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The fifth installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno.
In this exclusive eBook, St. Denis is experiencing its coldest winter in years—bringing the promise of snow and shared chocolats chauds in the village’s cafés—and Bruno is occupied with his Christmastime duties. From organizing carolers to playing Father Christmas
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
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With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold. Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as pithy introductions to the greatest operas of Europe and America and their composers. The book's centerpiece is what Goulding terms "the collection"—85...
7) Music essentials for singers and actors: fundamentals of notation, sight singing, and music theory
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Hal Leonard Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Singers and actors who can learn music quickly and accurately have an enormous advantage in today's increasingly competitive field. Award-winning composer and music director Andrew Gerle has written a music theory text especially for singers, focused exclusively on topics and techniques that will help them in the rehearsal room and on stage. Gerle leads readers step by step through every aspect of written music, using over one hundred real-world examples...
8) A Night at the Opera: an irreverant guide to the plots, the singers, the composers, the recordings
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Random House
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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Scribner
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©2014.
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English
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Recounts the life and achievements of the lead singer of the Staple Singers, revealing how her family fused diverse musical genres to transcend racism and oppression through song, and discussing her collaborations with fellow artists and her impact on civil rights culture.
11) I sing to use the waiting: a collection of essays about the women singers who've made me who I am
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Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"With remarkable grace, candor, and a poets ear for prose, Zachary Pace recounts the women singers--from Cat Power to Madonna, Kim Gordon to Rihanna--who shaped them as a young person coming-of-age in rural New York, first discovering their own queer voice. Structured like a mixtape, Pace juxtaposes their coming out with the music that informed them along the way."--
14) Mavis!
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Film First Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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An award-winning documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers. From the freedom songs of the '60s and hits like "I'll Take You There" in the '70s, to funked-up collaborations with Prince and her recent albums with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Mavis has stayed true to her roots, kept her family close, and inspired millions along the way. Audience Award Winner at **Hot Docs Documentary...
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Peter Frumkin Productions
Pub. Date
p2007
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English
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Written by Woody Guthrie in 1940, "This land is your land" is one of the United States' most famous songs. Its Oklahoma-born author, Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie, was a complex, multi-talented man whose songs would come to exemplify that strain of American music. Yet his life was a tangle of unresolved contradictions: an indifferent guitar player yet an accomplished musician; three times married, but a perennially unfaithful husband; distant or...
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Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A unique tribute to often overlooked women who have left an indelible mark on Gospel Music--powerful talents who overcame racism and sexism to define the genre, establish its sound, and set the standard for good sangin' for generations."--Amazon.
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition of supernatural horror, the shadowy nights of winter have been a time for people to gather together by the flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a spooky tale. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors--all of them master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre--bring the tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding new collection of original spine-tingling...
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