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1) Open book
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Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining. This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood...
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A legendary record producer and performer takes readers on an alphabetical journey of insights into the music of the Beatles and individual reminiscences of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Peter Asher met the Beatles in the spring of 1963, the start of a lifelong association with the band and its members. He had a front-row seat as they elevated pop music into an art form, and he was present at the creation of some of the most iconic music of our times....
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Joel Plaskett has earned an awful lot of honourifics in his career so far, counting folk hero, indie darling, and national treasure among them. And that's just since the Halifax musician started making records of his own in 1999. For a decade before that, he was one-quarter of Thrush Hermit, a band of scrappy Superchunk mimics who became hard-rock revivalists and one of the last survivors of the '90s pop "explosion" of major-label interest in Halifax....
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A smart, gritty examination of the lives of touring musicians
Here Goes Nothing, Eamon McGrath's brave second offering and follow-up to 2017's widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, once again explores the world of touring musicians - but this time McGrath expands his scope and perspective from the inner dialogue of a traveling songwriter into the wider range of a multi-member touring band.
Told in two interwoven narratives that blur the lines...
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In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director in the history of the American theater (22 Tony Awards and counting), looks back over his 70-year (and counting!) career. Featuring original material from Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre, Prince provides a fresh, new perspective on his writing from the vantage point of today. Sense of Occasion gives an insider's recollection...
6) Les récits cachés de Richard Wagner: Art poétique, rêve et sexualité du Vaisseau fantme à Parsifal
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Les dix opéras de Wagner inscrits au répertoire mettent en musique des légendes médiévales et des mythes germaniques ou scandinaves: de la trahison de Lohengrin à l'hymne à l'amour que chante Tristan à Isolde, en passant par l'engloutissement des dieux dans la Tétralogie et la rédemption de Parsifal. Mais le défenseur de « l'œuvre d'art de l'avenir » est également très préoccupé des principes poétiques qui gouvernent leur création....
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Ferdinand Ries is a composer who is best known for writing a book about Beethoven; but during his lifetime Ries was regarded as one of the finest composers and piano virtuosi in Europe. Ries's father was one of Beethoven's most important teachers in Bonn, and Beethoven later gave Ries piano lessons in Vienna. Ries composed with great success in a range of genres, including several that Beethoven had made his own: the symphony, concerto, string quartet...
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Primer libro didáctico relativo al Book Scoring, el innovador sector para compositores que transforma las novelas en álbumes originales de bandas sonoras (original soundtrack álbum).
Giuseppe Centonze, compositor, productor e ingeniero de sonido de la compañía Age Of Chronicles Music Productions, ha escrito y desarrollado este libro a petición de varios compositores absortos a emprender un recorrido en este nuevo sector.
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The gentlest, the most loving, the most tormented of men, Robert Schumann gave to the world some of its richest and most individual music. There was scarcely a genre he didn't touch, and none in which he didn't leave something beautiful, memorable, or original. Best known for his piano music, his songs, his chamber works and his symphonies, he was also an epoch-making essayist and critic, who managed at a stroke, and almost single-handedly, to put...
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In the Game: Music and Multiple Sclerosis begins with the author's story of his rise and success in the music profession. Described as "being in the game," he lays out his method for success in one of the most difficult professions in America. Following a quick rise as a professional musician, he explains the first moment a strange malady is discovered while trying to jog, through to an eventual diagnosis of primary progressive multiple sclerosis...
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Unlike most books on rock music, Music of Yes does not focus on personalities, but instead on musical structures, lyrical vision, and cultural and historical context. Bill Martin situates one of the most creative groups from the progressive rock period, Yes, within the utopian ideals of the sixties and the experimental trend in rock music initiated by the Beatles and taken up by groups such as King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, and others. Working...
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Multi-Grammy Nominated Meshell Ndegeocello is a rare breed in the music industry. She has survived and weathered the ups and downs of the business by evolving musically, even against fans' expectations. But, even more, she has also evolved spiritually. She's like an older sister or close relative who you watch growing up right before your very eyes, from crazy and wild to mature and content within herself. From her first album Plantation Lullabies...
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Subject: How to Get $4,027.50 Monthly as a Music Producer Do You Know How to Make Extra Money Online as a Musician? Leveraging New Technology and Online Platforms to Reach Your True Fans, Make Money Online, and Earn More as a Musician Years ago, I've realized that most successful musicians are following a really simple model of musician survival... Just understand the fact that there are almost 7 billion people in the world! All you need is to find...
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From Pee Wee Herman to John Lennon, sacramental wine to hard-drinkin' mamas, the Mississippi River to the Redwood trees, from marriage to marijuana, from Pirates to Jesus, from Spam and boogers to Uncle Sam, 'Ukulele Man' Tom Harker's poetic, funny, political, philosophical, and loving songs will touch you.
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Vingtième saison pour La Story sur Nostalgie. Vingt saisons que Brice Depasse nous emmène dans les rues de Londres, les théâtres parisiens, les studios hollywoodiens, les arrière-salles bruxelloises pour nous raconter la grande histoire de la chanson et du cinéma. Ce second tome de chroniques inédites révèle une fois de plus la passion avec laquelle l'auteur-animateur fait de nous les témoins privilégiés des derniers jours de Freddie Mercury,...
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The miraculous triumvirate of 1685 (Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, all born that year) made a curious threesome. The German Handel went to Italy and became the greatest composer of Italian operas, Bach stayed at home to be outshone by his son, while Scarlatti fled Italy to escape his father's fame and became Spain's greatest undercover flamenco guitarist − all without leaving the keyboard. Secretive to a fault, Scarlatti's life is as elusive as his...
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Nineteen-seventy-one was the year John Lennon left London and pop stardom for a life in New York City as a solo artist, record producer and activist looking to help end the war in Vietnam. He settled in Greenwich Village and quickly came to be seen by the leaders of the faltering anti-war movement as someone who was capable of reinvigorating it. The government was acutely aware of Lennon's power as well, seeing him as a viable threat to Nixon's reelection...
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the most exciting and provocative composers at work in the world today. His Eight Songs for a Mad King set the dizzying pace for Britain's 1960s avant-garde, and the recent Naxos Quartets bear witness to his continuing innovative spirit. Audio samples are contained in the text: just tap to listen while you read.
19) Gustav Mahler
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Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876–1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered Mahler more than 40 years earlier, when he served as the composer's assistant conductor in Hamburg. He worked with Mahler again at the Vienna Opera, and after the composer's...
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Manuel de Falla, born in Cádiz, Andalusia, was the founding father of twentieth-century Spanish music. Following the Romanticism of Albéniz and Granados, Falla came to be appreciated as a true representative of the modern age. His operas, ballets, orchestral music, songs and instrumental works have been acknowledged internationally as being among the greatest artistic contributions to Spanish culture. His creative genius profoundly influenced the...
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