The Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library
October, 08 2024 06:02:28
A Sense of Place
By Hutker, Mark A.
Thirteen exquisite houses create a portrait of life in one of Americas most exclusive coastal destinations, along the beaches of Marthas Vineyard and Cape Cod. Hutker Architects, led by founding principal Mark A. Hutker, has designed more than three hundred houses along the New England shore. A member of the close community on Marthas Vineyard since his arrival in 1985, Hutker has become an expert at interpreting the ideal lifestyles of his clients within the respected traditions and restrictive codes of the beautiful but fragile environment. In their design and construction, these houses honor the vernacular traditions of craft and indigenous materials, are deeply respectful of the cherished landscape, and demonstrate a lively range of solutions to building on the bluffs and dunes that line the shores of the Vineyard and Cape Cod.
The Monacelli Press
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9781580934275
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Hardcover
All That Jazz
By Mordden, Ethan
In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon (two of the greatest talents in the musical's history) , and the Wild West gangsterville that was the city of Chicago itself.The tale of a young woman who murders her departing lover and then tricks the jury into letting her off, Chicago seemed too blunt and cynical at first. Everyone agreed it was show biz at its brilliant best, yet the public still preferred A Chorus Line, with its cast of innocents and sentimental feeling. Nevertheless, the 1996 Chicago revival is now the longest-running American musical in history, and the movie version won the Best Picture Oscar.As author Ethan Mordden looks back at Chicago's various moving parts - including the original 1926 play that started it all, a sexy silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, a talkie remake with Ginger Rogers, the musical itself, and at last the movie of the musical - we see how the American theatre serves as a kind of alternative news medium, a town crier warning the public about the racy, devious interior contradictions of American society. Opinionated, witty, and rich in backstage anecdotes, All That Jazz brings the American Musical to life in all its artistry and excitement.
Oxford University Press
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9780190651794
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Hardcover
An Introduction to Calligraphy
By Sabard, Véronique
Clear instructions and 129 photos welcome you to the world of calligraphy. Starting with the pens, inks, and writing surfaces you'll need, the book explains the basics, from filling the pen to holding the nib at the right angle. Practice exercises help you understand upstrokes, downstrokes, the optical center, and more. Then comes a chronological introduction to each of the 5 major styles of Western script, beginning with the Roman uncial script of around 600 BCE and covering the several forms that developed in the following centuries. For each style, the book explains its historical use and its characteristics, teaches the correct formation of each letter, and offers suggestions and tips. Then a practice exercise helps you master the style. Learn the all-capital uncial script, and create a beautiful wine list with it; try Gothic textura for a calendar, or chancery for a letterhead design.
Schiffer
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9780764352300
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Hardcover
The Easy Pop/Rock Fake Book
By Corporation., Hal Leonard Publishing
(Easy Fake Book) . Here are 100 top pop/rock songs that are easy to learn and play. All are in large notation and in the key of C, with lyrics and simplified chords that remain true to each tune. Includes: All Right Now * Billie Jean * Carry on Wayward Son * Change the World * Dancing Queen * Don't Fear the Reaper * Don't Worry, Be Happy * Eye of the Tiger * Fireflies * The Greatest Love of All * Hey, Soul Sister * How to Save a Life * How You Remind Me * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Kiss on My List * Like a Prayer * Love Shack * Mony, Mony * Oh, Pretty Woman * Pour Some Sugar on Me * She Will Be Loved * Smooth * Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) * Use Somebody * With or Without You * You Really Got Me * and more.
Hal Leonard Corporation
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9781495010415
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Musical score
Edgar Degas
By Lloyd, Christopher
Edgar Degas (1834 -1917) was one of the outstanding draftsmen of the nineteenth century, and drawing was not only a central tenet of his art but also essential to his existence. Through an examination of his drawings and pastels, this book reveals the development of Degas's style as well the story of his life, including his complicated relationship with the Impressionists. Following a broadly chronological approach, the author discusses the artist's various subject areas, from the images of dancers - which form over half of Degas's total oeuvre - to nudes, laundresses, milliners, and the less well-known racehorse and landscape drawings. He covers the whole career, from when Degas was copying the Old Masters to learn his craft to when he ceased work in 1912 because of failing eyesight, and sets him within the artistic context of the period.
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014.
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9781606063279
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Print book
The Paintings That Revolutionized Art
By StaÌ?uble, Claudia
Now available in a paperback edition, this beautifully illustrated, delightfully informative collection of one hundred of the world's most significant paintings covers nearly every period, culture, and style. What makes the Book of Kells such an extraordinary example of illuminated manuscript Why is Drer's self-portrait so iconic How did Turner's Rain, Steam, Speed turn the art world on its head What's so great about Jasper John's Flag And who was Whistler's mother, anyway Art history is filled with paintings that shocked, intrigued, enraged, and mystified their audiences--paintings that exemplified the period in which they were created and forever changed the way we think. Here, one hundred examples of these icons of art are presented in beautiful, high-quality reproductions.
Prestel,
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9783791381534
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Print book
Playing Changes
By Chinen, Nate
From one of jazz's leading critics comes an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, here is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: a compelling argument for the resiliency of the art form and a rejoinder to any claims about its calcification or demise. "Playing changes," in jazz parlance, has long referred to an improviser's resourceful path through a chord progression. Nate Chinen's Playing Changes boldly expands on the idea, highlighting a host of real changes - ideological, technological, theoretical, and practical - that jazz musicians have learned to navigate since the turn of the century. Chinen, who has chronicled this evolution firsthand throughout his journalistic career, vividly sets the backdrop, charting the origins of jazz historicism and the rise of an institutional framework for the music.
Pantheon
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9781101870341
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Hardcover
Best Movie Soundtrack Songs Ever
By Corp., Hal Leonard
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Grab the popcorn and settle in for 70 of the best songs from the silver screen, including: Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) * Beauty and the Beast * Chariots of Fire * Circle of Life * Cups (When I'm Gone) * Endless Love * Falling Slowly * Grease * Theme from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love) * James Bond Theme * Let the River Run * Mrs. Robinson * Nobody Does It Better * The Rose * Speak Softly, Love (Love Theme) * Star Wars (Main Theme) * Time Warp * Tonight * Up Where We Belong * When You Wish upon a Star * You've Got a Friend in Me * and more.
A Sense of Place
By Hutker, Mark A.
Thirteen exquisite houses create a portrait of life in one of Americas most exclusive coastal destinations, along the beaches of Marthas Vineyard and Cape Cod. Hutker Architects, led by founding principal Mark A. Hutker, has designed more than three hundred houses along the New England shore. A member of the close community on Marthas Vineyard since his arrival in 1985, Hutker has become an expert at interpreting the ideal lifestyles of his clients within the respected traditions and restrictive codes of the beautiful but fragile environment. In their design and construction, these houses honor the vernacular traditions of craft and indigenous materials, are deeply respectful of the cherished landscape, and demonstrate a lively range of solutions to building on the bluffs and dunes that line the shores of the Vineyard and Cape Cod.
All That Jazz
By Mordden, Ethan
In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon (two of the greatest talents in the musical's history) , and the Wild West gangsterville that was the city of Chicago itself.The tale of a young woman who murders her departing lover and then tricks the jury into letting her off, Chicago seemed too blunt and cynical at first. Everyone agreed it was show biz at its brilliant best, yet the public still preferred A Chorus Line, with its cast of innocents and sentimental feeling. Nevertheless, the 1996 Chicago revival is now the longest-running American musical in history, and the movie version won the Best Picture Oscar.As author Ethan Mordden looks back at Chicago's various moving parts - including the original 1926 play that started it all, a sexy silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, a talkie remake with Ginger Rogers, the musical itself, and at last the movie of the musical - we see how the American theatre serves as a kind of alternative news medium, a town crier warning the public about the racy, devious interior contradictions of American society. Opinionated, witty, and rich in backstage anecdotes, All That Jazz brings the American Musical to life in all its artistry and excitement.
An Introduction to Calligraphy
By Sabard, Véronique
Clear instructions and 129 photos welcome you to the world of calligraphy. Starting with the pens, inks, and writing surfaces you'll need, the book explains the basics, from filling the pen to holding the nib at the right angle. Practice exercises help you understand upstrokes, downstrokes, the optical center, and more. Then comes a chronological introduction to each of the 5 major styles of Western script, beginning with the Roman uncial script of around 600 BCE and covering the several forms that developed in the following centuries. For each style, the book explains its historical use and its characteristics, teaches the correct formation of each letter, and offers suggestions and tips. Then a practice exercise helps you master the style. Learn the all-capital uncial script, and create a beautiful wine list with it; try Gothic textura for a calendar, or chancery for a letterhead design.
The Easy Pop/Rock Fake Book
By Corporation., Hal Leonard Publishing
(Easy Fake Book) . Here are 100 top pop/rock songs that are easy to learn and play. All are in large notation and in the key of C, with lyrics and simplified chords that remain true to each tune. Includes: All Right Now * Billie Jean * Carry on Wayward Son * Change the World * Dancing Queen * Don't Fear the Reaper * Don't Worry, Be Happy * Eye of the Tiger * Fireflies * The Greatest Love of All * Hey, Soul Sister * How to Save a Life * How You Remind Me * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Kiss on My List * Like a Prayer * Love Shack * Mony, Mony * Oh, Pretty Woman * Pour Some Sugar on Me * She Will Be Loved * Smooth * Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) * Use Somebody * With or Without You * You Really Got Me * and more.
Edgar Degas
By Lloyd, Christopher
Edgar Degas (1834 -1917) was one of the outstanding draftsmen of the nineteenth century, and drawing was not only a central tenet of his art but also essential to his existence. Through an examination of his drawings and pastels, this book reveals the development of Degas's style as well the story of his life, including his complicated relationship with the Impressionists. Following a broadly chronological approach, the author discusses the artist's various subject areas, from the images of dancers - which form over half of Degas's total oeuvre - to nudes, laundresses, milliners, and the less well-known racehorse and landscape drawings. He covers the whole career, from when Degas was copying the Old Masters to learn his craft to when he ceased work in 1912 because of failing eyesight, and sets him within the artistic context of the period.
The Paintings That Revolutionized Art
By StaÌ?uble, Claudia
Now available in a paperback edition, this beautifully illustrated, delightfully informative collection of one hundred of the world's most significant paintings covers nearly every period, culture, and style. What makes the Book of Kells such an extraordinary example of illuminated manuscript Why is Drer's self-portrait so iconic How did Turner's Rain, Steam, Speed turn the art world on its head What's so great about Jasper John's Flag And who was Whistler's mother, anyway Art history is filled with paintings that shocked, intrigued, enraged, and mystified their audiences--paintings that exemplified the period in which they were created and forever changed the way we think. Here, one hundred examples of these icons of art are presented in beautiful, high-quality reproductions.
Playing Changes
By Chinen, Nate
From one of jazz's leading critics comes an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, here is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: a compelling argument for the resiliency of the art form and a rejoinder to any claims about its calcification or demise. "Playing changes," in jazz parlance, has long referred to an improviser's resourceful path through a chord progression. Nate Chinen's Playing Changes boldly expands on the idea, highlighting a host of real changes - ideological, technological, theoretical, and practical - that jazz musicians have learned to navigate since the turn of the century. Chinen, who has chronicled this evolution firsthand throughout his journalistic career, vividly sets the backdrop, charting the origins of jazz historicism and the rise of an institutional framework for the music.
Best Movie Soundtrack Songs Ever
By Corp., Hal Leonard
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Grab the popcorn and settle in for 70 of the best songs from the silver screen, including: Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) * Beauty and the Beast * Chariots of Fire * Circle of Life * Cups (When I'm Gone) * Endless Love * Falling Slowly * Grease * Theme from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love) * James Bond Theme * Let the River Run * Mrs. Robinson * Nobody Does It Better * The Rose * Speak Softly, Love (Love Theme) * Star Wars (Main Theme) * Time Warp * Tonight * Up Where We Belong * When You Wish upon a Star * You've Got a Friend in Me * and more.