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The Legacy Way

Walking Into Purpose

by Adam G. Fleming, Peter1 Jansen ...

Leadership and Executive coaches Adam G. Fleming and Peter Jansen discuss a variety of aspects to think about how to build a legacy, using your energy to build something to outlast your own lifetime. While defining the aspects each person needs to think about, Fleming and Jansen also describe the immense value a person gets from an experience like a pilgrimage or walkabout, walking, hiking or ... Read more

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Leadership and Executive coaches Adam G. Fleming and Peter Jansen discuss a variety of aspects to think about how to build a legacy, using your energy to build something to outlast your own lifetime. While defining the aspects each person needs to think about, Fleming and Jansen also describe the immense value a person gets from an experience like a pilgrimage or walkabout, walking, hiking or
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Interviews with American Composers

Barney Childs in Conversation

by Barney Childs, Virginia Anderson, Robert Fink, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Thomas S. Clark, Gayle Sherwood Magee1, Sara Haefeli4, Frances White6, James Pritchett7, Jay M. Arms9, Dave Headlam1, John Schneider2, Ronald Kuivila5, Bruce Quaglia7, Rob Haskins0, Michelle Fillion2, Stuart Dempster4, David Neal Lewis6, Jeffrey Perry8, Peter Gena1, Horace J. Maxile Jr.4 ...

Series series Music in American Life
In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold ... Read more

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In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold
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A Joosr Guide to... It's Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be by Paul Arden

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Every Song Ever

Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

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What is music in the age of the cloud? Today, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. It is possible to flit instantly across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. This new age of listening brings with it astonishing new possibilities--as well as dangers.In Every Song Ever, the veteran New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff reimagines the very ... Read more

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What is music in the age of the cloud? Today, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. It is possible to flit instantly across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. This new age of listening brings with it astonishing new possibilities--as well as dangers.In Every Song Ever, the veteran New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff reimagines the very
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Thinking in Jazz

The Infinite Art of Improvisation

by Paul F. Berliner ...

A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea.The product of more than fifteen ... Read more

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A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea.The product of more than fifteen
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Unhinged Habits

A Counterintuitive Guide for Humans to Have More by Doing Less

by Jonathan Goodman ...

Break bad habits and build your rich life by mastering the art of strategic subtraction.Unhinged Habits will revolutionize your relationship to work, money, and even adult friendship.Read Unhinged Habits if:Your calendar’s packed, yet you feel like you're missing what matters.You've bought things meant to bring happiness, but the satisfaction didn't last.You suspect you're living someone else's ... Read more

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Break bad habits and build your rich life by mastering the art of strategic subtraction.Unhinged Habits will revolutionize your relationship to work, money, and even adult friendship.Read Unhinged Habits if:Your calendar’s packed, yet you feel like you're missing what matters.You've bought things meant to bring happiness, but the satisfaction didn't last.You suspect you're living someone else's
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Capturing Sound

How Technology Has Changed Music

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There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet. Fully revised and updated, this ... Read more

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There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet. Fully revised and updated, this
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Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life

by Rachel S. Heslin ...

You know the feeling: overwhelmed and maybe even trapped.You want to change your life, but nothing seems to work.Maybe it's time to let goof what's been holding you down.Like a teacup already full to overflowing, we cannot pursue new dreams or goals when we're drowning in old patterns and projects.In this book, you'll learn what elements you need to include in an effective ritual, four different ... Read more

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You know the feeling: overwhelmed and maybe even trapped.You want to change your life, but nothing seems to work.Maybe it's time to let goof what's been holding you down.Like a teacup already full to overflowing, we cannot pursue new dreams or goals when we're drowning in old patterns and projects.In this book, you'll learn what elements you need to include in an effective ritual, four different
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The Power of Black Music

Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. ...

When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and ... Read more

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When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and
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Jazzology

The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory for All Musicians

by Robert Rawlins, Nor Eddine Bahha ...

(Jazz Instruction). A one-of-a-kind book encompassing a wide scope of jazz topics, for beginners and pros of any instrument. A three-pronged approach was envisioned with the creation of this comprehensive resource: as an encyclopedia for ready reference, as a thorough methodology for the student, and as a workbook for the classroom, complete with ample exercises and conceptual discussion. Includes ... Read more

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(Jazz Instruction). A one-of-a-kind book encompassing a wide scope of jazz topics, for beginners and pros of any instrument. A three-pronged approach was envisioned with the creation of this comprehensive resource: as an encyclopedia for ready reference, as a thorough methodology for the student, and as a workbook for the classroom, complete with ample exercises and conceptual discussion. Includes
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The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68

by Keith Waters ...

Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams--went on to a successful career as a top player. The studio recordings released by this group made ... Read more

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The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams--went on to a successful career as a top player. The studio recordings released by this group made
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What Happens When You Get What You Want? Success and the Challenge of Choice

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In this provocative book, Dr. Rick Eigenbrod invites readers to consider the idea that we are far better prepared to pursue success than to have it. With humor and insight, he explores the reality of what happens when we get what we want and why success, along with gain, acquisition, and achievement, can also bring loss and disruption to our lives. In addition to a greater understanding of the ... Read more

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In this provocative book, Dr. Rick Eigenbrod invites readers to consider the idea that we are far better prepared to pursue success than to have it. With humor and insight, he explores the reality of what happens when we get what we want and why success, along with gain, acquisition, and achievement, can also bring loss and disruption to our lives. In addition to a greater understanding of the
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