The Marks Of A Maestro

Only recently has it become obvious that conductors' annotated scores and marked orchestral parts are of great cultural, historical and musical importance. In the not-so-distant past, these artefacts had something of an uncertain status with many either languishing unopened in libraries and family archives or simply being dispersed or discarded. With the help of institutions such as the Royal Academy of Music, Harvard University and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra this has begun to change with their extensive collections of these materials now being made available to scholars and musicians. This element examines the emergence of these artefacts as didactic and interpretative tools and explores the ways in which the performance styles of ten iconic conductors active in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries are reflected in their annotated scores and marked orchestral parts of Mozart's Symphony No. 41, K. 551 ('Jupiter').

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection, and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty Medieval, Renaissance, and later historic objects in a wide variety of media, encompassing metalwork, stained glass, enamels, ceramics, and jewels. Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary chasse, a Mosan lion aquamanile, thirty-eight pieces in a remarkable cohesive group of Italian maiolica, three of the very rare pottery objects known as 'Saint-Porchaire', and, the centerpiece of the collection, the Suger chalice, an ancient sardonyx cup to which the Abbot Suger added a bejewelled golden setting in the twelfth century. Like other volumes in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art Collections,Western Decorative Arts includes a thoroughly researched entry for each object, together with an artist biography, up-to-date bibliography, and a technical analysis.

Apocalypse Dawn: Twilight's Breaking is the start of the Shades of Gray dystopia science fiction series and contains the first two complete novels of the series plus a sample of the third novel of the apocalyptic series. Shades of Gray #1 Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness (SOG1-complete book) Shades of Gray #2 From Moscow, With Love (SOG2-complete book) Shades of Gray #3 Cerberus Versus Pandora (SOG3-sample) The Shades of Gray series follows the adventures of Kat and Kim. Noir was a mega-city plagued by a sun blocking mass called Dry Clouds that had mysteriously appeared three decades earlier. The Dry Clouds covered half the planet and forced those living under them to exist in endless night. On this world, corporations were in charge and breaking your contract with them could mean the termination of your life. Kimberly Griffin, a Life Closer (legal assassin) existed in a world of death. She Closed people for a living. It was a lonely demeaning existence, though she wouldn't admit it. There was nothing to drive her in the bleak reality until one day she ran into Kat. Kat, also known as the Pandora Project, was hunted by bio-mechas called Un-Men. She was an experiment of the Sphinx Corporation, and they were testing her to see if she could be the ultimate weapon. Kat refused to be a killer and tried to discover the truth behind her existence. Could she be a new form of bio-mecha? Kim discovered someone close to her had been murdered. Is Kat the key to finding out who did it? Or will her association with Kat only cause her more grief? Pandora of ancient times opened a box and let all good escape. Would Pandora be the hope the planet needed? Or would she destroy the world?

In this collection of my stories, visit realms of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery. Each of the following short stories, novellas, or novels starts one of my series, so grab this collection and see what I offer. Some of the series include the first two ebooks. So start reading, you might just find a series you'll love. 1. AabiLynn's Dragon Rite #0 2. Shades of Gray #1 3. Shades of Gray #2 4. Beauty Of The Beast #1 The Mystic Rose: Part A 5. Monster of Monsters #1 Part One 6. Monster of Monsters #1 Part Two 7. AaBack's Grimm #1 8. AaBack's Grimm #2 Soar through magical worlds where dragon riders fly through the sky. Enter a world existing in eternal night where legal assassins, called Life Closers, enforce corporate laws, and corporations rule as king. Read about the action-adventure fairytale world of Beauty and the Beast but in this tale, the woman is the one turned into the beast. Try to survive a deadly game filled with contestant monsters in the horror science fiction thriller. Enter Grimm a wonderous and yet terrifying realm of magic, swords, and fairytale creatures and find the Beast from Beauty and the Beast as a living and breathing person.