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Music
 Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity
Elaine Keillor
A survey of "musics" in Canada -- the country's multiplicity of musical genres and rich heritage -- is complemented by vignettes highlighting topics such as Inuit throat games, the music of k.d. lang, and orchestras in Victoria. Traversing Canada's geographical landscape to discover corresponding musical landscapes, Music in Canada illuminates the past but also looks to the future to examine the context within which Canadian music will continue to develop. Hardcover, 499 pp. $59.95.
 Acting the Song
Tracey Moore & Allison Bergman
Acting the Song offers a contemporary, integrated approach to singing in musicals that results in better-trained, smarter performers. Directors, teachers of musical theatre, and students will find time-tested advice, exercises, and worksheets for all skill levels. This book guides readers through musical theatre elements classroom workshops, and the world of professional auditions and performances. Softcover, 309 pp. $27.95.
 Enchantress of Nations: Pauline Viardot: Soprano, Muse and Lover
Michael Steen
Enchantress of Nations is a portrait of Pauline Viardot, one of music's most magnetic, colourful and brilliant female stars - but also a picturesque biography of tumultuous, artistic, ever-changing 19th-century Europe. Hardcover, 539 pp. $40.00.
 The Drowsy Chaperone: Piano/Vocal Selections
Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison
These piano and vocal selections from the hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone include such musical numbers as Cold Feets, Show Off, As We Stumble Along, Toledo Surprise, and I Am Aldolpho. Softcover, 76 pp. $19.95.
 American Idol: Singer's Advantage
The Ultimate Voice Training Program
Seth Riggs
Learn to sing with the world's greatest vocal coach, Seth Riggs! Singer's Advantage comes with one instructional DVD, seven instructional CDs, and a comprehensive companion workbook. Separate versions for men and for women. Audio CD, $58.99.
 Boy George: Straight
Paul Gorman
Boy George: singer, songwriter, theatre star, DJ, photographer, fashion designer, cultural icon. This book reveals his whole story, reappraising his rise to stardom and all the madness that followed. It is only now, many years on from the glittering, glossy eighties, that George makes an insightful and often hilarious assessment of the impact of that extraordinary era. Boy George has come far from those days of excess and addiction. This is his story. Softcover, 283 pp. $21.95.
 The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg
Margaret Vermette
The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg is the first book to offer a comprehensive look behind the closed doors of the two intensely private musical theatre giants Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg. Boublil and Schonberg take center stage and talk openly about their methods and the creative processes involved in writing the book, the music, and the lyrics of their shows. A Fact File gives information on all their productions in London, New York, and worldwide with plot synopses and details of the creative teams, casts, reviews, awards, and recordings as well as some intriguing trivia. Softcover, 345 pp. $25.95.
 The Singer's Companion
Brent Monahan
In an accessible, easy-to-use format, author Brent Monahan amplifies the art of learning to sing well, focusing not on physiology or theories, but rather providing practical advice and techniques. Topics include stance, breathing, phonation, resonance, range, health, choosing a teacher, vocal exercise, musicianship, pronunciation and diction, interpretation, performance, and selecting material. Any singer, from classical to popular, from the would-be professional to the diligent choir member, can benefit from this concise companion. Softcover, 169 pp. $25.95.
Classical Destinations: An Armchair Guide to Classical Music
Simon Callow
Classical Destinations takes the reader to many of Europe's greatest cities, and back to the times when they influenced and inspired some of the most important names in classical music. On the pages of this book, one can visit Venice when it was home to Vivaldi, Salzburg as Mozart's prodigious talents emerged, Leipzig during the time of Mendelssohn and Schumann, Prague as growing Czech nationalism gripped Smetana, and the Vienna where Beethoven faced incurable deafness. Based on the television series of the same name, Classical Destinations is a unique combination of the past and the present, providing lovers of classical music with the ultimate traveller's guide. Hardcover, 237 pp. $38.95.
 The
Complete Gilbert and Sullivan
Ed Glinert
Gilbert and Sullivan's operas are some of the world's best-loved musical works,
delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant
wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen
of the Savoy Operas. Also containing original illustrations from Gilbert's Bab
Ballads, as well as extensive notes for every work, this ultimate Gilbert and
Sullivan collection will delight all devotees of the incomparable duo. Hardcover,
866 pp. $55.00.
 Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices
Martha Elliott
The first historical overview of vocal performance practice and style ever
published, Singing in Style provides an introduction to how issues
such as ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation,
tempo, language, and accompaniment with period instruments have been
handled since the seventeenth century. Hardcover, 356 pp. $52.00.
 All You Need to Know About the Music Business
Donald S. Passman
For fifteen years, All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been
universally regarded as the definitive, essential guide to the music
industry. Now in its sixth edition, it has been completely revised
and updated with crucial, up-to-the-minute information on the industry's
major changes in response to today's rapid technological advances
and uncertain economy. Veteran music lawyer Donald Passman is in
the thick of this transformation and understands that anyone involved
in the music business is feeling the deep, far-reaching effects of
it. In All You Need to Know About the Music Business, one of the
industry's most influential figures shows you how to thrive in the
most exciting business in the world. It's a book that no musician,
entertainment lawyer, agent promoter, publisher, manager, record
company executive--anyone who makes their living from music--can
afford to be without. Hardcover, 440 pp. $38.99.
 The Musician's Notebook: Guitar
Matthew Teacher
Now there is one home for all your creative musings--for the songs
you carry around in your head (or on random scraps of paper). This
is a musician's journal created for a musician. Use it to bring clarity
to your ideas and substance to your vision. Fill your notebook with
your greatest licks, motifs, and completed songs. Track chords and
riffs and draw inspiration from a collection of quotes by artists
who inspire. Within this book there's a home for your creative thoughts.
And now they won't get lost! It's all here - The Musician's Notebook:
Guitar. Start using it today. Softcover, 99 pp. $7.95. Also available:
The Musician's Notebook: Piano.
 Lady
Sings the Blues
Billie Holiday & Wayne Dufty
This is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday,
the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader
on a fast-moving journey from Holiday's rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood,
to her emergence on Harlem's club scene, to sold-out performances with Count
Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable
for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie's life and
the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. Softcover, 231 pp. $21.00.
 The
Singer's Companion
Sharon L. Stohrer
Provides both beginning and advanced students with a basic, reliable,
readable introduction to the many issues focusing on training and maintaining
a healthy voice. The Singer's Companion covers issues faced by vocalists
in all styles of music, ranging from how to find a good teacher to
auditions and performance tips. Softcover, 121 pp. $31.95.
 Elgar:
Child of Dreams
Jerrold Northrop Moore
Jerrold Northrop Moore pursues his quest for the essential Elgar and sets
out the story of an extraordinary creative life. It shows themes of
childhood, fantasy and vision fusing into a mature style of nobility
and nostalgia.
Above all it links the composer to the English landscape that informed
all of his work from his earliest years. This powerful short book is
the outcome of half a century's thought and reflection by a leading
Elgar scholar. Softcover, 212 pp. $21.00.
 The
Great Instrumental Works
M. Owen Lee
This delightful book is for anyone who enjoys any of the lively arts of opera,
drama, film, literature, or popular song and who wants to find out what is really
going on in the symphonies of Mozart, the string quartets of Beethoven, and the
orchestral works of Debussy and Ravel, to name a few. As Father M. Owen Lee examines
the works of 50 composers here, he imparts the basics of classical music with
such wit and panache, dropping such charming biographical tidbits, you will be
amazed -- as you laugh out loud -- at how much fun you're having. At the same
time you will find out how music can express feelings that are too deep for words.
Includes 2 CDs. Softcover, 266 pp. $36.95.
 How
to Write Songs on Keyboards
Rikky Rooksby
Ever wanted to write a song on a piano? Or on a digital keyboard? Maybe
you've been writing songs on guitar for a while and need a source of
new ideas, or sounds. Or maybe you're new to the whole creative thing
and
figure, quite rightly, that a keyboard is the easiest place to start.
Either way, there's never been a book like How to Write Songs
on Keyboards.
It will open new doors to the great world of songwriting. Softcover,
256 pp. $30.95.
 Contemporary
Broadway
Revised Edition
This stunning collection of songs from hit Broadway musicals includes selections
from 25 shows and revivals including, Avenue Q, The
Boy From Oz, Chicago, Hairspray, The
Lion King, Mamma Mia!, The Producers,
and Wicked. Softcover, 272 pp. $24.95.
 Spreadin'
Rhythm Around
Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930
David A. Jasen & Gene Jones
This is the classic work on a little-studied subject in American music
history: the contribution of African American songwriters to the world
of popular song. Richly illustrated with rare photographs from sheet
music, newspapers, and other unique sources, the book describes an
entire era
of performance when black singers, dancers, and actors were active
on the New York stage. For anyone interested in the history of jazz,
pop song, or Broadway, this book will be a revelation. Softcover, 435
pp. $33.50.
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