Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480195Description: Rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. In this work, the editors demonstrate that rap is also a wide reaching and vital poetic tradition born of beats and rhymes. This pioneering anthology brings together more than three hundred lyrics written over thirty years, from the "old school" to the "golden age" to the present day. Rather than aim for encyclopedic coverage, the editors render through examples the richness and diversity of rap's poetic tradition. They feature classic lyrics that helped define the genre as well as lesser known gems. Both a fan's guide and a resource for the uninitiated, this book showcases the inventiveness and vitality of rap's lyrical art, also providing an overview of rap poetics and the forces that shaped each period in rap's historical development.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480195http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476014Description: An essential resource for scholars and performers, this study by a world-renowned specialist illuminates the piano music of four major French composers, in comparative and reciprocal context.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476014http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507405Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507405http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503451Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503451http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480353Description: 'Cajun Breakdown' examines the social and cultural roots of Cajun music's development through 1950. The idiom's synthetic nature suggests an extensive and intensive dialogue with popular culture that extinguishes the myth that Cajuns were an insular folk group astray in the American South.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480353http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503452Description: A sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents. It includes essays by those who created the music and outlines the major trends, aesthetic choices, technological innovations, and commercial pressures that have shaped the relationship between music and film from 1896 to the present.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503452http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503553Description: Approaching the tradition of chamber music with knowledge and passion, James Keller here serves as the often opinionated, always genial guide to 192 essential works by 56 composers, providing illuminating essays on what makes each piece distinctive and admirable. Keller spans the history of this intimate genre of music, from key works of the Baroque through the emotionally stirring "golden age" of the Classical and Romantic composers, to modern masterpieces rich in political, psychological, and sometimes comical overtones. For each piece, from Bach through to contemporary figures like George Crumb and Steve Reich, the author includes an astute musical analysis that casual music lovers can easily appreciate yet that more experienced listeners will find enriching. Keller shares the colorful, often surprising stories behind the compositions while revealing the delights of an art form once described by Goethe as the musical equivalent of "thoughtful people conversing." [Publisher description]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503553http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488238Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488238http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477882Description: Beginning in the time of the New Testament, when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background, Christopher Page traces the history of music in Europe through the development of Gregorian chant--a music that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear--to the invention of the musical staff, regarded as the fundamental technology of Western music. Page places the history of the singers who performed this music against the social, political and economic life of a Western Europe slowly being remade after the collapse of Roman power. --from publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477882http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477253Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477253http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477252Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477252http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503453Description: This extraordinary encyclopedia covers the people, instruments, styles, repertoires and regions of past and present Irish traditional music, song and dance. Half a million words and several hundred images present facts, ideas and terminology, explore aesthetics and ideology, and document teaching, learning, study and performance.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503453http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480476Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480476http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503554Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503554http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491216Description: "A collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time"--Front cover flap.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491216http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476012Description: Publisher description: For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous--Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane--and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados--Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476012http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477251Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477251http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477250Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477250http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492654Description: Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves.--[book cover]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492654http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480475Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480475http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477881Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477881http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480352Description: This edition gives you new information on working with young adolescent changing voices, designing optimal rehearsals for middle schoolers, managing growing choral programs, and helping youngsters gain musical skills they can carry with them for a lifetime. This practical outline will help build your confidence as you take on the new responsibilities associated with teaching middle school chorus.--[book cover]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480352http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477880Description: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the speakers and their communities and including a dual CD/DVD that presents his original field recordings and films, the book features more than twenty musicians who relate frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart of the American South. Here are the stories of artists who have long memories and speak eloquently about their lives, blues musicians who represent a wide range of musical traditions--from one-strand instruments, bottle-blowing, and banjo to spirituals, hymns, and prison work chants.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477880http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477249Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477249http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503456Description: "At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the late Middle Ages. Rather than focus on a single strand of his remarkable career, Elizabeth Eva Leach gives us a book that encompasses all aspects of his work, illuminating it in a distinctively interdisciplinary light. The author provides a comprehensive picture of Machaut's artistry, reviews the documentary evidence about his life, charts the different agendas pursued by modern scholarly disciplines in their rediscovery and use of specific parts of his output, and delineates Machaut's own poetic and material presentation of his authorial persona.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503456http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503555Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503555http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477879Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477879http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489887Description: A panoramic history of the genre brings to life the diverse places in which jazz evolved, traces the origins of its various styles, and offers commentary on the music itself.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489887http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475792Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475792http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503557Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503557http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477878Description: History of jazz that explains what jazz is, where it came from, and who created it and why, all within the broader context of American life and culture. Emphasizing its African American roots, Jazz traces the history of the music over the last hundred years. From ragtime and blues to the international craze for swing, from the heated protests of the avant-garde to the radical diversity of today's artists, Jazz describes the travails and triumphs of musical innovators struggling for work, respect, and cultural acceptance set against the backdrop of American history, commerce, and politics. With vibrant photographs by legendary jazz chronicler Herman Leonard, Jazz is also an arresting visual history of a century of music.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477878http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492656Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492656http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492657Description: Musical identity raises complex, multifarious, and fascinating questions. Discussions in this new study consider how individuals construct their musical identities in relation to their experiences of formal and informal music teaching and learning. Each chapter features a different case study situated in a specific national or local sociomusical context, spanning 20 regions across the world. Subjects range from Ghanaian or Balinese villagers, festival-goers in Lapland, and children in a South African township to North American and British students, adults and children in a Cretan brass band, and Gujarati barbers in the Indian diaspora.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492657http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478644Description: Traces the roots of black music in Africa and slavery and its evolution in the United States from the end of slavery to the present day. The music's creators, consumers, and distributors are all part of the story. Musical genres such as spirituals, ragtime, the blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock, soul, and hip-hop-as well as black contributions to classical, country, and other American music forms-depict the continuities and innovations that mark both the music and the history of African Americans. --from publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478644http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503558Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503558http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480351Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480351http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492658Description: Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the discs were made. Author Brian Harker recaptures the perspective of Armstrong's original audience without abandoning that of today's listeners. This book offers bold insights, fresh anecdotes, and a new interpretation of Louis Armstrong and his most influential body of work.--[book cover]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492658http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480350Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480350http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476983Description: In this instructional DVD Denis Azabagic offers technical and interpretive tips on performing two of the most famous pieces in the classical guitar repertoire: La Catedral by Agustâin Barrios Mangorâe and Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, opus 9 by Fernando Sor. On a master-class level, Azabagic presents insightful technical advice, fingering suggestions and problem-solving exercises as well as a musical overview of each piece by movement or variation.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476983http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476008Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476008http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490861Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490861http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503457Description: "The dance and musical traditions of Ghana's four main ethnic groups are covered comprehensively: general concepts of music, dance and performance; cultural perspectives; performance; and form and structure of musical types and dance-drumming ceremonies. Historical, geographical, cultural and social backgrounds of the groups are included. Provides curriculum development, teaching methods, photographs, maps, and musical scores"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503457http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477877Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477877http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503560Description: Describes the life and career of the folk musician, documentarian, scholar, and founding member of the folk revivial group New Lost City Ramblers.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503560http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=474116Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=474116http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490918Description: This book provides a wide-ranging look at the role played by music that is passed on orally without the use of notation, in the folk, popular and art musics of North American. Found within the many oral traditions are common elements that apply to all human cultures. These elements are connected with the human mind, the limits of memory, the power of organization and the urge toward creativity. McLucas provides an overview of recent research on the brain and memory in order to help the reader understand the inner workings or oral tradition.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490918http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480349Description: In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their own innate creativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musician's Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480349http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492660Description: Unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492660http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480348Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480348http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477876Description: A discussion of John Cage's "4'33"," a mid-twentieth-century musical work composed entirely of silence, providing a cultural context for the piece, and examining the musical, philosophical, and environmental factors that influenced Cage.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477876http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477666Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477666http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480347Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480347http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477875Description: Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century and a giant of modern American culture. Offstage he was witty, introspective and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger-than-life personality was tougher and more sharp-edged than his worshipping fans ever knew. Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout has drawn on new sources unavailable to previous biographers, including hundreds of private recordings of backstage and after-hours conversations, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering figure that shares, for the first time, full, accurate versions of such storied events as Armstrong's quarrel with President Eisenhower and his decision to break up his big band.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477875http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477248Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477248http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477247Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477247http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477874Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477874http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477246Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477246http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477873Description: Glenda Dawn Goss begins her sweeping narrative in the Finland of Sibelius's youth, which remained under Russian control for the first five decades of his life. Focusing on previously unexamined events, Goss explores the composer's formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority. She goes on to trace Sibelius's relationships with his creative contemporaries, with whom he worked to usher in a golden age of music and art that would endow Finns with a sense of pride in their heritage and encourage their hopes for the possibilities of nationhood. Skillfully evoking this artistic climate--in which Sibelius emerged as a leader--Goss creates a dazzling portrait of the painting, sculpture, literature, and music it inspired. To solve the deepest riddles of Sibelius's life, work, and enigmatic silence, Goss contends, we must understand the awakening in which he played so great a role. Situating this national creative tide in the context of Nordic and European cultural current, this book dramatically deepens our knowledge of a misunderstood musical giant and narrates an important chapter in the intellectual history of Europe.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477873http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477872Description: An oral history of North American folk music revivals that draws on more than 150 interviews to explore the musical, political, and social aspects of the folk revival movement.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477872http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477963Description: "This live DVD filmed in Milan, Italy, presents the art of SoloDuo - the guitar duo of Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli..."--From the publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477963http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477871Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477871http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480474Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480474http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478105Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478105http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480346Description: John Potter begins by surveying the prehistory of the tenor in the medieval period, when Gregorian chant and early polyphony had implications for a voice-type, and proceeds to the sixteenth century, when singers were first identified as tenors. He focuses on many of the greatest tenors-- those who predated the gramophone as well as those whose recorded voices may still be heard--and considers the ways in which each is historically significant. The names range from legendary early figures like Ludwig Schnoor von Carolsfeld (Wagner's first Tristan) to those more familiar like Enrico Caruso, Richard Tauber, Mario Lanza, Roberto Alagna, Ian Bostridge, Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo, and, of course, Pavarotti, Domingo, and Carreras. Admirers of the tenor voice will especially appreciate the book's unique reference section, with bibliographical and discographical/video information on several hundred tenors.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480346http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488239Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488239http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477870Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477870http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492663Description: Much has been written about Louis Armstrong, but the majority of it focuses on the early and middle stages of his long career. Now, Ricky Riccardi--jazz scholar and musician--takes an in-depth look at the years in which Armstrong was often dismissed as a buffoonish, if popular, entertainer, and shows us instead the inventiveness and depth of expression that his music evinced during this time. These are the years (from after World War II until his death in 1971) when Armstrong entertained crowds around the world and recorded his highest-charting hits, including "Mack the Knife" and "Hello, Dolly!"; years when he collaborated with, among others, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and Dave Brubeck; when he recorded with strings and big bands, and, of course, with the All Stars, his primary recording ensemble. Riccardi makes clear that these were years in which Armstrong enhanced his legacy as one of jazz's most influential figures.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492663http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477869Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477869http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480345Description: Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who has ever been moved by music.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480345http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492664Description: "Many women composers were successful, finding venues for both publishing and performing their music; others found the social barriers for women impossible to overcome. Arranged chronologically by era, each section is divided into countries. For each female composer within a country, a brief biographical sketch is provided, as well as a description of her body of work."--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492664