Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917-1980
... presents a comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to the modern symphony orchestra--its history, music, and performance, including a special section on the human voice .... [also] explains the instruments of...
The first and only history of jazz based on actual available recordings as well as a listeners' guide to building a jazz record collection.
Covering the entire spectrum of jazz from its origins in ragtime through the latest developments, there are important essays on all the major jazz figures, lucid definitions of jazz terms,...
"Mozart's symphonies have received rather less critical attention than his operas and piano concertos, and this book is the first serious attempt in any language to survey the entire panorama...
A detailed account of the nature, origins, development, and performers of jazz in America
This book correlates early American history during the Revolutionary War with the musical tradition of America. The growth and topics of American colonial and Revolutionary era music, especially in the...
Beethoven's symphonies are among this greatest works -- in the opinion of many, the greatest orchestral compositions in the history of music. Perfect in their fusion of emotion and form,...
In this book the author traces the history of America's oldest symphonic organization down to the beginning of Pierre Boulez's conductorship. Against the background of changing cultural patterns of American...
An outline of the development of jazz is accompanied by photographs of musicians ranging from Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet to Charlie Parker and Miles Davis