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I am reading "The Piano Works of Claude Debussy" by Robert Schmitz.
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I am slowly studying every word of Mr. Larry Fine 4th edition  Matt
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Chopin The Child and the Lad - a 1907 annotated elaboration of his Szarfarnia letters
The Practice Revolution
Slow down and do it right. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pianoworld.com/forumpicts/MOYD12/MOYD_789012.gif)
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Originally posted by Janus Sachs:
Oh, I'm in the market for a good translation of the Aeneid (no prose translations please). Can anyone recommend me their favorites? There's a new translation, which has been well received, available both in bookform and as an audio book: http://www.amazon.com/Aeneid-Virgil/dp/0143059025/
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"The First Salute," by Barbara Tuchman. A historical treatise on the American Revolution,
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The Shipping News - Proulx
Evidence for the Christian Faith - McDowell
My Antonia - Cather (re-reading for literature class, probably my least favorite "classic")
The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams - Schick
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How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life.
Fascinating book on a fascinating subject.
Practice makes permanent - Perfect practice makes perfect.
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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Lots of interesting books listed on this thread!
I bought "The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty" by Mario Livio yesterday.
Started reading it last night and couldn't put it down.
Also reading bigraphies on Isaac Albeniz and Roger Quilter as study for my exam in two weeks.
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Evening in the Palace of Reason
Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
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it's great... looking forward to 'Grand Obsession'
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"Understanding Toscanini." A social history of American concert life.
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I'm reading a book called Lamb by one of my favorite Authors, Chris Moore. However I picked up a book the other day called This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of A Human Obsession. It looks to be pretty interesting.
Once during a concert at Carnegie Hall, the violinist Rachmaninoff was playing with lost his place in the music and whispered to Rachmaninoff, "Where are we?" Rachmaninoff replied, in all seriousness, "Carnegie Hall".
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Haha Minaku, I didn't read before I posted, I see you picked up the same book also. How is it?
Once during a concert at Carnegie Hall, the violinist Rachmaninoff was playing with lost his place in the music and whispered to Rachmaninoff, "Where are we?" Rachmaninoff replied, in all seriousness, "Carnegie Hall".
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Originally posted by DaWF:
The Shipping News - Proulx
My Antonia - Cather (re-reading for literature class, probably my least favorite "classic")
i love both those books..
accompanist/organist.. a non-MTNA teacher to a few
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Originally posted by Daffodil
I bought "The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty" by Mario Livio yesterday.
You might also be interested in "The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty" by H.E. Huntley. (1970, Dover Publications.) I don't know if it is still in print. It puts much emphasis on the Fibonacci numbers and related series.
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I'm midway through Vol. 1 of Walker's three volume biography of Liszt.
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Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner
(reading for the 2nd time, I did a bit too much skimming the first time through)
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Originally posted by Ferdinand: Originally posted by Daffodil
I bought "The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty" by Mario Livio yesterday.
Thank you. I'll be looking for that next time I'm in Borders.
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"Walden" by Thoreau. Its about my fourth time reading this book. Just love it
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
-Albert Camus,
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Chemical Dependencies in the Workplace. I start a new class next Tuesday, and decided to read ahead a bit. This reading is all online so I turn on the Acrobat Reader speech reader option and let the ebook read to me when my eyes don't see the words anymore.
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Current works in progress:
Beethoven Sonata Op. 10 No. 2 in F, Haydn Sonata Hoboken XVI:41, Bach French Suite No. 5 in G BWV 816
Current instruments: Schimmel-Vogel 177T grand, Roland LX-17 digital, and John Lyon unfretted Saxon clavichord.
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