In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvardprofessor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, turns his attention topopular music legend Bruce Springsteen, and to the powerful impactSpringsteen’s work has had both on the lives of his audience and onthis country’s literary tradition. Coles places Springsteen in thepantheon of American artists—Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams,Dorothea Lange, and Walker Percy, among others—who understood andwere inspired by their “traveling companions in time,” the ordinarypeople of their eras. With wisdom and a unique personal perspective, Coles exploresSpringsteen’s words as contemporary American poetry, and offersfirsthand accounts of how people interact with them: A truckerlistens to “Blinded by the Light” during long, lonely nights andreminisces about his mother; a schoolteacher is astonished when ausually silent student offers a comparison between “Nebraska” andConrad’s Heart of Darkness; a policeman responds to “Am

音乐欣赏的首要目的是让学生能真正的欣赏音乐。欣赏音乐的前提是肯定音乐是美的东西，是值得人们去欣赏，而且由此而获益的。既然音乐是美的，那么这个课程首先就是对美的享受和甄别，是对学生的听觉审美的满足。起码在感性层面会让学生带来欣赏的快乐，让他真切体会音乐的美之所在。使音乐的本质揭示和人的主体性接受相吻合，只有这一目的得以体现，才可能兼及其余。

In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize--winning musician andcomposer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he's learned from alifetime in jazz-lessons that can help us all move to higherground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is thebirthright of every American and demonstrates how a realunderstanding of the central idea of jazz-the unique balancebetween self-expression and sacrifice for the common goodexemplified on the bandstand-can enrich every aspect of our lives,from the bedroom to the boardroom, from the schoolroom to CityHall. Along the way, Marsalis helps us understand the life-changingmessage of the blues, reveals secrets about playing-andlistening-and passes on wisdom he has gleaned from working withthree generations of great musicians. Illuminating and inspiring,Moving to Higher Ground is a master class on jazz and life,conducted by a brilliant American artist.

John M. Gottman ha revolucionado el estudio del matrimonioutilizando procesos rigurosamente científicos para la observaciónde los hábitos de las parejas a través de muchos a?os en un detallesin precedentes. Aquí está la culminación de una vida de trabajo:los siete principios que guían a las parejas en el camino haciarelaciones duraderas y armoniosas. Directo en su método, pero a lavez profundo en sus resultados, estos principios ense?an asombrosasnuevas estrategias para hacer que el matrimonio funcione. Gottmanayuda a las parejas a concentrarse el uno en el otro, a prestaratención al día a día y a los peque?os detalles que, puestosjuntos, forman el corazón y el alma de cualquier relación.Acompa?ado de ejercicios y cuestionarios prácticos Los sieteprincipios para hacer que el matrimonio funcione es la guíadefinitiva para cualquiera que quiera que su relación alcance sumáximo potencial.

Rembrandt - a never-ending experience Rembrandt the thinker:The structural conception of Rembrandt's early pictures The encounter between observer and subject From interpretation to observation:The Night Watch Observation as comprehension:The Staalmeesters The search for life in the picture:Susanna and the Elders The mystery of the revealed form:The Jewish Bride Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 1606-1669: Chronology

《中国美术院校教材：潘思同水彩画直观教材选》所介绍的是潘思同20世纪五、六十年代在浙江美术学院水彩画教学中使用的部分直观教材。所谓直观教材就是上课时的图示和示范作品。由于上课的教学时间有限，不可能在课堂里做大量示范，所以在每堂课上课之前，作为备课，潘思同都要针对一、二个问题，画一些直观教材，上面配备必要的文字说明，一方面为了节省时间，另一方面也为了取得视觉效果。在直观教材中，有些图本身就是独立的作品，因此，下课后学生常常争先恐后地拿去观摩、临摹。对这些直观教材，学生反应很好，有些青年教师也常借去作为参考。当时许多同行建议让这些教材印刷出版，但由于当时彩色印刷费用高昂，会大大提高书价，而且印刷质量也大有问题，如果采用黑白图版则大大削弱教材的直观效果，因而始终未能出版面世1993年，“

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Piano Lessons is Noah Adams's delightful and movingchronicle of his fifty-second year--a year already filled withlong, fast workdays and too little spare time--as he answers atlast a lifelong call: to learn to play the piano. The twelvemonthly chapters span from January--when after decades of growingaffection for keyboard artists and artisans he finally plunges inand buys a piano--through December, when as a surprise Christmaspresent for his wife he dresses in a tuxedo and, in flickeringcandlelight, snow falling outside the windows, he attempts theirfavorite piece of music, a difficult third-year composition he'sbeen struggling with in secret to get to this very moment. Among the up-tempo triumphs and unexpected setbacks, Noah Adamsinterweaves the rich history and folklore that surround the piano.And along the way, set between the ragtime rhythms andboogie-woogie beats, there are encounters with--and insightsfrom--masters of the keyboard, from Glenn Gould and Leon Fleisher("I was a bit embarrassed," he wr

Breaking up is hard to do - and when a relationship turnssour, nothing provides more comfort than the cheesy pop hits of the'70s and '80s. Just as Quirk's I Can't Fight This Feeling was ananthology of classic love poetry, You Give Love a Bad Name featurespoetic writings on breaking up - and moving on - from The Bee Gees,Michael Bolton, Pat Benatar, Hall and Oates, and many others.Packaged in an elegant hardcover volume with a deluxe ribbonmarker, it's the perfect gift for anyone seeking to mend a brokenheart. Includes these timeless classics: - Is She Really Going Out with Him? - Joe Jackson - She's Gone - Hall and Oates - Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul - Alone - Heart - Goodbye to You - Scandal

Steve Silberman's tribute to Jerry Garcia, 1942-1995 Skeleton Key:A Dictionary for Deadheads is 400 pages of lore,history, interviews, and thoughts on the Meaning of It All, fromwhat guitarist Jerry Garcia calls "the Grateful Dead outback" - thediverse global community that is nourished by the music of theGrateful Dead and the shared experience of Dead shows. Skeleton Key is a labor of love and "deadication" by DeadheadsDavid Shenk and Steve Silberman, published by Doubleday/Main StreetBooks in 1994.Skeleton Key celebrates the magic, humor, andsignificance of the Deadhead community, while it investigates thehistory of the Long Strange Trip - from the days of be-bop jazz andthe Beat Generation writers whose literary adventures inspired manyDeadheads' own on-the-road journeys, to now, when Deadheads swaptapes and tales around the virtual campfires of Deadheadcyberspace. 1995 marks the 30th year of the Dead's experiment inimprovisational telepathy.Skeleton Key is the first detailed roadmap of the culture and

You won t find poems by Emily Dickinson or Robert Browning inthis anthology but you will find heartfelt verse from suchluminaries as Olivia Newton-John, REO Speedwagon, Axl Rose, BarryWhite, The Partridge Family, and many others. I Can t Fight ThisFeeling showcases their most passionate lyrics in an eleganthardcover volume, with classy paper stock and a deluxe ribbonmarker. It s the perfect Valentine s Day gift for music-lovers anda literary heirloom that your family will cherish for generations.Includes these timeless classics: Hot Stuff Donna Sumer The Lady inRed Chris DeBurgh I Honestly Love You Olivia Newton-John MorningTrain Sheena Easton Bad Medicine Bon Jovi and many, many more!

When a young Richie Furay moved to New York hoping to make itbig in folk music, God wasn’t one of his concerns. But destinywas. Later, when he started Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young andStephen Stills, it seemed Furay’s destiny had finally arrived.Although the band recorded only three albums, it remains atouchstone of sixties rock music–with all five band members nowenshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Furay remained a musical pioneer, forming Poco and recording someof the first–and best–country rock music of the sixties andseventies. His work was a major influence on the Eagles andinnumerable other bands. But he still had not found hisdestiny. It wasn’t until his marriage almost disintegrated that Furayconfronted his need for God. After co-founding two legendary bandsand recording with a rock super-group, Richie Furay finally foundhis destiny. The long journey took him from sold-out arena concertsto the pulpit of a Colorado church, from rock royalty to the Roc

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick Long before "women in rock" became a media catchphrase, AfricanAmerican guitar virtuoso Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacularfashion that women could rock. Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, in1915, Tharpe was gospel's first superstar and the preeminentcrossover figure of its golden age (1945–1965). Shout, Sister, Shout! is the first biography of this trailblazingperformer who influenced scores of popular musicians, from ElvisPresley and Little Richard to Eric Clapton and Etta James. Tharpewas raised in the Pentecostal Church, steeped in the gospeltradition, but she produced music that crossed boundaries, defiedclassification, and disregarded the social and cultural norms ofthe age; incorporating elements of gospel, blues, jazz, popularballads, folk, country, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll. Tharpewent electric early on, captivating both white and black audiencesin the North and South, in the U.S. and internationally, with hercharisma and skill.