Product Description: Edmund Thornton Jenkins: The Life and Times of an American Black Composer, 1894-1926 (Music Reference Collection, #2) [ Edmund Thornton Jenkins: The Life and Times of an American Black Composer, 1894-1926 (Music Reference Collection, #2) by Green, Jeffrey P ( Author ) Hardcover Nov- 1982 ] Hardcover Nov- 24- 198...read more

Product Description: A step-by-step course in written and spoken Romanian.

Product Description: Ben Johnston is an American composer internationally known for his work with extended just intonation. This is a critical-analytical study of his early compositions, his studies with Harry Partch and John Cage, and his experiments with just intonation, serialism, indeterminacy, jazz, and finally, extended just intonation...read more

Product Description: well written & illustrated non-fiction book, about Gershwin's early & professional life, compositions, plays & songs

Product Description: This book presents a balanced presentation of research methods across disciplinary boundaries—both psychological and sociological, laboratory experiments and survey methods, quantitative and qualitative techniques. It offers a coherent, organizing theme, in this case, that of validity in its various guises-internal, external, inferential statistical, and measurement construct...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Courage, determination, and the dream of a new life help a group of pioneers overcome fear during their journey westward to Oregon

Product Description: This is an interactive CD-ROM program which integrates actual heart sounds and murmurs with dynamic ultrasound and X-ray motion picture images, graphic haemodynamic recordings, animated diagrams, gross pathology and text. The product is designed to provide physiological and functional anatomic correlates and explanations of normal and abnormal heart sounds and murmurs so that physicians and health professionals in training or practice can better recognize "classical" heart sounds and murmurs...read more

Recounts the life and career of Duke Ellington's collaborator, the composer of such jazz standards as 'Take the A train' and a homosexual who received little acknowledgement for his talents during his lifetime (view table of contents)

Product Description: During his short but prolific career, George Gershwin (1898-1937) produced a varied body of work that combined symphonic composition with the musical styles popular in his era, including jazz and African-American spirituals. Known primarily for his jazz-tinged orchestral work Rhapsody in Blue, his folk opera Porgy and Bess, and his many wonderful songs featured in the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Gershwin and his lyricist brother Ira were key figures in the songwriting circles of pre-war America...read more

In the third volume of his series The Great Songwriters, an eminent musicologist focuses on the seminal contributions of two giants of the modern musical theater--Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd-Webber--to the development of a new form of musical, capturing such creative milestones as Company, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera.

Product Description: Ted Jarrett has been a central figure in Music City’s thriving rhythm & blues scene since the 1950s, working as a hit songwriter, musician, producer, label chief, artist manager, talent scout, and disc jockey. You Can Make It If You Try provides a fascinating and instructive look at one man’s drive to succeed in the world of music...read more

This book presents a balanced presentation of research methods across disciplinary boundaries—both psychological and sociological, laboratory experiments and survey methods, quantitative and qualitative techniques. It offers a coherent, organizing theme, in this case, that of validity in its various guises-internal, external, inferential statistical, and measurement construct. The organizing theme is validity—the extent to which the researcher's conclusion can be judged credible. Validity is broken down into several components each of which is developed in one or more chapters including construct validity (both measurement and experimental), statistical inference validity, internal validity, and external validity. These validity types are then revisited as appropriate in the treatments of the several basic research approaches—true experimental, quasi-experimental, correlational, and qualitative. Ideal for professionals belonging to various psychological or sociological association or anyone interested in review or updating their current knowledge.

Product Description: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Bay Area Book of the Year A book unlike anything ever written by a composer--part memoir, part description and explication of the creative process--Hallelujah Junction is an absorbing journey across the musical landscape of America and through the life and times of John Adams, one of today's most admired and performed composers...read more

Product Description: (Meredith Music Resource). In this delightful collection of anecdotes, Michael Colgrass invites the reader into his private encounters with Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, and a host of other key figures in American music...read more

Product Description: Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis collaborated on two books that detailed the life of one of America's most admired and treasured composers, famous for Fanfare for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, El Salon Mexico, Lincoln Portrait, and many more works from movie scores to orchestral pieces and chamber music...read more