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Todd LowryThis set features both Volumes 1 and 2 of Beatles Complete in an attractive hard case with deluxe foil lettering. Includes over 200 classic songs, including: All My Loving * And I Love Her * Baby You're a Rich Man * Back in the U.S.S.R. * Birthday * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Come Together * The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill * A Day in the Life * Day Tripper * Do You Want to Know a Secret? * Drive My Car * Eleanor Rigby * The End * The Fool on the Hill * Get Back * A Hard Day's Night * Help! * Helter Skelter * Here Comes the Sun * I Saw Her Standing There * I Wanna Be Your Man * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Lady Madonna * Let It Be * Magical Mystery Tour * Nowhere Man * Penny Lane * Revolution * Something * Strawberry Fields Forever * Twist and Shout * and more. A perfect gift for any Beatles fan or collector!

The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of The Clash. An album by album, track by track, examination of every song released by The Clash, from their first single, White Riot to their album Co

This title presents Strummer, Jones, Simonon & Headon, in their own words for the first time. It is the music book of 2008.From "White Riot" to "Rock The Casbah", The Clash were a band like no other. Part of the original wave of British punk bands to emerge in the 1970s, their skilled musicianship, intelligent songwriting, boundless energy, definitive style and passionate idealism caught the spirit of the times and made them a worldwide phenomenon. "Rolling Stone" magazine declared "London Calling" one of the greatest albums of all time, and their music has only become more resonant over the past thirty years. Their story is steeped in mythology. Many people have their own opinions about what made them tick - but now readers can hear the full story from the band themselves.

Desde sus comienzos como un pequeño grupo de blues en Londres en 1967, pasando por el éxito mundial de su LP Rumors y la inclusión de artistas americanos, continúa siendo una de las grandes bandas de todos los tiempos, a pesar de sus altos y bajos. La historia de Fleetwood Mac es la mayor telenovela de la historia del Rock & Roll.

This Companion provides a biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdis music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdis milieu, style, creative process, and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Individual chapters address themes in Verdis life, his role in transforming the theater business, and his relationship to Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento. Chapters on four operas representative of the different stages of Verdis career, Ernani, Rigoletto, Don Carlos, and Otello synthesize analytical themes introduced in the more general chapters and illustrate the richness of Verdis creativity. The Companion also includes chapters on Verdis non-operatic songs and other music, his creative process, and scholarly writing about Verdi from the nineteenth-century to the present day.

Jean Sibelius has gradually emerged as one of the most striking and influential figures in twentieth-century music, yet his work is only just beginning to receive the critical attention that its importance deserves. This Companion provides an accessible and vivid account of Sibelius's work in its historical and cultural context. Leading international scholars, from Finland, the United States and the UK, examine Sibelius's music from a range of critical perspectives, including nationalism, eroticism and the exotic, music and landscape, reception and musical influence. There are also chapters ...

This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of French composer Maurice Ravel (18751937). Leading international scholars offer a powerful reassessment of this most private and elusive musician, examining his work in detail within its cultural context. Supported by many music examples, the volume explores the full range of Ravels work - piano repertory, chamber works, orchestral music, ballets, songs and operas - and makes illuminating comparisons with the music of Couperin, Gounod, Chabrier and Debussy. The essays present the latest research focusing on topics such as Ravels exoticism and Spanishness and conclude by analysing the performance and reception of his music, including previously untranslated reviews. Marking the 125th anniversary of Ravels birth, the Companion as a whole aims to secure a solid foundation for Ravel studies in the twenty-first century and will appeal to all enthusiasts and students of his music.

Peter Mercer-TaylorThe Companion to Mendelssohn, is written by leading scholars in the field. In fourteen chapters they explore the life, work, and reception of a composer-performer once thought uniquely untroubled in life and art alike, but who is now broadly understood as one of the nineteenth centurys most deeply problematic musical figures. The first section of the volume considers issues of biography, with chapters dedicated to Mendelssohns role in the emergence of Europes modern musical institutions, to the persistent tensions of his German-Jewish identity, and to his close but enigmatic relationship with his gifted older sister, Fanny. The following nine essays survey Mendelssohns expansive and multi-faceted musical output, marked as it was by successes in almost every contemporary musical genre outside of opera. The volumes two closing essays confront, in turn, the turbulent course of Mendelssohns posthumous reception and some of the challenges his music continues to pose for modern performers. Essays by leading scholars in the field of Mendelssohn studies Though thoroughly scholarly, the volume also provides sufficient background information to be of use to those relatively unfamiliar with Mendelssohn and his work Includes essays focusing on some of the most pressing issues confronting Mendelssohn scholarship