Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith was certainly the greatest blues singer who lived and probably one of the greatest and most influential singers of the twentieth century. Her blues songs mirrored her tempestuous life as...

Cambridge Music Handbooks- Mozart: The 'Jupiter' Symphony

This guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony explores the historical background and aesthetic context of the work as well as the music itself. The early chapters examine the expectations o...

Mozart Cambridge Companion

The Cambridge Companion to Mozart paints a rounded yet focussed picture of one of the most revered artists of all time. Bringing the most recent scholarship into the public arena, this volume bridges...

Anyone Who Had A Heart

Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated and legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre, Marlene Die...

Music Production How to Produce Music, the Easy to Read Guide for Music Producers

Here Comes the Sun

"A fascinating read."–Associated PressJoshua Greene, who studied meditation with the legendary Beatle George Harrison, draws on personal remembrances, recorded conversations, and firsthand accounts to...

Rock and Roll Comics

Music Box

Music and photography have always shared a special relationship&;when an iconic musician is portrayed by a first-rate photographer, the result is often transformative and transcendent, and a classic p...

Arabesk

Hoe is het om, na een leven lang in betrekkelijke anonimiteit aan de piano te hebben gezeten, plotseling als een geliefd componist te worden toegejuicht? En dat dan ook nog met een creatie die eigenli...

Astrid Kirchherr with The Beatles

The young photographer Astrid Kirchherr met the Beatles for the first time in 1960 at Kaiserkeller, one of the many club on the Reeperbahn in which young British band where aired to play Rock 'n' Roll...

Prince

"With a brand-new introduction and chapter that cover the last five years of Prince's life and work and his untimely death in April 2016. In his three decades of recording, Prince had nearly thirty...

Brutally honest

The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl - and the truth behind the headlines As one-fifth of the iconic Spice Girls and judge on X Factor and America's Got Talent, Melanie Brown, a.k...

Brutally Honest

Martinu`s Subliminal States – A Study of the Composer`s Writings and Reception, with a Translation of His "American Diaries

Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) was one of the most productive and frequently performed composers of the mid-twentieth century, renowned for such works as his opera Julietta; the Double Concerto for Two...