It Might as Well be Spring
Author: Margaret Whiting
Publisher: New York : William Morrow and Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret Whiting
Publisher: New York : William Morrow and Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1508
ISBN-13: 9780879306274
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.
Author: Nicholas Everett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-12-09
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521796392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cambridge Companion to the Musical provides an accessible introduction to one of the liveliest and most popular forms of musical performance. Written by a team of specialists in the field of musical theatre especially for students and theatregoers, it offers a guide to the history and development of the musical in England and America (including coverage of New York s Broadway and London s West End traditions). Starting with the early history of the musical, the volume comes right up to date and examines the latest works and innovations, and includes information on the singers, audience and critical reception, and traditions. There is fresh coverage of the American musical theatre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British musical theatre in the middle of the twentieth century, and the rock musical. The Companion contains an extensive bibliography and photos from key productions.
Author: Charles Denison
Publisher: Author's Choice Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781931741422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Tin Pan Alley to Broadway and Hollywood, The Great American Songbook: The Stories Behind the Standards tells the stories of our most popular songs with humor, drama and insight. This is timeless music written in unique ways that is constantly being reinterpreted by each generation. Isaac Stern made this distinction between talent and genius: A person possesses talent; genius possesses the person. This is a book about singers, musicians, lyricists and composers taking their talent into the atmosphere of immortality. They are fascinating, and they set the standards by which popular music is measured. They may not have lived easy lives, but their creativity drove them to new heights and they changed the face of American music forever.Music by a wide variety of artists is covered. Some chapters tell the story of just one song; others sketch the life stories of the artists. Music lovers will find new facts and deeper understanding about old friends in The Great American Songbook: The Stories Behind the Standards.
Author: Geoffrey Holden Block
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780195167306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the great Broadway hits, how they were conceived, written and performed.
Author: Todd S. Purdum
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 162779834X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all future musicals would be built. [This is a portrait of that creative partnership]"--Amazon.com
Author: Jimmy Webb
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2013-04-23
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1401305687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Webb brings his insider's knowledge, experience, and star power to the ultimate guide for aspiring songwriters. With a combination of anecdotes, meditation, and advice, he breaks down the creative process from beginning to end--from coping with writer's block, to song construction, chords, and even self-promotion. Webb also gives readers a glimpse into the professional music world.
Author: Ted Gioia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-08-18
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 019008720X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page. Since the first edition of The Jazz Standards was published in 2012, author Ted Gioia has received almost non-stop feedback and suggestions from the passionate global community of jazz enthusiasts and performers requesting crucial additions and corrections to the book. In this second edition, Gioia expands the scope of the book to include more songs, and features new recordings by rising contemporary artists. The Jazz Standards is an essential comprehensive guide to some of the most important jazz compositions, telling the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and providing a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings. The fan who wants to know more about a tune heard at the club or on the radio will find this book indispensable. Musicians who play these songs night after night will find it to be a handy guide, as it outlines the standards' history and significance and tells how they have been performed by different generations of jazz artists. Students learning about jazz standards will find it to be a go-to reference work for these cornerstones of the repertoire. This book is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form.
Author: Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1429929766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →You're in for an unforgettable experience when America's master storyteller turns his enormous narrative gifts to the passionate, haunting subject of the American woman, searching for--and often finding--love and faith... in Andrew M. Greeley's All About Women. There's teenaged Rosemarie, coming to grips with the evil of the twentieth century--or is it the evil in the human heart? Peggy, whose widowhood plunges her into the cold of loneliness. Rita, whose marriage is rich and fulfilling--except at its core. Laura, torn between three lovers, one of them a seminarian. Julie, haunted by something that happened long ago. Sionna Marie, an imp diving passionately into adulthood. And Patricia, caught in a web she may not have the power to break. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Marc Raymond Strauss
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 147663632X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the few studies that cover both Broadway and Hollywood musicals, this book explores a majority of the most famous musicals over the past two centuries plus a select number of overlooked gems. Doubling as an introductory college and university text for musical, dance and theater majors and a guide for both musical connoisseurs and novices, the book includes YouTube references of nearly 1000 examples of dances and songs from musicals.