"An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expression As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache-over the challenging and complex relationship with her father, the people-pleasing nature that characterized...

Nine Disney standards arranged for beginning piano students to enjoy, including: Alice in Wonderland * Best of Friends * Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) * Heigh-Ho * Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) * Little April Shower * Some Day My Prince Will Come * Whistle While You Work * You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!.

The first book in the English language on the history of baroque music does not need either apology or justification. Histories of music have been written usually as quick surveys of the entire field and if they specialize at all they concentrate as a rule on a single composer. It is a strange though incontestable fact that by far the great majority of music books deal with composers rather than their music. This attitude is a survival of the hero-worship...

A visual journey though decades of Def Leppard history from one of rock's most legendary photographers-includes commentary from the band. Def Leppard's unstoppable hard rock anthems have sold tens of millions of albums worldwide and won the band a legion of dedicated fans. This fully authorized visual history follows them from the new wave of British heavy metal to their massive Pyromania and Hysteria albums to the sustained power of their records...

8 vocal selections from the Disney blockbuster: Be Prepared * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Circle of Life * Hakuna Matata * I Just Can't Wait to Be King. Includes both film versions and Elton John solo versions of the songs.

Since the dawn of time, humans have had the urge to come together and move to music. It may have started in caves but these days it happens in clubs often found in the shady corners of our towns and cities. Or at least it did until these places began to march to the beat of property developers rather than DJs. In London in the five years to 2016, half of the clubs were lost while a further quarter have been removed in the devastation of Covid. So...

Since colonial times, generations of families from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England have settled in Knoxville and East Tennessee. Early on, they arrived with ballads, stories, instruments, and folk music from their former homes. "Songcatchers," including Francis James Child, Olive Dame Campbell, Maud Pauline Karpeles, Cecil J. Sharp, William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, Charles Pickard Ware, and George Pullen Jackson, journeyed deep into...

"Este libro nace de las preguntas que me he hecho a lo largo de varias décadas de actividad profesional como improvisador musical. Nace, pues, de la praxis y de las ideas que genera un contacto diario con esta forma de hacer música. Son estas preguntas las que explican la presencia de todo lo demás ... A menudo, cuando nos interesa algo, lo más difícil no es encontrar respuestas sino aclarar qué es, exactamente, lo que estamos preguntando"....

Las alianzas musicales entre Chile y México tienen una larga trayectoria. Fue esta valiosa correspondencia la que motivó la creación de Canciones de lejos. Complicidades musicales entre Chile y México. En este libro se describe el intercambio de música tradicional como las cuecas chilenas y las rancheras mexicanas, hasta los géneros contemporáneos interpretados por representantes de estos países del norte y el sur de América. Las historias...

By the early nineties, singer-songwriter and former Blake Babies member Juliana Hatfield's solo career was taking off: She was on the cover of Spin and Sassy. Ben Stiller directed the video for her song "Spin the Bottle" from the Reality Bites film soundtrack. Then, after canceling a European tour to treat severe depression and failing to produce another "hit," she spent a decade releasing well reviewed albums on indie labels and performing in ever-smaller...