For the Record: Women in Sports

Biographies & Memoirs

Markel, Robert

Community & Culture

World Almanac Books

Few joys equal the pleasure of playing music on the instrument you love, a joy that can be enhanced by joining fellow musicians in a piece of chamber music. Despite the extraordinary growth of interest in chamber music, there has not been a single book or even a combination of books to help a chamber musician or program planner determine what music, if any, exists for a given combination of instruments. This unique book fills that gap. Authors Victor Rangel-Ribeiro and Robert Markel, both musicians themselves, have gathered over 8,000 listings of pieces for three to 20 musicians. Culled from over 100 catalogues of music publishers worldwide plus other sources, Chamber Music covers the last 500 years of music. It includes not only a complete listing of the standard chamber music repertoire but thousands of other, lesser-known pieces written for an array of instrumental combinations - including the voice. More than 5,000 listings are for 20th-century music. Chamber Music is divided into three sections for easy access to information. The first contains music composed up to the time of Haydn and Mozart; the second, music from Beethoven to the present. Each listing contains the composer's name and dates, the title of the piece, the opus or catalogue number, if any, the year composed or published, if known, the key, if any, the duration of the piece, if specified by the composer or publisher, the instrumentation of the piece - including indications for voices and unusual instruments - and finally the name of the publisher. Comments, where appropriate, show when instrumental substitutions can be made, when the composer has not specified particular instruments, what unusual instruments are required, when a conductor might be needed, or any other relevant information of interest to the player. The third section, the "Master Quick-Reference Index," lists a number of instrumental combinations and directs the reader to composers who have written for those particular ensembles. Comprehensive and easy to use, for the amateur or professional musician or anyone with an interest in the subject, Chamber Music is sure to enhance any music lover's reference shelf.

Chamber Music: An International Guide to Works and Their Instrumentation

Arts & Photography

Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor

Music

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A complete listing of records set by women in more than twenty sports, ranging from basketball to tennis, is accompanied by a history of women's sports participation and profiles of the great women athletes

BROOKS, NANCY

Markel, Susan, M.D.

Sports & Outdoors

Pharos Books

Introduces more than one hundred authentic recipes for favorite cocktails, accompanied by a history of each drink, period artwork and advertising posters, and cocktail trivia

Vintage Cocktails - Authentic Recipes and Illustrations from 1920-1960

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Waggoner, Susan

Beverages & Wine

Harry N. Abrams

"Waiter, I'll have another." Another cocktail, that is. Or, on second thought, make it a hundred of them. In this bright, sprightly sequel to their immensely popular Vintage Cocktails (1999), authors Susan Waggoner and Robert Markel serve up authentic recipes for more than 100 fresh classics from the golden age of libation. Lavishly illustrated with full-color vintage art, garnished with quotes, and studded with anecdotes and cocktail histories from the era, Cocktail Hour also features lively sidebars that offer both practical advice (such as pointers for throwing a perfectly swank cocktail party) and fascinating bits of cocktail lore. Readers learn what Frank Sinatra wrote on invitations to Rat Pack parties ("Black Tie and Sunglasses Required"), which movie offers a glimpse of the Brown Derby's original bar (Mildred Pierce), and what Cab Calloway may have been drinking the night he covered a memory lapse by singing "hi-de-ho" in the midst of a song (a Harlem cocktail, the signature drink of the Cotton Club). With completely new-but still classic-drinks, illustrations, and anecdotal material, Cocktail Hour is a must-have for buyers of the first book as well as a fine stand-alone volume for drink lovers of all varieties.

Cocktail Hour: Authentic Recipes and Illustrations from 1920-1960

Stewart, Tabori and Chang

It’s like the difference between Pravda and Prada. Vodka—once the liquor favored by beet-faced Soviet bureaucrats—has undergone a complete makeover, becoming the spirit of choice for fashion-forward cocktail aficionados worldwide. With more than 200 different vodkas now on the market—including a burgeoning, international array of top-shelf and flavored varieties—it’s high time for a book devoted solely to vodka’s distinctive, sometimes sublime pleasures. Susan Waggoner and Robert Markel—the authors of two of STC’s most popular mixology guides, Vintage Cocktails and Cocktail Hour—have teamed up again to create a book especially for the contemporary vodka drinker. In Make Mine Vodka, the authors evaluate a wide range of today’s vodkas, comparing them by origin, key ingredients, and available flavors. Designed in a beautiful retro style and illustrated with vintage art, the book offers 250 vodka-based recipes, from irresistible classics to today’s cutting-edge cocktails, and advises readers on making their own flavored vodkas, including coffee, honey, peach, and key lime infusions. Tips on expert drink-making—when to shake and when to stir, how to create stunning garnishes—abound, as do suggestions for vodka-friendly dips, canapés, and other cocktail party fare.

Make Mine Vodka

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