Books written by Mervyn Cooke

  • Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd
    Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd

    Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints.

  • Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd
    Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd

    ... Introduction ' , in Crozier , Benjamin Britten : Peter Grimes ' Mapreading : Benjamin Britten in conversation with Donald Mitchell ' , in Palmer , The Britten Companion On Receiving the First Aspen Award ( London : Faber and Faber ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music

    ... 'from jealous eyes away to fly'.81 The final Johnson songs are the two from The Tempest: When I published Shakespeare's Songbook in 2004, I presented the settings by Johnson (or whomever) with a caveat that they were late, ...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten
    The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

    on time and money was exceeded only by the Rupprecht draws between Britten's ' uncertain ' terrible emotional drain - something manipulations of tonality and more general recalled decades later in 1980 when Copland aspects of his style ...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten
    The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

    The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student.

  • A History of Film Music
    A History of Film Music

    This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by ...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Jazz
    The Cambridge Companion to Jazz

    Jelly Roll Morton's ' Black Bottom Stomp ' provides a classic illustration of the devices used by early jazz rhythm sections to provide contrast and excitement . Key to the excitement in the rhythm section is a two - bar break pattern ...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Film Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Film Music

    A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.

  • The Chronicle of Jazz
    The Chronicle of Jazz

    "First published in the United Kingdom in 1997 by Thames & Hudson Ltd"--Title page verso.

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music

    This volume showcases the latest international research into the captivating and vast subject of the many uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, extending from the Bard's own time to the present day.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Jazz
    The Cambridge Companion to Jazz

    Jazz and the White Americans: The Acceptanceof a NewArt Form,University ofChicago Press Leonard, Susan, M.1988. 'An Introduction to Black Participation in the Early Recording Era, 1890–1920', Annual Reviewof Jazz Studies 4 (1988), ...

  • Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984
    Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984

    http://www.allaboutjazz.com, and http://www.jazzreview.com/articledetails.cfm?ID=657. Brannon, Mike. ... The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. ... In The Cambridge Companion to Jazz, ed.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
    The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera

    Topics The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music Edited by Allan Moore The Cambridge Companion to the ... Samson The Cambridge Companion to Debussy Edited by Simon Trezise Instruments The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments ...

  • Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984
    Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984

    1975 Pat Meth Music Corp. All rights reserved. Named after a Berklee alumna, the guitarist and vocalist Sirabhorn Muntarbhorn, the piece shows how the experience of working with 12-string tunings in the Burton band had left its mark on ...

  • The Hollywood Film Music Reader
    The Hollywood Film Music Reader

    This wide-ranging, stimulating, and entertaining anthology of writings about the experiences of composers working in the high-pressure environment of the US film industry from the silent era to the present day includes both vivid first-hand ...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Film Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Film Music

    ... Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets: Cinemajazzmatazz, New York and London: Routledge Horton, Robert, 1995. 'Music Man', Film Comment 31/6, 2–4 Hubai, Gergely, 2012. Torn Music: Rejected Film Scores, a Selected History, Los Angeles ...

  • Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984
    Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984

    In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of ...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
    The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera

    The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.