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209 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
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English
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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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xxix, 594 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plates, musics ; 25 cm
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English
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The life of a beloved American composer reflected through his music, writings, and letters.
"Gershwin blossomed as an accompanist before his talent as a songwriter opened the way to Broadway. He composed a long run of musical comedies, many with his brother Ira as lyricist, but his aspirations reached beyond commercial success. In 1924 -- at just twenty-five -- his first instrumental composition, Rhapsody in Blue, was an instant classic premiered...
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xvi, 810 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart's singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends...
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xii, 658 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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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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686 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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"A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of figures like Serge Koussevitzky and Marian Anderson. Barber's works have since became standard in concert repertoire and continue to flourish across high art and popular culture. Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack (George Gershwin, Aaron Copland) offers a multifaceted account of Barber's...
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204 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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The dramatic story of a legendary American composer focusing on his private life through the use of fresh sources.
From the Publisher: George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself-no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father. Older brother and lyricist Ira managed to create a...
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viii, 277 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"The 1980s New Wave star-turned-Silicon Valley entrepreneur traces his disadvantaged early years in a London bedsit, creation of the breakout hit "She Blinded Me With Science" and role in pioneering the use of MP3s in cellphones"--NoveList.
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219 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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When Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died of cholera in 1893, he was Russia's most celebrated composer and a musical celebrity worldwide. From his popular ballets and operas, such as Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin, to his acclaimed orchestral works, he left an indelible impression on classical music. Drawing extensively on the composer's uncensored letters and diaries, this critical biography explores Tchaikovsky's central place within the artistic culture...
92) 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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228 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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.
99) 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.
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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...
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