(Berklee Guide). The definitive text used for the time-honored Chord Scales course at Berklee College of Music, this book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination and teaches performers and arrangers how to add color, character and sophistication to chord voicings. Topics covered include: selecting appropriate harmonic tensions, understanding jazz harmony, overcoming harmonic ambiguity, experimenting with unusual combinations and non-traditional alignments, and many more. The accompanying CD includes performance examples of several different arranging techniques. "A...

Alienated from virtually everything that surrounds him, Akeyde Kletser has to decide if he is willing to commit suicide-and take hundreds of others with him-for the sake of his religion and his tribe. His father urges him on, citing their religion's holy texts. They worship the Zan religion, founded 6,000 years earlier by a father who killed his son because God asked him to do so. The Zans' blood enemy, the Kawidtodians, have been killing the Zans for centuries. They've evicted the Zans from their holy land. But now they're migrating from Kawidtodia to America. Akeyde's father wants revenge....