Download or read book The Clarinet Polka written by Keith Maillard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Keith Maillard received critical acclaim with his novel Gloria, which told the story of a young woman on the cusp of womanhood in a town called Raysburg, West Virginia. In this book, The Clarinet Polka, Maillard turns that same eagle-eyed attention to the other side of the tracks of that very same town and creates a stunning portrait of Polish America and of one man's struggle to find meaning in his life and roots. The year is 1969, and young Jimmy Koprowski returns from his stint in the airforce to Raysburg, his blue-collar Polish American hometown where nothing much happens beyond working at the steel mill, going to Mass, and getting drunk at the local PAC. Jimmy's efforts at rebuilding his life result in sleeping off hangovers in his parents' attic and drifting into a destructive affair with a married woman. But things change when his younger sister Linda decides to start an all-girl polka band, and Jimmy falls for the band's star clarinetist, Janice, whose young life is haunted by tragic events that happened before she was born. The threads of Jimmy's family life, the legacy of WWII Poland, and the healing power of music, language, and tradition all begin to converge. At once gritty and compassionate, moving and witty, The Clarinet Polka showcases the emotional and perfectly pitched voice of a lost soul finding his way.
Download or read book Gloria written by Keith Maillard and published by Perennial. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her prosperous, high-society family background, popularity, and beauty, Gloria finds herself dissatistfied with her life as she faces her final summer at home during the late 1950s before setting out to conquer the world beyond her horizon.
Download or read book The Phillips Collection of Traditional American Fiddle Tunes Volume 1 written by Stacy Phillips and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously collected from recordings, square and contra dances, fiddle contests, jam sessions and individual fiddlers- this book is meant to provide a snapshot of what American fiddlers were playing and listening to in the latter part of the 20th Century. As the vinyl record format disappears from the marketplace, a great deal of recorded fiddle music will no longer be available. In this book, Stacy Phillips shares the fruits of some timely collecting for all fiddlers to enjoy. Bowings, fingerings, and guitar chords are provided for each melody line.
Download or read book First 50 Songs You Should Play on the Clarinet written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Instrumental Folio). If you've been playing clarinet for a little while, you are probably eager to learn some familiar songs. This book includes a wide variety of favorite songs, from pop hits and movie themes to classical melodies and folk songs, many of which originally featured clarinet! Songs include: Air (Air on the G String) * Baby Elephant Walk * Clarinet Polka * Fight Song * God Bless America * Honeysuckle Rose * I Will Always Love You * Memories of You * Roar * Stand by Me * Uptown Funk * You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me * You've Got a Friend in Me * and more.
Download or read book Palmer Hughes Accordion Course Book 5 written by Bill Hughes and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive method of music instruction enables the beginner to progress to an advanced stage of technical skill.
Download or read book Clarinet Method written by Louis Hittler and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mel Bay Clarinet Method is a step-by-step, easy-to-understand method for teaching clarinet. This method is especially useful for the student wishing to be well versed in all styles of contemporary music. Emphasis is placed on the basicfundamentals of good perfomance. In addition to basic technique, the book features outstanding solo and duet material and fine original technical studies.In the latter stages of the book, the student will progress into the higher register of the clarinet. In addition, new techniques and more advanced key signatures will be presented. Designed to develop superior clarinet students!
Download or read book Swan Lake Suite written by and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morgantown written by Keith Maillard and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dupre, a junior at West Virginia University, is an English major on the Dean's List dressed up as a Beatnik cowboy, the folk-singing resident outsider before nonconformity became a youth uniform. Morgantown is a masterful ensemble piece centering around John and peopled by his unforgettable friends in the out crowd: Bill Cohen, the sharpshooting, knife-throwing Zen Buddhist Harvard scholar; Marge Levine, the political radical with the Nefertiti eyes; and William Revington, the scion of old money who has the world on a platter and can't think of a single thing to do with it. And then theres his girl-friends and sexual obsessions: Carol Rabinowitz, the Wyatt scholar and Jewish American Princess; Natalie, the folk-singing boy-girl with the mind of a scientist; Cassandra Markapolous, whom John loves but is not allowed to be in love with. And, there's the Alice in the photograph, the boy dressed up as a girl dressed up as another girl, on and on endlessly reflecting: a hall of mirrors that threatens to draw John into its vortex.
Download or read book Palmer Hughes Accordion Course Book 1 written by Willard A. Palmer and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive method of music instruction enables the beginner to progress to an advanced stage of technical skill.
Download or read book Dementia Americana written by Keith Maillard and published by Ronsdale Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title implies, Dementia Americana is about the craziness of America. In what he describes as "the most personal writing I have ever done," Keith Maillard meditates upon the implications for private life of the two most bizarre wars of our time: the Gulf War and the Vietnam War. Working within traditional closed forms, but stretching them to their limits, Maillard recreates the effect of the past and the persistence of dream in the public arena.
Download or read book International Accordion Favorites written by Bruce Bollerud and published by Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of international accordion music. This collection contains a sampling of ethnic folk music from Europe and the Americas and forms the foundation of a basic folk accordion repertoire. These songs are from manynations. They are crowd pleasers and they are fun to play. I have played most of these songs in the various bands I have played with over the years. These melodies have stood the test of time, so what are you waiting for? Open the book, get your accordion out and let's play some music! One word about these songs: I generally learn a song and then play it by heart-by memory as opposed to playing it by reading from a sheet of music. I believe this allows for more personal expression and interpretation which can be affected by audience response or the way I feel at the time. You'll notice that on most of the performances on the audio download available onlineI didn't play repeats. Because of the limited time available on a disc we found we couldn't fit all thetunes if we played them as written. Written by Bruce Bollerud, June 2007. Includes access to online audio.
Download or read book Music Makers from Mid Michigan and Surrounding Areas 1940s Thru 1970s written by William R. Holtzapple and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A note from the author: This book for a limited time only is back in print with a 15%% discount. Due to an unbelievable price increase from the Lulu press, I was forced to abandon the print option in favor of the downloaded version. The print increase was over 60.00 per copy which I thought was out of reach for most interested party's. The download is much more reasonable. I am in the process of finding other means of getting it back in print form. Sorry for any inconvenience. Your author William R. Holtzapple.. Book description: A brief look at some of the recording artists and their work from the Mid- Michigan area. Includes label and picture scans of many records.Over 300 color photos and hundreds of black and white band photos. Also interviews and a price guide to some of the more collectible recording artists are included. 1940s-1970s all types of music are covered. Over 200 8.50" x 11.00" pages and over 1/2" thick, color and black and white.
Download or read book Gaddiments written by Steve Gadd and published by Hudson Music. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miscellaneous Percussion Music - Mixed Levels
Download or read book The One from the Other written by Philip Kerr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth mystery in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series, Bernie Gunther—a former policeman and reluctant SS offier—attempts to start over in the aftermath of World War 2 and quickly learns that the past is never far behind you... Berlin, 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat, Germany is a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, and fleeing Nazis. For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become far too dangerous. After being forced to serve in the SS in the killing fields of Ukraine, Bernie has moved to Munich to reestablish himself as a private investigator. Business is slow and his funds are dwindling when a woman hires him to investigate her husband's disappearance. No, she doesn't want him back—he's a war criminal. She merely wants confirmation that he is dead. It's a simple job, but in postwar Germany, nothing is simple—nothing is what it appears to be. Accepting the case, Bernie takes on far more than he'd bargained for, and before long, he is on the run, facing enemies from every side.
Download or read book Experience and Meaning in Music Performance written by Martin Clayton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation? This question lies at the heart of the studies presented in Experience and Meaning in Music Performance, a unique multi-authored work that both draws on and contributes to current debates in a wide range of disciplines, including ethnomusicology, musicology, psychology, and cognitive science. Addressing a wide range of musical practices from Indian raga and Afro-Brazilian Congado rituals to jazz, rock, and Canadian aboriginal fiddling, the coherence of this study is underpinned by its three main themes: experience, meaning, and performance. Central to all of the studies are moments of performance: those junctures when sound and meaning are actually produced. Experience-what people do, and what they feel, while engaging in music-is equally important. And considered alongside these is meaning: what people put into a performance, what they (and others) get out of it, and, more broadly, how discourses shape performances and experiences of music. In tracing trajectories from moments of musical execution, this volume a novel and productive view of how cultural practice relates to the experience and meaning of musical performance. A model of interdisciplinary study, and including access to an array of audio-visual materials available on an extensive companion website, Experience and Meaning in Music Performance is essential reading for scholars and students of ethnomusicology and music psychology.
Download or read book The Beach written by Robert Fedorchek and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beach is Euclid Beach Park, an actual amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio, on the southern shore of Lake Erie with its exciting atmosphere, thrilling rides, and tantalizing smells of fresh popcorn, taffy, and peanuts. But it is the Beachs roller skating rink with its magnificent Gavioli band organ that forms the backdrop of the coming-of-age of two teenagers, Peter Skrak and Penny Hathaway. They are befriended by a worldly coupleHamilton Clifford, a World War II veteran trying to establish himself as an artist, and Ellen Mikkelson, a college professor of French, a woman in the midst of a divorce fighting to find her place in the male-dominated culture of the summer of 1956. While Ellen and Penny develop a mother-daughter-like bond, friction over religion continues between Peters parents, and their lives and his are scarred by his mothers rigid adherence to Catholic teachings. As the teenagers wrestle with confusion over sex and religion, the veteran and the professor grapple with commitment born of love: he, ready to make it; and she, reluctant. They all reach a turning point, though, when Peter is viciously beaten by his high school nemesis after he comes to Pennys defense at the Beachs dance pavilion.
