Mia's Jolly Jungle Jive

Mia's Jolly Jungle Jive
Author: Hinkler Books Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Jungle animals
ISBN: 9781741850390

Engaging stories featuring interactive moveable eyes that you can easily control with your fingers to bring the adventures to life.

The Mayaguez Crisis, Mission Command, and Civil-military Relations

The Mayaguez Crisis, Mission Command, and Civil-military Relations
Author: Christopher Jon Lamb
Publisher: Office of Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780160945038

Preface -- Abbreviations -- Key figures in the Mayaguez Crisis -- Introduction -- Day one: Monday, May 12 -- Day two: Tuesday, May 13 -- Day three: Wednesday, May 14 -- Day four: Thursday, May 15 -- Critical crisis decisions -- Explaining decisions, behaviors and outcomes -- Refining the explanation: rationality, bureaucracy and beliefs -- Findings, issues, prescriptions -- Conclusion.

The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical

The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical
Author: Raymond Knapp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2011-11-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199874727

The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today. Each essay traces the genealogy of the term or issue it addresses, including related issues and controversies, positions and problematizes those issues within larger bodies of scholarship, and provides specific examples drawn from shows and films. Essays both re-examine traditional topics and introduce underexplored areas. Reflecting the concerns of scholars and students alike, the authors emphasize critical and accessible perspectives, and supplement theory with concrete examples that may be accessed through links to the handbook's website. Taking into account issues of composition, performance, and reception, the book's contributors bring a wide range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of one of America's most lively, enduring artistic traditions. The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical will engage all readers interested in the form, from students to scholars to fans and aficionados, as it analyses the complex relationships among the creators, performers, and audiences who sustain the genre.

Best of S. J. Perelman

Best of S. J. Perelman
Author: S. J. Perelman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781974296231

In any consideration of S. J. Perelman-and S. J. Perelman certainly deserves the same consideration one accords old ladies on street cars, babies traveling unescorted on planes, and the feeble-minded generally-it is important to remember the crushing, the well-nigh intolerable odds under which the man has struggled to produce what may well be, in the verdict of history, the most picayune prose ever produced in America. Denied every advantage, beset and plagued by ill fortune and a disposition so crabbed as to make Alexander Pope and Dr. Johnson seem sunny by contrast, he has nevertheless managed to belt out a series of books each less distinguished than its predecessor, each a milestone of bombast, conceit, pedantry, and strutting pomposity. In his pages proliferate all the weird grammatical flora tabulated by H. W. Fowler in his Modem English Usage-the Elegant Variation, the Facetious Zeugma, the Cast-iron Idiom, the Battered Ornament, the BowerVBird Phrase, the Sturdy Indefensible, the Side-Slip, and the Unequal Yokefellow. His work is a museum of mediocrity, a monument to the truly banal. What Flaubert did to the French bourgeois in Bouvard and Pecuchet, what Pizarro did to the Incas, what Jack Dempsey did to Paolino Uzcudun, S. J. Perelman has done to American belles-lettres.

Chord Progressions for Songwriters

Chord Progressions for Songwriters
Author: Richard J. Scott
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Chords (Music)
ISBN: 0595263844

Each chapter of Chord Progressions For Songwriters provides a comprehensive self-contained lesson on one of twenty-one popular chord progressions that every songwriter should know inside and out. Lessons cover ascending, basic (I-IV), blues, circle (VI-II-V-I), classic rock (I-bVII-IV), combination, descending, doo-wop (I-VIm-IV-V), ending, flamenco (Im-bVII-bVI-V), folk (I-V), introduction, jazz (IIm-V-I), minor blues, one-chord, pedal point, rock and roll (I-IV-V), standard (I-VIm-IIm-V), and turnaround progressions as well as rhythm and Coltrane changes. You will learn how key, duration, substitution, variation (adding or subtracting chords), and displacement (rearranged chord orders) are used to vary the sound of each progression. You will also take a look at the author’s songwriter’s notebook and work through exercises to reinforce key chapter concepts and get you started building your own progressions.

Piano Lessons Book 3 Edition (Music Instruction)

Piano Lessons Book 3 Edition (Music Instruction)
Author: Fred Kern
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 97
Release: 1996-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476828598

(Educational Piano Library). Unit 1 of Book 3 begins by introducing eighth notes in 4/4 and 2/4 time. Swing eighths are also presented in the first half of the book. Folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary selections provide students with an interesting variety of repertoire. The second half of Book 3 , teaches relative and parallel major/minor five-finger patterns, and students learn to improvise their own songs using these basic patterns.

Hindu Music from Various Authors

Hindu Music from Various Authors
Author: Sourindro Mohum Tagore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-06-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108064000

An 1875 compilation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English writings on Indian music by noted orientalists, including Sir William Jones.

Ultimate Ukulele Songbook

Ultimate Ukulele Songbook
Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480385506

(Ukulele). You'll get a lot of bang for your buck with this collection of nearly 60 contemporary classics arranged for ukulele in a variety of formats. Whether you prefer tab transcriptions, easy arrangements, chords-only, etc., you'll find something you like in this unique songbook. Songs include: American Pie * Blackbird * Brain Damage * Crazy * Cups (When I'm Gone) * Daughter * Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Duelin' Banjos * Dust My Broom * Hallelujah * Happy Birthday to You * Hey Joe * Mean * Over the Rainbow * Route 66 * Stella by Starlight * Sweet Home Chicago * Ticket to Ride * Unchained Melody * Under the Sea * Wake Me up When September Ends * Yellow * Your Cheatin' Heart * and more.

American Sabor

American Sabor
Author: Marisol Berros-Miranda
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-12-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0295742631

Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions of Latinas and Latinos in American popular music between World War II and the present in five vibrant centers of Latin@ musical production: New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, San Francisco, and Miami. From Tito Puente�s mambo dance rhythms to the Spanglish rap of Mellow Man Ace, American Sabor focuses on musical styles that have developed largely in the United States�including jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, punk, hip hop, country, Tejano, and salsa�but also shows the many ways in which Latin@ musicians and styles connect US culture to the culture of the broader Americas. With side-by-side Spanish and English text, authors Marisol Berr�os-Miranda, Shannon Dudley, and Michelle Habell-Pall�n challenge the white and black racial framework that structures most narratives of popular music in the United States. They present the regional histories of Latin@ communities�including Chicanos, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans�in distinctive detail, and highlight the shared experiences of immigration/migration, racial boundary crossing, contesting gender roles, youth innovation, and articulating an American experience through music. In celebrating the musical contributions of Latinos and Latinas, American Sabor illuminates a cultural legacy that enriches us all.