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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is publishing a monthly series of e-only essays to correspond with Katherine Paterson's two-year term as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. The subjects of the essays include: writing and literature for young people, the wonder and imagination found within great books, common questions novice writers ask, and Katherine's own personal experiences throughout her historic career.
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Perspective is key to making your artworks look convincing and three-dimensional, yet it can be a daunting prospect for artists. This handy guide sets out the rules of perspective clearly and simply, using demonstrations and step-by-step exercises. You will learn how the same perspective rules underpin compositions of all types, from panoramic landscapes to urban scenes, interiors, simple objects and human figures.
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Find out how you can create interesting stories based on your real-life experiences. Offers tips on writing personal narratives, with advice on choosing a topic, planning the story, writing the opening, body, and ending, and checking for spelling and grammar mistakes.
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"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt."--
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"Unlock your songwriting potential with "Melodic Fragments"! This ebook is packed with 500 unique and inspiring 4-bar musical phrases, spanning genres from pop and rock to jazz and blues. These phrases are designed to spark creativity and provide a foundation for musicians of all levels to build upon. Whether you're a seasoned songwriter or just starting out, "Melodic Fragments" is a must-have resource for any musician looking to add fresh ideas to...
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Holiday hijinks abound in this very merry Christmas story about three siblings who can't resist sneaking a peek under the tree before it's time, for fans of How to Catch Santa and 5 More Sleeps.
Everyone knows there's no peeking at presents before Christmas morning. But what if there's a very, very good reason to take a look? It's Christmas Eve and the three kids in this story are trying their best to go to sleep, but something keeps waking them...
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A master violinist trained in Vienna, Rebekah Carrington manages to wheedle her way into an audition with the newly formed Nashville Philharmonic. But women are "far too fragile and frail" for the rigors of an orchestra, and Rebekah's hopes are dashed because the conductor bows to public opinion. Nationally acclaimed conductor Nathaniel Tate Whitcomb is Nashville's new orchestra leader, and despite a strange buzzing and recurring pain in his head,...
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This book is the result of a lifelong love of music and an obsession with patterns. The authors have for many years been exploring methods to find, create, describe and analyze patterns. They wrote this book to show how some of these methods can be used to generate rhythms. The methods can produce an almost endless variety of new rhythms along with popular traditional ones. For a lover of music what could be more wonderful than that?
The study of...
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This is Volume II of the improved 2nd edition.
There are 6 volumes in all comprising some 900 composers and 40,000 compositions.
Included is the founding and demise of music ensembles, institutions, venues and festivals.
With musicians, performers, conductors, entrepreneurs, educators, administrators, instrument makers, musicologists, music critics and philanthropists part of the broad narrative.
Touring artists in Australia are admitted at the...
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Chord Chemistry is the ultimate guide to understanding chords and unlocking the secrets of harmony. This comprehensive book provides a deep dive into the theory and structure of different types of chords, including major and minor chords, augmented and diminished chords, suspended chords, dominant chords, and chord inversions. With this knowledge, you can unlock your creativity and transform your music.Whether you're a beginner or an experienced musician,...
12) Musical Form
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Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909), was an English musical theorist, writer, teacher and composer, whose instruction, afterwards embodied in a series of standard works, underpinned the work of many British musicians of succeeding generations. 'Musical Form' was written in 1893 and is almost entirely practical, and points of theory are hardly touched upon.
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The Celebrity Word Scramble Music Edition is a word puzzle game based on the concept of an anagram, where you need to re-organize the letters to recreate a word. The Celebrity Word Scramble Music series utilizes names of different performers, ranging from pop music icons, for example, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley to current artists like Taylor Swift. Each puzzle page has several five or six letter words, circled letters in each word helps you...
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El libro está dirigido a músicos estudiantes y profesionales que deseen, en su práctica de conjuntos instrumentales, abordar repertorio colombiano en formato de ensamble de saxofones; además de servir como herramienta didáctica para docentes en la clase colectiva.
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This book is meant to assist teachers who wish to introduce their students to creative composition but have limited lesson time available and feel the need for some direction in starting and continuing the process successfully. The process involves devoting as little as five minutes of lesson time to composition, but at every lesson over a period of, for example, six to eight weeks. Suggestions in the concise Lesson Plans help bring about gradual...
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In Songwriting For Geniuses, singer/songwriter Gene Burnett offers 25 tips to aspiring songwriters for writing better, more satisfying songs. The author's contention is that within each of us is a place that knows when a song works and when it does not. This place of knowing is called many things: intuition, spirit, the unconscious. Burnett calls it your "genius," and it is to this inner genius that this book is addressed. A song that works, claims...
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Retratos en tango es la primera parte de una compilación original y contemporánea de poemas, letras, músicas y arreglos para piano.
El lector en este libro se encontrará con partituras de tangos, valses y milongas, acompañadas de ilustraciones que reflejan la esencia estética y poética de las obras.
Además de las letras, este libro incluye las melodías con su armonía en cifrado americano y las transcripciones de los arreglos de acompañamiento...
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Creating Melodies is a companion to the book Creating Rhythms. The book will show you how to explore the infinite space of melodies. Like the rhythms book, it comes with software that you can download. With the software, you can generate countless new melodies and variations on old ones. Combine those melodies with rhythms from the rhythms book and you have an endless source of inspiration for new music. You can listen to the many example melodies...
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"A Composer's Guide to Creating Music for Films." by award-winning composer and author, David Berlin offers a unique and in-depth look at the process of composing music for films, from the initial inspiration to the final score. Drawing on experience in the film industry, the book covers everything from working with directors and producers to understanding the role of music in storytelling, to the technical aspects of composing, recording, and mixing....
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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric was the definitive guide to the use of rhetorical devices in English. It became a best-seller in its field, with over 20,000 copies in print. Here now is the natural sequel, Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor-the most entertaining and instructive book ever written about the art of comparison. A metaphor compares two things that seem unalike. Lincoln was a master of the art (A house divided against itself...
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