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Notes for Cellists: A Guide to the Repertoire is an essential resource for anyone seeking to enrich their understanding of cello music. Written by cellist and cello professor Miranda Wilson, this book explores the world of cello repertoire with analytical overviews and background information on compositions spanning five centuries. In an engaging and accessible style, Notes for Cellists guides readers through the repertoire, providing detailed insights into the lives of composers and the cellists who inspired them. From Bach and Beethoven to contemporary works by living composers, Notes for Cellists offers historical and analytical contexts for over three dozen works. Whether you're a student, professional, teacher, college faculty member, amateur player, or simply an enthusiast of the cello, Notes for Cellists is an indispensable tool. With extended program notes on the essentials of cello repertoire, this book serves as a guide for reference or a starting point for further research.

Everyone knows what anger is. We've all felt it at one time or another, be it a minor, passing annoyance or a full-on all-out rage. Anger is a normal emotion, and most of the time, it's a healthy one. It becomes a problem when it gets out of control and consumes you to the point that it's all you can think about. It becomes a problem when it becomes destructive and causes problems in your work and personal life. And, if you let anger control you, you become the prisoner of powerful, unpredictable emotions. Anger management is about learning to control how you react to situations that provoke your anger, including your thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Overcoming anger is about learning to move on from what triggers you, no matter how hard it may be, and it will involve the painful exercise of having to go back to what started it and relive it before you can put it behind you.

An anger management book for kids might sound like a silly idea. Or maybe you've tried reading one and thought, "Not for kids " But anger is also a big issue for the little ones, and the sooner we can teach them how to deal with it, the better off they will be as adults. Anger is a major factor in bullying, aggression, and violence. Peer pressure, the desire for popularity, and bullies can push kids to act out in ways that are uncharacteristic of their true personalities. The result could be harsh words, manipulative behavior, or physical "payback." This book is for kids who have exhibited anger-related behavior that they wish they could take back.Anger management books are typically aimed at teens, but it's important to remember that even younger kids can be affected by angry and aggressive behavior. Big emotions scare everyone, and kids have a lot of frightening emotions buried deep inside. They may have an easy time showing their fierce loyalty to their favorite baseball team, but when something upsets them, they are overwhelmed, and it's hard to know how to behave. This book answers the questions that kids ask themselves when facing these big and unfamiliar emotions. A gentle introduction to the topic is necessary. This book touches on the subject of anger, but not in any way that is intense or overwhelming. The words anger, hurt and upset will be used light-heartedly, while the real information is presented in the text that is more informative than sensational. This is an inclusive, naturalistic book designed to be beginner-friendly and engaging. It can be used as a guide for children struggling with behavior issues or as a valuable tool to help kids understand the importance of learning to control their emotions. Anger management programs and classes exist for kids who need support managing their anger issues. This book can be used in conjunction with those programs, therapy sessions, parent meetings, or group counseling sessions to help kids learn about managing their feelings. While individual treatment will vary, providing this book to parents may help them find some answers to help their children cope with big emotions. So, let's talk about anger: why it starts, why it matters, and what we can do about it.

We have all had the displeasure of encountering toxic personalities at one point in our lives. These are the people that get you to wonder which version of them you will encounter on any given day and who will do everything in their power to put the blame for everything on someone or something else. However, we don't always realize how much their behavior can affect us in our own lives. Spotting toxic traits can be challenging - and this is what makes their actions so damaging. You don't even know how much power a toxic person yields over you. So, you just let them continue to chip away at your self-esteem until you start questioning your own integrity instead of theirs.As you will learn from this book, it doesn't have to be this way. You can live your life in peace and harmony without letting a toxic person drain you of your energy, joy, and hope. This comprehensive book provides deep insight into the different types of negative behavior, highlighting common toxic traits and their possible background. Understanding them will help you move on with your life by learning to focus on yourself first. While this may sound like a delicate prospect given the difficult context of your relationship, putting yourself first will enable you to finally see your experiences with a toxic person from a different perspective, one that truly matters, namely, yours.

What does it mean to perform expressively on the cello? In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, professor Miranda Wilson teaches that effectiveness on the concert stage or in an audition reflects the intensity, efficiency, and organization of your practice. Far from being a mysterious gift randomly bestowed on a lucky few, successful cello performance is, in fact, a learnable skill that any player can master. Most other instructional works for cellists address techniques for each hand individually, as if their movements were independent. In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, Wilson demonstrates that the movements of the hands are vitally interdependent, supporting and empowering one another in any technical action. Original exercises in the fundamentals of cello playing include cross-lateral exercises, mindful breathing, and one of the most detailed discussions of intonation in the cello literature. Wilson translates this practice-room success to the concert hall through chapters on performance-focused practice, performance anxiety, and common interpretive challenges of cello playing. This book is a resource for all advanced cellists—college-bound high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and professional performers—and teaches them how to be their own best teachers.

What does it mean to perform expressively on the cello? In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, professor Miranda Wilson teaches that effectiveness on the concert stage or in an audition reflects the intensity, efficiency, and organization of your practice. Far from being a mysterious gift randomly bestowed on a lucky few, successful cello performance is, in fact, a learnable skill that any player can master. Most other instructional works for cellists address techniques for each hand individually, as if their movements were independent. In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, Wilson demonstrates that the movements of the hands are vitally interdependent, supporting and empowering one another in any technical action. Original exercises in the fundamentals of cello playing include cross-lateral exercises, mindful breathing, and one of the most detailed discussions of intonation in the cello literature. Wilson translates this practice-room success to the concert hall through chapters on performance-focused practice, performance anxiety, and common interpretive challenges of cello playing. This book is a resource for all advanced cellists—college-bound high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and professional performers—and teaches them how to be their own best teachers.

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty. Whether English writers invoke literal poisons, as they do in so many revenge dramas, homicide cases, and medical documents, or whether poisoning appears more metaphorically, as it does in a host of theological, legal, philosophical, popular, and literary works, this particular, “invisible” weapon easily comes to embody the darkest elements of a more general English appetite for imagining the hidden correlations between the seen and the unseen. This book is an inherently interdisciplinary project. This book works from the premise that accounts of poisons and their operations in Renaissance texts are neither incidental nor purely sensational; rather, they do moral, political, and religious work which can best be assessed when we consider poisoning as part of the texture of Renaissance culture. Placing little known or less-studied texts (medical reports, legal accounts, or anonymous pamphlets) alongside those most familiar to scholars and the larger public (such as poetry by Edmund Spenser and plays by William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton) allows us to appreciate the almost gravitational pull exerted by the notion of poison in the Renaissance. Considering a variety of texts, written for disparate audiences, and with diverse purposes, makes apparent the ways this crime functions as both a local problem to be solved and as an apt metaphor for the complications of epistemology.

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty. Whether English writers invoke literal poisons, as they do in so many revenge dramas, homicide cases, and medical documents, or whether poisoning appears more metaphorically, as it does in a host of theological, legal, philosophical, popular, and literary works, this particular, “invisible” weapon easily comes to embody the darkest elements of a more general English appetite for imagining the hidden correlations between the seen and the unseen. This book is an inherently interdisciplinary project. This book works from the premise that accounts of poisons and their operations in Renaissance texts are neither incidental nor purely sensational; rather, they do moral, political, and religious work which can best be assessed when we consider poisoning as part of the texture of Renaissance culture. Placing little known or less-studied texts (medical reports, legal accounts, or anonymous pamphlets) alongside those most familiar to scholars and the larger public (such as poetry by Edmund Spenser and plays by William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton) allows us to appreciate the almost gravitational pull exerted by the notion of poison in the Renaissance. Considering a variety of texts, written for disparate audiences, and with diverse purposes, makes apparent the ways this crime functions as both a local problem to be solved and as an apt metaphor for the complications of epistemology.

The Well-Tempered Cello revisits the masterpieces that form a soundtrack to a cellist's life - the Six Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach- and weaves them into a memoir of how these beloved compo-sitions can help us interpret our own life stories. Miranda Wilson was a child in New Zealand when she first began to learn the notes of Bach's Cello Suites, starting with the famous Prelude in G Major. After moving to the United States for a career as a cellist, music journalist, and professor, she became obsessed with the goal of performing all six from memory in a marathon concert. Relearning and reinterpreting the Cello Suites, she realized that there is always something new to be found within their notes and melodies, as if they possess a life of their own. In a six-part structure that resembles the arc of Bach's cycle, The Well-Tempered Cello creates both an expressive reading of Bach's Cello Suites and a reflection on the musician's restless search for meaning. It is a book for music lovers who seek to know why we listen again and again to the compositions that accompany us on life's journeys, and why music seems to listen to us too.