Rise Up Singing
(Vocal). Words, chords and sources to 1200 songs for group singing anywhere, anytime! Includes illustrations and an introduction by Pete Seeger. Songs include: Amazing Grace * Desperado * Let It Be * My Favorite Things * The Rose * hundreds more. Spiral bound.
The Very Best Of Rod Stewart
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 16 of the biggest hits from the long career of this British artist: Da Ya Think I'm Sexy * Downtown Train * Forever Young * Have I Told You Lately * Maggie May * Reason to Believe * Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright) * and more.
Mozart
In a theological study of Mozart's music, Kung discusses the composer's Catholic background--something that, surprisingly, has hardly been treated by scholars--and reveals, among other things, the possibility of a new creative understanding of Mozart's "Coronation Mass," as interpretated by Mozart's music. A provocative study that may even surpass Karl Barth's famous work.
And It Don't Stop
In September 1979, there was a cosmic shift that went unnoticed by the majority of mainstream America. This shift was triggered by the release of the Sugarhill Gang's single, Rapper's Delight. Not only did it usher rap music into the mainstream's consciousness, it brought us the word "hip-hop." And It Don't Stop, edited by the award winning journalist Raquel Cepeda, with a foreword from Nelson George is a collection of the best articles the hip-hop generation has produced. It captures the indelible moments in hip-hop's history since 1979 and will be the centerpiece of the twenty-fifth-anniversary celebration. This book epitomizes the media's response by taking the reader on an engaging and critical journey, including the very first pieces written about hip-hop for publications like The Village Voice--controversial articles that created rifts between church and state, the artist and journalist, and articles that recorded the rise and tragic fall of the art form's appointed heroes, such as Tupac Shakur, Eazy-E, and the Notorious B.I.G. The list of contributors includes Toure, Kevin Powell, dream hampton, Harry Allen, Cheo Hodari Coker, Greg Tate, Bill Adler, Hilton Als, Danyel Smith, and Joan Morgan.
Bad Music
Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!
The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
Several generations before Schubert, the Lied emerged as domestic entertainment destined to move beyond the home to the symphony hall. This introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre analyzes the Lied in its musical, literary, and cultural contexts--with chapters devoted to focal composers; influence of the Lied on other musical genres; use as a musical commodity and issues of performance. The volume includes a chronology and a comprehensive bibliography.
Take a Walk on the Dark Side
Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons. Updating, revising, and expanding on material from his cult classic Hellhounds on Their Trail, Patterson offers up a delectable feast of strange and occasionally frightening rock and roll tales, featuring the ironies associated with the tragic deaths of many rock icons, unsolved murders, and other tales from the "fell clutch of circumstance." Beginning with the fateful place where it all started -- a deserted country crossroads just outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil -- through the Buddy Holly curse (rock and roll's first great tragedy) and beyond, this incredible volume uncovers some of rock and roll's most celebrated murders, twists of fate, and decades-long streaks of bad luck that defy rational explanation. Inside you'll find: Facts about Jimmy Page and the Zeppelin Curse. Chilling quirks of fate in the fatalities in the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Facts about Jimmy Page and the Zeppelin curse Chilling quirks of fate surrounding the deaths of musicians in the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd A provocative look at "The Club," membership in which requires an untimely death at age twenty-seven and whose inductees include Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin Cryptic messages in song lyrics that have proved eerily prophetic Carefully researched, wildly enjoyable, and often harrowing, Take a Walk on the Dark Side takes the reader on a mysterious ride through rock and roll history.
A Tapestry of Tales
(ExpressiveArts). Folk tales come alive with sound and movement in this creative cross-curricular resource perfect for the classroom or on stage. Renowned educator and clinician Cristi Cary Miller provides instructive teaching tips on how to dramatize each of the 8 interactive stories, which are enhanced with musical sound effects played by the students for added color and vision, and a meaningful moral behind each tale for all who participate and listen! A variety of reproducibles are included for ease in preparation and presentation, including the stories and sound effects using picture icons and original songs that accompany the stories, each complete with Orff/piano arrangements. Add a fresh new dimension to your curriculum this year with A TAPESTRY OF TALES. Folk tales as adapted by Jennifer Bennett include: Apple Dumplings (England), Why Bats Fly at Night (African folk legend), The People Who Hugged Trees (India), The River Dragons (China), Turnip Soup (Russia), Spider Stories (Jamaica), The Love of Talwalpin and Kowinka (Australian Aboriginal story), The Raccoon and The Bee Tree (Native American). For Grades 1-6. Available: Musical Story Collection (with reproducible pages).
Christmas Story
(Music Sales America). Schutz composed The Christmas Story towards the end of a long and full life. It was probably first performed on Christmas Day 1660. Scored for soprano, tenor, and bass soloists, choir and orchestra. Edited with a new translation by Neil Jenkins.
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). Contents: Nature, the gentlest mother * There came a wind like a bugle * Why do they shut me out of Heaven? * The world feels dusty * Heart, we will forget him * Dear March, come in! * Sleep is supposed to be * When they come back * I felt a funeral in my brain * I've heard an organ talk sometimes * Going to Heaven! * The Chariot.
Tenor Songs
(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). Contents: A Winter Dedication (Strauss) * Adelaide (Beethoven) * Amarylis (Caccini) * As Ever I Saw (Warlock) * E'en as a Lovely Flower (Bridge) * From Far from Eve and Morning (Vaughan Williams) * I'll Sail Upon the Dog-Star (Purcell) * Is it Bliss (Brahms) * Is She Not Passing Fair? (Elgar) * Love Song (Brahms) * Moonlight (Schumann) * Night is Mournful (Rachmaninoff) * Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Quilter) * On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn) * Reign Here a Queen (Brahms) * Rest Sweet Nymph (Pilkington) * Sigh No More Ladies (Stevens) * Sleep (Gurney) * The Brooklet (Loder) * The Knotting Song (Purcell) * The Secret (Schubert) * Thou'rt Like a Lovely Flower (Schumann) * To Mary (White) * 'Twas April (Tchaikovsky) * Under the Greenwood (Arne) * Where E'er You Walk (Handel) * Whither (Schubert) * Who is Sylvia? (Schubert) * Would You Gain the Tender Creature (Handel) * Ye Verdant Hills (Handel). This edition includes access to online audio recordings of piano accompaniments of each piece.
Alan Jackson Greatest Hits
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This matching folio features 18 super chart-toppers from the second half of the '90s on, presented in chronological order. Includes: The Blues Man * Drive (For Daddy Gene) * Gone Crazy * It Must Be Love * It's Five O'Clock Somewhere * Little Bitty * Pop a Top * Remember When * There Goes * When Somebody Loves You * Where I Come From * Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) * Who's Cheatin' Who * and more.
The Life of Elgar
This new biography of Elgar draws on letters and documents which have become available over the last twenty-five years. Michael Kennedy, a leading scholar of British music as well as a distinguished musical biographer, uses the new material (including Elgar's vast personal correspondence) to analyze the composer's complex personality. Elgar's letters reveal his unpredictable swings of mood, from gaiety and a fondness for puns to morose self-pity and a feeling that he was "not wanted."
Eight Negro Spirituals
(Music Sales America). Arranged for unaccompanied SSA choir by John C. Phillips.
Requiem
(Music Sales America). Faure was not drawn to compose a Requiem because of the death of a loved one, even though his mother had died during the early stages of composition and his father had passed away two years before. Faure's composition does not set his Requiem to the standard liturgical text, instead adding a lyrical Pie Jesu and transcendent Paradisum, and omitting the Dies Irae and Tuba Mirum which, for most composers, are opportunities to demonstrate the dramatic possibilities available with the choral and orchestral forces. As a result the mood of the Requiem is relatively calm and peaceful and often referred to as a lullaby of death . Faure's unconventional composition has become a firm favourite in the repertoire and available here is the vocal score, for soloists and SATB choir with piano accompaniment, as edited by Desmond Ratcliffe.
Performing Russia
Exploring the folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, this book shows how folk 'tradition' in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented.
Wonderful Town
(Vocal Selections). Music from Wonderful Town has been out of print for more than 40 years, so we are very proud to present this new edition of the brilliant musical comedy currently running in an acclaimed Broadway revival! The music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green tell the story of two sisters who move from Ohio to Greenwich Village. After many hardships of adjustment, they find New York to be a "Wonderful Town." The original run of the show opened in 1953 and starred Rosalind Russell, and the Broadway revival, which opened on November 23, 2003, stars Donna Murphy. The cast recording is being released by DRG Records. Our songbook includes 10 songs: Ohio * One Hundred Easy Ways * What a Waste * A Little Bit in Love * Pass That Football * A Quiet Girl * My Darlin' Eileen * Swing * It's Love * The Wrong Note Rag. Features a preface by Comden and Green, and a complete plot synopsis.
Missa Solemnis (Mass in D)
(Music Sales America). Beethoven's magnum opus for SATB soli and chorus, with piano reduction of the orchestral score. Revised by Michael Pilkington
The Seasons
(Music Sales America). Edited with a new English translation by Michael Pilkington. The English translation in this edition is entirely new, and attempts to provide a translation of van Swieten's text that fits Haydn's music. The style used tries to give some flavour of eighteenth-century language while being easily intelligible today, being an eighteenth century work. Arranged for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, SATB and orchestra. English/German edition.
Stabat Mater
(Music Sales America). Dvorak's Stabat Mater is his first setting of a religious text, which was begun in 1876. The work received its first performance in 1880 in Prague. This edition by Michael Pilkington follows the layout of the previous Novello edition for ease of compatibility. Vocal score with piano accompaniment. Text in Latin. Scored for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass Soloists, SATB and Orchestra.
Stravinsky’s Late Music
This book is the first to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period. In the early 1950s, Stravinsky's compositional style began to change and evolve with astonishing rapidity. He abandoned the musical neoclassicism to which he had been committed for the preceding three decades and, with the stimulus provided by his newly gained knowledge of the music of Schoenberg and Webern, launched himself on a remarkable voyage of compositional discovery. The book focuses on five historical, analytical, and interpretive issues: Stravinsky's relationship to his serial predecessors and contemporaries; his compositional process; the problem of creating formal continuity in a repertoire so obviously discontinuous in so many ways; the problem of writing serial harmony; and the problem of expression and meaning. Challenging conventional interpretations, the book shows that Stravinsky's serial music is not only of great historical significance, but also of astonishing structural originality and emotional power.
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity and a sense of possibility into all of your endeavors in this bestselling guide from the author of Pathways to Possibility Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. The authors' harmoniously interwoven perspectives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the Zanders invite us to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world.
Short Cello Pieces
(Music Sales America). A superb collection of short arrangements of well know classical and popular works, by Saint-Saens, Mendelssohn, John Williams, Henry Mancini, Robbie Williams and many others. Include pull-out cello part.
Lorie Line - Home for the Holidays
(Piano Solo Personality). 15 Line arrangements of holiday favorites. Includes: Away in a Manger * Gesu Bambino * I Saw Three Ships * Joy to the World * Silent Night * We Three Kings * What Child Is This * and more.
Nelson Mass
(Music Sales America). Haydn composed six settings of the Mass text for the name day of Princess Maria Josepha Hemengild Esterhazy. The Nelson Mass is the third of these, written between 10 July and 31 August 1798. Scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, SATB chorus, organ and orchestra. This is the revised edition by Michael Pilkington. The text is in Latin with an introduction in English.
Ode on St Cecilia’s Day 1692
(Music Sales America). For SAATBB soli, SSAATB chorus and instruments. Edited by Peter Dennison. This vocal score includes a piano reduction of the instrumental score.
Petrie’s Complete Irish Music
Edward Bunting fell into his destiny when, at the age of 19, he was commissioned to write down the tunes performed at a gathering of traditional harp players in Belfast in July 1792. This assignment marked the beginning of a 100-year process of enormous importance: the preservation of a country's music, which otherwise might be lost forever. In time, Bunting passed the torch to apprentice George Petrie who, in turn, became instrumental in founding the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland, which published Petrie's first collection in 1855. Petrie's daughter subsequently entrusted the much-honored Sir Charles Stanford with three bound volumes of her father's work, leading to the ultimate compilation, published in 1905, of 1,582 traditional melodies -- the musical wealth of a nation.
Blues Scatitudes
(Music Sales America). Vocal improvisations on the blues from Bob Stoloff author of Scat: Vocal Improvisation Techniques . Focuses on blues solos in a variety of contemporary grooves and covers accents, ties and syllable articulation. Includes audio with 51 tracks of rhythm tracks for vocalists and instrumentalists. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Finding Home - the Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon
(P/V/G Composer Collection). Ricky Ian Gordon has been called "one of the leading younger composers of songs" by The New York Times . He has written for the concert hall, opera, dance, theater and film. His works have been performed by world-renowned singers and have won numerous accolades and awards. This folio presents 21 of his finest, along with a biography of Gordon's prestigious career and his own background notes for each piece. Titles include: Heaven * Blessing the Boats * Poor Girl's Ruination/The Dream Keeper * Run Away * Otherwise * Summer * Love Song for Lucinda * Open All Night * Just an Ordinary Guy * My Mother Is a Singer * Bus Stop * Home of the Brave * and more.
A Patriot's Handbook: Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love
Caroline Kennedy shares an inspiring collection of patriotic poems, song lyrics, historical documents, and speeches.The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a blockbuster success, remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for 15 weeks with more than 500,000 copies in print. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares with readers an assortment of her own favorite American writings. The works collected here--which span centuries and styles--have one thing in common: all are emblematic of our country's patriotism and pride. Caroline Kennedy researched all of the selections included in A Patriot's Handbook, wrote the introduction, and added personal commentary to each section. This elegantly packaged collection is the perfect gift for anyone in search of a reminder of what our country's spirit is made of. "Over the past year we have all thought about what it means to be an American. I realized that I want my own children to know more about the ideals upon which this country was founded and the sacrifices that have been made to pass them on to us. This book is intended to help families explore the foundations of our freedom and to celebrate our heritage." (Caroline Kennedy)
The Bill Evans Trio
(Artist Transcriptions). Note-for-note piano, bass and drum transcriptions of eight great tunes performed by the formidable trio of Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. Includes: Alice in Wonderland * Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) * How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky) * Nardis * Peri's Scope * Solar * Waltz for Debby * When I Fall in Love.
Philip Glass
(Music Sales America). A collection of Glass's solo piano music, including "Metamorphoses One to Five" collected together for the first time. Suitable for intermediate to advanced pianists. Contents: Metamorphosis 1-5 * Mad Rush * Wichita Vortex Sutra
When Surface Was Depth
He's the only person to whom The Velvet Underground ever played as an audience of one, the first British writer to talk to Patti Smith after her seventeen-year hiatus from rock. One reviewer hailed his previous book England is Mine as "surely the strangest and most beautiful book on pop music ever written." Greil Marcus said that even the "merely superb" passages of that book read like "intellectual sunrises," calling the work "intoxicated and intoxicating." The author in question is Michael Bracewell, celebrated surveyor of the punk and rock scenes. Now, through funny, engaging, and occasionally devastating essays about his experience in the thick of the music scene of the 1990s, Bracewell tackles a decade where Greed became disguised as Attitude, where a "cozy, urban feelgood fable" replaced punk, and where the role of anxiety, so intrinsic to the culture and music of the 1980s, was swapped for a shallow "I feel your pain" sensibility. Read When Surface Was Depth and discover why Time Out has called Michael Bracewell, in a word, "terrific."
Four Musical Minimalists
This book offers the most detailed account so far of the early works of these four minimalist composers, putting extensive discussion of the music into a biographical perspective. The true musical minimalism of the 1960s and early 1970s is placed in the wider context of their music as a whole, and considered within the cultural conditions of the period, which saw not only the rise of minimalism in the fine arts but also crucial changes in the theory and practice of musical composition in the Western cultivated tradition.
Black Radio ... Winner Takes All
Black-oriented radio emerged after World War II. Full time programming from sun-up to sun-down; blues, spirituals, rhythm and blues replaced jazz as the primary form of music. These improvising "street rapping" Disc Jockeys dominated the airwaves. Welcome to Black Radio...Winner Takes All!
Teaching Little Fingers to Play More Christmas Carols, Mid-elementary Level
(Willis). Titles include: Away in a Manger * Deck the Hall * It Came Upon a Midnight Clear * Jingle Bells * Jolly Old St. Nicholas * Joy to the World * O Christmas Tree.
The New York Schools of Music and Visual Arts
Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity. This exchange climaxed just after World War II, when a group of New York-based musicians, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and David Tudor, formed friendships with a group of painters. The latter group, now known collectively as either the New York School or the Abstract Expressionists, included Jackson Pollock, Willem deKooning, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Phillip Guston, and William Baziotes. The group also included a younger generation of artists-particularly Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns-that stood somewhat apart from the Abstract Expressionists. This group of painters created what is arguably the first significant American movement in the visual arts. Inspired by the artists, the New York School composers accomplished a similar feat. By the beginning of the 1960s, the New York Schools of art and music had assumed a position of leadership in the world of art. For anyone interested in the development of 20th century art, music, and culture, The New York Schools of Music and Art will make for illuminating reading.
Les Plus Grandes Chansons de Disney - 31 Chansons Classiques
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 31 Disney classics translated to French lyrics with arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords. Songs include: The Ballad of Davy Crockett * Beauty and the Beast * Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Circle of Life * Colors of the Wind * Hakuna Matata * Part of Your World * Under the Sea * A Whole New World * Winnie the Pooh * You'll Be in My Heart * You've Got a Friend in Me * and more.
Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll
Completely updated with new entries and extensive revisions of the previous 1,800, The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll is the authoritative volume on the world's music makers--from the one-hit wonders to the megastars. In 1983, Rolling Stone Press introduced its first Rock & Roll Encyclopedia. Almost two decades later, it has become the premier guide to the history of rock & roll, and has been selected by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum as its official source of information. Giving full coverage to all aspects of the rock scene, it tells the story of rock & roll in a clear and easy reference format, including complete discographies, personnel changes for every band, and backstage information like date and place of birth, from Elvis Presley to Eminem. Since the last edition, the music scene has exploded in every area, from boy-bands to hip-hop, electronica to indie rock. Here, the Encyclopedia explores them all--'NSync, Notorious B.I.G., Ricky Martin, Radiohead, Britney Spears, Blink-182, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Portishead, Fatboy Slim, Fiona Apple, Lil' Kim, Limp Bizkit, Oasis, Outkast, Yo La Tengo, TLC, and many, many more. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Third Edition includes all the facts, phenomena, and flukes that make up the history of rock. Accompanying the biographical and discographical information on the nearly 2,000 artists included in this edition are incisive essays that reveal the performers' musical influences, first breaks, and critical and commercial hits and misses, as well as evaluations of their place in rock history. Filled with hundreds of historical photos, The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia is more than just a reference book, it is the bible of rock & roll.
Fontane Di Roma, Pini Di Roma, Feste Romane
A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of S words that reveal a spectacular story! With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The S Files is a children's Christmas musical your kids will love performing.
World of Swing
Now available for a new generation of swing enthusiasts, reissued to coincide with the release of "The World of Swing" CD from Columbia/Legacy, this monumental history of big band jazz, documented through interviews with forty leading musicians, has been updated with a new introduction and discography by Dan Morgenstern.
