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|  | Untitled Nonfiction about Creativity by Rosanne Cash
Description not available.The singer-songwriter collects prose writing from her contemporaries, including David Byrne, Marc Cohn, Paula Cole, Lyle Lovett, John Stewart, Suzanne Vega, Lucinda Williams, Loudon Wainwright, and of course, her father. 25,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Rosanne Cash
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests 
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 | Home Made
You've seen her on HGTV's Today at Home and the Discovery Channel's Home Matters. Now she reveals her secrets for creating simple crafts, beauty aids, and home products.
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Performing Baroque Music by Mary Cyr, Reinhard G. Pauly
Mary Cyr's Performing Baroque Music is unique as a practical guide devoted in its entirety to the most important issues of baroque performance practice. Listeners, performers, students, and instructors will find here, carefully explained and thoroughly documented, the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Cyr, an acclaimed baroque musician as well as a noted scholar, considers both the boundaries and the freedom that were inherent in baroque performing techniques . Chapter 1 introduces the field of performance practice and its goals, the limits of authenticity , and the characteristics of baroque sound. Chapters 2 through 8 explore issues critical to the performance of baroque music: tempo, dynamics, pitch and temperament, the basso continuo, articulation, rhythm and notational conventions, and appropriate ornamentation. Readers will find new material on continuo playing, as well as extensive treatment of singing and French music. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century notation, are included for close study. These works are also available on the cassette tape offered as a companion to this book, featuring recent performances by musicians of international reputation. The literature on baroque performance practice has grown to such vast proportions in recent decades that this thoughtful volume serves also as a concise guide to reference materials. Extensive annotated bibliographies of modern and baroque sources will be useful to performers and fans. During the baroque period, performer and composer shared a more equal role in the compositionalprocess than is typical today, so that interpretation in performance is particularly important. Mary Cyr's work contributes greatly to our understanding of the creation of baroque sound and to the shared goal of effective and enjoyable performance. AUTHOR: Mary Cyr, Reinhard G. Pauly
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | My Worst Date by David Leddick
Hugo is 16, and lives with his single mother in South Beach, Miami. He maintains the appearance of a perfectly normal teenaged life, working to save money for college and hanging out with his friend at the beach. But appearances are deceiving. He is not working at the pizza place like he tells his mother--he is a go-go boy at the Bomber Club. And the person he is seeing is Glenn Elliot Paul, who also happens to be seeing Hugo's mother. AUTHOR: David Leddick
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Humor
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 | Knitted Tams by Ann Sabin, Mary Rowe
Starting with the basics, this book gives instructions for tams of all sizes, using a variety of standard yarns and an array of captivating patterns; also explains how to create original designs. AUTHOR: Ann Sabin, Mary Rowe
PUBLISHER: Interweave Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Free-Flow Quilts by Vikki Pignatelli
Award-winning quiltmaker Vikki Pignatelli introduces a revolutionary method of quiltmaking that takes the time, trouble, and frustration out of making a perfect quilt. Her easy techniques in Quilting Curves ensure that your designs come together quickly, with beautiful, graceful results--even for beginners. Ideal for machine quilters, Pignatelli shows you how to make wonderful, flowing curves and perfect star points without the tricky needle turn or precise piecing techniques that traditional quiltmaking involves. She demonstrates how to use a variation on her method for creating three-dimensional effects. A chapter on creativity provides you with the tools to start creating quilts of your own design. Fast, fun, and easy quilt tops that would take weeks to piece using conventional methods come together in hours Trouble-free-- quilts appear to be intricately pieced but are easy to topstitch by machine Eight complete patterns help you master the technique before moving on to create quilts of your own design AUTHOR: Vikki Pignatelli
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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