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Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom
By Ariel Burger. 2018
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD—BIOGRAPHY Elie Wiesel was a towering presence on the world stage—a Nobel laureate, activist,…
adviser to world leaders, and the author of more than forty books, including the Oprah’s Book Club selection Night. But when asked, Wiesel always said, “I am a teacher first.” In fact, he taught at Boston University for nearly four decades, and with this book, Ariel Burger—devoted protégé, apprentice, and friend—takes us into the sacred space of Wiesel’s classroom. There, Wiesel challenged his students to explore moral complexity and to resist the dangerous lure of absolutes. In bringing together never-before-recounted moments between Wiesel and his students, Witness serves as a moral education in and of itself—a primer on educating against indifference, on the urgency of memory and individual responsibility, and on the role of literature, music, and art in making the world a more compassionate place. Burger first met Wiesel at age fifteen; he became his student in his twenties, and his teaching assistant in his thirties. In this profoundly thought-provoking and inspiring book, Burger gives us a front-row seat to Wiesel’s remarkable exchanges in and out of the classroom, and chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men over the decades as Burger sought counsel on matters of intellect, spirituality, and faith, while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant, to rabbi and, in time, teacher. “Listening to a witness makes you a witness,” said Wiesel. Ariel Burger’s book is an invitation to every reader to become Wiesel’s student, and witness.How to Grow as a Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed
By Sheila E. Anderson. 2005
A Friendly Guide to Launching and Maintaining Your Musical Career It&’s tough to make a living from one&’s love of…
music, but Sheila E. Anderson shows readers how to do just that in How to Grow as a Musician. This encouraging yet realistic guide covers everything from developing and learning one&’s craft to managing the business aspects of a musical career. This second edition expands on performance tips, self-promotion tactics, and steps to improve one&’s networking skills to make fruitful connections. Anderson shares her insights as well as practical advice from successful musicians and other industry professionals on topics such as:Composing and recordingUnderstanding and negotiating contractsPutting on a performanceGetting and keeping gigsUtilizing social mediaAnd moreHow to Grow as a Musician is packed with candid views on everything from overcoming failure to the art of writing a song to doing that all-important ego check. Whether they&’re just getting started or have been in the business for years, all musicians will reap the rewards of this thoughtful career guide.Listening for America: Inside The Great American Songbook From Gershwin To Sondheim
By Rob Kapilow. 2019
“Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow.” —Kansas City Star…
Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America, he turns his keen ear to the Great American Songbook, bringing many of our favorite classics to life through the songs and stories of eight of the twentieth century’s most treasured American composers—Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, Rodgers, Bernstein, and Sondheim. Hardly confi ning himself to celebrating what makes these catchy melodies so unforgettable, Kapilow delves deeply into how issues of race, immigration, sexuality, and appropriation intertwine in masterpieces like Show Boat and West Side Story. A book not just about musical theater but about America itself, Listening for America is equally for the devotee, the singer, the music student, or for anyone intrigued by how popular music has shaped the larger culture, and promises to be the ideal gift book for years to come.Hailed as an “indispensable” guide (Forbes), How to Make It in the New Music Business returns in this extensively revised…
and expanded edition. When How to Make It in the New Music Business hit shelves in 2016, it instantly became the go-to resource for musicians eager to make a living in a turbulent industry. Widely adopted by music schools everywhere and considered “the best how- to book of its kind” (Music Connection), it inspired thousands to stop waiting around for that “big break.” Now trusted as the leading expert for “do it yourself” artists, Ari Herstand returns with this second edition, maintaining that a stable career can be built by taking advantage of the many tools at our fi ngertips: conquering social media, mastering the art of merchandising, embracing authentic fan connection, and simply learning how to persevere. Comprehensively updated to include the latest online trends and developments, it offers inspiring success stories across media such as Spotify and Instagram. The result is a must- have for anyone hoping to navigate the increasingly complex yet advantageous landscape that is the modern music industry.Irving Berlin: New York Genius (Jewish Lives)
By James Kaplan. 2019
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fast‑moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music Irving…
Berlin (1888–1989) has been called—by George Gershwin, among others—the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. &“Berlin has no place in American music,&” legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; &“he is American music.&” In a career that spanned an astonishing nine decades, Berlin wrote some fifteen hundred tunes, including &“Alexander&’s Ragtime Band,&” &“God Bless America,&” and &“White Christmas.&” From ragtime to the rock era, Berlin&’s work has endured in the very fiber of American national identity. Exploring the interplay of Berlin&’s life with the life of New York City, noted biographer James Kaplan offers a visceral narrative of Berlin as self‑made man and witty, wily, tough Jewish immigrant. This fast‑paced, musically opinionated biography uncovers Berlin&’s unique brilliance as a composer of music and lyrics. Masterfully written and psychologically penetrating, Kaplan&’s book underscores Berlin&’s continued relevance in American popular culture.About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.More praise for Jewish Lives: &“Excellent.&” – New York times &“Exemplary.&” – Wall St. Journal &“Distinguished.&” – New Yorker &“Superb.&” – The GuardianNot Afraid: The Evolution of Eminem
By Anthony Bozza. 2019
The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Whatever You Say I Am, chronicling the last 20 years of rapper…
Eminem's life, based on exclusive interviews with the artist, his friends, and associatesIn 1999, a former dishwasher from Detroit named Marshall Bruce Mathers III became the most controversial and polarizing musical artist in the world. He was an outlier, a white artist creating viable art in a black medium, telling stories with such verbal dexterity, nimble wit, and shocking honesty that his music and persona resonated universally. In short, Eminem changed the landscape of pop culture as we knew it.In 2006, at the height of his fame and one of the biggest-selling artists in music history, Eminem all but disappeared. Beset by nonstop controversy, bewildering international fame, a debilitating drug problem, and personal tragedy, he became reclusive, withdrawing to his Detroit-area compound. He struggled with weight gain and an addiction to prescription pills that nearly took his life. Over the next five years, Eminem got sober, relapsed, then finally got and stayed clean with the help of his unlikely friend and supporter, Elton John. He then triumphantly returned to a very different landscape, yet continued his streak of number one albums and multiplatinum singles.Not Afraid picks up where rock journalist Anthony Bozza's bestselling Whatever You Say I Am left off. Capturing Eminem's toughest years in his own words, as well the insights of his closest friends and creative collaborators, this book chronicles the musical, personal, and spiritual growth of one of hip hop's most enduring and enigmatic figures.Composition and Cognition: Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind
By Fred Lerdahl. 2020
In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model…
of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as a foundation for his compositional style and how his intuitions as a composer have guided his cognitively oriented theories. At times personal and reflective, this book offers an overall picture of the musical mind that has implications for central issues in contemporary composition, including the recurrent gap between method and result, and the tension between cognitive constraints and utopian aesthetic views of musical progress. Lerdahl’s succinct volume provides invaluable insights for students and instructors, composers and music scholars, and anyone engaged with contemporary music.African American Music: An Introduction
By Portia K. Maultsby, Mellonee V. Burnim. 2015
American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred…
and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.The Mid-Twentieth-Century Concert Pianist: An English Experience
By Julian Hellaby. 2018
In this book, Julian Hellaby presents a detailed study of English piano playing and career management as it was in…
the middle years of the twentieth century. Making regular comparisons with early twenty-first-century practice, the author examines career-launching mechanisms, such as auditions and competitions, and investigates available means of career sustenance, including artist management, publicity outlets, recital and concerto work, broadcasts, recordings and media reviews. Additionally, Hellaby considers whether a mid-twentieth-century school of English piano playing may be identified and, if so, whether it has lasted into the early decades of the twenty-first century. The author concludes with an appraisal of the state of English pianism in recent years and raises questions about its future. Drawing on extensive research from a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, this book is structured around case-studies of six pianists who were commencing and then developing their careers between approximately 1935 and 1970. The professional lives and playing styles of Malcolm Binns, Peter Katin, Moura Lympany, Denis Matthews, Valerie Tryon and David Wilde are examined, and telling comparisons are made between the state of affairs then and that of more recent times. Engagingly written, the book is likely to appeal to professional and amateur pianists, piano teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate music students, academics and anyone with an interest in the history of pianists, piano performance and music performance history in general.Jazz: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
By Stuart Nicholson. 2017
This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginner&’s Guide is a lively and highly…
accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the reader on an entertaining journey from jazz's early stirrings in America&’s south through to the present day, when almost every country in the world has its own vibrant jazz scene.En route we meet a host of jazz heroes past and present, from Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Miles Davis, to Keith Jarrett and Kamasi Washington. Each chapter is accompanied by a playlist designed to provide a stimulating and enjoyable entry point to what has been described as the most exciting art form of all.Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions
By Ann E. Lucas. 2019
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Iran’s particular system of traditional Persian art…
music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand Years, Ann E. Lucas argues that this music is a modern phenomenon indelibly tied to changing notions of Iran’s national history. Rather than considering a single Persian music history, Lucas demonstrates cultural dissimilarity and discontinuity over time, bringing to light two different notions of music-making in relation to premodern and modern musical norms. An important corrective to the history of Persian music, Music of a Thousand Years is the first work to align understandings of Middle Eastern music history with current understandings of the region’s political history.10 original funk blues guitar licks from the Minor scale in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate…
level and above. >> 55 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 5.5 bars) >> Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) >> Backing tracks at full and slower practise speeds (Downloadable) >> Scale diagrams with theory and technique tips for each lick >> Guitar tablature has picking directions & fretting finger guide numbers Please Note: This eBook has written music and is not suitable for smaller screens.10 original country pop guitar licks from the Locrian mode in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate…
level and above. >> 55 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 5.5 bars) >> Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) >> Backing tracks at full and slower practise speeds (Downloadable) >> Scale diagrams with theory and technique tips for each lick >> Guitar tablature has picking directions & fretting finger guide numbers Please Note: This eBook has written music and is not suitable for smaller screens.Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies)
By William Smialek, Maja Trochimczyk. 2015
Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to…
the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides electronic resources.Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland (Music, Nature, Place)
By Árni Ingólfsson. 2019
In Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland, Árni Heimir Ingólfsson provides a striking account of the dramatic career…
of Iceland's iconic composer. Leifs (1899–1968) was the first Icelander to devote himself fully to composition at a time when a local music scene was only beginning to take form. He was a fervent nationalist in his art, fashioning an idiosyncratic and uncompromising 'Icelandic' sound from traditions of vernacular music with the aim to legitimize Iceland as an independent, culturally empowered nation.In addition to exploring Leifs's career, Ingólfsson provides detailed descriptions of Leifs's major works and their cultural contexts. Leifs's music was inspired by the Icelandic landscape and includes auditory depictions of volcanos, geysers, and waterfalls. The raw quality of his orchestral music is frequently enhanced by an expansive percussion section, including anvils, stones, sirens, bells, ships' chains, shotguns, and cannons.Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Leifs's music has been rediscovered in recent years and hailed as a singular and deeply original contribution to twentieth-century music. Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland enriches our understanding and appreciation of Leifs and his music by exploring the political, literary and environmental contexts that influenced his work.Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
By Benjamin Piekut. 2019
In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed…
rock music to its limits. Its rotating personnel, sprung from rock, free jazz, and orchestral worlds, synthesized a distinct sound that troubled genre lines, and with this musical diversity came a mixed politics, including Maoism, communism, feminism, and Italian Marxism. In Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem Benjamin Piekut tells the band&’s story—from its founding in Cambridge in 1968 and later affiliation with Virgin Records to its demise ten years later—and analyzes its varied efforts to link aesthetics with politics. Drawing on ninety interviews with Henry Cow musicians and crew, letters, notebooks, scores, journals, and meeting notes, Piekut traces the group&’s pursuit of a political and musical collectivism, offering up its history as but one example of the vernacular avant-garde that emerged in the decades after World War II. Henry Cow&’s story resonates far beyond its inimitable music; it speaks to the avant-garde&’s unpredictable potential to transform the world.10 original progressive metal guitar licks from the Lydian mode in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate…
level and above. >> 63 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 6.3 bars) >> Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) >> Backing tracks at full and slower practise speeds (Downloadable) >> Scale diagrams with theory and technique tips for each lick >> Guitar tablature has picking directions & fretting finger guide numbers Please Note: This eBook has written music and is not suitable for smaller screens.10 original thrash metal guitar licks from the Phrygian mode in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate…
level and above. >> 64 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 6.4 bars) >> Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) >> Backing tracks at full and slower practise speeds (Downloadable) >> Scale diagrams with theory and technique tips for each lick >> Guitar tablature has picking directions & fretting finger guide numbers Please Note: This eBook has written music and is not suitable for smaller screens.10 original soft rock guitar licks from the major scale in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate…
level and above. >> 53 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 5.3 bars) >> Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) >> Backing tracks at full and slower practise speeds (Downloadable) >> Scale diagrams with theory and technique tips for each lick >> Guitar tablature has picking directions & fretting finger guide numbers Please Note: This eBook has written music and is not suitable for smaller screens.10 original smooth jazz guitar licks from the Dorian mode in tablature and notation for the progressing guitarist at intermediate…
level and above. >> 53 bars of music over 10 licks (average lick length 5.3 bars) >> Video at full speed & Audio at full & half speed (Downloadable) >> Backing tracks at full and slower practise speeds (Downloadable) >> Scale diagrams with theory and technique tips for each lick >> Guitar tablature has picking directions & fretting finger guide numbers Please Note: This eBook has written music and is not suitable for smaller screens.