Yehudi Menuhin

Provides insights into the work of composers and performance, analyses of well known music, anecdotes, and other concerns of the violinist.

x, 148 p. : 23 cm

After dismissing his fiddlers for reasons of economy, the king and his subjects are plunged into gloom and bad temper until Joachim, the cat, persuades the king and his accountants to learn to play an instrument. Includes preparatory exercises for violin players and a musical selection.

Traces the origins and evolution of music from primitive beginnings to the present day.

Conseils techniques et pratiques pour l'apprentissage du violon (par Y. Menuhin) et de l'alto (par W. Primrose). La 3e partie, p. 150-189, contient des éléments d'histoire du violon et des analyses de quelques pièces de violon de J.-S. Bach.

An exploration of fusion begins with performances from diverse cultures and includes lively conversations with Women of the Calabash and zydeco band Loup Garou. Students learn how styles evolve as musical elements from varied cultures meet and blend.

In a celebration of one of Britain's best-loved, four of Diana Athill's memoirs, spanning the 20th century from her childhood to old age, are now collected in one volume ; Yesterday Morning, Instead of a Letter, Stet, and Somewhere Towards The End.

Violin, released October 15, 1997, is Anne Rice's richly alluring new ghost novel that moves across the centuries to tell the story of three charismatic figures wrapped in music. A return to the romanticism of her first books, wild, passionate, tormented, operatic, Violin moves from nineteenth-century Vienna to modern New Orleans to Rio de Janiero telling the story of three unforgettable people. The first is an exquisite and vulnerable young woman who dreams of becoming a great musician. The second is a brilliantly talented and dangerously seductive violinist--a ghost--who uses his gifts, and his magic violin, to engage and dominate the emotions of his prey. The third who, in essence, is always present, is the spectre of Beethoven. The dramatic interplay of their ambitions, dreams, and desires are the stuff of an operatic tale full of passion and music. Fortissimo in feeling--a novel in the unique Anne Rice grand manner. Anne is flattered by the above, obviously she did not write this.