(P/V/G Composer Collection). Its a grand collection fit for two of the most influential and successful composers of the modern era! This folio presents piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of 70 songs from 11 of their blockbusters; complete with background information on each show and a great bio of this famous team. It also features an index by show and an alphabetical song title index. Songs include: Bali Hai * The Carousel Waltz * Climb Evry Mountain * Dites-Moi (Tell Me Why) * Do-Re-Mi * Edelweiss * A Fellow Needs a Girl * Getting to Know You * A Hundred Million Miracles * I Caint Say No * I Enjoy Being a Girl * Im Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair * It Might as Well Be Spring * Its a Grand Night for Singing * June Is Bustin Out All Over * Kansas City * My Favorite Things * Oh; What a Beautiful Mornin * Oklahoma * Our State Fair * Shall We Dance? * Some Enchanted Evening * The Surrey with the Fringe on Top * There Is Nothin like a Dame * Youll Never Walk Alone * Youve Got to Be Carefully Taught * and more.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A remarkable tour-de-force of scholarship on historic urban codesBy Nikos A. SalingarosProfessor Besim Hakim presents here a remarkable and comprehensive work on historical urban codes. His field of inquiry is the entire Mediterranean basin; which includes those cities and portions of built urban fabric that everyone today seems to find so wonderfully human and organic. How was this built? The method is very simple. By following legislated codes laid down by the local authorities (or; in the case of an empire; imperial urban codes). Use the right codes and the city grows and evolves; and in several hundred years; you are guaranteed to have a living; organic city. Prof. Hakim has gone over; compiled; translated; and collected urban codes from Greek; Roman; Byzantine; Islamic; and Medieval European sources (Italian; French; and Spanish); showing that they are mostly related. Todays New Urbanist movement relies upon a set of form-based codes to shape our contemporary built environment; therefore this book reveals both the origin of codes; and the proof that they work to create living city form. I was struck by the clear explanation of how "prescriptive" codes impose rules for city form; whereas "proscriptive" codes are meta-principles that allow complete freedom within carefully-defined constraints. This book must be read -- or at least looked at very carefully -- by every urbanist who wishes to understand how historical living cities evolve on their own; and how to apply those mechanisms to humanize urban form today.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A map to the underlying processes of the most mysterious urban emergenceBy Mathieu Heacute;lieThe modern history of urban planning consists of many attempts at preventing chaos resulting from urbanization. These attempts have produced landscapes that are spiritually empty at best; catastrophically wasteful at worst. In light of such results; the existence of places such as Santorini; Siena or Cordoba; places that not only prevented urban chaos over centuries in sometimes geographically challenging situations; but harnessed the work of generations of builders into cultural artifacts more than the sum of their parts; is both baffling and mystifying.While architects have often studied the forms of these places for inspiration; what they have observed is only a slice in time of their growth process. Besim S. Hakim has pursued an alternative hypothesis - that one must investigate the record of time to explain their form; and in particular the record of time they most share in common: their legal codes. Investigating this record led him to find similarities in urban planning codes; some dating back to the Roman era; and further on to compare these codes for aspects they agree upon.The result of this archeology of process is this masterwork; which; along with Hakims publications on Arabic-Islamic planning codes; forms the most complete body of knowledge we have on the legal morphology of the Mediterranean.Among the most useful lessons to be learned is that the codes were successful due to their focus on protecting the features of the city that brought the most cultural value; such as views of the sea; and least successful when they detailed precisely what shape things should take. This allowed the codes to remain relevant for centuries and for new features to emerge under the protection of the codes. These features and their complexity are therefore not truly intentional; yet not fully accidental either.This book; and its Arabic-Islamic companion; will grow to become an increasingly important foundation for urban planning theory as our understanding of complexity science and urban morphology grows over the coming decades. Lets hope that the aforementioned future scholars will see fit to pursue the same hypothesis.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A landmark contribution to understanding the DNA of great settlementsBy Michael MehaffyThis is a book that ought to be in the library of any serious student of urbanism and urban morphology ndash; and anyone else who believes that in meeting our modern urban challenges; we have much to learn from centuries of urban history. Although the book is a bit pricey; make no mistake: it is a rich treasury of knowledge about how some of the most-loved places in history were formed; and how we might learn again from this wisdom. In fact; a central thesis of the book is that the forces that shaped these beloved places ndash; particularly their codes; laws and practical methods ndash; were surprisingly sophisticated and intelligent; and we ought to be able to learn some important lessons from them today.The book is also a sheer pleasure to read. Professor Besim Hakim writes in a very lucid and accessible style; and his book is beautifully illustrated. There are three major sections; focusing on contributions from Greece; Italy and Spain; with a key sub-focus on the codes and legal structures that so often shaped urban form. In the Greek section; Professor Hakim discusses Zenos and Julian of Ascalons ldquo;generativerdquo; codes; Byzantine law; and ldquo;customaryrdquo; laws from the Greek Islands. The section on Italy covers the tenth to fourteenth centuries; when so much of the splendid medieval urbanism we know today was shaped; including many beloved Italian hill towns. The section on Spain includes the seminal influence of Islamic patterns and codes; and gems like the Alarife rules for building activities in Cordoba.The conclusion draws key themes together; and applies them as ldquo;lessons for contemporary and future practice.rdquo; This section is particularly insightful and profound; drawing comparisons to the recent scientific insights into complex adaptive systems; including the workings of generative rule-based systems. As is the case with many complex systems; the rules that produce them can be quite simple and common-sense. Professor Hakim points out that the goal of these and other city-builders is; very simply; to maximize the freedom of individual builders while mitigating the negative consequences of growth. This goal can be met; he notes; with a relatively elegant set of prescriptive and proscriptive rules; applied iteratively to context to produce remarkably diverse and successful forms. The rules serve to enforce what he terms ldquo;interdependence rightsrdquo; ndash; the right to enjoy both ones own private realm; and the harmony of the interconnecting urban spaces; together with the public realm they help to shape.As we struggle with ldquo;byzantinerdquo; planning laws and standards that are increasingly dysfunctional and inadequate to our challenges; Professor Hakim makes an eloquent case that we have much to learn from the elegant; harmonious systems of the real Byzantine era; and others ndash; systems that these clever builders employed so successfully; to generate so many splendid settlements.