Lennon and McCartney: Together Alone: A Critical Discography of the Solo Work (Book) Review

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(More customer reviews)John Blaney has written a book loaded with verifiable insights, revelations and little known facts about John Lennon and McCartney. To be honest I thought I was a master of knowledge in reference to McCartney. Blaney blows me way. I had no idea how many side projects and charitable musical ventures that McCartney has engaged in. He descibes the themes and nuances of all of McCartney's lyrics and songs. For example "Off The Ground" is by far Paul McCartney's most political album as he pontificates about universal peace, animal rights, protecting the environment, idyllic love and racial harmony. Blaney also unveils that McCartney is a very spiritual individual. The Firemen CDs and Paul's vegetarianism and classical works are thoroughly discussed. As for John Lennon, this book made me feel like he is still alive. EVery significant post 1980 John Lennon media and musical development or event is discussed in detail. A must have book for people who love John Lennon, Paul McCartney, both of them or only one of them.

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Two of popular music's greatest writers and performers,John Lennon and Paul McCartney both went on to intriguing solo careers after their work with the Beatles. This book chronologically tells the story of their post-Beatles music, starting with McCartney's soundtrack for the movieThe Family Way and Lennon's Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins with Yoko Ono. The book details Lennon and McCartney's creative highs and lows in an authoritative and engaging critical fashion. Information for collectors includes release dates, catalog numbers, composer credits, recording personnel, recording studios used, and producer credits. There is also a keyed index to help trace each song and the albums it appears on. Lennon and McCartney: Together Alone tells the stories behind the songs of two giants of modern music.

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Performance Practices in Classical Piano Music (Book & DVD) (Alfred Masterwork Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)I received only the DVD.I don't know if I was supposed to receive a book or not.He spends a long time talking about tempo markings and what character each tempo marking indicates.You could learn this from a simple music dictionary.He mentions finger pedaling, which interested me a lot, but he only touches on the subject and gives absolutely no systematic treatment of it whatsoever.Nor does he give any systematic guidelines for foot pedaling.Ornaments are not mentioned.Neither are most score markings, including slurs and articulations.For much of the DVD he simply navigates through a few pieces, telling us superficial details about them as though we had never seen them before.It felt like an impromptu piano lesson.I would have liked to have seen him put more effort into actually helping the viewer become a better teacher and performer.He arranges for an expert dancer to take the stage to show dance influence.She comes out and does the gigue in silence.No music.Then he plays a minuet for a few seconds while she does the minuet.And I do mean *seconds.*And that is all we get.So much more could have been done.It felt like an opportunity wasted.Overall, Hinson's treatment of subjects in this DVD is just really, really superficial and disorganized.His performances of the musical examples are so insensitive they will make any high level musician wince.I sincerely wish I could put so little effort into something and manage to get it published.Wait, no I don't.

I don't know what the price of this item will be by the time the next customer reads this.My advice would be to purchase it if it's cheap and plan to skim it once, but don't go out of your way if you're looking for something excellent.This isn't it.

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Compositions by Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert are featured in this intriguing lecture on performance practices of the Classical era. Musical characteristics, period keyboard instruments, Italian terms and more are all discussed. Dance in

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Review

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(More customer reviews)i like the doll song best

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Eleven titles from this delightful movie include: Toot Sweets * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang * Lovely, Lonely Man * The Roses of Success * You Two * Truly Scrumptious * Doll on a Music Box * Me Ol' Bam-Boo.

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