A Business History and Dating Guide Book and CD-ROM. The Ludwig Book by Rob Cook is the definitive business and historical guide to this legendary drum manufacturer. Includes dozens of interviews a 64-page color section a dating guide including every catalogued Ludwig snare drum and outfit and a handy CD-ROM. Interview sections include the top executives from Ludwig's heyday in the 1960s: Karl Dustman Frank Baxpehler and Dick Schory as well as todays leaders: William F. Ludwig III Todd Trent and Jim Catalano. There are also special segments on Ludwig Electronics Phase II and detailed sections about the gear used by famous drummers such as John Bonham and Ringo Starr.
SKU: HL.51482352
ISBN 9790201823522. UPC: 884088180096. 7.25x10.25 inches.
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ISBN 9781934596135. UPC: 888680916817. 9.0x12.0x1.047 inches.
This book traces keyboard playing from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century. It discusses all the instruments – organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and piano, including quotes from letters, diaries, reviews, and method books. There are chapters dedicated to Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt, and major sections on such great performers and composers as Frescobaldi and Couperin to Debussy and Rachmaninoff. This book belongs in the library of every keyboard performer and teacher.
SKU: HL.51482603
ISBN 9790201826035. UPC: 884088180485. 6.75x9.75 inches.
This complete edition of Beethoven's correspondence has been edited by Sieghard Brandenburg on commission from the Beethoven House in Bonn. It forms a milestone in the study of Beethoven, being the first complete edition in German to be compiled and fully annotated in accordance with modern scholarly-critical criteria. The edition includes all of Beethoven's known letters (1,789 items of primary correspondence), all obtainable letters written to him (370 items of secondary correspondence) and numerous documents written on Beethoven's behalf by third parties (163 items of tertiary correspondence). It provides the text in a diplomatic transcription critically corroborated against the original sources, including deleted passages, addresses and drafts. The texts are presented in chronological order in six volumes and are made readily accessible by a seventh volume containing indices of names, places, works, senders, recipients, and text incipits as well as a list of sources and concordances to other editions of Beethoven's letters.
SKU: HL.51482606
ISBN 9790201826066. UPC: 884088180515. 6.75x9.75 inches.
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ISBN 9790201826059. UPC: 884088180508. 7.0x10.0x1.4 inches.
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ISBN 9790201826080. UPC: 884088180539. 7x10 inches.