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81) Beethoven
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xvi, 438 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm.
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English
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209 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
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Over the Rainbow, "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him "the best of us." Irving Berlin agreed. Paul McCartney sent him a fan letter and became his publisher. Bob Dylan wrote of his fascination with Arlen's "bittersweet, lonely world." A cantor's son, Arlen believed...
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xii, 658 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F sharp major; yet, for the first half of the twentieth century he was America's most successful and most representative songwriter, composing such hits as "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Cheek to Cheek," "Let's Face the Music and Dance," "Puttin' on the Ritz," "White Christmas," "Anything You Can Do," "There's No Business Like Show Business," and...
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228 pages ; 22 cm
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When three noisy, mischievous rising stars of a British boy band come to Los Angeles to make their first album, they stay in the home of a record producer and her seventh-grade daughter, a talented but painfully shy singer-songwriter, urged by her best friend to step into the spotlight.
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"Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world's preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern's help authenticating a newly discovered piece, which may be his famous lost opera, RED,...
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xii, 274 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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We think we know the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life. Austrian-born to a tyrannical father who worked him fiercely; unhappily married to a spendthrift woman; a child-like character ill at ease amid the aristocratic splendor of the Viennese court; a musical genius who died young thus depriving the world of future glories. Yet only that last point is actually true. In this comprehensive biography, John Suchet examines the many myths and misunderstandings...
90) Putney: a novel
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370 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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An inappropriate bond between the preadolescent daughter of a famous novelist and a rising 1970s London composer twenty years her senior intensifies into a predatory affair, in a tale told from three perspectives.
92) Aaron Copland
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34 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Clever illustrations and story lines give children a light yet realistic overview of this composer's life and style and music" -- Amazon.com.
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32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Tells the life story of composer John Philip Sousa, describing his childhood in Washington, D.C., his experiences leading the U.S. Marine Band and his own Sousa Band, and his music's legacy in the U.S.
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336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
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"A frank personal account by the Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter traces the story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her formative relationships to her collaborations with some of today's leading composers and music artists"--NoveList.
97) Letters
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256 pages ; 17 cm.
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A collection of letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart throughout his life that describe the people he met, the places he visited, and the things he saw.
98) Becoming Bach
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Highlights the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century German composer and musician, and examines the development of his most important compositions.
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x, 285 pages ; 21 cm.
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Just before his death, Sanford Friedman completed this, his final novel, something entirely different from anything he, or for that matter anyone, had written before - Conversations with Beethoven, a moving meditation on greatness and pettiness, vulnerability and genius, that is as elegiac as it is witty and engaging.
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For the first time, Ethan Mordden chronicles the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in "Love Song", a dual biography that unfolds against the background of the tumultous twentieth century, scored to music from Weil's greatest triumphs: "Knickerbocker Holiday", "Lost in the Stars", "Lady in the Dark", "Happy End", "One Touch of Venus" and "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny". The romance of Weill, the Jewish cantor's son, and Lenya, the...
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