Product Description: American composers are at the forefront of a renaissance in concert music, in the process expanding the very definition of the category. The impact of digital technology on the creative process and the unprecedented diversity of contemporary composers are arguably among the catalysts driving the rebirth...read more

Product Description:  This collection of new interviews with twenty-five accomplished female composers substantially advances our knowledge of the work, experiences, compositional approaches, and musical intentions of a diverse group of creative individuals...read more

Product Description: In this volume, 39 of the legendary composers from Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and Broadway of the 1920s through the 1950s discuss their careers and share the stories of creating many of the most beloved songs in American music. Interviewed for radio in the mid-1970s, they include such giants as Harold Arlen, Eubie Blake, Cy Coleman, George Duning, Sammy Fain, Jerry Herman, Bronislaw Kaper, Henry Mancini, David Rose, Arthur Schwartz, Charles Strouse, Jule Styne, Jimmie Van Heusen, Harry Warren, Richard Whiting, and Meredith Willson...read more

Product Description: The secrets of songwriting from the legends of musicSong is an enthralling compilation of songwriting wisdom from 100 of the biggest names in music. From country to rock to folk to alternative, this genre-spanning collection of interviews captures the anecdotes, history, and wisdom of the best songwriters around - in their words...read more

Musical theater has captivated American audiences from its early roots in burlesque stage productions and minstrel shows to the million-dollar industry it has become on Broadway today. What is it about this truly indigenous American art form that has made it so enduringly popular? How has it survived, even thrived, alongside the technology of film and the glitz and glamour of Hollywood? Will it continue to evolve and leave its mark on the twenty-first century?Bringing together exclusive and previously unpublished interviews with nineteen leading composers, lyricists, librettists, directors, choreographers, and producers from the mid-1900s to the present, this book details the careers of the individuals who shaped this popular performance art during its most prolific period. The interviewees discuss their roles in productions ranging from On the Town (1944) and Finian's Rainbow (1947) to The Producers (2001) and Bounce (2003).Readers are taken onto the stage, into the rehearsals, and behind the scenes. The nuts and bolts, the alchemy, and the occasional agonies of the collaborative process are all explored. In their discussions, the artists detail their engagements with other creative forces, including such major talents as Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Jule Styne, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner, Zero Mostel, and Gwen Verdon. They speak candidly about their own work and that of their peers, their successes and failures, the creative process, and how a show progresses from its conception through rehearsals and tryouts to opening night.Taken together, these interviews give fresh insight into what Oscar Hammerstein called "a nightly miracle"—the creation of the American musical.

'The first edition, published in 1971, served for the past three decades as the most comprehensive reference source on education. The revised version proves a worthy successor. Its eight volumes contain over 850 articles written or reworked by more than 1,000 contributors. Nearly every article has been completely rewritten, with many new topics added. The six appendixes include information on achievement tests, state departments of education, legislation and court cases important to the field of education, and a 138-page index.'--'The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year,' American Libraries, May 2004.Presents more than eight hundred articles on education in the United States and the rest of the world, including such topics as elementary and higher education, organizations, teacher preparation, and educational policy.

Presents interviews with more than thirty popular songwriters, including Pete Seeger, Brian Wilson, Carole King, Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Frank Zappa, Janis Ian, Madonna, and Joan Baez

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American avant-garde composers discuss their work and their influences

Product Description: Milton Babbitt, Arthur Berger, and Ross Lee Finney have, during long and distinguished careers, often commented upon the state of contemporary American music and have been unafraid to speak plainly about the dangers in an incresingly musically illiterate and commercialized society...read more

Presents interviews with more than fifty popular songwriters, including Robbie Robertson, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Pete Seeger, Frank Zappa, Todd Rundgren, Carlos Santana, Townes Van Zandt, and Paul Simon (view table of contents)

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The entire range of John Cage's work and thought, explored in three wide-ranging dialogues, which constitute his last unified statement on his art.

Product Description: At last there is a companion volume to Scarcrow's landmark primary source on contemporary American, Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers (1982). Eighteen major composers, representing a wide range of musical attitudes and techniques, speak their minds in SOUNDPIECES 2: Glenn Branca, Anthony Braxton, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, Anne LeBaron, Moondog, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Ned Rorem, Laurie Spiegel, Morton Subotnick, Sun Ra, James Tenney, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young, John Zorn...read more

'The first edition, published in 1971, served for the past three decades as the most comprehensive reference source on education. The revised version proves a worthy successor. Its eight volumes contain over 850 articles written or reworked by more than 1,000 contributors. Nearly every article has been completely rewritten, with many new topics added. The six appendixes include information on achievement tests, state departments of education, legislation and court cases important to the field of education, and a 138-page index.'--'The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year,' American Libraries, May 2004.Presents more than eight hundred articles on education in the United States and the rest of the world, including such topics as elementary and higher education, organizations, teacher preparation, and educational policy.

... Strickland's own deep involvement with the works of these composers [is] revealed by the questions and comments he poses in an appreciative, Paterian way. His profound pleasure in these works also leads him to scrutinize and challenge them intimately." ―Publishers WeeklyThis is an indispensable book about American music... " ―Fanfare... exhilarating... Any of the interviews in American Composers will stimulate your curiosity and appetite."―Hungry Mind Review... not only engaging, but also a useful representation of the major compositional styles of the 1980s and their corresponding practitioners." ―NotesPhilip Glass, Keith Jarrett, Meredith Monk, and eight other active American composers reveal a broad spectrum of musical personalities in these candid, in-depth conversations. Witty and articulate, their remarks convey the great vitality, diversity, and distinctiveness of today's American music.

Interviews with the American composer discuss orchestral and local music, music theory, sessions' life, and fellow musicians and composers.

Product Description: Soundpieces: Interviews With American Composers

Product Description: One of America's great twentieth-century composers in a series of wide-ranging conversations.