Music

* The definitive biography of Green Day - one of the most popular rock bands in the world

A fun packed tutor for beginner pianists. Introducing young players to the rudiments of piano playing, it is packed full of great pieces as well as animated charaters such as the Mud Monsters and the Wizards of the White Wishing Well. It is also jam packed with activities and sticker fun for children.

Take a magical mystery tour through time, following the trail of Beatles memorabilia left behind by the Fab Four from their early days in Hamburg, through the Ed Sullivan show, right up to the present day and "Anthology I." A dazzlingly wide range of collectibles parade across the pages of this colorful text in over 730 color photographs including records, posters, movie memorabilia, jewelry, books, and fan club mementos. New Beatles collectibles are fully addressed here for the first time. Included as well are a history of the Beatles and their later solo efforts, Beatles art work created by inspired artists, and newly revised values for all of the collectibles presented in the text.

A volume of essential reading and scholarship in Russian music studies that brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews.

A thought-provoking consideration of the challenges facing music educators today.

The long-awaited sequel to Vol. 1, this second volume of The New Real Book features jazz classics, contemporary jazz and many choice standards ΓÇô songs made famous by John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Benny Golson, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, CHick Corea, Billy Childs, Eddie Gomez, John Scofield, Michael Brecker, Bob Berg, John Patitucci, and a host of others. Available in C, Bb and Eb versions.

On the afternoon of August 15, 1969, Richie Havens took the stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, welcoming a crowd of several hundred thousand to the green fields of Max Yasgur's farm. Havens was the first act - the legendary festival, years in the making, was finally beginning. This title tells the story from inspiration to celebration.

GUITAR WORLD PRESENTS: VAN HALEN

The biography of The Specials' Neville Staple.

The author chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1970s to being embraced and imitated globally today. For young black men, he argues, they represent a new version of the American dream, one embodying the hopes and desires of those excluded from the original version.

The Universal Edition is designed for all English-speaking countries outside of the United States, including Canada, the U. K. and Australia. This edition uses the British system of terminology for rhythmic values such as "crotchet" for quarter note.

This book explores not only the meaning of dance in African American life but also the ways in which music, song, and dance are interrelated in African American culture. Beyond that it has been, finally, one of the most important means of cultural survival.

Legendary musician Peter Hook tells the whole story - the fun, the music, the vast loss of money, the legacy - of Manchester's most iconic nightclub

Our fascination with Bob Dylan never ends. Timed for his 75th birthday in May 2016, and with a new Foreword, WHO IS THAT MAN? comes to paperback

Saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer Ornette Coleman has earned enduring praise as an American jazz icon. Stephans weaves together analysis of Coleman's recordings and exploration of the free jazz movement with interviews of those who knew Coleman best to tell an inspiring story of artistic genius and resilience.

Explores a key hip hop album marking the cross over point where the streets and the charts collided.

The Eagles wrote the soundtrack to the Seventies and Eighties - and even now their albums top the charts. But backstage, there were no peaceful, easy feelings...

Johann Sebastian Bach's the "St Matthew Passion" stands as a singular expression of religious sensibility. Highlighting the inspiration Bach drew from opera, this book illuminates the hybrid forms that comprise the work, thereby clarifying many of the composer's dramatic strategies.

MAKE MINE MUSIC

Takes the young pianist step-by-step through the earliest stages of piano technique, first with separate hands, then with a sequence of easy pieces for hands together. This title offers games and puzzles that present theory a fresh lease of life. It includes rhymes and songs that introduce characters such as the Ostrich and Sammy Squirrel.

From Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band to Zoom by ELO, this indispensable, innovatively designed book celebrates fifty years of British album charts, telling you everything you could possibly want to know about every album to reach the Top 100.

The writing of a Requiem is a special challenge. The great Requiems of the past by composers such as Mozart, Verdiand Berlioz interpret the Requiem text, offering prayers of salvation for the departed. This title intends to provide solace to the grieving, reflecting on the words of the Latin Mass by juxtaposing them with poems in English.

Violin Study Time is an anthology of established and newly composed studies which are designed to help the young violinist's technique in several directions. It may be used in conjunction with the Young Violinist's Repertoire Pieces. There are studies for various types of bowing, studies for finger action and basic shifts and several studies which introduce third position. This useful selection features studies by the greatest violin teachers of all time, including Czerny, Sevick and Dancla.

The Young Violinist's Repertoire is an ideal introduction to the established repertoire for the violin. Progressively arranged to take the young player from the very early stages to intermediate standard, the four books bring together music from all over Europe and span a wide range of composers, periods and styles. The piano accompaniments remain easy throughout. Titles: Gluck: Allegro * Mozart, Leopold: Aria * Moniusko: Baika * Handel: Bourree * Tchaikovsky: Chanson Triste (Douze Morceaux Op.40) * Schubert: German Dance * Traditional: Hebrew Prayer * Tchaikovsky: Neapolitan Song (Swan Lake) * Mozart: Pantomime (Les Petits Riens) * Hadjiev: Rondino * Handel: Sonatina * Russian: The Nightingale Romance * Ivanovici: Waves Of The Danube.

But most of all it is an uplifting story of an ordinary man who lit up America like a beacon in the night, was written off as a shambolic wreck and then - against all the odds - climbed back to become an even bigger star than he was first time around.

The last word on Sid Vicious - the world's most iconic punk figure

50 Graded studies for recorder brings together a broad range of repertoire spanning three centuries. Placing pieces by de Boismortier next to specially composed pieces by Sally Adams. The book is progressive and studies are arranged in order of difficulty spanning from a beginner level to around intermediate standard.

From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America-blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted, signing a humiliating affidavit to regain his passport-and the factors that by the mid-1950s allowed his triumphant return to the New York Philharmonic. Seldes for the first time links Bernstein's great concert-hall and musical-theatrical achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use of previously untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the Library of Congress's Bernstein archive, Seldes illuminates the ways in which Bernstein's career intersected with the twentieth century's most momentous events. This broadly accessible and impressively documented account of the celebrity-maestro's life deepens our understanding of an entire era as it reveals important and often ignored intersections of American culture and political power.