Composition list 42

Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Genesis, Pedagogy, and Style

by Benjamin Suchoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004

Now available in paperback! Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos is a collection of 153 pieces for piano designed by the composer as a series graded according to difficulty. The pieces were written between 1926 and 1939, and have become by far the best-known series of teaching pieces by a major composer in...

How to Write a Mystery

by Larry Beinhart
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

WHODUNIT? YOUDUNIT! So you want to write a mystery. There's more to it than just a detective, a dead body, and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick. Fortunately, Larry Beinhart--Edgar Award-winning author of You Get What You Pay For, Foreign Exchange, and American Hero--has taken...

Now Write! Mysteries

Suspense, Crime, Thriller, and Other Mystery Fiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

by Sherry Ellis, Laurie Lamson
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011

The essential handbook for writers of whodunits, techno- thrillers, cozies, and everything in between-featuring never-before- published personal writing exercises from some of today's bestselling and award-winning mystery writers. Now Write! Mysteries, the fourth volume in the acclaimed Now...

René Jacobs im Gespräch mit Silke Leopold

Ich will Musik neu erzählen

by René Jacobs, Silke Leopold
Language: German
Release Date: March 12, 2015

"Der zurzeit aufregendste Operndirigent"(Münchner Merkur) René Jacobs gehört zu den renommiertesten Dirigenten der Oper zwischen Monteverdi und Mozart - Werken, die er sowohl an den zentralen Opernhäusern in Europa realisiert als auch auf dem CD-Markt in Referenzeinspielungen...

Writing Character-Driven Short Fiction

by George Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013

Imagine, if you would, that a single simple change could radically improve not just the quality of your (short) fiction, but - oh, why not? - the rest of your life, as well. It's a nice dream, isn't it? It gives you a warm fuzzy feeling of hope, doesn't it? Sadly, buying and reading this e-book...

Back Yonder

An Ozark Chronicle

by Charles Wayman Hogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016

Wayman Hogue’s stories of growing up in the Ozarks, according to a 1932 review in the New York Times, “brilliantly illuminate mountain life to its very heart and in its most profound aspects.” A standout among the Ozarks literature that was popular during the Great Depression, this memoir of...

The Art of X-Ray Reading

How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing

by Roy Peter Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016

Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, draws writing lessons from 25 great texts. Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see...

Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction

by John Casey
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014

For students and writers alike, a brilliant guide to the craft of writing by the National Book Award–winning author of Spartina. National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond the First Draft he offers essential and original...

Why Write?

A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Matters

by Mark Edmundson
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016

**From one of America's great professors, author of Why Teach? and Why Read?--an inspiring study of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes. Why write? Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their...

The Soul of Creative Writing

by Richard Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

"I have a faith in language," said the poet W. S. Merwin. "It's the ultimate achievement that we as a species have evolved so far." Language is a deep ocean of living words, as varied as undersea life. It is a gift inherited by each person when he or she is born; it can be corrupted...

How Musicals Work

And How to Write Your Own

by Julian Woolford
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013

Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today, with the West End and Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits. But for every Wicked or Phantom of the Opera, there are dozens of casualties that didn't fare quite so well. In this book, Julian Woolford explores the musical-theatre...

Small Treasures

by Diana Prince
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015

In her newest book of poems, Dr. Prince offers new insights on our personal journeyboth the challenges and the joys.

Outlining Your Novel Box Set: How to Write Your Best Book

by K.M. Weiland
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016

2 Bestselling Guides Packed With Tips to Help You Brainstorm and Plan Your Best Story From Award-Winning and Internationally Published Writing Mentor K.M. Weiland With over 300 pages of step-by-step guidance, these two individual books have helped thousands of authors write better books. Can...

Making It in Historical Fiction

by Libbie Hawker
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015

The bestselling author of Take Off Your Pants!, the popular outlining guide for writers, is back with another how-to manual for those seeking to start a career in historical fiction. There’s no doubt that historical fiction is popular with readers. In fact, the genre is expanding all the...