Music in Our World is the first text in music appreciation completely devoted to the study of music elements and to investing students with active listening skills. The text examines each musical element from a number of angles - completely integrating world music throughout the discussion. The three chapters on Melody, for example, cite the work of Hildegard of Bingen, Ravi Shankar, and Giacomo Puccini. This unique, elements-based approach engages students in actively listening to the broadest range of music available for music appreciation.

Music in Our World

Arts & Photography

White,Gary

Stuart,David

Aviva,Elyn

Music

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Two CDs featuring:. . Listening Activities . Dolphin Dreams (Jonathan Goldman) . Simple Gifts (Elder Joseph Brackett). Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland) . Exodus (Bob Marley and the Wailers) . Redemption Song (Bob Marley) . Grand Entry Song (Little Otter Singers) . Bay a Glezele Mashke (Klezmer Conservatory Band) . Oy Abram! (Klezmer Conservatory Band) . Shango (Babatunde Olatunji) . De sancta Maria (Hildegard of Bingen) . Maru-Bihag (Ravi Shankar) . La Boheme, End of Act II (Giacomo Puccini) . The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi) . This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) . Bring Me Little Water, Sylvy (Leadbelly [Huddie Ledbetter]) . The Young Person�s Guide to the Orchestra (Benjamin Britten) . Gending Petegak (Gender Wayang Pemarwan) . Animal Crackers (Axigally) . Huachos (Tramps) . Symphony no. 39 (Franz Joseph Haydn) . Sultan Veled Peshrev (Dogan Ergin) . Absalon, fili mi (Josquin Desprez) . Suite Thursday (Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn).

Compact disc set for use with Music in Our World

Martirologio Romano (Spanish Edition)

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The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

History

Houston, Stephen D.

Taube, Karl

Americas

University of Texas Press

All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed a coherent approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. The authors open with a cartography of the Maya body, its parts and their meanings, as depicted in imagery and texts. They go on to explore such issues as how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality that were intimately bound up in these domains; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.

The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya

Politics & Social Sciences

Houston, Stephen

Social Sciences

Planting the Perfect Garden Designs For

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Humanity Press/prometheus Bk

One afternoon, in 1994, I had an idea. So begins Stuart David's magical, evocative memoir about Belle and Sebastian. Determined to make his living writing stories and songs, Stuart had spent several years scraping by on the dole in his small, industrial home town. Then he had the fateful idea to learn bass guitar, and to head for Glasgow in search of like-minded artists. Within one extraordinary year he had helped create one of the most influential, beloved bands of all time. Set against a vivid background of early 90s Glasgow,In the All-Night CafÃ©describes Stuart's fortuitous meeting with the band's co-founder Stuart Murdoch on a course for unemployed musicians. It tells of their adventures in two early incarnations of Belle and Sebastian and culminates in the recording of the band's celebrated debut album,Tigermilk. A fascinating portrait of the group and its origins, it is also a story that will resonate with anyone who has put together - or thought of putting together - a band. It is a story of a group of friends who wanted to create a different kind of band and a different kind of music. And how - against all expectations - they succeeded. Written with wit, affection and a novelist's observant eye,In the All-Night CafÃ©brings to life the music and the early days of this most enigmatic and intriguing of bands.

In the All-Night Café

Humor & Entertainment

ABACUS +

The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe. Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled books, the ancient Maya not only had a keen insight into the mystical workings of our planet and the cosmos, but they were also able to predict that the world will end in the year 2012. David Stuart, the foremost scholar of the Maya and recipient of numerous awards for his work, takes a hard look at the frenzy over 2012 and offers a fascination (and accurate) trip through Mayan culture and belief. Stuart shows how the idea that the "end of the Mayan calendar," which supposedly heralds the end of our own existence, says far more about our culture than about the ancient Maya. The Order of Days explores how the real intellectual achievement of ancient Maya timekeeping and worldview is far more impressive and remarkable than any of the popular, and often outrageous, claims about this advanced civilization.
As someone who has studied the Maya for nearly all of his life and who specializes in reading their ancient texts, Stuart sees the 2012 hubbub as the most recent in a long chain of related ideas about Mesoamericans, the Maya in particular, that depicts them as somehow oddball, not "of this world," or as having some strong mystical link to other realms.
Because the year 2012 has no prominent role in anything the ancient Maya ever actually wrote, Stuart takes a wider look at the Maya concepts of time and their underlying philosophy as we can best understand them. The ancient Maya, Stuart contends, were worthy of study and admiration not because they were strange but because they were altogether human, and they developed a compelling vision of time unlike any other civilization before or since.

The Order of Days: The Maya World and the Truth About 2012

Crown/Archetype

The Order of Days: Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Maya

Crown

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