The Simple Flute

The Simple Flute

Author: Michel Debost

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780195145212

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For professional and amateur flutists as well as students of the flute, this book offers a practical introduction to all aspects of playing the flute. Using an accessible A-Z format, Debost offers a logical and imaginitive work on flute performance that places technique at the service of music on every page.


A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist

A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist

Author: Susan J. Maclagan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1538106663

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The second edition of Susan J. Maclagan’s A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist presents clear and concise definitions of more than 1,600 common flute-related terms that a player of the Boehm-system or Baroque flute may encounter. Fully illustrated with more than 150 images, the entries describe flute types, flute parts; playing techniques; acoustics; articulations; intonation; common ornaments; flute-making and repairs; flute history; flute music books, and many more topics. Unique to the second edition are entries on beatbox techniques and muscles of the face and throat. Entries now also feature bibliographic cross-references for further research. Carefully labeled illustrations for many flute types, parts, mechanisms, and accessories help make definitions easier to visualize. Appendixes provide further information on such subjects as flute classifications, types of flutes and their parts, key and tone hole names, head joint options, orchestra and opera audition excerpts, and biographies of people mentioned in the definitions. Contributed articles include “An Easy Guide to Checking Your Flute Tuning and Scale” by Trevor Wye; “Flute Clutches” by David Shorey; "Early Music on Modern Flute” by Barthold Kuijken; and “Crowns and Stoppers” and “Boehm Flute Scales from 1847 to the Present:The Short Story” by Gary Lewis. Maclagan’s A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist, second edition is an essential reference volume for flutists of all levels and for libraries supporting student, professional, and amateur musicians.


Kokopelli's Flute

Kokopelli's Flute

Author: Will Hobbs

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-09-08

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1439136742

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THE MAGIC HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE. Tep Jones has always felt the magic of Picture House, an Anasazi cliff dwelling near the seed farm where he lives with his parents. But he could never have imagined what would happen to him on the night of a lunar eclipse, when he finds a bone flute left behind by grave robbers. Tep falls under the spell of a powerful ancient magic that traps him at night in the body of an animal. Only by unraveling the mysteries of Picture House can Tep save himself and his desperately ill mother. Does the enigmatic old Indian who calls himself Cricket hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the past? And can Tep find the answers in time?


The Horror Reader

The Horror Reader

Author: Ken Gelder

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780415213561

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This study brings together writings on this controversial genre, spanning the history of horror in literature and film. It discusses texts from the United States, Europe, the Caribbean and Hong Kong.


My Complete Story of the Flute

My Complete Story of the Flute

Author: Leonardo De Lorenzo

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 9780896722774

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New edition of classic study includes Lorenzo's three addenda and new bibliographic and biographic material.


World Flutelore

World Flutelore

Author: Dale A. Olsen

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2013-11-30

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0252095146

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In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior. This book explores the cultural significance of flutes, flute playing, and flute players from around the world as interpreted from folktales, myths, and other stories--in a word, ""flutelore."" A scholarly yet readable study, World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power draws upon a range of sources in folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and literary analysis. Describing and interpreting many examples of flutes as they are found in mythology, poetry, lyrics, and other narrative and literary sources from around the world, veteran ethnomusicologist Dale Olsen seeks to determine what is singularly distinct or unique about flutes, flute playing, and flute players in a global context. He shows how and why flutes are important for personal, communal, religious, spiritual, and secular expression and even, perhaps, existence. This is a book for students, scholars, and any reader interested in the cultural power of flutes.


Interdisciplinary Measures

Interdisciplinary Measures

Author: Graham Huggan

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2008-02-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1781386773

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Interdisciplinary Measures makes the case for a cross-disciplinary, but literature-centred, approach to postcolonial studies. Despite the anxieties that interdisciplinarity brings with it, a combination of different, discontinuously structured disciplinary knowledges is arguably best suited to address the tangled concerns of both the globalised present and the colonial past. The book looks specifically at the intersections between literary criticism, history, anthropology, geography and environmental studies, while arguing more specifically for a postcolonialism across the disciplines in the service of informed (cross-) cultural critique. Bringing together a wide range of literary material from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand and South Asia, the book also considers the different, but sometimes related, cultural contexts within which the key debates in postcolonial studies – e.g. those around globalisation, North-South relations and the new imperialism – are currently taking place. These debates suggest the need for a multi-sited, multilinguistic and, not least, multidisciplinary appraoch to postcolonial studies that consolidates its status as a comparative field.


Tears From My Heart

Tears From My Heart

Author: Donald D. Grasham

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-12-09

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1493128868

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Death is an ending, but it is also a beginning, it is a difficult realization in a person’s life. Here the difficulty becomes alive in the book. The sadness and yet the memories unfold as the man visits his vida mia amor. (The love of his life) Always with each visit he brings flowers, a continuation of a practice he did when she was alive. Here the memories and strength of their love reveals itself as he talks to her. To Don Dolores was his world; to Dolores Don was her world.