(Percussion). In this follow-up to the popular Bass Drum Control book/CD pack (06620020), jazz drummer extraordinaire Colin Bailey provides players with bass drum solos in sixteenth-note patterns to help them become more accomplished on their kits. He also includes sticking patterns, notes on adapti[...]
(Book). This perennial favorite among drummers helps players develop their bass drum technique and increase their flexibility through the mastery of exercises. Also available by Bailey: Bass Drum Control Solos (06620068) and Drum Solos: The Art of Phrasing (06620021).[...]
The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolours, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avantgarde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. A revised and updated edition[...]
Throughout his long working life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) produced large-format portraits and subject pictures. From the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s - the decade of Impressionism - his vertical, grand-scale canvases were among the artist's most daring and ambitious presentations of contempo[...]
This richly illustrated volume reveals the intriguing story behind the commission, rejection, and rehousing of Jean- Honore Fragonard's Progress of Love, a series of 14 paintings considered by many to be the artist's masterpiece. Fragonard (1732-1806) completed four large canvases for the comtesse d[...]
Today, it seems astonishing that the work of Edouard Manet (1832-83), the master French painter, was controversial in his day. His subversive handling of both paint and subject matter, coupled with his detached gaze, shocked contemporaries--but established him as the father of modern painting. This [...]
Reiseguiden som viser deg det de andre bare beskriver. Revidert 2009. Frankrike er et av de største landene i Europa. Paris er landets viktigste transportsenteret. Fransk kultur, litteratur, kunst, film og arkitektur kan være både dypsindig og provoserende. Men enten man er intellektuell, sensuel[...]