Advantages: Cheap. Good for buying presents. Disadvantages: Sell a lot of titles you've never heard of....
The Works is a discount bookstore which can be found on many high streets. I have browsed around a fair few discount bookstores, but have always found this store to be the best in it?s class. Overall, I tend to find that a lot of discount bookstores sell a lot of uninteresting titles, & books you?ve never heard of. The Works does also fall into this category, but seems to also sell more bestsellers than other stores (often current ones at that), covering a wide range of authors. Books are laid out according to genre & are for the most part stacked on shelves with the cover facing forwards, so that you can see at a glance what titles are in stock. The more popular fiction & bestsellers are laid out on tables at the front of the store, with reference books & childrens books being on shelves running down the sides & back of the store ...
sambam000 13.07.2009
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Advantages: Dreamy, peaceful, emotional music; range of abilities catered for Disadvantages: None!
From a piano player's point of view, Debussy is a true master of the
composing craft. His pieces wash over you as you play, enfolding
you in the various emotions - joy, sadness, surprise, peace - which
are so deeply engrained in the music. There are pieces to suit all
abilities, from the (for the most part) fairly easy Ręverie to some of
the fiendishly difficult Préludes, for which the scores look like
nothing you've seen on earth; and whilst the pieces on occasion
may sound discordant and even simply bad at first, stick with them
as every time you will in the end be richly rewarded. Playing a
Debussy piece isn't about learning notes and precise regimented
time signatures, as with Bach for example. It's about letting your
emotions flow out into the piano, about letting yourself go
completely, just for a few moments. Start ...
Advantages: A new way to hear Beethoven Disadvantages: Surpassed by some later period cycles
a crowning culmination of epic proportions. In the Fourth he made decisive moves to make the timpani a musical instrument instead of providing mere accented highlights during crescendos. He also added much romantic and poetical feel to the work that is especially apparent in the quiet B flat minor introduction. In the Fifth he brought us the concept of the "victory symphony" where we move from a great struggle to a final, grand victory. This approach of beginning in the minor key and ending in an affirmative major would become a basic staple for the Romantics that followed. The Sixth on the other hand offered a very different kind of avenue that was also developed in the Romantic era: program music. Cast in five movements, Beethoven's scenes from the country created a prototype for the highly pictorial music of Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, and many ...
