Amadeus: 34 books
Leading Tones
Reflections on Music, Musicians and the Music Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Leading Tones is a glimpse into several aspects of the musical world. There are portions devoted to Leonard Slatkin's life as a musician and conductor, portraits of some of the outstanding artists with whom he has worked, as well as anecdotes and stories both personal and professional. Much of the...
The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana/Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
Libretto, Background and Photos
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Opera's most enduring tragic double bill of verismo masterpieces, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci share many common features, most noticeably their direct language, plot simplicity, common-folk characters, and themes of adultery, betrayal, revenge, and murder. Written within two years of each other,...
88 Keys
The Making of a Steinway Piano
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
More than 500 people are involved in the creation of just one of the world's greatest pianos, the Steinway. From the selection and aging of wood to the delicate voicing of the finished instrument, this special reissue of 88 Keys – The Making of a Steinway Piano relates the story behind the instrument's...
The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca
The Complete Libretto
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
An idealistic artist, a celebrated opera singer, and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of passion, intrigue, cruelty, and deception. Puccini's great melodrama may be set in 1800, amid the Napoleonic wars, but the conflicts between love and loyalty,...
Verdi
The Operas and Choral Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Giuseppe Verdi's career forms one of the loveliest arcs in musical history. The passion of his works resonates universally, while the sophistication of his middle and late operas satisfies demanding ears and tastes. In Verdi: The Operas and Choral Works, Victor Lederer surveys every one of the master's...
by Pthasse Amadeus
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
A Tale of Tales Book One, Advent, contains:
A Tale Of One: This is the first short story in Advent and it introduces the reader to a major event within the Radiant Order multiverse. It is the story of one individual's experience, as he observes and contemplates his environment but with every action...
The Mahler Symphonies
An Owner's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Since Gustav Mahler was rediscovered in the early 1960s, his symphonies have become arguably the most popular works in the modern orchestral repertoire. Mahler's Symphonies: An Owner's Manual is the first discussion of the ten completed symphonies (No. 1-9 plus “The Song of the Earth”) to offer...
The Perfect Wrong Note
Learning to Trust Your Musical Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and...
Conducting Business
Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Conducting an orchestra is something that is seen as well as heard, but it is quite misunderstood when it comes to knowing what this person actually does for a living. This most mysterious of jobs is brought to life for the music lover as well as for the aspiring maestro in a new book by Leonard Slatkin.
Drawing...
by Pthasse Amadeus
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
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by Jan van Helsing
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
You are surely now asking yourself why you are supposed to keep your hands off this book. Is it just a clever advertising strategy? Hardly so. As you know, two books of Jan van Helsing had been banned in Germany and Switzerland due to their highly controversial contents. And the mainstream media too...
Reconnect With Your Energy Self
Heal and Evolve the Cosmic Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
We humans are energy beings attached to organic bodies. In addition to our physical personality, we possess a sophisticated energy self.
Our energy self is a powerful cosmic photon consciousness that is magnetically attached to our body in front of our heart.
It energizes, sustains and...
Gefährlich!
Du bist viel mächtiger, als Du denkst! Aber es gibt da jemanden, der möchte nicht, dass Du das weißt...
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Es gibt Strukturen in unserer Gesellschaft - sei es in Politik, Wirtschaft oder Religion -, die haben ein starkes Interesse, dass Du Dich für einen unbedeutenden und hilflosen Menschen hältst. Dieses Buch ist für diese Kreise äußerst gefährlich, denn es enthält Geheimnisse, die Du nicht kennen...
Wenn das die Deutschen wüssten...
...dann hätten wir morgen eine (R)evolution!
Language: German
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Wussten Sie, dass Ihr Personalausweis oder Ihr Reisepass nicht Ihre deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit bestätigt und fast alle Deutschen in ihrem eigenen Land staatenlos sind? Nein? Es gibt tatsächlich ein Dokument, welches die rechtmäßige Staatsangehörigkeit bescheinigt, aber es ist keines der beiden...