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Songs of the 1960s - The New Decade Series: E-Z Play Today Volume 366

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 303
Format: Musical score

(E-Z Play Today) . Simplified E-Z Play Today versions of this collection of 100 of the biggest hits of the '60s. Songs include: All You Need Is Love * Aquarius * Bad Moon Rising * Beyond the Sea * Blowin' in the Wind * Blue Velvet * Born to Be Wild * California Dreamin' * California...
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The Street Photographer's Manual

David Gibson · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

A medium reliant on unexpected moments is now catapulted into the future with smart phones, digital technology, and specialty equipment Street photography has been around since the very first cameras were invented, producing some of the most poignant images of our time. Today, a wave of new technology...
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Red: The History of a Color

Michel Pastoureau · Princeton University Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used...
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John Singer Sargent: Watercolors

Erica Hirshler · MFA Publications/Brooklyn Museum
Format: Print book

John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolor was unconventional. Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners...
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Drawing and Painting: The Complete Artist's Handbook

Gabriel Marti?n i Roig · Sterling
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

With more than 800 full-color images and hundreds of step-by-step illustrations, this is an absolutely comprehensive guide to drawing and painting. Beginning as well as more advanced artists will find invaluable instruction on traditional and contemporary techniques, materials, and styles....
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Mozart in Vienna: The Final Decade

Simon P Keefe · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 714
Format: Hardcover

Mozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781-1791) . This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a performer and composer and reveals how his compositional processes are affected by performance-related concerns. It traces consistencies...
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Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome

Shawn Levy · W W Norton
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

A romp through the worlds of film, fashion, and titillating journalism that made 1950s Rome the sexiest city on the planet. From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made "Italian"...
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Music 4.0: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age

Bobby Owsinski · Hal Leonard Books; 3 Revised edition
Format: Paperback

Featuring the latest music business and social media concepts as well as brand-new interviews with a variety of the industrys top movers and shakers, Music 4.0 A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age, Third Edition is a completely updated version of the previous best-selling...
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Modern Love Songs

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Format: Book

PianoVocalGuitar Songbook. 27 recent hits, including Just a Kiss Lady Antebellum Just the Way You Are Bruno Mars Love Somebody Maroon 5 Marry Me Train No One Alicia Keys Ours Taylor Swift Stay Rihanna A Thousand Years Christina Perri Unconditionally Katy Perry Wanted Hunter Hayes...
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Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848

Mary Ann Smart · University of California Press
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover

The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. While many of the accompanying stories were exaggerated, or even invented, by later generations, Verdi's operas - along with...
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Piano Fun - Folk Songs and Spirituals for Adult Beginners

Brenda Dillon · Hal Leonard
Pages: 47
Format: Paperback

(Educational Piano Library) . Piano Fun Folk Songs and Spirituals is a collection of 14 lead sheets and arrangements for the beginning pianist who has learned to read music and wants to play easy arrangements of familiar melodies. The price of this book includes access to beautifully orchestrated...
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Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1

Cyrus Bozorgmehr · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the world's most controversial album---a surreal tale of secret recordings, baffled customs agents, the world's most hallowed art institutions, and a villain of comic book proportions.In 2007, the innovative young Wu-Tang producer, Cilvaringz, took an incendiary idea...
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Sketching People: An Urban Sketcher's Manual to Drawing Figures and Faces

Lynne Chapman · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Drawing people in the outside world can be a real thrill; each sketch captures a particular person and place in time. But it can also be a challenge. How do you spot a likely subject? How do you choose the person most likely to stay still? How do you draw movement for the person that refuses...
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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse

Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

In a work rich in maritime lore and brimming with original historical detail, Eric Jay Dolin, the best-selling author of Leviathan, presents an epic history of American lighthouses, telling the story of America through the prism of its beloved coastal sentinels.Set against the backdrop...
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We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy

Caseen Gaines · Plume Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the wildly successful and beloved Back to the Future trilogy, just in time for the 30th anniversary Long before Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled through time in a flying DeLorean, director Robert Zemeckis, and his friend and writing partner Bob Gale,...
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