Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

In early 1964, photographer Harry Benson received a call from the photo editor of Londons Daily Express, who asked him to cover the Beatles trip to...

Musical scores like literature, poetry, and technical manuals are documents. The central tenet of this book is that musical composition in the di...

In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band's story th...

Performer and researcher Peter OHagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed considera...

For the first time, Ethan Mordden chronicles the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in Love Song, a dual biography that unfolds against the back...

When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record ...

This title was first published in 2003. From 1821 until his death, Schubert compiled or specially composed for publication 42 song sets, yet during...

The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music scene, both for his imm...

First published in 1998, music scored for film has only relatively recently received the critical attention which it merits. Many composers in the ...

Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to internatio...

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman...

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate ...

While Chopin composed only a few works in variation form, he employed variations and variation technique in the majority of his works. Multiple mod...

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate ...

This book explores Juan de Anchietas life and his music and, for the first time, presents a critical study of the life and works of a major Spanish...

Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with...

First published in 1998, music scored for film has only relatively recently received the critical attention which it merits. Many composers in the ...

This second selection of essays by David Fallows draws the focus towards individual composers of the 'long' fifteenth century and what we can learn...

Barcelonian Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966) was one of the greatest cello virtuosi of the twentieth century and a notable composer and arranger, leaving...

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with iconic film composers who, perhaps to the surprise ...