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Set on 700 acres of rolling farm hills in Manchester, Tennessee, Bonnaroo is a four-day music and camping festival that draws in over 80,000 fans every summer. Featuring over 120 musical performances, along with comedy, cinema, sustainability workshops, and more, the grounds are converted into a virtual city of music and art. With over 200 photographs of some of the most legendary musical acts of all time, and numerous personal contributions by musicians...
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The official book celebrating the 25th anniversary of SPIN magazine.
From its first issue in 1985, SPIN has cultivated a reputation for brilliant writing and broad musical coverage, including genres and artists long abandoned by its competitors. From punk to electronica, goth to gangsta rap, emo to garage rock, and hip-hop to indie rock, SPIN has covered it all and featured interviews with leading artists through every musical wave of the last 25...
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THE OPERA GUIDE, 100 POPULAR COMPOSERS surveys the world's greatest opera composers and their most popular works. Beginning with Monteverdi, who wrote the first important operas, they range through the repertory up to today's groundbreaking works by Philip Glass, George Benjamin and other living composers.
As David Pountney explains in his foreword, opera has steadily grown over the last 400 years and is now more popular and more diverse than ever...
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In August of 1969, a dairy farm in the state of New York hosted a
pivotal moment in the history of pop music. Taking place only two years
after the "Summer of Love" and one year after the tumultuous events of
1968, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair put an exclamation point on the
transformational decade of the 1960s. Joni Mitchell did not attend
Woodstock, but her song of the same name captures an opposition inherent
to the turbulent and divisive...
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The Classic FM Concise Hall of Fame celebrates classical music's unique ability to stir the emotions of a listener-whether it's the haunting melodies of Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs or Purcell's Dido and Aeneas; the passionately charged opening bars of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5; dramatic operas such as Puccini's La bohème; the moving sounds of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto; beautiful ballet scores from...
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For the first time in one volume, here is the best of Relix magazine: the ultimate, spectacular history of the Grateful Dead and their fans. Relix magazine - much like the Grateful Dead, the band they captured relentlessly - was not just the backdrop for a generation, it was an inspiration. Begun in 1974 as a newsletter to connect Deadheads, the magazine exploded along with the tie-dyed community that embraced it. Relix: The Book is a compilation...
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For 30 years, Guitar World magazine has served as North America's leading publication for rock guitarists – and with more than 325 issues under its belt, the world's bestselling guitar magazine is showing no signs of slowing down. In this extraordinary book, the complete history of Guitar World is chronicled – from July 1980, when the very first issue, which featured Johnny Winter on its cover, took the guitar-playing community by storm, to issues...
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The orchestra is one of the cornerstones of classical music, beloved of music lovers around the world. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized handbook explores the make-up and functions of the different sections, from strings to percussion, as well as some of the greatest orchestras around the world and the incredible music that they perform. Classic FM's Handy Guides are a fun and informative set of introductions to standout subjects...
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An essential short history of classical music, and a standalone accompaniment to the Handy Guides series! Trace the history of classical music from its birth through the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods and right up to the present day. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized handbook explores the lives and works of the key composers from around the world. Classic FM's Handy Guides are a fun and informative set of introductions...
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2017 saw the triumphant return of the weird and haunting TV show Twin Peaks, with most of the original cast, after a gap of twenty-five years. Twin Peaks and Philosophy finally answers that puzzling question: What is Twin Peaks really about?
Twin Peaks is about evil in various forms, and poses the question: What's the worst kind of evil? Can the everyday evil of humans in a small mountain town ever be as evil as the evil of alien supernatural beings?...
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The adult-oriented science-fiction cartoon series Rick and Morty, shown on Cartoon Network as part of its late-night Adult Swim feature, is famous for its nihilistic anti-hero Rick Sanchez. Rick is a character who rejects God, religion, and meaning, but who embraces science and technology.
This leads to a popular show that often presents a world view favorable to science and dismissive of spirituality. It is existentialism mashed up with absurdism...
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A great collection of simply the chords and lyrics for 50 favorite kid songs. Titles include the Alphabet Song* The Bear Went over the Mountain* Bingo* Eensy Weensy Spider* Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) * I've Been Working on the Railroad* John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt* Kum Ba Yah* The Muffin Man* Oh! Susanna* Old MacDonald Had a Farm* Skip to My Lou* Take Me Out to the Ball Game* Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star* and more.
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A grand collection of 46 classical favorites arranged for the early intermediate-level player: Air on the G String (Bach)* Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod & Schubert versions)* Canon in D (Pachelbel)* Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)* Panis Angelicus (O Lord Most Holy) (Franck)* Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar)* Tales from the Vienna Woods (Strauss)* Wedding March (Mendelssohn)* and more.
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Though 5 Seconds of Summer are opening for One Direction on their worldwide Take Me Home Tour, and though 1Ds Louis Tomlinson has been a 5SOS fan for awhile, the pop-punk rockers from Sydney, Australia, arent just another boy band. They write their own music, play their own instruments, and cite bands such as Blink-182, Green Day, and All Time Low as their influences. Comprised of Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, and Ashton Irwin, 5SOS...
17) In the Beginning
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In the Beginning is from the much larger performance piece Prophecies of War. Composed by Andrew Hanna it is a progressive Jazz-Fusion composition composed for alto saxophone, electric guitar, bass guitar, and keyboards.
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KISS is the most outrageous and yet the most enduring of rock bands, with an unparalleled, almost religious level of devotion from millions of die-hard fans. In KISS and Philosophy, professional thinkers of diverse outlooks provide much-needed insights into the motivating ideas and metaphysical foundations of the KISS take on life. According to some, the true message of KISS is self-actualization through the hard work of following your dreams. Others...
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(Piano Solo Songbook). Softer, gentler piano solo arrangements of 34 more favorites, including: Bella Notte * Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag) * God Help the Outcasts * I Just Can't Wait to Be King * I Wan'na Be like You (The Monkey Song) * Into the Unknown * Out There * The Place Where Lost Things Go * The Rainbow Connection * Stay Awake * and more.
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English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern England, reconsidering previously held ideas about the...
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