The Columbia Master Book Discography: U.S. twelve-inch matrix series. 1906-1931

The Columbia Master Book Discography: U.S. twelve-inch matrix series. 1906-1931
Author: Tim Brooks
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1999
Genre: Music
ISBN:

This text covers every Columbia 12 inch record made between 1906 and 1931 designed for American domestic use. It offers recording dates, titles, composers, artists and American catalogue numbers, and where traceable, the details of accompanists on dance records and the pseudonyms often used.

The Columbia Master Book Discography: Principal U.S. matrix series. 1910-1924

The Columbia Master Book Discography: Principal U.S. matrix series. 1910-1924
Author: Tim Brooks
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 686
Release: 1999
Genre: Music
ISBN:

This detailed compilation of Columbia recordings gathers information about every Columbia record made between 1910 and 1934 and designed for American use. The listings also include recordings that were never issued. Recording dates including remakes, titles, composers, artists, and American catalogue numbers (when allocated for issue) are shown. Where available in the original company files, the details of accompanists to soloists, the vocalists on dance records, and the pseudonyms often employed by certain artists are all shown in detail. The work is divided among four volumes. The first volume covers the Matrix Series 1 through 4999 spanning the years 1901 to 1910. The second volume covers the Principal U.S. Matrix Series spanning the years 1910-1924. The third volume covers the Principal U.S. Matrix Series spanning the years 1924-1934. The fourth volume covers 12-inch U.S. Matrix Series spanning the years 1906-1931. Some 28,000 titles are included that trace the change in popular taste during the first third of the 20th century. Record collectors, music historians, and researchers will appreciate the vast amount of titles and detailed information about the Columbia recordings catalogued in these four volumes. Separately or as a complete set, this work contains valuable historical accuracy and exhaustive research.

Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928-1942

Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928-1942
Author: Cary Ginell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2001-06-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0313074321

The result of years of research by its authors, this discography strives to identify and trace the recorded development of the musical style now known as western swing from its early years through World War II. The style developed from the Texas string band tradition, growing from a fiddle and guitar duo into full swing band groups, and along the way, it drew from and absorbed a variety of other musical styles, thus making it one of the most diverse genres in American music. Until now, studies have been limited to a few book-length biographies, but through exhaustive research and interviews, Ginell and Coffey have provided the most complete and comprehensive listing of pre-War western swing and hot string band recordings to date. Accessible through a variety of indexes, the information included here comprises four sections. The reader can easily find cross-referenced information on which musicians played with which bands on which songs. Easy-to-follow linear and chronological development of the music is provided as well.

The Columbia Master Book Discography: Principal U.S. matrix series. 1924-1934

The Columbia Master Book Discography: Principal U.S. matrix series. 1924-1934
Author: Tim Brooks
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 846
Release: 1999
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Carefully structured to link information directly to the CIM syllabus, this coursebook text offers a range of cases, questions, activities, definitions and study tips to support and test your understanding of the theory. Each coursebook includes access to Marketingonline.co.uk, where you can: annotate, customise and create personally tailored notes using the electronic version of the coursebook; prepare yourself for the exam with self-test progress checklists and expert revision exam checklists for each module; extend your knowledge with access to the e-library (eight marketing texts to support and enhance your learning); take part in online discussions; search the coursebook online for easy access to definitions and key concepts.

The Directory of the Armed Forces Radio Service Series

The Directory of the Armed Forces Radio Service Series
Author:
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780313308123

This directory details the output of transcriptions from the Armed Forces Radio Service from the beginning in 1942 up to 1967. Since many official papers of the early days are no longer available, the information was gathered from many private sources. The range of programs the AFRS covered was immense. Particularly during the war years the accent was on entertainment. Popular and classical music and comedy and drama shows were rebroadcast over AFRS stations all over the world. The AFRS also produced many programs designed to inform and educate. This directory attempts to present the complete range of series the AFRS transmitted. Collectors and followers of popular, country or series music and of drama or comedy shows will appreciate the short description of the AFRS shows, complete with cast names and issues and recording dates, that comprise the entries. The entries are organized by series and include the Libraries series, H-Series, Network Series, R-Series, and Assigned Matrix Numbers. An appendix of non-AFRS transcriptions is included along with a bibliography for further research.

Brilliant Corners

Brilliant Corners
Author: Chris Sheridan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2001-04-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0313016402

In this masterful compilation, world-recognized discographer Chris Sheridan draws together the most comprehensive reconstruction of Thelonious Monk's performances and recordings. Woven through the chronological listing of Monk's work is the story of his rise to acceptance as one of the key pianists and composers of jazz and his decline in health and popularity to his death in 1982. Following a Prologue which attempts to summarize the career and man, the narrative discography covers Monk's entire performance career. This is followed by appendixes listing all microgroove and post-microgroove issues of Monk's performances, all known commercially produced films and videos in which Monk took part, a listing of all of his engagements from 1944 until his career petered out in the mid-1970s, and a bibliography. The work concludes with an index of the people, places, producers, and radio and television programs referred to or quoted in the main taxt, a listing of all musicians, vocalists, and broadcast presenters who took part in the recordings or who played in Monk's bands, an index of all the titles used for Monk's tunes by other musicians and vocalists, and a listing of all tunes played, together with their composers and, where relevant, lyricists. A comprehensive reference work for all scholars and other researchers involved with jazz from the 1940s onward.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer
Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2014-07-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1443864331

ARSC Awards for Excellence, 2014: Best Historical Research in Classical Music (Certificate of Merit). This book presents a discography of recordings made from the works of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864) – from the inception of recording techniques in 1889 until the dominance of the long-playing record in 1955. It is a testimony to the once-universal fame of the composer and the esteem in which in his works were held. During that period some nearly 2000 artists (at least 1065 of them singers) recorded arias and ensembles from all six of the French operas of Meyerbeer's maturity (Robert le Diable, Les Huguenots, Le Prophète, L'Étoile du Nord, Dinorah, L'Africaine), as well as selections from other works, orchestral pieces, and a variety of arrangements for band and other instruments. Covering more than 150 different pieces, the whole of this recorded legacy makes Meyerbeer one of the most popular classical composers of any age. Many of the legendary names of this Golden Age of Song were devoted to Meyerbeer's compositions (like Aumonier, Amato, Gilion, Rethberg, Lazzari, Barrientos, Delmas, Slezak, Belhomme, Branzell, Lehmann, Hempel, Escalais, Ancona, De Lucia, De Angelis, De Cisneros, Tamagno, Rothier, Pertile, Ruffo, Siems, Kurz, Caruso, Chaliapin). This discography is integral to the history of opera, the nature of lyric recording, and the story of song and vocal technique. It is divided into chapters listing the works recorded, the singers, orchestras, bands and other musicians who recorded pieces from the operas (with details of the labels, places, dates, matrix and record numbers), as well as providing anthologies of modern transfers of the some of the old 78 records to modern media (LP, CD, MP3), and also listing a bibliography devoted to vintage records and singers from the early days of recording.

Brunswick Records: New York sessions, 1927-1931

Brunswick Records: New York sessions, 1927-1931
Author: Ross Laird
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN:

This discography documents the full range of Brunswick label recordings through 1931, when the American Record Corporation purchased the label. The data includes affiliated or subsidiary labels such as Vocalion and Melotone. Brunswick recorded a wide variety of music in both New York City and in a variety of regional locations within and outside of the United States. This collection of material provides a unique cross-section of the music and musicians of the time. Much of the information derives from surviving company files and from issued recordings. This comprehensive discography will appeal to researchers and collectors. Each volume is indexed by artist. The last volume includes a consolidated artist index and title and catalog number index.

Early Sound Recordings

Early Sound Recordings
Author: Eva Moreda Rodriguez
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000845109

The use of historical recordings as primary sources is relatively well established in both musicology and performance studies and has demonstrated how early recording technologies transformed the ways in which musicians and audiences engaged with music. This edited volume offers a timely snapshot of a wide range of contemporary research in the area of performance practice and performance histories, inviting readers to consider the wide range of research methods that are used in this ever-expanding area of scholarship. The volume brings together a diverse team of researchers who all use early recordings as their primary source to research performance in its broadest sense in a wide range of repertoires within and on the margins of the classical canon – from the analysis of specific performing practices and parameters in certain repertoires, to broader contextual issues that call attention to the relationship between recorded performance and topics such as analysis, notation and composition. Including a range of accessible music examples, which allow readers to experience the music under discussion, this book is designed to engage with academic and non-academic readers alike, being an ideal research aid for students, scholars and performers, as well as an interesting read for early sound recording enthusiasts.

From Brass to Gold: Discography of A&M Records and affiliates in the United States

From Brass to Gold: Discography of A&M Records and affiliates in the United States
Author: Leslie J. Pfenninger
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 1306
Release: 2001
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss founded A&M Records in 1962 with $200. In 1989, they sold the world's largest independent record label for nearly $500 million. From Brass to Gold is the rise of A&M form it start with the Tijuana Brass to a golden success. A&M and its 14 affiliated labels signed over 800 artists in every musical genre including the Carpenters, Quincy Jones, Styx, Supertramp, Burt Bacharach, Joe Cocker, Bryan Adams, Janet Jackson, George Winston, The Go-Go's, Carole King, Amy Grant, the Neville Brothers, and The Police. A&M's affiliates were George Harrison's Dark Horse Records, Windham Hill, Ode Records, IRS Records, Cypress Records, Delos, Denon, Gold Mountain Records, Nimbus Records, Perspective, Tabu, Vendetta Records, and Word Records. From Brass to Gold Vol. I is comprehensive history of A&M. An astonishingly detailed guide to the creative output and corporate history, it catalogs 7,800 titles in albums, singles, jukebox, CD discographies; 460 A&M films and videos, 2,200 titles from the affiliates, awards, 460 artist bibliographies, over 500 collectibles, 2,300 radio guest appearances, more than 300 television appearances, plus Almo-Irving Music Publishing; a calendar of significant company, release, chart, tour, birth dates, artist, title and label indexes. This book sets a new standard for the content of record label discographies.