Author : Perri Knize
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0743276396
Recounts the author's youth as the daughter of a professional musician, her determined efforts to acquire a rare German grand piano, and her struggles to restore the instrument when it arrived badly tone impaired. Reprint.
Author : Oscar Peterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category : Jazz musicians
ISBN : 9780826476241
An overview of the career of jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, from the fame of his early years as the star attraction of Canada's renowned Johnny Holmes Orchestra to the 1970s and his role as a solo pianist and television personality.
Author : Daniel Mason
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400077710
A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.
Author : Fred Kronacher
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Music teachers
ISBN : 9781481192446
Accomplished pianist and dedicated teacher Fred Kronacher, takes readers on an illuminating tour; from his early experiences at the piano on through a life as music student, Greenwich Village street busker, ballet accompanist, concert pianist, piano teacher, and general music lover. These colorful, affecting stories explore the universal themes of growing up, friendship, romance, tragedy, comedy, and above all, a life-affirming quest for harmony and understanding. It is a book that brings together music, beauty, discipline, humor, loss, and loving service. This charming memoir, comprising twenty-two true stories, leads the reader into the fascinating world of classical music. These tales are by turns amusing, poignant, reflective, dramatic, funny, and profound. Reaching beyond the millions of people who study music, parents with children learning to play, and anyone who has ever had an interest in the piano, Piano Variations is a great read for those among us who simply love music.
Author : Darren Henley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0753520710
Hayley's first performance as 'Little Star' in a Christmas play was perfectly pitched, beautifully sung and enthusiastically received. She was six years old. Now, at the tender age of twenty, she is the fastest-selling debut classical artist ever. Her string of musical accolades is astonishing and her audiences range from royalty to premiers. This is her story, from her first performance, through later roles in major productions such as Annie, La Bohème and The Sound of Music, her decision at the age of eleven to busk for her lunch money, and the subsequent record deals, money, charity work and classical superstardom.
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Publisher : National Museum Wales
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 072000439X
Gathers photographs of battle-scarred towns, soldiers, casualties, prisoners of war, and civilians suffering the effects of wars around the world.
Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007545142
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Piano music
ISBN : 9780887977404
Author : Stewart Pollens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108386482
This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing drawn from historical sources.
Author : Elizabeth C. Axford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810850279
This second edition of Song Sheets to Software includes completely revised and updated listings of music software, instructional media, and music-related Internet Web sites of use to all musicians, whether hobbyist or professional. This book is a particularly valuable resource for the private studio and classroom music teacher.
