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Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis brings together a wide range of perspectives of amateur and professional artists, art educators, and scholars who endeavor to be "artivists" for change.

First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, the Grove Book of Operas, is a collection of synopses and descriptions of over 250 operas. Each succinct yet insightful entry is written by a leading authority on the opera and includes a full synopsis of the plot, a cast list, a note on the singers in the original production, and information on the origins of the work and its literary and social background. Contributions conclude with a briefcomment on the particular work's place in operatic history. A glossary offers brief and accessible definitions of terms that may be unfamiliar to the reader. And indices of role names and of arias and ensembles allow the reader to find operas containing their favorite aria or a well-known character.The second edition brings the book up to date with several recently composed operas and a fascinating introductory essay by David Levin on opera performance in the 21st century. Recent additions to the operatic repertory included for the first time in this edition include Nicholas Maw, Sophie's Choice; Poul Ruders, A Handmaid's Tale; John Adams, Death of Klinghoffer; and Mark Adamo, Little Women.

Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world. Fully updated to include material from The Beatles Live at the BBC and the Anthology series, this acclaimed book goes back to the heart of The Beatles - their records.

Hank Marvin's unique guitar style has been an inspiration to several generations of guitarists worldwide, with instantly recognisable recordings such as "Apache", "FBI" and "Wonderful Land". This guitar workshop offers a learning tool that helps to extend the stockpile of licks and fills and develop improvisational skills.

Suitable for instrumental and singing teachers, this handbook offers creative solutions to the challenges faced in music education. It outlines strategy of 'Simultaneous Learning': a method that encourages the development of musical insight by making connections between various aspects of musicianship.

One of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male and turned it on its head. This book explores the album's creation as well as the impact it had on the author at that time - a 17-year-old high-school geek who was into hip-hop, punk, skateboarding, and Dungeons & Dragons.

Celtic Woman is the angelic female Irish vocal ensemble. The biggest thing to come out of Ireland since 'Riverdance', their signature sound has captured the hearts of audiences around the world with a series of chart-topping albums. This songbook features twenty-eight of the greatest songs and instrumentals performed by Celtic Woman, from contemporary hits, classical favourites and Irish standards arranged for piano, voice and guitar.

McElheran believes that an experienced conductor is one in whom detection, diagnosis, and remedy of a problem take place simultaneously. This book gives valuable hints about these three basic conductorial functions from the viewpoint of chorus and orchestra alike. McElheran leads the student toward mastery of the problems at hand, with firmness and gentle humour.

Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, the author was one of the hardest to label. She recorded extensively in soul, jazz, and pop and was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. She has subsequently been labelled as a 'soul' singer in terms of emotion, rather than form.

A songbook which contains 50 of the author's best songs for piano and voice with guitar chords.

A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian gymnopediste of fin-de-siecle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as The Velvet Gentleman for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie was nearly unprecedented in technique, style and philosophy among European composers in the early twentieth century. This book tells his story.

The Diaries chart the author's swings of fortune, the loneliness of the emigre, his encounters with a luminous range of personalities from music, theatre, art and literature, and the search for love and friendship, all cast in the burnished prose of a born master, not just of music, but of words.

Offers the best of the grade 2 pieces selected by the major examination boards. This book also provides quality music that is suitable as a sight-reading resource for advanced students.

1000 SONGWRITING IDEAS

Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure--figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy--and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they''re worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.

Documents the history, repertoire, and the discography of the euphonium. This title is suitable for music educators, composers/arrangers, instrument historians, performers on other instruments, and students of the euphonium (baritone horn and tenor tuba).

A collection of 24 jazz standards arranged for intermediate level piano solo.

Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B B King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Capturing the extraordinary life and times of one of the great musicians of the twentieth century, this work offers a portrait of this great guitarist.

Selected and edited by Paul Harris and Sally Adams and covering a broad selection of 19th century study repertory, including Baermann, Berr, Demnitz and many others. This book contains exercises 55 to 76, with the earlier pieces to be found in Book 1. The pieces are selected from the historical repertoire to present playing challenges and new techniques in a specific musical context, arranged in progressive order of difficulty.

A passionate, critically incisive biography of one of the most influential rappers of all time, Tupac Shakur, and how he came to dominate hip-hop in the 1990s

Contains three companion sets of trading cards - Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music - in book form. This work provides the biography of each musician, along with a full colour original illustration.

The classic biography which explores the shocking drama of Kurt Cobain's troubled life

From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and this relationship has fascinated generations. This new in paperback edition of diverse, comprehensive and fully-illustrated papers, authored by leading scholars, links the two fields in a lucid manner that is suitable for students of each subject as well as the general reader.

From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast and became, seemingly overnight, the prince of 'cool' jazz - until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth.

The publication of Feel: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath in September 2004 caused shockwaves of controversy and delight. Written by Chris Heath, who spent nearly two years working with Robbie on this book, every word is imbued with Robbie's humour, charisma, talent, memories and complexity.

But Miles regularly changed styles, leaving his inimitable impact on many forms of jazz, whether he created them or simply developed the work of others, from modal jazz to be-bop, his seminal quintet and his big-band work, to the jazz funk experiments of later years.

This volume offers a foundation course for use by students and teachers. You start at the beginning and advance to the point where you can harmonize and play satisfactory piano accompaniments to familiar tunes.

Julian Cope's highly acclaimed autobiography and its long-awaited sequel in one extraordinary volume.

Punk has been romanticised and embalmed by the media. A youth revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols and Johnny Rotten was its sneering antichrist. Rotten is a history of punk: angry, witty, poignant and crackling with energy. Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, the 1970s, the Pistols' story are all here, in one of the best books ever written about youth culture, by one of its most notorious figures.