Music

Over the centuries, orchestral music has given us a category of works that stand apart as transcendent expressions of the human spirit....

Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before....

In the second half of the 20th century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene....

Almost from the moment it was first set to paper, the music of Franz Joseph Haydn - technically superb, rich in quality, and widely imitated - has exemplified the Classical style....

Even if you have listened to many of these illustrative pieces throughout your life you will never hear them the same way again after experiencing these lectures....

The Rest Is Noise takes the listener inside the labyrinth of modern music....

Hanson, the ultimate pop trio clearly show how and why they shot to stardom....

In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Trout Mask Replica dramatically altered the pop landscape....

Jazz is a uniquely American art form, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition....

The piano is the most popular solo concert instrument in Western music. One of the key reasons is the fact that it has inspired many of the greatest masterpieces....

Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for 31 weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy....

Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the '60s into the new millennium....

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.

Don’t Let Me Down is about a brave girl trying to navigate family secrets and tragedies and escape from small-town small-mindedness. It is a searing and often funny exploration of how women first see themselves through the lens of a parent’s love and of the ties that bind us to our childhood heroes, who ultimately lead us to ask that most profound of questions: Is love really all you need? 

Warm up your voice, increase your range, improve your vocal agility, and sharpen your ear in minutes. The three warm-up exercises presented on this audio will do all that and more. You will learn the ins and outs of solfege while developing your ability to handle even the most demanding vocal situations that may come your way. 

No Beethoven chronicles the life and times of drummer Peter Erskine, with the legendary band Weather Report being the nexus to this firsthand account. Erskine was in the midst of the modern American jazz music scene as it underwent its most dynamic change. Peter Erskine is a musician of his times with incredibly rich stories to tell in this autobiography.   

On Christmas Eve, 1818, in a small Austrian village, a local Catholic priest and a church organist composed a Christmas carol that changed the course of holiday music forever. Exactly two hundred years later, it’s not the holiday season until you’ve heard “Silent Night” in the car, at the store and on TV – all in the same day. 

In Jingle Bell Pop, John Seabrook, acclaimed author of The Song Machine, takes us deep inside the holiday music business. We go behind the scenes to meet some of the producers, songwriters and recording artists responsible for the timeless tunes we hear on repeat between Thanksgiving and Christmas every year.

For more than 50 years, Bill C. Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today, he is celebrated as the foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays, book chapters, and record liner notes. Sing Me Back Home distills a lifetime of thinking about country and Southern roots music.