The Contemporary Piano Literature series includes a selection of music written for children by Bartók, Gretchaninov, Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Scott, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. In addition, the books contain pieces composed specifically for this series by Ross Lee Finney, David Kraehenbuehl, Douglas Moore, Elie Siegmeister, Alexandre Tansman and Alexander Tcherepnin. Short biographies and portraits help make composers come alive for the student...
In this inspiring book, Salle Merrill Redfield guides you through four brief meditations. Each celebrates nature as a revered path to self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment, leading you on a satisfying mental journey.
(Vocal Collection). This truly unique songbook will open wide a new range of repertoire for jazz vocalists. It contains music written by some of the world's finest jazz composers and performers many selections which were originally instrumental compositions with lyrics written later. The book includes tables of contents listing the lyricized titles as well as the "instrumentally known as" titles, plus indexes by composer, lyricist and tempo/st...
The Music Tree is the most carefully researched and laboratory-tested series for elementary piano students available. This edition contains a natural, child-oriented sequence of learning experiences combined with new music of unprecedented variety and appeal. Great pedagogy and great music---a winning combination!
This beautiful new volume in The Vocal Library is a large resource for classical singers of 53 songs for holiday services and events, designed for a lifetime of use. Contents include 26 Art Songs/Traditional Songs by composers such as Dello Joio, Bach, Debussy, Wolf, Niles, and including classics such as "Gesu Bambino, " "O Holy Night, " and "The Virgin's Slumber Song." This section also includes the complete song cycle Weihnachtslieder by Pet...
This beautiful new volume in The Vocal Library is a large resource for classical singers of 53 songs for holiday services and events, designed for a lifetime of use. Contents include 26 Art Songs/Traditional Songs by composers such as Dello Joio, Bach, Debussy, Wolf, Niles, and including classics such as "Gesu Bambino, " "O Holy Night, " and "The Virgin's Slumber Song." This section also includes the complete song cycle Weihnachtslieder by Pet...
My Arpeggio Book offers piano students a series of graded arpeggio exercises for the development of technic and musicianship. These arpeggio studies will reinforce the technical requirements found in method books and in standard piano repertory. My Arpeggio Book may be used with My Scale Book and the Technic Is Fun series to assist students and performers in developing a strong musical and technical foundation.
The "Goldenberg Book" has been used by generations of orchestral snare drum players to develop their skills. As well as studies and etudes, this book includes excerpts of major orchestral repertoire for snare drum and all of the instruments of the percussion family. This edition, edited by Tony Cirone, includes phrasings and stickings along with re-engraved etudes. This book is the primary source for percussionists to learn proper technique an...
In the epistle to Philemon, St. Paul says, in effect, "Dear Philemon: I have your runaway slave, Onesimus, who is returning to you with these letters, would you please free him and send him back to me, for he is very useful to me."
In the 1930s, John Knox began to suspect that the letters to Philemon and Colossians were related, and that the Onesimus named in both was also the Onesimus named as bishop of Ephesus in the letter of Ignatius to th...
(W) Todd Dezago (P) Tracie Mauk, Eric Hanson, Mauricet (I) Tracie Mauk, Howard Shum, Mauricet (Cover) Nick Cardy FC 48pp The Concept: Tellos is a magikal patchwork world made up of a myriad of different realms, populated by creatures of myth and legend! A fantastic land where there is an adventure around every corner ... and danger at every turn! This Issue: Sporting a Gorgeous Cover by Comics Legend, NICK CARDY, Todd Dezago and Mike Wieringo ...
A moving story which is now a major motion picture, Storm Boy is one of the classics of Australian writing for children. Storm Boy saves the life of Mr Percival, and in return the pelican helps Storm Boy's father with his fishing and joins in the rescue of a shipwrecked crew. The boy and the pelican prove friends to the end. A favourite story, beautifully told.
Case Studies in Infant Mental Health offers 12 real-life stories written by infant mental health specialists about their work with young children and families. Each case study also reveals the supervision and consultation that supported the specialist, and the specialist's interaction with the larger service system.
Martyr Murtaza Mutahhari ranks among one of the most dynamic and effective scholars of recent times. He was born in 1920 in Fariman, one of the cities of the Khurasan province in Iran. He studied under great masters of his time like the eminent scholar Allama Tabatabai and the late leader of Islamic revolution - Imam Khomeini. He was over 23 seminal works to his credit, and ranks among one of the great Muslim revolutionary intellectuals of his...
Twain's witty vision of what heaven "is really like" is told from the point of view of the recently deceased Captain Stormfield. In a folksy narration peppered with sailor's jargon, the amiable, altogether down-to-earth merchant marine describes a series of amusingly disconcerting revelations about the next world. Sitting on a cloud strumming a harp all day turns out to be insufferably boring, being eternally youthful also has its drawbacks wh...
Material culture has finally earned a central place within anthropology. This pioneering reader brings together for the first time seminal articles that have helped shape the anthropological study of material culture. With topics ranging from the anthropology of art to architecture, landscape, archaeology, consumption and heritage management, this key text reflects the breadth of material culture studies today. The authors, who discuss field s...
Osteoporosis - an insidious and crippling skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass, systemic deterioration of bone tissue, and increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture - has now reached epidemic proportions among postmenopausal women. This excellent collection of recent articles by specialists from medicine, nursing, nutrition, exercise physiology, physical therapy, and demography addresses the many challenges of a dise...
