Catalog Search Results
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Musical identity raises complex, multifarious, and fascinating questions. Discussions in this new study consider how individuals construct their musical identities in relation to their experiences of formal and informal music teaching and learning. Each chapter features a different case study situated in a specific national or local sociomusical context, spanning 20 regions across the world. Subjects range from Ghanaian or Balinese villagers, festival-goers...
84) Musical interpretation: its laws and principles, and their application in teaching and performing
Author
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
xiv, 163 pages : music ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This classic book contains a wealth of information on the subject of musical interpretation, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest of the subject. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork....
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 293 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Children create music in individually unique ways, but also using common processes. Each creating process component stated in the United States' National Music Standards (imagine, plan and make, evaluate and refine, and present; NCCAS, 2014) is explored in this text using children's creations from China, India, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States as examples. What can the characteristics of music created by children from five diverse locations...
93) Little women
Author
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832?1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters?Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March?detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Little Women was an immediate commercial and...
Author
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...
Author
Lexile measure
AD 750L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The story that started it all and spawned a series of film adaptations that have become the stuff of silver screen legend: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum is in fact the first in a series of novels set in Oz, but it is by far the most famous. Published right at the turn of the century in the year 1900, the novel's fantastical setting---a world inhabited by zany creatures and terrifying villains---is a perfect sort of quaint escapism...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Financial Feminist, Tori Dunlap distills the principles of her shame- and judgment-free approach to paying off debt, figuring out your value categories to spend mindfully, saving money without monk-like deprivation, and investing in order to spend your retirement tanning in Tulum. Featuring journaling prompts, deep-dives into the invisible aspects of the financial landscape, and interviews with experts on everything money--from predatory credit...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 221 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ. Growing up in the public eye-- a reality star in the Duggar family documentaries-- Vuolo grew up believing the Bible was primarily a rulebook and that faith was about executing God's laws to perfection. These ingrained principles...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The new music teacher must try to teach A.J. and the rest of his class to play well enough during their recital to impress crabby Dr. Carbles.
99) Oliver Twist
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Retells the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This fresh edition of a Free Spirit classic presents charming new illustrations along with the familiar encouraging message of the original. Children learn that violence is never okay, that they can manage their anger and other strong feelings, and that they're capable of positive, loving actions- like playing, making music, learning, counting, helping, taking care, and much more. Includes a special section for adults with activities and discussion...
MNLINK Interlibrary Loan
Be sure you’ve looked in the “all libraries” option at the top of the page, and if you didn’t find what you need, try requesting it from another Minnesota library through MNLINK interlibrary loan (ILL). You’ll use the same barcode number and password for MNLINK as you do for the library catalog