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Author : Cole Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Great Songs of Cole Porter written by Cole Porter and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Kimball
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306804830
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Complete Lyrics Of Cole Porter written by Robert Kimball and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1992-08-21 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Begin the Beguine" to "It's Delovely" to "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "I Get a Kick Out of You", here are the complete lyrics to the much-loved songs of Cole Porter--800 songs meant to be hummed, sung, danced to, and remembered. "A record of (Porter's) artistic development and of the time in which he flourished".--Rhoda Koenig, New York Magazine.
Author : William McBrien
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307791882
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Cole Porter written by William McBrien and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his life and in his music, Cole Porter was the top—the pinnacle of wit and sophistication. From the 1910s through the ‘50s, from Yale pep rallies through the Broadway triumphs of Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate, he delighted audiences with a glittering torrent of song: “I Get a Kick Out of You.” “Night and Day,” “Love for Sale,” and “Just One of Those Things.” The bright surface of these gems—their catchy melodies and ingenious lyrics—made them instant pop hits. Their more subtle qualities and their musical and emotional depth have made them lasting standards, among the greatest glories of the American songbook. In Cole Porter, William McBrien has thoroughly captured the creator of these songs, whose life was one not only of wealth and privilege but also of tragedy, secrecy, and courage. A prodigal young man, Porter found his aesthetic and emotional anchor in a long, loving, if sexless marriage, while continuing to maintain many discreet affairs with men. In 1937, at the height of his success, he suffered a near-fatal riding accident; his last eighteen years were marked by pain, drugs, and repeated operations on his legs, years of physical agony but unstinting artistic achievement. Here is the book that Porter’s fans have long hoped for—a life that informs the great music and lyrics though illuminating glimpses of the hidden, complicated, private man.
Author : Cole Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881887334
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Music of Cole Porter written by Cole Porter and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19 great songs, including: Anything Goes * Begin the Beguine * Easy to Love * I Get a Kick Out of You.
Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1458481956
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)
Download or read book The Great American Songbook - The Singers written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Crooners, wailers, shouters, balladeers some of our greatest pop vocalists have poured their hearts and souls into the musical gems of the Great American Songbook. They sang in nightclubs and concert halls, on television and in films, and left us a legacy of recordings still in play today. Their interpretations entertained us, moved us to tears, and wove lyrics and music into the fabric of our lives, making us see ourselves in these quintessentially American songs. This folio features 100 of these classics by Louis Armstrong (Hello Dolly * What a Wonderful World), Tony Bennett (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), Rosemary Clooney (Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep), Nat "King" Cole (Route 66), Bing Crosby (True Love), Doris Day (Bewitched), Ella Fitzgerald (How High the Moon), Judy Garland (Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody), Dean Martin (Everybody Loves Somebody), Frank Sinatra (Young at Heart), Barbra Streisand (People), Mel Torme (Heart and Soul), and many, many more.
Author : Cole Porter
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573627859
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Cole Porter's You Never Know written by Cole Porter and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This romantic musical comedy is set in Paris in 1929. Filled with delightful, witty Cole Porter songs, the story takes place one summer evening in Baron Rommer's elegant penthouse suite at the Hotel Ritz. The baron and his butler switch identities so that the butler can pursue a woman he believes is a lady of a much higher class. It transpires that she is actually a maid in the service of Mme. Baltin, a high society figure who has captured the baron's heart. Her jealous husband and a Baker like actress headlining at the Follies Bergere round out the cast of this door slamming farce with wonderful songs and dancing.
Author : Brent Edstrom
Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 1540092887
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Cole Porter - Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 30 written by Brent Edstrom and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Jazz Piano Solos). Solo arrangements with chord names of 22 selections by this legendary songwriter: Begin the Beguine * Easy to Love (You'd Be So Easy to Love) * Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye * From This Moment On * Get Out of Town * I Get a Kick Out of You * Just One of Those Things * Love for Sale * Night and Day * What Is This Thing Called Love? * You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To * and more.
Author : Wilfrid Sheed
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588367223
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The House That George Built written by Wilfrid Sheed and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen ran their fingers over piano keys, enticing unforgettable melodies out of thin air. Critically acclaimed writer Wilfrid Sheed uncovered the legends, mingled with the greats, and gossiped with the insiders. Now he’s crafted a dazzling, authoritative history of the era that “tripled the world’s total supply of singable tunes.” It began when immigrants in New York’s Lower East Side heard black jazz and blues–and it surged into an artistic torrent nothing short of miraculous. Broke but eager, Izzy Baline transformed himself into Irving Berlin, married an heiress, and embarked on a string of hits from “Always” to “Cheek to Cheek.” Berlin’s spiritual godson George Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan Alley and Carnegie Hall, charming everyone in his orbit. Possessed of a world-class ego, Gershwin was also generous, exciting, and utterly original. Half a century later, Gershwin love songs like “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “The Man I Love,” and “Love Is Here to Stay” are as tender and moving as ever. Sheed also illuminates the unique gifts of the great jazz songsters Hoagy Carmichael and Duke Ellington, conjuring up the circumstances of their creativity and bringing back the thrill of what it was like to hear “Georgia on My Mind” or “Mood Indigo” for the first time. The Golden Age of song sparked creative breakthroughs in both Broadway musicals and splashy Hollywood extravaganzas. Sheed vividly recounts how Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer spread the melodic wealth to stage and screen. Popular music was, writes Sheed, “far and away our greatest contribution to the world’s art supply in the so-called American Century.” Sheed hung out with some of the great artists while they were still writing–and better than anyone, he knows great music, its shimmer, bite, and exuberance. Sparkling with wit, insight, and the grace notes of wonderful songs, The House That George Built is a heartfelt, intensely personal portrait of an unforgettable era. A delightfully charming, funny, and most illuminating portrait of songwriters and the Golden Age of American Popular Song. Mr. Sheed’s carefully chosen depictions and anecdotes recapture that amazingly creative period, a moment in time in which I was so fortunate to be surrounded by all that magic.” –Margaret Whiting
Author : Cole Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Best of Cole Porter written by Cole Porter and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don M. Randel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098307
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book A Cole Porter Companion written by Don M. Randel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing sophisticated melodies and irresistible rhythms with lyrics by turns cynical and passionate, Cole Porter sent American song soaring on gossamer wings. Timeless works like "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "At Long Last Love" made him an essential figure in the soundtrack of a century and earned him adoration from generations of music lovers. In A Cole Porter Companion, a parade of performers and scholars offers essays on little-known aspects of the master tunesmith's life and art. Here are Porter's days as a Yale wunderkind and his nights as the exemplar of louche living; the triumph of Kiss Me Kate and shocking failure of You Never Know; and his spinning rhythmic genius and a turkey dinner into "You're the Top" while cultural and economic forces take "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" in unforeseen directions. Other entries explore notes on ongoing Porter scholarship and delve into his formative works, performing career, and long-overlooked contributions to media as varied as film and ballet. Prepared with the cooperation of the Porter archives, A Cole Porter Companion is an invaluable guide for the fans and scholars of this beloved American genius.
Author : Charles Schwartz
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306800979
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Cole Porter written by Charles Schwartz and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1979-03-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933 Irving Berlin wrote to composer-lyricist Cole Porter, ”I am mad about Night and Day.” Millions of others throughout the world have been ”mad about” that Porter gem, as well as dozens of others, including, to name just a few, Begin the Beguine, From This Moment On, It's De-Lovely, Just One of Those Things, Love for Sale, and My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Cole Porter (1891-1964) set new standards for popular song-writing, and his lyrics and melodies are as bright and sophisticated today as when they first dazzled audiences decades ago. Porter's own life matched that of his songs for urbanity, wit, and elegance, and in New York, Hollywood, and on the Continent he was an arbiter of taste and fashion and part of the glamorous international set of the Twenties and Thirties. He numbered among his friends Cary Grant, Noel Coward, Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Elsa Maxwell, Fanny Brice, and Monty Woolley, as well as many other stars of stage, screen, or society. Cole Porter: A Biography is a delightfully written and meticulously researched book that takes us from the composer's Indiana childhood to his celebrity days, discussing with exceptional honesty his family and friends, his wife and his many lovers, and above all, his music. Charles Schwartz's account of Cole Porter is the most revealing, comprehensive, and objective biography to date of an extraordinarily talented and fascinating man.
Author : Cole Porter
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573627347
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Hot 'n Cole written by Cole Porter and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spotlight is on the timelessness of Cole Porter classics, presented here with wonderfully fresh arrangements and a contemporary twist. Over fifty of his songs are woven into an entertainment that feels as much like a book musical as a revue. By turns wry, irreverent, romantic, touching and hilarious, this is a post modern Cole Porter evening unlike any other.
Author : Cole Porter
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Great Songs of Cole Porter written by Cole Porter and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: You Do Something to Me * I've Got You Under My Skin * I Get a Kick Out of You * What Is This Thing Called Love? * Begin the Beguine and many more.
Author : Cole Porter
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780881880656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Can Can written by Cole Porter and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Selections). 8 vocal selections from the 1953 Porter musical, including: Allez-Vous-En, Go Away * C'est Magnifique * Can Can * Come Along with Me * I Love Paris * It's All Right with Me * Live and Let Live * Montmartre.
Author : Dan Coates
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780739044957
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Simply Porter: The Music of Cole Porter -- 18 of His Timeless Songs written by Dan Coates and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simply Porter is a collection of the most famous compositions by Cole Porter. Phrase markings, articulations, fingering and dynamics have been included to aid with interpretation, and a large print size makes the notation easy to read. Titles: Another Op'nin', Another Show * Anything Goes * Begin the Beguine * Blow, Gabriel, Blow * Don't Fence Me In * Easy to Love * Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye * I Get a Kick Out of You * I Love Paris * I've Got You Under My Skin * In the Still of the Night * It's De-Lovely * Just One of Those Things * Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) * Love for Sale * Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable to Lunch Today) * Night and Day * So in Love.
Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691043999
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (439 download)
Download or read book The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 written by Allen Forte and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
Author : Cole Porter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021927X
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Cole Porter written by Cole Porter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century From Anything Goes to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top," "Love For Sale," and "Night and Day." Yet, alongside his professional success, Porter led an eclectic personal life which featured exuberant parties, scandalous affairs, and chronic health problems. This extensive collection of letters (most of which are published here for the first time) dates from the first decade of the twentieth century to the early 1960s and features correspondence with stars such as Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman, and Orson Welles, as well as his friends and lovers. Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh complement these letters with lively commentaries that draw together the loose threads of Porter's life and highlight the distinctions between Porter's public and private existence. This book reveals surprising insights into his attitudes toward Hollywood and Broadway, and toward money, love, and dazzling success.
