97 Results for : cadences
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, Hörbuch, Digital, 367min
Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of 15 detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore's 234 murders that year. Simon takes listeners inside the detectives' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape and politics, the bursts of energy and moments of despair. With an eye for the scenes of slaughter and pursuit and an ear for the cadences of cop talk, both business and banter, Simon gives this brilliant, harrowing account its authenticity and fascinating edge. Simon plants us so close to these detectives that we see everything - the Police Department, the prosecutors, the courts, the city of Baltimore itself - from their angle. This is a never-before-seen look at what it's really like to investigate murders for a living. Language: English. Narrator: Reed Diamond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bant/000122/bk_bant_000122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Complete Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 3801min
A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in 20th-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, listeners now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard's Complete Stories evokes the hallucinations of Kafka and Borges in its ability to render modern paranoia and fantastical creations on the page. A Washington Post Best Book of 2009, Boston Globe Best Book, Los Angeles Times Favourite Book, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ric Jerrrom, William Gaminara, Sean Barrett, William Hope, Jeff Harding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018394/bk_adbl_018394_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All the Summer Girls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fiancé the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful stay-at-home mom Vanessa finds herself obsessively searching the Internet for news of an old flame. And in San Francisco, Dani, an aspiring writer who can't seem to put down a book - or a cocktail - long enough to open her laptop, has just been fired... again. In an effort to regroup, Kate, Vanessa, and Dani retreat to the New Jersey beach town where they once spent their summers. Emboldened by the seductive cadences of the shore, the women begin to realize just how much their lives, and friendships, have been shaped by the choices they made one fateful night on the beach eight years earlier - and the secrets that now threaten to surface. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Henderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003444/bk_harp_003444_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Faery Tales and Nightmares , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 566min
An enthralling collection of short stories featuring favourite characters from Melissa Marr’s best-selling Wicked Lovely series. Dangerous promises and beguiling threats swirl together in a dozen stories of enchantments, dark and light, by New York Times best-selling author Melissa Marr. Uncanny and unexpected creatures appear from behind bushes, rise from under the seas, or manifest from seasonal storms to pursue the objects of their attention - with amorous or sinister intent - relentlessly. From the gentle tones of a storyteller’s cadences to the terror of a blood sacrifice, tales of favourite characters from Marr’s Wicked Lovely novels mix with accounts of new characters for listeners to fall in love with….or to fear. Lush, seductive, and chilling, Melissa Marr’s stories revel in the unseen magic that infuses the world as we know it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mia Barron, Kaleo Griffith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001001/bk_hcuk_001001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Harmonic Experience (eBook, ePUB)
An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual. W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music that reconnects modern-day musicians with the source from which music was originally generated. As the author states, "The rules of music--including counterpoint and harmony--were not formed in our brains but in the resonance chambers of our bodies." His theory of music reconciles the ancient harmonic system of just intonation with the modern system of twelve-tone temperament. Saying that the way we think music is far from the way we do music, Mathieu explains why certain combinations of sounds are experienced by the listener as harmonious. His prose often resembles the rhythms and cadences of music itself, and his many musical examples allow readers to discover their own musical responses.- Shop: buecher
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The Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 125min
Japanese poetry is well-known for its clarity and concision, and The Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki are two of the best-loved, and most intensely Japanese, works of their kind; famous for their beautiful, delicate verse and subtle insight into the human condition. It has been said of The Narrow Road that 'it was as if the very soul of Japan had itself written it'. It takes the form of a travel diary, and traces the poet's journey from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to the northern interior. Hojoki, a much earlier work written by Chomei, a Buddhist hermit, is essentially a meditation on the transience of the world. Read by the famous classical Japanese actor Togo Igawa, the full beauty of its ancient cadences and rhythms is drawn out. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Togo Igawa. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000447/bk_naxo_000447_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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As Flies to Whatless Boys , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 755min
In 1845 London, an engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan John Adolphus Etzler has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society (TES) and recruits a variety of London citizens to take his machines and his misguided ideas to form a protosocialist, utopian community in the British colony of Trinidad. Among his recruits is a teenage boy (and the audiobook's narrator) named Willy Tucker, who falls head-over-heels for the enthralling and wise Marguerite Whitechurch. Coming from the gentry, Marguerite is a world away from Willy's laboring class. As the voyage continues, and their love for one another strengthens, Willy and Marguerite prove themselves to be the true socialists aboard ship, their actions and adventures standing in stark contrast to Etzler's disconnected theories.” Robert Antoni's tragic historical novel, accented with West Indian cadences and captivating humor, provides an unforgettable glimpse into nineteenth-century Trinidad & Tobago. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Antoni. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020814/bk_adbl_020814_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Warrior Ways: Explorations in Modern Military Folklore , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 622min
Warrior Ways is one of the first book-length explorations of military folklife, and focuses on the lore produced by modern American warriors, illuminating the ways in which members of the armed services creatively express the complex experience of military life. In short, lively essays, contributors to the volume, all of whom have close personal or professional relationships to the military, examine battlefield talismans, personal narrative (storytelling), “Jody calls” (marching and running cadences), slang, homophobia and transgressive humor, music, and photography, among other cultural expressions. Military folklore does not remain in an isolated subculture; it reveals our common humanity by delighting, disturbing, infuriating, and inspiring both those deeply invested in and those peripherally touched by military life. Highlighting the contemporary and historical importance of the military in American life, Warrior Ways will be of interest to scholars and students of folklore, anthropology, and popular culture; those involved in veteran services and education; and general readers interested in military culture. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Alexander Brancy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014898/bk_acx0_014898_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Classical Piano Method (eBook, PDF)
This is ideal for adults and young people looking to learn the piano from scratch, or for those returning to the piano after a substantial break from playing. As the learner, you will gain a traditional, classic technique, and will be introduced to interesting, varied and well-known classical pieces right from the outset. The method is friendly and is carefully designed to progress in small manageable steps, beginning with simple fingering patterns and exercises, moving onto some of the most beautiful melodies and pieces from the baroque, classical and romantic eras: such as the Ode to Joy, Für Elise and the Blue Danube Waltz. The Method Books lead you through a range of exercises, repertoire pieces to learn, theory checks, clear instruction & diagrams on playing and technique, tips on practising, and composer biographies. Learning is made interesting, informed and fun. Method Book 1 includes lessons on posture, hand positions, staves, clefs, chords.... Method Book 2 includes lessons on intervals, changing hand positions, cadences, inversions, triplets, syncopation, 6/8 time...- Shop: buecher
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Meeting of Minds, Volume IX , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 117min
Conceived and developed by Steve Allen, the award-winning PBS-TV series Meeting of the Minds brought together the most provocative figures of history for conversation and conflict. William Shakespeare is the featured guest on this installment, which breaks the pattern set in the earlier shows by surrounding the famed playwright not with other illustrious historical figures, but with the fruits of his own imagination.Following a brief and only marginally revealing discussion of his early life, Shakespeare is joined by the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Hamlet, Romeo, Othello, and the Ghost of Hamlet's Father. Expounding on the theme of love, the most enigmatic and compelling of Shakespeare's characters challenge each other and their mutual creator to resolve long-standing controversies about their identities and inner conflicts.As they speak in the eloquent cadences of iambic pentameter, and with little respect for the discomfort of the playwright, the often unruly group continues the Meeting of Minds tradition of lively and entertaining discourse. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Harris Yulin, Jayne Meadows, Anthony Costello, William Marshall, Charles Lanyer, Fred Sadoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000163/bk_pnix_000163_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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