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Sacred Harp Singers (1984 Video)

Director

Mark Brice

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 85 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A moving portrait of harp singers Leonard and Mazine Lacy. Sacred harp music is a kind of harmonised plainsong practiced in rural America. This film was shot in Sand Mountain, Alabama.

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Macbeth

Date

28 May 2014, 16:26

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

2013. Italy. TDK. Blu-ray or DVD. 156 minutes + 10 minutes of extras. Price: £24.99 About the reviewer: Ann Aungle worked at London Metropolitan University for 31 years and was its Site Library Manager...

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Chile: Culture Under the Bayonet (1990 Video)

aka: Broken Silence

Director

Alex Anderson

Producer

Tariq Ali

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Explores the survival of Chilean culture during and after the Pinochet dictatorship. Singers, painters of murals and embroiderers of miniature tapestries are interviewed.

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Berklee Vocal Technique (2005)

Subject

FE; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £16.99

Exercises for singers to ep preent injuries and improve technical and expressive command of the voice. Lessons include warm-ups, posture, breathing tone, maintaining vocal health, and improving stamina,...

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Care of the Professional Voice (2 Parts) (1993 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassettes. Standard formats col. 85, 60 min., 1998 sale: £129.00 (+p&p) each

Dr Robert Sataloff discusses the diagnostic and treatment procedure for singers. He describes the anatomy of the vocal mechanism and vocal folds and discuses the information required for a patient’s...

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Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Naya (2006)

Director

Lina Fruzzetti; Akos Östör

Subject

Anthropology; Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £50.00

For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya villages near...

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Khyal: Classical Singing of North India (1998)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 48 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Veena Sahasrabuddhe, one of India’s leading classical singers, presents a unique insight into the khyal form and the processes of improvised performance. Using numerous demonstrations, she dissects one of...

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Waves of Joy: Anandalahari (1994 Video)

Director

Deben Bhattacharya

Producer

Deben Bhattacharya

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

The religious itinerant B‚ul poets and singers come from the Hindu and Muslim communities of Bengal. They communicate their faith and philosophy through songs, dances and instrumental music. The film was...

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Golden Thread, The: English and Other Languages (1996 Video)

Producer

Anne Diack

Subject

English language and literature; Languages

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at two countries similar in size and with bilingual populations - Singapore and Wales - and explores what bilingualism has meant to people in the artistic community as well as to parents and their...

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Introduction to John Dowland, An (1984)

Subject

English language and literature; Music

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £28.00

Analyses in detail Dowland’s song ‘Can She Excuse My Wrongs’ in order to illuminate the general approach to the setting of words taken by composers of the period. There is an historical introduction to...

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