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Hal Leonard MGB Piano Solos Volume 2
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Hal Leonard MGB 15 Intermediate Classical Solos
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Hal Leonard MGB 30 Melodic Studies for Clarinet
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Hal Leonard MGB Planet Keyboard 2
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Hal Leonard MGB Lerne Spiele Snare Drum Teil 1
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Hal Leonard Corporation DoItYourself Tenor Sax
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Hal Leonard Corporation DoItYourself Trombone
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Hal Leonard Corporation Disney Frozen Music Activity Book
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Hal Leonard Corporation Bowie's Piano Man: The Life of Mike Garson
Pianist Mike Garson was David Bowie's most frequent musician on record and onstage throughout Bowie's life. They played over a thousand shows together between 1972 and 2004 and Garson is featured on over 20 of Bowie's albums. ÊBowie's Piano ManÊ is the first-ever biography of Mike Garson written by Clifford Slapper a fellow pianist who also played for Bowie working closely with him on his last-ever television appearance. The book explores the special relationship between Garson and Bowie beginning with the extraordinary story of how Garson went overnight from playing in tiny jazz clubs to touring the world on arena rock tours with Bowie after one short phone call and audition.ÞA noted master of jazz classical and other genres Garson has composed thousands of original works and has taught countless students acting as mentor to many. ÊBowie's Piano ManÊ explores his roots and childhood in Brooklyn his ongoing strong presence in the jazz world and his collaborations with a huge range of other artists in addition to Bowie. Touring and recording with the Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails are given in-depth attention as is his approach to teaching and creating music. Explored in detail in particular is his commitment to improvisation as a form of composition a manifestation of his more general dedication to living in the moment and always moving forward ä a trait he shared with Bowie.
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Miles Davis Reader
If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair with a musician you're holding it in your hands. For ÊDownBeatÊ the preeminent publication of the jazz world Miles Dewey Davis was one of its most cherished subjects. Since it began covering the jazz scene in 1939 no other artist has been more diligently chronicled in its pages than Davis.ÞThe beauty of this collection is seeing the development of an artist over time. The reviews of his music go from quietly introducing a new talent to revering perhaps the greatest jazz artist of his generation. The feature articles begin with a very young very polite Davis lamenting I've worked so little. I could probably tell you where I was playing any night in the last three years. As he develops the interviews show Davis gaining confidence and stature showing swagger and becoming the over-the-top say-it-like-it-is showman that made every interview an event.ÞÊThe Miles Davis ReaderÊ compiles more than 200 news stories feature articles and reviews by some of the greatest writers in jazz into one volume. It delivers a patchwork of his words and music ä in the moment as they happened.ÞWith several lengthy features added along with a dozen new photographs this new edition is a beautiful series of snapshots a year-by-year ride through the many phases of Davis as an artist and as a man.
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes
An in-depth and comprehensive guide to ä and history of ä music collecting ÊThe Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and MoreÊ traces the hobby from its beginnings over a century ago. The book features informative and entertaining sections on every significant format in which recorded music has been released ä and some that are now almost completely forgotten.ÞBased on Dave Thompson's original Backbeat classic ÊThe Music Lover's Guide to Record CollectingÊ this revamped colorful expanded edition takes readers from the early days of cylinders 78s and Edison records on through 45s LPs 8-tracks cassettes bootlegs CDs MiniDiscs MP3s LPs and other formats.ÞLandmark labels collectable artists specialist themes and more are explored across a series of essays while dozens of color images bring the most obscure corners of the hobby to life. Unlike other volumes that focus exclusively on vinyl this book caters to the audiophile whose obsession for music welcomes all formats. Through it all the joy and fascination of music collecting in all its guises comes alive.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Close to the Edge: How Yes's Masterpiece Defined Prog Rock
The first half of the 1970s was an especially fertile period for British progressive rock laying claim to classics such as ÊTarkusÊ ÊSelling England by the PoundÊ ÊLarks' Tongues in AspicÊ ÊThe Dark Side of the MoonÊ and ÊThick as a BrickÊ. Collectively these and other works represent the best British progressive rock had to offer. Yet it's Yes's 1972 three-track masterpiece ÊClose to the EdgeÊ that presents a snapshot of an adventurous rock band at the peak of its powers daring to push itself musically both as individuals and as a unit. In this absorbing chronicle which draws upon dozens of original and archived interviews and features rare photographs and an extensive discography acclaimed music journalist Will Romano examines why ÊClose to the EdgeÊ is the ultimate prog rock album.ÞYes had previously penned epic tracks for ÊThe Yes AlbumÊ and ÊFragileÊ but nothing on the magnitude of the musical gems appearing on ÊClose to the EdgeÊ. It's something of a small miracle ä perhaps even magic ä that the virtuoso quintet crafted such a cohesive and compelling album during an often-hectic recording process that very nearly relegated this monumental work to the dustbin of history. So potent was the power of ÊClose to the EdgeÊ that even before its release it had forever shifted the personal dynamics of the group and the course of progressive rock. Rarely had Yes or any rock outfit for that matter been simultaneously so expansive and concise spiritual and savage profound and nebulous.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Beer FAQ: All That's Left to Know About The World's Most Celebrated Adult Beverage
Here is a no-nonsense guide to the world of beer answering many burning questions about the diverse array of styles ingredients and international brewing and drinking traditions that drive the world's most popular beverage.ÞÊBeer FAQÊ features insight not only on how it's made but how it makes the journey from the brew house floor to the drinker's glass. The book offers a touch of history a bit of globetrotting and a look at the companies and enterprising individuals leading the modern brewing renaissance. It also offers a nostalgic look at beer's evolving role in pop culture ä from advertising to television to movies ä over the past century. After reading ÊBeer FAQÊ readers will have a better understanding of not just what kinds of beers to drink but the best places to drink them and the best ways to enjoy them from the ideal packaging to the proper drinking vessels.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century
By the author of the critically acclaimed ÊChoral Music in the Twentieth CenturyÊ this volume is an indispensable resource for choral conductors a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers and an essential text for educators and their students. As with his first book Nick Strimple reviews 100 years of choral music literature offering a straightforward text that is gratifying and enlightening.ÞStrimple covers repertory by Beethoven Brahms Verdi Faur© Mendelssohn Dvor£k Bruch Mahler and lesser figures. The text is illustrated with photos and musical examples and appendices include works lists organized by type of chorus and accompaniment.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life
Zubin Metha has created a body of work with the world's greatest orchestras including the Vienna Berlin Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics. In the course of his career he has gained the highest approbation in the international community: an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera and honorary conductor of the Vienna Munich and Los Angeles Philharmonics the Bavarian State Orchestra and Opera and the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino he is also a recipient of the United Naions Lifetime Achievement Peace and Tolerance Award. And in this book he takes us with him along the road that brought him to the heights of success.ÞÊMy Life in MusicÊ is a frank and direct account of Mehta's entire musical life. From his childhood days in Bombay where he received his first musical education from his father Mehli Mehta and his journey at the tender age of 18 to Vienna to study music on through his entire professional career he shares with us an insider's view. We also learn everything about the private Zubin Mehta ä about his marriages his children his thoughts on music and politics especially in Israel where he is lifetime Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, A Personal Biography
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Hal Leonard Corporation Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends: The Histories
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Hal Leonard Corporation Hirschfeld's Harlem: Manhattan's Legendary Artist Illustrates This Legendary City within a City
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Hal Leonard Corporation Ralph Richardson: An Actor's Life
A witty sensitive and exemplary biography on Sir Ralph Richardson a prominent acting figure of the 20th Century. Proof-read and edited by Richardson himself this provides an otherwise unknown insight into Sir Ralph's background and acting career.
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Hal Leonard Corporation DoItYourself Alto Sax
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Hal Leonard Corporation Top Hits of 2019
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Hal Leonard Corporation Gradebusters Grade 1 Trumpet
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Hal Leonard Corporation First 15 Lessons Jazz Guitar
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Hal Leonard Corporation How to Apply Dynamics Processing
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Hal Leonard Corporation How to Record and Mix Great Vocals
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Pop Culture New York City: The Ultimate Location Finder
No doubt about it New York City is the pop culture capital of the world. And for good reason. Movies TV shows iconic photographs works of literature landmark buildings amazing sculptures and historic cultural events ä they all happen here. While other NYC guidebooks can get you to Central Park they won't tell you where in the park to find the exact spots where over a hundred of your favorite movies were filmed or dozens of famous album covers were shot. That's why every pop-culture-loving explorer needs a copy of this one-of-a-kind treasure map to all the famous places you've heard or read about over the years.ÞReady to explore? Featuring a multitude of maps and addresses to thousands of locations where some of the greatest moments in pop culture took place ÊPop Culture New York CityÊ will lead you to:ÞÛ The locations of classic films like ÊBreakfast at Tiffany'sÊ and ÊThe GodfatherÊ and popular TV shows such as ÊFriendsÊ and ÊGossip GirlÊÞÛ Buildings where hundreds of celebrities live including Celebrity Row along Central Park WestÞÛ The epicenters of cultural revolutions like the Studio 54 nightclub and the Stonewall InnÞÛ Hundreds of iconic buildings and sculptures you can see for freeÞÛ And so much more!ÞSo whether you like movies TV theater music sports comics video games or literature ä this book will take you on an exhilarating not-to-be-forgotten adventure.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Bollywood FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Greatest Film Story Never Told
Bollywood a popular nomenclature for India's national film industry in the Hindi language along with the Taj Mahal yoga Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi is one of the best-known introductions and universally recognized associations with India across the world today. Despite its predominant narrative styles not confirming to the First World European and/or American cinema structure Indian cinema is increasingly viewed as the world's second-most important film industry after Hollywood with box-office influence crossing over with European cinema.ÞÊBollywood FAQÊ provides a thrilling entertaining and intellectually stimulating joy ride into the vibrant colorful and multi-emotional universe of the world's most prolific (over 30 000 film titles) and most-watched film industry (at 3 billion-plus ticket sales). Bollywood blockbusters are simultaneously screened in theaters and cinemas in over 100 nations from the USA to Japan New Zealand to the Netherlands and Peru to Pakistan. Every major Hollywood studio (Warner Bros. Fox Star Disney Sony Pictures and Viacom 18) is now making or distributing Bollywood films.ÞYet much of Indian cinema continues to amuse and confuse audiences and critics outside of India including during their first/occasional introductions to its in the words of Salman Rushdie epico-mythico-tragico-comico-super-sexy-high-masala-art form in which the unifying principle is a techni-color-storyline. ÞÊBollywood FAQÊ explains and explores the above myths and magic. It introduces India's maharajah-like stars and their cult-commanding stardom. Movie buffs will find a ready reckoner on iconic Bollywood films with a bonus must-watch listing of the cinema's most spectacular song-and-dance moments highlighting the pleasures and popularity of a national cinema that has come to be a genre in itself.ÞThis book is a reader-friendly reference to everything one has ever wanted to know about the spectacular robust humongous colorful and dramatic multi-generic cinematic being called Bollywood. The narrative is enriched with insider insights culled from its author's long career as a film writer and critic in the city of Bollywood Bombay (now Mumbai).
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Hal Leonard Corporation Workshopping the New Play: A Guide for Playwrights Directors and Dramaturgs
ÊWorkshopping the New PlayÊ is a guide for playwrights directors dramaturgs and other theater professional and students. The book begins with an overview of the basics of playwriting and goes on to cover all aspects of the new-play workshopping process: selecting a director and/or dramaturg to run the workshop sessions assembling a team of actor/readers and dealing with constructive criticism putting together a staged reading of one's work structuring a successful talkback and properly and professionally submitting one's work to theaters. Throughout the book are essays by well-known theater professionals: playwrights teachers dramaturgs an artistic director a spoken word performer and workshopping experts. The book is written in a friendly nonacademic style but should be valuable for educators as well as practitioners of theater.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Contemporary Monologues for a New Theater
Is theatre still relevant in this new century? The almost one hundred monologues in this collection prove that contemporary theatre is alive, vibrant, and vital to our culture. The human experiences depicted in the works expose our hopes and fears, our bravado and our masks, as we live life in the first quarter of this new millennium. Divided into monologues for men and women, the selected pieces in Contemporary Monologues for a New Theatre draw on the many diverse stories that weave the tapestry of our experience in this exciting new time. Performers and directors will become acquainted with the work of the many new playwrights they discover within these pages. And by performing these monologues, actors will emerge with a better understanding of the diversity and the beauty of life on this planet at this point in human history, gaining greater empathy toward those with different perspectives. The monologues hold a mirror up to society, allowing audiences to see hidden reflections in the shadows and the refracted colours and sounds dancing in plain sight. It is as true today even as it was for the Greeks-theatre makes us more fully human.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Rent FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Broadway's Blaze of Glory
After opening in a small Off-Broadway theater ÊRentÊ a modern adaptation of Puccini's ÊLa Boh¬meÊ quickly became a worldwide phenomenon with a more zealous and devoted fan base than had any musical in history. ÊRent FAQÊ includes biographical info on the musical's brilliant creator Jonathan Larson who tragically passed away at age 35 the night before the show began preview performances. Other chapters focus on the creative team and original cast; the development of the script and score from early drafts and workshop performances to the version we know and love today; the movie version tours and much more. The section ÊRentÊ Cultural Literacy is a guide to all the titles and real people referenced in the show and the East Village and Alphabet City locations that ÊRentÊ helped make famous; another chapter provides clues to the characters and tips for anyone thinking about auditioning for the musical or putting on a production! A final chapter provides a rundown with numerous photos of revivals and local productions all over the country including regional community and dinner theaters and high school and college versions. ÊRent FAQÊ is a treasure trove of information background and fun facts for the show's devotees as well as anyone who might be lucky enough to be discovering the musical for the first time!
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Hal Leonard Corporation Confessions of a Vintage Guitar Dealer: The Memoirs of Norman Harris
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Hal Leonard Corporation Top of the Mountain: The Beatles at Shea Stadium 1965
In August 1965, during a sweltering heatwave, 56,000 people traveled by plane, car, bus, ferry, and subway train to pack New York's Shea Stadium on a Sunday evening—not for a baseball game, but for a rock and roll concert. This idea was the crazy dream of concert promoter Sid Bernstein. No rock band had ever played a baseball stadium, and no one believed he could pull it off. But on that glorious night, The Beatles sold out Shea Stadium, shattering all existing box office and attendance records in show business history. Oh, and they also changed the world. Against the backdrop of a remarkably volatile year in our nation's history, Top of the Mountain: The Beatles at Shea Stadium, 1965 delivers all the detail and excitement of Shea and the spirited, curious new generation who would soon claim the decade for its own. Told through first-person interviews and quotes, a unique cast of characters tells the story: celebrities then and celebrities now, writers, agents, producers, photographers, opening act performers, fans, security guards, radio personalities, cameramen, and media—all of whom were part of the night. Caryn Johnson (Whoopi Goldberg) and Steven Lento (Little Steven Van Zandt); future Beatle wives Linda Eastman and Barbara Bach; established stars like Bobby Vinton and Ed Sullivan; and artists hoping one day to equal this success, such as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Felix Cavaliere and The Rascals, Marvin Gaye, and more share their memories of this remarkable night in Top of the Mountain.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Photographs of Janis Joplin: On the Road & On Stage
Celebrated photographer Elliott Landy presents an intimate look at the legendary female singer-songwriter, Janis Joplin.Landy's iconic images of Janis, both on the road and in concert, capture and preserve her pure essence as well as her onstage magnificence. Janis Joplin: The Photographs features beautifully reproduced large format images, many never before published.Janis's own words, taken from recorded interviews with Peter Albin and others, are used as extended captions and paired with photographs to provide insight into the woman behind the legend.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Jimmy Smith: Jazz Play-Along Volume 184
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Clash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Clash City Rockers
Founded by guitarist Mick Jones and fronted by the legendary Joe Strummer the Clash had the charisma of Elvis the integrity of the Beatles and the swagger of the Rolling Stones. Through a series of influential singles and stirring concerts the Clash not only outlasted their rivals the Sex Pistols but also prospered and broke through in the US of A a feat matched by no other UK punk-rock band.ÞWith the classic ÊLondon CallingÊ and revolutionary triple album ÊSandinista!Ê the Clash helped popularize both reggae and hip-hop thereby indoctrinating the record buying public to world music. By 1982 members of the Clash found themselves not only with a hit album (ÊCombat RockÊ) but also playing opening sets during the Who's first retirement tour. It appeared the Clash would fill this gap. It was not to be. A series of self-inflicted wounds led to a legendary downfall mere months after appearing in front on their largest audience ever at the U.S. Festival in 1983. Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon soldiered on with the underrated Clash Round Two but eventually disintegrated under the weight of their manager's mind games.ÞIn ÊThe Clash FAQÊ author Gary J. Jucha covers the band's inception and emergence in the early British punk scene all of the studio albums as well as bootlegs the band's success in the U.S. the lineup shifts tours and more. Fresh in its approach and broad in scope this an essential volume for every fan.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35
Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for women ä from contemporary plays all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 ä perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have a compelling present-tense action for actors to perform. A few are story monologues ä and they're great stories. Actors will find pieces by star playwrights such as Don Nigro Itamar Moses Adam Bock and Jane Martin; by exciting up-and-comers such as Nicole Pandolfo Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Crystal Skillman Greg Kalleres and Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; and information on getting the complete text of each play. This is a must-have resource in the arsenal of every aspiring actor hoping to knock 'em dead with her contemporary piece after bowling over teachers and casting directors alike with a classical excerpt.
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Hal Leonard Corporation South Pacific: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical The Applause Libretto Library
ÊMusic by Richard RodgersÊÞÊLyrics by Oscar Hammerstein IIÊÞÊBook by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua LoganÊÞÊAdapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelÊ Tales of the South Pacific Êby James A. MichenerÊÞÞWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony for Best Musical ÊSouth PacificÊ flourished as the golden musical of Broadway's post-WWII golden era. Nearly 60 years after its 1949 premiere ÊSouth PacificÊ returned to Broadway in Lincoln Center Theater's glorious Tony-winning production setting box-office records and bringing this timely and timeless musical to new generations. With a score by Rodgers & Hammerstein and a libretto by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ÊTales of the South PacificÊ this landmark musical combines compassionate love stories with the saga of a world at war. Richly developed characters are faced with life-changing moments in a complex world their thoughts and yearnings powerfully expressed in the lyrics to such songs as This Nearly Was Mine Younger Than Springtime and Some Enchanted Evening.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Stella
Arthur Miller decided to become a playwright after seeing her perform with the Group Theater. Marlon Brando attributed his acting to her genius as a teacher. Theater critic Robert Brustein calls her the greatest acting teacher in America.ÞAt the turn of the 20th century ä by which time acting had hardly evolved since classical Greece ä Stella Adler became a child star of the Yiddish stage in New York where she was being groomed to refine acting craft and eventually help pioneer its modern gold standard: method acting. Stella''s emphasis on experiencing a role through the actions in the given circumstances of the work directs actors toward a deep sociological understanding of the imagined characters: their social class geographic upbringing biography which enlarges the actor''s creative choices.ÞAlways onstage Stella''s flamboyant personality disguised a deep sense of not belonging. Her unrealized dream of becoming a movie star chafed against an unflagging commitment to the trans
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Hal Leonard Corporation Film Scripts Two: High Noon, Twelve Angry Men, The Defiant Ones
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Hal Leonard Corporation Arias for Soprano Complete Package
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Hal Leonard Corporation Alan Parsons' Art & Science of Sound Recording: The Book
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Hal Leonard Corporation Photography in Worship: The Art and Science of Iconic Imagery
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Hal Leonard Corporation Drum Concepts and Techniques
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Dobro Workbook
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Hal Leonard Corporation Richard Thompson Teaches Traditional Guitar Instr.: Unique Arrangements of Irish, Scottish and English Tunes
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Very Best of the Beach Boys
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Hal Leonard Corporation Taylor Swift - Folklore
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Hal Leonard Corporation Stella Adler: The Art of Acting
Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career both in New York and Hollywood she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors including Marlon Brando Warren Beatty and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two lessons in this book.
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