The evolution of the symphony is one of the greatest achievements of the Western musical mind. Its 250-year history--how it began to challenge the traditional superiority of vocal music to eventually become regarded as one of the most fulfilling genres...

Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated,...

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*"We think we know everything, but author Ian Leslie proves otherwise. His new book, 'John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,' is, astonishingly, one of the few to offer a detailed narrative of John Lennon and Paul...

The National Bestseller • One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year“A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the...

A revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writersOut the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. This is how Ben Ratliff’s runs started most days of...

In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). A must for Bowie fans. 41 songs in all from 'Ziggy Stardust' to his album 'Tonight,' including: Ashes to Ashes * Blue Jean * Cat People * Changes * China Girl * Fashion * Let's Dance * The Man Who Sold the World *...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Note-for-note fingerpicking arrangements with tab for 30 favorites, including: America * Anji * Blackbird * The Boxer * Classical Gas * Cross Road Blues * Drifting * Dust in the Wind * Helplessly Hoping * Jack Fig * Julia *...

(Guitar Educational). The Hal Leonard Guitar Method has been a mainstay for students of the guitar for many years. In this latest installment, the Hal Leonard Fingerpicking Guitar Method , guitarist Doug Boduch fast-tracks you through the fundamentals,...

(Guitar Method). The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and reflects some of the best teaching ideas from around the world...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Now once again available, the revised edition of this matching folio features a stunning 24-page color section with lots of photos and introductions to the songs. Includes note-for-note transcriptions of 11 Hendrix hits:...

The untold story of acoustic effects in popular music.Winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (2006)Echo and Reverb is the first history of acoustically imagined space in...

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the...

From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock's evolution. Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as "America's most significant punk band...

"The all-access autobiography of Bad Religion, a Southern Californian institution and one of the most influential and long-standing punk rock bands of all time In 1980, punk was declared dead in New York, done-for in London, banned in Hollywood. And yet...

Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionA distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time"If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this...

Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Swiss, affirms the value of Black life through sound while...

A cello has no language, yet it possesses a vocabulary wide enough to tell, bear witness, and make connections across time and continents—a feat brought to life in this brilliant new book. In this luminous narrative, Kate Kennedy, a writer and cellist...

The incredible true story of a blind musician, a brutal crime, and the making of an American folk legend In June 1936 James Lee Strother performed thirteen songs at the Virginia State Prison Farm for famed folklorist John Lomax and the Library of...

The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture. From 1965 to 1995,...