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Books > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti
A valuable assortment of teacher/student duets in their original
form written by teachers and composers during the 18th and 19th
centuries. Arranged in order of difficulty, the student parts are
limited to a single five-finger position and fall primarily within
the grand staff reading range. Each book includes works by such
composers as Diabelli, Gurlitt, Bercucci, Wohlfahrt, Berens and
others.
From one of the United Kingdom's most prominent music critics, a
page-turning and wonderfully researched history of 33 songs that
have transformed the world through the twentieth century and
beyond.
When pop music meets politics, the results are often thrilling,
sometimes life-changing, and never simple. The protest songs of
such great artists as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, U2,
Public Enemy, Fela Kuti, R.E.M., Rage Against the Machine, and the
Clash represent pop music at its most charged and relevant,
providing the soundtrack and informing social change since the
1930s. They capture the attention and passions of listeners, force
their way into the news, and make their presence felt from the
streets to the corridors of power.
33 Revolutions Per Minute is a history of protest music embodied
in 33 songs that span seven decades and four continents, from
Billie Holiday crooning "Strange Fruit" before a shocked audience
to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young paying tribute to the Vietnam
protesters killed at Kent State in "Ohio," to Green Day railing
against President Bush and twenty-first-century media in "American
Idiot." With the aid of exclusive new interviews, Dorian Lynskey
explores the individuals, ideas, and events behind each song. This
expansive survey examines how music has engaged with racial unrest,
nuclear paranoia, apartheid, war, poverty, and oppression, offering
hope, stirring anger, inciting action, and producing songs that
continue to resonate years down the line, sometimes at great cost
to the musicians involved.
For the audience who embraced Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise, Bob
Dylan's Chronicles, or Simon Reynolds's Rip It Up and Start Again,
33 Revolutions Per Minute is an absorbing and moving account of 33
songs that made history.
Pianists of all ages and abilities will enjoy brightening the
season with these great arrangements by acclaimed arranger Dan
Coates. In this collection, 40 of the world's most beloved
Christmas songs are made fun and easy to play, while retaining a
full and impressive sound. Titles: Away in a Manger * Believe (from
The Polar Express) * Blue Christmas * The Christmas Waltz * Deck
the Hall * Fel?z Navidad * The First No?l * Frosty the Snowman *
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Good King Wenceslas * Grandma Got
Run Over by a Reindeer * Happy Xmas (War Is Over) * Hark The Herald
Angels Sing * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * I'll Be Home
for Christmas * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * It's the Most
Wonderful Time of the Year * Jingle Bell Rock * Jingle Bells * Joy
to the World * Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow * The Little
Drummer Boy * Nuttin' for Christmas * O Christmas Tree (O
Tannenbaum) * O Come, All Ye Faithful * O Come, O Come, Emmanuel *
O Holy Night * O Little Town of Bethlehem * Rockin' Around the
Christmas Tree * Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Santa Baby *
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silent Night * Sleigh Ride * The
Twelve Days of Christmas * Ukranian Bell Carol * Up on the Housetop
* We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Winter Wonderland * You're a Mean
One, Mr. Grinch.
This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and
contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a
particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla
(1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir
singers. The author shows how songs, if examined as 'sacred
scriptures', represent multi-dimensional texts for the study of
South Asian religions. Revealing how previous studies about Bauls
mirror the history of folkloristics in Bengal, this book presents
sacred songs as a precious symbolic capital for a marginalized
community of dislocated and unorthodox Hindus, who consider the
practice of singing in itself an integral part of the path towards
self-realization.
The romantic musical comedy-drama film La La Land is the winner of
six Oscars, seven Golden Globes and five BAFTAs. This
artist-approved selection of 10 songs from the Oscar-winning music
by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul has been expertly
arranged for intermediate solo piano, including the Oscar winning
City of Stars.
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