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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Claude DebussyISBN-10: 1447474600ISBN-13: 9781447474609Publisher: Classic...

READ THIS BOOK If You Believe: Great technique is meaningless if the instrument cannot achieve optimum performance. Pianists Should know the "Insides of Their Piano" and How They May Best Perform . The Piano Technician Should Play Very Well in order to Understand and...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Frank J. MetcalfISBN-10: 1406751448ISBN-13: 9781406751444Publisher:...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.Author: Tobias MatthayISBN-10: 1169969607ISBN-13: 9781169969605Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.77d

Teach the world to sing, and all will be in perfect harmony - or so the songs tell us. Music is widely believed to unify and bring peace, but the focus on music as a vehicle for fostering empathy and reconciliation between opposing groups...

This book contains a collection of psalms, written in verse and accompanied by critical remarks. Walter Hutchinson Aston's insightful commentary offers readers a deeper understanding of each psalm's meaning and significance. This book is ideal for those looking to deepen their knowledge of the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of scholarly interest in the French art song, or mélodie, with a flood of new books, articles, and editions. This Companion draws on the best of this new research, with chapters by world-renowned scholars and performers examining...

In 1943 the Armed Forces Radio Service began transmitting programs that linked the thousands of American military personnel and civilians stationed overseas to the United States. This definitive study provides discographical data for the first 1,000 recordings of the AFRS Basic Musical Library, P...

Product information not available.Author: UnknownISBN-10: 0313235872ISBN-13: 9780313235870Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/1984Pages: 406Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.69lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

Author: David J. GradyISBN-13: 9798993065519Publisher: Ffrw PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2025Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Author: Glenn Gomez AdamsISBN-10: 1958233412ISBN-13: 9781958233412Publisher: Wildebeest Publishing Company, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2025Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Author: Mary Ellen PinzinoISBN-10: 097187171XISBN-13: 9780971871717Publisher: Come Children Sing InstituteLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2025Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.61d

"I Played My Best for Him!" was a finalist in the 2024 American Writing Awards competition! This second edition has a new foreword by Dr. Mary Rorro, Chair of the American Medical Women's Association's Music and Medicine Committee, as well as a new postscript.This...

This collection features a selection of classical pieces by the world's most renowned composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss II, Edvard Grieg, Johann Pachelbel, Giuseppe Verdi, Edward Elgar, Richard...

EXPLORING STRINGS is a comprehensive curriculum designed to help students learn through hands-on experience. Each lesson encourages exploration of a new concept before introducing vocabulary and worksheets, followed by exercises to develop the necessary muscle memory and understanding. This fun and thoughtful approach keeps...

Celebrate the joy, wonder, and true meaning of the season with the Christmas Songs Lyrics Book, a beautiful collection of over 170 favorites and beloved Christmas songs from both Traditional and Contemporary Songs. Whether you're preparing for a holiday concert, caroling with friends and...

The research Royal Patronage to Indian Classical Music and Dance in Tripura deals with the taste and interest of the kings of Tripura to Indian Classical Music and Dance as well as the royal patronisation of the same. The monarchs of Tripura ruled over...

Punjabi culture is great. Punjabi songs are liked by all. In this book some Sabad saram is provided, also many old Punjabi songs' lyrics in English and its notations in CDEF style is provided to help music lovers to play on their instrument. A...

The first book-length exploration of how English landscapes are represented in contemporary electronic and experimental music, Listening to Landscape ploughs its own furrow, combining ideas from psychogeography, hauntology and landscape studies to offer a distinctive take on the way contemporary music deals with the...

Touch is a fundamental element of dance. The (time) forms and contact zones of touch are means of expression both of self-reflexivity and the interaction of the dancers. Liberties and limits, creative possibilities and taboos of touch convey insights into the 'aisthesis' of the...

'The Cellist's Notebook' is a charming, life-affirming tale of discovery surrounding an old family mystery. A young girl's curiosity, her love of a little melody and the beauty of a cello evokes memories long forgotten.Set in the present day, ten year old Emily Peters...

Elva Albino originally from Corozal Puerto Rico, graduated from high school Jose C. Barbosa. Associate Degree in business administration from Puerto Rico Jr. College, College Degree in Administration from Temple University in Pennyslvania, licensed by the real estate associate of USA. Analytical banking operations...

Life Begins at Eighty is a collection of the author Virginia Bathurst Beck's columns about her life, from Depression days to the present. Beck loves to write and has written all her life, including skits for PTA and for her Tops clubs, letters to...

For five years, I've been sending out a Sunday email with brief comments on art that's inspiring, thought-provoking, skillfully executed, and/or beautiful. Ayn Rand described art as emotional fuel. My goal-and my selfish pleasure!-is to help you find more of that fuel and use...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Author: David Halyburton LowISBN-10: 0837101514ISBN-13: 9780837101514Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/1968Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Swedish fiddle music has been greatly influenced by the surrounding countries. Evidence of this can be found in the names of some types of tunes, such as Polska from Poland, Schottis (a schottische) from Scotland, and Engelska from England. Other popular types of tunes...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

A revolutionary study of material culture, this volume argues that the deliberate physical fragmentation and deposition of objects lies at the core of the archaeology of Mesolithic, Neo- lithic and Copper Age of East and Central Europe.Author: John ChapmanISBN-10: 0415642698ISBN-13: 9780415642699Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2012Pages:...

The 20th century, especially the latter decades, was a time of explosive growth and importance in hymnody, and yet published material about the hymnody of this period has been scattered and difficult to come by. The present volume catalogues and categorizes the available writings...

Twentieth-Century American Music for the Dance: A Bibliography provides a guide to one of the most important areas of modern music. The close and mutually beneficial relationship that has existed between dance and music from the early days of this century and the collaboration...

A prolific American master whose work is rooted in the tonal tradition of nineteenth-century Romanticism, Robert Ward has had a long, varied, and successful musical career. Ward is noted for his keyboard and chamber music, songs and choral works, orchestral compositions, and operas, especially...

This bio-bibliography catalogs more than 300 musical compositions of the prolific American composer, Daniel Pinkham. The compositions reflect Pinkham's success at securing commissions from a variety of individuals and organizations, and span his entire career to date as composer, performer, and teacher. The volume...

This clear, comprehensive reference guide highlights the major events in Ernst Krenek's life in the context of his musical and literary works. An insightful biography carefully puts the man and his work into perspective. Next, a list of compositions is organized in generally chronological...

Author: Peter BlackstockISBN-13: 9798218798079Publisher: Truly Handmade Guy Clark LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2025Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.28d

'What does it mean to follow a ghost?' Posing this question in Specters of Marx (1993), Jacques Derrida introduces the philosophical concept of 'hauntology' and the 'medium of the media' through the Shakespearian trope that time is 'out of joint'. Replete with ghostly crackles,...

Written originally as a light-hearted Christmas tune, (think "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," and "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"), "Santa Claus Is Melting on the Sand" was the perfect story song to create into a hilarious, creatively illustrated Christmas...

The full story of John Lennon and The Beatles has all been told, or has it? Francis Kenny's 'Understanding John Lennon' presents an account of John and the band that challenges preconceived assumptions. With a foreword to the book by lifelong friend and founder...

The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu has become one of the most influential theories in music education and sociology of music. Generations of scholars in both fields have applied, criticized and advanced the concepts and methods invented by Bourdieu and his school. The volume presents...

This book interrogates the widespread yet ill-defined use of 'cultural leadership' in strategic plans, policies, and industry discourse. The book's central finding is that many orchestras lack internal alignment around their public purpose, limiting their capacity to lead with authenticity.Author: Samuel CairnduffISBN-10: 1032906049ISBN-13: 9781032906041Publisher:...

"Unlock Your Brain's Dormant Potential Through the Amygdala: Unveiling the Infinite Capabilities of the Mind and Creativity" offers an unparalleled journey into the depths of human potential. This groundbreaking book introduces readers to the untapped powers of their brains, emphasizing that every individual harbors...

Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy illuminates the vibrancy of spiritual beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Scholarship on Catholicism has tended to focus on institutions, but the home was the site of religious instruction and reading, prayer and...

Provides the first comprehensive history of classical music radio in the UK in the twentieth centurySheds light on the relationship between culture and society in the UK between 1945 and 1995Explores debates regarding the 'dumbing down' of classical music and 'highbrow elitism' in British...

Music is the Key is a trip through my life's journey. On the road, you will visit many trials and tribulations that I have experienced....and you will also visit victories and triumphs, blessings and favor. I hope that while traveling through my journey and...

Whether you look over the sea of love or find yourself walking along the dock of the bay, you may drive down the highways of my life heading for the valley of the lonely or wander towards the dark en of the street.The story...

This book outlines the career of one of the most distinguished figures in Irish musical life in the first half of the twentieth century -- a Bavarian organist, Aloys Fleischmann, Sr., whose son would later become Professor of Music in UCC. Fleischmann senior came...

Every musician has his demons. Some more than others. Donnie Wayne Hudson has more than most. Growing up in squalor with a mom that is the town prostitute and no dad, Donnie Wayne finds one friend that exposes him to a passion of BB...