Bøger af Carl Abbott

Note: The Blowing Zen recordings are available from Kunaki, Gumroad, and BlowingZen.org.http: //bit.ly/kunakiabbotthttps: //afm.gumroad.com/l/bzcdhttps: //blowingzen.org/learn/The Shakuhachi is an ancient flute that captivates many who cross its path. Hidden in its simplicity is profound possibility. The windy, resonant sound of the Shakuhachi brings deep serenity to sympathetic ears. For the devoted player, it is also a spiritual tool for training the mind and breath.Most notably, Zen monks have using the Shakuhachi for centuries to train mind and breath through the practice of Sui Zen (blowing Zen) using Buddhist music composed specifically for the Shakuhachi."Blowing Zen" guides you step-by-step from producing sound to playing Buddhist Meditation music. Also included are detailed build-your-own shakuhachi instructions.The Blowing Zen Companion CD (available separately) contains the Japanese folk tunes, chamber music and Buddhist composition "Hi Fu Mi" taught in the book. It also includes examples of timing and standard Buddhist music phrases.Visit BlowingZen.com for FREE audio and video recordings of the material covered in the book.

The story of Manchester United's greatest decade, brilliantly captured by two renowned authorities on the club. United in the Sixties provides a comprehensive history of the era that brought colour to the world of football. It will bring the memories flooding back for those that were lucky enough to have been there and provides a vivid account for those unlucky enough to have been born too late. 'United in the Sixties' provides a year by year account of all things Manchester United. Each chapter provides a comprehensive history of the club and its players, detailing the change in society and match-day experience for United supporters. Based on first-hand accounts and never before published interviews with all the key personalities from the time, including Sir Matt Busby, George Best, Paddy Crerand, Alex Stepney, Willie Morgan & David Herd. The book provides in-depth coverage of all the highs, including the famous victories in the FA Cup, Football League and European Cup, but does not forget the lows of an era that saw the club begin and end the decade in mid-table facing an uncertain future. Roy Cavanagh MBE is a noted authority on Manchester United, He has written xx books on the club. Most recently collaborating with co-author Carl Abbott on the acclaimed books 'The Day Two Teams Died' and 'Gentleman John'.

Making Music Fun Again Long ago you mastered your native language intuitively. Now, you can master music in a similar way, and have fun doing it! What's more, nothing is more simple or soul-satisfying than playing music with others, so come learn to play traditional mountain music - 'people music' - by ear, today Begin right now!... Grab a ukulele and take our Free 2 hour "Get Started" Workshop Series at ToneWay.com. Note: The Workshop doesn't cover the guitalele yet. However, all you need to do is play your guitalele as a tenor ukulele. This means just playing the upper four strings. The ToneWay Music Method Briefly, the ToneWay Music Method teaches you how to play string instruments (here a ukulele or guitalele) in an easier and more musically fluent way... the play by ear way applied to a handful of favorite mountain music song. Then you build on this as you learn an additional 32 beloved traditional songs. Our ToneWay Picking Patterns, ToneWay Notation, and playing up-the-neck processes help launch you into a natural play-by-ear approach to music. This knowledge allows you to easily pick up and play any of the other string instruments as well. In short, the ToneWay Music Method reveals, in a practical way, how musicians intuitively play music it's a must-have for classroom or independent study. Finally, this book includes lyrics, chords, and ToneWay Notation for 36 traditional singing classics. These songs are among the most commonly-played traditional songs. Their longevity is a testament to the joyful singing they arouse. Listen to short Song Clips of these, and hundreds more, at ToneWay.com. These teach melody and other qualities that give each song its 'soul'. Each song in the book is annotated with key-independent chord changes (a.k.a. Nashville number system), 'jammability', and tonal information useful for playing melody by ear and for singing lead and harmony. By the time you cover a bunch of these, you will have mastered the essentials you need to play most anything! For more information, go to ToneWay.com

Note: The Blowing Zen recordings are available from Kunaki, Gumroad, and BlowingZen.org.http: //bit.ly/kunakiabbotthttps: //afm.gumroad.com/l/bzcdhttps: //blowingzen.org/learn/ The Shakuhachi is an ancient flute that captivates many who cross its path. Hidden in its simplicity is profound possibility. The windy, resonant sound of the Shakuhachi brings deep serenity to sympathetic ears. For the devoted player, it is also a spiritual tool for training the mind and breath.Most notably, Zen monks have using the Shakuhachi for centuries to train mind and breath through the practice of Sui Zen (blowing Zen) using Buddhist music composed specifically for the Shakuhachi.Blowing Zen: Expanded Edition is two books in one. The first is the original Blowing Zen (1992) which guides you step-by-step from producing sound to playing Buddhist Meditation music. Also included are detailed build-your-own shakuhachi instructions. The 'Expanded" section is Blowing Zen II, which contains sheet music for an additional 26 Hon Kyoku compositions (Zen Buddhist music), pitch graphs, more San Kyoku (Japanese Chamber music), and more Japanese folk music.The Blowing Zen Companion CD (available separately) contains the Japanese folk tunes, chamber music and Buddhist composition "Hi Fu Mi" taught in the first section of the book. It also includes examples of timing and standard Buddhist music phrases.Visit BlowingZen.com for FREE audio and video recordings of the material covered in the book.

This book offers 371 songs in BIG PRINT, easy to read, 20 point typeface. Here you'll have a lifetime supply of commonly-played, traditional 'people music'. Each song is annotated with key-independent chord changes (a.k.a. Nashville number system), 'jammability', and tonal information useful for playing by ear and for singing lead and harmony. The 'people music' being played today, otherwise known as bluegrass or mountain music, evolved out of a unique blend of many styles of music, coalescing in 19th-century Appalachia. Vigorous Anglo-American mountain music, old English ballads, Afro-American gospel music, and many other traditions all contributed to the growth of the music. Like its cousins, Native American and African music, it is rooted in a driving, primal rhythm, and it lives and breathes in its SOCIAL experience! For more information, go to ToneWay.com

Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of "e;southern efficiency and northern charm."e; Kennedy's quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, Washington has been a community with multiple personalities. Located on the regional divide between North and South, it has been a tidewater town, a southern city, a coveted prize in fighting between the states, a symbol of a reunited nation, a hub for central government, an extension of the Boston-New York megalopolis, and an international metropolis.In an exploration of the many identities Washington has taken on over time, Carl Abbott examines the ways in which the city's regional orientation and national symbolism have been interpreted by novelists and business boosters, architects and blues artists, map makers and politicians. Each generation of residents and visitors has redefined Washington, he says, but in ways that have utilized or preserved its past. The nation's capital is a city whose history lives in its neighborhoods, people, and planning, as well as in its monuments and museums.

Looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television, maps, and occasionally even performance art to explore these frontiers - the metropolitan frontier of suburban development, the classic continental frontier of American settlement, and the yet unrealized frontiers beyond Earth.

Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning.

?This is a brilliantly conceived, extremely thorough, and eminently satisfying piece of historical scholarship that successfully blends distinctive approaches--economic growth and the role of ideas--into the history of middle western cities. ... Particularly valuable is his closing chapter, which sorts out and analyzes the many strains of thought that made up the booster intellectual tradition; his examination of its relationship to the growth of the statistical method in the study of society is especially original.?-Wisconsin Magazine of History

Written for a mature audience with an interest in music, history and mystery, this historical novel investigates the subtleties of love, guilt and forgiveness, ambition and ego, the rewards of a personal adventure, the career of the real-life de Pachmann, and Europe on the verge of another world war.

Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home fromColorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The new edition tells of conflicts, shiftingalliances, and changing ways of life as Hispanic, European, and African American settlers flooded into a region that was already home to Native Americans. Providing a balanced treatment of the entire states historyfrom Grand Junction to Lamar and from Trinidad to Craigthe authors also reveal how Denver and its surrounding communities developed and gained influence.While continuing to elucidate the significant impact of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism on Colorado, the fifth edition broadens and focusesits coverage by consolidating material on Native Americans into one chapter and adding a new chapter on sports history. The authors also expand their discussion of the twentieth century with updated sections on the environment, economy, politics, and recent cultural conflicts.New illustrations, updated statistics, and an extensive bibliography including Internet resourcesenhance this edition.

Will the settlement of Mars prove much different from the settlement of the West? This study shows us how the ways we remember the past greatly influence our ability to imagine multiple futures - in distant universes that appear very strange and yet utterly familiar.

This volume details the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905.