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FACTORY RECORDS' REPUTATION AND FORTUNE WERE FOUNDED ON TWO BANDS -JOY DIVISION AND NEW ORDER - AND ONE SINGLE-MINDED AND STUBBORN PERSONALITY: ITS MEDIA-FRIENDLY COMPANY DIRECTOR ANTHONY H.

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"Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Norman Granz, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, Don Ellis, and Miles Davis--these are the dozen j"

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A study of Sibelius' music - his influences, use of native folk sources, belief in both rhythm and variation (the "germ motif") - placed in the context of the historical and cultural events that shaped Finnish nationalism. His standing as a composer and place in Finnish art are assessed.

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This work is a researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African-American women, focusing on the implications of race, gender, and class for their musical creativity, and showing how this category was shaped by the individual personalities of its participants.

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Drawing on primary documents as well as interviews and letters, the authors of this book have created a portrait of one of America's most distinguished and prolific composers whose creative output spans more than half a century.

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"Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901-1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized"

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George Crumb is a composer at the forefront of post-World War II American music, and never before has one volume combined a portrait of his life with a catalogue of his extensive work.

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American composer George Gershwin, an icon of the American Jazz Age, indelibly marked 20th-century music, with many of his works becoming standards in the popular and jazz music repertory, not to mention his world-famous classical works such as Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and Porgy and Bess (1935).

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Having retired from a career in government, Hyland has taken to writing about American popular music and here traces the life, personality, and work of composer Gershwin (1898-1937) from his birth in New York City to the impact his music continues to exert. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland,

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Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealing how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how his work reflected the turmoil of America in the Jazz Age, and how, despite his fame, he never achieved the happiness and contentment a genius of his stature deserved.

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Considered the "Dean of American Composers" from the 1880s through World War I, Chadwick and his music are enjoying a revival in this decade; this guide explores his life and work.

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Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) was a British composer, editor, author and outdoorsman/agrarian. This work serves as an awareness tool, introducing Finzi as a miniaturist, a pastoral composer and a minor Edwardian musician.

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The name of Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) commonly brings to mind the intriguing group of French composers referred to in the 1920s as iconoclasts, and known as Les Six (with Poulenc, Auric, Durey, Milhaud, and Honegger).

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This biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life - from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hall - of George Gershwin (1898-1937), a man whose music and career - like F. Scott Fitzgerald's - embodied the glamorous success and lost possibility of the Jazz Age.

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"Oscar Hammerstein II (1895--1960) forged a remarkable, multifaceted career as a librettist, lyricist, playwright, director, and producer. He wrote Carmen Jones, Carousel, Show Boat, and, with longtime"

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Gian Carlo Menotti is a composer known chiefly for his popular operas, including Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Medium, and The Consul.