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| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Mr. Hoffman's Popular Hits for Piano Joseph Hoffman, 2020-08-01 (Easy Piano Songbook). 17 easy arrangements of pop hits with instruction tips for each by popular YouTube instructor Mr. Hoffman. Each song also has a demo track and backing tracks online to help students hear how they should sound and then play along and sound like a pro! Ideal for beginning piano students who want to use their new-found skills to play popular music. Songs include: Can't Stop the Feeling * Fight Song * How Far I'll Go * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) * Lean on Me * Let It Go * Linus and Lucy * Shake It Off * Star Wars (Main Theme) * We Will Rock You * and more. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: The Music of Vince Guaraldi Vince Guaraldi, John Brimhall, 2000-12-01 Titles include: Charlie Brown Theme * Christmas Time Is Here * Baseball Theme * Blue Charlie Brown * The Great Pumpkin Waltz * Happiness Theme * Joe Cool * Linus & Lucy * Oh, Good Grief * Red Baron * Schroeder * You're in Love Charlie Brown. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: A Charlie Brown Christmas , 2018-08-01 (Artist Transcriptions). Play the memorable Christmas Time Is Here and 7 more classics as presented by Vince Guaraldi in this Peanuts holiday movie that has been a favorite for generations in note-for-note transcriptions for keyboard. Other songs include: Christmas Is Coming * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Linus and Lucy * My Little Drum * O Tannenbaum * Skating * What Child Is This. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: The Vince Guaraldi Collection (Songbook) Vince Guaraldi, 2001-12-01 (Artist Transcriptions). Along with Dave Brubeck, Vince Guaraldi was one of the leading pianists to rise to prominence from the California Bay Area scene. Originally a Latin jazz musician, his recording of Cast Your Fate to the Wind is one of the best-selling jazz records of all time. Guaraldi later composed the beloved and timeless music for the Peanuts television specials. This folio spans Guaraldi's multi-faceted career, with note-for-note transcriptions of 9 terrific songs: Cast Your Fate to the Wind * Christmas Time Is Here * Greensleeves * Linus and Lucy * Manha De Carnaval * O Tannenbaum * Outra Vez * Samba De Orfeu * Star Song. Includes a biography and a discography. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Vince Guaraldi at the Piano, 2d ed. Derrick Bang, 2024-05-15 Although Vince Guaraldi's playful jazz piano themes for the early Peanuts animated television specials are well known, the composer himself remains largely unheralded. More than merely the Peanuts guy, Guaraldi cut his jazz teeth as a member of combos fronted by Cal Tjader and Woody Herman, and garnered Top 40 fame with his Grammy Award-winning hit Cast Your Fate to the Wind. This career study, extensively updated, gives Guaraldi long-overdue recognition, chronicling his years as a sideman; his attraction to the emerging bossa nova sound of the late 1950s; his collaboration with Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete; his development of the Grace Cathedral Jazz Mass; his selection as the fellow to put the jazz swing in Charlie Brown's step; and his emergence as a respected veteran in the declining Northern California jazz club scene of the 1970s. Ironically, his place in the jazz universe has grown exponentially since this book's initial 2012 publication, and this second edition acknowledges such honors and features a wealth of new material. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: The Definitive Vince Guaraldi , 2019-07-01 (Artist Transcriptions). Note-for-note keyboard transcriptions for 31 songs as performed by the famed jazz pianist who composed the songs and themes for the popular Peanuts animated cartoons. Includes: Autumn Leaves * Cast Your Fate to the Wind * Charlie Brown Theme * Christmas Time Is Here * A Day in the Life of a Fool (Manha de Carnaval) * El Matador * The Great Pumpkin Waltz * Linus and Lucy * On Green Dolphin Street * Skating * Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise * and more. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Linus and Lucy Phillip Keveren, 2015-11-01 (Educational Piano Library). Everyone's favorite Peanuts theme arranged for piano duet with one piano, four hands. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Images, Volume I Claude Debussy, Andre Caplet, 1996-02-01 From the Kalmus catalog, this transcription for one piano/four hands of the famous Debussy Images, Volume I. Closely following the original orchestration, this arrangement can be enjoyed by students and piano teams. The three movements may be performed as a set, or individually. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: The Easy Peanuts Illustrated Songbook , 2015-11-01 (Easy Piano Songbook). Fifty years. 350 million readers in 75 countries. 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages. Four feature films and over 60 beloved TV specials. One cast of characters: Peanuts . Lovingly rendered by the late Charles Schulz, Peanuts is much more than a simple comic strip. Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and of course, Snoopy, have sneaked into our psyche and become international symbols of purity and happiness. Schulz created the characters, but it was the music of Vince Guaraldi that gave them life. Pre-Peanuts, Bay Area pianist and composer Guaraldi was best known for penning the standard Cast Your Fate to the Wind, but his own fate would soon change; when producer Lee Mendelson solicited him to score a documentary on Schulz, and subsequent television specials, Guaraldi's music became inextricably linked with Peanuts . Through the swinging beats of Linus & Lucy on the soundtrack to A Boy Named Charlie Brown , and the festive refrains on the holiday classic A Charlie Brown Christmas , he and his trio introduced millions of people to jazz in the mid-'60s and far beyond. Now, for the first time available with easy piano arrangements, this songbook is a celebration of the art of Charles Schulz and the music of Vince Guaraldi. Within its pages are: an introduction by veteran music journalist Hank Bordowitz, which provides background on how the Schulz/Mendelson/Guaraldi collaboration came to be, and reflections from fellow musicians influenced by Guaraldi's music; and piano solo arrangements of 30 terrific tunes, each featuring a Peanuts illustration by Schulz. The songs include: Baseball Theme * Blue Charlie Brown * The Christmas Song * Christmas Time Is Here * Frieda (With the Naturally Curly Hair) * Great Pumpkin Waltz * Happiness Theme * He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown * Linus and Lucy * Oh, Good Grief * The Pebble Beach Theme * Peppermint Patty * Red Baron * Schroeder * Skating * You're in Love, Charlie Brown * and more. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Bill Evans Omnibook for Piano Bill Evans, 2020-01-01 (Jazz Transcriptions). The ultimate collection for jazz keyboardists to learn 40 Evans classics with exact note-for-note transcriptions. Includes: Alice in Wonderland * Autumn Leaves * Bill's Hit Tune * Blue in Green * Days of Wine and Roses * Emily * Everything Happens to Me * Five * For Nenette * How About You? * How My Heart Sings * I Loves You, Porgy * It Could Happen to You * Just You, Just Me * Letter to Evan * My Foolish Heart * My Funny Valentine * My Romance * Nardis * Night and Day * One for Helen * Peace Piece * Peri's Scope * Quiet Now * Re: Person I Knew * Skating in Central Park * A Sleepin' Bee * Some Other Time * Stella by Starlight * Song from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) * 34 Skidoo * Time Remembered * The Touch of Your Lips * Turn Out the Stars * Very Early * Waltz for Debby * What Kind of Fool Am I? * Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me) * You Go to My Head * You Must Believe in Spring * and more. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: The BB Jazz Standards Progressions Book Vol. I mDecks Music, 2018-12-16 (Fake Book). Perfect Binding Edition.This unprecedented, revolutionary collection of jazz standards progressions includes all harmonic progressions with full harmonic analysis, chords, chord-scales and arrows & brackets analysis.Every Jazz Standard analysis was hand-made by well-versed jazz musicians. Every function, chord-scale, modulation and pivot-chord was carefully chosen to create the best possible harmonic interpretation of the progression.All double-page songs are presented side-by-side, so no flipping through pages is necessary.Available for Concert, Bb & Eb Instruments.Volume I has 291 songs including All Blues * Autumn Leaves * All of Me * Blue Trane * Body and Soul * Desafinado * Donna Lee * Girl From Ipanema * It Don't Mean a Thing * Like Someone in Love * Misty * Moment's Notice * My Favorite Things * Prelude to a Kiss * Stella By Starlight * Wave * and hundreds more! |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: John Mayer - Room for Squares (Songbook) John Mayer, 2003-05-01 (Play It Like It Is). We proudly present the guitar matching folio to acclaimed singer/songwriter John Mayer's major label debut. Includes a biography, photos and note-for-note transcriptions with tab supervised by Mayer himself ! 13 songs, including Your Body Is a Wonderland, the Grammy winner for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and: Back to You * City Love * 83 * Great Indoors * Love Song for No One * My Stupid Mouth * Neon * No Such Thing * Not Myself * St. Patrick's Day * 3X5 * Why Georgia. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Charlie Brown Favorites Phillip Keveren, 2018-06-01 (Piano Solo Songbook). Phillip Keveren has arranged Linus and Lucy and 14 more familiar songs from the classic Peanuts' Charlie Brown series for piano solo. Includes: Christmas Time Is Here * Frieda (With the Naturally Curly Hair) * Happiness Theme * Oh, Good Grief * Skating * Surfin' Snoopy * You're in Love, Charlie Brown * and more. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Faber Studio Collection, Level 4: Selections from BigTime Piano Nancy Faber, Randall Faber, 2013-06 Piano/Keyboard Methods/Series |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Coldplay Sheet Music Collection Coldplay, 2018-10-01 (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 32 selections from contemporary superstars Coldplay are included in this songbook for piano, voice and guitar: Adventure of a Lifetime * Clocks * Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall * Fix You * Green Eyes * A Head Full of Dreams * In My Place * Magic * Paradise * The Scientist * A Sky Full of Stars * Speed of Sound * Trouble * Viva La Vida * Yellow * and more. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Great Piano Solos: The Christmas Book Wise Publications, 2006-09-30 The Great Piano Solos: Christmas Book is a bumper compendium of 49 Piano solos just in time for Christmas! This collection offers a fantastic combination of festive favourites and contemporary classics. With separate Jazz, Easy Listening Pop & Rock, Classical and Traditional sections, there is something here to please everyone. This songbook is ideal for a beginner to intermediate-pianist who wants a great deal of variety in their Christmas Piano playing. You will be able to impress your family with beautiful renditions of the standards, and then wake everyone up after Christmas dinner with jazzed-up classics. When, on a cold winter's night, you're warming your bones by a log fire, what better addition than solo Piano renditions of everyone's favourite Christmas songs? Whether you want to lead a singalong with your family or just practise privately, the Great Piano Solos: Christmas Book will make you the favourite this festive season. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: First 50 Disney Songs You Should Play on the Piano Hal Leonard Corp., 2018-10-01 (Easy Piano Songbook). 50 simply arranged, must-know Disney favorites in easy piano notation are included: Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * Evermore * Friend like Me * Go the Distance * Heigh-Ho * How Far I'll Go * I See the Light * Kiss the Girl * Lava * Mickey Mouse March * Remember Me (Ernesto de la Cruz) * A Spoonful of Sugar * When You Wish upon a Star * You've Got a Friend in Me * Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah * and more. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Stella and Charlie, Friends Forever Bernadette Peters, 2015 Acclaimed entertainer Bernadette Peters offers a charming follow-up companion tale to her pup-ular NYT bestseller Broadway Barks! (30,000 copies sold). |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: The Peanuts Illustrated Songbook Vince Guaraldi, 2001 (Piano Solo Songbook). This coffee-table quality songbook is a celebration of the art of Charles Schulz and the music of Vince Guaraldi. Within its stunning full-color, high-gloss pages are: an introduction by veteran music journalist Hank Bordowitz, which provides background on how the Schulz/Mendelson/Guaraldi collaboration came to be, and reflections from fellow musicians influenced by Guaraldi's music; and piano solo arrangements of 30 terrific tunes, each featuring a Peanuts illustration by Schulz. The songs include: Baseball Theme * Blue Charlie Brown * The Christmas Song * Christmas Time Is Here * Freda (With the Naturally Curly Hair) * Happiness Theme * He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown * Linus and Lucy * Oh, Good Grief * The Pebble Beach Theme * Peppermint Patty * Red Baron * Schroeder * Skating * You're in Love, Charlie Brown * and more. This book will be an absolute treasure for any Peanuts or jazz fan!! |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Christmas for All Time Nancy Faber, Randall Faber, 2004-01-01 (Faber Piano Adventures ). Adult Piano Adventures Christmas Book 2 offers sophisticated-sounding holiday music, pianistically arranged for the early intermediate player and organized into three sections: Traditional Christmas Carols, Popular Christmas Songs, and Seasonal Favorites. Contents include: Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Silent Night * The First Noel * What Child Is This * Pat-a-Pan * O Little Town of Bethlehem * O Come, All Ye Faithful * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Joy to the World * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * Winter Wonderland * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * Sleigh Ride * and more. Online access to audio recordngs of the piano selections is included, as well as orchestrated accompaniments for play-along fun. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Will Not Attend Adam Resnick, 2015-07-28 “Damn, this book is good.”—Jon Stewart “A biting, darkly hilarious collection of personal essays that begs to be read aloud.”—Chicago Tribune Emmy Award–winning writer Adam Resnick began his career at Late Night with David Letterman before honing his chops in movies and cable television, including HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show. While courageously admitting to being “euphorically antisocial,” Resnick plunges readers deep into his troubled psyche in this uproarious memoir-in-essays. Shaped by such touchstone events as a traumatic Easter egg hunt and overwrought by obsessions, he refuses to be burdened by chores like basic social obligation and personal growth, adhering to his own steadfast rule: “I refuse to do anything I don’t want to do.” |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Play It Again, Schroeder! Charles M. Schulz, 2007 Collects Peanuts comic strips that are about music, including those starring the character of Schroeder. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: The Christmas Suite Collection Carol Tornquist, Sharon Aaronson, Dennis Alexander, Cindy Berry, Tom Gerou, Joyce Grill, Victor Labenske, Mary K. Sallee, Robert D. Vandall, 2009-05-11 Celebrate the special moments of the season with these unique collections of holiday carols by Alfred's favorite piano arrangers. Titles: The Christmas Angels: * Angels from the Realm of Glory * Angels We Have Heard on High * Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (Dennis Alexander) Christmas Bells: * I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day * The Bells on the Sleigh to Grandma's House [Over the River and Through the Wood / Jingle Bells] * Bells Are Ringing [Ding Dong Merrily on High / Ring, Little Bells] (Mary K. Sallee) The Christmas Manger * What Child Is This? * Coventry Carol * Away in a Manger (Tom Gerou) The Christmas Shepherds * How Great Our Joy * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * The First Noel (Victor Labenske) He Is Born! * Good Christian Men, Rejoice * What Child Is This? * Polish Lullaby * Il est né (Joyce Grill) A Jazzy, Jolly Christmas * Up on the Housetop * Jolly Old St. Nicholas * Jingle Bells (Victor Labenske) The Nativity * Still, Still, Still * Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming * Joy to the World (Cindy Berry) The Three Kings * March of the Three Kings * We Three Kings of Orient Are * O Come, All Ye Faithful (Robert D. Vandall Three Moods for Christmas * Carol of the Bells * What Child Is This? * We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Sharon Aaronson) |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Rules for Young Musicians Robert Schumann, 1874 |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Meet George Gershwin At The Keyboard George Gershwin, 2006-06 A terrific collection of songs by George Gershwin that the composer has arranged as piano solos. Ideal for the intermediate pianist and a great insight into the mind of one America's greatest composers. Titles: The Man I Love * I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise * Do It Again * Fascinating Rhythm * Oh, Lady Be Good * Somebody Loves Me * Sweet and Low Down * Clap Yo' Hands * Do Do Do * My One and Only * 'S Wonderful * Strike Up the Band * I Got Rhythm * Who Cares? * That Certain Feeling * Liza |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: The Easy Christmas Songbook Hal Leonard Corp., 2013-08-01 (Easy Piano Songbook). 70 easy-to-play arrangements of your favorite Christmas songs! Each song includes a beautifully simplified keyboard part, guitar chords, and lyrics. Also included is a guitar chord chart for handy reference. Enjoy playing your holiday favorites today! Songs include: All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth * Auld Lang Syne * Baby, It's Cold Outside * Blue Christmas * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Deck the Hall * Do They Know It's Christmas? (Feed the World) * Feliz Navidad * Good King Wenceslas * Here Comes Santa Claus (Right down Santa Claus Lane) * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * I'll Be Home for Christmas * It Came upon the Midnight Clear * Jingle Bell Rock * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * Last Christmas * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * A Marshmallow World * The Most Wonderful Time of the Year * O Christmas Tree * O Holy Night * Santa Baby * Silent Night * Silver Bells * The Twelve Days of Christmas * Up on the Housetop * What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? * What Child Is This? * and many more. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Times Remembered, 15 Joe La Barbera, Charles Levin, 2021-09-15 In the late 1970s legendary pianist Bill Evans was at the peak of his career. He revolutionized the jazz trio (bass, piano, drums) by giving each part equal emphasis in what jazz historian Ted Gioia called a telepathic level of interplay. It was an ideal opportunity for a sideman, and after auditioning in 1978, Joe La Barbera was ecstatic when he was offered the drum chair, completing the trio with Evans and bassist Marc Johnson. In Times Remembered, La Barbera and co-author Charles Levin provide an intimate fly-on-the-wall peek into Evans's life, critical recording sessions, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes of life on the road. Joe regales the trio's magical connection, a group that quickly gelled to play music on the deepest and purest level imaginable. He also watches his dream gig disappear, a casualty of Evans's historical drug abuse when the pianist dies in a New York hospital emergency room in 1980. But La Barbera tells this story with love and respect, free of judgment, showing Evans's humanity and uncanny ability to transcend physical weakness and deliver first-rate performances at nearly every show. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method Mark Davis, 2015 Piano/Electronic Keyboard Instruction |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Charlie Brown Christmas , 2006-08-01 (Piano Play-Along). Your favorite sheet music will come to life with the innovative Piano Play-Along series! With these book/audio collections, piano and keyboard players will be able to practice and perform with professional-sounding accompaniments. Containing eight cream-of-the-crop songs each, the books feature new engravings, with a separate vocal staff, plus guitar frames, so players and their friends can sing or strum along. The audio includes two tracks for each tune: a full performance for listening, and a separate backing track that lets players take the lead on keyboard. The high-quality, sound-alike accompaniments exactly match the printed music. 8 songs, including: Christmas Is Coming * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here * Linus and Lucy * My Little Drum * O Tannenbaum * Skating * What Child Is This. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: A Charlie Brown Christmas (Songbook) , 2006-10-01 (Jazz Play Along). For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and audio, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. For study, each tune includes audio with: * Melody cue with proper style and inflection * Professional rhythm tracks * Choruses for soloing * Removable bass part * Removable piano part. For performance, each tune also has: * An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) * Additional choruses for soloing. This volume includes: Christmas Is Coming * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here * Linus and Lucy * My Little Drum * O Tannenbaum * Skating * What Child Is This. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Contemporary Keyboard , 1981 |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: My Life with Charlie Brown Charles M. Schulz, 2010-03-12 While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time. Schulz's autobiographical articles, book introductions, magazine pieces, lectures, and commentary elucidate his life and his art, and clarify themes of modern life, philosophy, and religion that are interwoven into his beloved, groundbreaking comic strip. Edited and with an introduction by comics scholar M. Thomas Inge, this volume will serve as the touchstone for Schulz's thoughts and convictions and as a wide-ranging, unique autobiography in the absence of a traditional, extended memoir. Inge and the Schulz estate have chosen a number of illustrations to include. With the approval and cooperation of the Schulz family, Inge draws on the cartoonist's entire archives, papers, and correspondence to allow Schulz full voice to speak his mind. The project includes his comics criticism, his introductions to Peanuts volumes, his essays about philanthropy, his commentary on Christianity, his newspaper articles about the creation of his characters, and more. My Life with Charlie Brown will reveal new dimensions of this legendary cartoonist. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Best On the Box Gr. PK-8 Cut Knife School Staff, 2000-01-01 Best on the Box is a theme based, complete Christmas concert for students in grades PK-8. It is designed to include every student in the school while dividing the work load equally among the staff through the component system. Each Component is a unit in itself and can be rehearsed as a separate classroom unit, thus greatly reducing the time needed to prepare this production. Each component includes a description of the characters, props, costumes, and stage directions. The component feature allows teachers to add or delete items to suit their particular school size. This Holidays concert provides production notes, list of characters, costumes, props and stage set, as well as complete scripts, designed to increase student’s reading comprehension in a highly creative manner. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Meet the Peanuts Gang! Charles M. Schulz, 2015-05-05 Learn about Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this collectible guide perfect for every fan, new and old! Get to know Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and all their friends in this ultimate guidebook to the Peanuts characters! Learn how Charlie Brown got his famous zigzag shirt, visit Lucy’s psychiatric booth for advice, meet Snoopy’s siblings, and more! Plus, see how the Peanuts characters changed over time and read quotes from their creator, Charles M. Schulz. Soon, you’ll practically be one of the Peanuts gang! Filled with fun facts, trivia, and comic strips about each character, this guidebook is perfect for nostalgic Peanuts fans to share with children who are discovering the Peanuts for the first time! © 2015 Peanuts Worldwide LLC |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Dreams of Love Ivan Raykoff, 2014 Dreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the concert pianist as a Romantic and seductive-even erotic-figure in the popular imagination, focusing on the role of technology in perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries through the touch, sights, and sounds of the pianist's playing. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos Michelle Ann Abate, 2023-03-02 Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts sheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. More specifically, it examines a fundamental feature of the series: its core cast of characters. In chapters devoted to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Franklin, Pigpen, Woodstock, and Linus, author Michelle Ann Abate explores the figures who made Schulz’s strip so successful, so influential, and—above all—so beloved. In so doing, the book gives these iconic figures the in-depth critical attention that they deserve and for which they are long overdue. Abate considers the exceedingly familiar characters from Peanuts in markedly unfamiliar ways. Drawing on a wide array of interpretive lenses, Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos invites readers to revisit, reexamine, and rethink characters that have been household names for generations. Through this process, the chapters demonstrate not only how Schulz’s work remains a subject of acute critical interest more than twenty years after the final strip appeared, but also how it embodies a rich and fertile site of social, cultural, and political meaning. |
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| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: The Patriots Club Christopher Reich, 2006-07-25 Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets, his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he’s managed to put his past behind him, find the woman he wants to share his life with, and carve out a successful career on Wall Street. Until, in the blink of an eye, his world is turned upside down. A bizarre kidnapping sends him fleeing for his life, his face everywhere on the TV news, and a violent, shadowy organization is framing him for crimes he did not commit. Desperately trying to get back to where he was just a day before, Bolden must re-learn the survival skills of his hardscrabble boyhood. But as Bolden–with just eleven dollars in his pocket and hunters all around him–survives one violent, harrowing hour after another, he makes a series of startling discoveries: about a mysterious woman wanted for murder…about an astounding secret rooted in history, among the country’s Founding Fathers and families…about a conspiracy lurking in the darkest corners of corporate America–and a deadly plan that only he can stop. And in the process, maybe Bolden will also find out who he really is.... Furiously paced, filled with brilliantly drawn characters from politicians to patriots, from Wall Street players to battle-hardened cops, The Patriots Club is vintage Reich: brilliant, breathtaking, and impossible to put down until the final unforgettable page is turned. |
| how to play charlie brown on keyboard: Seduced Nelson George, 1997-01-21 [A] smart, funny, and wonderfully resonant novel . . . It's the 1980s, and aspiring songwriter Derek Harper is a man easily seduced. Not only do the Big Three *money, fame, and women *keep him running, but Harper falls prey to subtler forms of seduction as well: the ease of rationalizing bad behavior, abdicating responsibility, and keeping the whole world at arm's length. All these issues are brilliantly interwoven with a behind-the-scenes look at the music industry, particularly the evolution of rap. *Los Angeles Times Book Review Seduced is at its most compelling when author Nelson George delves into the differences between life in the projects and the middle-class heaven of St. Albans and how it evolved over thirty years. . . . George's style is, well, seductive, luring the reader into a world that takes in the range of black experience funneled through the music industry. *St. Petersburg Times Seduced shows Nelson George at the top of his game doing what he does best: zinging the black music biz. The road chapters alone have enough shrill wit, stabbing satire, and tight accuracy to parallel the life of anyone who's ever been out there during the Reagan-stressed '80s. *Houston Chronicle In Seduced, Nelson keeps it real. This is a sex story, a New York story, and a music biz story rolled into one, starring a humble, beautifully average middle-class dreamer, who's not unlike a male version of a Terry McMillan heroine. *Touré |
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