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Tra gli artisti più amati della storia, il più grande showman di tutti i tempi, performer impareggiabile e songwriter capace di dar vita a canzoni indimenticabili che hanno appassionato il pubblico di ogni età e di ogni luogo, Michael Jackson è morto, diventando immortale, esattamente dieci anni fa. Nella musica, nel canto, nella danza, nella coreografia e nella video-musica, Michael Jackson è stato pioniere e innovatore, icona-simbolo della cultura pop dagli anni Settanta in poi. In questo ampio volume, Luca Izzo e Michelangelo Iossa ripercorrono l’incredibile carriera di questo “artista dei record”, puntando a individuare l’eredità che Jackson ha lasciato nella cultura contemporanea, dalla musica alla danza, dallo spettacolo alla video-culture fino alla moda e allo stile. La sua arte è arrivata ovunque, riuscendo a ispirare milioni di persone e di artisti, come i valori della sua persona, improntati alla solidarietà e al sostegno al prossimo, che ispirano migliaia di associazioni benefiche ancora oggi attive.

Un biografo – piuttosto improvvisato e sprovveduto – e ossessionato, per un quarto di secolo, dal proposito e dai ripetuti tentativi di raccontare la vita di Nick La Rocca, il leader della leggendaria Original Dixieland Jazz Band di New Orleans che, per prima al mondo, nel febbraio del 1917 incise un disco di musica jazz. Il biografo di Nick La Rocca è il racconto di due vite incrociate e delle peripezie per far nascere un libro a cui il suo autore, qui indicato col nome Harry Brass, dedicò la vita intera, ricavandone infine una valanga di dissensi, insulti e irrisione. A cominciare da quelli del suo stesso ≪idolo≫, l’italo-americano La Rocca (1889-1961), figlio di un ciabattino siciliano, che, disinvoltamente, si proclamava ≪inventore del jazz≫, ma che comunque aveva segnato un punto importante nell’evolversi di quel genere musicale. Il libro recupera in chiave romanzesca, attraverso documenti storici originali e inediti, molte intriganti pagine della vita del battagliero, burbero e gradasso cornettista, nonchè di quella del suo bizzarro, avventuroso e bistrattato Official Historian, due personaggi ≪estremi≫: entrambi pronti a tutto pur di entrare nelle...

Michelangelo Rossi's two books of five-voice polyphonic madrigals are among the most expressive works of their kind ever composed. Showing the influence of Gesualdo, the madrigals were probably written in Rome between 1624 and 1629, when Rossi was in the service of Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy. They were apparently never published, and there is only one complete manuscript source, which once belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden and now forms the principal source for Brian Mann's critical edition. In his extensive introduction, Mann considers in detail the biographical, cultural, and stylistic milieu in which the madrigals were written. The scholarly edition of the music, based on a thorough examination of all the known sources, includes a complete critical commentary. Mann's work on Rossi's madrigals has already helped revive interest in them. In 1998 a CD recording of Book I appeared on the Virgin label, performed by Il Complesso Barocco under the direction of Alan Curtis, and based on this critical edition.

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Available in complete form for the first time in centuries, the nineteen madrigals in this edition contain the alto part that disappeared sometime after publication in 1608 and only recently was recovered by the editor. The fourth centenary of Frescobaldi's birth therefore marks the addition to the repertoire of an important portion of his vocal music. Since Il Primo Libro, de Madrigali was among the first publications of Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), perhaps his earliest, it represents the first flowering of a master composer's talent. It also forms part of the final chapter in the history of the Italian madrigal, one of the most glorious manifestations of Renaissance and early Baroque music. This edition contains transcriptions of all five parts of the nineteen madrigals in modern musical notation. Lyrics are transcribed in the original Italian, with English translations in the commentary section. Dr. Jacobs's commentary describes what is known of the circumstances surrounding the madrigals' composition, publication, and early performance. A selected bibliography is included. With this book, a favorite composer among keyboard musicians becomes more accessible to performers...

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This volume of Albi Rosenthal's work was originally conceived as a small selection in celebration of his 85th birthday. It rapidly expanded to a larger volume as the range and depth of his scholarship, and the fascination of his material, became apparent. This more comprehensive collection is presented here in the belief that it will now also be of interest to a much wider audience Obiter Scripta spans the author's output of over sixty years, touching on many subjects on which he is an expert. There are specific studies on Mozart--the field in which he is pre-eminent--and on Monteverdi, Paganini, Haydn, Liszt, and Kodály. He also writes on music collecting and bibliography, fakes and frauds, discoveries, the perils of auctions, the earliest depiction of a musical instrument in a printed book, and anecdotes and coincidences. He is a Trustee of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel and describes how many of the Foundation's major acquisitions were secured. There is a section of tributes, and a number of articles arising from his lifelong interest in Nietzsche. Finally, there are some interviews in which, among other things, Albi talks about himself, his family, and his life in...