Murray Donald Livres

The Orchestration Handbook is an at-a-glance guide to the key elements in a musical score. Students and instructors alike will find this handbook indispensable for its clear, concise explanations of instrument characteristics, musical symbols, mood and dynamic indications, and tempo marks. Wondering if your melody can be doubled by clarinet and tenor trombone? Not sure of the difference between dolente and doloroso ? The characteristics of every instrument and score marking are covered here. Designed in a unique 4-1/2″ x 12″ format, The Orchestration Handbook belongs on the music stand of every conductor, arranger and composer.Don B. Ray is the creator of the Film Scoring Program at UCLA's Department of the Arts and a retired Music Supervisor for the CBS television network.

Vivid prose interspersed with poetry and illustrations, creating a colourful and insightful ficionalisation of life on remote St Kilda.

"In an odyssey around the coastlines of northern Europe, Donald S. Murray goes in search of a fish that once fed a continent, body and soul. He stitches together tales of the fish that was of central importance to the lives of our ancestors. Following a journey from Shetland and the Outer Hebrides to the western edge of Norway, the east of England and the fishing ports of Germany, the Netherlands and Iceland, Murray tells us how herring and those involved in its capture have been celebrated in art, literature, craft, music, and folkore. He contemplates the possibility of restoring the silver darlings of legend to our shores." -- Cover

Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail north-east for some forty miles to a remote rock called Sulasgeir. Their mission is to catch and harvest the guga; the almost fully grown gannet chicks nesting on the two hundred foot high cliffs that circle the tiny island, which is barely half a mile long.

A powerful, poignant and award-winning novel of the UK's worst peacetime maritime disaster since the Titanic - the 1919 Iolaire tragedy off the coast of Isle of Lewis - written by a son of the Hebrides.

Al Murray's (AKA The Pub Landlord) musing on his childhood where his fascination with history and all things war began. Because like so many of his generation whose childhood was all about Airfix, Action Man and Where Eagles Dare, he grew up in the cultural wake of the Second World War.

The story of the railways, tramways and metro in Dublin. From decline and closure to the renewed investment of the 1980s with the development of new lines and stations, the DART, the LUAS and proposals for Metro North, West and the Dublin Interconnector. Also covers future Luas plans, proposals for Bus Rapid Transit and includes many illustrations.

A celebration in poetry, prose and illustrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the port of Stornoway.

An inspiring story of how the human spirit triumphs over adversity this book tells the incredible tale of how a small group of Italian soldiers, imprisoned on the island of Orkney during WW2, came to construct the renowed Italian chapel that still stands today.