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"If Doughty Deeds, May Lady Please" is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1866. Sullivan was an English composer best known for his comic musical opera collaborations with the librettist W. S. Gilbert. His works also include 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and...

Easy Christmas Piano Sheet Music With ChordsThis is a Christmas sheet music book with 10 popular Christmas Carols. Each line of music contains three staves, one treble clef and two bass clefs and chord symbols for the single line players. Organist can read all three staves (top keyboard, lower...

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - French Horn Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for French Horn. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note...

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - Clarinet Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for Clarinet. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head...

Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive...

An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual. W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music that reconnects...

Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic examination or market...

Benny Andersson Piano is a unique and beautifully presented collection of Benny Andersson’s music from ABBA, Chess and more, arranged for intermediate level solo piano. Alongside these 21 faithful transcriptions are introductory notes by music journalist Camilla Lundberg, with French and...

The operas of the German composer Richard Wagner had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his works. He went on to revolutionise the music form through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total...

Focus: Scottish Traditional Music engages methods from ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural studies, and media studies to explain how complex Scottish identities and culture are constructed in the traditional music and culture of Scotland. This book examines Scottish music through their...

Oceans apart, low down, far from the world’s music-making epicentres is a country - Australia - that throws up music unlike any place else. This music moves the people who live there in strange and deep-felt ways, gives them something to rage, shout, dream, dance, remember, love and break up to....

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you’ll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American music has created an array of rival mainstreams,...

"Hillman’s groundbreaking study enables both serious and casual film students to approach these works with sharpened vision and improved hearing." —Klaus Phillips, Hollins University Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology examines the use of classical music in film,...

Decomposition is a bracing, revisionary, and provocative inquiry into music—from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, from Conlon Nancarrow to Evelyn Glennie—as a personal and cultural experience: how it is composed, how it is idiosyncratically perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen to...