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Death by Violin

Author : J. T. Ledbetter
Publisher : Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Death by Violin written by J. T. Ledbetter and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ledbetter's writing is often about people on the small farms of Southern Illinois, Nebraska, and the Palouse in Southeast Washington who have lost their ability or inclination to talk to each other, having been beaten down by harsh weather, or poor crops. John Van Doren has called his work "a report of a vanishing world that was always achingly inarticulate and therefore of violent heart. " There is humor of course, as there is in any place in any time, but it is often short-lived, and a feeling of terror is never far beneath the surface. And throughout, there is that strange farm silence that covers land and the people of the prairies--places Ledbetter both feared and loved.

Death of a Saint

Author : Lily Herne
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 147210093X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Death of a Saint written by Lily Herne and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some secrets are so unthinkable you can't even admit them to yourself . . . Lele, Ginger, Ash and Saint - aka the Mall Rats - are hiding out in the Deadlands, a once-prosperous area of Cape Town, now swarming with the living dead. Exiled from the city enclave for crimes against the Resurrectionist State, the Rats face a stark choice: return and risk capture - or leave Cape Town and go in search of other survivors. But what if the rest of South Africa is nothing but a zombie-riddled wasteland? Now Lele has discovered the truth about why the lurching dead leave them alone, she can't bring herself to tell the rest of the gang. And she's not the only Mall Rat harbouring a dangerous secret . . . Can the friends' survive on the road if all they have is each other? Or will their secrets tear them apart?

Violin

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345425308
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Violin written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1999-09-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.

The King of Violins

Author : M.G. Crisci
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456635069
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The King of Violins written by M.G. Crisci and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOW CHINA'S MOST CELEBRATED VIOLIN PRODIGY BECAME AN ENEMY OF STATE. The King of Violins is the heartbreaking story of China's most celebrated violin prodigy, Ma Sicong, who composed his first concerto at the age of 12. During his career, this gentle, dignified man composed 57 of the world's best-known symphonies and concertos and performed in front of hundreds of sold-out audiences across the globe. Chairman Mao Zedong declared Ma Sicong "a national treasure" and nicknamed him The King of Violins. Soon, Chairman Mao's brutal Cultural Revolution distorted the truth of Ma's life and work. He is forced to wear a dunce cap, and is publicly humiliated and physically abused by cadres of Red Guards as "a vile product of bourgeois thinking." Ma and his family make a breath-taking escape in the darkness to America. After Chairman Mao died in 1976, the real circumstances of Ma's poignant, bittersweet life were buried in the pages of history by an embarrassed Chinese government. Eleven years later, Ma died at the age of 76 in Philadelphia. The King of Violins, written in cooperation with all of Ma's remaining family members, and is the first politically balanced life story about this generous, conflicted musical genius. (Contains 89 rare vintage photographs).

Ace Carroway and the Deadly Violin

Author : Guy Worthey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949827521
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Ace Carroway and the Deadly Violin written by Guy Worthey and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark this sheet music contorto e mortale.*War heroine and crime solver Cecilia "Ace" Carroway specializes in cheating death, but she's never encountered a musical instrument with murderous tendencies before. Violinist P. Charles Derkin is the latest owner of the deadly violin, and he's a nervous wreck. The instrument is accompanied by nightly noises and ghostly lights, and he just discovered that the violin's two previous owners each died in horrific "accidents."Moments after Ace takes the case, Derkin narrowly escapes death by falling masonry. The danger is real enough, but who or what could be putting Charles Derkin in peril? Is it mysterious paranormal forces? Is it diminutive Filbert Monocles, director of the organization that provides security for the violin? Is it Isabella Rosavino, the vivacious Italian photographer? As Ace and her dashing associates gather clues, a disturbing fourth possibility rises like a ghostly shadow. Her old nemesis Darko Dor and his international network of criminals may desire the violin for their own nefarious ends. A few dead violinists mean nothing to the fiend whose thirst for power has already killed thousands, including Ace's father.When Derkin and his violin are kidnapped, Ace will need all of her wits, her danger-loving partners, and an airship to have a hope of saving him in time to thwart her arch enemy.This book contains: An Irishman's blarney. Rope ladders. A papier mâché tree trunk. Reckless driving. Radio tracking equipment. Canadians. Motorcycles. Mercy bullets. Regular bullets. A monocle. A transatlantic pursuit. A blush from Ace. A spy named Tim. Those adorable associates of hers. The star-fortress of Copenhagen. Vivaldi's Winter.Ace Carroway and the Deadly Violin is sixth in the Adventures of Ace Carroway series. Content rating: teen.*Twisted and deadly.KEYWORDS female pilot heroine, 1920s spy, pulp adventure, steampunk historical sci-fi mashup, clean indie read, martial arts doctor, friendship

Boy with a Violin

Author : Yochanan Fein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253060575
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Boy with a Violin written by Yochanan Fein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 22, 1941, the German invasion of the Soviet Union began. In a matter of days, the war reached the suburbs of Kaunas, Lithuania, where a young Jewish violinist, Yochanan Fein, led a happy childhood. On June 22, 1941, that childhood ended. In Boy with a Violin, Fein recounts his early life under Nazi occupation—his survival in the Kaunas Ghetto, the separation from his parents, his narrow escapes from death at the hands of Nazi officers, the harrowing stories of those he knew who did not survive, and the abhorrent conditions he endured while in hiding. He tells the tale of his rescuer, Jonas Paulavičius, the Lithuanian carpenter who sought to save the Jewish spirit. Paulavičius rescued those he believed could rebuild in the wake of the Holocaust, hiding engineers and doctors in his underground Noah's Ark. Among the sixteen he saved stood one fourteen-year-old violinist. Following liberation, Fein describes the aftermath of the war as survivors returned to what was left of their homes and attempted to piece together the fragmented remains of their lives. He recounts the difficulties of returning to some semblance of normal life in the midst of a complex political climate, culminating in his daring escape from Soviet Lithuania. In one of the darkest eras of human history, there were those who proved that the goodness of the human spirit survives against all odds. Boy with a Violin pays tribute to those who risked everything to save a life, and whose altruism crossed the boundaries of race and religion. In this first English translation of Boy with a Violin, Fein continues to offer his testimony to the strength of the human spirit.

The Violin

Author : Robert Riggs
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465064
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Violin written by Robert Riggs and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new perspectives on the violin's beloved concert repertoire, its diverse roles in indigenous musical traditions on four continents, and its metaphorical presence in visual arts and literature. With a colorful history that spans 450 years, the violin has proven to be one of the world's most important and versatile instruments. Addressed to performing musicians, serious concertgoers, and collectors of recordings, The Violin offers insightful, up-to-date essays on a wide range of topics. Essays discuss beloved masterpieces from the violin's solo repertoire, with individual chapters on the Italian Baroque, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and the violin concerto in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the evolution of performance styles and interpretation as documented in recordings. The volume also illustrates the broad cultural and geographic reach of the instrument, offering readers a taste of the traditional music of Argentina, Mexico, Norway, and India, in which the violin's participation is an essential and characteristic element. Other chapters are devoted to American fiddling andto the violin and violinists as metaphors in literature and the visual arts. CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Goertzen, Eitan Ornoy, Robert Riggs, Peter Walls, Peter Wollny. Musicologist and violinist Robert Riggs (PhD, Harvard University) chairs the Department of Music at the University of Mississippi and is the author of articles on Mozart as well as the monograph Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher (URP 2010).

Soundscapes

Author : Paul Robertson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571331890
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Soundscapes written by Paul Robertson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly forty years Paul Robertson performed throughout the world as First Violinist of the internationally renowned Medici String Quartet, of which he was a founder member. In 2008 the main artery to Paul's heart ruptured, leading to him dying on the operating-table, and then being resuscitated. Paul subsequently hovered in a deep coma for six weeks, close to death and experiencing visions, affording him profound insights into the relationship between music and the subconscious When he came to he felt he had been reborn - fundamentally, a different person - and not just because the left side of his body was partially paralysed. Instead, he woke with a completely new acceptance of the meaning of death, and a belief in life beyond. Now 64 years-old, Paul has decided not to undergo any more surgery, facing a very uncertain future and living on borrowed time. In this book Paul reflects on his musical training, his insights into the difficult realities of ensemble playing, and about the possible meaning of his experiences in both life and near-death. This extraordinary and poignant memoir will be for all musicians, spiritual thinkers and musical laymen who have engaged with the rigours of learning music.

Second Violin

Author : John Lawton
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848621
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Second Violin written by John Lawton and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As London braces for WWII, a string of murdered rabbis draws Inspector Troy into a mystery that “sets pulses racing and the jaded responses tingling” (The Irish Times). One of today’s top historical espionage writers, considered “as good as Le Carré” (Chicago Tribune) and “a master,” John Lawton adds another spellbinding thriller to his Inspector Troy series with Second Violin (Rocky Mountain News). The sixth installment in the series, Lawton’s new novel opens in 1938 with Europe on the brink of war. In London, Frederick Troy, newly promoted to the prestigious murder squad at Scotland Yard, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian “enemy aliens” that also includes his brother, Rod, who learns upon receiving an internment letter that he was born in Austria despite having grown up in England. Hundreds of men are herded by train to a neglected camp on the Isle of Man. And as the bombs start falling on London, a murdered rabbi is found, then another, and another . . . Amid great war, murder is what matters. Moving from the Nazi-infested alleys of prewar Vienna to the bombed-out streets of 1940 London, and featuring an extraordinary cast of characters, Lawton’s thriller is a suspenseful and intelligent novel, as good a spy story as it is an historical narrative. “Smart and gracefully written.” —Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post

Pioneer Violin Virtuose in the Early Twentieth Century

Author : Tatjana Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781351167529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Violin Virtuose in the Early Twentieth Century written by Tatjana Goldberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatjana Goldberg reveals the extent to which gender and socially constructed identity influenced female violinists' 'separate but unequal' status in a great male-dominated virtuoso lineage by focussing on the few that stood out: the American Maud Powell (1867-1920), Australian-born Alma Moodie (1898-1943), and the British Marie Hall (1884-1956). Despite breaking down traditional gender-based patriarchal social and cultural norms, becoming celebrated soloists, and greatly contributing towards violin works and the early recording industry (Powell and Hall), they received little historical recognition. Goldberg provides a more complete picture of their artistic achievements and the impact they had on audiences.

Violin Dreams

Author : Arnold Steinhardt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547086002
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Violin Dreams written by Arnold Steinhardt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir ... Violin Dreams is not only the story of a man becoming an artist, it’s a history of twentieth-century music.” -- John Guare, Tony Award-winning playwright Arnold Steinhardt, for more than forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his lifelong obsession with the violin, that most seductive and stunningly beautiful instrument. His story is rich with vivid scenes: the terror inflicted by his early violin teachers, the sensual pleasure involved in the pursuit of the perfect violin, the charged atmosphere of high-level competitions. Steinhardt describes Bach’s Chaconne as the holy grail for the solo violin, and he illuminates, from the perspective of an ardent owner of a great Storioni violin, the history and mysteries of the renowned Italian violinmakers. Violin Dreams includes a remarkable CD recording of Steinhardt performing Bach’s Partita in D Minor as a young violinist forty years ago and playing the same piece especially for this book. A conversation between the author and Alan Alda on the differences between the two performances is included in the liner notes.

Come sweet death

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Come sweet death written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Violin Virtuosos

Author : Henry Roth
Publisher : California Classics Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Violin Virtuosos written by Henry Roth and published by California Classics Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The singing tone and wide range of the violin have made it the archetypal musical instrument, and in Violin Virtuosos, violinist and music critic Henry Roth has created a work of rare insight into this singular and beloved instrument.

The Violin Conspiracy

Author : Brendan Slocumb
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 059331543X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Violin Conspiracy written by Brendan Slocumb and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. “I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing about—in this case, classical music.” —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. When he discovers that his beat-up, family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach, and together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition—the Olympics of classical music—the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Without it, Ray feels like he's lost a piece of himself. As the competition approaches, Ray must not only reclaim his precious violin, but prove to himself—and the world—that no matter the outcome, there has always been a truly great musician within him.

Death in Winterreise

Author : Lauri Suurpää
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011086
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Death in Winterreise written by Lauri Suurpää and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurpää demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle.

The Violin

Author : George Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Violin written by George Hart and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Master's Violin

Author : Myrtle Reed
Publisher : Pantianos Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Master's Violin written by Myrtle Reed and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 1904 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myrtle Reed's classic novel is not simply a romantic story, but a celebration of life, love and the exquisiteness of music. The story involves a virtuoso violin player living in Lancaster, whose house is kept by his spinster sister. In a different neighborhood of town, an elderly lady who adopted and raised a young girl is surprised when her relatives- a widow and her son - arrive unannounced and wish to stay. The son, being musically talented, aspires to take up tutorage with the famous violinist of Lancaster. Thus begins an awkward situation that serves as a gauntlet for the passionate story which follows. Notably for a book of this genre, The Master's Violin contains many musings on the nature and value of family, music, parenthood, friendship and life. The reflective and thoughtful narration, along with the poignant descriptions of the master's performances, makes this a unique and memorable story. The author was among the most famous and appreciated novelists of her time. Unusually for a romance author, Reed also published a series of successful cookbooks. Though her fame declined in the years following her death in 1911 at the age of only 36, her books have maintained an appreciative audience into the 21st century.