THE ACOUSTIC ROCK MASTERS THE WAY THEY PLAY BK/CD
JAMBANDS BK/CD COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE PLAYERS MUSIC AND SCENE
Packed with musical examples charts and photos this is a complete step-by-step course for learning acoustic or electric blues guitar. In-depth lessons teach you to build your own style while exploring the music of traditional bluesmen and modern stars. From practicing your scales and turn-arounds to breaking out Chicago-style this book from the former editor of ÊGuitar PlayerÊ brings you: essential lessons on blues basics; insights into the music of masters like B.B. King Eric Clapton John Lee Hooker T-Bone Walker Albert Collins Buddy Guy and many others; advice on selecting gear and setting up your guitar; a great blues discography; and even free access to audio lessons on the web!
A behind-the-scenes account of the Fender Electric Instrument Company by its former general manager. White traces the company''s entire history from Leo Fender''s beginnings as a radio repairman up to the eventual sale of Fender to CBS and beyond. Includes stories about the development of the Telecaster Precision Bass and Stratocaster as well as insights into Leo Fender''s unique personality. It is packed with more than 100 historic photos and illustrations instrument diagrams and specifications and anecdotes about artists such as Merle Travis Bob Wills Speedy West and Tex Ritter. 7-1/4Í x 9-1/4Í.
Pop music comes and goes with dull regularity but classic rock is always there. Led Zeppelin. Jimi Hendrix. The Eagles. The Doors. Creedence. The Who. These are the bands and artists who changed the face of American rock and whose innovations remain fresh and exciting today. This book is an unprecedented collection of hard-hitting & informative interviews with the artists who made rock classic including David Gilmour Angus Young Robby Krieger (The Doors) Don Felder (The Eagles) Pete Townshend Aerosmith Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd) and more. Includes a special tribute to Grateful Dead visionary Jerry Garcia plus the stories behind rock''s most famous songs including: Stairway to Heaven Sweet Home Alabama Ramblin'' Man Light My Fire Hotel California and many others. 288 pages 6Í x 9Í
ÊThe Opera CompanionÊ has established itself over the years as a classic reference book for opera lovers whether devoted or casual. Synopses of 47 of the most frequently performed operas (18 composers) are given with key words to clue the listener in to the action and musical descriptions designed for those who cannot read music. A catalog of major operas lists composer librettist and date and place of first performance. It explains the techniques of opera in chapters on the overture melody aria and recitative with a description of the human voice as both an artistic and mechanical instrument. The book also includes a short history of opera told chiefly in terms of the audience and its behavior and offers a glossary to be read for enjoyment as well as information.
What''s it like to grow up on a small farm in Illinois only to find yourself, some 20 years later, performing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House? And then to travel the world, singing in historic theaters from La Scala in Milan to Vienna, Paris, London, and beyond? Former Met star Sherrill Milnes tells all in this completely updated edition of his very successful biography.
The music dramas of Richard Wagner have for the last 150 years thrilled and amazed listeners everywhere. In ÊWagner MomentsÊ author J. K. Holman has assembled 100 such moments from the living and dead famous and not so famous from Charles Baudelaire to Placido Domingo musicians and non-musicians. Mr. Holman edits these stories placing them in their biographical and historical context.
From Mozart to Debussy to Olivier Messiaen the works of 50 composers are closely examined in ÊThe Great Instrumental WorksÊ. It is a book for anyone who enjoys the lively arts of opera drama film literature and popular song and who wants to find out what is really going on in the symphonies of Mozart the string quartets of Beethoven the orchestral works of Debussy and Ravel and the contemporary pieces of Olivier Messiaen and Arvo P¢rt. The author Father Owen Lee is an internationally known commentator on music and the arts and writes with a style that has been called rich dense and profound (Citizen''s Weekly) highly readable (Choice) and often irreverently amusing (Opera News). With Father Lee as a guide the intricacies of classical forms and key relationships are rendered not only intelligible but meaningful the music itself becomes life-enhancing and its great composers come vividly to life.
THE EXTRAORDINARY OPERATIC ADVENTURES OF BLANCHE ARRAL
This superbly detailed biography examines the life of Jules Massenet (1842-1912) who was at the heart of Parisian musical life during a period of extraordinary artistic vitality.
DUO! THE BEST SCENES FOR TWO FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Three editors each associated with theatre collaborated on this book of monologues for actresses. What they discovered besides bravura pieces for auditions acting classes and study was the pulse of the millennial theatrical scene. A follow-up to the popular previous edition from the 1990s ÊOne on One: The Best Women''s Monologues for the 21st CenturyÊ includes the work of over 70 playwrights spotlighting the best of Broadway Off-Broadway regional and experimental writings since 2000. A special introduction also explains how to choose practice and perform a speech for auditions. Comic or serious ä or both ä the monologues are written for young old and multicultural players by famous names and up-and-coming talent.ÞAnna Deavere Smith records abuse in real relationships (ÊHouse ArrestÊ); August Wilson relates trials of those who survived coming to America ä and those who did not (ÊGem of the OceanÊ); and William Gibson recreates the dark fledgling days of Israel (ÊGolda''s BalconyÊ). Additional works include ÊAre You Ready?Ê by David Auburn ÊBad DatesÊ by Theresa Rebeck ÊThe CommitteeÊ by Brian Dykstra and many others.
There has been a great change in the last twenty years to actor auditions which now require the demonstration of enormous flexibility. The actor is often expected to show more range than ever before and often several shorter audition speeches are asked for instead of one or two longer ones. To stay at the top of his or her game the Shakespearean actor needs more knowledge of what makes the play tick especially since the early plays demand a different style from the later ones. Each genre (comedy history tragedy) has different requirements. No current monologue book deals directly with the bulk of these concerns. ÊOne More unto the Speech Dear FriendsÊ now fills that gap. This three volume set will help actors discover the extra details of humanity that the original folio texts automatically offer. Of Shakespeare''s 37 plays only ÊPericlesÊ is not included. In the trilogy of books there are over 900 separate audition possibilities. This represents about 600 more monologues than are available in any other series.ÞÞThere are four parts to each speech: Û A background giving context and approximate timing; Û A modern text version; Û The original folio version; Û Commentary to explain the differences between the two texts including full discussion of the devices peculiar to that speech''s genre the age and gender of the character and more.
This book explores every facet pf Parisian musical life in the glorious first half of the 19th century. Among the composers who chose Paris as a second home were Rossini Meyerbeer Bellini Donizetti Liszt and Chopin. HARDCOVER.
(Easy Piano Songbook). Play 50 classic carols in the easiest of arrangements, presented simply, with lyrics. Includes: Away in a Manger * Deck the Hall * The First Noel * Go, Tell It on the Mountain * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * It Came upon the Midnight Clear * Jingle Bells * O Holy Night * Silent Night * The Twelve Days of Christmas * What Child Is This? * and more.
MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD: IF YOU LOVE THESE BLUES AN ORAL HISTORY
THE TELEVISION PLAYS OF PADDY CHAYEFSKY
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