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Echoes from Calvary: Meditations on Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ
Richard Young, ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield.   Format: paperback & CDs.
ISBN: 9780742543843.  Daedalus Item Code: 13943
 
In Easter services all over the world today, the seven main movements of Franz Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ are accompanied by spoken meditations on the seven final utterances of ... (Read More)
 
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Fidelio in Full Score
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Publisher: Dover.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780486466170.  Daedalus Item Code: 10021
 
Beethoven's Fidelio—his only opera—is the tale of the heroic Leonore, who poses as a guard to rescue her husband from political prison, and it has been an audience favorite for nearly two ... (Read More)
 
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Fine and Dandy: The Life and Work of Kay Swift
Vicki Ohl.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300102611.  Daedalus Item Code: 11734
 
Kay Swift (1897–1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the 20th century. Best known as George Gershwin's assistant, musical adviser, and intimate friend, ... (Read More)
 
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Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers
William Murray.
Publisher: Crown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781400053605.  Daedalus Item Code: 72989
 
The last book written by longtime New Yorker staff writer William Murray (also the author of Janet, My Mother, and Me), this is his tribute to opera and also to his own road not taken. ... (Read More)
 
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Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
Susan Quinn.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802716989.  Daedalus Item Code: 30049
 
In a desperate economic era, FDR and his advisers had to furiously improvise to get millions of unemployed people back to work. For writers, actors, and artists, they created the Federal Theater ... (Read More)
 
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Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists
Herbert Keyser.
Publisher: Applause.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781423462750.  Daedalus Item Code: 21795
 
This book presents 28 illustrated biographies of the greatest songwriters, lyricists, and writing teams of Broadway musicals, from Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, and Cole Porter to ... (Read More)
 
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The Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2011
James Jolly, ed.
Publisher: Gramophone.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780860249238.  Daedalus Item Code: 30141
 
This long-standing resource draws on more than 80 years of classical music reviews from Britain's Gramophone magazine, steering the collector toward the best recordings and also, thanks to the ... (Read More)
 
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The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
Rick Beyer.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061626982.  Daedalus Item Code: 30686
 
Have you ever heard the story of the ballet that sparked a riot? Or the rock star who became an astrophysicist? Did you know that there was controversy behind "Mary Had a Little Lamb," or that a song ... (Read More)
 
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Guitar Tabsongs—Popular Country for Flatpick
Alan Jackson, Dwight Yoakam, Vince Gill & others.
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780786670208.  Daedalus Item Code: 22583
 
These 15 country classics are arranged for the beginning to intermediate guitarist, and are written in both standard notation and tablature. Among the hits featured here are Garth Brooks' "The ... (Read More)
 
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Handbook for American Musicians Overseas: With the Dictionary of Contemporary Music Terms in English, French, German and Italian
Anthony Glise.
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780786649549.  Daedalus Item Code: 22585
 
Whether you're a seasoned traveler or making your first trip to Europe to study or work as a musician, this dictionary gives you the musical vocabulary that you'll need in French, German, and ... (Read More)
 
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Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Alan Goldsher.
Publisher: Hal Leonard.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780634037931.  Daedalus Item Code: 10376
 
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers was one of the most enduring, popular, and vital hard bop bands in modern jazz history. Blakey was not only an inventive and powerful drummer, he was also one of ... (Read More)
 
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The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America
James Sullivan.
Publisher: Gotham Books.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781592404902.  Daedalus Item Code: 20546
 
Since James Brown's death in December 2006, the Godfather of Soul has received many tributes, yet few have addressed his contribution in the bleakest hour of the civil rights movement. The former pop ... (Read More)
 
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