Author: Hans Bemmann
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140074451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Setting out to find his grandfather, Listener carries with him a mysterious stone which takes him far away to do great harm. But, through the magical powers of the stone and his grandfather's flute, he also comes to find happiness and to possess a power greater than life itself.
The Stone and the Flute
Author: Hans Bemmann
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140074451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Setting out to find his grandfather, Listener carries with him a mysterious stone which takes him far away to do great harm. But, through the magical powers of the stone and his grandfather's flute, he also comes to find happiness and to possess a power greater than life itself.
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140074451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Setting out to find his grandfather, Listener carries with him a mysterious stone which takes him far away to do great harm. But, through the magical powers of the stone and his grandfather's flute, he also comes to find happiness and to possess a power greater than life itself.
Complete Irish Flute
Author: Mizzy McCaskill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786665891
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs. This book focuses not only on musical accuracy, but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion CD contains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786665891
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs. This book focuses not only on musical accuracy, but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion CD contains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.
Kokopelli's Flute
Author: Will Hobbs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136742
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
THE MAGIC HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE. Tep Jones has always felt the magic of Picture House, an Anasazi cliff dwelling near the seed farm where he lives with his parents. But he could never have imagined what would happen to him on the night of a lunar eclipse, when he finds a bone flute left behind by grave robbers. Tep falls under the spell of a powerful ancient magic that traps him at night in the body of an animal. Only by unraveling the mysteries of Picture House can Tep save himself and his desperately ill mother. Does the enigmatic old Indian who calls himself Cricket hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the past? And can Tep find the answers in time?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136742
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
THE MAGIC HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE. Tep Jones has always felt the magic of Picture House, an Anasazi cliff dwelling near the seed farm where he lives with his parents. But he could never have imagined what would happen to him on the night of a lunar eclipse, when he finds a bone flute left behind by grave robbers. Tep falls under the spell of a powerful ancient magic that traps him at night in the body of an animal. Only by unraveling the mysteries of Picture House can Tep save himself and his desperately ill mother. Does the enigmatic old Indian who calls himself Cricket hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the past? And can Tep find the answers in time?
The Broken Goddess
Author: Hans Bemmann
Publisher: ROC Hardcover
ISBN: 9780451454874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
After giving a lecture on the contemporary relevance of fairy tales, a skeptical young scholar leaves the hall and steps into a living fairy tale. This is a wondrous story of knowledge versus faith, of the power of imagination and the consequences of cynicism. From the author of The Stone and the Flute.
Publisher: ROC Hardcover
ISBN: 9780451454874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
After giving a lecture on the contemporary relevance of fairy tales, a skeptical young scholar leaves the hall and steps into a living fairy tale. This is a wondrous story of knowledge versus faith, of the power of imagination and the consequences of cynicism. From the author of The Stone and the Flute.
Of Mist and Stone
Author: John Two-Hawks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976802297
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Travel through a mystical portal into a forgotten world of celestial cycles, synchronistic rhythms, cosmic alignment and sacred vibrational power. The ancient Celts and Indigenous peoples are as two branches from the same tree; distinct, yet inextricably woven together with roots that reach deep into the mysteries of the earth.In this fascinating book, John Two-Hawks - who descends from both Celtic and Indigenous people himself - invites the reader to step through the veil of time, journey into the mist and glimpse the astonishing parallels and oneness of two ancient worlds from beyond the sacred stones.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976802297
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Travel through a mystical portal into a forgotten world of celestial cycles, synchronistic rhythms, cosmic alignment and sacred vibrational power. The ancient Celts and Indigenous peoples are as two branches from the same tree; distinct, yet inextricably woven together with roots that reach deep into the mysteries of the earth.In this fascinating book, John Two-Hawks - who descends from both Celtic and Indigenous people himself - invites the reader to step through the veil of time, journey into the mist and glimpse the astonishing parallels and oneness of two ancient worlds from beyond the sacred stones.
Guardians of the Flutes, Volume 1
Author: Gilbert Herdt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226327493
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This unique study of boy-inseminating rituals among the Sambia of New Guinea challenges our deepest assumptions about the role of culture in understanding homosexuality and gender-identity development.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226327493
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This unique study of boy-inseminating rituals among the Sambia of New Guinea challenges our deepest assumptions about the role of culture in understanding homosexuality and gender-identity development.
The Stone Carvers
Author: Marjorie Hunt
Publisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9781588342478
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Marjorie Hunt presents the lives and careers of two Italian American master stone carvers, Roger Morigi and Vincent Palumbo, who have spent decades creating the sculptural works, such as gargoyles, grotesques, capitals, pinnacles, saints, and angels that embellish Washington National Cathedral. Exploring the carvers' underlying aesthetic attitudes, Hunt reveals the spirit of creativity and mastery that infuses their work. The book records the stone-carving process, highlighting the carvers' complex body of technical knowledge—their opinions of various stones, their preferred tools for different stages of carving, and their techniques for achieving effects of light and shadow.
Publisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9781588342478
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Marjorie Hunt presents the lives and careers of two Italian American master stone carvers, Roger Morigi and Vincent Palumbo, who have spent decades creating the sculptural works, such as gargoyles, grotesques, capitals, pinnacles, saints, and angels that embellish Washington National Cathedral. Exploring the carvers' underlying aesthetic attitudes, Hunt reveals the spirit of creativity and mastery that infuses their work. The book records the stone-carving process, highlighting the carvers' complex body of technical knowledge—their opinions of various stones, their preferred tools for different stages of carving, and their techniques for achieving effects of light and shadow.
The Golden Flute
Author: Catherine Lanigan
Publisher: Cedar Fort
ISBN: 9781462110230
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Masterfully written by award-winning author Catherine Lanigan, this thrilling action story keeps you guessing through every twist and turn. Cross continents and connect the clues along with teen treasure hunters Lilli and Zane as they try to stay one step of ahead of danger, find the ancient artifacts, and keep them far away from their enemies. A must-read for adventurers of all ages!
Publisher: Cedar Fort
ISBN: 9781462110230
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Masterfully written by award-winning author Catherine Lanigan, this thrilling action story keeps you guessing through every twist and turn. Cross continents and connect the clues along with teen treasure hunters Lilli and Zane as they try to stay one step of ahead of danger, find the ancient artifacts, and keep them far away from their enemies. A must-read for adventurers of all ages!
Kokopelli
Author: Dennis Slifer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Both Santa Fe and Taos are well known as important twentieth-century American art colonies. Until the publication of Santa Fe and Taos, their fame rested more upon the reputations of resident and visiting artists than on the contributions of the writers, playwrights and poets who lived side-by-side with the artists. Notable among writers who paid extended visits to the colony were D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Thornton Wilder, Carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Both Santa Fe and Taos are well known as important twentieth-century American art colonies. Until the publication of Santa Fe and Taos, their fame rested more upon the reputations of resident and visiting artists than on the contributions of the writers, playwrights and poets who lived side-by-side with the artists. Notable among writers who paid extended visits to the colony were D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Thornton Wilder, Carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Traditional Irish Flute Solos - Volume 1
Author: Vincent Broderick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857200980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(Waltons Irish Music Books). A unique collection of 68 jigs, reels, hornpipes, slip jigs, barn dances, marches, polkas, slides and airs, all composed by the renowned Galway musician, Vincent Broderick. A must for every traditional flute player.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857200980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(Waltons Irish Music Books). A unique collection of 68 jigs, reels, hornpipes, slip jigs, barn dances, marches, polkas, slides and airs, all composed by the renowned Galway musician, Vincent Broderick. A must for every traditional flute player.