David Ewen

Each of the 300 entries lists major works, and most include a personal statment of musical philosophy provided by the composer.

A Biographical Dictionary

American Composers

Contains 146 biographies of the composers and lyricists who have earned an enduring place in the history of the American popular song.

An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary

American Songwriters

Men of Popular Music

The Story of Irving Berlin

History of Popular Music

Donald Trump

Donald Trump looked for the perfect golf course, scouring the planet for a site. When he settled on a secluded but dramatic corner of Scotland - his ancestral home and the place the game originated - it seemed like a 'tap in'. This book tells the story of the world's most charismatic billionaire and his quest to create paradise.

Donald Trump and the Battle for the World's Greatest Golf Course

Chasing Paradise

Forty seven new biographies and updating of information on one hundred and seventy two composers appearing in Composers Since 1900.

A Biographical and Critical Guide. First supplement

Composers Since 1900

At the start of the summer 2000, David Ewen found himself standing on the edge of the North Sea with a golf club drawn and nothing to aim at but Scotland. The plan: to hit a ball across the birthplace of the game, negotiating roads, towns, fields, rivers and mountains, camping where it came to rest. And the par for this quarter-million-yard course? Eight thousand.

A Golfing Odyssey Across Scotland's Mountains, Moors and Fields

Par 10,000

Haydn, a Good Life

Provides information on the performances, composers, lyricists, songs, and stars of over five hundred shows.

New Complete Book of the American Musical Theater

Biographical information on composers in the United States.

A Biographical and Critical Guide

American Composers Today

Encyclopedia of the Opera

The gay, productive life of this composer-lyricist is recounted within a framework of contemporary events. Appendixes list stage, motion picture and TV productions, songs and selected recordings.

The Cole Porter Story

Milton Cross

su vida y su música desde Bach hasta nuestros días

Los grandes compositores

This book contains short biographies, alphabetically arranged, of virtually all the great men in music up to our own day; surveys of each composer's place in music; lists of his principal works; descriptions of the various musical forms; thorough analysis of each of the compositions dealt with; explanations of the origin and evolution of all musical forms, and how they were enriched by the work of each composer; programmatic information on every composer's most frequently heard compositions; brief plot-outlines of every opera discussed; a unique and informative "bird's eye view of musical history"; discussions of little-known composers whose influence on musical history was so significant that every listener and performer will want to know something about them; A complete easy-to-use index of composers and compositions, designed for quick reference.

David Ewen

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