No World Concerto
No World Concerto

Author: A. G. Porta

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1564789632

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Hailed by Spain's Revista Quimera as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, alongside Bolaño's 2666, Vila-Matas's Bartleby & Co., and Marías's Your Face Tomorrow, the many layers of The No World Concerto center around an old screenwriter, holed up in a shabby hotel in order to write a screenplay about his lover, a young piano prodigy who wants in turn to give up music and become a writer, and believes she may be in contact with creatures from another dimension. Shifting effortlessly between realities, The No World Concerto is a delightful and prismatic novel, and the first of A. G. Porta's books to appear in English, finally joining those of his early writing partner Roberto Bolaño.

No World Concerto (Spanish Literature Series)
No World Concerto (Spanish Literature Series)

Author: A. G. Porta

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 156478861X

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An old screenwriter holes himself up in a hotel in order to write a script about his lover--a piano prodigy who wants to give up music and believes she is in contact with otherworldly creatures.

The Infinity Concerto
The Infinity Concerto

Author: Greg Bear

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1473206537

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Michael Perrin wants to live the simple life of an aspiring poet in Los Angeles. However, when he receives a key and a piece of music called The Infinity Concerto, Michael's life becomes anything but simple. Soon he is whisked away to the land of the Sidhe, dangerous elves in a tentative truce with humans. Barren and stark, this world is anything but the pretty pretty land of faerie tales. Drafted into learning the physical and mental skills of magic, Michael discovers of his role in a much larger history of magic and music in both the Sidhe's world and ours. Can he survive the pitched battle? Will Michael be the answer to finally uniting the elder races?

Contemporary World Musicians
Contemporary World Musicians

Author: Clifford Thompson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-07

Total Pages: 3314

ISBN-13: 1135939616

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Music lovers, researchers, students, librarians, and teachers can trace the personal and artistic influences behind music makers from Elton John to Leontyne Price. Individual entries on over 400 of the world's most renowned and accomplished living performers, composers, conductors, and band leaders in musical genres from opera to hip-hop. Also includes an in-depth Index covering musicians of all eras, so that readers can learn which artists, alive or dead, influenced the work of today's most important figures in the music industry.

The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: 1717-1750
The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: 1717-1750

Author: Richard D. P. Jones

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-10-17

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0191503843

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This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative development during the Cöthen (1717-23) and Leipzig years (1723-50). The approach is, as far as possible, chronological and analytical, but the author has also tried to make the book readable so that it may be accessible to music lovers and amateur performers as well as to students, scholars, and professional musicians. There are many good biographies of Bach, but this is the first, fully-comprehensive, in-depth study of his music making it indispensable for those who want to study specific pieces or learn how he developed as a composer.