The Rough Guide to Opera

The Rough Guide to Opera
Title The Rough Guide to Opera PDF eBook
Author Matthew Boyden
Publisher Rough Guides
Pages 756
Release 2002
Genre Music
ISBN 9781858287492

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Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.

The Rough Guide to Opera

The Rough Guide to Opera
Title The Rough Guide to Opera PDF eBook
Author Matthew Boyden
Publisher
Pages 774
Release 2007
Genre Music
ISBN

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A unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. The title features lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders.

Opera

Opera
Title Opera PDF eBook
Author Matthew Boyden
Publisher
Pages 690
Release 1997
Genre Music
ISBN

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Sketches of opera composers, opera synopsises, and CD reviews.

The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix

The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix
Title The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix PDF eBook
Author Richie Unterberger
Publisher Penguin
Pages 678
Release 2009-06-01
Genre Music
ISBN 1405381094

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The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix is a thorough reference book to the life and music of the greatest rock guitarist of all time. It covers all the key events in his metamorphosis from a misfit youngster growing up in poverty in Seattle to his rise to international stardom, from his days as a starving backup musician in the early 1960s to his triumphant appearances at the Monterey Pop and Woodstock rock festivals and his mysterious, sordid death in 1970. Special chapters are devoted to vivid description and critical evaluation of all his important studio and live albums and best thirty songs, as well as all major live and documentary Hendrix videos; his myriad musical influences from blues, soul, rock, and jazz; Hendrix-related sites and shrines; and his spectacular arsenal of guitar techniques and effects. Also including special features on overlooked aspects of his art ranging from his love of Bob Dylan's music to his relationship with the Black Power movement, The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix in a new ePub format documents all dimensions of this one-of-a-kind musical genius.

The Rough Guide to Classical Music

The Rough Guide to Classical Music
Title The Rough Guide to Classical Music PDF eBook
Author Joe Staines
Publisher Penguin
Pages 691
Release 2010-05-17
Genre Music
ISBN 1405383216

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This expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously.

The Rough Guide to Rock

The Rough Guide to Rock
Title The Rough Guide to Rock PDF eBook
Author Peter Buckley
Publisher Rough Guides
Pages 1234
Release 2003
Genre Dictionaries
ISBN 1858284570

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Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.

Classical Music

Classical Music
Title Classical Music PDF eBook
Author Duncan Clark
Publisher Rough Guides
Pages 630
Release 2001
Genre Music
ISBN 9781858287218

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Sketches of classical composers and CD reviews.