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Author : Barry Targan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto written by Barry Targan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135576955
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The Violin written by Mark Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violin was first mentioned in a book in the sixteenth century. An abundant and diverse literature on the instrument has grown since then, and a complete general guide to these materials has not been produced in the modern era. The last, Edward Heron-Allen's De Fidiculis Bibliographia , was published in1894. This book fills that void, organizing and annotating information on the violin from a variety of fields and sources. It provides a comprehensive, though selective, guide to all facets of the instrument. The book is divided into 4 main parts: Reference and General Studies; Acoustics and Construction; Violin Playing, Performance Practice, and Music; and Violinists, Composers, and Violin Teachers. It will serve as a ready reference for students and scholars, and is a welcome addition to the esteemed Routledge Music Bibliography series.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Schoenbaum
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089606
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument written by David Schoenbaum and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it. A 16-ounce package of polished wood, strings, and air, the violin is perhaps the most affordable, portable, and adaptable instrument ever created. As congenial to reels, ragas, Delta blues, and indie rock as it is to solo Bach and late Beethoven, it has been played standing or sitting, alone or in groups, in bars, churches, concert halls, lumber camps, even concentration camps, by pros and amateurs, adults and children, men and women, at virtually any latitude on any continent. Despite dogged attempts by musicologists worldwide to find its source, the violin’s origins remain maddeningly elusive. The instrument surfaced from nowhere in particular, in a world that Columbus had only recently left behind and Shakespeare had yet to put on paper. By the end of the violin’s first century, people were just discovering its possibilities. But it was already the instrument of choice for some of the greatest music ever composed by the end of its second. By the dawn of its fifth, it was established on five continents as an icon of globalization, modernization, and social mobility, an A-list trophy, and a potential capital gain. In The Violin, David Schoenbaum has combined the stories of its makers, dealers, and players into a global history of the past five centuries. From the earliest days, when violin makers acquired their craft from box makers, to Stradivari and the Golden Age of Cremona; Vuillaume and the Hills, who turned it into a global collectible; and incomparable performers from Paganini and Joachim to Heifetz and Oistrakh, Schoenbaum lays out the business, politics, and art of the world’s most versatile instrument.
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Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rod Moore
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587291562
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Igloo Among Palms written by Rod Moore and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories set on the California-Mexico border, a region of human drama and cultural contretemps. The protagonists include workers going north to better themselves and gringos moving south in search of variety.
Author : Thomas A. Dodson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609389182
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book No Use Pretending written by Thomas A. Dodson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters in these stories have been forced into conditions of life that they find unbearable, and the stories chart their often tragically misguided attempts to relieve their suffering via connections with other people or through the pursuit of addictive attachments (to opiates in one story, to sleep in another). This collection encompasses diverse genres, from ecologically informed realism to a Kafkaesque fairy tale, from fabulist “weird fiction” to an episode from The Odyssey that becomes a meditation on what distinguishes human beings from animals. These stories invite the reader to reconsider moral and ideological certainties, to take a fresh look at such issues as fracking and drone warfare. In one story, a petroleum engineer discovers that one of his wastewater wells may be causing earthquakes, and in another the pilot of an Air Force drone seeks to reconcile his conflicting roles as protector and executioner, husband and soldier. The scientist and the serviceman are both presented with problems that have no easy or obvious solutions, situations that force them to confront the messy, compromising complexity of being human.
Author : Marie-Helene Bertino
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381149
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Safe as Houses written by Marie-Helene Bertino and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it. "Has my ham done anything wrong?" she asks when the grocery store manager demands that she claim it. In "Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph," a failed commercial writer moves into the basement of a convent and inadvertently discovers the secrets of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. A girl, hoping to talk her brother out of enlisting in the army, brings Bob Dylan home for Thanksgiving dinner in the quiet, dreamy "North Of." In "The Idea of Marcel," Emily, a conservative, elegant girl, has dinner with the idea of her ex-boyfriend, Marcel. In a night filled with baffling coincidences, including Marcel having dinner with his idea of Emily, she wonders why we tend to be more in love with ideas than with reality. In and out of the rooms of these gritty, whimsical stories roam troubled, funny people struggling to reconcile their circumstances to some kind of American Ideal and failing, over and over.
Author : Marian Crotty
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609385160
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book What Counts as Love written by Marian Crotty and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. The stories are set in Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Persian Gulf, and often touch on themes of addiction, class, sexuality, and gender. What Counts as Love is a poignant, often funny collection that asks us to take it and its characters seriously.
Author : Merrill Feitell
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587295148
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes written by Merrill Feitell and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Merrill Feitell’s award-winning collection, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, examine the fleeting and unexpected moments of human connection, reminding us of the indelible impact we have on one another no matter how insignificant or anonymous we might feel under our huge, collective sky. Feitell’s characters deal with shifting dynamics in relationships—whether they be best friends, lovers, family, or even strangers—that consistently leave them torn between two places or commitments. In the title story, Janie has undergone a painful childbirth experience and her group of friends must pioneer new dynamics while she wonders how to bring her old self back. In “Bike New York!” amid thirty thousand cyclists, a man on the brink of marriage meets a young girl who, in a tiny Brooklyn bakery, affirms both who he has been and who he is going to be. On this short detour from normal life he comes to understand “the funny thing about finding your way in the world. There was a place laid out for you . . . and even as you stepped into it, happy for the chance to rest, you wondered how you ever ended up there.” Funny, big-hearted, and deft, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes navigates the reader through the life that happens when you’re planning other things. It is a collection of experiences, roads not taken, and the intense and unforeseen sparks of connection we hope for.
Author : Janice Obuchowski
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388755
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Woods written by Janice Obuchowski and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woods explores the lives of people in a small Vermont college town and its surrounding areas—a place at the edge of the bucolic, where the land begins to shift into something untamed. In the tradition of Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, these stories follow people who carry private griefs but search for contentment. As they try to make sense of their worlds, grappling with problems—worried about their careers, their marriages, their children, their ambitions—they also sift through the happiness they have, and often find deep solace in the landscape. What do we find in the woods? An uplifting of spirit or a quieting of sorrow. A sense of being haunted by the past. Sometimes rougher, more violent things: abandoned quarries and feral cats, black bears, brothers caught up in an escalating war, a ghost who wishes to pass on her despair, monsters who boom with hollow ecstatic laughter. But also songbirds: the hermit thrush and the winter wren. Rushing rivers glossy with froth. A nineteenth-century inn that’s somehow gotten by all these years. And far within, a vegetal twilight and constant dusk that feels outside of time. This remarkable debut illuminates the ways we all carry within ourselves aspects stark, beautiful, wild, and unknowable.
Author : Thisbe Nissen
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298961
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night written by Thisbe Nissen and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night is a spirited, offbeat collection of stories, elongated riffs on that thing we call ...love. All manner of love stories: thwarted love stories, imaginary love stories, love stories offhand and obsessive, philosophical love stories, erudite and amusing love stories. “People don't meet because they both like Burmese food,” says one character, “or because someone's sister has a friend who's single and new in town, or because Billy's nose happened to crook just slightly to the left at an angle that made me want to weep...People don't fall in love with each other ...they just fall into love.” Everyone does it: women of fierce independence, men of thin character, rambling Deadheads, gay teenage girls, despondent Peace Corps volunteers, anorexic Broadway theatre dancers, the eager, the grieving, the uncommunicative. Even the confused do it. And they don't just fall in love with each other—they fall in love with certain moments and familiar places, with things as ephemeral as gestures and as evanescent as sunlight. Quirky, real, idealistic, deluded, bohemian, and true, these are people who can—and often do—fall in love with a pair of ears, August afternoons, saucers of vitamins, New Age carpenters, and dead bumblebees. And if there's something they can teach us, it's how to conceive of alternative worlds and the terror and the exhilaration of venturing outside the confines of the lives we know and making our way into a dark, glittering unknown.
Author : Cara Blue Adams
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388135
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book You Never Get It Back written by Cara Blue Adams and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms. Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having.
Author : Jim Henry
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 158729107X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive written by Jim Henry and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve stories about things falling apart. In Mouthfeel, a marriage falls apart when the wife decides her life has no purpose, while Congressman Spoonbender is on a politician who discovers his life is without meaning.
Author : Don Zancanella
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587292613
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Western Electric written by Don Zancanella and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and Billy Budd, drawing on the work of theorists such as Heinz Kohut, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson to challenge to contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis. For those interested in Melville's work and in psychoanalytic and psychological approaches to literature. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Douglas Trevor
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587296489
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Thin Tear In The Fabric Of Space written by Douglas Trevor and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space gathers stories about coping with grief, trying to love people who have died, and—more broadly—leaving old versions of the self behind, sometimes by choice and sometimes out of necessity. In each of the nine stories, Douglas Trevor’s characters are forced to face uncomfortable realities. For Elena Gavrushnekov in the title story, that means admitting after the death of her beloved that she still longs for contact with other human bodies. For Peter in “Central Square,” it is realizing that, like his deceased father before him, he is drinking himself to death. Unable to confront his incapacitated mother and the memory of the plane crash that killed his father, Edwin Morris in “Saint Francis in Flint” is compelled to acknowledge that his saintly aspirations are not what they appear to be, while Sharon Mackaney in “The Surprising Weight of the Body's Organs” struggles with uncontrollable outbursts of rage in the wake of her young son’s death. In moments of great pain and loss, when self-expression seems impossible and terribly useless, the characters in these stories nonetheless discover the tenderness of others. In “The River,” the narrator finds that the friendship he has forged with a French girl with whom he can only just communicate has bred intense, almost intuitive compassion, while in “Fellowship of the Bereaved,” the disconsolate brother of the deceased sister who occupies the empty center of the story uncovers not only anger in his parents but also empathy and humor. As these characters persevere in their own lives, they do so mindful of, and humanized by, the experiences of having seen people they know and love slip unexpectedly into the thin tear in the fabric of space: that quiet chasm that so resolutely separates the living from the dead.
Author : Emily Wortman-Wunder
Publisher : Iowa Short Fiction Award
ISBN 13 : 1609386817
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Not a Thing to Comfort You written by Emily Wortman-Wunder and published by Iowa Short Fiction Award. This book was released on 2019 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a lightning death on an isolated peak to the intrigues of a small town orchestra, the glimmering stories in this debut collection explore how nature--damaged, fierce, and unpredictable--worms its way into our lives. These tales of scientists, nurses, and firefighters catalog the loneliness within families, betrayals between friends, and the recurring song of regret and grief.
