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In Writing Music for Commercials: Television, Radio, and New Media, professor, composer, arranger, and producer Michael Zager describes the process of composing and arranging music specifically for commercials across the growing variety of media formats.

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Gathers selections from letters, essays, criticism, and autobiographies by Telemann, Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schuman, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, and Mahler.

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It's not often that one of the world's greatest composers is accused of plagiarising his wife's work, but an Australian musical expert has cast doubt on whether Johann Sebastian Bach wrote all his own material. Conductor Martin Jarvis believes Bach's cello suites were composed by the German musician's second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach (1701-60).

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In Year by Year in the Rock Era, Herb Hendler chronicles the evolution of rock from its inception in 1954 until its wane in the early 1980s through a year-by-year breakdown of the progression of musical events--the artists, groups, songs, dances, and LPs that rocked the youth generation for nearly three decades.

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"This chronological account of the rock era and its evolution will appeal to many researchers interested in the period. This book will also appeal to trivia buffs with its inordinate amount of little-known information." Reference Books Bulletin

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Sam Cutler was the personal tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs. After the Altamont CA concert descended into hell, he was left to make peace with, among others, the Hell's Angels. He went on to manage The Grateful dead, Janis Joplin, he now lives in Australia with his Aussie wife.

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Of all the great pop-music books written, it is worth savouring You Don't Have To Say You Love Me for its brilliant sideways insight into one of the most exciting cultural periods Britain has ever seen.

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A companion volume to "You Just Fight for Your Life", this discography details 251 recording sessions. A song index, a name index that keys items to numbered sessions and an index of solos are included.

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A Danish musician here presents the most accurate, comprehensive work on a major figure in American jazz: Lester Willis Young (1909-1959), better known as `Pres' or `Prez,' from the nickname `President' given to him by Billie Holiday.

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Young Hearts Run Free is an antidote to I Love the 1970s; it is the real story of the 1970s from the critically acclaimed author of Manchester, England.

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Thirteen musicians from diverse cultures, time periods, and stations in life are presented here as examples of what gifted and determined young people have achieved in their artistic careers before they turned 25 years old.

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Composer Rocco Di Pietro's memoir of his personal and professional relationship with the composer Julius Eastman (1940-1990)

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"Yuming's fourth album, The 14th Moon (1976), is not only an iconic landmark of Japanese popular music history but also a window to musical and social change in 1970s Japan-especially from the viewpoint of female musicians"--

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He came from Outer Space...

It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music the rock god who came from the stars which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens.

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Zip Pop Buzz is the story of a child who wakes up to the sound of a ladybug making the unmistakable sound, Zip Pop Buzz. Follow the child through the story as she tries to figure out what the little ladybug is asking for.

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A biography of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly which discusses his life and works, including concert performances.

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The great eccentric of British psychedelia and unsung national treasure - beloved of everyone from Led Zeppelin, R.E.M. to Stewart Lee and the late Jonathan Demme (who directed Storefront Hitchcock, a 1998 concert film conceived as 'a document not a documentary') - pens an idiosyncratic childhood memoir . . .