Download or read book Selected Studies Famous Excerpts written by Harry Alshin and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts and studies for the intermediate to moderately advanced violinist annotated and edited by Harry Alshin. Includes selections from Tartini's The Art of Bowing plus excerpts from the fine solo repertoire with works by Mozart, Khatchaturian, Beethoven, Lalo, Bach and more. The text preceding each study includes reminders concerning positions, intonation and bow division, as well as theory and musicianship excercises, a glossary and blank music staves.
Download or read book Selected studies famous excerpts written by Harry A. Alshin and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts and studies for the intermediate to moderately advanced violinist annotated and edited by Harry Alshin. Includes selections from Tartini's The Art of Bowing plus excerpts from the fine solo repertoire with works by Mozart, Khatchaturian, Beethoven, Lalo, Bach and more. The text preceding each study includes reminders concerning positions, intonation and bow division, as well as theory and musicianship excercises, a glossary and blank music staves.
Download or read book The New Yale Book of Quotations written by Fred R. Shapiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “A quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves.”—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World (on the original edition) Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead. This book’s quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
Download or read book A Survey of Etudes to Supplement the Study of Orchestral Excerpts written by Brandon Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE The study of orchestral excerpts is an important component in the undergraduate musician's education. Excerpts create an efficient path into the evaluation of a student's fundamental abilities, making them ideal assessment tools for auditions. Professional orchestras will use the performance of orchestral excerpts as the majority of a player's assessment. Non-performance students are often placed into academic ensembles based on similar criteria. These excerpts allow for practical adjudication of objective musical standards, such as technical facility, intonation, dynamic range, and articulation. Students often approach excerpts early in their undergraduate education, well before they are fundamentally capable of performing them at a professional level. This often leads to the development of inefficient and unproductive playing habits, which become psychologically and physically ingrained into the student's performance of the excerpt. Even with proper development of fundamental habits away from the study of a specific orchestral excerpt, a student may retain inefficient habits. This will ultimately inhibit a student's progress. There are several composers who seek to solve this issue by writing etudes or exercises that incorporate musical material from orchestral excerpts. These types of etudes are effective at introducing a student to excerpts in a familiar, yet unintimidating context. These etudes are often in the same key as the original excerpts, and will often begin as identical to the excerpt itself before metamorphosing into new compositional material. These etudes have pedagogical value, but don't specifically address any individual underlying fundamental that is required to perform an excerpt. For example, Ben McMillan's 15 Orchestral Etudes for Contrabass Tuba uses the key of B major in his excerpt for Ride of the Valkyries. Playing in the key of B major is one challenge of that excerpt, but the difficulty obfuscates the ability of the player to address rhythm more directly. Tim Olt's book Preparatory Studies for Orchestral Excerpts is an excellent resource in that excerpts are reduced to fundamental fragments. These fragments are simplified and often re-written to be more difficult than the excerpt itself. For example, in the series of exercises written for Berlioz's Hungarian March, the exercises that follow are arpeggiated studies that progress through all of the twelve key centers. Later exercises begin to resemble the excerpt, but do not create the necessary musical environment for the proper habit to become ingrained in the student's behavior. These are excellent materials, but they lack the musical impetus needed to engage a student's interest long enough to correctly address fundamental deficiencies. There is currently no formal etude-based curriculum in the tuba pedagogy for helping a student in the preparation of orchestral excerpts. Despite this, the breadth of published etudes that exist is sufficient to provide a baseline of material that will effectively address objective fundamentals in each excerpt. Etudes offer students musical environments where they can experiment with their own fundamental problems within the context of a larger musical idea. If a student can address the requisite fundamental challenges of excerpt playing through etudes, they should have more success when finally introduced to the excerpts. I believe there is a need for an etude-based curriculum that focuses on the study of orchestral excerpts, and I hope it will serve as a resource for teachers and students alike. PURPOSE The purpose of this research is to create a curriculum that is capable of guiding an undergraduate tuba student through the specific fundamental requirements of the ten most popular excerpts without direct exposure to the written part. The fundamentals of each excerpt will be categorized into challenges or fundamentals that the student will have to master to play the excerpt competently. Such skills could include the following categories: articulation, range, intonation, style, sound, and so on. Each of these fundamental categories will be aligned with an etude that best addresses that particular fundamental challenge within the student's playing. There may be additional recommendations such as octave displacement, rhythmic alterations, or stylistic alterations of an etude to further address the fundamental; this will only occur in situations where a minor alteration will dramatically improve the etude's ability to address an underlying fundamental or challenge of the excerpt. My goal is to eventually publish a formal curriculum that can aid teachers and better prepare their students for orchestral excerpt performance and study. The study of etudes is mainstream in the world of tuba pedagogy, and this curriculum can serve to categorize lesser known etudes as effective tools for fundamental improvement. The study of etudes is often done within the context of smaller collections of books, with the teacher using etudes familiar to them to address the student's fundamental abilities. This curriculum will help to identify lesser known etudes that offer a new perspectives to the experienced teacher or developing student. SURVEY OF LITERATURE There are a number of standard etude books that are almost universally employed in studios around the country. These etude books include composers such as: Tyrell, Blahzevich, Bordogni, Grigoriev, Snedecor, Concone, Kopprasch, and so on. Beyond this, there are less frequently used books by composers such as: Paudert, Vasiliev, Beauregard, Bitsch, and so on. The literature will not be categorically limited in any way, with the only requirement being that the etude book has been professionally published. METHOD My research method will consist of identifying the specific fundamental components in each of the listed excerpts. After that, I will look through the existing tuba etude literature in search of etudes that represent targeted fundamental challenges in those specific components. My goal is to use a wide spectrum of etude books that include both traditional and contemporary sources. I will then connect each of the fundamentals addressed in the excerpt to an etude that directly addresses this facet of playing. In some cases, it may be necessary to make minor alterations to produce maximum benefit. In the case of insufficient material, extra demands may be placed on the etude to make the connection. However, the primary goal is to find existing etude material that meets the requirement. LIMITS This curriculum is not going to address fundamental challenges that can be solved with tools like the metronome or drone. The use of these tools is assumed, but may not always be referenced or suggested in the pedagogical contents of individual excerpts. Similarly, the study of musical scores or referencing of musical recordings is an assumed part of a student's study of orchestral excerpts, even if it is omitted from the pedagogical content of individual excerpts. The challenges presented are chosen from my own pedagogical and performance experience, and are certainly not the only challenges to be found within the excerpts. Each of the fundamentals challenges listed have several etudes that could be used to address the playing skill of a student. This pedagogical content uses one etude to address the fundamental skill as a matter of concision. Finally, this curriculum is intended to for the purpose of supplementing a daily fundamentals routine, and assumes as much in its construction.
Download or read book Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature History and Culture written by Professor Charles J Rzepka and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered together for the first time, the essays in this volume were selected to give scholars ready access to important late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century contributions to scholarship on the Romantic period and twentieth-century literature and culture. Included are Charles J. Rzepka's award-winning essays on Keats's 'Chapman's Homer' sonnet and Wordsworth's 'Michael' and his critical intervention into anachronistic new historicist readings of the circumstances surrounding the composition of "Tintern Abbey." Other Romantic period essays provide innovative interpretations of De Quincey's relation to theatre and the anti-slavery movement. Genre is highlighted in Rzepka's exploration of race and region in Charlie Chan, while his interdisciplinary essay on The Wizard of Oz and the New Woman takes the reader on a journey that encompasses the Oz of L. Frank Baum and Victor Fleming as well as the professional lives of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. Taken together, the essays provide not only a career retrospective of an influential scholar and teacher but also a map of the innovations and controversies that have influenced literary studies from the early 1980s to the present. As Peter Manning observes in his foreword, "this collection shows that even in diverse essays the force of a curious and disciplined mind makes itself felt."
Download or read book Selected Studies in Modern Arabic Narrative written by Roger Allen and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Western scholar has contributed as much to the study of modern Arabic narrative as has Roger Allen. His doctoral dissertation was the very first Oxford D.Phil. in modern Arabic literature, completed in 1968 under the supervision of Mustafa Badawi. That same year, he took a position in Arabic language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, the oldest professorial post in Arabic in the United States. Roger Allen has been phenomenally prolific: fifty books and translations, two hundred articles and counting-on Arabic language pedagogy, on translation, on Arabic literary history, criticism and literature. He is also one of the most decorated and acclaimed translators of Arabic literature. The present volume brings together sixteen of Roger Allen's articles on modern Arabic narrative, with a focus on genre, translation and literary history, and features analyses of the works of Rashid Abu Jadrah, Bensalem Himmich, Yusuf Idris, Naguib Mahfouz, and Tayeb Salih.
Download or read book Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures written by Hülya Çelik and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The examination of literary genres in the Middle East opens the possibility of gaining new insights into the intellectual universe of Middle Eastern societies, the question of production of meaning, what “literature” meant in different historical periods, and the underlying epistemology of producing knowledge, and how this epistemology has changed over time. This book comprises 12 case studies from the three major Middle Eastern languages – Arabic, Persian, and Turkish – written by experts in the field. It brings together a wide range of approaches – from the study of epics to an analysis of travelogues, and from classical poetry to novels. Instead of focusing on one period or juxtaposing the classical genres and the West-induced development of “modern genres,” the studies in their totality apply a broad diachronic and synchronic perspective, with the potential to create a comparative framework for the study of the sociocultural and narratological dimensions of genre in the Middle East.
Download or read book Passages written by Gail Sheehy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to better navigate the challenges of adult life with Gail Sheehy’s landmark bestseller—named one of the ten most influential books of our times by the Library of Congress. For decades, Gail Sheehy’s Passages has been inspiring readers to see the predictable crises of adult life as opportunities for growth. She charts the stages between 18 and 50 as unfolding in a pattern of adult development: once recognized, more easily managed. Passages is an insightful road map of adulthood that illustrates with vivid stories our continuing personality and sexual changes throughout the “Trying 20s,” “Catch 30s,” “Forlorn 40s,” and “Refreshed (or Resigned) 50s.” One comment is continuously repeated by men, women, singles, couples, and people who recover from a midlife crisis: “This book changed my life.”
Download or read book Whole Novels for the Whole Class written by Ariel Sacks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work with students at all levels to help them read novels Whole Novels is a practical, field-tested guide to implementing a student-centered literature program that promotes critical thinking and literary understanding through the study of novels with middle school students. Rather than using novels simply to teach basic literacy skills and comprehension strategies, Whole Novels approaches literature as art. The book is fully aligned with the Common Core ELA Standards and offers tips for implementing whole novels in various contexts, including suggestions for teachers interested in trying out small steps in their classrooms first. Includes a powerful method for teaching literature, writing, and critical thinking to middle school students Shows how to use the Whole Novels approach in conjunction with other programs Includes video clips of the author using the techniques in her own classroom This resource will help teachers work with students of varying abilities in reading whole novels.
Download or read book Reading Teams Gr 4 8 written by and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man s Search For Meaning written by Viktor E Frankl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.
Download or read book Selected Studies Physics astrophysics Mathematics History of Science written by Themistocles M. Rassias and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1982 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book of African American Quotations written by Joslyn Pine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection cites approximately 100 well-known African Americans from all walks of life. Twentieth-century notables include Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, and Ralph Ellison, in addition to earlier figures such as George Washington Carver and Frederick Douglass, plus anonymous sources. Arranged alphabetically by author, the quotations cover a wide variety of subjects.
Download or read book Reading Reconsidered written by Doug Lemov and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO READ WITH PRECISION AND INSIGHT The world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases. Our students learn their literature, history, math, science, or art via a firm foundation of strong reading skills. When we teach students to read with precision, rigor, and insight, we are truly handing over the key to the kingdom. Of all the subjects we teach reading is first among equals. Grounded in advice from effective classrooms nationwide, enhanced with more than 40 video clips, Reading Reconsidered takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real-life educators and instructional champions. The authors address the anxiety-inducing world of Common Core State Standards, distilling from those standards four key ideas that help hone teaching practices both generally and in preparation for assessments. This 'Core of the Core' comprises the first half of the book and instructs educators on how to teach students to: read harder texts, 'closely read' texts rigorously and intentionally, read nonfiction more effectively, and write more effectively in direct response to texts. The second half of Reading Reconsidered reinforces these principles, coupling them with the 'fundamentals' of reading instruction—a host of techniques and subject specific tools to reconsider how teachers approach such essential topics as vocabulary, interactive reading, and student autonomy. Reading Reconsidered breaks an overly broad issue into clear, easy-to-implement approaches. Filled with practical tools, including: 44 video clips of exemplar teachers demonstrating the techniques and principles in their classrooms (note: for online access of this content, please visit my.teachlikeachampion.com) Recommended book lists Downloadable tips and templates on key topics like reading nonfiction, vocabulary instruction, and literary terms and definitions. Reading Reconsidered provides the framework necessary for teachers to ensure that students forge futures as lifelong readers.
Download or read book Wild Swans written by Jung Chang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Download or read book Educated written by Tara Westover and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. “Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—Vogue NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsday • New York Post • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • LibraryReads • Book Riot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library
Download or read book The Righteous Mind written by Jonathan Haidt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike—a “landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself” (The New York Times Book Review). Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns. In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you’re ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.
