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Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach

Peter Schickele
Definitive Biography of P D Q Bach Book PDF

Author : Peter Schickele
Publisher : Random House
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307769626

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Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach by Peter Schickele Pdf

What little-known son of a famous genius has been called: "A musical blight" "A one-man plague" "History's most justifiably neglected composer" "The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music" In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele has finally succeeded in ripping the veil of obscurity from the most unusual -- to put it kindly -- composer in the history of music: P.D.Q. Bach, the last and unquestionably the least of the great Johann Sebastian Bach's many children.

The Final Symphony

Brandon Montclare,Frank Marraffino
The Final Symphony Book PDF

Author : Brandon Montclare,Frank Marraffino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781940878461

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The Final Symphony by Brandon Montclare,Frank Marraffino Pdf

An anthology of graphic novels inspired by the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven

The Book of War: Includes The Art of War by Sun Tzu & On War by Karl von Clausewitz

Sun Tzu,Carl von Clausewitz
The Book of War Includes The Art of War by Sun Tzu On War by Karl von Clausewitz Book PDF

Author : Sun Tzu,Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375754777

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The Book of War: Includes The Art of War by Sun Tzu & On War by Karl von Clausewitz by Sun Tzu,Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

Two classic works of military strategy that shaped the way we think about warfare: The Art of War by Sun Tzu and On War by Karl von Clausewitz, together in one volume “Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars . . . if the influence of Clausewitz’s On War had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.”—B. H. Liddel Hart For two thousand years, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War has been the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun Tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion “total war.” On War is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. Now these two great minds come together in a single volume that also features an introduction by esteemed military writer Ralph Peters and the Modern Library War Series introduction by Caleb Carr, New York Times bestselling author of The Alienist. (The cover and text refer to The Art of War as The Art of Warfare, an alternate translation of the title.)

Ice

Ice-T,Douglas Century
Ice Book PDF

Author : Ice-T,Douglas Century
Publisher : One World
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345523297

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Ice by Ice-T,Douglas Century Pdf

He’s a hip-hop icon credited with single-handedly creating gangsta rap. Television viewers know him as Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola on the top-rated drama Law & Order: SVU. But where the hype and the headlines end, the real story of Ice-T—the one few of his millions of fans have ever heard—truly begins. Ice is Ice-T in his own words—raw, uncensored, and unafraid to speak his mind. About his orphan upbringing on the gang-infested streets of South Central, his four-year stint in the U.S. Army, his successful career as a hustler and thief, and his fateful decision to turn away from a life of crime and forge his own path to international stardom. Along the way, Ice shares never-before-told stories about friends such as Tupac, Dick Wolf, Chris Rock, and Flavor Flav, among others. And he offers up candid observations on marriage and monogamy, the current state of hip-hop, and his latest passion: mentoring at-risk youths around the country. With insights into the cutthroat world of the street—and the cutthroat world of Hollywood—Ice is the unforgettable story of a true American original.

Blood on the Risers

John Leppelman
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Author : John Leppelman
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307755223

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Blood on the Risers by John Leppelman Pdf

In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it. As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often it seemed the only way out of the carnage in the Central highlands was in a body bag. But Leppelman did get out, transferring first to the army's riverboats and then the all-volunteer Rangers, one of the ballsiest units in the war. In three tours of duty, that ended only when malaria forced him back to the States, Leppelman saw the war as few others did, a Vietnam that many American boys didn't live to tell about, but whose valor and sacrifice survive on these pages.

Weird Al

Lily E. Hirsch
Weird Al Book PDF

Author : Lily E. Hirsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538163511

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Weird Al by Lily E. Hirsch Pdf

This Expanded Edition features even more insights on “Weird Al” Yankovic, including his activities during a tumultuous 2020 and 2021, diving deeper into the world of the iconic man who has made a career out of making us laugh. Funny music is often dismissed as light and irrelevant, but Yankovic’s fourteen successful studio albums prove there is more going on than comedic music's reputation suggests. Lily Hirsch weaves together original interviews with the prince of parody himself, creating a fresh take on comedy and music’s complicated romance. She reveals that Yankovic’s jests have always had a deeper meaning, addressing such topics as bullying, celebrity, and racial and gender stereotypes. The Expanded Edition celebrates Yankovic’s vast influence on musicians, comedians, and performing artists as well as what the man has meant to fans—in a time of uncertainty, Yankovic has served as a much-needed bright spot for many. From his love of accordions and Hawaiian print shirts to his popular puns and trademark dance moves, Weird Al is undeterred by those who say funny music is nothing but a low-brow pastime. And thank goodness. With his good-guy grace still intact, Yankovic remains unapologetically and unmistakably himself. Reveling in the mischief and wisdom of Yankovic’s over forty-year career, this book is an Al-expense-paid tour of a true comedic and musical genius.

I Am My Own Wife

Doug Wright
I Am My Own Wife Book PDF

Author : Doug Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781429998635

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I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright Pdf

I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi. In an attempt to discern the truth about Charlotte, Doug Wright has written "at once a vivid portrait of Germany in the second half of the twentieth century, a morally complex tale about what it can take to be a survivor, and an intriguing meditation on everything from the obsession with collecting to the passage of time" (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times).

The First Four Notes

Matthew Guerrieri
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Author : Matthew Guerrieri
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780804170192

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The First Four Notes by Matthew Guerrieri Pdf

A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year This revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written—and its famous four-note opening. Reaching back before Beethoven’s time, Matthew Guerrieri uncovers premonitions of the opening notes in the rhythms of ancient Greek poetry and the music of the French Revolution. He discusses the Fifth’s impact when it premiered, tracing the artistic, philosophical, and political reverberations across Europe to China, Russia, and the United States, from Romanticism to ring tones, from propaganda to pop. This fascinating piece of musical detective work is a treat for music lovers of every stripe.

Sweet Diamond Dust

Rosario Ferre
Sweet Diamond Dust Book PDF

Author : Rosario Ferre
Publisher : Plume
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173004482779

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Sweet Diamond Dust by Rosario Ferre Pdf

From the Publisher: "One of Latin America's most gifted novelists".-"Washington Post Book World". A finalist for the National Book Award for her 1995 novel, "La Casa de la Laguna", Rosario Ferre is one of Latin America's most original and important writers. In the four stories that make up "Maldito Amor" Ferre explores the history of political and cultural struggle in her native Puerto Rico.

Mason Dixon: Basketball Disasters

Claudia Mills
Mason Dixon Basketball Disasters Book PDF

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375899607

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Mason Dixon: Basketball Disasters by Claudia Mills Pdf

Here's the third entry in Claudia Mills' charming middle-grade series. Mason Dixon survived the school choir. He survived adopting his now-beloved dog named, uh, Dog. But now he faces his biggest challenge yet: joining the local basketball team. Not by choice, of course. Not only do his parents encourage it, but his dad even volunteers to be his coach. Now, with his best pal Brody and a team of misfits even worse at basketball than him (if that's possible), Mason must try to rally to beat his arch-rival, the school bully Dunk. Just another day-in-the-life of a disaster-prone fourth grader.

Windswept House

Malachi Martin
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Author : Malachi Martin
Publisher : Main Street Books
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385492317

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Windswept House by Malachi Martin Pdf

The Cold War has ended. With a scope and daring not possible until now, an unlikely international alliance of top-level political, financial, and religious interests sees the way clear at last to its ultimate goal: the establishment of a single global society. Utopia. These are men with nothing in common but immense power and a towering ambition for still more. With world unity and prosperity as their slogan--and with betrayal, scandal, and murder as their ready weapons--they have the means and the will to capture as their own the perfect global machinery for their plans: the oldest, wiliest, and most stable political chancery in the world--the Vatican. At the vortex of this lethal struggle stands the embattled Pope, a geopolitical genius whose elimination is the short-term solution to a long-term goal, and two American brothers, Paul and Christian Gladstone, one a lawyer and the other a priest, who appear to be the perfect pawns. One falls prey to the sharp teeth of greed for power. The other will become one of the Slavic Pontiff's closest allies...and will discover the darkest secrets at the very heart of papal Rome. From America to Europe to Russia, in broad landscapes and clandestine corridors, a rich and varied cast--presidents and politicos, simple saints and savvy sinners, popes and pope-makers--clash with one another amid dramatic and sometimes bloody events that will affect the destiny of every person alive today.

Fryderyk Chopin

Dr. Alan Walker
Fryderyk Chopin Book PDF

Author : Dr. Alan Walker
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374714376

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Fryderyk Chopin by Dr. Alan Walker Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. The Sunday Times (U.K.) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist's Best Books of 2018. "A magisterial portrait." --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book Review A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. Fryderyk Chopin is an intimate look into a dramatic life; of particular focus are Chopin’s childhood and youth in Poland, which are brought into line with the latest scholarly findings, and Chopin’s romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years. Comprehensive and engaging, and written in highly readable prose, the biography wears its scholarship lightly: this is a book suited as much for the professional pianist as it is for the casual music lover. Just as he did in his definitive biography of Liszt, Walker illuminates Chopin and his music with unprecedented clarity in this magisterial biography, bringing to life one of the nineteenth century’s most confounding, beloved, and legendary artists.

Bach & God

Michael Marissen
Bach God Book PDF

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190606978

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Bach & God by Michael Marissen Pdf

Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin" on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach's vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract" learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

American Prince

Tony Curtis,Peter Golenbock
American Prince Book PDF

Author : Tony Curtis,Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780307408563

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American Prince by Tony Curtis,Peter Golenbock Pdf

The legendary actor chronicles his odyssey from a hard-knock childhood as the son of immigrant parents to Hollywood success, detailing his days as a tinseltown playboy, the film industry during Hollywood's Golden Era, and his life as an artist at the age of eighty.

The Flute Book

Nancy Toff
The Flute Book Book PDF

Author : Nancy Toff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199913367

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The Flute Book by Nancy Toff Pdf

Teachers and flutists at all levels have praised Nancy Toff'sThe Flute Book, a unique one-stop guide to the flute and its music. Organized into four main parts--The Instrument, Performance, The Music, and Repertoire Catalog--the book begins with a description of the instrument and its making, offers information on choosing and caring for a flute, sketches a history of the flute, and discusses differences between members of the flute family. In the Performance section, readers learn about breathing, tone, vibrato, articulation, technique, style, performing, and recording. In the extensive analysis of flute literature that follows, Toff places individual pieces in historical context. The book ends with a comprehensive catalog of solo and chamber repertoire, and includes appendices with fingering charts as well as lists of current flute manufacturers, repair shops, sources for flute music and books, and flute clubs and related organizations worldwide. In this Third Edition, Toff has updated the book to reflect technology's advancements--like new digital recording technology and recordings' more prevalent online availability--over the last decade. She has also accounted for new scholarship on baroque literature; recent developments such as the contrabass flute, quarter-tone flute, and various manufacturing refinements and experiments; consumers' purchase prices for flutes; and a thoroughly updated repertoire catalog and appendices.