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Stealing All Transmissions: A Secret History of The Clash
by Randal Doane Stealing All Transmissions is a love story. It’s the story of how The Clash fell in love with America, and how America loved them back. The romance began in full in 1977, when select rock journalists and Read More →
Tan Dun’s The Map: Concerto for Cello, Video and Orchestra
by Eric Hung Chinese American composer Tan Dun’s The Map: Concerto for Cello, Video and Orchestra (2002) is among Tan’s most performed major works, as well as his most widely debated and controversial. Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, this Read More →
The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach by André Pirro
André Pirro’s classic of Bach scholarship, L’Ésthétique de Jean-Sébastien Bach (1907), presents a timeless study on the relationship of word and music in compositions by one of the Western canon’s greatest musicians. The book examines the composer’s creative process, beginning Read More →
Harmonic Experience by W.A. Mathieu
Music Word Media is honored and delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of an enhanced electronic edition of W.A. Mathieu‘s masterwork of experiential music learning, Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression. Harmonic Experience (561 pages) presents Read More →
Pleasing and Interesting Anecdotes in the Life of Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari
A Little Work Written by Himself Translated by Stephen Thomson Moore Edited by Deborah Heckert The composer G. G. Ferrari (1759-1842) was a composition student of Paisiello and Latilla, and during his peripatetic career met many of the leading musical Read More →
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