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Bob Lucas Guitar Studios (Missouri US) Guitar For Kids is a fun all-color guide on the first steps of learning to play Guitar with over 70 photographic examples, purpose-made diagrams and cartoons. Starting with advice on buying your first guitar, how to hold the guitar and how to tune it, the music then begins with easy-to-play melodies using only open strings (open strings means only the plucking hand is used), before moving to simple pieces in...
8722) Chopin and His World
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Jonathan D. Bellman is professor of music history and literature and head of academic studies in music at the University of Northern Colorado. Halina Goldberg is professor of musicology at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and affiliate of the Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, Polish Studies Center, and Russian and East European Institute.
A new look at the life, times, and music...
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One of the most gifted, celebrated, scrutinized, and criticized musicians in the second half of the twentieth century, Leonard Bernstein made his legendary conducting debut at the New York Philharmonic in 1943, at age 25. A year later, he became a sensation on Broadway with the premiere of On the Town. Throughout the 1950s, his Broadway fame only grew with Wonderful Town, Candide, and West Side Story. And in 1958, the Philharmonic appointed him the...
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In 2013, Remi Harris set out to answer the question asked by so many independent musicians and music businesses, "How can I get funding?"
In this innovative book she explores the hidden drivers behind the funding problem in the music industry, and explains why it's essential to spend as much, effort on understanding and using, funding as you do on building relationships within the business. She sets out what it takes to attract money, the motivations...
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Behind the Hits is an intimate look into the creative mind and behind the music of Grammy Award winning producer Christopher James Gholson professionally known as Drumma Boy. This journey takes you through Drumma Boy's biggest songs throughout his career and the process behind each song.
Best known for producing chart-topping hits like "I Put On" by Jeezy, "Look At My Dab" by Migos, "Shawty" from Plies featuring T-Pain and Waka Flocka Flame's club...
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Extrait : "OHÉ ! les badouillards, les chicards, les fambards, les braillards, les balochards ! Joyeuses sociétés, levez-vous ! Réunions folifiantes, microbolantes, enivrantes et souvent enivrées ! - Debout ! debout ! Allons ! allons ! des costumes gracieux, de jolies femmes, du vin mousseux, du punch brûlant..."
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The definitive oral history of heavy metal, Louder Than Hell by renowned music journalists Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman includes hundreds of interviews with the giants of the movement, conducted over the past 25 years.
Unlike many forms of popular music, metalheads tend to embrace their favorite bands and follow them over decades. Metal is not only a pastime for the true aficionados; it's a lifestyle and obsession that permeates every aspect...
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In the bluegrass fields of Kentucky, Anne Wilson and her siblings, Jacob and Elizabeth, grew up in the security and love of their family-and Jesus. But when Jacob died in a car accident, Anne was thrust into a painful journey of grief and soul-wrestling that led to God calling her to create songs that glorified Him.
My Jesus weaves together Anne's personal story with an encouraging message to anyone longing for God to wipe away their tears.
No matter...
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This is the first book to showcase second generation Irish writers in Britain. In the past, many Irish immigrants kept their heads down, but here, not quite British, not quite Irish, tell their own stories. Essays about music, family, and history lead into new fiction and poetry that take us beyond shamrocks, leprechauns and pints of Guinness.
The writers explore questions of identity and belonging and ask, where is home, here or Ireland?
Ian Duhig...
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In this collection of personal essays, women music writers pay tribute to female country artists from June Carter Cash and Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift.
Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country music and the women who make it, Woman Walk the Line is an intimate collection of essays from some of America's most intriguing women writers. It celebrates how these groundbreaking musicians have provided pivot points, important truths,...
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Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field. Written in accessible language, this book is for anyone who wants to explore new ways to subvert educational systems and institutions, collectively transform educational spaces, and empower students and other teachers to...
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L'attirance pour l'art pictural et, plus globalement, pour tout ce qui relève du visuel est particulièrement manifeste chez le compositeur Claude Debussy (1862-1918), qui s'est référé à l'univers de peintres comme Botticelli pour sa suite symphonique Printemps (1887), Velázquez pour ...
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The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells-concert parties made up of fighting soldiers-were central to this process. Soldiers of Song tells their story. Lucky soldiers who could sing a song, perform a skit, or pass as a 'lady,' were taken from the line and put onstage for the benefit of their soldier-audiences. The intent was to bolster...
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Marina Frolova-Walker is professor of music history at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Clare College. Her books include Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin and Stalin's Music Prize.
A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally....
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Discover the amazing life of a member of the most talented musical family: Jermaine Jackson!
Eclectic, truly original, and a fully-fledged artist, Jermaine Jackson is the fourth child of the world's most famous musical family. To the same degree as his brothers and sisters, he is an icon of soul music and American pop. A gifted singer, bass player, dancer, author, composer, actor, businessman, and producer, he produced songs for the young Whitney...
8737) The Fall
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When you've lost all you've desperately sought to keep, why bother hoping for a second chance?
With her pent up faith in love unraveling, former hopeless romantic Emery Brooks is a shell of the girl who once craved a love story that mirrored her grandparents' fifty-year marriage. Taking all efforts to guard her heart, she isolates herself from everything she's ever loved, including her music and faith, now battling the same cynicism she worked so...
8738) Coming Clean
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Rob wants to be a DJ-more than anything. And when his older brother Adam lands him a gig at a local all-ages club filling in for DJ Sly, Rob is ecstatic. This could be his big break, and when he finds out that the girl of his dreams will be there that first night, it seems like it is all coming together. But things fall apart-Mary Jane overdoses on Ecstasy provided by Adam, and DJ Sly turns Adam in and implicates Rob. The brothers end up on the run,...
8739) Sing for the Sea
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This songbook features all 24 songs from award winning New Zealand songwriter Claudia Robin Gunn's 4th family album Sing for the Sea - Little Wild Ocean Friends. These original tunes celebrate children's connection to the oceans and the little, the wild and the gentle giant creatures that call it home through songs of tugboats, glow in the dark sea life and marvellous escaping octopus among many more. Featuring full colour illustrations by Elise De...
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Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy...
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