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Classical music has a reputation for being stuffy, boring, and largely inaccessible, but Burton-Hill is here to change that. An award-winning writer, broadcaster and musician, with a deep love of the art form she wants everyone to feel welcome at the classical party, and her desire to share her passion for its diverse wonders inspired this unique, enlightening, and expertly curated treasury. As she says, "The only requirements for enjoying classical...
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Three delightful stories inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and “a writer of dazzling inventiveness" (Time).
"[An] exquisite triptych.... Richly drawn and touches upon things that matter to people." —People
These stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives...
"[An] exquisite triptych.... Richly drawn and touches upon things that matter to people." —People
These stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives...
3) The museum
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A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.
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Cornish trilogy (Robertson Davies) volume 3
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There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish-connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric-whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The grumpy, grimy, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E.T.A. Hoffmann's unfinished opera...
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One evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the disappearance of Bach's manuscript in the eighteenth century; Pablo Casals's discovery and popularization of the music in Spain in the late-nineteenth century; and Siblin's infatuation with the suites...
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A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art
The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury "drip" paintings; Chris Burden's "Shoot" (1971), in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle; Urs Fischer's "You" (2007), a giant hole dug...
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"There are 83 copies of the First Folio in a vault beneath Capitol Hill, the world's largest collection. Well over 150 Indian movies are based on Shakespeare's plays-more than in any other nation. If current trends continue, there will soon be more high-school students reading The Merchant of Venice in Mandarin Chinese than in early-modern English. Why did this happen-and how? Ranging ambitiously across four continents and 400 years, Worlds Elsewhere...
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A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
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Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use! After studying 'popular' and 'classical' music theory, Ray Harmony created a unique approach that he uses to compose his songs, which feature multi-platinum Grammy winners Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), and many more. Ray Harmony is...
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Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for almost twenty years with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he gives you a set of tools you can use when listening to any piece of music in order to hear its "plot"-its story told in notes. The musical examples are available free for download to help you hear the ideas presented. Whether you are...
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A pesar de que la teoría de la música atonal se ha desarrollado de manera ininterrumpida durante los últimos 50 años en los países anglosajones, especialmente en Estados Unidos, y de que ha producido un extenso acervo de literatura analítica, en México es aún prácticamente desconocida; de ahí que esta obra trata de contribuir a remediar dicho rezago. Además hay aspectos en que se diferencia de la mayoría de los textos anglosajones sobre...
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Las dos partes de este libro tienen características singulares. En una está la novedad. En la otra, la insistencia. La sociología de la música, como disciplina formal, tiene apenas un siglo de vida. La educación musical ha venido a menos en México y en otros países, y por eso lo dicho hace varias décadas está ganando en trascendencia. El sociólogo Max Weber encabeza al sobresaliente grupo académico cuyas enseñanzas son glosadas en estas...
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Artistas, escenarios y públicos son elementos, si no "condenados a la perfección" como hubiera dicho Juan José Arreola por lo menos obligados a no estorbar y no estorbarse en su misión delicada. Las bambalinas de un concierto no comienzan con él, ni se extinguen al aplauso final. Los anecdotarios han hecho de directores y solistas; de salas de concierto y aun de los más modestos aficionados, actores protagónicos a veces dignos de la inmortalidad....
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La finalidad de este noveno volumen de la colección Biblioteca Musical Mínima es mostrar cómo ocurre la adquisición del sonido melódico y rítmico, así como el papel del educador en el dominio de las habilidades musicales. Es realizar una aproximación a las formas en que el niño va adquiriendo las nociones musicales, el arduo trabajo que le permite un gradual dominio de los sonidos, del instrumento o de la creación musical.
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15) Liner Notes
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Poetry. Andy Mister's LINER NOTES is a semi-narrative prose poem, a meditation on alienation and pop culture. Beginning with the Beach Boy's unfinished masterpiece "Smile," Mister describes a world populated by ghosts. Adrift on a sea of drug use, boredom and popular entertainment, Mister traces his relationship to the obsessive collection of ephemera and the coterminous feelings of isolation and loss. Like an iPod on shuffle, lyrical descriptions...
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Los lectores no deben tomar el título de este libro al pie de la letra. Su contenido está hecho de paseos por el negro y el blanco del piano y de la música, pero también por los campos íntimos de la confesión.
Con una vida intensa enmarcada por el arte, por la familia, por los recorridos y estancias en el extranjero, García Renart vino adquiriendo desde niña una visión del mundo que le ha permitido, con similar maestría, mover las manos...
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Cada una de las grandes revoluciones lingüísticas y estilísticas en la historia de la música ha llevado la atención de los teóricos y de los músicos, mayoritariamente, a reflexionar sobre los aspectos propiamente técnicos y lingüísticos correspondientes a cada arte, llegando solo de modo indirecto a afrontar las cuestiones filosóficas y estéticas, y siempre, en cualquier caso, con una actitud vinculada a las nuevas experiencias artísticas....
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The Easiest-Best-Fastest Way To Read Music, In One Day
For All Musical Instruments In Bass Clef
Imagine yourself unable to read English. Think of how tiny your world would be. Reading has opened up the entire universe to you. The same can be, said for reading music. Learning to read music will open a whole, new world for you with all its magic, beauty and wonder. Many of us have always wanted to be able to read music, but either, we had too little...
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Nick Strimple's all-encompassing survey ranges from 19th-century masters, such as Elgar, to contemporary composers, such as Tan Dun and Paul McCartney. Repertory of every style and level of complexity is critically surveyed and described. This book is an essential resource for choral conductors and a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers.
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In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. She secretly wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's bound for Europe. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the box from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolor of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals the painting and hides it in his room....
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