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The Dears: Lost in the Plot (Bibliophonic #1)
By Lorraine Carpenter. 2011
Over a decade after the release of their first album, The Dears have weathered the indie fringes, the collapse of…
the music industry as we knew it and the near implosion of the band itself, with their creative vision and gang dynamic intact. The Dears: Lost in the Plot looks at how The Dears survived the fallout, and helped launch the acclaimed mid-aughts music scene in their hometown of Montréal. The Dears: Lost in the Plot is the first book in Invisible Publishing’s new Bibliophonic series. The Bibliophonic Series is a catalogue of the ongoing history of contemporary music. Each book is a time capsule, capturing artists and their work as we see them, providing a unique look at some of today’s most exciting musicians.Complete Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook: 150 Healthy Recipes to Manage Diabetes
By Ariel Warren. 2022
Live and eat well while managing type 2 diabetes If you have diabetes, the easiest way to improve your diet…
and your health is to prepare well-balanced versions of the dishes you already know and love. This cookbook is filled with delicious, easy-to-make recipes that are designed specifically for people with type 2 diabetes, and are packed with the whole foods you need for optimal blood sugar control. What sets this diabetic cookbook apart: Options for every meal—Enjoy 150 tasty recipes, from easy breakfasts to satisfying snacks and healthy weeknight meals. A diabetes lifestyle—Explore a holistic approach to living with diabetes, including an overview of diabetic nutrition as well as tips for exercise, sleep, and more. ADA approved recipes—Cook with confidence, knowing that every recipe in this type 2 diabetes cookbook for beginners follows the American Diabetes Association's recommendation for the diabetic plate. Learn how to manage your diabetes without giving up your favorite flavors with the Complete Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook.Treating PCOS with the DASH Diet: Empower the Warrior from Within
By Amy Plano. 2019
Relieve PCOS symptoms with the proven power of the DASH diet PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) is difficult to live with,…
but its symptoms—such as infertility and weight gain—can be managed, and, in some cases, eliminated altogether. A modified DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension) diet has been clinically proven to reduce PCOS symptoms. The DASH diet optimizes insulin levels, promotes weight loss, and reduces the risk of chronic diseases—all the while, you're enjoying delicious meals and getting relief. Not sure how to get started? Not a problem. Treating PCOS with the DASH Diet contains a 3-week meal plan that guides you along this new journey. Learn how to properly prep meals week-to-week with simple recipes that are healthy, tasty, and easy to whip up. Treating PCOS with the DASH Diet includes the following: Harness a data-backed diet—DASH has been shown to help PCOS sufferers lose stomach fat and improve inflammation markers. Lower your insulin resistance—Learn how to reduce insulin resistance and keep unwanted weight gain in check. Improve your eating habits—Changing the way you eat isn't easy, and this book offers helpful guidelines to make your transition simple. Discover the positive health effects the DASH diet can have towards your PCOS symptoms. With this helpful guide, you'll be feeling (and eating) better in no time.The Diabetic Cookbook for Electric Pressure Cookers: Instant Healthy Meals for Managing Diabetes
By Shelby Kinnaird, Simone Harounian. 2019
Diabetes-friendly meals made electric pressure cooker fast. Electric pressure cookers (EPCs) make cooking meals for managing diabetes surprisingly quick and…
easy. This diabetes cookbook offers simple, tasty recipes, especially for the EPC. You'll learn how to get the most out of your appliance and save time and money while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. From Gouda Egg Casserole with Canadian Bacon to Black Bean Chipotle Chili, The Diabetes Cookbook for Electric Pressure Cookers offers everyday meals that you and your whole family will enjoy. Who knew diabetes-friendly could be this delicious? The Diabetes Cookbook for Electric Pressure Cookers includes: EASY DIETARY GUIDELINES—Guesswork is eliminated and you'll learn how the EPC helps you stay the course. EPC 101—Step-by-step instructions and tips for using the multifunctional settings help you master the EPC. 80 QUICK & HEALTHY RECIPES—All the recipes in this diabetes cookbook require no more than 40 minutes from start to finish. The Diabetes Cookbook for Electric Pressure Cookers is the perfect healthy solution for busy (and hungry) people.Care for yourself while caring for a loved one with diabetes Taking care of someone with diabetes can be tiring…
and emotionally draining at times. As a caregiver, you may overlook your own health and well-being because you're so focused on your loved one. This book helps empower you to be an attentive caregiver for your friend or family member with diabetes—while also taking good care of yourself. Give your loved one the support they need with guidance for everything from medications and treatments to financial and legal decisions. You'll also find practical advice for meeting your own physical and emotional needs, and dealing with the unique challenges you face as a caregiver. Understanding diabetes—Learn what diabetes is and isn't, how the condition affects the body, and how your role as caregiver fits in. Relatable stories—Read examples of real situations you might encounter as a diabetes caregiver. What to do, say, and ask—Explore questions to ask your healthcare provider, and get suggestions for what to do and say in specific situations, like if your loved one is having trouble managing their blood sugar or medication side effects. Attend to your own needs while being a supportive diabetes caregiver with help from this compassionate guide.Manage your gestational diabetes with confidence A gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) diagnosis can be worrying, but, with a little guidance,…
it's simple to care for yourself and your baby. Packed full of information and easy recipes, this health-focused cookbook gives you the tools you need to manage blood sugar, prepare nourishing meals, and have a happy, healthy pregnancy. What sets this book apart from other gestational diabetes cookbooks: Gestational diabetes basics—Clear up any concerns you might have about your diagnosis with a straightforward guide that explains causes, symptoms, nutritional needs, and treatment options. Complete meal plans—Jump into your new GDM-friendly diet with four weeks of shoppings lists and menus designed to help you get started. 65 simple recipes—Discover quick and convenient meals that are good for you and your baby, taste great, and don't take a lot of effort to prepare. Take charge of your GDM with this informative guide and cookbook.This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine “Iranian-ness” in the context of…
Iran’s local, regional, and global position. This study identifies the important social and political interventions made by theatrical and performance pieces, visual art, and electronic music that articulate and reformulate Iranian-ness by breaking away from fixed and constructed stereotypes projected on them by both the Islamic regime and Western power. This book explores the reception and context within which artworks become meaningful performative acts. Looking closely at the works of a notable female Iranian photographer, Shadi Ghadirian, in conjunction with the new generation of Iranian nonconformist artists/activists such as Tahmineh Monzavi and Hedieh Ahmadi; the visionary theatre productions of Ali Akbar Alizad; and radically untraditional sound/noise of the electronic music movement in Tehran, this book calls attention to the Iran-based artists who are tirelessly trying to raise awareness regarding the political violence imposed on Iranian identity at the legal (top-down) and everyday (bottom-up) levels. This volume will be of great interest to student and scholars in theatre and performance, photography, art, music, sociology, and politics.Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease: Diet, Physical Activity and Healthy Aging
By Peter Kokkinos, Labros S. Sidossis, Christina N. Katsagoni. 2023
Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Provides accurate and well-documented information on the impact of diet and physical…
activity in the prevention and management of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and healthy aging. This authoritative textbook examines the independent and combined impact of diet and physical activity in the prevention and management of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, with special emphasis on the elderly populations. In this book the authors: Provide the latest data on the association between a suboptimal diet and physical inactivity and chronic disease. Examine the role of epigenetics on longevity. Discuss the fundamentals of healthy aging. Highlight the role of well-known dietary patterns such as the Mediterranean diet and the Nordic diet in favorable health outcomes, including cardiovascular, metabolic health, and healthy aging. Discuss the health outcomes of physical activity and healthy aging. Present the most recent evidence-based data on the independent and synergistic impact of diet and exercise on disease prevention and management including, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia, kidney failure, cancer and other conditions. Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease: Diet, Physical Activity and Healthy Aging is an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in medical and health-related disciplines and for health professionals, including dietitians and nutritionists, exercise physiologists, athletic trainers, nurses, physicians, geriatricians, and other health professionals with a special focus in older adults. This book is also a highly useful reference for health professionals interested in introducing diet and physical activity as an intervention for healthy aging as well as the prevention and management of cardiovascular and other metabolic diseases that are prevalent in aging populations.Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism (Routledge Research in Music)
By Amanda J. Haste. 2023
Twenty-first-century monastic communities represent unique social environments in which music plays an integral part. This book examines the role of…
music in Catholic, Anglican/Episcopalian and neo-monastic communities in Britain and North America, engaging closely with communities of practice to provide a penetrating insight into the role of music in self-care and as a vector for identity construction on both individual and community levels. The author explores the essential role of music in community dynamics, the rationale for using instruments, the implications of both chant-based and freestyle composition, gender-related differences in musical activity, the role of dance (‘music made visible’) in community life, the commodification of monastic music, the ‘Singing Nun’ phenomenon and the role of music in established and emerging neo-monastic communities. The result is a comprehensive and compelling study of the agency of music in the construction and expression of personal and community identity.Sticking It Out: From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit: A Percussionists's Memoir
By Patti Niemi. 2016
&“By turns reflective and dramatic, poignant and hilarious, Sticking It Out offers an irresistible portrait of the artist as a…
young percussionist&” (San Francisco Chronicle). When Patti Niemi was ten years old, all the children in her school music class lined up to choose their instruments. Boy after boy chose drums, and girl after girl chose flute—that is, until it was Patti&’s turn. From that point onward, Patti devoted her life to mastering the percussive arts. Cymbals, snare drum, marimba, timpani, chimes: she practiced them all, and in 1983, she entered Juilliard, the most prestigious music conservatory in in the world. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing New York City in the 1980s, Sticking It Out recounts Patti&’s years mastering her craft and struggling to make it in a cutthroat race to a coveted job in an orchestra. Along the way, she has to compete with friends, face her own crippling anxiety, and confront the delicate, and sometimes perilous, balance of power between teachers and their students. Bringing us inside a world that most of us never get to see, Patti&’s vivid memoir is &“an eye-opening tale of demanding teachers, grueling practice schedules, severe performance anxiety and bias against &‘girl drummers&’—a funny, poignant first-person account of the fierce commitment it takes to succeed in classical music&” (San Jose Mercury News). &“One of the funniest-ever classical-music books . . . and certainly among the best written.&” —The Philadelphia Inquirer &“A shattered-mirror insight into the bizarre world of hitting things with sticks.&” —Neil Peart, bestselling author, lyricist, and drummer for RushWarum Musik in unseren Genen liegt
By Jörn Bullerdiek, Christine Süßmuth. 2023
Wussten Sie, warum Johann Sebastian Bach ganz legal lange Finger machte? Und was Sie alles mit einer Haarlocke Mozarts anfangen…
könnten, wenn Sie sie besäßen? Beides könnte Sie auf die Spur eines uralten Geheimnisses bringen, nämlich warum Menschen Freude am „Hervorbringen musikalischer Töne“ haben, wie Darwin es formulierte. Liegt das wortwörtlich in unserer DNA und was hat es dort zu suchen? Die Autoren sind in gefährlicher Nähe am Felsen der Sirenen vorbei gesegelt und haben Orpheus in die Unterwelt begleitet. Sie haben den Weg von Schallwellen von ihrer Quelle bis zum Gehirn der Hörenden verfolgt und ebenso den Stammbaum der Familie Bach wie den Gesang von Zebrafinken analysiert. Schließlich sind sie nicht nur in den Sonderzug nach Pankow gestiegen, sondern haben auch noch die Caprifischer in ihrer Heimat aufgesucht. Alles in allem ist eine unterhaltsame und informative Analyse dessen entstanden, was vom alten Ägypten bis in heutige Zeit die Faszination von Musik im Spiegel unserer Gene ausmacht.Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music
By Daniel Harrison. 2016
This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed…
when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique, Daniel Harrison contends that the tonal system did not simply die out with the dawn of the twentieth century, but continued to supplement newer techniques as a compelling means of musical organization, even into current times. Well-known art music composers such as Bartok, Hindemith, Prokofiev, and Messiaen are represented alongside composers whose work moves outside the standard boundaries of art music: Leonard Bernstein, Murice Durufle, Frank Martin, Xiaoyong Chen. Along the way, the book attends to military bugle calls, a trailer before a movie feature, a recomposition of a famous piece by Arnold Schoenberg, and the music of Neil Diamond, David Shire, and Brian Wilson. A celebration of the awesome variety of musical expressions encompassed in what is called tonal music, Pieces of Tradition is a book for composers seeking ideas and effects, music theorists interested in its innovations, and all those who practice the analysis of composition in all its modern and traditional variations.Masters of Tonewood: The Hidden Art of Fine Stringed-Instrument Making
By Jeffrey Greene. 2022
The wood used by master craftsmen to create many of the world’s legendary stringed instruments—violins and cellos, mandolins and guitars—comes…
from seven near-mythic European forests. In his latest book, Jeffrey Greene takes the reader into those woodlands and into luthiers’ workshops to show us how the world’s finest instruments not only contribute to great musical art but are prized works of art in themselves.Masters of Tonewood describes the "hidden life" of stringed instruments, beginning with the unique wood, expertly chosen and sometimes cured for decades, that gives them voices that rivet audiences. Greene takes us to forests in Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Romania, Poland, and the Czech Republic. We are introduced to the acoustical and aesthetic properties of the spruce that Stradivari treasured, and the mystery of why just one in a thousand maple trees contains decorative figuring worthy of the highest-quality instruments. Greene visits the greatest traditional centers of this craft, from Spain to the United States. He recounts the ideas and experiences of tonewood millers, luthiers, and musicians and discusses their concerns about environmental issues associated with a tradition dependent on ancient woodlands in a modern world.Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys: The Songs That Tell Their Story
By Mark Dillon. 2012
&“A vivid account . . . Young and old fans alike will enjoy&” (Publishers Weekly). This book offer a unique journey through…
The Beach Boys&’ long, fascinating history by telling the stories behind fifty of the band&’s greatest songs from the perspective of group members, collaborators, fellow musicians, and notable fans. Filled with new interviews with music legends such as Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Alan Jardine, Bruce Johnston, David Marks, Blondie Chaplin, Randy Bachman, Roger McGuinn, John Sebastian, Lyle Lovett, Alice Cooper, and Al Kooper, and commentary from a younger generation such as Matthew Sweet, Carnie Wilson, Daniel Lanois, Cameron Crowe, and Zooey Deschanel, this story of pop culture history both explores the darkness and difficulties with which the band struggled, and reminds us how their songs could make life feel like an endless summer.Discovering Classical Music: Mozart (Discovering Classical Music)
By Ian Christians. 1943
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions…
of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical music can be highly intimidating and confusing. Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in broadening the interest in classical music, has developed a unique approach, designed to make it as easy as possible for both newcomers to classical music and those who have started down the path to explore with confidence. Discovering Classical Music concentrates on the greatest composers. The author takes you step-by-step into their most approachable music and, in some cases, boldly into some of the greatest works traditionally considered too difficult for newcomers. Rarely does a book offer such potential for continued enjoyment.This volume concentrates on the life, personality and music of Edward William Elgar.Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg (Border Crossings #Vol. 5)
By Daniel Albright, Russell A. Berman, Charlotte M. Cross. 2000
The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music…
as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies.The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a…
different aspects of modality. The volume codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. For many music students and listeners, the "language of the modes" is a deep mystery, accustomed as we are to centuries of modern harmony. Wiering demystifies the modal world, showing how composers and performers were able to use this structure to create compelling and beautiful works. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music and music theory. in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. It codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music.Adrian Willaert: A Guide to Research (Routledge Music Bibliographies)
By David Kidger. 2005
This key text will be the first full-length research tool on Adrian Willaert, the Renaissance composer of motets and madrigals…
who came to prominence in the first part of the sixteenth century, and should prove invaluable to researchers and students.Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought (Studies In Contemporary Music And Culture Ser. #Vol. 4)
By Joseph Auner, Judy Lochhead. 2002
What is postmodern music and how does it differ from earlier styles, including modernist music? What roles have electronic technologies…
and sound production played in defining postmodern music? Has postmodern music blurred the lines between high and popular music? Addressing these and other questions, this ground-breaking collection gathers together for the first time essays on postmodernism and music written primarily by musicologists, covering a wide range of musical styles including concert music, jazz, film music, and popular music. Topics include: the importance of technology and marketing in postmodern music; the appropriation and reworking of Western music by non-Western bands; postmodern characteristics in the music of Górecki, Rochberg, Zorn, and Bolcom, as well as Björk and Wu Tang Clan; issues of music and race in such films as The Bridges of Madison County, Batman, Bullworth, and He Got Game; and comparisons of postmodern architecture to postmodern music. Also includes 20 musical examples.