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    A Dead Man in Naples , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min
    Naples, 1913. Sun-baked, blue-skied, and with its amazing bay it is one of the most beautiful spots in Italy. But it’s also one of the most corrupt. A new arrival here is a junior British official, Scampion, who has already been banished from Florence. Scampion, however, brings with him a new craze that is sweeping Italy: bicycling. But one day as he walks home after a bicycle race, he is stabbed to death. That happens all the time in Naples, but remarkably his wallet was not taken. Could Scampion’s murder have something to do with the race? Bicycling may seem a harmless pursuit, but Neapolitans are great gamblers. And soon Seymour, our man from the FO, is sent out to investigate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Wallis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004200/bk_bbcw_004200_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Day Before Happiness: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 250min
    Just after World War II, a young orphan living in Naples comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the superintendent of an apartment building. He is a generous man and is very attached to the boy, telling him about the war and the liberation of the city by the Neapolitans. He teaches him to play cards, shows him how to do odd jobs for the tenants, and even initiates him into the world of sex by sending him one evening to a widow who lives in the building. But Don Gaetano possesses another gift as well: he knows how to read people’s thoughts and guesses correctly that his young friend is haunted by the image of a girl he noticed by chance behind a window during a soccer match. Years later, when the girl returns, the orphan will need Don Gaetano’s help more than ever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: P.J. Ochlan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017709/bk_adbl_017709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Naples: The History and Legacy of the Prominent Italian City-State from Antiquity to Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min
    The history of Naples is long and tortured, or at least for centuries that was how its history has been told. Inhabited almost continuously from the Neolithic era to the present, Naples was founded by the Greeks and conquered by the Romans. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Naples passed between various foreign rulers for its entire history prior to Italian unification. Starting in 1040, when the Norman French invaders conquered Campania, Naples was ruled in a dizzying succession by Germans, then French, then Spanish, then Austrians, then Spanish, then French, and then Spanish. Although it is in many ways a microcosm of European history with a revolving door of conquerors, historians like to stress the unique status of Naples thanks to these diverse influences and unique geography. Set on a bay that provided a natural harbor, Naples is home to Mount Vesuvius, the only active volcano on the European mainland. When Vesuvius erupts, the Neapolitans pay the price, and it has earned its reputation as the most dangerous volcano in the world. However, the threat posed by Vesuvius is tempered by a great benefit: Naples is blessed with extremely fertile soil.The natural harbor of Naples and its position on the southwest coast of Italy helps explain its history of multiple rulers, insofar as it made Naples a central locus of trade between Italy, Greece, Byzantium, North Africa, Spain, Holland, Flanders, and Germany. Due to its strategic importance, Naples reached high levels of prosperity, and for the same reason, it also suffered as various foreign powers vied for control of the city and the surrounding area. All the while, the sheer beauty of the bay of Naples, with Vesuvius looming in the distance, has made Naples a place of endless fascination. It boasts imposing castles and fortresses, as well as twisty, turning medieval streets that are home to some of Italy’s poorest and most maligned residents. Across the bay are the islands of Capri and Is ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160944/bk_acx0_160944_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Fuzzy Dice Man Cometh
    In the summer of '63, at the age of 11, Buck formed his first band, The Centuries . An April Fools 2012 epiphany urged Buck to pick up where he left off 38 years ago. That same year on August 16th, Buck purchased the Quantum Leap East-West Silver Orchestra On-A-Disc. In April 2013 he enrolled in school to continue his edification in composition, arranging and orchestration. The following collection was produced during the period of May 2012 to July 2013. The Breakfast in Bed Ballet (4:45) This piece is an adaptation of a ballad I had written called I Can Live with That. The lyrics open with awaking to the dawn with your loved one beside you. The bouncy melody in the chorus suggested a dance, ergo ballet. I was compelled to add additional cadences and an interlude before the final chorus. The chorus ends on a comically sour note denoting it's time get out of bed and face reality. Soundtrack for your Nightmares (1:34) Based on Thirteen Flutes a-Floating (read about it's conception below). In this version the X-axis denotes the musical pitch while the Y-axis represents time. I like listening to this before I go to bed. String Section One (4:13) This started out as an exercise in modulation and articulation for a string quartet, but it got of control. I did what I could to pull the reins in, but it needed that Contrabass. And it started out as a sweet melody with thoughtful chord changes but rock chord changes are a part of my psyche, so I couldn't resist using them in the "chorus." I consider them, "Neapolitans." Due to the forceful articulation, it is recommended that string players use their worst instrument. Temple Bells (3:04) An upbeat festive theme based on the Mongolian/Chinese pentatonic scale. It has a seasonal taste suitable for the Christmas holidays. The violas get the pluck pizzicato-ed out of them. A Hole-in-One (3:47) Based upon a song I had written using golf as a metaphor for hope and eventual triumph. Picture a fairway with a green flag in the distance, on it the number 1 flapping in the breeze. Experience the excitement, the exhilaration, that rush of adrenaline accompanying the heraldic victory of spotting your ball wedged between the side of the cup and the flag pole. I suck at golf, but I'm not bad at "putt-putt" (miniature golf). Even there, watching your ball bounce off the shallow brick wall bordering the green, ricocheting off a rock positioned in the middle of the path, and down across the lie from hell into the cup is pretty cool. Washboards are used to introduce the basic rhythm sequence at the beginning. Washboards were employed because they suggested a hand scrub cleaning and I understand that golfers scrub their balls before teeing off. Thirteen Flutes a-Floating (1:29) It's your freshman year in Music College and it's 1970 and you're eighteen and you got no gig and it's Saturday night and you're staring at a lava lamp on the dining table in a friend's apartment on the Northwest side of Chicago and there's a steno pad with a marking pen on the table and it's within reach and you decide to draw the globular activity in the lava lamp in phases and look at the lines on the paper and see a music staff and imagine a grid where the horizontal lines (X-axis)denote time moving from top to bottom and the vertical lines (Y-axis) and the space to the right of each line denote the pitch moving from right to left and wherever an image appears a musical note of predetermined pitch and duration is played by one or more of thirteen flutes you chose because you're Major is in Woodwind Performance and your friend has a flute. Please note: This composition was performed a year later at Triton College. There weren't enough flutists so clarinets were substituted. The title is derived from the Twelve Days of Christmas and the sound of water droplets echoing in a cave. I don't what prompted me to add the sound effect. But I like it. March of the Mouth Puppets (3:56) A 12-tone melody was derived from the roll of twelve musician's dice. (Twelve 12-sided die, each side notated with a note from our chromatic scale.) Artistic liberty intervened and two notes were switched. Four underlying chords were determined by the dice as well by rolling four sets consisting of three dice. Artistic liberty was again applied to determine the triads. In the beginning the 12-note theme is stretched over 16 bars and later presented in 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 note patterns in a fugue-like form. Outside the serialism is the Tuba playing a melodic bass line based on the aforementioned triads and 12-tone theme. The Tuba is a sealed 55-gallon barrel holding back a chromatic beast wanting to free itself of the barrel's melodic restraints. Toward the end of the "fugue" I thought the piece was going to explode. The orchestration is designed to sound like a marching band, locked in step to the beat of an ominous bass drum, the instruments saying the same fearful thing, over and over, drumming it in, only with a different annoying tone of voice, especially that bitchy piccolo. Of course the marching band is a metaphor for the pundits that permeate our meta-media with their propaganda. Chance Constellation Observation 1930 (2:19) This a representation of "Constellation According to the Laws of Chance -1930" artist: Jean (Hans) Arp. A grid where both the X and Y- axis determine the pitch and the Z-axis representing note time/duration is a series of concentric rings. The scales used are whole tones starting on C and C#. At the center of the rings are C4 and C#4. C4 is plotted along the vertical axis going up to the C7s and going down to the C1s. C#4 is plotted along the horizontal axis going right to the C#7s and going left to the C#1s. Time begins in the center and moves outward through each ring in clockwise fashion. The rings are divided into quarters with each quarter segment being one beat in 4/4 time. Wherever the black and white images appear there is a note. On occasion artistic license was applied. From Inside the Zodiac Ride at the Cosmic Carnival (7:51) Imagine you're on a carnival ride on which the Astrocab you're in glides along rails in 7/8 time. From the rail on the left emanates the sound of intermittent twinkling stars provided by a harp playing a B7sus4 pad. And on the right, that rail carries an intermittent electrical hum produced from a low-end string section consisting of violas, cellos, and basses playing with the same B7sus4 pad. Entering the ride and following the Zodiac the composition opens with Aquarius (January) and ends with Capricorn (December). Two schools of thought start the zodiac with the key of C Major (Aquarius) stepping through a cycle of fifths and ending in F Major (Capricorn), or starting in Bb Major moving chromatically and ending on A Major. For this piece both keys were juxtaposed in poly-chordal fashion (IE: C Major over Bb Major, G Major over B Major, etc.). This limited the scales of each double-key to six notes, sometimes five. Artistic license was applied on a few occasions. Each sign of the Zodiac receives approximately 30 seconds of treatment. Aquarius the Water Carrier (Air) January Pisces the Fish (Water) February Aries the Ram (Fire) March Taurus the Bull (Earth) April Gemini the Twins (Air) May Cancer the Crab (Water) June Leo the Lion (Fire) July Virgo the Virgin (Earth) August Libra the Scales (Air) September Scorpio the Scorpion (Water) October Sagittarius the Centaur (Fire) November Capricorn the Goat (Earth) December Follow the Boson Ball (2:30) This is an adaptation of the Higgs Boson (ATLAS Preliminary data) sonification by Domenico Vicinanza. On July 4, 2012, the Higgs boson, an elementary particle, was possibly discovered at CERN. Domenico Vicinanza, a professional composer and particle physicist, took the preliminary Higgs data points from the CERN data and assigned notes to each of the numbers. At 60 beats per minute, the musical piece consists of fifty-eight 16th notes and centers on the key of C Major. This adaptat
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