Music

For anyone who has worked in the theatre as a performer, a musician or in backstage magic, this book will bring back memories of your own relationship with the stage. For those who enjoy live theatre, this is a real look behind the scenes. With Don Harron's gifts and guidance, Anne of Green Gables became a hit musical production and like Don himsel …

Melvin Berman's varied experience as a much sought after pedagogue as well as a performing oboist of international repute make him eminently qualified to write a book about oboe reed making. Having recorded over 15 albums, performed on the soundtracks of more than 200 films, participated in, literally, hundreds of television and radio broadcasts, …

Aural Cultures provides a comprehensive and timely exploration of the dimension of sound. The contributors continue the explorations of audio art and popular music that is the mainstay of sonic discourse, yet they also examine sound in a more expansive context. The book is accompanied by a CD of artists' projects.

The oral traditions surrounding the application of sharps and flats to 16th century vocal music are documented in relation to theoretical literature, vocal sources, and intabulations of vocal music. Special reference is made to the motets of Josquin Desprez, Clemens non Papa, and Alexander Agricola.

They are all legendary entertainers who made stops in Vancouver, BC, leaving flakes of stardust behind. A wonderful horde of showbiz lore has accumulated over the decades but has been jealously guarded by industry insiders. For example, Coquitlam's Steelhead Lodge, a secluded fishing retreat, was frequented by the likes of Clark Gable and Kim Novak …

Set in the framework of Beethoven's life, William Kinderman's detailed examination of the music traces the composer's intellectual and musical development, from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets. Beethoven's innovations in form and style, his musicalsymbolism and narrative structures are illustrated in anal …

Beethoven's Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, his longest and most complex piece for piano, stands beside the Ninth Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, and the late quartets as one of the monumental achievements of his last period. In this first extended study of these variationsWilliam Kinderman investigates their compositional origins and …

In Being Young, Astrid Young offers a fresh perspective on the cultural icon she knows as her older brother. Taking up where their father Scott Young's book, Neil and Me, left off, she explores the influences that shaped their family and the events that drove them apart and, eventually, brought them back together.