The Drama and Theatre Arts Course Book

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Performing Arts

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Phillip Rehfeldt has assembled here techniques of dealing with clarinet performances as they have evolved since 1950. He catalogs contemporary practices that differ from those formerly standardized, provides perspective on performance capabilities and limitations, and includes suggestions for performance based on his own experience. The new edition has been completely rewritten, corrected where necessary, and updated. Rehfeldt has added the complete list of William O. Smith's clarinet compositions and recordings to the previous listing of his early multiphonic fingerings. The new edition also includes an appendix containing Eric Mandat's quarter-tone fingerings; a second, extensive music bibliography, the "International Update"; and an updated and annotated bibliography of music literature.

New Directions for Clarinet (Volume 4) (The New Instrumentation Series, 4)

Rehfeldt, Phillip

Music

Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen and Patricia Strange's comprehensive study critically examines extended performance techniques found in the violin literature of the latter half of the twentieth century. Drawing from both published and private manuscripts, the authors present extended performance options for the acoustic, modified, electric, and MIDI violin, with signal processing and computer-related techniques, and include more than 400 notated examples. The authors begin with bowing techniques and proceed systematically through other aspects of string playing, including MIDI technologies. Their correspondence and research with many performers and composers, the book's extensive score and text bibliography, and the discography of more than 130 recordings make The Contemporary Violin a valuable contemporary music reference and guide. An additional benefit is its listing of Internet resources that will keep the reader up to date with recent developments in contemporary performance and composition. First published by UC Press, 2001.

The Contemporary Violin: ExtENDed Performance Techniques (The New Instrumentation)

Strange, Allen

Strange, Patricia

Cond Gde Choral Orc E-Book Eb

Green, Jonathan D.

Reference

Historical Dictionary of Niger

DECALO, SAMUEL

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

The core of this work, with more than 300 entries covering a wide variety of topics, is comprehensive and well written. Most academic and larger public libraries will want to acquire this compact overview of one of the least-studied countries in Africa. --ARBA

Historical Dictionary of Mauritania

Gerteiny, Alfred G.

Pazzanita, Anthony G.

In this update of the 1991 edition, area specialist St. John continues the focus on this cryptic North African nation (officially: the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) and the provocative policies of the Quaddafi regime. An expanded introduction, chronology (1551-1998), and topical b

Historical Dictionary of Libya

St.John, Ronald Bruce

The "bonus rule" of 1953-1957 required players who signed a baseball contract for more than $4,000 to remain on the major league roster for two full seasons. These were the bonus babies young men of about 18 or 19 years old, so full of promise and talent that they overshadowed their high school or collegiate teammates and had professional teams scrambling to sign them. This system produced three members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (Al Kaline, Harmon Killebrew, and Sandy Koufax) and several other long-time performers, but the "bonus rule" was also responsible for the destruction of many potential careers. In two years or less, professional baseball lost the likes of John Edelman, Bruce Swango, and Paul Martin. Kelley tells the story of the rule and the players involved, using the files of the National Baseball Library as well as interviews with many of the bonus babies themselves and other players, managers, and baseball executives of the day. He also provides a brief history of bonuses and explains how this rule led to the free agent draft in effect today. Photos.

Baseballs Biggest Blunder CB

Kelley, Brent

Business & Money

Films of Oliver Stone E-Book Eb

Don Kunz

History & Criticism

What About Murder: A Guide to Books About Mystery and Detective Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Jon L. Breen

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