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Alfred Music is an American music publishing company. Founded in New York in 1922, it is headquartered in Van Nuys, California, with additional branches in Miami, New York, Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. History In New York City's Tin Pan Alley in 1922, Sam Manus, a violinist and importer of mood music for silent films, started a music publishing company and named it Manus Music. The company published primarily popular sheet music. In 1930, Sam acquired the music publisher, Alfred & Company, founded by Alfred Haase. Sam decided to combine the names and shortened it to Alfred Music, which the company is still known as today. Sam's son, Morty (né Morton Manus; 1926–2016), clarinetist and pianist, began working for Alfred Music in the late 1940s and met his wife Iris at the company when the bookkeeper, Rose Kopelman, brought her daughter to work one day. Inspired by the need for quality music educational products. Morty, a clarinetist and pianist, oversaw the development of an instructional series for accordion, followed by books for guitar, piano, and recorder. Alfred Music was now more than just a sheet music publisher; the company was taking its first steps to becoming the leader in music education. In 1975, the firm moved to larger offices in Los Angeles. In 1980, with growing sales, the company went international. In 2002, the company partnered with Daisy Rock Girl Guitars, and in 2005 it acquired Warner Bros. Publications (including the Warner Bros. subsidiary company Belwin-Mills) from Warner Music Group. In April 2016, Alfred Music joined Peaksware Holdings LLC, parent company of MakeMusic. Gear Fisher became CEO, and Ron Manus moved from CEO to Business Development Manager. Product offerings Alfred's portfolio of music teaching products include: Sound Innovations SI Online: Access streaming video MasterClasses and audio accompaniments for SI Strings and SI Band Books 1 & 2, and Sound Percussion. Sound Innovations for String Orchestra: emphasizes playing with a characteristic sound. Ensemble Development for Concert Band: provides exercises to help students develop concepts needed to build the foundational qualities of concert band performance. Sound Percussion: four books plus a Teacher's Score for snare drum / bass drum, mallet percussion, timpani, and accessory instruments. Accent on Achievement course: a 3-book band-music course written by John O'Reilly and Mark Williams. Premier Piano course: includes a lesson book, theory books, performance books, technique books, and supplementary books. Behind the Player: a series of DVDs consisting of conversations with, and song instruction from, hard rock guitarists. References External links Alfred acquired by Peaksware Holdings, LLC Alfred Music, an educational music publisher, has announced that it is joining the Peaksware Holdings, LLC portfolio of companies Alfred Music joins Peaksware, parent company of MakeMusic Alfred Publishing Morton and Iris Manus Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (2003) Ron Manus Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (2014) Steven Raft Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (2014). Discover the Alfred Music popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alfred Music books.
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Closed Casket
Sophie Hannah & Agatha ChristieHercule Poirot, the world's most famous detective, returns in this ingenious, stylish, and altogether delicious mystery from the author of the instant bestseller The Monogram Murde...
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake KogaAn international bestseller and TikTok sensation with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, The Courage to Be Disliked is a transformative and practical guide to personal hap...
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Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie“A topnotch literary brainteaser.” –New York TimesSoon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express with a screenplay by Michael Green,...
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Vertigo 42
Martha GrimesThe inimitable Richard Jury returns in the latest in the bestselling mystery series: “Martha Grimes has written a whodunit with terrific characters and a grand plot mixed with her ...
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Death of Kings
Bernard CornwellThe sixth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observe...
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Five Little Pigs
Agatha ChristieIn Agatha Christie’s classic, Five Little Pigs, beloved detective Hercule Poirot races to solve a case from out of the past.Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her ...
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The Body in the Library
Agatha ChristieThe iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Body in the LibraryIt’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to fi...
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Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord TennysonThe greatest poet of the Victorian era deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of poetry. The Delphi Poets Series offers the works of literature's finest poets,...
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The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
Agatha ChristieMajor Hastings and Hercule Poirot are not interested in the mystery of the Spanish Chest, which has been reported in the papers so often that it seems to be an entirely closed case...
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Crooked House
Agatha Christie“Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.” Agatha ChristieDescribed by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favori...
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
Agatha ChristieRobbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares the everattentive Hercule Poirot in The Mystery of the Blue Train, from Queen of Mystery Agatha ChristieWhen the luxuri...
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And Then There Were None
Agatha ChristieA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie! More than 100 million copies sold and now a L...
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Evil Under the Sun
Agatha ChristieThe classic Evil Under the Sun, one of the most famous of Agatha Christie’s Poirot investigations, has the fastidious sleuth on the trail of the killer of a sunbronzed beauty whose...
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Sword Song
Bernard CornwellThe fourth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The O...
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Clues to Christie
Agatha ChristieDying to read Agatha Christie for the first time or to reread one of her classic mysteries but don’t know where to start? This fully authorized and comprehensive guide to the Queen...
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Murder on the Links
Agatha ChristieAn urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course....
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The Woman in the Window
A. J. FinneBook now includes an exclusive excerpt from A. J. Finn’s eagerly anticipated new novel, End of Story“As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured...
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Lords of the North
Bernard CornwellThe third installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (T...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
Alexandre DesplatComplete with pages of color screen shots from the film, this collectible book of 10 superb solo piano transcriptions from Alexandre Desplat's dramatic score will thrill pianists a...
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The Big Four
Agatha ChristieFamed private eye Hercule Poirot tackles international intrigue and espionage in this classic Agatha Christie mystery.Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an un...
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The ABC Murders
Agatha ChristieThere's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught until her makes the crucial and vain mist...
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Philomel Cottage
Agatha ChristieThe recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mildmannered man she had p...
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Death in the Clouds
Agatha ChristieHercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder in Death in the Clouds when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he’s traveling on is quit...
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King Alfred of England
Jacob Abbott"Alfred the Great (849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899". Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of hi...
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Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
Stephen RebelloA “meticulous history” of the classic suspense film based on exclusive interviews with the director, writers, cast, and crew (The New York Times Book Review).First released in June...
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A Murder Is Announced
Agatha ChristieA Murder is Announced in a smalltown newspaper advertisementand Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are a...
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A Caribbean Mystery
Agatha ChristieAs Jane Marple sat basking in the tropical sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Then ...
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Twelve Birds and Their Songs
Lang ElliottA free sampler from The Music of Nature (musicofnature.com), featuring twelve birds and their songs: American Robin, Mourning Dove, Summer Tanager, Wood Thrush, Blue Jay, Northern ...
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Alfred Hitchcock
Patrick McgilliganAlfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time.In a career that spann...
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The Case of the Perfect Maid
Agatha ChristieWhen her maid asks Miss Marple to intervene in the delicate problem of her rather opinionated cousin Gladys, she doesn’t think much can be done. Poor Gladys has been accused of ste...
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The Hollow
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie’s classic, The Hollow, finds Poirot entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.A farfromwarm welcome...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie“This is Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, and if she never wrote another word, she’d have still gone down as the Queen.” –LOUISE PENNY, #1 New York Times bestselling author...
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Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha ChristieTHE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIMENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!“The murderer is with uson the train now . . .”Just afte...
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The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson TennysonTo those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during ...
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Poirot and the Regatta Mystery
Agatha ChristieAvailable for the first time in the U.S., this retelling of “The Regatta Mystery” features Hercule Poirot at his finest. A diamond merchant and his party step off their yacht to en...
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Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
Michael EppersonIn Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics.This ambiti...
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After the Funeral
Agatha ChristieHercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, in this classic Agatha Christie mystery now available in an updated edition with a foreword Sophie Ha...
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The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha ChristieThe Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marpleas a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth ...
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The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson TennysonAlfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of th...
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The Pale Horseman
Bernard CornwellThe second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The O...