This book is in some sense a sequel to Heikki's previous book – Zappa äänitteillä (Recorded Zappa) – which contained overview of Zappa albums. This book – Frank Zappa's compositions – contains over 800 songs alphabetically listed, with comments on music, lyrics, performances.

Heikki Poroila:

Olen kirjastonhoitajana tottunut taidemusiikkisäveltäjien tuotannosta koottuihin teosluetteloihin, joten rupesin miettimään, olisiko jotain samantyyppistä mahdollista tehdä Zappan kanssa. Aika pitkään löysin vahvoja perusteita olla rupeamatta koko hommaan, mutta sitten alkoi näyttää, että vaikka netti on pullollaan erilaisia Zappa-diskografioita ja muita listauksia, kunnianhimoisempaa yritystä sävellystuotannon listaamiseksi ei löytynyt.

As a librarian I am accustomed to the production of art music composers in cumulative list of works, so I started to think about whether something similar can be done with Zappa. For a long time I found strong reasons to keep away from the hole thing. But then I saw, that web is full of Zappa discographies and other listings, but serious list of musical compositions was missing.

To buy a copy of this book, please contact the author directly – heikki.poroila@gmail.com.

Cover picture by Eevariitta Poroila.

"Frank Zappan sävellykset" - lehdistötiedote 
Interview with Heikki Poroila

Compositions by Frank Zappa
Text by Heikki Poroila
Front cover painting by Eevariitta Poroila
Other original drawings by Marko Nakari
Honkakirja ISBN 978-952-68711-2-7
Version: 2.0 (July 12, 2020)
Non-commercial use, copying and linking of this publication for free is fine, if the author and source are mentioned. I do not own the facts, I just made the studying and organizing.
Thanks to all the other Zappa enthusiasts around the globe, especially Román García Albertos and his Information Is Not Knowledge at http://www.donlope.net/fz/
Corrections are warmly welcomed (info@heikkiporoila.fi).
The Finnish Library Foundation has kindly supported economically the compiling of this free version.

Links

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Link to the PDF