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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1970, c1953
Language
English
Description
Mr. Kirkpatrick traveled extensively to collect material that has tripled the known facts about Scarlatti's life, providing the first adequate biography of one of the greatest harpsichord composers of the eighteenth century and one of the most original composers of all time. The second half of his book is an illuminating study of Scarlatti's 555 sonatas, concluding with a chapter on their performance. The book contains extensive appendixes, including...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a baroque composer have been discovered....
6) The voices
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the scorching summer of 1976--the hottest since records began--Christopher Norton, his wife Laura and their young daughter Faye settle into their new home in north London. The faded glory of the Victorian house is the perfect place for Norton, a composer of film soundtracks, to build a recording studio of his own. But soon in the long, oppressively hot nights, Laura begins to hear something through the crackle of the baby monitor. First, a knocking...
10) Handel
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronological table by Anthony Hicks. With 100 illustrations, 10 in colour. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
Series
Irish trilogy volume 2nd
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Only when Shawn Gallagher mixes his music with magic is he able to see how much tomboy Brenna O'Toole cares about him.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All Emma Daley wants this holiday season is a white Christmas. But the young teacher and struggling musician sure can't find that in sunny Arizona. Luckily, there's someone living in a perfect mountain home in the Colorado Rockies looking to make a vacation trade this year.Tyler Prescott is an in-demand songwriter and talented musician who put his own singing career on hold to write songs for celebrity acts to perform. When his mother convinces him...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time-that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history's wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine the recognition she deserves. Bern Hendricks has just received...
Author
Publisher
G. Howard Watt
Pub. Date
1931
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
One autumn night in the eighties a young Irishman of twenty-seven, who had passed most of his life in Germany, took his place in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera House to play the cello. His name was Victor Herbert. He had just arrived in New York, and from his obscure seat he looked around curiously at the mass of faces glowing weirdly in the vast, dim auditorium. He felt a symbolic force in the crowding immensity of the place, in the...