This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise of Baroque music. It was written for the music student and music lover, with the aim of acquainting them with this great period of music history and helping them to gain a historical understanding of music without which baroque music cannot be fully appreciated and enjoyed. Written in simple, plain language and full of fascinating information about baroque music, this text will appeal to those interested in music but who have little previous knowledge of baroque, and it would make for a most worthy addition ...

Inspired by the legendary works of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, Detroit writer Ryan Bartek traveled the USA to create his own heavy metal / punk rock road saga of extreme journalism. 1 year, 35 States, 600+ hours on Greyhounds ' 1000 cities later, “ The Big Shiny Prison ” was released – a unique travel book featuring hundreds of face-to-face interviews with legends in the metal/punk undergrounds, as well as other alternative ' fringe cultures in America. “FORTRESS EUROPE” (The Big Shiny Prison Vol. II)' ...

Modern Classic Sonatas: Book 4 includes sonatas that were composed by Dr. Anis I. Milad. Dr. Milad expressed his emotion and was able to complete each sonata in three parts-exposition, development, and recapitulation-in a variety of key signatures. Producing books to include this form of music is a door for the new generations to follow and improve the classical music. This book is also produced to get the attention of the conductors and the musicians around the world to our world in the United States of America.

This book is useful for the electrical engineering students who are doing experiments in instrument and measurement lab. An experiment list is provided which consists of 14 experiments out of which only ten experiments are being selected for performing in instruments and measurement laboratory. The authors had made an attempt to clarify each step in each experiment and after performing the experiments the students had to answer report questions in order to develop confidence.

When Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring a "race of singers" who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy. By examining how singers such as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen both embraced and reconfigured Whitman's vision, Bryan Garman shows that Whitman succeeded. In doing so, Garman celebrates the triumphs yet also exposes the limitations of Whitman's legacy. While Whitman's verse propounded notions of sexual freedom and renounced the competitiveness of capitalism ...

The Missa solemnis is a document of extraordinary richness from the last decades of Beethoven's creative life. In this compendious and accessible guide, William Drabkin considers the work as a musical expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith, and as an example from a tradition of Mass settings in eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Austria.