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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,...
2) Book of Life
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"A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most iconic music performers.
You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her striding and scowling down Sydney's back streets in an oversize coat or galavanting around a golf course wearing a close approximation of plus fours means you know who Deborah Conway is? She figures you probably don't know the half of it. And there's a lot to know.
If you...
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In the early 80s I contributed much of the songs and music (and some other bits and pieces) to a revue called Nice, if you can get it directed by Maggie Ford, which was centred on the world of work. Some of that material appeared more recently on the album Hands of the Craftsman. That album formed the basis of this book: however, it includes much supplementary material. This includes not only historical and anecdotal material, but material that wasn't...
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Known for his growling vocals and for the distinct poetry of his lyrics, Tom Waits has amassed over the course of three decades a devoted cult following. The Early Years collects the lyrics-formative and classic-from the first ten albums of this true bard of hard living. A celebration of both his words and of the artist himself, this lyrical biography charts the course from Wait's emotional debut album, Closing Time (1977), to the experimental stirrings...
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Considered one of the greatest composers-and music critics-of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1810—1856) played an important role in shaping nineteenth-century German ideas about virtuosity. Forging his career in the decades that saw abundant public fascination with the feats and creations of virtuosos (Liszt, Paganini, and Chopin among others), Schumann engaged with instrumental virtuosity through not only his compositions and performances but...
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Many students of renowned composer, conductor, and teacher Ferruccio Busoni had illustrious careers of their own, yet the extent to which their mentor's influence helped shape their success was largely unexplored until now. Through rich archival research including correspondence, essays, and scores, Erinn E. Knyt presents an evocative account of Busoni's idiosyncratic pedagogy-focused on aesthetic ideals rather than methodologies or techniques-and...
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A look at the careers of several acclaimed Scottish musicians from Fife, from their early days to the highs and lows of the music industry, to today.
The East Neuk of Fife, Scotland, may seem like an unusual place for a musical revolution, but as this firsthand account reveals, there is more to the sleepy fishing villages and rolling fields, and a small community of musicians has crept up on the world. From psychedelic troubadours the Beta Band to...
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Dans l'orchestre majestueux de l'existence, la musique se dresse comme la partition éternelle qui unit les cœurs, déclenchant une symphonie d'émotions qui transcende les frontières. Des battements primordiaux résonnant comme les pulsations du cœur de notre planète aux notes élaborées d'une symphonie qui s'étend à l'infini, chaque genre musical et chaque instrument devient une voix unique dans ce récit sonore universel.Imaginez le rugissement...
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In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation. Paul Schleuse examines these new musical forms through a study of the music books of Italian priest, poet, and composer, Orazio Vecchi. Composed for minor patrons and the wider...
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Alexander ('Sandy') Goehr is a leading British composer and teacher. Born into a Jewish musical family in Berlin in 1932, he arrived in England in 1933 with his father, Walter, a composer, conductor, and pupil of Arnold Schoenberg; and his mother Laelia, a trained pianist from Kyiv. Raised in Amersham, he attended Richard Hall's classes at the Royal Manchester College of Music. There he formed the 'Manchester School' – a group of young composers...
11) Mr. Tuba
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With warmth and humor, tuba virtuoso Harvey Phillips tells the story of his amazing life and career from his Missouri childhood through his days as a performer with the King Brothers and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circuses, his training at the Juilliard School, a stint with the US Army Field Band, and his freelance days with the New York City Opera and Ballet. A founder of the New York Brass Quintet, Phillips served as vice president of...
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In October 2016, the Swedish Academy finally conceded to a quarter-century's worth of clamorous petitions and sustained lobbying enacted by a chorus of poets, novelists, songwriters, and academics. At long last, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, his vast corpus spread out like Highway 61 behind him. How is a Dylan debutante to make sense of the song and dance man's six decade career? How might a diehard Dylan fanatic stumble upon...
13) Goodbye Russia
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The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland-his iconic "Symphonic Dances." What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece?
Rachmaninoff...
14) Destins Brisés
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John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding : autant de destins brisés par une mort prématurée. Des millions de fans ont été privés de tous ces albums que Jacques Brel, Brian Jones, Amy Winehouse n'enregistreront jamais. Et que dire du manque de ces titres que Bob Marley, Michel Berger ou encore Jim Morrison n'ont pas pu écrire et qui feraient aujourd'hui partie de nos classiques, des chansons que fredonnerions à la moindre occasion....
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Many of us want to decrypt the instrument and unleash our play, but the study of music, particularly guitar, is fraught with complex theorems and diagrams, rote memorization, arcane reference points, and archaic devices. Most guitar books are a rehash of tools invented centuries ago that turn the process into a slog. It's time for a new language. Meet SIGIL-the new language of guitar. Guitarists who want to improvise and compose, from novice to advanced,...
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In this strikingly illustrated book of original poetry, System of a Down fans gain an intimate glimpse into the soul of the band's frontman, Serj Tankian. For fans stirred by the cerebral lyrics of SOAD albums Hypnotize, Mesmerize, Steal This Album!, Toxicity, and their first, self-titled breakthrough-and for everyone enthusiastic about Serj's solo album, Imperfect Harmonies-this essential, one-of-a-kind collection of Tankian's innermost thoughts...
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Between 1993 and 1995 John Hartley and his alter ego Johny Nocash led the Irony Board(s) on a journey with an intended destination of fame and fortune. The paths of life do not always lead in the desired direction, however. Described at the time by renowned music journalist Martin Aston as "bittersweet, naive, hook-lined, captivating, unpretentious, clever - but not clever-clever - and deserving of more widespread attention", the Irony Board's tales...
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Get inside the head of one of the most influential musicians of our time with this collection of her most inspiring and revealing quotes.
The quotations in this book have been carefully curated from Taylor Swift's numerous public statements-interviews, op-eds, social media posts, and more. It's a comprehensive picture of her meteoric rise to the top, her ever-savvy business sense, and her increasingly forthright perspective on the music world and...
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Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician-a brilliant conductor who attained international superstar status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence. The letters have...
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75 Years on 4 Strings is the authoritative biography of the legendary self-taught double bassist François Rabbath. The much-beloved artist-teacher sat for countless hours of interviews and shared candid stories from throughout his illustrious career, from his earliest memories of his childhood in 1930s Syria to his ninetieth-birthday virtual recital in Paris in 2021. Highlights, such as accompanying twentieth-century French chanson stars Charles...
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