Authors:Emmanuelle Beart, Sylvie Lancreno,
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Keywords: libre, cuba
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 3829603754
ISBN-13: 9783829603751

A hotel room in Havana. The midday heat. A famous female movie star. A French star photographer. and a red bed. These are the ingredients for Cuba Libre, the erotic women’s book of the season. Breathtakingly beauitful Emmanuelle Beart, who came to fame as the "Belle Noiseuse" in Jacques Rivette’s multi-award-winning film of the same name, offers us an unparalleled series of highly erotic and intoxicatingly feminine nudes. Sylvie Lancrenon, photographer for Elle magazine in France, staged this daring performance adn captured it in compelling color photographs: Cuba Libre is in the m

Author: Richard Price
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Keywords: photographs, cities, men
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 2009-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 3829604114
ISBN-13: 9783829604116

Author: Philippe Dagen
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Keywords: happiness, rheims, bettina
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 3829603649
ISBN-13: 9783829603645

Since th eearly 1980x, Bettina Rheims has been the most sought-after French photographer. From her very beginnings, the female body has been the central focus of her work. Her unusual and provocative portraits and nude images each reveal a hidden part of the subject. She regularly caused stirs with projects such as Chambre close (1992), the story of a Paris voyeur watching women in hotels; KIM, a docuemntary ona transsexual,; I.N. R.I (1999), a sequence on the life of Chris, Shanghai (2004), featuring women in the midst of a powerful cultural,e conomic and spiritual evolution, and, most recent

Author: Candida Höfer
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Keywords: libraries
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 3829601867
ISBN-13: 9783829601863

For almost 30 years Candida Höfer has photographed interiors, mostly representational spaces accessible to the public, such as staircases, lobbies, reading halls or exhibition spaces. Rather than staging them, she takes their picture in the state she finds them, with great discreetness and a touch of humour. Libraries are a book producer’s dream. Since nobody photographs libraries as beautifully as Höfer, it seemed only natural for Schirmer/Mosel to dedicate her next publication to the splendid and intimate cathedrals of knowledge across Europe and the US: the Escorial in Spain, the Wh

Author: Richard Miller
Publisher: Schirmer
Keywords: vocal, technique, art, system, singing, structure
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 1986-10-21
List price: $107.95
ISBN-10: 0534255353
ISBN-13: 9780534255350

Combining the physical, technical, and artistic aspects of singing, the author applies current findings in medicine, acoustics, phonetics, and speech therapy to the singer’s needs. The text demonstrates the scientific basis of exercises and vocalises, covering all major areas of vocal technique.

Authors:Vincent H. Duckles, Ida Reed,
Publisher: Schirmer
Keywords: annotated, bibliography, materials, research, reference, music
Number of Pages: 812
Published: 1997-07-25
List price: $159.95
ISBN-10: 0028708210
ISBN-13: 9780028708218

This is a tremendous reference for serious students and fans of music. It’s really an irreplaceable resource. Within its 800-plus pages are descriptions of musical dictionaries and encyclopedias of all kinds, by national origin and by genre, biographical dictionaries and dictionaries of quotations, compositional devices and handbooks. Then there are the books devoted to musical histories and chronologies, guides to musicology, bibliographies of musical literature, and bibliographies of music. There are catalogs of music libraries and musical instruments, electronic information resources,

Author: Marjorie Merryma
Publisher: Schirmer
Keywords: handbook, theory, music
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 1996-09-16
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0155026623
ISBN-13: 9780155026629

This concise handbook offers comprehensive coverage of main topics in music theory. Instructors can elaborate on the material as appropriate to their course, while students can learn and review technical information without having to digest lengthy analyses and explanations. Unbiased and flexible, this book can be used as a primary or reference text. Topics include species and tonal counterpoint, instrumental ranges and transpositions, and a glossary of forms. Each major section ends with suggestions for analysis and further reading.