This book features the careers &amp; the movie work of the most legendary composers - examining both well-known &amp; little known films. The author includes a detailed filmography for each songwriter, listing more than 800 movies &amp; 200 songs. There are 150 evocative photos, many of them rare.

The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals

HEMMING, Roy

Humor & Entertainment

Newmarket

Critic Roy Hemming's one-of-a-kind book chronicles the careers and complete movie work of 16 songwriting legends. Includes 162 evocative photos and stills, many of them rare, and lists more than 800 movies and 2,000 songs in records, video and compact discs.

Movies

Newmarket Pr

Offers newcomers to classical music practical, easy-to-understand recommendations on how to appreciate fine music

Discovering Great Music: A New Listener's Guide to the Top Classical Composers and Their Masterworks

Arts & Photography

Music

For the new generation of classical music listeners, this book opens with a section on how to listen to and talk about classical music. It then catalogs 75 of the greatest composers of all time, from the Baroque period to today's avant-garde, each with a biographical sketch and a recommendation of their best recordings.

Discovering Great Music

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

NEWMARKET PRESS

The sounds, styles, and lives of outstanding singers from the 1920s to the present, are "written about with loving expertise by two writers who can make singers and their songs live on paper," says Clive Barnes. Features revealing biographies, critical assessments, and selective discographies and videographies.

Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Lives of the Top Performers and Their Recordings, Movies, and Vid

Biographies & Memoirs

Hajdu, David

Arts & Literature

This indispensable sourcebook for buying and listening to classical music from Baroque to New Age covers 60 composers and 150 recording artists performing today, and buying recommendations for the best recordings.

Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Lives of the Top Performers

Helps listeners sort through classical music masterpieces to choose the pieces that suit their tastes

Discovering Great Music: A New Listener's Guide to the Top Classical Composers and Their Best Recordings

Back in print in a handsome, elegant paperback with 166 evocative photos and movie stills, many of them rare, this is the only illustrated book on the golden age of movie musicals from the composers' point of view. This unique book, a perfect gift and an asset to every film and music library, includes: separate chapters on the careers and complete movie work of Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, Cole Porter, Ralph Rainger, Richard Rodgers, Harry Warren, and Richard Whiting; shorter studies of Nacio Herb Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser, Arthur Schwartz, Jule Styne, and James Van Heusen; and a detailed filmography for each songwriter, listing more than 800 movies and 2,000 songs.

The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals (Shooting Script)

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The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals

The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals

Discovering Great Music: A New Listener's Guide to the Top Classical Composers and Their Masterworks

Discovering Great Music

Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Lives of the Top Performers and Their Recordings, Movies, and Vid

Discovering Great Music

Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Lives of the Top Performers

Discovering Great Music: A New Listener's Guide to the Top Classical Composers and Their Best Recordings

The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals (Shooting Script)