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You might be extremely knowledgeable about the software that you use, have a good understanding of your own genre, and even have a good basic understanding of music theory. However, this does not necessarily mean that you can write effective music tracks. You need another kind of knowledge as well – the knowledge of composition. This friendly guide explains the basics of composing songs and music on the computer using any music using any music creation and recording program, whether you choose Reason, Live, Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools, Digital Performer, Finale, Sibelius, FL Studio, SONAR, or anything else. It’s not as hard as it sounds, and this book eases the learning curve so you’ll be making music in no time. You’ll quickly learn how to program rhythm and drums, create basslines and melodic leads, and use FX and samples. You’ll also learn about mixing and mastering your track and distributing it to a mass audience. Composition for Computer Musicians explains it all while showing you the basics of music theory throughout so you’ll be sure you’re not just making noise on the computer – you’re using your computer to make professional-sounding music. All CD/DVD supplement files referenced throughout the book can be accessed for free at http://www.courseptr.com/downloads. |
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At a time when environmental architecture is proliferating in all its forms around the world, adopting ever more complex sets of tools, this book provides an overview of the state of the field. It provides a critical introduction to the study of environmentalism in architecture. Written especially for students and researchers who work in the field of environmental architecture, this book reveals the spectrum of approaches practiced today. The text includes: • An abridged history and overview of environmentalism in the field of architecture. • A clear methodology for analyzing the included 29 cases, which can also be adopted for further guidance in a variety of architectural design projects. • Assessments of 29 buildings: 10 libraries, 10 museums and 9 university buildings from around the world. • Analyzing Eco-Architecture: Beyond Performance is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners involved in the study and design of environmental architecture today. |
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Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield Double Pack The Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield games will launch in the US on November 15th, 2019 exclusively for the Nintendo Switch system The Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield Double Pack contains both Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield games Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) and Nintendo Account required for online play. Not available in all countries. Internet access required for online features. Terms apply. nintendo.com/switch online |
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Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield are 2019 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. They are the first installments in the eighth generation of the Pokémon video game series and the second in the series, after Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, to be released on a home game console. Originally teased at E3 2017 and announced in February 2019, Pokémon Sword and Shield were released on November 15, 2019. Sword and Shield's concept planning began immediately following the completion of Pokémon Sun and Moon in 2016, while full production began a year later in September 2017. Like previous installments, they chronicle the journey of a young Pokémon trainer aiming to become the Pokémon Champion, this time in the new Galar region, which is based on the United Kingdom. The main objective of the games is to dethrone the Pokémon League Champion, Leon, in a tournament that various other Gym Leaders and rivals also take part in, whilst dealing with Team Yell and a nefarious conspiracy within the League. Sword and Shield introduce 81 new Pokémon alongside 13 regional variants of pre-existing Pokémon; Dynamaxing, which increases the size of Pokémon under certain conditions; Gigantamaxing, which additionally changes the form of certain Pokémon; and the Wild Area, which is a large, open-world area with free camera movement that contains co-op raid battles. The two games also reintroduce features previously seen in Sun and Moon and Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, such as regional variants and roaming Pokémon depicted in the overworld. The games will receive two expansion packs in 2020, The Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra. |
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Zombie Army 4: Dead War is a third person shooter that is the sequel to Zombie Army Trilogy. The game takes place in 1946 where zombies still continue to plague Europe and the demonically powered Hitler has returned to continue his conquest. Your objective is to save humankind from undead Armageddon. Check out our Zombie Army 4: Dead War Walkthrough and Guide to get help in the game. In Zombie Army 4: Dead War you need to make sure you are constantly aware of the status of your health and stamina and always ensure you have a supply of both. Health is needed to stay alive and it can be replenished with Medkits. Stamina refills over time and is required for sprinting, Empty Lung, melee attacks and Weapon Assists. Your Stamina is the blue bar that is at the bottom right of the screen and your Health is the red bar . |
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This collection of jazz etudes with an accompanying online audio gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines. The audio tracks provide a professional rhythm section (piano, bass, drums) to play along with, plus recordings of professional jazz musicians playing each etude. The recordings help to provide a model for the student's stylistic development, and an opportunity to play with a great band! Each of the 12 etudes provides a new challenge to master. Includes access to online audio. |
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Ever since my first guitar teacher introduced me to the music of Allan Holdsworth in the late 90s, it has been an ongoing apprenticeship. I became fascinated, not only with his music, but with his approach to music itself, and the way he thinks about chords, scales and improvisation. Allan’s REH video was a blessing for me as I was able to glean enough insight into his playing to understand the way the great man thinks, and more importantly to begin to apply those concepts to my own playing. I struggled with music theory and orthodox approaches, so when Allan’s beautifully simple way of thinking about chords and scales clicked for me, I knew I had found something that finally made sense. I must admit, I couldn’t play you a single Allan Holdsworth lick, and I wouldn’t want to as the thought of dissecting his music in that way was always unappealing to me. What I wanted to do was get inside his head, grasp his way of thinking about music, and find out exactly how he was able to come up with such intricate yet outrageous lines and compositions. And that is precisely what this book is about. Allan’s playing looks incredibly complicated, and then some, to the innocent bystander, but the approach behind it is incredibly simple and easy to grasp. It’s so straightforward in fact that most players who have attempted to describe what he does completely miss the point. Once you do understand his approach, however, you’ll have a new appreciation for how far he’s taken it, and how far it can go. This book is not for the faint-hearted, but you shouldn’t be put off by thinking that you’ll be getting to grips with a lot of tricky concepts, because you won’t; Allan’s way of thinking is almost childlike in its simplicity, and when you glimpse it I can assure you that you'll be intrigued. |
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Jesus de la Villa’s worldwide bestseller 100 Endgames You Must Know successfully debunked the myth that endgame theory is complex and that endgame books are tedious. Reviewers praised its clarity and completeness and thousands of players dramatically improved their endgame understanding (and their results!). In recent years, De la Villa’s students sometimes complained that when they had to apply what they had studied in 100 Endgames, they didn’t always have the material ready at their fingertips. De la Villa then made an important discovery: most of the errors his students made are being made by others as well, even by strong and sometimes famous chess players! De la Villa started collecting training material and selected those exercises best suited to retain and improve your knowledge and avoid common errors. In this book the Spanish grandmaster presents hundreds of exercises grouped according to the various chapters in 100 Endgames. Solving these puzzles will drive home the most important ideas, refresh your knowledge and improve your technique. This book contains a massive amount of clear, concise and easy-to-follow chess endgame instruction. The advice De la Villa gives in the solutions is practical and useful. Ideal for every post-beginner, club player and candidate master who wishes to win more games. |
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The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of recordings encompasses both straight-ahead jazz playing with virtuosic small ensembles and the increasingly complex textures and structures of the Pat Metheny Group, a hugely successful band also notable for its creative exploration of advanced music technologies which were state-of-the-art at the time. Metheny's music in all its shapes and forms broke major new ground in its refusal to subscribe to either of the stylistic poles of bebop and jazz-rock fusion which prevailed in the late 1970s. Through a series of detailed analyses based on a substantial body of new transcriptions from the recordings, this study reveals the close interrelationship of improvisation and pre-composition which lies at the very heart of the music. Furthermore, these analyses vividly demonstrate how Metheny's music is often conditioned by a strongly linear narrative model: both its story-telling characteristics and atmospheric suggestiveness have sometimes been compared to those of film music, a genre in which the guitarist also became active during this early period. The melodic memorability for which Metheny's compositions and improvisations have long been world-renowned is shown to be just one important element in an unusually rich and flexible musical language that embraces influences as diverse as bebop, free jazz, rock, pop, country & western, Brazilian music, classical music, minimalism, and the avant-garde. These elements are melded into a uniquely distinctive soundworld which, above all, directly reflects Metheny's passionate belief in the need to refashion jazz in ways which can allow it to speak powerfully to each new generation of youthful listeners. |
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'New (4th) and improved edition of an all-time classic The good news about endgames is: • there are relatively few endings you should know by heart • once you know these endings, that's it. Your knowledge never goes out of date! The bad news is that, all the same, the endgame technique of most players is deficient. Modern time-controls make matters worse: there is simply not enough time to delve deep into the position. Jesus de la Vila debunks the myth that endgame theory is complex and he teaches you to steer the game into a position you are familiar with. This book contains only those endgames that: • show up most frequently • are easy to learn • contain ideas that are useful in more difficult positions. Your performance will improve dramatically because this book brings you: • simple rules • detailed and lively explanations • many diagrams • clear summaries of the most important themes • dozens of tests. |
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Grâce à ce bestseller mondial, apprenez à dessiner en exploitant votre hémisphère droit ! Que vous pensiez n’avoir guère de talent, que vous soyez un artiste professionnel ou que le dessin soit pour vous un simple hobby, ce livre vous fera prendre confiance en vos capacités et approfondira votre perception artistique, de même qu’il vous encouragera à développer une nouvelle appréhension du monde qui vous entoure. Dans cet ouvrage de référence, Betty Edwards vous offre la clé pour maîtriser l’art du dessin en vous faisant découvrir les cinq compétences fondamentales de cet art : la perception des contours, des espaces, des relations, de la lumière et des ombres, et du tout (gestalt). Cette nouvelle édition comprend : - une nouvelle introduction ; - des mises à jour tirées des études récentes sur la plasticité du cerveau et sur l’avantage de l’acquisition de nouvelles compétences en utilisant l’hémisphère droit (visuel et intuitif) du cerveau ; - un nouvel accent sur le rôle de l’apprentissage du dessin grâce aux fonctions du cerveau droit – en réponse au culte grandissant porté à l’hémisphère gauche (analytique et verbal) dans notre société ; - de nouvelles reproductions d’œuvres maîtresses. Passez à la pratique grâce au livre d'exercice Dessiner grâce au cerveau droit , complément indispensable au livre de référence de Betty Edwards. Que vous soyez artistes professionnels ou amateurs, cet ouvrage de référence vous permettra de perfectionner vos compétences artistiques ! CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE Le livre Dessiner grâce au cerveau droit vous apprendra à voir les choses autrement. À comprendre les formes. À développer votre esprit d’analyse. À comprendre les espaces, les lignes directrices […]. Devenir attentifs au monde. Voir de la beauté dans des choses simples. – Dédé dans son Jardin Pour ceux qui n’auraient pas encore lu le livre Dessiner grâce au cerveau droit , faites l’acquisition de la nouvelle édition de ce livre indispensable qui vous ouvrira grandes les portes du dessin par une méthode intuitive exploitant, comme le titre l’indique, le potentiel de votre cerveau droit. Plus qu’un livre à lire, une expérience à vivre. – Créa-france Un ouvrage à recommander sans réserve aux amateurs ou aux professionnels qui souhaitent maîtriser le dessin d’observation et aux professeurs qui veulent disposer d’une méthode logique et efficace pour enseigner la manière de « voir juste ». – Blog Mon Louvre Cette brillante approche de l’enseignement du dessin n’est pas qu’un simple manuel : elle est un guide d’émancipation et d’épanouissement personnel. – Los Angeles Times Cet ouvrage innovant et emblématique devrait figurer parmi les lectures obligatoires de tous les étudiants en art. – American Artist À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Betty Edwards est enseignante, conférencière et praticienne de la formation en entreprise. Aujourd’hui à la retraite, elle a exercé comme professeure d’art à l’Université d’État de Californie à Long Beach, après avoir obtenu son doctorat en art, éducation et psychologie de la perception à l’UCLA (Université de Californie, Los Angeles). |
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Accessible and authentic big band arrangements for 10 hot Latin grooves, including: Agua De Beber (Water to Drink) * At the Mambo Inn * Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) * The Look of Love * Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...) * Mas Que Nada * One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) * Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) * Ran Kan Kan * St. Thomas. Also includes professionally-recorded play-along tracks for practice and performance fun. |
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15 hits from the King arranged for instrumentalists and including great full-accompaniment play-along audio so you can sound just like a pro. Songs include: All Shook Up * Blue Suede Shoes * Hound Dog * Jailhouse Rock * Love Me Tender * Return to Sender * (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear * and more. |
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Here at last is the long awaited, definitive jazz guitar scale method by music legend Chuck Wayne. With a career that includes recordings with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Woody Herman, George Shearing, and Tony Bennett, Chuck Wayne's approach to the guitar and improvisation has paved the way for a generation of guitarists. This book presents an in-depth analysis of his own highly influential developments in technique and jazz theory. Dozens of examples and exercises are featured that Chuck Wayne has found invaluable in his own teaching. |
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Music from all three "The Lord of the Rings" films arranged for wind instruments. Desirable and collectible, these instrumental folios are loaded with full-color photos of scenes from all three films. The wind instrument books are completely compatible with each other and can be played together or as solos. Each book contains a carefully edited part that is appropriate for the Level 2-3 player and fully orchestrated accompaniment audio tracks. Each embedded audio track is presented as a "demo" track (which features that particular instrument) and as a "play-along" track without the solo instrument. A separate piano accompaniment book with embedded audio is available for the wind series. The instrumental solo part, in concert pitch, is added above the piano part. The embedded audio features live demonstration performances of various instrument tracks from the series. Titles are the twelve major themes from the blockbuster trilogy: from The Fellowship of the Ring: * The Prophecy * In Dreams * Concerning Hobbits * Many Meetings * The Black Rider from The Two Towers: * Gollum's Song * Rohan * Evenstar * Forth Eorlingas from The Return of the King: * Into the West * The Steward of Gondor * Minas Tirith |
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Many DJs, gigging musicians, and electronic music producers understand how to play their instruments or make music on the computer, but they lack the basic knowledge of music theory needed to take their music-making to the next level and compose truly professional tracks. Beneath all the enormously different styles of modern electronic music lie certain fundamentals of the musical language that are exactly the same no matter what kind of music you write. It is very important to acquire an understanding of these fundamentals if you are to develop as a musician and music producer. Put simply, you need to know what you are doing with regard to the music that you are writing. Music Theory for Computer Musicians explains these music theory fundamentals in the most simple and accessible way possible. Concepts are taught using the MIDI keyboard environment and today’s computer composing and recording software. By reading this book and following the exercises contained within it, you, the aspiring music producer/computer musician, will find yourself making great progress toward understanding and using these fundamentals of the music language. The result will be a great improvement in your ability to write and produce your own original music! All CD/DVD supplement files referenced throughout the book can be accessed for free at http://www.courseptr.com/downloads. |
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An easy-to-understand guide to chess strategy-conceptual planning-has always been the amateur's dream. The Complete Book of Chess Strategy makes that dream a reality. This comprehensive guide in dictionary form, the first of its kind, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each strategic concept is listed alphabetically and followed by a clear, easy-to-absorb explanation accompanied by examples of how this strategy is used in practice. World Champions such as Steinitz, Capablanca, Petrosian, Fischer, and Karpov have used these strategies in virtually all of their games. Now you can arm yourself with their weapons. As you incorporate these weapons into your own play, they will enrich your appreciation of the game and lead you to one beautiful victory after another. |
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There has never been a music book like this. Hooktheory I is a smart, fun, skill-building journey that concretely teaches you how to craft melodies and chord progressions like professional musicians and gain a deeper understanding and intuition for how music works. Validated by 16,435 musicians like you, Hooktheory I is the best selling how-to music book for instrumentalists, songwriters, producers, and DJs around the world for a reason. This exploration of melody and chord creation is fun to read, easy to understand, and full of practical knowledge. It contains 41 interactive exercises and 88 audiovisual examples from artists like: Avicii, Beyonce, Journey, Maroon 5, and Taylor Swift that make it easy to see the techniques these successful artists use. Reading Hooktheory I doesn’t require any previous music knowledge or the ability to read music. On average, it takes about five hours to read (but more to fully absorb) so it isn't a huge time commitment. Dedicate only a few hours to reading this book and gain a lifetime of skills that will give your music that professional edge. We wrote this book because we were tired of all of the “songwriting” websites and books that talk vaguely of “finding your inspiration” rather than providing concrete tools to improve your music. With Hooktheory I , we have created an approachable, intuitive resource that directly answers the hard questions: Why do certain chords fit together easily, and others not so easily? How can I get from this chord to that chord? How can I create a great melody? Hooktheory I is a book that will make you say “ah ha!” many times over. |
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On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist’s office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell,  The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as  Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad , and  Game of Thrones . As TV critics for Tony Soprano’s hometown paper, New Jersey’s  The Star-Ledger , Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it became a cultural phenomenon.  To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show’s debut, Sepinwall and Seitz have reunited to produce  The Sopranos Sessions , a collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode. Featuring a series of new long-form interviews with series creator David Chase, as well as selections from the authors’ archival writing on the series,  The Sopranos Sessions  explores the show’s artistry, themes, and legacy, examining its portrayal of Italian Americans, its graphic depictions of violence, and its deep connections to other cinematic and television classics.  |
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Hooktheory II builds on the foundation of Roman numeral analysis, chord function, and melodic construction taught in Hooktheory I , giving you deeper insight into composing richer, more sophisticated music.  Hooktheory II teaches you how to use seventh chords, embellishments, secondary chords, minor harmony, modes, and modal mixture to expand and enrich your songwriting. With 83 interactive exercises and 228 audiovisual examples, Hooktheory II is exactly what you need to take your chords and melodies to the next level. About Hooktheory I and Hooktheory II were created to teach you how to craft melodies and chord progressions like professional musicians, and gain a deeper understanding and intuition for how music works. Hooktheory II begins right where Hooktheory I left off. You'll learn about seventh chords, embellishments, secondary chords, minor harmony, modes, modal mixture, and more; and you'll do so with the same fun, easy to understand approach we used in Hooktheory I, with its emphasis on practical usage demonstrated with rich examples from real songs. Reading Hooktheory II doesn’t require the ability to read music or any music knowledge outside what was covered in Hooktheory I . On average, it takes about twelve hours to read (but more to fully absorb) so it isn't a huge time commitment. We wrote Hooktheory I and II because we were tired of all of the “songwriting” websites and books that talk vaguely of “finding your inspiration” rather than providing concrete tools to improve your music. With Hooktheory I and II , we have created an approachable, intuitive resource that directly answers the hard questions: Why do certain chords fit together easily, and others not so easily? How can I get from this chord to that chord? How can I create a great melody? Hooktheory II is a book that will make you say “ah ha!” many times over. |
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Welcome to our comprehensive strategy guide for Pokémon: Sword & Shield the latest entry in the Pokemon video game franchise. The main character's travels in the Galar region, based on Great Britain, alongside rivals Hop, Bede and Marnie aiming to dethrone the Pokémon League Champion. Sword and Shield introduce several new features such as Dynamaxing and Gigantamaxing, functions that increase size and change forms of certain Pokémon; the Wild Area, a large open world with free camera movement; and raids with co-op battling. They also reintroduce features previously seen in Sun and Moon and Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, such as regional variants and roaming Pokémon depicted in the overworld. Version 1.1 Includes: - Full Walkthrough featuring Pokemon encounter rates. - All Gym Encounters and Strategies. - Screenshots with annotated captions. - New Items: Mints & Natures Explained. - Post Game (Champion Cup etc). - Dynamaxing and Gigantamaxing guide. - Updated Pokemon Lists for all Areas. - The Galar Region Complete Pokedex (Featuring 400 Pokemon). |
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FLAVR, a portable visual reference for photographers using photographic film stocks both past and present.  Take the guess work out of evaluating exposure, contrast, dynamic range and tonal graduation for over one hundred different films.  FLAVR...  THE film lovers analogue visual reference. |
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Draw the Human Figure Anywhere, Anytime For today’s in-demand comic creators, animators, video game artists, concept designers, and more, being able to quickly draw the human figure in a variety of action-packed poses is a requirement. But what do you do if you don’t have models or photographic reference readily available? In Freehand Figure Drawing for Illustrators , artist and instructor David H. Ross provides an alternative solution, showing you how to master freehand figure drawing without visual reference by using a modern twist on the classic technique of blocking out the human figure in mannequin form. Step-by-step lessons guide illustrators from basic poses (standing, running, jumping) to extreme motions (throwing punches, high kicking). For on-the-go artists, Freehand Figure Drawing for Illustrators allows you complete freedom to bring your figures to life at any time.  |
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In this guide you will find information about what you can grow in Farming Simulator 19 and how to do it, step by step. You'll also find some interesting tricks, including how to combine machines, tips to speed up gameplay and earning money in the game. There is also a detailed description of animal husbandry, a list of the most interesting machines, tractors and self-propelled vehicles. Our guide contains also maps and production chains explanation. The tutorial includes an extensive FAQ section, a description of controls on PC, XONE and PS4 platforms, as well as hardware requirements along with a description of optimal game settings. Farming Simulator 19 introduces a lot of new things compared to the previous installments of the series. Many elements of mechanics have also been changed: some machines work differently, some processes are subject to different operating rules. Best Video Game Guides by http://guides.gamepressure.com/ |
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Widely regarded as one of the foremost dramatists of the nineteenth century, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) brought the social problems and ideas of his day to center stage. Creating realistic plays of psychological conflict that emphasized character over cunning plots, he frequently inspired critical objections because his dramas deemed the individual more important than the group. In this powerful work, Ibsen places his main characters, Dr. Thomas Stockman, in the role of an enlightened and persecuted minority of one confronting an ignorant, powerful majority. When the physician learns that the famous and financially successful baths in his hometown are contaminated, he insists they be shut down for expensive repairs. For his honesty, he is persecuted, ridiculed, and declared an "enemy of the people" by the townspeople, included some who have been his closest allies. First staged in 1883, An Enemy of the People remains one of the most frequently performed plays by a writer considered by many the "father of modern drama." This easily affordable edition makes available to students, teachers, and general readers a major work by one of the world's great playwrights. |
