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(Richmond Music Instrumental). Alec Wilder's "Jazz Suite" for horn quartet, harpsichord, guitar bass and drums with four movements: Horns O'Plenty, Conversation Piece, Serenade, and Horn Belt Boogie. This suite was composed in 1951 at the instigation of Mitch Miller, a longtime friend of Wilder's and then the Head of Popular Music at Columbia Records.

(Vocal Collection). Alec Wilder (1907-1980) was at home with American music in the largest sense, from Broadway to Hollywood, popular or "classical." The idiosyncratic mixture of styles in his music make it just as much an "American original" as that of his avant-garde contemporaries. One trait throughout his song style is a gift for melody that makes the songs very appealing to singers. Classical singers will find these 25 songs to be a natur...

(Richmond Music Instrumental). For horn quartet and rhythm section (harpsichord, guitar, bass and drums).

Hailed as the definitive account of the classic era of American popular music, this essential book is now brought fully up-to-date in a third edition by popular music scholar Robert Rawlins, just in time for the 50th anniversary of its original publication. Both skillfully analytical and engagingly informal, American Popular Song examines the musical qualities that created a uniquely American art form.

This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who dominated the classical era of American popular music. Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, the book draws on over 700 musical examples to demonstrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and transformed it into an authentic art form. Tracing its roots to 1890s ragtime, Wilder shows how the American style was incorporated into mai...

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A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of S words that reveal a spectacular story! With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The S Files is a chi...

(Richmond Music Folios). This book contains the songs especially written by Alec Wilder in 1958 for Riverside's recording of the entire text of "Alice" starring Cyril Ritchard, who plays all the parts. Includes: The Crocodile * Duchess Lullaby * They Told Me * Twinkle Twinkle * and more.

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Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and photographs by Louis Ouzer. Alec Wilder is a rare example of a composer who established a reputation both as a prolific composer of concertos, sonatas, and operas, and as a popular songwriter (including the hit "I'll Be Around"). He was fearsomely arti...

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