Publication date: 1999-06-30
Dewey code: 782.42166092
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Review Carole King: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:Carole King's early compositional work in the 1970s paved the way for many women songwriters of popular music. Among her best-known compositions are "You've Got a Friend," "Up on the Roof," "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman. " This reference encompasses Carole King's musical career from her compositions in the early 1960s through the 1990s, including her recently composed "My One True Friend" for the film One True Thing and "Anyone at All" for the film You've Got Mail. A brief biography of Carole King, which includes a critical analysis of her music, precedes an extensive discography of 1,275 recording entries and bibliography sections. Popular music scholars, along with Carole King fans, will appreciate this detailed source of available research materials on Carole King. The discography is divided into three sections: a performance discography, a miscellaneous discography, and a composition discography. Separate bibliographies cover writings, such as reviews, that focus on King's recordings, a general bibliography, and a brief bibliography of electronic resources. A filmography and videography are also included.
Publication date: 2004-04-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $95.99
Price: $95.99
Review An Autobiography / IndyPublish.com:The tale begins: Sitting down at the age of eighty-four to give an account of my life I feel that it connects itself naturally with the growth and development of the province of South Australia¿
Publication date: 2001-04-01
Dewey code: 848.40809492072
List Price: $120.00
Price: $119.99
Review Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647-1720 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) / Ashgate Pub Ltd:The author examines the presentation and reception of early modern women's voices as they followed an uncharted pasage into print. In each instance, the writer's decision to launch her story initiates a complex series of responses from different readers.
Publication date: 2008-10-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $95.99
Price: $95.99
Review Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2004-05
Dewey code: 782.42168092
List Price: $139.95
Price: $95.55
Review The Solo Vocal Music of American Composer John LA Montaine: Compositions for Voice on Piano (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) / Edwin Mellen Press:John La Montaine is known primarily for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 9, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1959. In addition, he has won countless awards for composition. However, his compositions for voice and piano are not yet an established part of the vocal solo repertoire. This work illustrates La Montaine's music for voice and piano through an analysis of musical and dramatic elements that support the text and drama. A biographical study provides details about the composer's life such as musical training, personal influences, awards and goals. In addition, the issues of philosophy, creativity, methods, musical styles, and textual considerations are discussed and are the basis for the following analysis.
Publication date: 2008-06-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $95.99
Price: $95.99
Review A Young Girl's Diary / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2005-05-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $95.99
Price: $95.99
Review Notable Women of Modern China / IndyPublish.com:During a stay of some months in China in the year of 1909 I had an opportunity to see something of the educational work for women and to meet several of the educated women of that interesting country. I was greatly impressed both by the excellent work done by the students in the schools and by the useful efficient lives of those who had completed their course of study.
Creator: Michael Hunter
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-02-25
Dewey code: 509.2
List Price: $110.00
Price: $96.09
Review Robert Boyle Reconsidered / Cambridge University Press:This book presents a new view of Robert Boyle (1627-91), the leading British scientist in the generation before Newton. It comprises a series of essays by scholars from Europe and North America that scrutinize Boyle's writing on science, philosophy and theology, bringing out the subtlety and complexity of his ideas. Particular attention is given to Boyle's interest in alchemy and to other facets of his ideas that might initially seem surprising in a leading advocate of the mechanical philosophy. Many of the essays use material from among Boyle's extensive manuscripts, which have recently been catalogued for the first time. The introduction surveys the state of Boyle studies and deploys the findings of the essays to offer a reevaluation of Boyle. The book also includes a complete bibliography of writings on Boyle since 1940.
Publication date: 1994
Review Nicolaus Steno: An illustrated biography : his tireless pursuit of knowledge, his genius, his quest for the absolute / Rhodos:
Creator: Ernst Denert
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-08-15
Dewey code: 005.10922
List Price: $139.00
Price: $95.88
Review Software Pioneers / Springer:This book, coming with four DVDs, presents epochal works of 16 of the most influential software pioneers. Seminal historical papers, going back as far as to the 1950s, are complemented by new papers especially written by the software pioneers for inclusion in this book and by short biographical notes. The volume is based on a conference where the pioneers met and presented their assessment of the past, new ideas, and visions for the future. The volume editors coherently integrated the historical contributions with current aspects and future perspectives. The four DVDs included are an important supplement to the book providing more than 12 hours of video documentation. Besides a representative overview drawing together the highlights of the presentations, the video recording of each pioneer's talk together with the transparencies used is included. Together, the book and the four DVDs constitute a unique and major contribution to the history of software engineering.
Creator: Barry Smith
Publication date: 2000-06-01
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $335.00
Price: $119.97
Review Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock: A Friendship Revealed / Oxford University Press, USA:The Eton schoolboy, Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), was not yet 17 when he first met his musical hero Frederick Delius at a concert in 1911. The next day he wrote an ecstatic letter to Delius who was flattered and intrigued by the young admirer. And so began a correspondence that was to last until Heseltine's untimely death in 1930. Barry Smith has fully researched the background of the correspondence and by means of generous annotations and linking narrative has produced a compelling story of an unusual and unique friendship between two composers.
Publication date: 2007-12-21
Dewey code: 786.4092
List Price: $99.95
Price: $96.00
Review Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the Early Music Revival / Ashgate:Isolde Ahlgrimm (1914-1995), was an important pioneer in the revival of Baroque and Classical keyboard instruments in her native city, Vienna, and later, throughout Europe and the United States. She trained as a pianist at the Musikakademie in Vienna under the instruction of Viktor Ebenstein, Emil von Sauer and Franz Schmidt. In 1934 she met the musical instrument collector, Dr Erich Fiala, whom she married in 1938. His activities opened up the world of early instruments to her. Using a 1790 fortepiano by Michael Rosenberger, Isolde Ahlgrimm began her career as a specialist on early keyboard instruments with the first in her notable series of Concerte fur Kenner und Liebhaber, given in Vienna's Palais Palffy in February 1937. Ahlgrimm's career as a harpsichordist also began in 1937, when a new instrument was commissioned from the Ammer brothers in Eisenberg, Germany. In 1943 Ahlgrimm performed her first all-harpsichord programme, which consisted of the Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach. From 1949 to 1956, she devoted herself to performing and recording nearly all of Bach's harpsichord music for the newly-founded Dutch label, Philips, presenting her new approach to the harpsichord to a wider audience. [+]Ahlgrimm's performances of Baroque music represented a radical departure from the distinctly twentieth century interpretations by the much more famous Wanda Landowska and her followers. Most obviously, Ahlgrimm's harpsichord performances eliminated frequent registration changes (her instrument had hand stops rather than pedals to change registers), and largely eschewed the massive ritardandi and other anachronistic performance practices that were hallmarks of Landowska's essentially Romantic style. Ahlgrimm researched and emphasized rhetorical traditions on which the music was based. This became more pronounced throughout the course of her later performing, writing and teaching career, and it was the beginning of an approach to the performance of eighteenth century music which was later further developed by Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and their students. Peter Watchorn provides an engaging study of this pioneer, and argues that Isolde Ahlgrimm's contribution to the harpsichord and fortepiano revival was pivotal, and that her use of period instruments and the inspiration she instilled in younger musicians, including Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt, has been almost entirely overlooked by the wider musical world.
Publication date: 1999-11-01
Dewey code: 306.7663
Price: $59.95
Review Lesbian Lives: Identity and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century / Pluto Press (UK):
Authors
- Byrony Sutherland
- Lucy Ellis
Dewey code: 780
Price: $14.95
Review Kylie Talking / Omnibus Press:Transformed over 15 years from the shy girl next-door in Neighbours to the sensuous Princess of Pop, Kylie Minogue has grown up in public, rarely shrinking from expressing candid opinions about her life and career. Here, in her own words, are Kylies thoughts on herself, her sexuality, her music, her men, being a gay icon and everything else.
Publication date: 2008-09-11
List Price: $95.99
Price: $95.99
Review Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, V3 / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2005-01-30
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $30.00
Price: $95.99
Review Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner / St. Martin's Press:In a moving and bittersweet story, M. J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of Plainville, is so quiet that one local family regularly parks by the tracks to watch the train pass through. Yet small-town life and, especially, the prairie prove to be fertile ground for Andersen's imagination. Exploring subjects as seemingly unrelated as Roy Rogers and Tolstoy's beloved Anna Karenina, she repeatedly locates a transcendent connection with South Dakota's broad horizon. Andersen introduces us to her hardworking newspaper family, which produces one of Plainville's two competing weeklies; to Job's Daughters, a Christian association intended to prepare young women for adversity (Plainville's chapter assumes the added responsibility of throwing the town's best teen dances); and even to a local variety of hardy alfalfa, to which her best friend has a surprising kinship. Leaving behind her physical home, Andersen travels East for college, remaining to begin a journalism career. With her husband she eventually settles into her first house, a beautiful Victorian that, though loved, somehow does not feel like home in the way she had anticipated. Through subsequent travels, memories, and a meditation on Tolstoy's complex relationship to his ancestral home, she arrives at a new idea of what home is - one that should resonate with every American who has ever had to pull up stakes.
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1978
Review Mothers of North Dakota: Pioneers, educators, home builders, church workers and civic leaders, mothers all / North Dakota Mothers Association?]:
Publication date: 1980
Review Le petit savant illustre (Science ouverte) / Seuil:
Publication date: 2004-04-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $95.99
Price: $95.99
Review An Autobiography / IndyPublish.com:The tale begins: Sitting down at the age of eighty-four to give an account of my life I feel that it connects itself naturally with the growth and development of the province of South Australia¿
Publication date: 2001-05-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $125.00
Price: $95.95
Review Toru Takemitsu: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:Though often misunderstood in the West, the works of Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) deserve attention beyond their native land. Although he wrote most of his music for Western instruments in international contemporary concert style, to be played by performers trained in the European musical tradition, lists and scores of his music have been difficult to obtain. Designed for use by musicians, scholars, and program directors who need compact, understandable information on Takemitsu, but who are unfamiliar with Japanese language and music, this bio-bibliography-including sections on his works, performances, films scores, recordings, and writings-will be invaluable to musicians, scholars, journalists, and music directors alike. The annotations of the entries are especially useful in determining answers to such questions as what instruments are needed to perform a piece, what should be said about a film or composition in a program note, what analysis or interpretation of a work is appropriate or has been done before, and what Takemitsu himself has said or written about each work. Siddon's fully cross-referenced volume offers information on approximately 150 compositions, 100 film scores, 250 audio recordings, and 500 bibliographical items, while the biography places the composer's life in the milieu of post-Pacific War Japan and contemporary music in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
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Carole King: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music), An Autobiography, Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647-1720 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, The Solo Vocal Music of American Composer John LA Montaine: Compositions for Voice on Piano (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music), A Young Girl's Diary, Notable Women of Modern China, Robert Boyle Reconsidered, Nicolaus Steno: An illustrated biography : his tireless pursuit of knowledge, his genius, his quest for the absolute, Software Pioneers, Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock: A Friendship Revealed, Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the Early Music Revival, Lesbian Lives: Identity and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century, Kylie Talking, Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, V3, Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner, Mothers of North Dakota: Pioneers, educators, home builders, church workers and civic leaders, mothers all, Le petit savant illustre (Science ouverte), An Autobiography, Toru Takemitsu: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)Top headlines: U.S. intel office adds warming to warnings: A major U.S. intelligence report coming out Thursday is adding climate change to the "traditional" mix of factors expected to destabilize the world into the near future. ›21:33 19 Nov, Wed Got photos of polar bears in the wild?: If you have taken photos of polar bears in the wild, noting the date and location of the images, you can be part of the largest study to identify individual bears by their "whisker prints." ›22:27 17 Nov, Mon Over 1,000 melamine babies still in hospitals: Over a thousand Chinese infants are still in hospital receiving treatment for kidney damage caused by tainted milk, China's Health Ministry said. ›14:40 Obama pledged change, picks insiders: President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts. ›12:42 5 tips to cut your Thanksgiving bill in half: In this economic climate, the cost of Thanksgiving dinner can put a stress on a family's budget. 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