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Blind Date Collection: Six Romance Novellas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min
Amazon #1 Bestselling series in New Release for Clean Romance A TIMELESS ROMANCE ANTHOLOGY: BLIND DATE COLLECTION: Featuring New York Times bestselling author Victorine E. Lieske. Readers will love this collection of six novellas - three contemporary and three historical - all with one thing in common: Romance. 3 Historical Romance Novellas THE PROMISE THAT KATY DID, by Annette Lyon: After the death of Sue Ellen, the closest thing she has to family, Katy knows it's time to leave the house she's lived in as a guest and start over in the city. She quickly secures a job, but before leaving, she must honor the unusual promise she made to Sue Ellen on her deathbed: meet with Mr. Balmer. The elderly gentleman arranges for his grandson Barrett to escort her to a town dance.... A LADY OF SENSE, by Sarah M. Eden: Eleanor Sherwood has lived her entire life under her parents' thumb with little hope of escape. When they choose the unbearable Mr. Broadstead to be her future husband, she begs her father for another option. He arranges for her to meet Peter Havensham, who quickly proves himself a good and kindhearted gentleman, completely different from Mr. Broadstead, and utterly undeserving of a forced engagement.... A SECOND CHANCE, by Heather B. Moore: Virginia needs a new start in order to recover from her broken marriage and vicious gossips of her neighborhood in Boston, so when her best friend Millie invites Virginia to Chicago, she goes to live with her friend's family. But when Millie asked Virginia to participate in a double-date, Virginia knows she's not ready to start dating again. Reluctantly she agrees, only to find out that Max might just be the man who can repair the cracks in her heart. 3 Contemporary Romance Novellas BRAELYNN'S BLIND DATE, by Victorine E. Lieske. When Braelynn agrees to go on a blind date, she thinks she's hit the jackpot. Tyler is gorgeous and the perfect gentleman. Of course she should have kn ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ashley Klanac. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009252/bk_brll_009252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Les Chants de Nectaire 2
Nectaire, the old gardener (a fallen angel) from the novel 'The Revolt of the Angels' by Anatole France, plays the flute for his guests. He improvises so beautiful musical nature descriptions that even the animals come and listen to him. This scene inspired Charles Koechlin to write a three-volume cycle of 96 pieces for solo flute. The 77-year-old composer wrote this collection on the suggestion of the flutist Jean Merry. This CD contains volume 2 with the subtitle 'In the antique forest'. Charles Koechlin was born of Alsatian parentage in Paris in 1867. He gained his first musical impressions from his sister's piano playing. At an older age, he was deeply impressed by various musical works, so by Bach's 'Pfingstkantate'. Due to bad health, he had to abandon his studies in natural sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. In 1890, he joined the composition class of Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire. Further teachers were André Gédalge and Gabriel Fauré, whose incidental music to Maeterlincks 'Pelléas et Mélisande' was arranged for orchestra by Koechlin. He also met Claude Debussy and orchestrated his ballet 'Khamma'. When teaching classes himself, the composers Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud were among his students. All his life, he was very interested in numerous areas beyond music, such as literature, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, cinema and travelling. These areas influenced his vast composition oeuvres. His works, however, hardly attracted interest during his lifetime, as he avoided coteries and salons which would have boosted his career, but preferred to keep his independence. Charles Koechlin died at the age of 83 years in his house in Le Canadel (Southern France) on New Year's Eve in 1950. Flutist Hans Balmer was born in Berne, Switzerland, in 1964. After passing the university-entrance diploma (matura), he attended the Conservatory there as a student of Christian Studler and was awarded the performance certificate 'with distinction' in 1990. He attended masterclasses by Aurèle Nicolet, Renate Greiss, Harrie Starreveld and Felix Renggli, amongst others. He received important musical influences from Siegfried Palm, Jörg Ewald Dähler and many more. The Bernese composer and pianist Urs Peter Schneider drew his attention to Charles Koechlin and since then, he is dealing intensively with his music. He gives concerts at home and abroad, does radio recordings with contemporary music and teaches at a music school in the Bernese Oberland.- Shop: odax
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Minimal Flute
The movement is older than it's name - the term "minimal music" evolved in the early 1970's. Michael Campillo used it with reference to "Minimal Art", others who named this genre were the composers Michael Nyman and Tom Johnson. When predominantly serial music was taught in the 1950's and 1960's, several young composers based in the USA were looking for a simple musical language analyzable by the ear. Influences from Asia and Africa played an important role: Around 1970, La Monte Young and Terry Riley became students of the Indian raga singer Pandit Pran Nath, while Philip Glass worked with Ravi Shankar, among others, and Steve Reich studied Balinese gamelan, African drumming and Jewish cantillation. In the process, two approaches emerged. La Monte Young felt an early attraction to static sounds (trio for strings 1958). A similar approach had Charlemagne Palestine or Phill Niblock, whereas Terry Riley and Steve Reich experimented with infinite tape loops in the 1960's, thus creating music with repetitive structures with which we are dealing on this CD. Steve Reich made the break-through 1965 with the tape piece "It's gonna rain". The piece uses the recording of a sermon about the end of the world, given by a black street-preacher. Two identical tape loops were started at the same time, but as the two recorders didn't synchronize, you could soon hear an offset in time. This inspired Reich to use the phase shifting technique on instrumental compositions, for the first time ever in "Piano Phase" for two pianos (1967). Both parts have identical lines of music, the second part overtaking the first occasionally by a note. This performance of shifting tone patterns creates new patterns, called "resulting patterns", a kind of musical moiré effect. "Vermont Counterpoint" for solo flute and tape (11 prerecorded flute parts) doesn't use the phase shifting technique any longer. The canon voices are constantly shifted by three sixteenth notes, and by five sixteenth notes in the third of the four sections. The solo flute (also alto flute and piccolo) has two jobs: On one hand, it introduces new canon voices, first interspersed with rests, then becoming more and more complete until they merge into the ensemble, on the other, it emphasizes the resulting patterns, which partly form in turn a canon voice of their own in the following section. The piece, written in 1982, kicked off a series of counterpoints in which an instrumentalist is playing with one's taped self. At the age of 8, Philip Glass became flute student at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. The "Arabesque in Memoriam" for solo flute (1988) was written in remembrance of his former teacher Britton Johnson, principal flutist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. When the French composer Eric Satie heard that his music was regarded shapeless, he wrote in answer to this accusation his "Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire" for four-handed piano. The title of the "Piece in the Shape of a Square" (1967) for two flutes by Philip Glass is based on Satie. Stylistically, it's still far from Glass' later opera and movie music, it starts with a motive full of holes and rests, which is filled more and more with notes with the entry of the second voice, passing eventually into ascending scales. It was first performed at Jonas Mekas's Film-Makers Cinemathèque in New York on May 19, 1968 - a concert contributing considerably to the composer's fame. Glass and Jon Gibson arranged the scores in a square and moved in different directions through the piece until meeting again at the end. "In C" by Terry Riley, written in 1964, is a freely configurable concept. On a sheet of paper, 53 short phrases are noted, which are repeated by several performers and played in canon. Steve Reich played a part in the first performance, and it was his idea to play a repeated eighth notes pulse of high Cs on the piano in order to keep the piece together. On this CD, Hans Balmer has recorded 36 tracks with piccolo, alto and bass flute by using the technique of overdubbing.- Shop: odax
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Entdecke die Schweiz / Explore la Suisse / Discover Switzerland - Ab 4. Klasse. Dt. / Franz. / Engl.
Die Schweiz und ihre Kantone den Schülern näher bringen, ist Ziel der CD-ROM "Entdecke die Schweiz". Klett und Balmer entwickelt ein Lehrmittel für das 4. bis 6. Schuljahr, das der Lehrer im Unterricht direkt einsetzen kann. Das interaktive Unterrichtsmittel bietet Karten der Schweiz und der Kantone, Luftaufnahmen, ein Quiz sowie Arbeitsblätter zuhanden der Schülerinnen und Schüler. Neben einer Übersichtskarte der Schweiz können auch alle Kantone separat betrachtet werden. Es stehen für alle Karten verschiedenen Betrachtungsebenen zur Verfügung: topografischer Hintergrund, Grenzen, Gewässer, Orte, Berge und Täler sowie Verkehrswege. Die Ebenen können beliebig miteinander kombiniert werden. Zu jeder Kantonskarte findet man durchschnittlich fünf Luftbilder, damit das Kartenmaterial auch mit der Landschaft verglichen werden kann. Die Schülerinnen und Schüler sollen lernen, dass die Karten eine vereinfachte Darstellung der Realität sind. Die CD-ROM bietet selbstverständlich auch ein Quiz, das individuell zusammengestellt werden kann. Alle Kartenebenen und Luftbilder können als PDF-Dateien heruntergeladen werden. Sie sind bereits für den Einsatz in der Schule aufbereitet. Entdecken Sie weitere Informationen zur Software auf der produkteeigenen Website www.map4school.ch- Shop: odax
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