Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Alberto Bachmann • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Musical Instruments - StringsThis encyclopedia is the diverse lexicographic work available in the English language and provides a treasure trove of informati...

• Author(s): Samuel Charters • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Musical Instruments - GeneralFrom the Back CoverFrom the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blu...

• Author(s): Ed Kirkeby • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicFrom the Back CoverThis informal narrative of Waller's life and music-a moving memoir of a musical genius and an outstanding human being-was written by Fats' ...

• Author(s): Ruth Slenczynska • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Musical Instruments - Piano & KeyboardFrom the Back CoverIntended for the aspiring artist as well as the enthusiastic amateur, this invaluable guide to p...

• Author(s): Samuel Charters • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Soul & R&BBlues is a language--one which has evolved its own rules and which is the sole property of a culture always forced to ...

• Author(s): Arnold Shaw • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,Back in the thirties and forties, when New York City was the cap...

• Author(s): Robert Reisner • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzFrom the Back CoverFor this first full-length reminiscence, Reisner interviewed eighty-one of Parker's friends, relatives, and fellow...

• Author(s): Charles Osborne • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicFrom the Back CoverThe Complete Operas of Verdi is the first full-length study of all of Verdi's operas. This work of the brilliant British music critic ...

• Author(s): Leonard Feather • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzFrom the Back CoverCritic Leonard Feather was one of the earliest and most persistent champions of bop. It was he who persuaded RCA ...

• Author(s): Nat Hentoff • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzThe last few years have witnessed an enormous resurgence in the popularity of jazz, after some lean times in the sixties when many poten...

• Author(s): Charles Schwartz • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalIn 1933 Irving Berlin wrote to composer-lyricist Cole Porter, "I am mad about Night and Day." Millions of others throughout th...

• Author(s): Harry Partch • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Individual Composer & MusicianFrom the Back Cover'Harry Partch's pioneering theoretical investigations of tuning and his practical application of these inves...

• Author(s): George T. Simon • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzFrom the Back CoverGlenn Miller formed his own 'sweet' band, which from 1938 to 1942 achieved widespread popularity second only to B...

• Author(s): Nat Shapiro • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: ReferenceCollected here for the first time are more than 2,000 wise and witty quotations on every type of music and musicians, from Plato to Igor Stravinsky, Duke...

• Author(s): Martin Goldstein • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Research & MethodologyThe portraits of Freud, Shakespeare, Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci on the cover symbolize a maj...

• Author(s): Erwin Rommel • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAn essential collection of the wartime writings and diary of World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rom...

• Author(s): Rex Stewart • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzThis is the only jazz history written by a musician that is not strictly autobiographical. Rex Stewart, who played trumpet and cornet wi...

• Author(s): Max Gordon • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: ComedySince 1934, the Village Vanguard in New York's Greenwich Village has hosted the foremost in live jazz, folk music, and comedy. Its owner, Max Gordon, has now...

• Author(s): Charles Delaunay • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicFrom the Back CoverNo European jazz musician has so enchanted the world as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recordings with Stephane Grappell...

• Author(s): Ben Sidran • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Religious - GeneralBlack Music--whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soul--has always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral" heritage, reflect...

• Author(s): Leslie Groves • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralFrom the Back Cover'Groves's astuteness is most clearly demonstrated in that, in spite of every contrai...

• Author(s): Charles Osborne • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: GeneralThe major operas of Mozart--Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Cosìfan Tutte--are well known to music listeners everywhere, having ...

• Author(s): William Henry Herndon • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyWilliam H. Herndon's Life of Lincoln, written to counteract the worshipful view of Abraha...

• Author(s): Joe Goldberg • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralFrom the Back CoverJoe Goldberg examines the lives and the music, the crucial events and dominant forces of a decade of great mu...

• Author(s): Charles Osborne • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicFrom the Back CoverWhile Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life--three of them one-acters designed to be performed together--he has to be ra...

• Author(s): Brian Priestley • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicFrom the Back CoverIn this new biography Brian Priestley has written a masterly study of Mingus's dynamic career from the early years in Swing, to the es...

• Author(s): Karl Geiringer • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicFrom the Back CoverKarl Geiringer's biography of Brahms if generally regarded as the finest study of the composer ever published in any langua...

• Author(s): Theodore Roosevelt • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyTheodore Roosevelt's writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Pe...

• Author(s): John Chilton • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzFrom the Back CoverJohn Chilton's 'Who's Who of Jazz' has established itself as a major jazz reference book on the lives of over a thou...

• Author(s): Stanley Dance • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzFrom the Back CoverThe late Count Basie is one of the jazz immortals. The master of swing, whose beat was the subtlest and...

• Author(s): Michael Haralambos • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Musical Instruments - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis pioneering study documents the birth of soul music in America during the 1950s and '60s when, in respo...

• Author(s): J. Merrill Knapp • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaAmong the many introductions to opera, this is perhaps the best. J. Merrill Knapp, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, div...

• Author(s): Rene Dubos • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyFrom the Back Cover'This book is more than a biography of a great microbiologist; it is a history of microbiology itself; espec...

• Author(s): Matthew B. Ridgway • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Korean WarIn December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, an...

• Author(s): William Newman • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Musical Instruments - Piano & Keyboard"The reader must have noted in the favorite magazines of the practicing pianist how often the same troubled queries r...

• Author(s): Louis Armstrong • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Music"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would cong...

• Author(s): Richard Meltzer • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Musical Instruments - GeneralThis infamous book has enjoyed a lively underground reputation since its first publication in 1970. Richard Meltzer (a.k.a. R. Me...

• Author(s): Leonard Feather • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: ReferenceFrom the Back CoverLeonard Feather's autobiography is also the story of jazz over the last half-century. Since arriving in New York from London in 19...

• Author(s): David Evans • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Musical Instruments - GeneralThis book analyzes the process of composition, learning and performance of the Southern folk blues of black America. Never before has...

• Author(s): Leonard Feather • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Individual Composer & MusicianLouis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Norman Granz, O...

• Author(s): Pierre Cabanne • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Individual Artists - EssaysFrom the Back CoverMarcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneer artists, moved his work through t...

• Author(s): George F. Scheer • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Here is the American Revolution, the epic struggle that brought forth a new...

• Author(s): G. F. R. Henderson • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Military - United StatesFrom the Back CoverThomas Jonathan Jackson was the most renowned and skillful commander of Confed...

• Author(s): Albert Goldman • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaA compendium of Richard Wagner's prose works. Selected and arranged, and with an introduction by Albert Goldman and Evert Sprinchorn

• Author(s): Norbert Weiner • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: GeneralOnly a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the...

• Author(s): Jay Smith • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicFrom the Back CoverThe emergence of Jack Teagarden as an important jazz stylist was a significant feature of the '20s jazz scene. He brought a maturity to the ...

• Author(s): Max Jones • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicFrom the Back CoverThis biography includes not only a gripping narrative written by two of the most reliable jazz historians, but also a chronology, film list,...

• Author(s): William Ferris • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralWilliam Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book ...

• Author(s): Richard Hadlock • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralThe jazz decade saw the emergence of many of the great figures who defined the music for the world: Louis Armstrong, Bessie S...

• Author(s): Dore Ashton • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryAn anthology of Pablo Picasso's statements about art"Every page explodes with curt, outrageous aphorisms t...

• Author(s): Stephen Gardiner • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Artists, Architects, Photographers

• Author(s): John Hay • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: LettersFrom the Back CoverA unique document by an extraordinary man about one of the giants of American history, this edition featu...

• Author(s): Marcel Duchamp • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: History - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn the 1920s the Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had beg...

• Author(s): Len Lyons • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzFrom the Back CoverThis comprehensive survey of jazz piano, beginning with a brief history of the instrument within the jazz tradition and...

• Author(s): Paul Oliver • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Instruction & Study - TheoryThe noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to other black tradit...

• Author(s): Leo Walker • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzWith more than 500 pictures, and extensive entries on more than 350 orchestras, this complete coverage of black and white bands--from the...

• Author(s): Robert Selph Henry • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyAn excellent history of the Mexican War of 1846-1848, with the US Army commanded by the likes...

• Author(s): Gerald Reitlinger • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyThe SS--short for the German Schutzstaffeln--was a far-flung organization, of which the Gestapo was only one branch, that served...

• Author(s): David Freeman Hawke • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)From the Back CoverThe story of the Declaration of Independence - its ge...

• Author(s): David Herbert Donald • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyOccasionally a book that begins as a work of scholarship becomes a great and profoundly mov...