Alexandre P. F. Boëly (1785-1858), dernier fleuron d?une dynastie de musiciens des rois de France, a su accommoder ses racines dans le XVIIIe siècle versaillais avec sa carrière dans le Paris romantique. Audelà de son parcours de pianiste, altiste, chambriste accompli et organiste de la paroisse royale de Saint-Germain-l?Auxerrois, ce pur Français, nourri de partitions allemandes encore peu connues, s?affirme comme un beethovénien d?avant-garde tandis qu?à l?orgue tous le proclament «Bach ressuscité». Malgré les événements politiques difficiles et une certaine frivolité ambiante, Boëly a connu un parcours singulier et fécond, couronné par un vaste corpus instrumental de tout premier plan, faisant de lui un véritable maître de l?orgue français. / Livre /

Le Opere I Compositori Le Tecniche I Linguaggi Gli Scritti. Par WEID J.-N.VON DER. Una vera e propria guida alla musica del Novecento da Debussy, Schoenberg, Scrjabin, all'elettroacustica e le molte forme del pensare e fare oggi, nell'intero Occidente, musica. Von der Weid infatti, distinguendosi dalla maggior parte delle storie e dei manuali musicali, non privilegia l'Europa, bensì estende la sua attenzione alle musiche dei più lontani paesi, da quelli delle Americhe all'Unione Sovietica, oggi Russia. Molto utile l'agile impostazione del libro, per brevi capitoli che scandiscono la storia musicale trattata per paesi, fasi, movimenti, gruppi, con sistematiche voci per i compositori che la musica del Novecento l'hanno fatta, l'hanno costruita, l'hanno portata auna nuova dimensione sonora./ Livre / Biographie

Pat Metheny is one of the most critically acclaimed commercially successful and musically significant artists of the last 50 years. He has not only revolutionized his instrument but also changed the face of jazz itself.In 2007 composer arranger and performer Richard Niles wrote and produced a three-part series of in-depth interviews for the BBC titled Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life. This book is comprised of these never-before-printed interviews and discussions with Metheny whom Niles has known and worked with since 1974. In this series of intimate in-depth interviews Methenyreveals why he was driven toward music with astratospheric drive and dedicationuncovers the inner workings of his creative mind showing step by step how he set and achieved each of his own demanding goalsdescribes his methodology as a guitarist improviser and composerdemonstrates his concepts and methodologies on the guitar. Niles has transcribed these unique musical performances for the book.Some of Metheny's closest colleagues including Lyle Mays Gary Burton Jack DeJohnette John Patitucci Metheny's brother Mike and the late Michael Brecker have contributed to the book which also includes numerous photographs and a discography.

Prince has cut a singular path through the heart of popular music for more than 30 years. After making some of the most inventive albums of the '80s – including 1999 Purple Rain and Sign of the Times– he turned his attention to redefining his role in the music industry changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol declaring war on his record label Warner Bros. and leading the internet revolution. His subsequentcareer has had many ups and downs but he remains a major commercial and artistic force as evidenced by his ability to sell out the O2 Arena in London for 21 nights in succession in 2007. In 2010 he announced that the internetwas “over” and released his latest album 20Ten as a free cover-mounted CD with several European publications. Prince: Chaos Disorder and Revolution is an authoritative chronicle of one of popularmusic's true mavericks. Covering every album every movie and every tour it includes profiles of various key collaborators assesses the artist's various business dealings and details his many and varied side projects –on stage on record on screen and beyond.