Peter Benjaminson 
Mary Wells [PDF ebook] 
The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar

 With their complex textures, rich harmonies, and elaborate use of leitmotifs, the operas of German composer Richard Wagner (1813–83) remain some of the most influential—and contentious—in the h …

First published in 2006. The social history of music first makes an appearance—even if only sporadically—in treatises which during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave some account of the ma …

The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a unique guide for all musicians, providing a practical, informative approach to being a successful and comfortable performer. Perfect as an introduction to t …

Pavane pour une infante défunte by French Composer Maurice Ravel for Easy Intemediate Piano A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead …

The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies o …

In the writings of Nicola Vicentino (1555) and Gioseffo Zarlino (1558) is found, for the first time, a systematic means of explaining music»s expressive power based upon the specific melodic and har …

Barbara Lebrun traces the evolution of »protest» music in France since 1981, exploring the contradictions that emerge when artists who take their musical production and political commitment »serio …

Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that r …

What do pop songs have to say about love? Surprisingly, this book shows that most popular love songs express much more about alienation, infatuation, estrangement, jealousy, and heartbreak than about …

This study is the first to consider all three of Rachmaninoff»s careers in detail. After surveying his place in Russian musical history and his creative activity, the author examines, with musical e …