Composers Musicians category: 3267 books

Writing with the warmth and humour that have made her so popular, Coleen describes her eventful life, from joining her sisters' band The Nolans when she was only nine to growing up in the spotlight as they went on to chart-topping success around the world. Coleen also reveals how she coped...

Arriving on the music scene in 2003 the Kings of Leon embarked on a sex drug and booze-fuelled rampage through the London music and fashion scene never afraid to reveal all to the press and somehow surviving to tell the tale. Joel McIver's new book the first ever Kings of Leon biography digs deep into their history to reveal a band like no other.

And There I Stood with My Piccolo, originally published in 1948, is a zesty and colorful memoir of composer Meredith Willson’s early years—from growing up in Mason City, Iowa, to playing the flute with John Philip Sousa’s band and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, to a successful career in composing...

"Absolutely essential reading." — The Wire One of modern music's towering figures, composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton has redefined critical concepts of jazz and the wider world of creative music. The Chicago native's works range from an early piece for 100 tubas to proposed...

Biographical Look at the Life and Times of the British singer songwriter Cat Stevens who, after achieving world wide superstar success, abandoned the music business for a life dedicated to the religion and practice of Islam.

To the world, Louis Armstrong is iconic—a symbol of musical genius, unparalleled success and unassailable character. To Sharon Preston Folta, he was, simply, Dad. Despite the enduring celebration and study of Armstrong’s life and career, no one, save for close family and friends, knows Sharon...

Imagine if John Lennon was still alive. What music would he be creating? Would he still be doodling and drawing images he sees all around him? Sadly at the young age of forty, his life was cruelly snatched away from him and his music and creativity died with him – OR DID IT?? Imagine from beyond...

Rosa de Ouro, projeto coletivo capitaneado pelo produtor Hermínio Bello de Carvalho, levou ao teatro a informalidade e liberdade artística das rodas de samba do Rio de Janeiro. O elenco do espetáculo reunia expoentes da música brasileira como a cantora do teatro de revistas Aracy Cortes e os bambas...

Giuseppe Lattante firma questa intensa analisi musicale che dà conto delle opere di Roberto Beccaceci, protagonista assoluto nel panorama musicale contemporaneo. La musica del compositore anconetano parla di un distacco dal mondo, che non è però distacco dal tempo. E il tempo musicale, per lui,...

Unique en son genre, ce livre s’adresse à tous les mélomanes qui veulent comprendre comment et pourquoi s’est créée et perdure leur relation intime avec le rock ou les autres styles apparentés, depuis qu’une chanson, un album ou un groupe a changé - et change encore - leur vision de la vie,...

A fascinating look at the world of music from French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist Camille Saint-Saëns, most famous for his Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre.

Bruce Springsteen has always taken interviews seriously. As he told critic Neil Strauss in 1995, "If I have some work that I've done and want to talk about, that's why I end up doing interviews". Here is an unprecedented collection of Springsteen on Springsteen, spanning the past...

The work of Glenn Gould employs a range of expressive techniques that combine sounds, words and images without ever compromising the unity and logic of the aesthetic vision they reflect. Nevertheless, it is his interpretive brilliance as a pianist that continues to inspire emotion and awe. The genius of Glenn Gould lies in the sounds he created. 

Seit über hundert Jahren versucht man verbissen das Genie Richard Wagner als Antisemiten, Frauenfeind und undankbaren Verschwender fremden Geldes hinzustellen. All das ist nicht wahr und wird hier richtiggestellt. Darüber hinaus ist es auch ein persönliches Buch, geschrieben mit der silbernen Feder...