The balloon, Mount Tambura and the Flying Carpet
The balloon, Mount Tambura and the Flying Carpet

Author: Fernanda Raineri

Publisher: Youcanprint

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 889117727X

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The story is set in Versilia in Tuscany, surrounded by the luxuriant nature of the Apuan Alps, and in the bowels of Mount Tambura. Stella and her sister Glenda, along with their two friends Rebecca and Frank who have just arrived from the United States, are involved in a series of incredible events, to the limit of the supernatural. It all starts with a trip in a hot air balloon strongly backed by the boys, despite the concerns shown by their parents. But what started as a unique experience soon turned to tragedy: the four, along with Alfred, the young Turkish driver of the balloon (called "Nautilus"), fall in the middle of a forest because of a turbulence . When they regained consciousness, they are miraculously unharmed, although there is no trace of Alfred. Stella and her friends start looking for a path to get back home, but instead they discover a mysterious underground place. Here begins a journey that will leave the protagonists the sole custodians of secrets that had remained untouched for years, offering to Stella, who is an aspiring writer, a story to tell.

Folk Musical Instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Folk Musical Instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author: Jasmina Talam

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-07-18

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1443864277

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Folk Musical Instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina gives a complex and complete overview of traditional practice, for the first time, concerning traditional folk instruments on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first part of the book describes historical sources and the research of folk musical instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research of history is one of the starting points in the process of organological research and covers careful research of historical documents, photographs, sketches, audio recordings and works based on historical data. In the next four parts of the book, traditional folk instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina are presented. The book is divided into several parts according to instrumental groups: Idiophones (Part 2), Membranophones (Part 3), Chordophones (Part 4) and Aerophones (Part 5). In each of these sections, the instruments are described separately with special attention given to terminology, ergology, the technology of instrument-making, techniques of playing and musical capabilities and repertoire. The sixth part of the book is devoted to instrument makers and players of traditional folk instruments, the functions and occasions of playing, and the tradition, innovations and distribution of folk musical instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tanbûr Long-Necked Lutes along the Silk Road and beyond
Tanbûr Long-Necked Lutes along the Silk Road and beyond

Author: Hans de Zeeuw

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-03-11

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1789691702

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This book is divided into two main parts: ‘The Tanbûr Tradition’ discusses the origin, history, construction and playing techniques of tanbûrs; ‘The Tanbûr Family’ focusses on long-necked lutes as a family of musical instruments. After a short introduction, the construction, playing technique, and musical traditions are discussed.

Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990
Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990

Author: Ian Cross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1135305773

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This issue comprises the twenty-five papers presented at the Second Music and the Cognitive Sciences conference held at Cambridge University in 1990.

A History of European Folk Music
A History of European Folk Music

Author: Jan Ling

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781878822772

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The aim of this study is to increase understanding of folk music within an historical, European framework, and to show the genre as a dynamic and changing art form. The book addresses a plethora of questions through its detailed examination of a wide range of music from vastly different national and cultural identities. It attempts to elucidate the connections between, and the varying development of, the music of peoples throughout Europe, firstly by examining the ways in which scholars of different ideological and artistic ambitions have collected, studied and performed folk music, then by investigating the relationship between folk and popular music. Jan Ling is Professor of Musicology at Göteborg University, Sweden.

Blind Owl Blues
Blind Owl Blues

Author: Rebecca Davis Winters

Publisher: Blind Owl Blues

Published: 2007-05-02

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0615146171

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This is the long-awaited story of Alan Wilson, musical genius and co-founder of Canned Heat. Biographer Rebecca Davis Winters journeys through his artistic innovations, tormented personal life, obsessive love of nature, and mysterious death. A key figure in the 1960s "blues revival", Wilson participated in the rediscovery of Delta blues legend Son House and wrote scholarly analyses of House and Robert Pete Williams. He went on to co-found pioneering blues-rock band Canned Heat, becoming an unlikely rock star. Known as "Blind Owl", he was responsible for the hit songs "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again".