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The Research Virtuoso

Author : Toronto Public Library
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 1554513960
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book The Research Virtuoso written by Toronto Public Library and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed with this lively guidebook, students will be ready to face the often daunting prospect of conducting serious research in the information age. Fully revised, The Research Virtuoso covers all aspects of research: how to decide on a topic, take notes, skim material, evaluate which sources (especially those on the Internet) are most reliable, organize information, and create a bibliography. Readers will also learn how to access a treasure trove of sources they may never have known existed, such as special collections and private libraries. The Research Virtuoso goes on to show how effective research skills will help students succeed not only at school, but also in life: when considering a company to work for or purchasing anything from electronics to a house. Charts, lists, diagrams, and Grab & Go templates clarify and expand the text. An essential tool for every student!

Virtuoso

Author : Donald C. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990623045
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Virtuoso written by Donald C. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virtuoso by Nature

Author : Tim Birkhead
Publisher : Emergence of Natural History
ISBN 13 : 9789004285316
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Virtuoso by Nature written by Tim Birkhead and published by Emergence of Natural History. This book was released on 2016 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Willughby, together with John Ray revolutionized the study of natural history. Together they were motivated by the new philosophy of the mid 1600s and transformed natural history in to a rigorous area of study. Because Ray lived longer and more of his writings have survived, his reputation subsequently eclipsed that of Willughby. Now, with access to previously unexplored archives and new discoveries we are able to provide a comprehensive evaluation of Francis Willughby’s life and works. What emerges is a polymath, a true virtuoso, who made original and imaginative contributions to mathematics, chemistry, linguistics as well as natural history. We use Willughby’s short life as a lens through which to view the entire process of seventeenth-century scientific endeavor.

An American Virtuoso on the World Stage

Author : Donna Staley Kline
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An American Virtuoso on the World Stage written by Donna Staley Kline and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through astonishing force of will and exertion of talent, a young Lucy Hickenlooper of South Texas reinvented herself as Olga Samaroff, international virtuoso concert pianist and one of the most influential musicians during the first half of the twentieth century, when music was still dominated by men and Old World prejudices. For those unfamiliar with her career, Olga Samaroff Stokowski may be known primarily for her tumultuous marriage to renowned conductor Leopold Stokowski. She was much more than a conductor's wife, however. Donna Staley Kline's biography reveals Olga as the driving and shaping force behind her husband's genius and offers the first considered look at a pioneering woman whose own career was marked by improbable firsts. She was the first American woman to win entrance into the piano class at Paris's prestigious Conservatoire Nationale de Musique; the first American female pianist to make her concert debut at Carnegie Hall, as well as to perform all thirty-two Beethoven sonatas; the first woman to serve as the music critic for a New York daily newspaper; the first American-born member of the piano faculty at the Juilliard School of Music; and among the first to make recordings and break ground in radio and television broadcasting. Carefully researched and drawing on interviews with her contemporaries and students, as well as on heretofore neglected letters and documents, An American Virtuoso on the World Stage will appeal to both music lovers and scholars in the field who seek a lively and penetrating look at one of American music's most important women. Olga's life story is of an American progressive who sought innovation and excellence and refused to yield to themusical establishment - and it is a story that has waited to be told.

Virtuoso Teams

Author : Andy Boynton
Publisher : FT PUBLISHING INTERNATIONAL
ISBN 13 : 9780273721833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Virtuoso Teams written by Andy Boynton and published by FT PUBLISHING INTERNATIONAL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Virtuoso Teams and allow yourself to get caught up in the spell-binding stones of seven teams that came together for relatively brief, but explosively intense periods of time and changed the worlds in which they worked forever.

Clara Schumann

Author : Susanna Reich
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618551606
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Susanna Reich and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine and who devoted her life to music and to her family.

The Virtuoso Liszt

Author : Dana Gooley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521834438
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Virtuoso Liszt written by Dana Gooley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest virtuoso career in history - that of Franz Liszt - has been told in countless biographies. But what does that career look like when viewed from the perspective of European cultural history? In this study Dana Gooley examines the world of discussion, journalism, and controversy that surrounded the virtuoso Liszt, and reconstructs the multiple symbolic identities that he fulfilled for his enthusiastic audiences. Gooley's work is based on extensive research into contemporary periodicals - well-known and obscure journals and newspapers - as well as letters, memoirs, receipts and other documents that shed light on Liszt's concertising activities. Emphasising the virtuoso's contradictions, the author shows Liszt being constructed as a model aristocrat and a model bourgeois, as a German nationalist and a Hungarian nationalist, as a sensitive romantic artist and a military dictator, as a greedy entrepreneur and as a leading force for humanitarian charity.

Virtuoso Teams

Author : Andy Boynton
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780273702184
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Virtuoso Teams written by Andy Boynton and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Virtuoso Teamsyou can transform any enterprise. This is a book about effectively managing and leading teams that are catalysts for big change and breakthrough performances. Whether you're launching an innovative new product or service, entering into challenging new markets or simply trying to transform the way you operate, Virtuoso Teamscan make the difference between achieving remarkable success, or just another modest result. Teams is a steady area in business, but there is nothing out there with this kind of punch or invention. The case studies are absolutely fascinating and take center stage. While the primary market will be executives and managers who assemble teams (and the team members themselves) the tertiary market will be serial business book buyers who can t believe they can have a book with such fabulous and wide-ranging stories. The stories of the great teams are unbroken by commentary. The authors weigh in with the management commentary and tips at the end of each chapter, and provide readers with questions that get readers thinking about the steps they need to take to build VT s. The authors are consultants and Professors at one of the world s finest executive education centres: IMD in Switzerland.

Monsieur de Saint-George

Author : Alain Guédé
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250091489
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Monsieur de Saint-George written by Alain Guédé and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full biography of one of the greatest figures of eighteenth-century Europe, known in his time as the "Black Mozart" Virtually forgotten until now, his life is the stuff of legend. Born in 1739 in Guadeloupe to a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest swordsman of his age, an insider at the doomed court of Louis XVI, and, most of all, a virtuosic musician. A violinist, he directed the Olympic Society of Concerts, which was considered the finest in Europe in an age of great musicians, including Haydn, from whom he commissioned a symphony, and Mozart, to whom he was often compared. He also became the first Freemason of color, embracing the French Revolution with the belief that it would end the racism against which-despite his illustrious achievements-he struggled his whole life. This is the life of Joseph Bologne, known variously as Monsieur de Saint-George, the "Black Mozart," and, because of his origins, "the American." Alain Guédé offers a fascinating account of this extraordinary individual, whose musical compositions are at long last being revived and whose story will never again be forgotten.

Producing Excellence

Author : Izabela Wagner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813575338
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Producing Excellence written by Izabela Wagner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by a passion for music, for excellence, and for fame, violin soloists are immersed from early childhood in high-pressure competitions, regular public appearances, and arduous daily practice. An in-depth study of nearly one hundred such children, Producing Excellence illuminates the process these young violinists undergo to become elite international soloists. A musician and a parent of a young violinist, sociologist Izabela Wagner offers an inside look at how her young subjects set out on the long road to becoming a soloist. The remarkable research she conducted—at rehearsals, lessons, and in other educational settings—enabled her to gain deep insight into what distinguishes these talented prodigies and their training. She notes, for instance, the importance of a family culture steeped in the values of the musical world. Indeed, more than half of these students come from a family of professional musicians and were raised in an atmosphere marked by the importance of instrumental practice, the vitality of music as a vocation, and especially the veneration of famous artists. Wagner also highlights the highly structured, rigorous training system of identifying, nurturing, and rewarding talent, even as she underscores the social, economic, and cultural factors that make success in this system possible. Offering an intimate portrait of the students, their parents, and their instructors, Producing Excellence sheds new light on the development of exceptional musical talent, as well as draw much larger conclusions as to “producing prodigy” in other competition-prone areas, such as sports, sciences, the professions, and other arts. Wagner’s insights make this book valuable for academics interested in the study of occupations, and her clear, lively writing is perfect for general readers curious about the ins and outs of training to be a violin soloist.

Paganini

Author : Maiko Kawabata
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843837560
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Paganini written by Maiko Kawabata and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our inherited image of Nicolo Paganini as a 'demonic violinist' has never been analysed in depth. What really made him 'demonic'? In fact, the many perceptions of Paganini as demonic - Faust, magician, devil, rake/libertine, Napoleon - were inter-related but not equivalent. This book investigates the legend of Paganini: separating fact from fiction, it explains how the legendary violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a musician. An understanding of his violin techniques and musical ethos goes some way towards meeting this aim, beyond which an exploration of the wider cultural context is also presented. This book considers Paganini's performance innovations in the light of contemporary attitudes towards music and the supernatural, gender, sexuality, violence, heroism, masculinity, as well conceptions of power. A swirl of cultural factors coalesced in the performer to create that phenomenon of Romanticism, a larger-than- life Gothic villain. Because the mythology surrounding the violinist outlived and outgrew the man to monstrous proportions, so too did the idea of virtuosity inflate out of control, acquiring a potent, overwhelmingly negative aura in the process. An appendix brings together late nineteenth-century British press and literature coverage of Paganini that contributed to the developing myth surrounding the now famous composer and performer."--Publisher's description.

Michael Rabin

Author : Anthony Feinstein
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671094
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Michael Rabin written by Anthony Feinstein and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a brief moment in time, Michael Rabin left an indelible impression on the world of classical music. His few recordings survive on the Columbia, EMI, and Angel labels, and he holds the distinction of recording, at age twenty-two, all the Paganini caprices, in the process setting the standard by which subsequent violinists would be judged."--BOOK JACKET.

The Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Author : Gabriel Banat
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781576471098
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Chevalier de Saint-Georges written by Gabriel Banat and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banat, a concert violinist and teacher, describes the life of this virtuoso violinist, who is thought to be the earliest black European composer, born on his father's plantation on Guadeloupe.

The Virtuoso

Author : Thomas Shadwell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803253681
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book The Virtuoso written by Thomas Shadwell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1676, The Virtuoso set a standard for theatrical satire. It was the most extensive dramatic treatment of modern science since Jonson's The Alchemist and took as its target no less than the Royal Society of London. Shadwell's barbs hit their targets often and cleanly. In 1689 he became Poet Laureate of England, a position he held until his death in 1692. The virtuoso of the title is Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, who like many after him confuses the extent of a collection with the depth of a science. Sir Gimcrack is fascinated by the geography of the moon, the worlds in his microscope, and the possibilities of human flight. More seriously and?for Shadwell's audience?more comically, his obsession with his arrays of worms and spiders proceeds at the expense of his wife and two beautiful nieces. The play also introduces Sir Formal Trifle, a pedantic ciceronian orator and coxcomb. His character established thereafter the theatrical type of the know-it-all blowhard. Famous for its wit and high-speed changes, The Virtuoso is also a display of the prestige of modern science and the pomposity of its ameteurs.

The English Virtuoso

Author : Craig A. Hanson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226315878
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The English Virtuoso written by Craig A. Hanson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to overturn 20th-century criticism that cast the English virtuosi of the 17th and early 18th centuries as misguided dabblers, arguing that they were erudite individuals with solid grounding in the classics, deep appreciation for the arts and sincere curiosity about the natural world.

Return on Character

Author : Fred Kiel
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1625271328
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Return on Character written by Fred Kiel and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the character of our leaders matter? You may think this question was answered long ago. Countless business authors and analysts have assured us that great leadership demands great character. Time and again, we’ve seen that truth play out, as once-thriving organizations falter and fail under the guidance of leaders behaving badly. Why, then, do so many executives remain skeptical about the true value of leadership character? A winning strategy and a sound business model are what really matter, they argue; character is just the icing on the cake. What’s been missing from this debate is hard evidence: data that shows not only that leadership character matters for organizational success, but how it matters; and concrete evidence that it leads to better business results. Now, in this groundbreaking book, respected leadership researcher, adviser, and author Fred Kiel offers that evidence—solid data that demonstrates the connection between character, leadership excellence, and organizational results. After seven years of rigorous research based on a landmark study of more than 100 CEOs and over 8,000 of their employees’ observations, Kiel’s findings show that leaders of strong character achieved up to five times the ROA for their organizations as did leaders of weak character. Return on Character goes on to reveal: • How leadership character is formed, how it creates value, and how that value spreads throughout the organization • How low-character leaders undermine the success of even the best business plans • How leaders at any level can develop the habits of strong character and “unlearn” the habits of poor character The book also provides a character-building methodology—step-by-step advice and techniques for assessing your own character habits and improving your performance and that of your organization. Return on Character provides the blueprint for building your own leadership character and creating a character-driven organization that achieves superior business results.

The Music Teaching Artist's Bible

Author : Eric Booth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199709548
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Music Teaching Artist's Bible written by Eric Booth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the artist moves into the classroom or community to educate and inspire students and audience members, this is Teaching Artistry. It is a proven means for practicing professional musicians to create a successful career in music, providing not only necessary income but deep and lasting satisfaction through engaging people in learning experiences about the arts. Filled with practical advice on the most critical issues facing the music teaching artist today--from economic and time-management issues of being a musician and teacher to communicating effectively with students--The Music Teaching Artist's Bible uncovers the essentials that every musician needs in order to thrive in this role. Author Eric Booth offers both inspiration and how-to, step-by-step guidance in this truly comprehensive manual that music teaching artists will turn to again and again. The book also includes critical information on becoming a mentor, succeeding in school environments, partnering with other teaching artists, advocating for music and arts education, and teaching private lessons. The Music Teaching Artist's Bible helps practicing and aspiring teaching artists gain the skills they need to build new audiences, improve the presence of music in schools, expand the possibilities of traditional and educational performances, and ultimately make their lives as an artists even more satisfying and fulfilling.