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The unrivaled single-volume survey of Wagner's life and work Edited by one of the leading Wagner scholars of modern times, and with contributions from seventeen experts from around the world, The Wagner Compendium is the key to a complete understanding of the composer— the most comprehensive,...

First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women in American Popular Music features composers, performers, patrons, musical contexts and an expanded view of women in music in America. This enlightening e-book short is a good source of programming ideas for performers and a handy resource for music lovers.

From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from...

This ebook is the second volume of a two-volume guide to the best popular music ever recorded and the artists who created and recorded it. This book, like its predecessor, covers a number of genres that comprise popular music including pop, rock, blues, jazz, country, reggae, hip hop, ragtime, folk,...

Music wouldn't be the same without hearing vocals.  You probably know tens of thousands of songs, but do you know thousands of singers?   Unlike usual trivia books, this book is full of questions on groups and their lead vocalists.   Do you remember who's the lead vocalist in No Doubt?...

Recording Artists don't always enjoy success with their first release. A hit record relies on any number of factors: the right song, a memorable performance, a healthy promotional budget, great management, a spot of luck, and even some intangibles. Take choice of a name. For a single artist, duo,...

First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an...

  T**he Merciless Book of Metal Lists is an irreverent and illustrated compendium of the most random, funny, and challenging information about Heavy Metal from the last 40 years. You want to know which Metal albums “jumped the shark”? Curious to know what non-Metal bands Metalheads love,...

Jimmy Page knew that Led Zeppelin had to take America by storm for the group to be successful. Sonic Boom is the story of how they did it, as told by the people who helped make it happen.Author Frank Reddon conducted over 40 primary source interviews. Discover what deejays, promoters, musicians, studio...

A trivia party game that tests the player's knowledge of the songs, albums, lyrics, and lifestyles of hundreds of '90s music acts. The 1000+ questions cover grunge, hip hop, boy bands, alternative country, techno, and Top 40 music using multiple choice, true/false, song lyric excerpts, complete...

In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as...

Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders. Now at a time when the 25-year reign of the compact disc appears to be coming to an end is the moment to take stock of the history of recordings of arguably the most popular composer of operas, Giacomo Puccini. In Giacomo...