aNobii: News from akikoo's shelf

Voyage au coeur du Mont Blanc

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:05:47 PST

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Aki Kaurismäki

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:05:47 PST

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Antonio Gaudi

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:05:47 PST

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Brancusi, 1876-1957

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:05:47 PST

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De Stael Nicolas - L'exposition

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:05:47 PST

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In I Musiken

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:05:46 PST

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Peter Bastians bok IN I MUSIKEN har väckt stort uppseende genom sitt okonventionella sätt att betrakta musik. Bastian utgår från den direkta upplevelsen av musiken och får oss att lyssna förutsättningslöst och lyhört.

Musik och tanke

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:05:46 PST

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Huvudlinjer i musikestetikens historia från antiken till vår egen tid Vad är musik? Är den "hjärtats röst", "lidelsernas språk", ett uttryck för "gudomlig uppenbarelse", eller skall den hellre betraktas som "form i tonande rörelse" eller kort och gott "organiserat ljud"? Författaren behandlar i denna bok hur människorna genom den västerländska historien, från antiken till vår tid, har ställt si ...

Modern Music

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:05:46 PST

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Reissue of the Fourth Album from the 70's UK Power Rock Band featuring Bill Nelson. Modern Music Saw Be-bop Rely More on Sythesizers as Nelson Started to Explore a More Experimental Sound, as Evidenced on 'electricia Language' on the Harvest Label. Includes Original Tracks and Artwork plus Three Bonus Tracks. Originally Released in 1976; Includes Three Bonus Tracks.

Lettres à son frère Théo

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:20 PST

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Funk

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:20 PST

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Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistable music. Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, intelli ...

Musikalisk poetik

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:20 PST

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Igor Stravinskij är 1900-talets musikaliska portalfigur, nydanare och klassiker. I Musikalisk poetik skriver han om det musikaliska skapandet. Om musikens element och former, om musikalisk komposition och om det musikaliska framförandet. Stravinskijs stil - också som författare - är livfull och klar när han ger inblickar i sin egen musikaliska värld och förmedlar väsentlig kunskap om den konstn ...

The Study of Orchestration

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:20 PST

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The third edition of the high successful orchestration text follows the approach established in its innovative predecessor: Learning orchestration is best achieved through familiarity with the orchestral literature; this familiarity is most effectively accomplished from the music notation in combination with the recorded sound. To this end, this set of compact discs has been created especially ...

The Hacker Ethic

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:14 PST

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Nearly a century ago, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism articulated the animating spirit of the industrial age, the Protestant ethic. Now, Pekka Hinamen — together with Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells — articulates how hackers* represent a new, opposing ethos for the information age. Underlying hackers' technical creations — such as the Internet and the personal c ...

World History of Art, A

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:14 PST

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Twentieth-Century Harmony

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:14 PST

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Nicolas de Staël

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:14 PST

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Free Play

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:13 PST

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This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. Free Play is directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It inte ...

Miles

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:13 PST

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For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life.Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about ...

Miles Beyond

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:04:13 PST

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"I was put here to play music, and interpret music. I might do a lot of other things, but the main thing that I love, that comes before everything, even breathing, is music." Miles Davis to Ben Sidran in 1986 (The Miles Davis Companion, page 196) A "must have" for every Miles Davis fan! Miles Beyond dares to venture where not other biographer has gone before. It offers the first in-depth exp ...