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  • 30 Orchestral Themes for Classical Guitar

    by T. Douglas Bush ...
    This volume contains thirty well-known themes drawn from symphonies, operas, ballets, and suites composed during the late 18th through early 20th centuries by such masters as Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev. These themes have been tastefully arranged from short excerpts to complete orchestral movements to take full advantage of the classical guitar’s unique musical and expressive ... Read more

    $25.36 CAD

  • The Renaissance and English Humanism

    by Douglas Bush ...
    Series series Alexander Lectures
    The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent evaluation of the influence of the Christian humanistic tradition upon our culture it has not been surpassed. The study is divided into four parts: in the first, Professor Bush discusses modern theories of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • 30 Orchestral Themes for Classical Guitar

    by T. Douglas Bush ...
    This volume contains thirty well-known themes drawn from symphonies, operas, ballets, and suites composed during the late 18th through early 20th centuries by such masters as Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev. These themes have been tastefully arranged from short excerpts to complete orchestral movements to take full advantage of the classical guitar’s unique musical and expressive ... Read more

    $25.36 CAD

  • 30 Baroque Pieces by Christoph Graupner

    Arranged for Classical Guitar

    by T. Douglas Bush ...
    This collection of 30 classical guitar transcriptions of works by Christoph Graupner highlights this forgotten master’s unique contributions to Baroque music. Originally composed for cembalo (harpsichord), these delightful French dances may remind you of Bach and Scarlatti, two of Graupner’s better-known contemporaries.This book contains a brief biography of the composer, performance notes, and ... Read more

    $25.36 CAD

  • The Organ

    An Encyclopedia

    Edited by Douglas Bush, Richard Kassel ...
    The Encyclopedia of Organ includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete A-Z reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • The Portable Milton

    by John Milton ...
    Series series Portable Library
    The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Historic Speeches of the Twentieth Century

    Narrated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Douglas MacArthur, George Bush ...

    Unabridged

    38 min

    A collection of the most famous historic speeches from the twentieth century, including Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration of war against Japan and Geoge Bush's Bombing of Iraq Speech.Chapters1. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Declaration of War Against Japan (Dec 8, 1941)2. Douglas MacArthur - Address to Congress (Apr 20, 1951)3. Radio Moscow - Launch of Sputnik (Oct 5, 1957)4. Adlai Stevenson - ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Classical Music Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions in The Classical Music Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Classic Music in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Reading Like a Writer

    A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

    by Francine Prose ...
    A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read—and writeLong before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.As she takes us on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters—Dostoyevsky, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

    The Learned Musician

    by Christoph Wolff ...
    Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age.Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Cello Suites

    J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

    by Eric Siblin ...
    An award-winning journey through Johann Sebastian Bach's six cello suites and the brilliant musician who revealed their lasting genius.One fateful evening, journalist and pop-music critic Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites—an experience that set him on an epic quest to uncover the mysterious history of the entrancing compositions and their miraculous reemergence ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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