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P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master
The definitive and authorized biography of one of the greatest literary humorists of all time, first published in 1974, now appears in a revised updated edition.
The Jubilee Singers and Their Songs
The remarkable story of the Fisk University chorus and their popular performances of Negro folksongs and spirituals, this volume is supplemented by 139 great songs, complete with text, and fully notated both in open score and in a two-stave keyboard reduction. Songs include such all-time favorites as Down By the River.
"Solace" and other short works for piano
Eleven lively pieces by great ragtime composer include "Great Crush Collision," "Combination March," "Harmony Club Waltz," "Augustan Club Waltz," "March Majestic," "Bethena," "Rosebud," 3 more. Reproductions of original sheet music covers.
Russian Piano Music
This collection of 44 pieces spotlights the works of important Russian composers who popularized their native folk music. Contributors include Michael Glinka, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolas Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and others.
Tin Pan Alley
For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.
Black Bottom Stomp
Black Bottom Stomp tells the compelling stories of the lives and times of nine seminal figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.
Complete piano rags
Reprinted from the publishers' original editions, offers all thirty-eight piano rags by the respected master of the form, along with the original sheet music covers.
Ragtime rediscoveries
Features 64 works from the golden age of rag, most long unavailable, including rare works by James Scott, Cy Seymour, E.J. Stark, Bob Hoffman, Harry L. Cook, Max Hoffmann, and 51 other composers, among them several women. Original cover, too.
Cuttin' Up
Reveals how the new technologies of mass culture--the phonograph, radio, and film--played a key role in accelerating the diffusion of jazz as a modernist art form across the nation's racial divide. Focuses on four cities--New Orleans, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles--to show how each city produced a distinctive style of jazz.
Danse Macabre and Other Piano Transcriptions
Original collection features Liszt's interpretations of his own "Totentanz" plus Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre, " Berlioz's "Dance of the Sylphes" from" The Damnation of Faust, "Weber's "Overtures to Die ""Freischutz" and "Oberon, "and several other pieces.
