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Tag: Performing Arts
Moving Parts : Monologues from Contemporary Plays
On Directing Film
Calling on this unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies, House Of Games and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing–from script to cutting room–to show the many tasks directors undertake in reaching their prime objective: presenting a story that will be understood by the audience and has the power to be both surprising and inevitable at the same time..
Auditioning for the Musical Theatre
Actor’s Book of Scenes from New Plays : 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today’s Hottest Playwrights
The Actor’s Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights
Deep Blues : A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
The Kodaly Method I Comprehensive Music Education
Designed to provide sample month-by-month and yearly plans for each grade level from one to six, this step-by-step guide features a collection of more than 200 songs —many of which are new to the Third Edition —organized precisely in the sequence of the Kodaly Method. It presents a highly sequential music program in which singing, moving, listening, musical reading and writing, improvising and composing are the means through which children develop skills and acquire knowledge about melody, harmony, rhythm, form, tempo, timbre, and dynamics..
Understanding Music Fundamentals
This volume provides an understanding of how to read the various signs, symbols and terms found in music, as well as ways of translating them into sound. This book contains clear, simplified explanations with ample diagrams and illustrations providing a developmental sequence and adequate practice materials for immediate application to allow for the mastery of one skill before moving on to the next. Covers a wide range of instruments — voice, piano, recorder, autoharp, harmonica, ukulele, guitar and selected percussion — accompanied by a broad spectrum of traditional and contemporary song literature for playing and singing. Designed for use by those with little or no background in music..
The Symphony
Ideal for anyone interested in the symphony, this insightful volume: -Presents updated material on the preclassic, classic, and contemporary periods-Expands portions on Beethoven, Strauss, and contemporary composers-Expands 19th century examples to include Beethoven’s Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth Symphonies.