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Compatible Duets for Winds, Volume II
Larry Clark · Carl Fischer
Format: Sheet music
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A set of 29 duets that can be played by any combination of wind instruments. The pieces are composed or arranged by Clark. With a foreword and biographical note. |
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Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose Croix in Paris, 1892–1897
Vivien Greene · Guggenheim Museum Publications
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
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Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose Croix in Paris, 1892-1897 accompanied the first-ever museum presentation examining the Salon de la Rose Croix, a series of annual exhibitions established by eccentric French author, critic, occultist and Rosicrucian Joséphin Péladan. The Rose Croix... |
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Fran Leadon · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street.In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside... |
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Shakespeare's Ear: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Theater
Tim Rayborn · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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Shakespeare's Ear presents dark and sometimes funny pieces of fact and folklore that bedevil the mostly unknown history of theater. All manner of skullduggery, from revenge to murder, from affairs to persecution, proves that the drama off-stage was just as intense as any portrayed on it. The stories... |
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Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas: A Handbook for Performers
Stewart Gordon · Oxford University Press
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
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The thirty-two Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven form one of the most important segments of piano literature. In this accessible, compact, and comprehensive guidebook, renowned performer and pedagogue Stewart Gordon presents the pianist with historical insights and practical instructional... |
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Extra! Weegee
Daniel Blau · Hirmer Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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No photographer came close to capturing the sensations, scandals, and catastrophes of 1930s and '40s New York like Weegee (1899-1968) . His striking images - captured through his uncanny ability to be on the spot and ready to shoot when things happened - have become part of the visual... |
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Original Jethro Tull: The Glory Years, 1968-1980
Gary Parker · McFarland
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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Jethro Tull was one of the truly innovative rock bands to emerge from the late 1960s. At their peak the idiosyncratic group, fronted by multi-instrumentalist Ian Anderson, resembled a troupe of roving English minstrels. Crafting a signature progressive rock sound that resisted easy categorization,... |
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Creative Hand-Drawn Lettering
MARK BERGIN · Scribo
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
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From classic fonts to graffiti style, this comprehensive guide makes learning hand lettering easy and beautiful! There are so many ways to draw letters, and this book teaches artists how to create a variety of stylish, personalized alphabets. It goes through all the tools, from brushes... |
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Guns N' Roses: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Band
PAUL ELLIOTT · Sterling
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Written by a band insider, this is the most comprehensive, fully illustrated, up-to-date unofficial exploration of Guns N' Roses. Fans of Guns N' Roses, one of the world's most beloved and hardest-rocking bands, had long dreamt of a reunion - and in 2016, after 23 years, it finally... |
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Design School: Layout: A Practical Guide for Students and Designers
QUARTO PUBLISHING. · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Design School: Layout is an instructive guide for students, recent graduates, and self-taught designers. It provides a comprehensive introduction to creating and changing layouts: a crucially important skill that underpins practically every aspect of graphic design. You'll get in-depth... |
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Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World
Dale Allen Gyure · Yale University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America's most significant architects Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover... |
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Flash!: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination
KATE FLINT · Oxford University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright.... |
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No Depression
FRESHGRASS. · University of Texas Press
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
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When people ask what roots music is, it's all too easy to name-check the greats: Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and so on. But beyond them are Sara and Maybelle Carter, Elizabeth Cotten, Judy Collins, Big Mama Thornton, and countless other women whose stories... |
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CRASH! BOOM! BANG! How to Write Action Movies
Michael Lucker · Michael Wiese Productions
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
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A fun, insightful insider's look at the nuts and bolts of writing action movies, from concept to completion, by a professional screenwriter and professor of screenwriting. Full of witty anecdotes from the front lines (and tricks of the trade from between the lines) , Crash! Boom! Bang!... |
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