Summary: An unrivaled, comprehensive reference containing everything that even the most die-hard music fan could want to know about rock. More than 1,800 entries are cross-referenced to include discographies, collaborations, influences, and other connections; 500 color illustrations. All the entries have been distilled from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music's 8,000,000 word database. From A to ZZ, each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Billboard Books 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.6603 BILRemnick, David
Summary: "The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing "Respect" or Bob Dylan performing "Blind Willie McTell," have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOSummary: "Conceived and produced in association with the Renaissance society of America, this work presents a panoramic view of the cultural movement and the period of history beginning in Italy from approximately 1350, broadening geographically to include the rest of Europe by the middle-to-late-15th century, and ending in the early 17th century. Each of the nearly 1,200 entries provides a learned and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society of America 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1988
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Summary: Recounts the life of the general who led Allied troops to victory in World War II and became thirty-fourth president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1987
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Summary: Recounts the story of America's fourth president, known as the Father of the Constitution, describing his early life in Virginia and his many years of service in public office.
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MADISON CLIDorling Kindersley, Inc. (COR)/ Wiffen, Charles (EDT)
Summary: A visual guide to one thousand years of classical music introduces composers, performers, instruments, and key works.
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Summary: An intimate conversation about music and writing illuminates the perspectives and shared interests of the internationally acclaimed author of "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1998
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Summary: "In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centerpiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers and mandolin players hammered out old mountain ballads while legends from the dawn of country music performed their classic hits. Most of the musicians who showed up have long since passed,...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.642 STRGardiner, John Eliot.
Summary: "From one of Bach's greatest living interpreters, a landmark study which explains in ... detail how the composer worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects--and what it can tell us about Bach the man"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1955
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SACBausum, Ann
Summary: "Revised and updated to include the winner of the 2020 presidential election, this photo-filled and fact-packed book is a timely reference. Key features include: Information about the 2021 president-elect and the 2020 election results, a brand-new thematic spread on the impeachment process and its history, revised terminology around the language of slavery and analysis of early presidents who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.09 BAUPerone, James E.
Contents: The young virtuoso, 1962-1964 -- The first three albums -- With a song in my heart and Stevie at the beach -- The soul shouter, 1965-1967 -- Uptight -- Down to earth -- I was made to love her -- Someday at Christmas -- The middle of the road, 1968-1970 -- Eivets rednow -- For once in my life -- My cherie amour -- Signed, sealed & delivered -- The independent artist, 1971-1973 -- Where I'm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PERGrohl, David
Summary: The legendary American musician, singer, songwriter and documentary filmmaker offers a collection of stories, written by his own hand, that focus on the memories of his life, from his childhood to today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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Summary: In "John Prine," Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine's musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine's best-known songs and discusses all of Prine's albums as he explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2015
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Summary: A tribute to the life and achievements of the "Godfather of Soul" covers his unconventional youth in a segregated South, his complicated family life, and his work as a civil rights advocate and entrepreneur.
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Contents: The making of a musician : Philadelphia (1922-1938) -- From student to pro (1938-1943) -- Integration of the Armed Forces : the Montford Point Marines (1943-1946) -- Big band odyssey (1946-1950) -- New York (1950-1953) -- On the road again : Count Basie (1953-1954) -- Back on Broadway and into the studios (1955-1957) -- On staff : African American musicians and the network orchestras...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple Univ Pr 2014
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Summary: "Some pieces of music survive; most fall into oblivion. What gives the ten masterpieces selected for this book their extraordinary vitality? In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes readers into the heart of ten great works of classical music-works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SACSociety of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy 1976