Integrated Practice

Integrated Practice

Author: Pedro de Alcantara

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0195317076

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To be a musician is to "speak music." When you have something to say and the means to say it, your gestures and sounds become both meaningful and free. Offering an innovative, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and wellbeing, Integrated Practice gives you the tools to combine total-body awareness with a deep and practical understanding of the rhythmic structure of the musical language, so that you can use the musical text itself as your guide toward psychophysical and creative freedom. The book shows you how to establish an imaginative dialogue between the relatively inflexible structure of music and your individual personality as a singer, instrumentalist, or conductor, and it explains how you can use the acoustic phenomenon of the harmonic series to make big, beautiful sounds with little muscular effort. Integrated Practice comes with more than a hundred and fifty exercises demonstrated by video and audio clips on an extensive companion website that will inform your daily practice, improvising, rehearsing, and performing. With this array of resources for every learning style, Integrated Practice is the essential handbook to personal achievement in successful, expressive musical performance.


Real. Weird. Art.

Real. Weird. Art.

Author: Joey Allgood

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-08-19

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781500891480

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Within these pages, you'll find 24 real weird works capable of enriching your life and entertaining your guests while they potty (let's be honest about where this book is going). Still, look a bit deeper, and you'll start uncovering commentary on subjects like existentialism, consumerism, feminism, and plus also bunches more -isms! I've spent countless hours crafting this collection of work, which is fortunate for you, because by reading this sentence you have implicitly agreed to purchase my book. Wow... this just got awkward, didn't it? I didn't want to trick you like that, but these things aren't cheap to print, and I couldn't risk you purchasing on merit alone. I mean, I can't PROVE you read that sentence, but what kind of person doesn't do the right thing and honor a totally dishonorable agreement? Right? I feel like you might still be waffling. Mostly because you're still reading this and not handing me your money. Let's see, you already know what's in it for me... Let's talk about what's in it for you! 1) You'll develop (or maintain) your reputation as a seasoned purveyor of all things eclectic and debonair. Putting this book on your coffee table is like wearing a pair of golden monocles. On the same eye. 2) You'll be a bona fide supporter of the arts, which not only makes you intrinsically superior to those uppity Johnsons, but also helps you get back an extra lil som'n-som'n come tax time. 3) I'll use your monies to help realize my dream of chucking a billion spaghetti noodles off the Empire State Building. Imagine the elation as wonderful, wet pasta begins showering the bewildered crowd below. And you, alongside other supporters of this nirvana moment, smiling with pride as you each raise a warm bowl of marinara. Buy the book. For you. For me. For the noodles.


New York Magazine

New York Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1997-04-28

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.


Against the Day

Against the Day

Author: Thomas Pynchon

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-06-13

Total Pages: 1541

ISBN-13: 1101594667

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“[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.” —The New York Times Book Review “Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.” —USA Today “Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling.” —The Boston Globe Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.


First Comes Love

First Comes Love

Author: Katie Kacvinsky

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 054759979X

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When dark and stormy Gray meets light and lively Dylan, they fall easily into love. But love takes work--and sometimes having to say you're sorry.


The Alpine Path - The Story of My Career

The Alpine Path - The Story of My Career

Author: L. M. Montgomery

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1473344921

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This memoir offers a charming and intimate look into the life and career of one of literature's most cherished writers, Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of the Anne of Green Gables series. In this captivating narrative, Montgomery takes readers on a journey through her childhood, filled with dreams and imaginings that would later shape her literary voice. She vividly recounts her early years on Prince Edward Island, sharing the experiences and influences that sparked her love for storytelling. As Montgomery progresses from a young girl with a passion for writing to a celebrated author, she candidly describes the challenges and triumphs she faced along the way. Her inspirational road to literary success is a testament to her perseverance, creativity, and unwavering belief in her craft. Originally published as a series of autobiographical essays in the Toronto magazine Everywoman’s World from June to November in 1917, The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career not only provides valuable insights into Montgomery's personal and professional life but also serves as an encouraging tale for aspiring writers and dreamers.


Astigirl

Astigirl

Author: Tweet Sering

Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

Published: 2011-11-02

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9719922958

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Far from the grown-up she thought she would be, Tweet Sering, 30 plus and tormented by a raging discontent with stale notions of how one must live, strips herself of the trappings of adulthood-her job, her savings, her insurance, and even her credit card-and resolves to begin growing up again.In this memoir that is by turns sharply funny, intelligent, outspoken, but also pained and bewildered, Tweet shows her readers how being astray can turn into being astig (tough). Her essays remind us of long, late night chats with our favorite friend, so that the substance of the go for broke account of her journey is not muddled by easy sentiment, but shines with a desire to cheer us on into our own journeys of being a tough girl. An Astigirl.


Bumfuzzle

Bumfuzzle

Author: Patrick Schulte

Publisher: bumfuzzle.com

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0615220339

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The story of a young couple with no prior sailing experience who set out to circle the world. Four years later they return as circumnavigators. An inspiring look at what it takes to achieve the dream of sailing around the world, and proof that it can be done.


New York Magazine

New York Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1997-04-28

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.


Strangers Have the Best Candy

Strangers Have the Best Candy

Author: Margaret Meps Schulte

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03-25

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780991607631

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"The antidote to cynicism." A humorous nonfiction book about the lessons, adventures, and lifelong friendships that come from talking to strangers. Through the author's experiences, the book makes the case that talking to strangers is good for you. Includes over 100 original pen-and-ink illustrations by the author.