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Popular Sheet Music - 30 Hits from 2015-2017

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation · Hal Leonard
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

(Easy Piano Songbook) . Now developing pianists can play their favorite contemporary hits with this collection in easy piano format. Includes 30 songs: Burn * Cheap Thrills * City of Stars * Don't Wanna Know * HandClap * H.O.L.Y. * I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)...
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A Field Guide to Actor Training: Navigating Acting Methods, Studio Classes, Private Training, and Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

Laura Wayth · Applause Theatre & Cinema
Format: Paperback

Limelight. Should I go to a school and get more training in acting, or should I just go out there and do it? A Field Guide to Actor Training will help you answer this question! The book is designed to be an introduction to various theater training methodologies, highlighting their basic...
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Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore

TERRY NEWMAN · Harper Design
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover

"The most counterintuitive book of the summer thus far ... . [Newman's] surprisingly convincing thesis is that the sartorial choices authors make are deeply connected to the narrative choices they make - or, as Beckett put it, 'the fabric of language' they use." -Vanessa Friedman,...
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Pastures Green & Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape

Tim Barringer · GILES
Format: Hardcover

This new book offers a single, encompassing view of the development of landscape painting, photography, and land art in Britain from the eighteenth through to the late twentieth century. It reveals the strong continuity between British landscape art of today and that of over 250 years ago,...
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Think Big Paint Small: Oil Painting Easier, Faster and Better

Joyce Washor · North Light
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Discover the pleasures of creating big art on a small canvas! There are plenty of reasons to paint small. Smaller canvases allow you to enjoy everything you love about oil painting with less expense, less mess, less space and less time. What could be better?Think Big Paint Small (previously...
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Contemporary Broadway Vocal Duets: 31 Songs from 19 Musicals

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 239
Format: Musical score

(Vocal Collection) . Duets for various combinations of voices from The Addams Family * Aida * Avenue Q * Bring It On * Ghost the Musical * In the Heights * Legally Blonde * The Lion King * Little Women * Memphis * Monty Python's Spamalot * Newsies the Musical * Once * Shrek the Musical...
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Avedon's France: Old World, New Look

Robert M. Rubin · ABRAMS
Pages: 792
Format: Print book

Exploring Richard Avedon's fascination with France, Avedon's France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new material from the Avedon Foundation archives) ; and substantive essays by the authors. In addition...
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Film Music in 'Minor' National Cinemas

Germán Gil-Curiel
Format: Book

Taking its cue from Deleuze's definition of minor cinema as one which engages in a creative act of becoming, this collection explores the multifarious ways that music has been used in the cinemas of various countries in Australasia, Africa, Latin America and even in Europe that have hitherto...
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Monologue: What Makes America Laugh Before Bed

Jon Macks · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

"Jon Macks is one of the greatest comedy writers of all time." - Chris RockA hilarious, revealing look behind the history and culture of American late-night TV, by a longtime comedy writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Ever since Johnny Carson first popularized the late-night...
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The Band Director's Guide to Success: A Survival Guide for New Music Educators

Jonathan M Kraemer · Oxford University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

The Band Director's Guide to Success is the ideal guide for preparing future band directors for the practical challenges and obstacles that they will face in the introductory years of their teaching careers. Written in an easy to understand, quick-reference guide format, this book is designed...
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Indie Rock Sheet Music Collection

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard Corporation,
Pages: 162
Format: Paperback

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 25 classics from the indie rock genre arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Barely Legal (The Strokes) * Buddy Holly (Weezer) * Do I Wanna Know? (Arctic Monkeys) * Gold on the Ceiling (The Black Keys) * Loser (Beck) * Money Grabber (Fitz and the Tantrums)...
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Caribbean Currents:: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae

Peter Manuel · Temple University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

First published in 1995, Caribbean Currents has become the definitive guide to the distinctive musics of this region of the world. This third edition of the award-winning book is substantially updated and expanded, featuring thorough coverage of new developments, such as the global spread...
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Epic Sound: Music in Postwar Hollywood Biblical Films

Stephen C. Meyer · Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover

Lavish musical soundtracks contributed a special grandeur to the new widescreen, stereophonic sound movie experience of postwar biblical epics such as Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, and Quo Vadis. In Epic Sound, Stephen C. Meyer shows how music was utilized for various effects, sometimes...
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