Authors
- Buddy Guy
- Donald E. Wilcock
Review Damn Right I'Ve Got the Blues / Woodford Publishing:This album-matching folio features authentic transcriptions, along with a number of black and white photos. Titles include: Five Long Years * Mustang Sally * There Is Something on Your Mind * Early in the Mornin' * Too Broke to Spend the Night * Let Me Love You Baby * Rememberin' Stevie and more.
Publication date: 1986-04-30
Dewey code: 821.4
Price: $39.50
Review John Dryden (British and Irish Authors) / Cambridge University Press:Dryden has sometimes been regarded as a writer narrowly of his period, a Restoration satirist whose work is largely concerned with the personalities, debates, and tastes of his own age. In this new study David -Hopkins shows him to be both a man of his time and a writer for all times - a great philosophical poet, the author of penetrating and exhilarating verse of general and permanent interest about love, the natural world, and the laws and principles which constrain, afflict, or ennoble human life. Dr Hopkins also analyses the personal, commercial, political, literary, and religious influences on his writing, and discusses in detail his major poetry, prose, and drama - paying special attention to the often neglected verse translations of his old age.
Creator: Manfred Heiting
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 770.92
List Price: $40.00
Price: $137.85
Review Man Ray / Taschen:Man Ray was one of this century's great experimenters; his photographs, Rayographs and solarizations form many of the most original images to be produced in the first half of the 20th century. A notable chronicler of the international avant-garde, Man Ray's portraits included those of Nancy Cunard, Lee Miller, Yves Tanguy and Marcel Duchamp. Many of his nude studies and still lives have now become iconic images in their own right. This monograph reveals some previously unpublished photographs, including various erotic compositions. It shows not only finished photographs but also Man Ray's working processes - crops, background manipulation and together methods. The text, which features essays by a team of international specialists, focuses on Man Ray's career as a photographer, his methods of invention and his unique treatment of Surrealism.
Publication date: 2007-08-03
Dewey code: 941.007202
List Price: $254.00
Price: $164.50
Review Eighteenth-Century British Historians (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1997-04
Dewey code: 780
Price: $18.00
Review Gyorgy Ligeti: Contemporary Composer (Contemporary Composers) / Robson Books:A revised paperback edition of a biography of Gyorgy Ligeti in the CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS series, published to tie-in with a festival of Ligeti's work in Britain and Europe.
Authors
- Philip Olleson
- Michael Kassler
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $144.95
Price: $138.92
Review Samuel Wesley 1766-1837: A Source Book / Ashgate Publishing:Hailed as a child prodigy and later acclaimed as England's finest extempore organist, Samuel Wesley - son of Charles Wesley and nephew of John Wesley, the founders of Methodism - is best known today for his musical compositions and for his promotion of the music of J. S. Bach. At the heart of this source book is a calendar of Samuel Wesley's correspondence. The editors date and summarize the content of over 1100 surviving letters and other documents, most of which have not previously been published. The book accordingly reveals considerable new information about Wesley and his complex personal affairs, including his incarceration for debt and his confinement in a lunatic asylum for a year. Many details are provided about London musical life in the era from Boyce to Mendelssohn that prior scholars have not taken into account. The book also presents a chronology of Wesley's life, a descriptive list of his nearly 550 musical and literary works, a discography, an iconography and a bibliography. It is therefore intended to be the most comprehensive available reference source for Wesley's life, times and music.
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2005-04-21
Dewey code: 782.421660922
List Price: $36.99
Price: $370.10
Review The Kiss Album Focus (3rd Edition) Vol.1 / Xlibris Corporation:Originally debuting as a feature on the KISS Asylum website the "KISS Album Focus" work was compiled into book format and privately published in two editions in 2002. Delving into the history of the "Hottest Band In The Land," the work seeks to provide an objective biography supported by comments band members have made during the past 30+ years. Since initial publication the work has grown so large it has had to be split into three volumes. The work has been reviewed in numerous magazines and fanzines, and some sections of the work have been translated into Spanish and Russian.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-07-14
Dewey code: 944.06092
List Price: $150.00
Price: $149.98
Review Benjamin Constant: A Biography / Routledge:During his lifetime, Benjamin Constant was known as a political theorist, a courageous defender of liberal causes and a notable historian of the religious experience of mankind. Through his journals, autobiographical works and correspondence-documents mostly unknown by his contemporaries-subsequent generations have discoverd in Constant a fascinating and highly complex personality. In recent decades, a number of private archives have become accessible to scholars for the first time, and this has brought to light important documents by and about Constant. Drawing on these sources, many unpublished, Dennis Wood offers a fresh assessment of the writer and the man. He closely relates the development of Constant's political thought and passionate interest in the history of religion to his work as a novelist and self-analyst. Benjamin Constant draws together the considerable findings of modern scholarship, presenting a lively and sympathetic portrait of `the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy' (Sir Isaiah Berlin).
Authors
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Hannes Wallrafen
Price: $30.00
Review Una Jornada En Macondo / Villegas Editores:
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 782.0092396073
List Price: $139.95
Price: $139.95
Review Autobiographical Reminiscences of African-american Classical Singers, 1853 - Present: Introducing Their Spiritual Heritage into the Concert Repertoire / Edwin Mellen Press:This comprehensive book of autobiographical writings, interviews, and articles reveals the thoughts and lives of African-American musicians, examining their place in musical performance and their role in introducing the Negro spiritual into the classical repertoire. The list of individuals this study looks at includes Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers, and Sissieretta Jones in the 19th century, early pioneers of the 20th century - E. Azaliah Hackley, Julius Bledsoe, Eva Jessye and Roland Hayes-their successors Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Todd Duncan, Camilla Williams and Dorothy Maynor-followed in the later 20th and early 21st centuries by Leontyne Price, William Warfield, George Shirley, Shirley Verrett, Grace Bumbry, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Vinson Cole, Mark S. Doss and Denyce Graves.
Creator: Colin Westerbeck
Publication date: 2007-02-28
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $40.00
Price: $136.99
Review Irving Penn: A Career in Photography / Art Institute of Chicago:Now available in paperbackIrving Penn’s photographs have become iconic documents of an era––from his fashion and commercial editorials to his series of nudes and portraits of artists, musicians, writers, celebrities, and tribesmen of New Guinea, Peru, and Morocco. Originally published in 1997 to accompany an exhibition celebrating the Irving Penn Collection and Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago, this book examines Penn’s remarkable and wide-ranging career and his uncompromising artistic vision. With nearly 200 captivating photographs that span the entire scope of his artistic production––including poetic portraits of Cecil Beaton, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Elsa Schiaparelli, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Truman Capote––the book features essays by distinguished scholars and reflections by individuals who have known him well or collaborated with him. They also discuss Penn's particular genius for demonstrating how a profound and humane art can be created at the center of a society increasingly dominated by and enthralled with mass media.
Publication date: 2001-03-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $50.00
Price: $173.86
Review BEN NICHOLSON / John Murray Publishers:A biography of Ben Nicholson (1894-1982), a leading light of the British modern movement. Instrumental in forging a bridge between retrogade London and members of the Paris avant-garde of the 30s, including Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, Naum Gabo and Kandinsky, he was also the creator of one of the rich decade's most famous icons, his white reliefs. This book shows how Nicholson's personality contrasted strongly with the austere image progected by both himself and his critics. His was a Peter Pan character, obsessed with ball games and word play, a dandy whose life entailed a succession of triangular relationships in which he either strung along two women or dallied with other men's wives.
Creator: Ken Brooks
Publication date: 1997-05
Dewey code: 781
Price: $12.40
Review Once He Was - The Tim Buckley Story (Listener's Companion) / Agenda Ltd:
Authors
- Hellmut Wohl
- Giovan Pietro Bellori
Edition: Tra
Publication date: 2005-11-21
Dewey code: 709.22
List Price: $147.00
Price: $139.89
Review Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition / Cambridge University Press:Including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, this first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists by Giovan Pietro Bellori will be a fundamental source of seventeenth-century Italian art and artistic theory. With detailed descriptions of extant and lost works of art, the importance of Bellori's Lives of the Artists lies in the scrupulous documentation of the artists (many of whom he knew personally) which includes detailed descriptions of their works as well as his exposition of the classic theory of art.
Creator: Juan Valverde
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 930
List Price: $137.50
Price: $137.50
Review Genesius Sepulveda Cordubensis, Epistolarum libri septum / K.G. SAUR VERLAG:This epistolary autobiography provides the reader with details on Sepúlveda's relations with well-known scholars of his day (Erasmus, Alfonso and Juan de Vald&eacue;s, Gaspare Contarini, Gian-Matteo Giberti, Alberto Pio, Juan Martínez Siliceo, Reginald Pole and many more); his work both as chronicler to Emperor Charles V and translator of Aristotle; his discussions with Bartolomé de las Casas on the conquest of America; and insights into the author's aspirations, sorrows and joys of daily life. This is the first critical edition of Sepúlveda's letters to take surviving manuscripts into consideration.
Publication date: 1993-01
Price: $29.95
Review Elvis Memories: Press Between the Pages / Propwash:
Publication date: 2001-10
Review Miles Davis/John Coltrane: The Good, the Bad...and the Experimental / Owlet Press:
Creator: Roger Nichols
Publication date: 1991-04-26
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $190.00
Price: $150.00
Review Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life / Cambridge University Press:Jean-Michel Nectoux's important new biography of Gabriel Fauré is the most comprehensive study yet of this central figure of fin de siecle France. It traces the composer's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked: the world also of Saint-Saens, Flaubert, Verlaine, Ravel, Debussy and Proust. A large part of the book considers Faure's music, with particular emphasis on his adjustment to the musical language of the twentieth century and the formation of his late style. Works in all genres are discussed in detail. The book is the fruit of over twenty years' research by Nectoux, the foremost authority on Gabriel Fauré. He has read more than 5000 previously unpublished letters and has unearthed more than 120 musical manuscripts in the process of writing this definitive study. The text is richly illustrated with rare photographs from Fauré's lifetime and contains an extended chronology of the composer's life, a complete chronological listing of all his own works and a detailed bibliography.
Publication date: 2006-11-06
Review Dylan Inspirations / Pocket Books:
Creator: Glenda Dawn Goss
Publication date: 1996-12-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $138.95
Price: $138.95
Review The Sibelius Companion / Greenwood Press:The Sibelius Companion represents in its collected chapters the most advanced research in the field of Sibelius studies today. Since mid-century, so much new information has come to light that our understanding of both the man and his music has changed profoundly. These changes are fully represented in the present volume. Some of the topics examined, particularly the vocal music, including Luonnotar, which is here given a brilliant and provocative analysis, have previously been neglected. Other chapters deal with more familiar works, such as the Second and the Seventh Symphonies, which are approached in the light of recent scholarship and fresh perspective. Readers will find new light on Sibelius's biography, the first English-language investigation ever done of Sibelius and Karelianism, pioneering sketch studies, new analytical methods for understanding the music, studies in reception history, an assessment of the state of Sibelious research with a rich bibliography, the most complete chronological catalogue of works available, and a full "Register of Names" that identifies in considerable detail over 100 individuals and organizations important in Sibelius's creative life. Written in an accessible style, newly researched and fully documented, The Sibelius Companion will interest scholars, students, and music enthusiasts alike.
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