Robert Shelton a rencontré Bob Dylan quand la jeune chanteuse est arrivée à New York. Il est devenu un ami de Dylan, champion, et critique. Ce livre, publié en 1986, a été saluée comme la biographie définitive non autorisée de cette mauvaise humeur, le génie passionné et son monde. Dylan donnait accès Shelton à ses parents, Abe et Beatty Zimmerman - lesquels aucun autre journaliste n'a jamais interrogé en profondeur- à son frère, David, d'amis d'enfance de Hibbing- d'autres étudiants et amis de Minneapolis, et de Suze Rotolo, la muse immortalisée sur la couverture de Freewheelin ', entre autres. No Direction Home a fallu 20 ans pour compléter et reçu un large succès critique. Deux décennies plus tard, debout Dylan est plus élevé qu'à n'importe quel moment depuis les années 1960 et réservez Shelton est maintenant considéré comme un classique du genre.Aujourd'hui, tout Bob Dylan ne garantit la saturation de la couverture médiatique, et une nouvelle édition de No Direction Home est attendue depuis longtemps. Cette nouvelle édition, publiée pour coïncider avec 70e anniversaire de Dylan le 24 mai 2011, restaure des pièces importantes du manuscrit original de Shelton et comprend également des images clés de Dylan au long de son incroyable carrière durable, aux côtés de notes à jour et une bibliographie et une discographie de nouveaux sélectifs, ce qui en fait un must pour tous les aficionados de Dylan. / Livre

Dame Fanny Waterman: My Life In Music tells the extraordinary story of one of the twentieth century???s most inspirational British women. Born into an artistic family in impoverished circumstances her prodigious musical talent and sheer determination was her passport out of hardship leading to recognition as one of the most talented young pianists of her generation. Her emergence as a visionary teacher leads to the founding of the Leeds International Piano Competition and relationships with many internationally renowned pianists whose lives she has touched through her work. Interwoven throughout the story Dame Fanny Waterman shares her inspirationalphilosophies on life learning and music and her compelling and utter passion for the Piano.

Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton is a comprehensive and revealing biography which includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with Dolly over the years. This new and fully updated edition includes a detailed section on the superstar's legendary performance at 2014's Glastonbury Festival.This book is a detailed assessment of her music as a singer and songwriter over the last forty years, and author Stephen Miller discusses how she shrugged aside the male-dominated world of Nashville in the early 1960s to take hold of her career, sell millions of albums and appear in films with Jane Fonda, Burt Reynolds and Sylvester Stallone.Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton throws new light on her private life - her mysterious and closely guarded relationship with her husband Carl Dean, and her lifelong friend Judy Ogle as well as her seeming love of cosmetic surgery. This is the story of an artist and performer who is deadly serious about music but is often seen as frivolous about her image. The updated version of this Dolly Parton biography includes details of her Glastonbury 2014 performance, the cherry on the cake of her illustrious career. Finding new fans and putting on a characteristically entertaining show for old ones, the UK tour led to her most recent album being her biggest-selling album in the UK ever.This incredible detailed Dolly Parton biography is a must for all fans, old and new, of this jewel in country music's crown. Boasting an authoritative account of her ongoing career, this is the only biography on the legendary lady, the queen of country, the philanthropist and perfect performer.Stephen Miller practised as a solicitor until the early Nineties when he retired in order to pursue other interests, notably American country music. For six years he reviewed albums, books and concerts and interviewed a variety of artists for a weekly country music show on commercial radio station Scot FM. He is also the author of Johnny Cash: The Life on an American Idol, also published by Omnibus Press.If you've bought the biography and been inspired by Parton's incredible songwriting, why not learn some of her Greatest Hits with our Dolly Parton sheet music. / Livre

From Flower Maiden to Marschallin (Hardback)-As Flower Maiden in Wagner's Parsifal she gave her opera debut. As Marschallin in Strauss's Rosenkavalier she made history. One of the greatest singers of the last century Elizabeth Schwarzkopf possessed not only an unmistakable timbre but also a bewitching beauty. This pictorial volume contains hundreds of costume and portrait photographs from her private estate providing a lasting reflection of her personality and elegance.

Solfège pour l'étude de l'harmonie classique. Par DESPORTES. Precise Harmonic Analysis intends to accompany and aid harmony and analysis classes at conservatoires and other musical institutions. Covering a wide range of aspects, Yvonne Desportes ''s book succeeds in its intentions. As a student of Paul Dukas, Desportes (1907-1993) won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for harmony in 1932. She then went on to teach at the Paris Conservatoire, compose over 300 works, and publish many music textbooks. Compiled in 1948, Precise Harmonic Analysis addresses intervals, modulations, chords, suspensions, appoggiaturas and echappees, among many other aspects. Thisbook is essential to accompany all intermediate to advanced music studies./ Solfège/Formation Musicale / Formation Musicale

In Prends Ton Tempo Sophie Carre has included all of the concepts that need to be acquired during the first years of music studies. Concepts such as reading intervals sol and fa keys and reading different rhythms. These theoretical concepts are helpfully contextualised by a number of original songs and rhymes as well as by short musical segments. All of the essential concepts of learning to play music are featured in Prends Ton Tempo such as the different notes intervals and even basic arpeggios. Sophie Carre's skill in writing such an effective beginner's book means she intersperses the lessons withreal music enabling you to develop your musicality as well as your theoretical knowledge.

Cahier 4 Piano-Conceived for Piano beginners who have already been introduced to music reading  Le Voyage Magique - Level 4 Traveller follows up on Piano Discoveries - Level 3 A & B Adventurer. Seventh of a series of eight it familiarises the young Pianist to more complex melodies and rhythms to minor chords and minor tonalities and to the techniques of playing. This volume uses the same characters as the previous books who evolve through new illustrations to guide the young pianists. Le Voyage Magique is the translation and adaptation by Stéphane Blet of the American series Piano Discoveries by JanetVogt and Leon Bates. The pedagogy of this book has been studied to be quite close to the language of children in order to develop their interest and concentration. A CD is provided to accompany the player while learning with Le Voyage Magique offering some small melodic pieces to develop a musical ear. Janet Vogt is an American Pianist professor at the College-Conservatory of Music. She also composed pieces for Keyboards for Choirs and some pop music. Leon Bates (born 1949) is a renowned American Pianist who performed with the New York Symphony the Cleveland Symphony and many others. He is also a professor and participated to the conception of this method. Stéphane Blet is an international Solo Pianist who decided to focus on the composition of pieces and on teaching. He is currently professor in the École Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot”.

This little mouse is small friendly and very intelligent. She loves music and plays several intruments. In this book the mouse will help you learn the basic rules of music theory.

The great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 600 works of every musical genre - symphonies concertos chamber works even operas. In this book the first of two David Hurwitz guides the reader/listener through the master's chamber and orchestral music a body of work unique in style expressive range emotional depth formal perfection and sheer beauty. This music doesn't sound like anyone else's. Only Mozart could have written it. Hurwitz's insightful text and the accompanying full-length CD shows us what makes Mozart's music so unique and special - and how to enjoy its many delights. This book is the first of a two-volume set covering Mozart'sorchestral and vocal work.

Cyril Ornadel and Kelvin Reynolds. A new ecological musical in two acts set 30 years into the future. The rivers and land are polluted and the children of the village have never seen a flower bee or sheep. Twelve lively musicalnumbers plus reprises by Cyril Ornadel composer of such famous West End musicals as ‘Pickwick’. Songs include ‘The Factory’ ‘Live For Today’ ‘Rainbow Valley’ ‘Tree Spirits’ and ‘For Tomorrow’. Four principal parts and 12further speaking roles. Orchestral parts on hire.

The American Song Book contains beautiful reproductions of original sheet music of the Tin Pan Alley Era. This book places these songs in historical context and provides fascinating and amusing backgrounds to the songs. Based on original archival research. The American Song Book Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet music including covers of songs that constitute the enduring standards of Irving Berlin Jerome Kern the Gershwins and other lyricists and composers of what has been called the 'Golden Age' of American popular music. These songs havedone what popular songs are not supposed to do-stayed popular. They have been reinterpreted year after year generation after generation by jazz artists such as Charlie Parker and Art Tatum Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. In the 1950s Frank Sinatra began recording albums of these standards and was soon followed by such singers as Tony Bennet Doris Day Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt. In more recent years these songs have been reinterpreted by Rod Stewart Harry Connick Jr. Carly Simon Lady GaGa K.D. Laing Paul McCartney and most recently Bob Dylan. As such these songs constitute the closest thing America has to a repertory of enduring classical music. In addition to reprinting the sheet music for these classic songs authors Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson place these songs in historical context with essays about the sheet-music publishing industry known as Tin Pan Alley the emergence of American musical comedy on Broadway and the 'talkie' revolution that made possible the Hollywood musical. The authors also provide biographical sketches of songwriters performers and impresarios such as Florenz Ziegfeld. In addition they analyze the lyrical and musical artistry of each song and relate anecdotes sometimes amusing sometimes poignant about how the songs were created. The American

Par CHAUD. Découvrez 'Le Livre de la jungle' et amusez-vous, à chaque page, à faire 'sonner' les puces. Écoutez le petit Mowgli rire et se balancer de liane en liane, le tigre Shere Khan grogner et l'ours Baloo chanter. Entendez les cris des singes fous, le charme hypnotique du serpent Kaa et le chant victorieux de Mowgli triomphant de Shere Kahn ! / Relié / Livre / Livres

A companion to the six-part PBS/BBC4 documentary series Broadway: The American Musical is the first comprehensive history of the musical from its roots at the turn of the 20th century through the smashing successes of the new millennium.The in-depth text is lavishly illustrated with a treasure trove of photographs sheet-music covers posters scenic renderings production stills rehearsal shots and caricatures many previously unpublished. Complementing the narrative are sidebars that highlight the stars the shows and the songs - the key ingredients that make the musical great. Each chapter also includes essays written by some of Broadway's mostfascinating luminaries past and present.This edition has been revised and updated with a brand-new foreword by Julie Andrews and new material on all the Broadway musicals through the 2009-2010 season.

Centerstream presents Spann's Guide To Gibson 1902-1941 a detailed look at the inner workings of the famous musical instrument manufacturer of Kalamazoo Michigan before World War II. For the first time Gibson fans can learn about the employees who built the instruments exactly where the raw materials came from the identity of parts vendors and how the production was carried out. The book explains Gibson's pre-World War II factory order number and serial number systems and corrects longstanding chronological errors. Previously unknown information about every aspect of the operation is covered in-depth. Noted historian Joe Spanngathered firsthand info from pre-war employees and had access to major Gibson document collections around the world. Long time Gibson experts as well as casual collectors will find this volume an indispensable addition to their reference shelf.

Par MARTET RICHARD. Barytons, basses, ténors, contre-ténors : toutes les voix masculines sont rassemblées dans l'ouvrage de Richard Martet, qui présente cinquante chanteurs lyriques parmi les plus marquants du XXe siècle. Pour chacun, un long portrait retrace les étapes de sa carriêre, analyse les spécificités de son art, et permet de connaître les caractêres de son répertoire et de sa discographie. Remarquablement documenté et accompagné d'une iconographie riche et originale, l'ensemble constitue une précieuse introduction à  l'intelligence de l'art lyrique. D'Enrico Caruso à  José Carreras et de Fiodor Chaliapine à  Samuel Ramey, un CD contenant prês de huit heures de musique donne à  entendre chaque interprête dans un ou plusieurs airs particuliêrement représentatifs de son art. Enrico Caruso ¿ Aureliano Pertile ¿ Tito Schipa ¿ Lauritz Melchior ¿ Beniamino Gigli ¿ Richard Tauber ¿ Giacomo Lauri-Volpi ¿ Georges Thill ¿ José Luccioni ¿ Peter Pears ¿ Anton Dermota ¿ Jussi Björling ¿ Alfred Deller ¿ Wolfgang Windgassen ¿ Mario Del Monaco ¿ Léopold Simoneau ¿ Giuseppe Di Stefano ¿ Franco Corelli ¿ Carlo Bergonzi ¿ Nicolai Gedda ¿ Jon Vickers ¿ Alfredo Kraus ¿ Alain Vanzo ¿ Fritz Wunderlich ¿ Luciano Pavarotti ¿ Placido Domingo ¿ José Carreras ¿ Fiodor Chaliapine ¿ Vanni Marcoux ¿ Alexander Kipnis ¿ Ezio Pinza ¿ André Pernet ¿ Hans Hotter ¿ Leonard Warren ¿ Tito Gobbi ¿ Boris Christoff ¿ George London ¿ Ettore Bastianini ¿ Cesare Siepi ¿ Ernest Blanc ¿ Gabriel Bacquier (né en) ¿ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ¿ Piero Cappuccilli ¿ Nicolaï Ghiaurov ¿ Hermann Prey ¿ Renato Bruson ¿ Sherrill Milnes ¿ José van Dam ¿ Ruggero Raimondi ¿ Samuel Ramey / Broché / Livre / Livres