Publication date: 2000-01
Review The Romantic Phenomenon of Jimmy Page / Minerva Press:
Authors
- John Gillespie
- Anna Gillespie
Dewey code: 786.20922
Price: $279.95
Review Notable Twentieth-Century Pianists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Bio-Critical Sourcebooks on Musical Performance) / Greenwood Press:Pianists-their lives, performances, and recordings-are detailed in this two-volume set. Each biographical essay emphasizes musical background and training, special influences on development, significant performances, and more. Performance is analyzed and emphasis given to style and repertoire. For those pianists who recorded, there are selective discographies and reviews of outstanding recordings. The authors attended many performances and often supply a personal dimension to the discussions. This readable work, containing extensive documented coverage of 100 artists, will be appreciated by scholar, student, and music buff alike. As a sourcebook, this work contains biographical data; style analyses (culled from reviews, recordings, articles, and essays); pedagogical history and methods, when applicable; lists of selected references and reviews; and a representative discography. The result is an objective, thorough presentation of the lives and performances of 100 notable pianists. The list initially derived from correspondence with pianists and pedagogues in music conservatories and colleges throughout the United States and after eight years of research in both libraries and concert halls. The text reads easily (and is fascinating), but the vast amount of information and the careful "scientific" analysis make it a scholarly work of the highest order, useful to graduate students as well as the general public.
Authors
- Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $250.00
Price: $250.00
Review Life of Beethoven / Library Reprints:Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven has long been regarded as the classic biography of Beethoven. Thayer's approach to biography was to present in chronological order the factual evidence concerning Beethoven, the man and his work, and to eliminate the analysis and aesthetic evaluation of the music. To gather the material necessary for such an undertaking, he went to Europe; there, he spent most of his life seeking out those persons still alive who had known Beethoven and studying the sources that were available. His biography succeeded in clearing away the romantic fiction that was then, in the 1870's, current and gave for the first time a full account of the composer's life which was based on reliable, historical method.
Publication date: 1999-05
Dewey code: 681
Price: $29.95
Review Patek Philippe: Complicated Wrist Watches / Konemann:
Publication date: 2004-02-02
Dewey code: 781
List Price: $24.95
Price: $248.44
Review Profiles In Rock / PublishAmerica:This is a book about dreams, determination and passion. Everybody has a dream when growing up. When I was a child, many young boys wanted to be firemen or policemen, and girls teachers or nurses. Profiles in Rock is the story of several groups and individuals who dreamed of musical success at a very young age, and against the odds went on to achieve it. Bruce Springsteen fought his father's disapproval and a reputation as the "new Bob Dylan" as well as an overly enthusiastic manager who took him to court to fight over the rights of Bruce's music. Still, Springsteen went on to become one of the greatest rock icons of his time. Fleetwood Mac overcame several personnel changes, bad contracts, and romantic struggles within its own ranks to create one of the bestselling albums of all time. It is hoped that whatever your own hopes and dreams, whatever your own status in life, you can learn by their example of determination and passion for doing what they love the most. If these individuals can achieve their dreams, then so can we all.
Publication date: 1992-12
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $254.00
Price: $253.98
Review Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series : An Illustrated Chronicle (Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series) / Gacl:
Authors
- Maria Gabriella
- Stefano Papi
Dewey code: 739.270945
Price: $115.00
Review Jewellery of the House of Savoy / Electa:
Creator: Gert
Edition: Bilingual
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $39.99
Price: $150.00
Review Rammstein / Gestalten Verlag:Rammstein is definitely one of the most refereshing and challenging rock acts of the last years. Since their appearance in David Lynch's "Lost Highway", the band received a wide attention around the globe and Rammstein videos couldn't possibly be left out in any MTV rock show. Their spectacular videos and firespitting live performances resulted in a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Act and to 2 million albums sold in the US to date. It is hard to think of any other foreign speaking rock band whose lyrics are sung along by 20. 000 or more American fans in their live shows. A breathtaking visual trip into their world.
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $250.00
Price: $250.00
Review Richard Wagner: A Critical Biography / Library Reprints:
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $250.00
Price: $250.00
Review Mozart: The Story of His Life As a Man and Artist / Library Reprints:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1993-10
Dewey code: 818.5403
Price: $17.95
Review Infamous Chasen's Chili and Three Stories / Vantage Press:
Publication date: 1976-12
Review Harpo Speaks / Amereon Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-12-30
Dewey code: 809.04
List Price: $254.00
Price: $250.00
Review Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature: Aganon-eucken / Gale Cengage:
Creator: Elizabeth Miller
Publication date: 2004-11
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $254.00
Price: $253.98
Review Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gacl:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1977-09-30
Dewey code: 782.10922
List Price: $296.00
Price: $265.91
Review Signifier and the Signified: Studies in the Operas of Mozart and Verdi / Springer:The studies collected here deal with the interpretation of opera, based on structural analysis. In addition to the chapters devoted to individual operas by Mozart and Verdi, the book offers studies on the semantics of orchestration in Mozart and the structural functions of ritual scenes, the musical Figure of Death, and the cabaletta in Verdi. Appendices include a discussion of semiotic devices in opera, and the complete correspondence between Verdi and Boito on the revision of Boccanegra printed with the Italian text and English translations.
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 741.6092
Price: $29.95
Review The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King / Trafalgar Square Publishing:
Creator: Steven Trout
Publication date: 2005-07-29
Dewey code: 813.5209358
List Price: $254.00
Price: $253.98
Review American Prose Writers of World War I: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 782.1092
Price: $55.01
Review Wagner (Master Musicians Series) / Oxford University Press:Wagner's magnetic and egoistic personality, his theories on art, on revolution, and racial purity are set against his social and cultural background. In his analysis of the music Barry Millington distils the results of the most modern scholarship, making it available to the general reader.
Publication date: 2007-04
List Price: $19.95
Price: $248.45
Review Why?: Why Did Marvin's Father Shoot and Kill Him?: An Authentic Account as Told to Me by His Sister, Zeola Gaye / Milligan Books:
Publication date: 2002-11-01
Dewey code: 781
List Price: $45.00
Price: $1,000.00
Review England's Hidden Reverse: Coil-Current 93-Nurse With Wound / SAF Publishing Ltd:Birthed in the fall-out from legendary "Industrial" units Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, David Tibet's Current 93, John Balance and Peter Christopherson's Coil and Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound represent the real English underground in all its sexual, cultural, and artistic variety. An individually numbered limited edition, lavishly illustrated with photographs and original artworks, complete with previously unreleased CD, this volume will become a collector's item.
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The Romantic Phenomenon of Jimmy Page, Notable Twentieth-Century Pianists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Bio-Critical Sourcebooks on Musical Performance), Life of Beethoven, Patek Philippe: Complicated Wrist Watches, Profiles In Rock , Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series : An Illustrated Chronicle (Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series), Jewellery of the House of Savoy, Rammstein, Richard Wagner: A Critical Biography, Mozart: The Story of His Life As a Man and Artist, Infamous Chasen's Chili and Three Stories, Harpo Speaks, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature: Aganon-eucken, Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography), Signifier and the Signified: Studies in the Operas of Mozart and Verdi, The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King, American Prose Writers of World War I: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography), Wagner (Master Musicians Series), Why?: Why Did Marvin's Father Shoot and Kill Him?: An Authentic Account as Told to Me by His Sister, Zeola Gaye, England's Hidden Reverse: Coil-Current 93-Nurse With WoundTop headlines: Pinched Americans hit the gym, but seek deals: People squeezed by the economic crisis are still paying for gym memberships and diet centers, but health clubs are having to hold down their fees to keep customers coming in. ›23:59 Can the Youth Vote Save Obama?: With the Hillary juggernaut growing in strength every day, Barack Obama is hoping Iowas youth can help keep him in the game. ›14:47 8 Oct, Mon 'War and Peace': New Versions Worth the Read: 'War and Peace' has been the Everest of literature for more than 150 years. 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