Johann Sebastian Bach Volume I. This monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach ranks among the great classics of musicology. Since its first publication in 1873-80, it has remained the basic work on Bach and the foundation of later research and study. The three-part treatment describes in chronological sequence practically everything that is known of the composer's life: his ancestry, his immediate family, his associations, his employers, and the countless occasions on which his musical genius emerged. Author Philipp Spitta accompanies this biographical material with quotations from primary sources: correspondence, family records, diaries, official documents, and more. In addition to biographical data, Spitta reviews Bach's musical production, with analyses of more than 500 pieces, covering all the important works. More than 450 musical excerpts are included in the main text, and a 43-page musical supplement illustrates longer passages. Despite the scholarly nature of this work, it also has the rare distinction of being a study that can be read with considerable enjoyment and great profit by every serious music lover, with or without a substantial background in the history of music or musical theory.

Updated Edition-If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair with a musician you're holding it in your hands. For DownBeat the preeminent publication of the jazz world Miles Dewey Davis was one of its most cherished subjects. Since it began covering the jazz scene in 1939 no other artist has been more diligently chronicled in its pages than Davis.The beauty of this collection is seeing the development of an artist over time. The reviews of his music go from quietly introducing a new talent to revering perhaps the greatest jazz artist of his generation. The feature articles begin with a very young very polite Davis lamenting I've worked so little. Icould probably tell you where I was playing any night in the last three years. As he develops the interviews show Davis gaining confidence and stature showing swagger and becoming the over-the-top say-it-like-it-is showman that made every interview an event.The Miles Davis Reader compiles more than 200 news stories feature articles and reviews by some of the greatest writers in jazz into one volume. It delivers a patchwork of his words and music - in the moment as they happened. With several lengthy features added along with a dozen new photographs this new edition is a beautiful series of snapshots a year-by-year ride through the many phases of Davis as an artist and as a man.

Le Opere I Compositori Le Tecniche I Linguaggi Gli Scritti. Par WEID J.-N.VON DER. Una vera e propria guida alla musica del Novecento da Debussy, Schoenberg, Scrjabin, all'elettroacustica e le molte forme del pensare e fare oggi, nell'intero Occidente, musica. Von der Weid infatti, distinguendosi dalla maggior parte delle storie e dei manuali musicali, non privilegia l'Europa, bensì estende la sua attenzione alle musiche dei più lontani paesi, da quelli delle Americhe all'Unione Sovietica, oggi Russia. Molto utile l'agile impostazione del libro, per brevi capitoli che scandiscono la storia musicale trattata per paesi, fasi, movimenti, gruppi, con sistematiche voci per i compositori che la musica del Novecento l'hanno fatta, l'hanno costruita, l'hanno portata auna nuova dimensione sonora./ Livre / Biographie