Classics Alive!, Book 3


Book Description

This book offers teachers and students a wide selection of literature to help pace musical and technical development evenly and with ease. The book presents appropriate teaching literature by 14 composers who wrote inspirationally for the intermediate student. The pieces in this book are primarily from Levels 7 and 8, according to Jane Magrath’s The Pianist’s Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature. Titles include: Prelude in D Minor, BWV 926 (J. S. Bach) *Prelude in D Minor, BWV 940 (J. S. Bach) *Sonata in F Major, K. 78 (Scarlatti) *Sonata in G Major, K. 391 (Scarlatti) *Sonata in C Major, K. 309 (Scarlatti) *Sonata in A Minor, K. 149 (Scarlatti) *Viennese Sonatina No. 1 in C Major (1st movement) (Mozart) *Viennese Sonatina No. 2 in A Major (1st movement) (Mozart) *Viennese Sonatina No. 6 in C Major (1st and 3rd movements) (Mozart) * Sonatina in G Major, Hob. XVI: 8 (1st movement) (Haydn) *Sonatina in F Major, Hob. XVI: 9 (1st movement) (Haydn) *Sonatina in C Major, Hob. XVI: 10 (1st movement) (Haydn) *Bagatelle in G Minor, Op. 119, No. 1 (Beethoven) *Bagatelle in D Major, Op. 119, No. 3 (Beethoven) * Bagatelle in A Minor, Op. 119, No. 9 (Beethoven) *German Dance in D Major, D. 783, No. 2 (Schubert) *Waltz in B Minor, D. 145, No. 6 (Schubert) *Waltz in A-flat Major, D. 365, No. 2 (Schubert) *Two Ecossaises, D. 421, Nos. 1 and 2 (Schubert) *Album leaf in F-sharp Minor, Op. 99, No. 4 (Schumann) *From Foreign Lands and Places, Op. 15, No. 1 (Schumann) *Mignon, Op. 68, No. 35 (Schumann) *Important Event, Op. 15, No. 6 (Schumann) *Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7 (Chopin) *Mazurka in F Major, Op. 68, No. 3 (Chopin) *Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 67, No. 2 (Chopin) *Mazurka in G Major, Op. Post (Chopin) *Mazurka in B-flat Major, Op. Post (Chopin) *Song of the Cowherd, Op. 17, No. 22 (Grieg) *Waltz, Op. 38, No. 7 (Grieg) *Norwegian Melody, Op. 12, No. 6 (Grieg) *The Little Shepherd (Debussy) *Album Leaf (Debussy) *Braul (Bartok) *Buciumeana (Bartok) *The Farewell, Op. 21, No. 3 (Borkiewicz) *Venice, Op. 21, No. 7 (Borkiewicz) *Pierrot's Serenade (Martinu) *Columbine Remembers (Martinu) *Prelude (Fragment) (Gershwin) *Merry Andrew (Gershwin) *Promenade (Walking the Dog) (Gershwin).




Classics Alive, Bk 1


Book Description

Classics Alive Book 1 offers teachers and students a wide selection of literature to help pace musical and technical development evenly and with ease. The book presents 72 pieces of standard teaching literature by 12 composers----familiar and not so familiar---who wrote exceptionally well for the late-elementary/early-intermediate student. Studying these works will give students a solid foundation in the best literature available at their level, and will prepare them to proceed to more advanced music. The pieces are easy to learn, rewarding to play and sound great!




Latin Alive! Book 1


Book Description

The Latin Alive! Book One: Teacher's Edition includes a complete copy of the student text, as well as answer keys, extra teacher's notes and explanations, unit tests, and bonus projects and activities.




Classics Alive!, Bk. 2


Book Description

This collection presents appropriate teaching literature by 13 composers who wrote exceptionally well for the intermediate student. The wide selection of repertoire included can help students pace their musical and technical development evenly and with ease. In addition, they will receive a solid foundation in the best literature available at their level, and will be prepared to proceed to more advanced music.




Classics Alive!, Book 1


Book Description

Classics Alive Book 1 offers teachers and students a wide selection of literature to help pace musical and technical development evenly and with ease. The book presents 72 pieces of standard teaching literature by 12 composers----familiar and not so familiar---who wrote exceptionally well for the late-elementary/early-intermediate student. Studying these works will give students a solid foundation in the best literature available at their level, and will prepare them to proceed to more advanced music. The pieces are easy to learn, rewarding to play and sound great!




The Expendable Man


Book Description

“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.




Classics for the Developing Pianist, Book 3


Book Description

The five books in this series present 100 masterworks ranging from early-intermediate through advanced level that the editors believe developing pianists should study and perform. Each book contains 20 pieces selected from the four main style periods as well as additional suggestions for repertoire from the 20th century. Book 3 contains selections for late-intermediate pianists. Titles: *About Foreign Lands and People, Op. 15, No. 1 (Schumann) *Bagatelle in G Minor, Op. 119, No. 1 (Beethoven) *Bagatelle, Op. 5, No. 1 (Tcherepnin) *Bagatelle, Op. 5, No. 10 (Tcherepnin) *Für Elise, WoO 59 (Beethoven) *Gavotte (from French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816) (J. S. Bach) *Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 784 (J. S. Bach) *Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779 (J. S. Bach) *Knecht Ruprecht, Op. 68, No. 12 (Schumann) *Le petit nègre (Debussy) *Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 67, No. 2, Posth. (Chopin) *Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 (J. S. Bach) *Sonata in C Major, K. 159; L. 104 (D. Scarlatti) *Sonata in C Major, K. 545 (I) (W. A. Mozart) *Sonata in G Major, Hob. XVI/27 (III) (Haydn) *Sonatina in F Major, Op. 151, No. 3 (I) (Diabelli) *Song without Words ("Consolation"), Op. 30, No. 3 (Mendelssohn) *Valse poético no. 3 (Granados) *Valse poético no. 4 (Granados) *Waltz in A Minor, Op. Posth. (Chopin) "This book provides great editing for familiar pieces that most of us teach." - Jean Ritter, Progressions




Ways of Being Alive


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The ecological crisis is a very real crisis for the many species that face extinction, but it is also a crisis of sensibility – that is, a crisis in our relationships with other living beings. We have grown accustomed to treating other living beings as the material backdrop for the drama of human life: the animal world is regarded as part of ‘nature’, juxtaposed to the world of human beings who pursue their aims independently of other species. Baptiste Morizot argues that the time has come for us to jettison this nature─human dualism and rethink our relationships with other living beings. Animals are not part of a separate, natural world: they are cohabitants of the Earth, with whom we share a common ancestry, the enigma of being alive and the responsibility of living decent lives together. By accepting our identity as living beings and reconnecting with our own animal nature, we can begin to change our relationships with other animals, seeing them not as inferior lifeforms but as living creatures who have different ways of being alive. This powerful plea for a new understanding of our relationships with other animals will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the ecological crisis and the future of different species, including our own.




Not Quite the Classics


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The improv star of Whose Line Is It Anyway? puts his “unique comic vision” to work on a range of literary classics (Toronto Star). Based on the improv game First Line, Last Line, actor and comedian Colin Mochrie puts his own spin on works of classic literature. Taking the first line and last line from classic books and poems, Colin recasts these familiar stories in his own trademark offbeat style. Join in the fun as a rainy day at home becomes a zombie-killing adventure in The Cat and My Dad . . . as well as riffs on everything from A Tale of Two Cities to a classic Sherlock Holmes novel, proving that no literary masterpiece is too big, or too small, for the improvisational comedy treatment. “Colin Mochrie is a comedic and creative force to be reckoned with. Therefore, this book is a literary force to be reckoned with. If you are too lazy for reckoning, just read this book and everything will work out nicely.” —Brad Sherwood “Colin Mochrie is devastatingly handsome, perilously smart, and smells like warm maple syrup. Step inside his hilarious and complex mind, and abandon all hope.” —Aisha Tyler




Reveille in Washington


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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Featuring a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPherson A vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is “packed and running over with the anecdotes, scandals, personalities, and tragi-comedies of the day”—from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for History (The New Yorker) 1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, colored by patriotism and treason, and deeply divided along the political lines that will soon embroil the nation in bloody conflict. Chaotic and corrupt, the young city is populated by bellicose congressmen, Confederate conspirators, and enterprising prostitutes. Soldiers of a volunteer army swing from the dome of the Capitol, assassins stalk the avenues, and Abraham Lincoln struggles to justify his presidency as the Union heads to war. Reveille in Washington focuses on the everyday politics and preoccupations of Washington during the Civil War. From the stench of corpse-littered streets to the plunging lace on Mary Lincoln’s evening gowns, Margaret Leech illuminates the city and its familiar figures—among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, William Seward, and Mary Surratt—in intimate and fascinating detail. Leech’s book remains widely recognized as both an impressive feat of scholarship and an uncommonly engrossing work of history. “The best single popular account of Washington during the great convulsion of the Civil War.” —The Washington Post