The Page Turner

The Page Turner

Author: David Leavitt

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780395957875

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A homosexual love affair between a concert pianist and his young page turner. The affair becomes complicated when the youth's mother misconstrues the pianist's attention in her son as an interest in her. The settings are Rome and New York. By the author of While England Sleeps.


How Picturebooks Work

How Picturebooks Work

Author: Maria Nikolajeva

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1136771514

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How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of communication, and they argue that picturebooks may be the most influential media of all in the socialization and representation of children. Spanning an international range of children's books, this book examine such favorites as Curious George and Frog and Toad Are Friends, along with the works of authors and illustrators including Maurice Sendak and Tove Jansson, among others. With 116 illustrations, How Picturebooks Work offers the student of children's literature a new methodology, new theories, and a new set of critical tools for examining the picturebook form.


Turner Trees

Turner Trees

Author: Keith Pott Turner

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-05-19

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1365116972

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Keith Pott Turner is a published Illustrator, composer/musician and poet. He has furthermore worked on many heritage restoration projects and has keenly researched his family history resulting in the discovery of some very notable characters indeed.


The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience

The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience

Author: Kenneth Drake

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1994-04-22

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0253011531

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The definitive study of Beethoven’s piano sonatas is “remarkable as an insider’s account of the works in an individual perspective.” (European Music Teacher) In “one of the most interesting, useful and even exciting books on the process of musical creation” (American Music Teacher), Kenneth O. Drake groups the Beethoven piano sonatas according to their musical qualities, rather than their chronology. He explores the interpretive implications of rhythm, dynamics, slurs, harmonic effects, and melodic development and identifies specific measures where Beethoven skillfully employs these compositional devices. An interpreter searching for meaning, Drake begins with Beethoven’s expressive treatment of the keyboard—the variations of touch, articulation, line, color, use of silence, and the pacing of musical ideas. He then analyzes individual sonatas, exploring motivic development, philosophic overtones, and technical demands. Hundreds of musical examples illustrate this exploration of emotional and interpretive implications of “the 32.” Here musicians are encouraged to exercise intuition and independence of thought, complementing their performance skills with logical conclusions about ideas and relationships within the score.


"Is this Thing On?"

Author: Abby Stokes

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0761146199

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A jargon-free manual for novice computer users covers everything one needs to know to enter the computer age, including how to select and set up a computer, how to sign up for e-mail and Internet access, and how to navigate the Web.


The Crisis of Classical Music in America

The Crisis of Classical Music in America

Author: Robert Freeman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-08-14

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1442233036

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The Crisis of Classical Music in America by Robert Freeman focuses on solutions for the oversupply of classically trained musicians in America, problem that grows ever more chronic as opportunities for classical musicians to gain full-time professional employment diminishes year upon year. An acute observer of the professional music scene, Freeman argues that music schools that train our future instrumentalists, composers, conductors, and singers need to equip their students with the communications and analytical skills they need to succeed in the rapidly changing music scene. This book maps a broad range of reforms required in the field of advanced music education and the organizations responsible for that education. Featuring a foreword by Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Crisis of Classical Music in America speaks to parents, prospective and current music students, music teachers and professors, department deans, university presidents and provosts, and even foundations and public organizations that fund such music programs. This book reaches out to all of these stakeholders and argues for meaningful change though wide-spread collaboration.