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Cigar Box Guitar
O'Reilly Media 2009; US$ 1.99This sweet-sounding, three-stringed mini guitar revives an American musical tradition. As a volunteer music teacher, Ed Vogel sometimes meets kids who can't afford instruments. So he decided to design one that they could inexpensively build themselves, based on the traditional cigar box guitar. Before the 1950s, when factory guitars became less... more...
Walewein
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 20.65Dit zevende deel in de reeks Tekst in Context presenteert vijf grote ridderavonturen waarin Walewein de hoofdrol speelt. Deze avonturen zijn afkomstig uit de middeleeuwse 'Roman van Walewein' (geschreven rond 1260) die wordt beschouwd als de allermooiste Nederlandse Arturroman. In dit middeleeuwse verhaal moet Walewein voor koning Artur een... more...
Ponchielli's La Gioconda (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series)
Opera Journeys Publishing 2006; US$ 9.75A comprehensive guide to Ponchielli's LA GIOCONDA, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer. more...
Rossini's Armida
Opera Journeys Publishing 2009; US$ 11.75A complete newly translated libretto with Italian-English side-by-side, including Music Highlight Examples. more...
Don't Stop Believin'
ECW Press 2010; US$ 10.95The fictional high-school milieu of Glee the wildly popular Fox television series that debuted in 2009is celebrated and dissected in this detailed companion to the series. The songs, the students, and the idiosyncratic teachers all come under affectionate scrutiny in this fan’s compendium. The familiar dramas that beset the members... more...
Sing Along - Senior Citizens
Charles C Thomas 1973; US$ 29.95Compiled and edited by Roy E. Grant, Georgia Retardation Center, Athens, Georgia. Music with which the senior citizen can associate can often be used to reach the most withdrawn. Studies have shown that music produces a happy feeling even in nursing homes and hospitals, thus providing a better atmosphere and warmer feelings toward the staff and each... more...
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De Gruyter 2011; US$ 210.00Klopstock considered hymn writing to be his second vocation. In his hymns he abandoned the exalted tone of his odes, choosing a simpler, more appropriate mode of expression for the liturgy of the divine service. This volume presents the first critical edition of the hymns and prefaces published in 1757 and 1769, the first versions of the ?Altered Hymns?... more...
Mozart's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
Opera Journeys Publishing 2001; US$ 19.95A comprehensive guide to Mozart's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a complete, newly translated LIBRETTO with Italian/English side-by-side, selected Discography and Videography, Dictionary of Opera and Musical Terms, and an insightful and in depth... more...
Francesca Caccini's Il primo libro delle musiche of 1618
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 19.95Francesca Caccini (1587--ca.1640) was an accomplished composer, singer, and instrumentalist in the tradition of the Florentine Camerata. Her 1618 volume Il primo libro delle musiche was dedicated to her patron the Cardinal de' Medici (1596--1666). This modern critical edition presents 17 secular ... more...
Sex, Drugs and Mum in the Front Row
Allen & Unwin 2003; US$ 18.13?This book does for the music industry what He Died with a Falafel in His Hand did for share houses.? ?Stuart Coupe, music journalist and author of The Promoters. This book is the perfect and very funny reminder that the only payoff, for most bands, is the experience of having got up there and rocked. more...









