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This acclaimed text reveals the writing secrets of jazz greats Thad Jones, Sammy Nestico, and Bob Brookmeyer! It presents detailed examinations of 8 of their best charts by analyzing voicings, melodic construction, form, orchestration, textures, passing harmonies, etc.
| LCC: | MT |
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| FDC: | 781 |
This book is “one of the great books of jazz” according to the New York Times Book Review. For thirty years, beginning in the mid-twenties, Marshall Stearns listened to jazz, read about it, and talked to all the musicians who played it that he could discovery. The result is this superlative history, the first and most renowned systematic outline of the evolution of this unique American musical phenomenon.
| LCC: | ML3561.J3 S8 1972 |
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| FDC: | 781 |
Nora and Fern's relationship as mother and daughter is a tumble of love and mistrust. To Nora, her daughter is an enigma - at the same time wonderful and unfindable. Fern sees her mother as treacherous - for busting up their family to move in with her lover, Jeanne. As their lives become complicated by the arrivals of a bike-messenger boyfriend for Fern, a shadowy affair for Nora, and a baby in need of a family, this mother and daughter find their way onto a fresh footing with each other.
| LCC: | PS3551.N7147 L83 2002 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
When fifteen-year-old Christina Eudora Van Scholls learns that her family will leave Germany for Texas, her greatest sorrow is leaving behind her beloved grandmother. And so, in a series of letters, she takes "Oma" on this great adventure with her family - and takes us as readers. Sometimes the letters are dark with discouragement, for the Von Scholls find, as did many German-Texas families, that the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants, known as the Adelsverein, was unable to fulfill its promises of land, housing, horses, and farm implements.
| LCC: | PZ7.G98145 Le 1989 |
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| FDC: | 833 |
Meet Crane Cavanaugh, budding scientist. Raised in poverty in rural Iowa by depraved adults who've given up the life of charlatans on the gospel circuit, the unsinkable Crane traces her experiences from disfiguration in the womb to well-deserved elevation in the halls of academe. When her family is forced to leave its squatters shack, Crane is separated from her sister, brother, and parents. What follows is a series of fateful encounters: some kind, some cruel - each a new world with its own dangers and limitations.
| LCC: | PS3564.E848 S25 2008 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
Salt Dances is the dramatic story of one woman's redemptive journey back to her childhood through layers of memory and longing. Unmarried and pregnant at 41, architect Julia Ives returns to her home in the Pacific Northwest, determined to understand her family's troubled past before her child is born. Haunted by memories of betrayal and abandonment, she confronts the father she has not seen in 21 years.
| LCC: | PS3558.E4185 S25 1995 |
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| FDC: | 823 |
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play it as it Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, plumbing the emptiness and ennui of a seemingly bankrupt society in spare sentences that scour and disturb. Set in the moral limbos of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the Mojave Desert, Play it as it Lays remains, more than 40 years after its original publication, a profoundly unsettling novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis, stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
| LCC: | PS3554.I33 P57 2005 |
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| FDC: | 814 |
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the "perfect" family that could never be his own. Now grown, they have gathered together again - with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell
| LCC: | PS3570.Y45 D5 1982 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
The Musician’s Guide series is the most comprehensive and flexible set of materials available for learning music theory. For theory classes, this textbook and its accompanying workbook cover a wide range of topics – from fundamentals to harmony, form and analysis, popular music, and twenty-first century works. An anthology features core repertoire for study along with recordings for each work.
| LCC: | MT6 .C57 2016 |
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| FDC: | 781 |
The Anthology includes over 100 outstanding teaching pieces written between the seventeenth century and the present. Recordings for all Anthology works are available online. For this edition, the Anthology has been expanded with new works by Bach, Debussy, Holst, Ives, and more.
| LCC: | MT6 |
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| FDC: | 781 |
Building Bridges through Writing is an introductory composition text that covers the general writing process while dealing with the specifics of writing, conducting research, and documenting sources in the different disciplines of the academic community. It is designed to help students improve all of their writing, from freshman composition to general education courses to senior-level courses in their majors.
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| FDC: | 428 |
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
| LCC: | PS3614.G83 L58 2019 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
The Awakening charts Edna Pontellier's journey of self-discovery. The time spent with a younger friend on a summer holiday on Grand Isle in Lousiana unlocks a feeling in her that she can't close away again. On returning to her family home in New Orleans, she starts to transition from unthinking housewife and mother into something freer and more confident, although this doesn't meet with the full approval of the society she's a part of.
| LCC: | PS1294.C63 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
Ann Charters knows that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Her anthology, The Story and its Writer, is the most comprehensive and diverse introduction to fiction available, notable for its array of the writers' own commentaries on the craft and traditions of fiction and for its adventurous selection of contemporary and multicultural fiction, this time with more emphasis on graphic storytelling and short, short fiction.
| LCC: | PN6120.2 .S85 2011b |
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| FDC: | 808 |
In this groundbreaking, best-selling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
| LCC: | PN6727 .B3757 2006 |
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| FDC: | 741 |
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