Bøger af Brian Ulrich

Understanding the basic elements of music - counting, music notation, musical keys and time signatures are critical to a student's musical development. This book is written to explain these elements in an easy-to-read format with extensive simple to understand illustration. SPECIAL BONUS: Included is a glossary of musical terms covering 385 of the most commonly used music expressions. This book is a "must have" for students and musicians of any age. Everything you need to read and count music, and much, much more.

"The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discovery of oil. This book tells of the Gulf from the rise of Islam until the coming of the Portuguese, when port cities such as Siraf, Sohar, and Hormuz were entrepots for trading pearls, horses, spices, and other products across much of Asia and eastern Africa. Indeed, products traded there became a key part of the material culture of medieval Islamic civilization, and the Gulf region itself was a crucial membrane between the Middle East and the world of the broader Indian Ocean. The book also highlights the long-term presence of communities of South Asian and African ancestry, as well as patterns of religious change among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims that belie the image of a region long polarized between Arabs and Persians and Sunnis and Shi'ites." -- Back cover.

Examining a single broad tribal identity - al-Azd - from the immediate pre-Islamic period into the early Abbasid era, this book notes the ways it was continually refashioned over that time.