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"Thirty Three and a Third" is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music. What binds the series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors musicians, broadcasters, scholars, and writers are huge fans of the album they have chosen. One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign ''O'' the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the landmark recordings of the 1980s. He also illustrates beautifully how - if a record is great enough and lucky enough to hit you at the right time - it can change your way of looking at the world.

Sing My Way Home explores the ascendance of American roots rock and its signature artists, past and present. The book traces the movement's antecedents and profiles the visionary singer-songwriters and musicians who, over the past three decades, have made it an extraordinary, thriving genre. Every chapter includes a playlist to guide readers in downloading and building their own "mix tapes." This is a book that will transform novice fans into experts and enrich their understanding of great singer-songwriters and performers.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" NICK CAVE"A stoned cold classic" IAN RANKIN'Mark Lanegan writes like he sings, from the pained heart of a damaged soul with brutal honesty' BOBBY GILLESPIE"Powerfully written and brutally, frighteningly honest" LUCINDA WILLIAMSA ROUGH TRADE AND MOJO BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, Mark Lanegan takes us back to the sinister, needle-ridden streets of Seattle, to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and saturated with drugs. He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of Screaming Trees, from a brawling, acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favourites with an enduring legacy, and tells of his own personal struggles with addiction, culminating in homelessness, petty crime, and the tragic deaths of his closest friends.

Libro del año según Rough Trade y Mojo. El enorme legado de Mark Lanegan, de una intensidad brutal, y su voz cruda y cavernosa son ya parte de la historia de la música popular. Poco antes de morir, L

Sinfonía teatral es un libro sobre música, teatro y creatividad dirigido al alumnado del Tercer Ciclo de Educación Primaria. Contiene seis unidades didácticas, cada una con una escena de la obra Sinfonia teatral, una divertida historia en la que cada niño es un personaje de un apasionante viaje en busca de la musica, que ha desaparecido. Progresiva y pedagogicamente va presentando a lo largo del viaje iniciado los diferentes elementos de la musica: silencio, ritmo, melodia, armonia, instrumentos de orquesta, agrupaciones musicales. Todo ello, de la mano de grandes genios de la musica, como Beethoven, Elvis Presley, John Lennon o Louis Amstroong. De manera original, entrelazando teatro y musica, ofrece un proyecto global con diversas actividades y audiciones musicales.

Tomás Bretón Hernández (Salamanca, 1850; Madrid, 1923) es uno de los grandes compositores españoles de su generación. Junto a Ruperto Chapí, Gerónimo Giménez y Emilio Serrano, contribuyó a la consolidacion de los generos orquestal y lirico en España. Su vocacion musical, desarrollada pese a circunstancias economicas adversas, le llevo a estudiar violin, piano, armonia y composicion, escribiendo sus primeras obras aun antes de realizar estudios musicales academicos. Como becario de la Academia de Bellas Artes, pudo conocer de cerca la actividad musical europea gracias a su estancia en Roma, Venecia, Milan, Viena y Paris. Compuso numerosas obras para orquesta, contribuyendo a la consolidacion genero instrumental. Ademas, Breton llevo a su mas alto nivel el genero lirico español, con titulos como La verbena de la Paloma -obra por la que especialmente es conocido- y La Dolores, si bien sus esfuerzos a favor de la opera española no se vieron recompensados. El presente volumen continua nuestros trabajos previos de estudio y edicion de la obra orquestal de Breton que nos han permitido publicar las ediciones criticas de la Sinfonia nº 2 en Mi bemol, la obra alhambrista En la Alhambra, y tres obras andalucistas, Zapateado, Escenas andaluzas y Polo gitano, en esta coleccion.