books about: 1830

books about: 1830

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Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground New Edition

Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind

Feral House, 2003

great book
This is a great book if you are wanting to know more about the underground world of black metal. It also has subjects of diff. religions, Nazism, Fascism, Norse Mythology. It also has very good interviews with Black Metal musicians.

Complete Preludes, Nocturnes and Waltzes: 26 Preludes, 21 Nocturnes, 19 Waltzes for Piano (Schirmer's Library ...

G. Schirmer, Inc., 2006

Chopin collection_sheet music
Carefully transcripted and correctly analysed in both tonal and expression matters this sheet music Chopin collection covers the needs of both the experienced and the amateurs pianists.

Fifty Easy Classical Guitar Solos (Classical Guitar)

Amsco Publications, 1999

Good Package, Great Value
I own several other "easy to intermediate" level repertoire books, and this one has some good pieces not found in any of my other books. I tend to disagree with the reviewers who suggest that there isn't enough variety among these songs--I was actually pretty ...

Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

Joyce Carol Oates

Ecco, 2008

Sad Nights
Wild Nights, the latest from Joyce Carol Oates, is a collection of five longish short-stories, each of which fantasizes about the end days of one of America's best known and most respected writers. As indicated by the book's complete title, there are stories about ...

Sound in Motion: A Performer's Guide to Greater Musical Expression

David McGill

Indiana University Press, 2007

If you are a classical musician, you must own this book!!!!
Having studied with David McGill, I can honestly say with first-hand experience that he is a truly remarkable musician and teacher. As I read this book, I felt as I did in every one of my lessons. I know I left his studio each week better than I went in and I feel ...

Your Divorce Advisor: A Lawyer and a Psychologist Guide You Through the Legal and Emotional Landscape of ...

Diana Mercer, Marsha Kline Pruett

Fireside, 2001

Important book, along with...
Divorce is one of the most grueling experiences anyone can go through, and this book is a great guide for easing the challenges. The book is packed with information on the legal and emotional issues that are likely to arise -- and how to deal with them. The topics ...

A History of Western Music

Donald J. Grout, Claude V. Palisca, ...

W. W. Norton, 2005

Christmas Present
This was a Christmas present for my wife. She sings and arranges music. I can only tell you that she is ecstatic about the book, and is excited at the prospect of going on line for the streaming music that comes with.

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

John H. Elliott

Yale University Press, 2007

Engaging Comparative History
This is comparative history at its very best. Elliott superbly describes and chronicles the history of the British and Spanish exploration and colonization of the Americas, as well as the process whereby both the British American and Spanish American colonial ...

White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Brenda Wineapple

Knopf, 2008

Even unpublished writers need validation
At first glance, even from the old photos, they seem like vastly different people. Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a man of various talents. He was a well-traveled writer, yes; but he was also involved in public service and the reform movement, and he was intent on ...

The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection : The 350 Essential Works

Ted Libbey

Workman Publishing Company, 1999

Learning from the educated
I am a huge classical music fan, always looking for that perfect recording and being most critical when it doesn't suit my taste. Even so, I had a lot to learn about composers and pieces of great music that I was unfamiliar with. It delights me to report that I have ...

The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Charles Rosen

Harvard University Press, 1998

A real page-turner!
While I was studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music, it sometimes seemed that the professors chose only the most abstruse works of scholarship as their classroom texts. The worst example was a required text for a 20th Century analysis course, in which the ...

Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters

Emily Dickinson

Belknap Press, 2006

Essential Piece of the Dickinson Puzzle
An appraisal of this great figure's work is incomplete without a good look at these selected letters. As fascinating to the Dickinson scholar as they are to the casual enthusiast, Dickinson's letters -- along with those of Keats or Hopkins -- prove that this is every ...

The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. (33 1/3)

Bill Janovitz

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005

Best book on Exile yet
Just finished Janovitz's Exile book and I was really impressed with his style. He provides a detailed account of the characters, setting and circumstances surrounding the recording of "Exile on Main Street". I collect books on the Stones and this easily goes into my ...

Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
James Lockhart, Stuart B. Schwartz

Cambridge University Press, 1983

This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the gaining of independence by the Spanish American countries and Brazil (approximately 1492-1825). It is both an introduction for the student at the college level and a provisionally updated synthesis of the quickly changing field for the more ...

Colonial Latin America

Mark A. Burkholder, Lyman L. Johnson

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

A good survey of colonial Latin America
If you are a novice in the study of colonial Latin America, this book is a good place to start. Burkholder and Johnson have covered just about every aspect of society and politics in colonial Latin America from pre-Columbian cultures to the struggles for independence ...