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Jazz: A History of America's Music
Ken Burns · Knopf
Pages: 512
Format: Book
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The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible forThe Civil War and Baseball.Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music - jazz. Born in the black... |
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Jazz
Mervyn Cooke · Thames & Hudson
Format: Paperback
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This guide covers the whole history of jazz, from its early balancing of African and European influences, through the formative years in New Orleans and Chicago, the rise of the big bands in New York, to be-bop, the post-war proliferation of styles from a new generation - hard bop, West... |
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Music Lessons: Guide Your Child to Play a Musical Instrument (and Enjoy It!)
Stephanie Stein Crease · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best 100 Books of 2006. Providing guidance for parents who want their children to enjoy learning to play a musical instrument, this resource teaches parents the best ways to encourage children's musical talents. Key guidance is provided for the trickiest... |
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Music (World of culture)
Frederic V. Grunfeld · W W Norton & Co Inc; First Edition edition
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Traditions and trends in the history of music are highlighted as well as the contributions and achievements of composers and performers |
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Masterpieces of Calligraphy: 261 Examples, 1500-1800
Peter Jessen · Dover Publications
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Three centuries of European Gothic and Roundhand styles from priceless collection of Nat. Library for Fine and Applied Art, Berlin. Works of Ayres, Boissens, van den Velde, Palatino, Neff, Beaugrand, Clark - a total of 59 master calligraphers. Comprehensive archive of "writing as art."... |
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Body Piercing: The Body Art Manual
Quarto Publishing · Chartwell Books; Spi edition
Format: Book
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The first fully comprehensive, illustrated guide to body art in all its forms, this book is the only reference source available that takes you through every step of the process. From choosing a style, placement, and finding the right artist, to ensuring safety and proper care, this book... |
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The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
Donald Spoto · Brodart Co; 1ST edition
Pages: 523
Format: Hardcover
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This completely revised and updated edition of the classic text describes and analyzes every movie made by master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.From the Trade Paperback edition.
--This text refers to the
Kindle Edition
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David Bellamy's Developing Your Watercolours: Techniques to Improve Your Painting
David Bellamy · Collins
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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A practical, structured course for watercolour painters with some experience - continuing where the "Watercolour Landscape Course" left off. Illustrated with David Bellamy's evocative watercolours, the book follows a similar approach to the previous course and is divided into... |
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Decorative Painting for the first time
Plaid Enterprises. · Sterling Co.
Pages: 111
Format: Hardcover
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Take a decorative painting course right in your own home! Through a series of questions and answers, this latest addition to the popular "For the First Time®" series walks you through the basics of decorative painting, carefully building your skills with a collection of sequential... |
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Titanic Voices: Memories from the Fateful Voyage
Donald Hyslop · St Martins Pr
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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Including previously unpublished interviews with and letters written by survivors, along with forty-two color photographs, a book of memorabilia about the Titanic disaster presents the firsthand accounts of witnesses. |
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