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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking. (Updated annually)

Macao Business Law Handbook (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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Macao Business Law Handbook (World Business Law Handbook Library)
Igor Oleynik
Manufacturer: International Business Publications USA
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Release Date: 2006-01-01

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"An excellent choice for people who want everything under one cover." - Washington Post

When you're headed to a resort destination, you need different information than most travel guides can provide. Sure, you want to know about all the sights, great restaurants, and cool places to stay--but you also need detailed information on activities and sports, how to rent a condo, and which is the best grocery store to stock up on picnic supplies. Fodor's Pocket guides delivers all this and more in a convenient pocket-size book.

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This book is a collection of cases, statutes, and other materials that were selected and edited to introduce readers to the intricacies of the legal issues associated with computer technology. Its approach is comprehensive, which allows the professor to highlight the areas of law of greatest personal interest. Furthermore, it was written by a professor of computer law with a degree in computer science who has been engaged in the practice of computer law since the early 1980s.

The book starts with two overview sections: one presents a basic primer on computer technology oriented toward the reader without significant computer experience; the other addresses the difficulties and inconsistencies the legal system has experienced in addressing computer technology. After the overview sections, the book has sections on contracts, tort, evidence, freedom of information, First Amendment, jurisdiction, privacy, inaccurate information, and criminal and proprietary rights.

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A step beyond the basics

Great reference book on French Furniture

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French Furniture : From Louis XIII to Art Deco
Sylvie Chadenet
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French Furniture is a compact and informative guide to French furniture and decoration from the 16th to the 20thcentury. Numerous illustrations and concise definitions make this book indispensable for designers and collectors.

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A step beyond the basics.......2006-09-04

I'm an interior designer who collects important period 18th century French furniture. This book IS THE MOST EFFICIENT general reference to the particular periods covered and a minute step beyond the basics and generalities. For serious collectors & those who have already done their major homework - it is doubtful that you would attain additional knowledge from this book.

Great reference book on French Furniture.......2006-06-17

If you only have one reference book in your library on French Furniture, this is the one. For the beginning collector, the book provides clarification on terms and furniture types. For an appraiser, it's a great resource to help with identification of those forms which you do not see very often. There are only sketches, but they are clear, and provide very good detail. For those who simply want a better understanding of French furniture, this book is put together very well, and is easy to follow.

Consice overview for a beginner.......2005-01-26

I am new to the techniques and methodologies of identifying French furniture. This book provides a good glossary of French terms which describe the characteristics of pieces and it provides a modest description for the common pieces made in the various styles. Line drawings and sketches provide examples of the characteristics described in the text. There are no photos, but the sketches are quite good. I'm rating the book a four because I think there should be more sketches. Not all the items described are exemplified with a drawing. Otherwise, this is a great book for getting started. The content is clear and does not bog down in minutia.

French Furniture: From Louis XIII to Art Deco

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French Furniture: From Louis XIII to Art Deco

Manufacturer: Diane Pub.
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French furniture design has been admired, emulated, & collected throughout the world for centuries. Filled with 750 line drawings & descriptive texts, this book details the characteristics of French designs from Louis XIII to the 20th cent. in an easy-to-use format that makes it possible to identify styles from 400 years of French design quickly & accurately. Small differences in the shapes of legs, arms, or decorative carvings can make big differences in the identification of a piece of furniture. Each chapter covers the typical materials, techniques, & ornamentation for each period, & describes both new characteristics of old forms & the new forms of furniture that arose. For designers, antique collectors etc.

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Worth Every Penny

Sewing Outdoor Gear: Easy Techniques for Outerwear that Works
Rochelle Harper
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Release Date: 2001-08-15

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The tricky finishing details and specialized fabric requirements needed for most outerwear can scare off even experienced sewers, but as Sewing Outdoor Gear beautifully demonstrates, these garments needn't intimidate. Rochelle Harper, who has designed outerwear for several major manufacturers, carefully leads us step by step through all the basics of making jackets, coats, parkas, and pants from various fabrics, including nylon, polyester, microfiber, cotton, knits, and fleece. Excellent diagrams document features such as layering garments for Alpine skiing, high aerobic activities, and creative street wear. Harper's instructions are more general than project-specific, but they are so thorough and her designs so classy that even nonathletic types may want these clothes in their wardrobes. --Amy Handy

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How to keep warm, dry-and stylish-in any weather? This practical and innovative sewing book is the place to start. Expert author Rochelle Harper takes a comprehensive look at sewing all kinds of outerwear -- whether for sports and play or simply for defying the elements. The book will help the reader make sense of the wide range of fabrics available, including Goretex and Polarfleece. Sewers will discover techniques for creating professional-looking garments designed for the great outdoors. The first book on the specialized topic of sewing outerwear has information accessible to sewers at all skill levels and includes more than 200 color photographs and 96 drawings.

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Worth Every Penny.......2006-05-23

This book is perfect for the home sewer who wants to sew functional outdoor wear that has all of the professional looking features found in store-bought garments. The author discusses ALL of your fabric options; although many of them I have not found in retail locatios, I found the information very interesting. The book is written from the standpoint of altering ready-made patterns, so if you expect this book to cover every step of the garment construction, you will be disappointed. The photos and illustrations are thorough, clear and abundant.This book de-mystified a lot of techniques I never even thought possible for the home sewer. However- this book is not for the faint-of-heart: the techniques can be labor-intensive, but to me the results are worth it. There are plenty of fashion and embellishment ideas in this book, but I mostly bought it for the technical information, which takes into account weather, wear stresses and movement. With this book I improved upon the standard hunting gear patterns I had been making for my husband, and you almost can't tell that they are not store bought. I would recommend this book to someone who has sewn several projects and is comfortable with the basic construction process, but ready to move on to more custom, functional and professional looking garments.

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This classic baby album with a sumptuous cloth cover makes a beautiful gift for any parent, and a lovely keepsake for a baby all grown up. Dotted throughout with nostalgic, retro, fun illustrations from San Francisco-based letterpress company Hello! Lucky, this book is the place to record baby's firsts, friends, outings, occasions, and more.

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Great baby shower gift! .......2007-03-18

The Hello Baby! Baby Book is a much more creative, sophisticated keepsake journal than any I have ever seen. We received it as a gift at a baby shower and we love it; we know our daughter will appreciate it when she's old enough to wonder about her first year. The illustrations by Eunice Moyle are beautiful and original. The book blends pages to record memories, such as baby's first smile or baby's first tooth, with pages for photos and other keepsake material. It also does not overwhelm parents with too much to do, important for new, busy, sleep-deprived parents. I highly recommend it!

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Notes of a Pianist chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). An important cultural and historical work, the book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the last decade of his life.

Born to an English-Jewish father and a Haitian mother, Gottschalk is remembered as one of the great New Orleans musicians and composers, his music a combination of the classical tradition in which he was trained, and the New Orleans tradition into which he was born. His art form took him far outside the boundaries of Louisiana, however. While still a child, he studied piano in Paris and gave a concert at the Salle Pleyel, after which Frédéric Chopin is said to have remarked: "Give me your hand, my child; I predict that you will become the king of pianists." Gottschalk returned to the United States in 1853, and later lived in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Panama, and South America, during which time he kept-sometimes sporadically, sometimes daily--the notebooks that formed the basis of Notes of a Pianist.

Published for the first time in 1881, the book continues to resonate with American cultural and musical life. Notes of a Pianist demonstrates Gottschalk's importance not only as a reporter of the musical life and tastes of Americans during the Civil War, but also as a forefather of Louisiana's rich musical culture.

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Notes of an American Original.......2006-06-23

Louis Moreau Gottschalk was sometimes called the American Chopin, or the Chopin of the Creoles. He wasn't. His music, mostly piano pieces, is by turns jovial, stormy, sentimental, or lachrymose, and is a surprising blend of European, African-American, and Latin music, with plenty of quotations from American national ballads thrown in. It isn't superficial, but its appeal is frank and obvious, which is perhaps why he isn't heard often these days. If his works are absent from concert performances now, they can easily be found in recordings, and they are worth listening to. His pieces were enormously popular at the time around the Civil War. People bought his sheet music if they could not hear him. To hear him, they often did not have to go far out of their way, because Gottschalk traveled all over to give solo concerts or to organize concerts by others (sometimes Monster Concerts of 650 musicians). He was wildly popular, mostly because he worked hard to be, but he caught on as a matinee idol. It would be wonderful to hear him play; even those who objected to his compositions were amazed by his proficiency at the piano, and caricatures of him playing show hundreds of fingers flying over the keys. We can't hear him play, but we can read what he had to say about playing and about the life of a nineteenth century musical superstar in his collection of notes, diary entries, and articles that was first published eleven years after his death in 1869 and is now back in print. _Notes of a Pianist: The Chronicles of a New Orleans Music Legend_ (Princeton University Press) is a delightful book. Gottschalk was masterful with words as well as with musical notes.

Gottschalk has given a funny and lively account of the travails of being an artist on the road (or rail or sea) even during war years; there are happy and frustrating encounters with the public, and stories of pleasure in performing well or doing good. He is a great complainer, often about people he sees or performs for. Another target is the pianos he has to put up with; in Panama, "The audience appears to be charmed, while I am playing on a cottage piano that I suspect was the product of an illicit union between a jew's-harp and a large kettle." But this is not the account of a peevish man; more than once he says of an annoyance something like "These things are amusing and break the monotony of our existence." He also has many times to report that in a certain concert every piece was encored, that the crowd was enthusiastic, that he has been given jeweled laurels, or a bouquet "not less than four feet in circumference." He is amused by misprints on his own playbills, and by newspaper reports of his death. "I wish to speak of my death. This sad event took place at Santiago three months ago. I was carried off in three days by a frightful attack of black vomit; it is the newspaper _Savana la Grande_ that tells it; but the _Revue de Villa Clara_, without doubt better informed, makes me succumb to an aneurism of the heart, which I much prefer, the aneurism being much more poetical than the black vomit."

A journal is a perfect place for an author to record the foibles of others and of himself, but readers will find here remarkable descriptions of such problems as using the train during a time of war and having to share it with Union soldiers who are wounded or who are boisterously rude. Embarking for Norfolk, he has to pledge an oath of allegiance to the government. He was at sea off Acapulco when the captain of another steamer boarded with news, "... words like thunderbolts: 'Richmond is taken,' 'Lee has surrendered,' 'Lincoln has been assassinated'." He had personally played for the president years before, noting, "Lincoln is remarkably ugly, but has an intelligent air, and his eyes have a remarkable expression of goodness and mildness." He reports from the middle of a battle for Lima in a revolt in 1865. Gottschalk had an amazing life, generously shared here in one amusing and surprising page after another. He possessed enormous talents to entertain, within the concert hall and on the printed page. If you don't know his music, read his book, and then listen to, say, the merry and moving symphonic _A Night in the Tropics_. I think you'll be hooked.

Bamboula!: The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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Bamboozelled!
Facinating examination of a most underrated composer
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Bamboula!: The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
S. Frederick Starr
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195072375

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an American original. A spellbinding piano virtuoso, he was America's first internationally recognized composer, whose "classical" works received accolades from Hector Berlioz and Victor Hugo, and whose arch-romantic melodies became for Americans the standard expressions of common emotions. Perhaps most important, his immensely popular Louisiana and Caribbean pieces--such as Danza, Pasquinade, or Bamboula--anticipated ragtime by fifty years. Indeed, the colorful and exotic textures of Gottschalk's music establish him at the head of what is today the mainstream of popular American culture. In Bamboula!, S. Frederick Starr presents an authoritatively researched, engagingly written biography of America's first authentic musical voice. Starr paints for us a striking portrait of Gottschalk's childhood in 1830s New Orleans, a city madly devoted to music, where opera companies, music halls, fiddlers and banjo-pickers, church choirs, and Army bands all contributed to what Starr calls "the most stunning manifestation of Jacksonian democracy in the realm of culture to be found anywhere in America." We meet Gottschalk's African-American nurse Sally, who regaled him with the creole songs, legends, and lore of her native Haiti, which would inform some of his finest music. We travel with Gottschalk to Paris, where he was a sensation, playing in fashionable salons for the likes of Lamartine, Gautier, and Dumas; and we join his flight from the Revolution of 1848 to a town north of Paris, where he composed his first great works--Bamboula, La Savane, Le Bananier, and Le Mancenillier--all published over the name "Gottschalk of Louisiana." Starr describes Gottschalk's successful return to New York City in the early 1850s, where he enjoyed a degree of popularity never before accorded to an American performer or composer, becoming our first homegrown concert idol. But Starr also examines the life-long struggle between the Catholic Gottschalk and earnest Protestant champions of "serious" music, a battle that pitted the austere values of northern Europe against the brighter sensibilities of Paris, Louisiana, and the West Indies. Based on extensive research, including hundreds of letters written by Gottschalk (in French, Spanish, and English) which are used here for the first time, Bamboula! illuminates an exotic but tragic life, as well as one of the most democratic phases of American cultural life, a world of bustling impresarios and America's first bohemian circle. A major biography in every sense, it will help reestablish Gottschalk's place in American musical history.

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Fine work, couple of negatives.......2003-11-29

Starr's research as other reviewers have mentioned was done well. Starr gives fine historical background to the many places Gottschalk lived. Details of the composer's life also are explained in specifics. My fault with this work-from a pianist point of view, is the author gives no insight to how Gottschalk became one of the five greatest pianists of the 19th century, in same ranks with Chopin, Listz, Thalberg. Starr makes no effort to show how Gottschalk practiced, and how he could keep up his incredible technique stills while traveling so much. He descibes Gottschalk's early training in Paris, but after that barely mentions how Gottschalk took his piano skills to the highest in world. Another problem I had is the author often went into little depth on how Gottschalk composed. Some of his great works are given a passing sentence and left at that, with little, and often no musical analysis of any piece. In fact, one won't find a musical staff in the whole book. One of his finest little caprices "Suis Moi" ("Follow Me"), isn't even listed in the book. I understand the composer wrote over 100 pieces, depth cannot be given to too many, but essentially there was none of this for any piece-say for except a couple.
Some of this might stem from the biographer himself not being a pianist, and not a composer (at least one of any distinction). Perhaps Starr lacked the neccessary insight for more musical opinions, or perhaps too much of Gottschalk's life is still relatively unknown. I'll perhaps give a pass to author on the latter point, and give book 4 stars because it is the best biography on him yet written.

Bamboozelled!.......2000-02-16

While I must agree with the other reviews, that Starr certainly does include a lot of references, just 40 pages into this tome - that's less than 10% - I am painfully aware of two things:

1. The constant stretch to EXPLAIN everything (his father's family's roots came via Germany and England - THEREFORE, LMG never played there).

2. A great deal of FACT is "debunked" in this effort. For instance, one instance, he says Congo Square never held slave dances during Gottschalk's time. Well, Benjamin Latrobe visited in 1819 and specifically sought out this attraction (for it was an attraction even then), he even goes to great length to describe the instruments, the drumming, dancing, singing and "savagry" (see "Louisiana Sojourns" and "Congo Square in New Orleans").

Let us not lose history in an effort to explain. Use all the facts, not just those which serve your purpose.

Unfortunately - I now do not believe every conclusion and "fact" in the entire 450+ page tome!

This is very unfortunate. I loved Starr's "Southern Comfort" and use it often. My advice is unless you have years to sort out all the half-truths here, you should skip Bamboula!

Facinating examination of a most underrated composer.......2000-01-14

If you've listened to just ONE Gottschalk composition, then you're ready to travel to the 19th century Louisana Bayou and follow young Louis Moreau to Europe and South America. This book is a detailed and engaging look at one of the world's most underrated composers and performers; one who undertood the importance of getting into communication with the audience. BOBMAKAROWSKI@HOTMAIL.COM

Interesting, well-researched, insightful. Read it........1999-08-13

One doesn't have to read far into S. Frederic Starr's biography of Louis Moreau Gottschalk to learn three things. First, that the author pursued more leads and sifted through more material than anyone else thus far in the search for information about this musical legend. Second, that Mr. Starr just adores Gottschalk's music and wishes you would, too. And third, that it's a darn shame there aren't more editors in the publishing business these days. Overall an illuminating and enjoyable book, Bamboula! covers more details about Gottschalk's concert programs and love for his mother than is perhaps necessary, but one can only admire the biographer's persistance in researching and writing this book. His descriptions of the musical institutions and leaders of the middle of the last century, particularly, reveal much about our musical tastes today. The material might perhaps have been conveyed more effectively with fewer adjectives, but that's a stylistic quibble. A major flaw, though, is the lack of a discography. Mr. Starr refers to several compositions of Gottschalk's, noting that certain performances of them are inadequate. But how is the reader to judge - or to enjoy any of this marvelous music - if there is no guide to what is available on recordings? Readers of this type of semi-scholarly book are more likely to buy a CD than to order a score and analyze it, aren't they? Anyway, I recommend this book to anyone who wishes to learn more about music and culture in 19th-century America.

Piano Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk: 26 Complete Pieces from Original Editions

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"American Chopin"
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The FIrst American Composer

Piano Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk: 26 Complete Pieces from Original Editions
Louis M. Gottschalk
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Features 26 pieces (including covers) by early 19th-century American genius. "Bamboula," "The Banjo," other Creole, Negro-based material, through elegant salon music.

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"American Chopin".......2003-03-07

Gottschalk is a name few mention when talking about great composers, but he is equal to many who have much more name recognition. His virtuosity at the piano over-shadowed how good a composer he was. Calling him the "American Chopin" is not an exagerration. The book has some great works, but is missing a few of his masterpieces, namely "Radieuse', "La Scintilla" and the "Battle Cry of Freedom".

Ah, Gottschalk..........2001-03-11

I sigh only because I wish I could obtain his music somehow. Unfortunately, it is not very readily available to me. I have found it here, but it's either special order or out of print, and neither is too accessible. Briefly I was able to borrow the music of this charming composer, and I enjoyed it for the short time I was able to see it. I hope can someday become reacquainted.

The FIrst American Composer.......2000-03-21

What has happened to American music patriotism?

Louis Moreau Gottschalk was probably the first American Pop Star ! In the 1850's women swooned. If it were permissal to hurl their nickers on stage they would have done do! The story goes that he was the musical Brad Pitt of the age.

This is a music book for pianists! It contains a wealth of information about this pop star in the form of notes to the music as well as the music itself (for those who play the piano).

Dover Publications are often more user friendly than some of the others. This publication contains anecdotes and copies of the original binder covers from some of the music books first published.

For pianists this is a delightful and well presented edition of an important part of American history.

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Precurser of Jazz Rediscovered.......2000-12-21

Here, for the first time, is a full biography of America's first great composer who, in the 1850s, anticipated ragtime and jazz by half a century. Meticulously researched and written in a lively and accessible style,the biography details the colorful life of an American original and the trail-blazing father of music in New Orleans. Of interest to anyone interested in Civil War era America or the cultural environment that gave rise to one of America's most original and authentic musics.

Collected Works for Piano: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics)

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Famous American Creole composer

Collected Works for Piano: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics)

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Being an American Romantic composer, Gottschalk was one of the first classically trained pianists to incorporate examples of Creole, Latin American, and Afro American dance rhythms within European musical forms.

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Famous American Creole composer.......2006-09-14

This is a fine edition of the tuneful music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk. The Banjo Player and other famous concert pieces are here. The edition stays well on the piano, compared to a thicker book by Dover, so if I am playing Gottschalk, I prefer the Schirmer. It is also easier to read the notes.

Where the Word Ends: The Life of Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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The Facts and Some Embellishments -

Where the Word Ends: The Life of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Vernon Loggins
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 080710373X

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Louis Gottschalk (1829-1869) was the first American pianist and composer to win international fame. His creative use of the colorful and exotic musical idioms of his native New Orleans foreshadowed by some fifty years the appearance of these same influences in early jazz.

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The Facts and Some Embellishments -.......2007-07-03

On the whole this is a "good" book on an intriguing character. Loggins obviously has access to Gottschalk's personal writings, has done his homework and gives a very credible biography on a too-little appreciated American. This book will give you a fairly detailed summary of Gottschalk's life in a straight-forward, plainly written style. There are some embellishments here and there but it is pretty obvious when Loggins is giving his own spin to things (e.g. Gottschalk's Spanish venture and the subsequent damage to his hand).

If you are interested in a readable introduction to a pianist whose life and reputation are as varied and interesting as his music then this is a good place to start.

Gottschalk and his music are very representative of his time. The exuberance of life lived, in the face of ever present threat of disease (yellow fever in particular), shows forth in the passions of nationalistic pride, the charm of social courtesy in a highly stratified culture, the elegance of sophisticated conversation and cultured interaction, which never-the-less was not out of touch with the lower classes, both slave and peasant. Gottschalk's life makes plain that culture can and must recognize social stratification in the context of mutual respect. It argues for the possibility of degrees of sophistication without elitism. We hear that in his music, as the complexity of rhythm and velocity demand the highest levels of virtuosity, yet the melodies are rooted in the common and even elemental strands in the social fabric. His was a life of liberty and his music is democratic to its roots.

In its own way, this book communicates some notion of these things, yet, it could have risen a bit higher than it does. The facts are there but helpful analysis and insights would have broadened its impact. The simplicity of the language and diction somewhat even argue against what Gottschalk's life and music contributed. It lacks elegance and if there is anything we can say about Gottschalk, it must be that in him and his music, elegance was not lacking.

It's a good book.

Anton Von Webern: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies in American music)

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Anton Von Webern: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies in American music)
Zoltan Roman
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Banjo 2 Pianos/4 Hands

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Compendium of Piano Music
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Manufacturer: Carl Fischer Music
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Concert grand
Howard Breslin
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For more than 50 years, Joseph Abileah, a violinist from Haifa, has worked for reconciliation between Arabs & Jews. An ordinary man made extraordinary by his unwavering commitment to nonviolent social change, he shows what is possible when antagonists in conflicts are not regarded as inhuman monsters but as potentially good people who are held hostage to a world view & political structure that have made brutal actions almost unbearable. This life of an Israeli pacifist is also a study of an alternative history of Israel, one that reflects the tensions between spiritual & political Zionism. Treats the themes of bi-nat., confederation, & pacifism in the Middle East. Photos.

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