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Oboe Secrets
75 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Oboist and English Horn Player
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician: A Scarecrow Press Music Series is designed for...
Bruce Springsteen
American Poet and Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and pop music comment on...
Drum Kit Secrets
52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), the Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician series is designed for instrumentalists, singers,...
Experiencing Verdi
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Titles in The Listener’s Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume explains in clear and accessible language how to listen to works from particular...
by John D. White
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Now available in paperback! Evolved from the author's widely used book, The Analysis of Music (Prentice-Hall, 1975; 2nd. ed. Scarecrow Press, 1984), Comprehensive Music Analysis is a guide for acquiring the tools of musical analysis, skills which are essential to every serious musician and musical...
by Christopher L. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
The first contribution to Global Flashpoints: A Scarecrow Press Series, Christopher Daniels’ Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa provides readers with a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the spate of piracy and terrorism plaguing the waters of Somalia and the global threat posed...
Saxophone Secrets
60 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Saxophonist
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in her Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), Tracy Heavner’s Saxophone Secrets provides advanced saxophonists with 60 performance...
Musical Landscapes in Color
Conversations with Black American Composers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
A sequel to the award-winning The Black Composer Speaks (Scarecrow Press, 1978), this exploration of the creative world of African American composers traces the lives and careers of 40 talented individuals and, in their own words, provides perspectives on a world that has been slow to recognize their...
Modern Just War Theory
A Guide to Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Contributions to Illuminations: A Scarecrow Press Series of Guides to Research in Religion provide students and scholars, lay readers and clergy, with a road map to research in key areas of religious study. All commonly constructed with introductions to the topic and reviews of key thinkers, concepts,...
Bernard Herrmann's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, Bernard Herrmann was responsible for some of the most memorable music in film. His work with Alfred Hitchcock produced a slew of classics including Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), and Psycho (1960). Several years before collaborating...
Mychael Danna's The Ice Storm
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Ang Lee's The Ice Storm is a film of striking significance, which achieved widespread critical acclaim for its well crafted and superbly acted study of suburban morality in 1970s America. For the film, composer Mychael Danna created one of the most distinctive scores of the 1990s, one that constantly...
Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Released in 1972, 1974, and 1990 respectively, Francis Ford Coppola's three-part saga is one of the greatest artistic accomplishments (and financial successes) in the history of Hollywood cinema. The latest in Scarecrow's Film Score Guides series, Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy*: A Film Score Guide*...
Campbell's Scoop
Reflections on Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
At the request of her many fans, Patty Campbell, editor of the Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature series, has selected some of her best essays, articles, columns, and speeches in Campbell's Scoop. These pieces define the boundaries between children's and adult literature and review the trends,...
by David B. Hinton
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2000
After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the repetitious clichés that so often accompany a discussion of such a controversial filmmaker.
Provided with...