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Publisher
Trope Industries LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Iconic Composers highlights the origin and contributions of some of the world's most remarkable and gifted composers throughout history. Bold, whimsical illustrations by David Lee Csicsko along with concise, engaging bios by Nicholas Csicsko and Emi Ferguson celebrate a diverse group of composers from the past 1000 years. Iconic Composers features historical giants of music like Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven alongside 20th-century...
4) Score
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film brings Hollywood's elite composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most international music genre: the film score. A film composer is a musical scientist of sorts, and the influence they have to complement a film and garner powerful reactions from global audiences can be a daunting task to take on. Includes interviews with contemporary film composers and others in...
5) The voices
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A film soundtrack composer moves his young family into a faded old Victorian house in north London in 1976 and becomes obsessed with the strange voices he begins hearing coming through the baby monitor.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvi, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Reckless Daughter tells the story of Mitchell and also of the fertile, exciting musical time of which she was an integral part, one that had a profound effect that can still be felt today on American music and the industry.
"Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Composer Peter Els --the "Bioterrorist Bach" -- pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey and, through the help of his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime collaborator, he hatches a plan to turn his disastrous collision with Homeland Security into a work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around them.
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One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Webber has reigned over the musical theatre world for nearly five decades. The winner of numerous awards, including multiple Tonys and an Oscar, Lloyd Webber has enchanted millions worldwide with his music and numerous hit shows, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera?Broadway?s longest running show?and most recently, School of Rock. In...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Description
Relates the untold yet inspiring story of Amy Beach, musician extraordinaire and the first successful woman composer in America, who overcame numerous obstacles to achieve a brilliant career in the music world.
14) Mozart
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A superb examination of Mozart and his glorious music by eminent historian Paul Johnson.
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Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world’s preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern’s help authenticating a newly discovered piece, which may be his famous lost opera, RED,...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 277 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The 1980s New Wave star-turned-Silicon Valley entrepreneur traces his disadvantaged early years in a London bedsit, creation of the breakout hit "She Blinded Me With Science" and role in pioneering the use of MP3s in cellphones,"--NoveList.
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