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Crowded House [sound recording] by Crowded House (Musical group);
Subjects: Rock music;
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Entertainment weekly. [sound recording]. by Lisa Lisa.; Abbott, Gregory.; Fox, Samantha.; Franklin, Aretha.(CARDINAL)340870; Gibson, Deborah,1970-; Marx, Richard.; Michael, George,1963-; Crowded House (Musical group); Cult Jam (Musical group); Grateful Dead (Musical group)(CARDINAL)350724; R.E.M. (Musical group)(CARDINAL)354057; Starship (Musical group); T'Pau (Musical group); Whitesnake (Musical group);
MARCIVE 03/01/06Various artists.
Subjects: Popular music; Rhythm and blues music.; Rock music;
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Billboard top hits, 1987 [sound recording]. by Franklin, Aretha.(CARDINAL)340870; Michael, George.; Wilde, Kim.; Bananarama (Musical group); Starship (Musical group); U2 (Musical group)(CARDINAL)749315;
With or without you (U2) -- You keep me hangin' on (Kim Wilde) -- C'est la vie (Robbie Nevil) -- I knew you were waiting (for me) (Aretha Franklin & George Michael) -- At this moment (Billy Vera & the Beaters) -- I heard a rumour (Bananarama) -- Heaven is a place on earth (Belinda Carlisle) -- Don't dream it's over (Crowded House) -- Nothing's gonna stop us now (Starship) -- The lady in red (Chris de Burgh).Various performers.
Subjects: Popular music; Rock music;
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Now that's what I call tailgate anthems. by DJ Snake,performer.(CARDINAL)346162; Lil Jon,1971-performer.(CARDINAL)346163; Flo Rida,performer.(CARDINAL)346164; Khalifa, Wiz,1987-performer.(CARDINAL)346165; Pitbull(Rapper),performer.(CARDINAL)346166; performer.Harris, Calvin,1984-(CARDINAL)346198; Usher,performer.(CARDINAL)532556; Ludacris(Rapper),performer.(CARDINAL)342957; P!nk,1979-performer.(CARDINAL)346168; Hunt, Sam,1984-performer.(CARDINAL)346169; Bryan, Luke,performer.(CARDINAL)346170; Aldean, Jason,performer.(CARDINAL)346171; TJR(Musician),performer.(CARDINAL)346172; Ne-Yo,performer.(CARDINAL)346173; Black Eyed Peas (Musical group),performer.(CARDINAL)346180; Bon Jovi (Musical group),performer.(CARDINAL)346174; Europe (Musical group),performer.(CARDINAL)346178; House of Pain (Musical group),performer.(CARDINAL)346179; Journey (Musical group),performer.(CARDINAL)346175; Kiss (Musical group),performer.(CARDINAL)346176; Queen (Musical group),performer.(CARDINAL)340355; Survivor (Musical group),performer.(CARDINAL)346177;
Various performers ; featuring: Queen, Bon Jovi, Journey, Kiss, Survivor, Europe, House of Pain, DJ Snake, Lil Jon, Flo Rida, Wiz Khalifa, Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull, TJR, Calving Harris, Ne-Yo, Usher, Ludacris, P!nk, Sam Hunt, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean.
Subjects: Rock music.; Rhythm and blues music.; Rap (Music); Country music.;
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The well tempered listener / by Taylor, Deems,1885-1966.(CARDINAL)124683;
Makers : 1. The old contemporarie : Thoughts on meeting three old-timers ; Beethoven draws the line ; The wrong-note school, and how not to make an omelet ; Music as a branch of haut couture ; The unfashionable immortals -- 2. Guesswork : Bach at saint Soandso's, Mozart on a fellowship, Beethoven on a postage stamp, Berlioz in the middle west, and Wagner in Hollywood -- 3. More of the same : Concerning five who lived through a lot of trouble, and what they might do about it now ; The unimportance of crisis -- 4. Down, but hardly out : The background of an all-Wagner program ; Free-for-all in Magdeburg, trouble in Riga, more in London, most in Paris ; Respite in Dresden ; The exiled 49-er ; Bad news in Moscow ; Sunrise in Stuttgart ; The scarcity of mute Miltons -- 5. Five who died young : Concerning a group who left early, and what might have happened if they had stayed -- 6. The twilight of the gods : How mortal is an immortal? ; The infancy of an art and the difficulty of putting things down ; The struggle for elbowroom ; Survival in an album -- 7. The flood : More on survival ; 2039 looks back on the golden age -- 8. The great divide : The stage versus the platform ; The nonco-operative philosopher and the accommodating journalist ; What Puccini can do in fourteen minutes ; Wagner proves the rule ; So, incidentally, does Strauss -- 9. The fruits of condescension : The art of finding a bad opera book, and the discovery that music isn't everything ; The happy-go-lucky Russians ; Rimsky-Korsakoff stops the show -- 10. Piotr the great : Tchaikovsky worries a devotee ; Off days of the titans ; Strauss's paper music and Shakespeare the bromide ; Concerning one who said things first, and where did he get them? -- 11. The perennial victor : Uncritical ravings of an addict, interspersed with a few reminiscences of one of the minor great.12. The fat man of Passy : Origins of a genius ; Opera by the yard ; Nineteen years on the road ; The fall and rise of a barber ; Rossini waits for an overdue muse and circulates a few legends ; The swing mass -- 13. How Spillville helped : An innkeeper serves free beer, and his son turns down a silver spoon ; The polka that didn't come off, and the job that eventually did ; Brahms takes a hand and London approves ; The national conservatory ; Where Spillville comes in -- 14. Branded : Concerning the unwelcome children of a group of remorseful fathers -- 15. Finders, keepers : Remarks about family resemblances ; Who stole from whom? ; The ethics of robbing a stranger ; Unfortunate misstep of a critic ; How the playwrights and novelists feel about it ; Great men who happen to think of the same thing ; What Brahms said, and what he did with it -- 16. Guest speaker : Mr. Macdonald takes the floor ; On staring composers out of countenance, and bothering too much about personality ; What composers think of their music and how wrong they may be ; Kreisler and the eighteenth-century outrage ; Taps and the dinner call ; Never mind who did it -- 17. What makes it tick : How a composer begins, what he does in the middle, and where, if possible, he ends -- 18. Music a la carte : Hindemith and the first-rate carpenter ; A few notes on shoes ; Some who cobbled to fit ; Tchaikovsky on 1812 ; What the patrons wanted ; Music for an oil well, and the impossibility of making a useful citizen out of a composer -- 19. Aid and comfort : Where are the tunes? ; Two opinions, with explanations by Shelley and Millay ; Horror of the shelleyites ; The composers break away ; On the importance of being not too earnest.The givers : 1. The necessary evil : Pious hope of a guest conductor ; The dream of a self-starting orchestra, and the deaf-and-blind orchestra musician ; How to forget a conductor -- 2. A little rope, please : The unavoidability of giving a conductor leeway ; Sheet music as a blueprint ; How loud is pretty loud? ; Wherein Beethoven and Ravel were wrong and also right -- 3. How right is "correct"? : The advisability of disobeying orders on occasion ; Disagreements among oboes, and impossibility of keeping out of the way ; Smith, Jones, and Cesar Franck, and the futility of awarding a blue ribbon -- 4. The devil and the deep sea : A rebellious listener wants to know why ; The conductor and his "must" list ; Telepathy among the program builders -- 5. Bill of fare : Programs and cookery, with suggestions concerning what not to serve, and when ; Tristan as a sedative ; We wax specific -- 6. The irrational art : A scientist scowls at music ; The impossible violin and the regrettable piano ; How to play an imaginary horn and a nonexistent trumpet, in a scale that is all wrong ; A hint from the track team concerning the stubborn human ear -- 7. Sir Jame's umbrella : Conclusions of an astrophysicist after photographing a touch ; How a pianist pulls the trigger and steps on the brake ; Five behind a screen ; The first mate keeps the log ; Improbability of a one-note concert ; Four ways of fooling an audience -- 8. First you hear it : The shortcomings of an ear, and the difficulty of singing by one -- 9. The high-polish question : Intention and achievement and the esthetic innocence of movie houses ; The importance of giving a show, and the amateurishness of professionals ; A note on gilded violins and Iturbi in a green sash.10. Hoking it up : On relieving the strain of good singing ; The cheerful classic and the despondent hit -- 11. Bach in the grove : A president writes a letter, and bach writes a few hits ; Why not jail brahms? ; On the toughness of masterpieces and the inadvisability of writing to the times -- 12. Beethoven goes to town : Concerning the senility of swing, with a glance at Beethoven in a jam session -- 13. Hands across the C's : Singing as a branch of athletics ; A friend telephones ; His ancestor gives a party, with Mozart also present ; Of personality, and the conduct of an artist in the presence of his monster -- 14. Too good to learn : Sixteen conductors and how they grew ; The American who hates to learn his tribe -- 15. Woman's place : The lonely harpist and her nonexistent sister ; The flute runs away with the horn ; Concerning hereditary woodwinds and the social standing of an oboe -- 16. To play's the thing : Distressing incident in Connecticut ; Junior finds a champion ; The paramount importance of useless information, with no reference to Mrs. Gimmick ; The risk of sitting down at the piano ; On understanding tennis and knowing music from the inside ; The usefulness of banging and the fun of playing in a crowd -- 17. Portrait of an artist : The pursuer who never traveled ; Jascha takes a few trips to the moon ; The perfect craftsman and the hall that was cool for pianists ; Close-ups of a miracle ; Schmalz, and the reward of getting along without it ; The jealous Strad and the off-stage genius ; Heifetz and his rival.The hearers : 1. The violent ward : One who wept, and why ; Music gets into politics ; The danger of hating the wrong thing, and the difficulty of writing propaganda music ; Race and music, and the Wagner question -- 2. Euterpe and the Gestapo : Revolutionary music -- or is it? ; Three nations listen to a tune ; Tannhauser and his military march ; Those who play the words instead of the music ; A voice from not so long ago -- 3. Saying it with music : This program-music business ; Where the classic masters stopped and where Berlioz and Company began ; The value of a springboard and the utility of being told what to paint ; The "tell us a story" tendency, with a horrible example ; The trouble with labels -- 4. Landmark : Concerning a man who upset the orchestral applecart, together with remarks, by himself and others, about the first tone poem -- 5. All things to all men : The professor makes an experiment, with dire results ; Lohengrin and Gurnemanz sing a serenade ; The accommodating Valkyries -- 6. Culture the hard way : Thoughts inspired by a baffled attempt to read a book -- 7. A share of the air : The girl who kept a record ; Critics of radio and what they overlook ; Filling an eighteen-hour day ; One week's record, together with other rather dull statistics -- 8. Other people's poison : The necessity for bad music ; Grim reflections after a radio poll.9. The latecomers : The awkwardness of being introduced to Stravinsky just after meeting Brahms -- 10. Making the most of it : The small soprano and the ten-dollar set ; How to find good music on the air, and what to do about it when you have found it -- 11. The lighter side : The solemn listener and the frivolous classic ; Reflections on not being too suspicious of attractive strangers -- 12. Never mind the three B's : The American composer and the search for a champion ; Sherwood and Shakespeare ; The moral of Arizona, and the inadvisability of worrying about posterity -- 13. The swish of the bow : Six who did not look like a firing squad ; Bach and his amateurs ; Reflections concerning varieties of off-the-record music -- 14. Richard and Joseph -- and you : The stop and go schools ; Wherein is shown how Wagner shushes a listener and Verdi eggs him on -- 15. The judgment seat : The ideal music critic, what he must know and be, and where he will go when he is found ; The American critic and his annual nervous breakdown -- 16. The useful pest : Chronicler, guide, salesman, and guardian of the flame ; The trouble with critics, and how to pick a good one -- 17. Mark Twain and I : Complaints of a great American and a modern listener ; An excursion into autobiography, with particular reference to glee clubs and the contrasting musical privileges of two generations.
Subjects: Music.; Music appreciation.;
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World's Bible handbook / by Boyd, Robert T.(CARDINAL)728459;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 753-757) and indexesI. The Bible -- The Bible palace -- Subject and purpose of the Bible -- Why the scriptures were written -- To whom the Bible was written -- How to read the Bible -- Views of inspiration -- Reasons for believing in divine inspiration -- Dispensations of the Bible -- Divisions of the Bible -- Titles of the Bible -- Old Testament subject and purpose -- II. Division I -- The Pentateuch: Subject and purpose -- Genesis, the book of beginnings -- Exodus, the book of departure from Egypt -- The Tabernacle -- The ten plagues -- Leviticus, the book of atonement -- Numbers, the book of pilgrimage -- Deuteronomy, the book of preparation for possession -- Astrology/divination -- The Exodus: Wilderness journeyings -- Israel in Canaan -- Author of the Pentateuch -- Mythological background of Baal worship -- Warning to Israel before entering Canaan -- III. Division II -- the historical books: Subject and purpose -- Joshua, the book of conquest and settlement -- Possession of the land -- "possessing your possessions" -- Joshua's long day -- Judges, the book of declension and apostasy -- Ruth, the book of disloyalty, loyalty, and royalty -- The United Kingdom under Saul, David, and Solomon -- First Samuel, the book of the people's king -- Second Samuel, the book of God's king -- David's great sin and restoration -- The divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah -- First Kings, the book of division of the kingdom -- Solomon's temple -- Elijah's contest with Baal -- Second Kings, the book of the captivities -- First Chronicles, the book of David's reign -- Second Chronicles, the book of Israel's final apostasy -- Reigns and dates of the kings -- Kings and prophets of the Northern kingdom (Israel) -- Israel's captivity -- Kings and prophets of the Southern Kingdom (Judah) -- Judah's captivity -- Reasons for captivity -- Post-captivity books -- The tribes regathered -- Ezra, the book of the returning remnant -- Nehemiah, the book of consolidation and conclusion -- Esther, the book of divine providenceIV. DIvision III -- the poetical books: Subject and purpose -- Job, the book of suffering and patience -- Psalms, the book of devotion and praise -- Testimony of a sheep: Psalm 23 -- Saints in apostasy: Psalm 121 -- Proverbs, law of heaven for life upon earth -- Ecclesiastes, ancient wisdom for modern man -- Song of Solomon, the book of heavenly love -- V. Division IV -- the prophetical books: Subject and purpose -- Prophets and prophecy -- Chronological order of the prophets -- Isaiah, the evangelical prophet -- Egypt's glorious future -- Jeremiah, the book of horror and hope -- Lamentations, the book of tears -- Ezekiel, the book of glory lost and regained -- Prophecy against Gog -- future battle -- Daniel, the book of loyalty and light -- Hosea, the backslider's book -- Joel, the book of God's severity and goodness -- Amos, the book of the plumbline -- Obediah, the book of doom for anti-Semitics -- Jonah, the book of God's mercy -- Micah, the book of doom and glory -- Nahum, the book of perversity and penalty -- Habakkuk, the book of the mysteries of providence -- Zephaniah, the book of wonder and wrath -- Haggai, the builder's book -- Zechariah, the book of the future -- Malachi, the book of denunciation and hope -- VI. New Testament introduction -- The silence of God -- intertestamental period -- Jewish writings -- Old and New Testament groups and sects -- Time and date of Christ's birth -- The mission of Christ (purpose of His first coming) -- Names of Christ -- New Testament subject and purpose -- The language of the New Testament -- VII. Division I -- the Four Gospels: Subject and purpose -- Why four Gospel accounts -- Arrangement of the Gospels -- Matthew, the book of Christ, the King -- Mark, the book of Christ, the Servant -- Luke, the book of Christ, the perfect man -- John, the book of Christ, the Son of God -- VIII. Highlights of Christ's life -- The genealogies of Christ -- The Virgin Mary, mother of Christ -- The virgin birth -- Baptism of Christ -- Temptation of Christ -- Sinlessness of Christ -- The Passover and the Lord's Supper -- The Passover today -- Gethsemane, Christ in -- Save me from this hour -- Judas, the betrayer -- The (mis-) trial of Jesus -- Significance of Pilate washing his hands -- Innocency of Christ attested -- Jews' rejection of Christ -- A modern Jew looks at Christ -- Christ condemned to be crucified -- The wounds of Christ -- Superscriptions on the cross -- Events at the crucifixion -- Seven last sayings of the Lord -- Seven last sayings of the crowd -- Christ was forsaken -- Twelve views of the cross -- Veil of the temple rent -- Christ in the grave three days and three nights -- He descended into hell -- The meaning of Christ's death -- Christ's resurrection -- Post-resurrection appearances -- Prophecy fulfilled in Christ -- Archaeological evidence of Christ's existenceIX. Division II -- The Acts: Subject and purpose -- Christianity: Fraud or truth -- Acts, the book of Christian action -- X. Division III -- The Epistles: Subject and purpose -- The Epistles: Introduction -- Romans, the epistle of faith -- First Corinthians, the epistle of gifts -- Second Corinthians, the book of a minister's heart -- Galatians, the book of Christian liberty -- Ephesians, the epistle of fullness -- Philippians, Paul's joy letter -- Colossians, Christ preeminent -- First Thessalonians, the epistle of the rapture -- Second Thessalonians, Christ's Second Coming -- The Pastoral Epistles: Subject and purpose -- First Timothy, advice to ministers -- Second Timothy, Paul's final message -- Titus, advice to pastors and churches -- Philemon, the original emancipation proclamation -- Hebrews, the book of shadows and substance -- James, the book of practical Christianity -- First peter, the book of Christian discipline -- Second Peter, the book of Christian diligence -- First John, the epistle of knowledge and assurance -- Second John, the epistle of love and truth -- Third John, the epistle of Christian hospitality -- Jude, the epistle to remedy apostasy -- XI. Division IV -- The Revelation: Subject and purpose -- The Revelation, the book of final consummation -- XII. Summary: Character, influence, and claims of Christianity -- XIII. Appendix: -- Calendar -- Hebrew -- Dictionaries: Figure of speech -- Language: symbolical -- Names: general -- of Christ -- of GOd and Jehovah -- of the Holy Spirit -- of idols and gos -- Festivals and seasons -- Hebrew -- Weights and measures -- Money -- Music -- Numbers of the Bible -- Oaths -- Salutations -- Stones, precious -- Various subjects with spiritual applications: Agriculture -- Animal kingdom -- Architecture -- Astronomy -- Engineering -- Horticulture -- Metallurgy -- Military arms -- Minerals -- Time -- Topography -- Water supplies -- Weather -- Bibliography -- Index
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Bible;
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