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Author: Gerald Shea
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2013-02-26
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0306821931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt age 34, Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow maintaining a prestigious legal career.
Author: Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published:
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781457440243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese 48 pieces were composed over a period of two decades, beginning in 1832, and published in eight groups of six each. Many of these songs were dedicated to the women in Mendelssohn's life and reflect the sunniest qualities of his melodiousness, spontaneity and invention. Maurice Hinson has skillfully researched and edited these works back to their original form and provides a very informative introduction, which includes many detailed suggestions for a stylistic interpretation and performance, as well as biographical information on the composer's life.
Author: Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781426201738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a first-ever publishing event, the remarkable photography and writings of Countess Sophia Tolstoy reveal the unfolding of her life with her famous husband--and evocatively portray a glittering world that soon would fade away. 120 photographs.
Author: Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published:
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781457462115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe proudly add this collection of Mendelssohn songs to our highly respected Piano Masters Series. From his fifty songs in the complete set we have selected twelve of the most often taught and performed pieces, spanning all opus numbers in the set. This new collection offers a wide variety of writing styles to help introduce this composer to your students.
Author: Yorktown Music Press
Publisher: Yorktown Music Press
Published: 2014-09-20
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 1783231718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNothing can quite compare to the satisfaction, pleasure and joy of learning and playing the finest pieces of classical music and this terrific volume gives you the opportunity to do exactly that! Inside there are more than 60 easy pieces and Keyboard miniatures by master composers, selected and edited by Dennis Agay. All the pieces are printed in their original form though have had sensible expression marks and fingerings added. There is a wonderful range and diversity to these pieces with works by the likes of Bach, Haydn, Mozart and also lesser-known composers, set for Piano solo.
Author: Paul Verlaine
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781890650872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSongs without Words (Romances sans paroles) is the book in which, unabashedly, Paul Verlaine becomes himself and, in so doing, becomes the iconic poet of the French nineteenth century. A book of musical sequences, it seeks and finds exquisite purity of expression, best exemplified by Il pleure dans mon coeur, the most famous and most inimitable of all French lyric poems. And it is a book of intertwining narratives also, each of which entertains abasements and ecstasies, crises, crimes and expiations. These, in their separate ways, detail the shadowlands of artistic purity. Verlaine adores and defiles his child-bride, Mathilde. He takes to the road with Arthur Rimbaud, the love of his life, his muse, his captive and captor. Exhaustion is everywhere counterpoised with exaltation, squalor with splendor. And yet, in nearly every syllable, the dignity of Poetry and of human affections, proves inviolable.
Author: Philip Glass
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-04-06
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 1631490818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York Times Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Award Finalist for the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing "Reads the way Mr. Glass's compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow." —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his critically acclaimed memoir, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art. From his childhood in Baltimore to his student days in Chicago and at Juilliard, to his first journey to Paris and a life-changing trip to India, Glass movingly recalls his early mentors, while reconstructing the places that helped shape his creative consciousness. Whether describing working as an unlicensed plumber in gritty 1970s New York or composing Satyagraha, Glass breaks across genres and re-creates, here in words, the thrill that results from artistic creation. Words Without Music ultimately affirms the power of music to change the world.
Author: Robbi McCoy
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594931666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLove stories. Please note this is a gay fiction title. This summer Harper Sheridan is looking for something new--love. As a librarian at Morrison College and a talented amateur musician, Harper has spent the last nineteen summers searching for her passionate, authentic self amongst the writers, painters and other artists in California's diverse and fascinating Bay Area. But personal fulfillment continues to elude her. During an intense summer romance with vibrant, young Chelsea Nichols, Harper thought she had finally found what was missing. At the end of that summer, however, Chelsea returned to her ex. Now, it's summer once again, with all the promise of new beginnings. It's looking like a summer of surprises when Harper's runaway teenaged niece shows up in the most unexpected of places. That's when Harper realizes that not all the surprises will be pleasant ones.
Author: James Parakilas
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his four ballads for piano, Chopin stretched the capacity of instrumental music by asking it to convey, without words, the form and sense of a ballad, a challenge taken up by composers, who developed the orchestral ballad.
Author: Gerald Shea
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2013-02-26
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 030682194X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written about the profoundly deaf, but the lives of the nearly 30 million partially deaf people in the United States today remain hidden. Song without Words tells the astonishing story of a man who, at the age of thirty-four, discovered that he had been deaf since childhood, yet somehow managed to navigate his way through Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and to establish a prestigious international legal career. Gerald Shea's witty and candid memoir of how he compensated for his deafness -- through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels. His experience gives fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing and of oral education, and the longing for full communication that unites us all. /DIV
