples of crippled couplets, outrageous innuendo, mixed metaphors, shameless self-delusion, nefarious...
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Here is another of my personal Top 20's of singles that never reached a UK chart position higher than No 20. Indeed, one or two didn't chart at all and another couple were released as 'B' sides. This volume, fourth in the series, deals with instrumentals which I think should have charted or reached a higher position than they did. As in the previous volumes, facts about these selections are given as well as personal experiences and observations. I...
11) The Magic Piano
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This is a fantasy story of a magic piano that chooses individuals who excel in music but who may not have any talents in playing the piano. It is ideal for young adults who are fifteen years old and older. Older and elderly adults will also enjoy these stories. The piano chooses individuals who have the capacity to assist other people to excel in their lives. Adventure, love, action, and comedy are interpreted throughout the stories. The stories are...
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Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistible music.
Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, intelligent, and in-you-face, Rickey Vincent's Funk celebrates...
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With A Haven For Songs: Connecting The Dots About Americana Music, selected works of novelist, lyricist and music critic Martin Wimmer are available in the USA for the first time.
Martin Wimmer explains his personal relationship with the art of magicians such as Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker, Blaze Foley, Woody Guthrie, John Prine, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Mercer. These artists, among many others mentioned in the book, are the glue that holds...
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Get the Summary of Nicolas Carter's Music Theory in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Music Theory" by Nicolas Carter provides an in-depth exploration of the components and structures that constitute written music. The book begins by examining the music sheet, detailing the significance of each element, from the staff and its five lines representing different pitches, to the clef that sets the starting note. It discusses...
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Get the Summary of Warren Zanes's Petty in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Petty" by Warren Zanes is a comprehensive biography of Tom Petty, detailing his life from his family's struggles with their Cherokee heritage to his rise as a rock and roll icon. The book explores Petty's early life in Gainesville, Florida, where he was influenced by the tensions in his household and the burgeoning local music scene. Petty's...
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"Este libro nace de las preguntas que me he hecho a lo largo de varias décadas de actividad profesional como improvisador musical. Nace, pues, de la praxis y de las ideas que genera un contacto diario con esta forma de hacer música. Son estas preguntas las que explican la presencia de todo lo demás ... A menudo, cuando nos interesa algo, lo más difícil no es encontrar respuestas sino aclarar qué es, exactamente, lo que estamos preguntando"....
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Since colonial times, generations of families from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England have settled in Knoxville and East Tennessee. Early on, they arrived with ballads, stories, instruments, and folk music from their former homes. "Songcatchers," including Francis James Child, Olive Dame Campbell, Maud Pauline Karpeles, Cecil J. Sharp, William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, Charles Pickard Ware, and George Pullen Jackson, journeyed deep into...
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Colm Tóibín on Joni Mitchell • James Wood on The Who • Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush • Daniel Handler on Eurythmics • Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders • Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the soundtracks of their lives.
In Heavy Rotation, twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary writers pay homage to the record albums that inspired them. Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths' Queen Is Dead transformed him into an...
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-Descubra la música que se atrevió a ser diferente, que puso reputaciones y carreras en peligro, que provocó fascinación e interés en unos, y rechazo y menosprecio en otros. Eso es lo que ocurre cuando se rompe con la tradición.
-Un repaso a las historias de 50 álbumes, canciones y actuaciones que hicieron tambalear el mundo de la música contemporánea, con fascinantes relatos sobre su creación, su recepción y su legado.
-De George Gershwin...
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