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Este libro es el cuarto volumen publicado de una historia de la música de jazz, desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad, que tiene como objetivo fundamental proporcionar una visión completa de las diversas etapas, corrientes estilísticas e intérpretes que conforman el devenir de un género musical que se ha desarrollado y que ha evolucionado desde comienzos del siglo XX.
Las tres primeras entregas -Historia de la música de jazz (I), 2009, Historia...
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De la ópera Rigoletto se puede disfrutar tanto de su lograda música, como de la calidad y el arte de las voces que interpretan su brillante parte cantada.
Ahora bien, hay, además, otras facetas en esta ópera que suscitan interés, como por ejemplo, la historia y el entorno en los que se desarrolla su acción.
Cabe tratar in extenso del bufón, un personaje en algunos casos no natural, sino "con licencia" de actuar, retratado por artistas palaciegos...
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In the early 1970s, a group of impoverished students formed a rock band in Auckland, New Zealand, and planned their assault on the world's music charts. For a decade Split Enz fought to be understood by audiences and music critics who often struggled to accept their madcap on-stage performances and innovative sounds. Eventually, they found chart success in the UK, United States, Canada, Europe, Australia with hits like I Got You and with best-selling...
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QUEEN lost not only a singer when Freddie Mercury died in 1991. Freddie's friends lost Freddie. In this biographical volume of memories, Freddie Mercury's life is celebrated, remembered and recounted by a collection of his closest friends, lovers, collaborators and colleagues.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a prolific composer of orchestral works and many other forms of music, including chamber works and art songs. He also wrote many operas, excerpts from which are featured in this collection. Contents include the famous orchestral interlude The Flight of the Bumblebee as well as the suite from The Tale of Tsar Saltan. This fanciful opera was based on Aleksandr Pushkin's poem, "The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His...
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In 1987, off-the-grid punk agitator Larry Livermore began documenting the burgeoning DIY East Bay punk rock scene with the newly founded Lookout Records. He had no idea this little label, first run out of his solar powered cabin in the Northern California mountains, then a cramped room in the backstreets of Berkeley, would rise to international prominence, introducing the world to the likes of Green Day, Operation Ivy, and a host of other artists....
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LA HISTORIA DE UN MITO Y DE UN GRUPO QUE FORJARON UNA LEYENDA MUSICAL QUE PERDURA HASTA NUESTROS DÍAS
Entre 1965 y 1971, Morrison compuso un centenar de canciones, escribió y editó cuatro libros de poemas, realizó tres películas, redactó guiones y decenas de cuadernos con notas y poesías. Fue un icono sexual y la principal estrella del rock estadounidense. Transgredió todos los tabúes sexuales de aquel puritano país y llegó a amenazar...
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Lawrence Lindt, periodista, escritor y autor de los libros "Historias curiosas de la música" e "Historias insólitas de la música" nos propone un acercamiento al fabuloso mundo del jazz a través de las pequeñas historias que jalonan este estilo musical desde sus primeros compases. El jazz nació en Nueva Orleans. Fue el ritmo que los esclavos africanos trajeron consigo y que pronto hicieron suyo los pobladores blancos de América. Su contacto...
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Second volume in a Dover series of Liszt's piano transcriptions of Beethoven's nine symphonies includes Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, "Pastorale"; Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92; Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93; and Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, "Choral." Also contains Liszt's handwritten French preface to his transcriptions and an English translation, plus an introduction by Dr. Alan Walker, author of the definitive Liszt biography....
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The award-winning photographer's pictorial history of the famous San Francisco Jazz club featuring oral histories and more than 100 images. During the 1970s, when jazz clubs across America were folding under the onslaught of rock and roll and disco, San Francisco's Keystone Korner was an oasis for jazz listeners and musicians. Tucked away in the city's North Beach area, the Keystone became one of the most important jazz spots in the United States....
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Masterful transcriptions include Rossini's "La Danza," Bach's "Organ Fantasy and Fugue in G minor," Beethoven's "Joyous gathering of the peasants" from the "Pastorale" Symphony, Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" and "Dance of the Elves" from A Midsummer Night's Dream, "The Trout" and "Erlkonig" by Schubert, the "Polonaise" from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and many others.
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Jingle Jangle Morning is the story of how folk and rock merged in the 1960s to create folk-rock, injecting social consciousness and poetic lyricism into popular music to scale heights that neither folk nor rock could have reached without blending. It draws on more than 100 first-hand interviews with key musicians, producers, promoters, and journalists, from stars like Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Donovan, John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful, and...
95) Undertime
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Music/Country/Rock and Autobiographical with Drawings.
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The official book celebrating the 25th anniversary of SPIN magazine.
From its first issue in 1985, SPIN has cultivated a reputation for brilliant writing and broad musical coverage, including genres and artists long abandoned by its competitors. From punk to electronica, goth to gangsta rap, emo to garage rock, and hip-hop to indie rock, SPIN has covered it all and featured interviews with leading artists through every musical wave of the last 25...
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A history of the Jazz: West label established by Herb Kimmel in 1954. Jazz artists recorded by Kimmel include: Jack Sheldon, Walter Norris, Zoot Sims, Jane Fielding, Kenny Drew, Joe Maini, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, James Clay, Julius Wechter, and Art Pepper. Additional chapters examine Art Pepper's continuing recording career from July 1956 through April 1957 including Pepper's recordings on Tampa, Pacific Jazz, Intro, and Omegatape. The book...
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The Byrds – My Way By James "Jimmi" Seiter Description The Byrds – My Way (Volume 5) is a first-hand description of the inner workings of the Byrds and Burrito Brothers and other entertainment events: written by James 'Jimmi' Seiter (Road Manager, production manager and much more for many bands and live events). It sets the record and previous assumptions straight as to what was really going on, from detailed personal, first-hand experience. He...
99) Keyboard Music
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The very best of Bach for harpsichord, piano, and other keyboard instruments. This affordable edition includes English Suites, French Suites, 6 Partitas, Goldberg Variations, 2-Part Inventions, and 3-Part Sinfonias. Faithfully reprinted from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition.
100) A Change of Heart
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A Change of Heart, composed by Andrew Hanna, is a composition composed for a jazz-fusion trio featuring alto sax, bass guitar, and drum set. It's a ballad featuring changing odd meters, ostinato bass line, and unorthodox harmonies.
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