Traditional aural training is heavily biased towards the perception and identification of pitch and rhythm. The authors of this book believe that this training too often dominates limited teaching time. Much of it can be best done alone and by tailoring tasks to individual needs, every student can make some encouraging progress. This makes time available for developing the perception of musical elements just as important yet often neglected because of their more abstract and qualitative nature - elements such as timbre, texture and density; compass range and tessitura; dynamics and articulation; ordering music and placing it in space. Although addressed primarily to groups of music students and their teachers, in universities, polytechnics, conservatoires and sixth-forms, the book is designed to encourage open-ended exploration generated by students' individual needs and enthusiasms. It aims to promote self-reliance and the confidence to begin to discover for oneself music of any age and/or culture.

Aural Awareness: Principles and Practice

Arts & Photography

George Pratt

Music

Open University Press

In this masterful work of war and its repercussions, Pratt tells in a visceral and surreal style, the story of two war veterans--one from World War I, the other from Vietnam--who meet in a German sanitarium. There they discover a truth that neither expected, but both must come to accept. Previously published by D.C. Comics.

Enemy ace: War idyll

Comics & Graphic Novels

Publishers

DC Comics

A Samoan Dictionary: English and Samoan, and Samoan and English; with a Short Grammar of the Samoan Dialect

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Nabu Press

Excerpt from A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language: With English and Samoan Vocabulary The former editions of this work having passed out of print, in compliance with the urgent suggestions of several friends and a strong impression on my own mind of the necessity for preserving the usefulness of the work, I have now prepared a revised and enlarged edition, and have also introduced into it valuable additions which will be found of great advantage to the student of the Samoan language. From a volume of ms. Songs, written out by a native poet, and lent me by the Rev. G. Brown, I culled 500 new words. On a visit to Samoa in 1885, I ascertained the correct meaning of these words from various pun dits, and also collected many other words at the same time. Since then I have added to the new collection while translating a volume of myths and legends, &amp;c., compiled by the late Rev. T. Powell. From Marsden's Malay Dictionary I obtained 180 Eastern Polynesian roots, which I have inserted in their places. There are also many resemblances found in the Malay Grammar to the Samoan. (see note appended.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language: With English and Samoan Vocabulary (Classic Reprint)

History

Forgotten Books

One of the most ground-breaking and literate comic series of all-time is finally collected in one mammoth volume, showcasing the very best in modern storytelling and painted artwork. This adult fairy tale is a work that evokes comparison with Lewis Carroll &amp; William Blake. Born in an intergalactic zoo and raised on the romantic works of Byron and Shelley, Moonshadow is suddenly kicked out of his home at the age of fourteen into an uncaring cosmos. He embarks on a journey which takes him not only to different planets, but also to the farthest reaches of the human heart. Contains adult themes and nudity.

The Compleat Moonshadow

Kent Williams

John Marc DeMatteis

Kevin Nowlan

Gaspar Saladino

Graphic Novels

Vertigo

Limited to 2000 copies. Not available in the book trade.Spectrum Fantastic Art Live, Volume Two commemorates the second annual Spectrum event by celebrating the work of the exhibition's six special guests. Jon Foster, Peter de Sève, Tara McPherson, Charles Vess, Michael Whelan and Terryl Whitlatch have hand-picked a diverse assortment of images for inclusion in this volume-a collection of six individual galleries with artist statements scattered throughout.Jon Foster's work has graced the pages of a vast array of publications, from National Geographic to DC and Marvel Comics to nearly all the book publishers of fantasy and science fiction. Jon teaches art and illustration across the country and has received two Silver and three Gold Spectrum Awards.Perhaps best recognized as a regular cover artist for The New Yorker and for his character designs for blockbuster animated films such as Ice Age and Finding Nemo, Peter de Sève is widely recognized as an icon in contemporary illustration.Equal parts whimsical, thought-provoking and seductive, Tara McPherson's works have adorned the walls of art galleries around the world and, through her poster art, plastered the brick-lined streets of the American indie rock scene.Haunting and ethereal, the art of Charles Vess has long defined fantasy illustration and comic art. He has brought visual life to the works of such authors as Neil Gaiman, Jeff Smith and Charles de Lint.Michael Whelan has defined the visual aesthetic of some of the best-known science-fiction authors of the past thirty-five years, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King.Best known in the entertainment and publishing industries for her work in creature design, Terryl Whitlatch seamlessly blends her technical knowledge of paleo art with her passion for the fictitious.Introductions provided by George Pratt, Gregory Manchess, Greg Spalenka, Ari Berk, Bob Self, Bobby Chiu, Arnie &amp; Cathy Fenner and John Fleskes.

Spectrum Fantastic Art Live 2

Ari Berk

Greg Spalenka

John Fleskes

Gregory Manchess

Bob Self

Bobby Chiu

Arnie & Cathy Fenner

Flesk Publications

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