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THE SICK BAG SONG chronicles Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. Inspired by John Berryman's Dream Songs it is an epic exploration of inspiration, creativity, loss, love and death. The book blends poetry, lyrics, memories, musings, flights of...

Is there any music more instantly recognizable and beautifully scored than Tchaikovsky’s wildly popular ballet Swan Lake? These and other works have become enduring classics, yet they were not uncontroversial in Tchaikovsky’s day, and there are those that still wonder if his style is fundamentally European or ardently Russian. Find out more about Tchaikovsky’s childhood obsession with music, his turbulent relationships with friends and colleagues, and how he overcame the deepest of personal crises to transcend all with an ambition that has left us with some of the greatest music ever written.

Pagliacci may be the most completely compelling short opera in the repertory and owes much of its impact to a brilliant story based, it is said, on true life and told through the device of a play-within-a-play. The action is set in Calabria in the deep south of Italy where the jealousies and illicit passions of a troupe of strolling actors precisely intersect with the play they are performing - to both touching and tragic effect.

L’elisir d’amore, or The Elixir of Love, has remained popular for almost two centuries because of a touching tale and a galaxy of comic characters adapted from the traditional commedia dell’ arte. Above all Donizetti poured into the score all the warmth and tenderness of the Italian temperament.

自らのさまざまな活動を通じて経験したアーティストの貴重な体験談などを生の声で語る「artistbook」企画の第1回配信作品。1969年中学時代の仲間3人とマイペースというフォークバンドを結成。山平和彦のバックを務めた後、1974年「東京」という曲でミリオンヒットをだした森田 貢が、フォークの時代からJ-POPまで日本の音楽の変遷を熱く語ります。//『J-POPのルーツ』/日本のフォーク世代は、言葉に徹底的にこだわり、詩を先攻させて曲を作っていったが、西洋音楽との融合を目指したロックは成功し、J-POPとして変わっていった様を当時を振り返りながら語る。/artistbook第1回配信作品は、次の3タイトルです。/1.『フォーク誕生』:森田 貢/2.『音楽シーンが変わった時「東京」』:森田 貢/3.『J-POPのルーツ』:森田 貢/(C)2011 TED/F.O.D./JI-NON

アーティストのインタビューやライヴほか、さまざまな音楽体験からのリアルな音楽シーンのアーカイブスを、評論家、DJたちが生の声で語る「musicbook」企画の第6回配信作品。ウクレレのCDプロデュースや音源制作、輸入販売などをてがけるクリエイティヴ集団「東京HALE」の代表でもある鈴木修一がハワイアン・ミュージックを語ります。/『ハワイアン・ミュージックと日本』/ハワイアン・ミュージックの伝来は・・・。初めてのわが国でのハワイアン・コンサートを開催、そして音楽学校を開校し日本人にハワイアンの素晴らしさを教えてくれたアーネスト・カウイ。ハワイアン・ミュージックと日本との関係をここに紐解きます。/musicbook第6回配信作品は、次の5タイトルです。/1.『我が心のスーパースターたち 第6回 マイケル・ジャクソンVol.1』:湯川れい子/2.『我が心のスーパースターたち 第7回 マイケル・ジャクソンVol.2』:湯川れい子/3.『我が心のスーパースターたち 第8回 マイケル・ジャクソンVol.3』:湯川れい子/4.『ルーツ・オブ・ハワイアン・ミュージック』:鈴木修一/5.『ハワイアン・ミュージックと日本』:鈴木修一/ (C)2010 TED/F.O.D./JI-NON

In his day, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was celebrated as a child prodigy, a consummate pianist, and the composer who most defined the classical period in music. Now, over 200 years later, researchers are discovering another dimension of this legendary figure's life—the dimension of healer. On...

In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist. The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention to a log cabin in the Hollywood Hills, where the straight young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty. 

Jazz is a uniquely American art form, one of America's great contributions to not only musical culture, but world culture, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition, category, and stagnation. Now you can learn the basics and history of this intoxicating genre in an eight-lecture series that is as free-flowing and original as the art form itself.

A quarter of a century after his death, Jimi Hendrix's popularity is undiminished, his place as the preeminent electric guitarist of the age unrivaled. Back in print, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and an updated discography, The Jimi Hendrix Experience gives the whole story of his legendary life and career, the virtuosity and madness, the genius and the rush to self-destruction, as well as the fierce ongoing battle for control over his estate that has been waged since Hendrix's death.

One of America’s leading music journalists on heartland rock’s glory days and its role in the populist politics of the 1980s. Hear “American Girl” or “Born in the U.S.A.” and, like it or not, chances are you begin to hum along. The soundtrack of grocery stores, pool halls, bowling...

A rare, promotional-only interview recorded at AIR Studios in London in July 2005, featuring Paul McCartney in candid conversation about the creation of Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. In this revealing audio document, McCartney reflects on the thrill of creating music versus the vulnerability of releasing it, the "mystical" nature of songwriting, and how his voice and performance approach have evolved over time.

The 20th century was a hotbed of musical exploration, innovation, and transformation unlike any other epoch in history. Ranging across the century in its entirety, these 24 lectures present a musical cornucopia of astounding dimensions - a major presentation and exploration of the incredible brilliance and diversity of musical art across a turbulent century. Far more than simply a series of lectures, the program comprises a huge and many-sided resource for discovering the endless riches of 20th-century concert music across the globe.

Claude Debussy is regarded by many as the quintessential French composer, with music that invited both warm applause and frosty criticism in his day. While our ears no longer hear him as controversial, his works heralded the dawn of an artistic period founded on innovation and experiment, and a desire to break with the past in search of new expressive means. With never a dull moment, Debussy went from being a musical misfit at the Paris Conservatoire to bohemian life amongst the Symbolist poets and some scandalous love affairs.

In this lesson, you learn all of the rhythm and lead guitar parts of this 21 round blues solo extravaganza! The level two lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song and then teaches every rhythm and lead riff and lick of both Vaughan and King. At the end of the lesson are backing tracks in three different configurations to perform with. If you are serious about the blues then you definitely need to work through this lesson.

Monteverdi’s Orfeo, first performed in 1607, generates a special excitement because it is the first unquestioned masterpiece of opera. Notable for its precise orchestration and powerful drama it was a groundbreaking work. It concerns the legend of Orpheus, the demigod whose music had the power to conquer the forces of Hell and to bring his wife back, briefly, to life. The extracts used in this introduction are from Naxos’ full recording; it uses authentic period instruments, which serve to evoke the early Baroque period of the opera’s composition.

This upbeat and highly-recognizable classical piece is fast to learn and memorize because it is taught completely “by ear.” The arrangement is demonstrated completely and then taught in two to four measure sections using no music or print. Learn by ear, play by ear!

The long-awaited memoir from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass. Includes two new songs by Geddy Lee, available exclusively in the My Effin’ Life audiobook. Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected...

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career—even in the face of deafness—Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, writes the music historian Mark Evan Bonds, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Discarding tired myths about the composer, Bonds proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self.

Have you ever thought about the creative process that boiled inside geniuses like Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorák, Strauss, Brahms, Mendelssohn, or Liszt-or any composer, for that matter?What goes through a composer's mind when a musical composition is being set to paper? Are those magical weeks or months spent in an agonizing creative blur of ideas first tried and then discarded, or it a matter of pure inspiration?