You can browse for books on dance within the call number range:
792-793
Below are some examples of dance books in the library.
Rhythmic Training for Dancers by
If you want to improve your students'' ability to learn movement combinations, teach dance, and create choreography, then help them get in touch with the musicality in their movements with Rhythmic Training for Dancers. Rhythmic Training for Dancersand its companion CD-ROM, An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers,help dancers develop a better understanding of musical time and phrasing, which directly correspond with their dance activities. These materials provide an interdisciplinary approach that bridges the perceptual barrier between dancers and musicians by explaining concepts from both perspectives. Students will -learn basic concepts of musical time as they apply to dance technique and choreography, -become aware of how they intuitively use musical time in their dancing, and -explore rhythmic theory from the musician''s perspective. The book follows a step-by-step approach, introducing only a few concepts at a time so that students will comprehend the material. Special exercises are grouped within six categories of study designed to reveal the musicality inherent in movement and the kinetics of rhythm: aural skills, rhythm activities, vocal training, notation, dance technique class and pedagogy, and choreography. The book also includes material that course instructors can use to incorporate vocal and body percussion exercises throughout the course. In these exercises, each student--whether a musician or nonmusician--becomes an active performer in a vocal and body percussion ensemble, exploring expressive soundscapes, aural textures, and rhythm. The exercises illustrate the concepts presented in the book. Plus, students can mix and match the exercises to create longer combinations or performance structures. Additional student-friendly features include the following: -Opening quotes from students highlight the concepts covered in each chapter. -Relevant concepts, vocabulary, and symbols are listed at the beginning of each chapter. -A running glossary appears in the margins throughout each chapter. -"Apply Your Knowledge" headings tell readers what they will learn when they complete an exercise or activity. -Assessment worksheets help readers test their knowledge. -Rhythmic applications pose real-world problems to solve through movement. -CD-ROM boxes throughout the text direct readers to specific sections of the accompanying CD-ROM for further learning and to enhance information in the textbook. -Discussion questions at the end of parts I and II present actual students'' questions, organized by topic. Rhythmic Training for Dancersisn''t just theory--it''s about how to apply the basic skills and principles of rhythmic musicianship to dance. This text and CD-ROM package will benefit any person who wants to gain a better understanding of the language of music, the kinetics of rhythm, and the poetics of sound. Accompanying CD-ROM brings concepts to life An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancersis a companion CD-ROM that makes it even easier for students to understand the concepts presented in Rhythmic Training for Dancers.Engaging and informative, the CD-ROM explores the multifaceted links between the worlds of music and movement. Students can listen to more than 300 audio samples and view 80 video clips that illustrate specific concepts presented in the book. The CD-ROM is organized in three different sections: -A Dancer''s View,presents video samples of dance technique class combinations. -A Musician''s View,explores rhythm and meter through audio and video samples. -Practice,presents three self-paced, interactive drills to help students recognize how to divide time by sound; how to convey rhythm, tempo, phrasing, and meter without using words; and how to create musical phrases vocally. Throughout the program the user may click on highlighted words and INFO buttons that link to supplemental audio or visual information. Minimum System Requirements Interactive Guide to Music for Dancerscan be installed on either a Windows®-based PC or Macintosh computer. * 2x CD-ROM drive * 256 colors * VGA color monitor * Sound card * Speakers * Mouse Microsoft® Windows® * Windows® 95/98 * Windows® NT 4.0 * Windows® 2000 * Windows® XP * 486 or higher * QuickTime 5.0 * At least 16 MB RAM with 32 recommended * 32 MB RAM available Macintosh® * PowerMac® 7200 or better recommended * System 8.x or 9.x * If System 8.5 or higher is used anti-aliasing for fonts should be turned off. To do this: * Click on the Apple in the upper left of the menu bar at the top of the screen. * Select Control Panels, then select Appearance from the list. * The Appearance window will open, select the fild tab that says "Fonts". * At the botton of the Fonts file, make sure that the "Smooth all fonts on screen" option is NOT checked. (Click on it if it is checked.) * Close the Appearance window by clicking on the square in the upper left corner of the window. * Launch the CD. * QuickTime 5.0 * 32 MB RAM available Windows® and Microsoft® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Ballet by
Lynes opened his photographic studio in New York in 1932. He came from Paris, where he had studied with Man Ray, and was inspired by the European visual movements of Surrealism and neo-romanticism. George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein both invited him to photograph their ballets, and the pic tures in this collection, spanning the years 1933 to 1957, are the result of their collaborations. Ambivalent about the status of photography as an art form, Lynes photographed the dance because he loved it, seeking to capture and perpetuate the essence, rather than the actuality, of what he saw on the stage. These 83 richly printed gravures are a handsome testament to his passion
You can browse for books on film within the call number ranges:
791.4-
Below are some examples of fIlm books in the library.
Film History by
Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art: An Introduction (now in its eighth edition) concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that rely on publicity stills. The third edition of Film History is thoroughly updated and includes the first comprehensive overviews of the impact of globalization and digital technology on the cinema. Any serious film scholar--professor undergraduate or graduate student--will want to read and keep Film History.Visit the author's blog at http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/.
The Big Screen by
The Big Screentells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen—smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous—as important as the images it carries. The Big Screenis not another history of the movies. Rather, it is a wide-ranging narrative about the movies and their signal role in modern life. At first, film was a waking dream, the gift of appearance delivered for a nickel to huddled masses sitting in the dark. But soon, and abruptly, movies began transforming our societies and our perceptions of the world. The celebrated film authority David Thomson takes us around the globe, through time, and across many media—moving from Eadweard Muybridge to Steve Jobs, fromSunrisetoI Love Lucy, from John Wayne to George Clooney, from television commercials to streaming video—to tell the complex, gripping, paradoxical story of the movies. He tracks the ways we were initially enchanted by movies as imitations of life—the stories, the stars, the look—and how we allowed them to show us how to live. At the same time, movies, offering a seductive escape from everyday reality and its responsibilities, have made it possible for us to evade life altogether. The entranced audience has become a model for powerless and anxiety-ridden citizens trying to pursue happiness and dodge terror by sitting quietly in a dark room. Does the big screen take us out into the world, or merely mesmerize us? That is Thomson's question in this grand adventure of a book. Books about the movies are often aimed at film buffs, but this passionate and provocative feat of storytelling is vital to anyone trying to make sense of the age of screens—the age that, more than ever, we are living in.
Cult Movies by
A guide to more than one hundred of the most popular and controversial cult classic films ever made includes coverage of All About Eve, Tarzan and His Mate, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Film Magazine
American Cinematographer
Entertainment Weekly
The New Yorker
The New York Times Magazine
Graphic novels can be found in three areas in our library. 1. In Juvenile (J GNC) 2. Young Adult (YA GNC) 3. Adult Graphic Novels (GNC)
Below are some examples of graphic novels books in the library.
Yotsuba&! by
Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of 'em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and...oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!
The Girl from the Other Side - Siuil, a Run by
An ethereal fantasy from the editorial team behind theNew York Times bestselling seriesThe Ancient Magus' Bride The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún is an all-new manga series that pulls readers into a magical and enchanting tale about a young girl and her demonic guardian. A haunting story of love and fantastical creatures,The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún is a gorgeously-illustrated manga series. Each volume in the series will be released with a beautifully-textured matte finish cover and will include at least one full-color insert. In a world split between the Inside and the Outside, those living in both realms are told never to cross over to the other side, lest they be cursed. A young girl named Shiva lives on the other side, in a vacant village with a demonic guardian known only as "Teacher." Although the two are forbidden to touch, they seem to share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances. But when Shiva leaves Teacher's care to seek out her grandmother, the secret behind her mysterious living arrangement comes to light.
Love and Rockets by
In the summer of 2008, Fantagraphics Books brought the classic Love andRockets brand to a whole new audience with the hugely successful firstvolume of the trade-paperback sized Love and Rockets: New Stories. A yearlater, the Hernandez Brothers are back with the second eye-popping volume. Thisvolume gets off to a flying start with "Hypnotwist," Gilbert's 39-page wordlessepic about a beautiful, leggy redhead's surreal journey into a night filled withmysterious shady characters, dreamlike violence, and sparkling retro spikeheels. But is it real, or something else? Then, the concluding 50-page chapterof Jaime's acclaimed superhero mash-up "Ti-Girls Adventures," our protagonistBoot Angel learns more hard lessons about becoming a superheroine. Eventually,just about the entire cast gets together in Maggie's tiny, messy one-bedroomapartment. Beto concludes with "Chest Fever," in which a group of friendsventure to Las Vegas, which isn't quite what they expected...
Literature can be found in three areas in our library. Criticism, analysis, and major classics are found in the 800's. Novels are found in the Fiction section (FIC). Short stories are found in the Short Story collection (SC).
Below are some examples of literature books in the library.
All Art Is Propaganda by
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line."
The Orwell Reader by
Here is Orwell’s work in all its remarkable range and variety. The selections in this anthology show how Orwell developed as writer and as thinker; inevitably, too, they reflect and illuminate the history of the time of troubles in which he lived and worked. “A magnificent tribute to the probity, consistency and insight of Orwell’s topical writings” (Alfred Kazin). Introduction by Richard H. Rovere.
Animal Farm by
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella reflecting events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism. In the book, Old Major, the old boar on the Manor Farm, summons the animals on the farm together for a meeting, during which he refers to humans as "enemies" and teaches the animals a revolutionary song called "Beasts of England". When Major dies, two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, assume command and consider it a duty to prepare for the Rebellion. The animals revolt, driving the drunken, irresponsible farmer Mr Jones, as well as Mrs Jones and the other human caretakers and employees, off the farm, renaming it "Animal Farm". They adopt the Seven Commandments of Animalism, the most important of which is, "All animals are equal".The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story; U.S. publishers dropped the subtitle when it was published in 1946, and only one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime kept it.Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
You can browse for books on music within the call number ranges:
780-788
Below are some examples of music books in the library.
Berlioz, Vol. 1 by
This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists. After long being regarded as an oddity and an eccentric figure, Berlioz is now being accepted into the ranks of the great composers. Based on a wealth of previously unpublished sources, and on a profound understanding of the humanity of his subject, David Cairns's book provides a full account of this extraordinary and powerfully attractive man. Berlioz, Volume I, previously published only in Britain, is now available to American readers in a revised edition, together with the eagerly awaited, new Volume II. These two volumes together comprise a monumental biographical achievement, sure to stand as the definitive Berlioz biography. In researching Berlioz's life, Cairns has had access to unpublished family papers, and in Volume I he is able to portray all the people close to Berlioz in his boyhood, and to evoke a detailed picture of their lives in and around La C#65533;te St.-Andr#65533; in the foothills of the French Alps. No artist's achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz, whose passionate sensibility began to absorb the material of his art long before he had heard any musical ensemble other than the local town band. Volume I also traces the student years in Paris and Italy and discusses Berlioz's three great love affairs, shedding remarkable light on his later character and development. Volume I ends on the afternoon of December 9, 1832, the day of the concert that launched the composer's career.
Invisible Republic by
This book is terminal, goes deeply into the subconscious and plows through that period of time like a rake. Greil Marcus has done it again. -- Bob DylanGreil Marcus Has Been Called simply peerless, not only as a rock writer but as a cultural historian (Nick Hornby). It's appropriate, then, that he should choose to explore one of the most defining moments in American music: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes.It was 1967 -- the Summer of Love. Bob Dylan and five other musicians (later known as The Band) met in a bungalow in Woodstock, New York, and wrote and produced music that ignored the psychedelic sounds of the time, songs that would eventually become known simply as The Basement Tapes. The group mined the history of American music and their own talents to produce legendary tracks that were bootleg issues before appearing in official release.That is the alchemy that was practiced in the Basement Tapes laboratory, and in that alchemy, Marcus writes, is an undiscovered country, like the purloined letter hiding in plain sight. Marcus explores this music and the cauldron of the American experience in which it was formed in a book that illuminates America, then and now.Marcus's work is very likely the most imaginative criticism being done, but it's more than that: It's a light in dark times. -- Luc Sante, New York magazine
All the Stops by
Here, Craig Whitney offers a history of the pipe organ in America and the characters who devoted their lives to its music. For centuries, pipe organs stood at the summit of human musical and technological achievement. Before the advent of steam power, electricity and internal combustion, pipe organs were, save for clocks, admired as the most complex and intricate mechanisms the human race had yet devised.
Music Magazines
The American Harp Journal
Downbeat
Flute Talk
The Instrumentalist
Piano Guide Notes
Rolling Stone
Tape Op
The Poetry section are organized by what librarians call "word-based" order. That means you will see actual words instead of letters and numbers. So a call number will look like this:
Poetry(What) Poetry(What)
Europe(Where) Europe(Where)
Baudelaire.C(Author) Beowulf(Title)
Notice, one ends with the author of the piece while the other with the title.
Below are some examples of poetry books in the library.
Beowulf by
A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.
The Collected Poems, 1956-1998 by
This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, Epilogue Of the Storm. Collected Poems: 1956-1998, as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's SSelected Poems, is "bound for a much longer haul than any of us can anticipate." He continues, "For Zbigniew Herbert's poetry adds to the biography of civilization the sensibility of a man not defeated by the century that has been most thorough, most effective in dehumanization of the species. Herbert's irony, his austere reserve and his compassion, the lucidity of his lyricism, the intensity of his sentiment toward classical antiquity, are not just trappings of a modern poet, but the necessary armor--in his case well-tempered and shining indeed--for man not to be crushed by the onslaught of reality. By offering to his readers neither aesthetic nor ethical discount, this poet, in fact, saves them frorn that poverty which every form of human evil finds so congenial. As long as the species exists, this book will be timely."
Walking with the Bear by
"Walking with the Bear" is a life work-a past, present, and future of renowned Michigan poet Judith Minty's work over the last thirty years. In essence, Minty is writing one long poem from the moment she begins her journey, taking us with her on this road with her intimate vision. Beginning chronologically with selected work from "Lake Songs and Other Fears" (1974), "Yellow Dog Journal "(1979, 1981), "Letters to My Daughters" (1980), " In the Presence of the Mothers "(1981), " Counting the Losses "(1986), and "Dancing the Fault "(1991), "Walking with the Bear" then continues with new poems, bringing us along the shifting, but never-ending path of Judith Minty's poetry.
The Theatre section is organized by what librarians call "word-based" order. That means you will see actual words instead of letters and numbers. So a call number will look like this:
One-Acts(What) Plays(What)
N.America(Where) Europe(Where)
Best(Title) Cook.P(Author)
1986-1987(additional Info) Good(Title)
Notice, one ends with the additional Info while the other with the title.
Below are some examples of theatre books in the library.
The Best Short Plays of 1986-1987 by
"These are sharp, tightly constructed pieces with small casts, as readable as they are actable - just the sort of thing community players and other small ensembles will find practical." - Booklist
Good Evening by
A very funny show about some unlikely subjects, including a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, an in-depth interview with an unimpressed shepherd who witnessed the Nativity, and a French singer who misunderstands an Anglo-Saxon vulgarity and composes a song around it.
No Exit and Three Other Plays by
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.
Theatre Magazines
American Theater (ICACAT) (FULL-TEXT ACCESS)
The New York Times (FULL-TEXT ACCESS)
The New Yorker (FULL-TEXT ACCESS)
You can find books on the visual arts within the call number ranges.
E Native American Arts
F United States Historical Art
GT Costume, Dress, Fashion
N Visual Arts (General)
NA Architecture
NB Sculpture
NC Drawing, Design, Illustration
ND Painting
NK Decorative Arts
NX Arts in General
TR Photography
TT Glazes, Sewing, Pottery Techniques, and Weaving
Z Book Design, Graphic Design, Typography
All these books can be found In the nook next to the non-fiction books on the west side of the building towards Picasso house.
Below are some examples of visual arts books in the library.
Buddha by
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov. 10, 2001-Feb. 24, 2002
Dali by
Robert Descharnes (born 1926) is a photographer and writer, and has made numerous films, including L'Histoire prodigieuse de la dentelliere et du rhinoceros. He has written for magazines in France and elsewhere, and has published studies of major artists, among them Antoni Gaudi and Auguste Rodin. His labours have been primarily devoted to Salvador Dali, though, and he has helped organize Dali exhibitions at major museums and galleries throughout the world. Since 1950 he has been documenting and cataloguing Dali's paintings and writings, and is now considered the leading expert on the artist. Shortly before Dali's death, Descharnes was appointed by him to take charge of the rights to his works, within the Societe Demart Pro Arte B.V., of which Descharnes is president. As a friend of the artist for over thirty years, privy to the realities behind the public image, Robert Descharnes is uniquely qualified to analyse Dali the man and Dali the myth. Gilles Neret (born 1933) is an art historian, journalist and the author of numerous books on modern art. He has not only organized major retrospectives of Impressionists from Renoir to Gauguin in Japan but also Millet, Rousseau, Modigliani, Leger and Kandinsky as well as the Paris Biennale, modern sculpture, Dali... He is a founding member of the Seibu Museum and Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He was chief editor and director of L'CEil and Connaissance des Arts. He is author of monographies on Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Cezanne, Klimt, Picasso, Botticelli and received the Elie Faure prize in 1981 for his collection "A l'ecole des grands peintres". He has published Les Naifs (NEF-L'Illustration, Paris), Les Impressionnistes (Office du Livre, Fribourg), L'Art des annees 20 and L'Art des annees 30 (Seuil, Paris; Rizzoli, New York; Orell Fussli, Zurich), Avant-garde 1945 - 1975 (Hirmer, Munich), 30 Ans d'art moderne (Nathan, Paris), L'Art, la femme et l'automobile (E.P.A., Paris), Ces bijoux qui font rever (Solar, Paris) and Fernand Leger (NEF-L'Illustration, Paris).
Women, Art and Society by
This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists, such as Artemisia Gentileschi, are exceptions who "transcended" their sex in achieving major works of art. In fact, many other women have produced paintings, sculptures, and crafts since the Middle Ages, and have been neglected. Whitney Chadwick provides much more than an alternative canon of women artists: she reexamines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. In her discussion of feminism, and its influence on such a reappraisal, the author also addresses the closely related issues of ethnicity, class, and sexuality. Since Women, Art, and Society was first published in 1990, globalization, rapidly shifting demographic and geographic realities, and an explosion of new technologies have transformed the ways we think about the world, and prompted yet more critical consideration of how gender, sexual difference, race, and culture intersect
