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Kenneth Leighton, best known for his organ and sacred choral music, was a composer of great depth and talent who wrote a significant body of works. Many of those works were written for large orchestras and a significant number of pieces of chamber music were composed for a variety of instrument groupings, as well as for instrumental solos. Anyone interested in 20th-century music as well as British and Scottish Cathedral music will find a wealth of works listed with a description of each.

Kenneth Leighton, best known for his organ and sacred choral music, was a composer of great depth and talent who wrote a significant body of works. Many of those works were written for large orchestras and a significant number of pieces of chamber music were composed for a variety of instrument groupings, as well as for instrumental solos. Anyone interested in 20th-century music as well as British and Scottish Cathedral music will find a wealth of works listed with a description of each.

This volume begins with a brief biography of Leighton and is followed by an alphabetical listing of works and performances. Also included is a discography and a bibliography of articles, reviews, books, and dissertations. The last section is a chronological list of compositions. Smith helps us to realize that Kenneth Leighton was an extraordinary composer of 20th-century music with a varied body of works and also a virtuoso pianist of some note.

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Designed to provide in-depth technical information for CIFS implementers, network security experts, developers of network traffic analysis tools, developers of Windows NT software, and network administrators.DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals covers such topics as: implementing DCE/RPC over SMB in Samba; developing NT Domain administration functionality; understanding the internetworkings of Windows NT's internal security components; using the NT Service Control Manager over-the-wire; and managing a Windows NT SAM Database.If you deal with Windows NT development, security, or administration, DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals is an essential source of information on: encrypting DCE/RPC using NTLM Secure Service Provider; Viewing files, shares, and sessions that are open on a server; and adding, modifying, and deleting keys and values on the NT registry.Amazon.com Review
Decryption of the title of Luke K.C. Leighton's bookDCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals can befound on pages 5 and 8. It stands for "Distributed ComputingEnvironment Remote Procedure Calls over the Server Message Block." Ifthis means nothing to you, at least understand this: the world ofcomputation is transcending individual CPUs and is inhabiting avirtual environment where physically remote machines work together oncomplex projects by distributing procedures among themselves. It isthe brave new world of computing, and its leading/bleeding edge willseem like alphabet soup for several years yet, until it suddenlybecomes the bread and butter of our informatics infrastructure.

Leighton and four assistants have been developing a Unix-Windows NTdistributed interoperability scheme since summer 1997. Leightonacknowledges that they are far from finished, but this book representstheir collected notes as they partially network-reverse-engineer andpartially document Microsoft's distributed computing remote procedurecalls.

Leighton's fascinating first section describes the historyand politics of communications protocol development anddocumentation/non-documentation strategies. He explains his apparentlystrange choice to ignore the official DCE/RPC documentation. Thereason, he explains, is his group's motivation to network-reverse-engineerMicrosoft's undocumented implementation, which is significantlydissimilar.

Boasting no figures at all, DCE/RPC over SMBconsists of 217 pages of austere text ("written with vi and yodl... noGUIs were harmed") and 35 pages of appendices on Samba source code andWindows NT password and authentication methods. The book is areference for do-it-yourselfers who want to use distributed computingin a Unix-Windows NT environment but can't afford the source licenseof Microsoft's DCE/RPC or need only a subset of Microsoft's DCE/RPCfunctionality.

In the minefield of proprietary protocols andsoftware interoperability development, Laurie Petrycki and New Ridersdeserve special medals of valor for helping the free softwarecommunity by publishing works in progress. DCE/RPC over SMB isthe boldest mission yet. Single points of failure abound for both theproject and the book. Even if Microsoft's implementation of RPC andSMB protocols remain quasi-static during Leighton's development time(Windows 2000 appears not to have undergone major changes), Microsoftcould quite easily surprise the development community by publishingits own complete documentation, in which case all of the hard-wondiscoveries become redundant. The alternative, conceding "public"DCE/RPC interface and functionality issues in a multi-OS environmentto Microsoft, is significantly less appealing. --Peter Leopold ... Read more

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If you really want to understand how SMB works buy this book
Luke has written an excellent guide to internal workings of SMB. If you want to contribute to Samba development or are just curious about Windows networking and what it is and howit works from the inside out then this is the book you need.

It's short on waffle and covers the subject to a depth that should satisfy any development project working on DCE/RPC over SMB.

I'm the author of the Samba Black Book and I'd recommend that you buy Luke's book if you want to learn and understand some of the workings of the Samba code.

good book to master the internal mechanism of SMB
I do recommend those who would like to learn about the internal details of SMB to buy this book. ... Read more

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These extended and quite complex pieces were composed during the second half of 1986, and the first performance was given by the composer on 21 November 1987.The first piece is darkly intense, No.2 is a playful and rather sardonic Scherzo with two distinct ideas, and is followed without a break by No.3, an extended slow piece.No.4 is a headlong toccata with a contrasting lyrical second theme and the jazz element here is quite strong. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Paul Mccartney, Kenneth Leighton, Joyce Hatto, Kathleen Long, Hamilton Harty, Jack Bruce, Marian Mcpartland, Jools Holland, Howard Ferguson, Antonio Pappano, Keith Tippett, Algernon Ashton, Clifford Curzon, Tim Rice-Oxley, Will Holland, Tom Fletcher, Simon Callaghan, John Mccabe, Tom Chaplin, Gerald Moore, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Paul Coker, Eric Woolfson, Graham Johnson, Derek Paravicini, Solomon Cutner, Leonard Borwick, Laura Izibor, Leslie Howard, Harry Waters, Skitch Henderson, Alex Maguire, Harold Samuel, Winifred Atwell, Jason Rebello. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (né le 18 juin 1942 à Liverpool, en Angleterre) est un auteur-compositeur, chanteur et multi-instrumentiste britannique, bassiste des Beatles, de 1957 à 1970, puis fondateur du groupe Wings, de 1971 à 1981. Au sein des Beatles, avec son partenaire John Lennon, il forme un des tandems d'auteurs-compositeurs les plus influents et prolifiques de l'histoire du rock et donne naissance à plus de 200 chansons au succès considérable. Après la séparation du groupe en 1970, McCartney lance deux albums en solo (McCartney et Ram), puis forme le groupe Wings avec sa femme Linda McCartney et un ancien membre des Moody Blues, Denny Laine. Ce groupe voit passer plusieurs musiciens dans ses rangs durant ses années d'activité, avant de se dissoudre en 1981. Par la suite, McCartney poursuit sa carrière en solo, ininterrompue depuis, tournant dans le monde entier avec son groupe en interprétant ses plus grands succès composés ou co-composés depuis près de cinquante ans. Il contribue à la bande originale de plusieurs films, compose des albums de musique classique et électronique. Il a écrit un important catalogue d...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Elisabeth Lutyens, Malcolm Arnold, Richard Rodney Bennett, Kenneth Leighton, Cornelius Cardew, Elizabeth Maconchy, Michael Nyman, Brian Ferneyhough, Herbert Howells, Natasha Barrett, Alun Hoddinott, Howard Ferguson, Patrick Larley, Jonty Harrison, George Benjamin, Gavin Bryars, Thomas Adès, Harrison Birtwistle, John Mccabe, Oliver Knussen, John Tavener, Arthur Oldham, James Macmillan, Jonathan Harvey, Adrian Moore, Philip Jeck, Philip Wilby, William Lloyd Webber, Julian Anderson. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Elisabeth Lutyens était une compositrice britannique, née Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens à Londres (Angleterre) le 9 juillet 1906, décédée à Londres le 14 avril 1983. Fille de l'architecte Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), elle étudie la musique en 1922 à l'École normale de musique de Paris, puis en Angleterre à partir de 1923, à titre privé avec le compositeur John Foulds et, de 1926 à 1930, au Royal College of Music de Londres (la composition et l'orgue avec Harold Darke et l'alto). Au début de sa carrière, elle s'oriente vers la musique sérielle prônée par la seconde école de Vienne, sans toutefois en devenir, de son propre aveu, une adepte "pure et dure". Elle aura en outre des activités de pédagogue et enseignera la musique en privé (parmi ses élèves, citons Malcolm Williamson). Le vaste catalogue de son œuvre comprend des compositions dans des domaines variés : pièces pour instrument seul (piano, orgue, guitare, violon, alto, etc), musique de chambre (dont treize quatuors à cordes), œuvres pour orchestre (pièces pour orchestre de chambre - notamment plusieurs "concertos de chambre" -, un concerto pour alto...), œuvres pour voix soliste(s) et/ou chorales, musiques diverses pour la scène (ballets...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Cantata for tenor (or soprano) solo, SATB chorus and organ. Words by Patrick Carey. Composed for David Lumsden and the choir of New College, Oxford. ... Read more

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Mass taking text from the Anglican Liturgy Rite B. For Soprano, Tenor and Bass Soloists, SATB Choir and Organ.

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Chapters: Richard Henry Lee, John Radcliffe, John Potter, Richard Bentley, Mike Tindall, John George Haigh, Kenneth Leighton, Alister Mackenzie, Edmund Cartwright, David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, Hans Kornberg, Timothy Barnes, Mike Harrison, David Firth, John Hopkins, Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet, Adam Pearson, Noel Gay, David Storey, Ben Woods, Greg Wood, William Guest, David May, Joseph Moxon, Jonathan Baume, Edward Thompson, Hugh Paulinus de Cressy, Roger Pearman, John Scott, Andy Cato, John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, Lukas Wooller, Arnold Lomas Wylde, Robert Maynard Hardy, Joseph Bingham, David Hepworth, Andrew Michael Smith, Reg Bolton, Stuart Jones, Jack Cunningham, George Allan, William J. Howard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 155. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Bentley (January 27, 1662 July 14, 1742) was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic. Bentley was born at Oulton near Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire, northern England. His grandfather had suffered for the Royalist cause following the English Civil War, leaving the family in reduced circumstances. Bentley's mother, the daughter of a stonemason, had some education, and was able to give her son his first lessons in Latin. After attending grammar school in Wakefield, Bentley was an undergraduate at St John's College, Cambridge in 1676. He afterwards obtained a scholarship and took the degree of B.A. in 1680 (M.A. 1683). He never became a Fellow, but was appointed to be the headmaster of Spalding Grammar School before he was 21. He did not remain long in this post, being selected by Edward Stillingfleet, dean of St Paul's, to be tutor to his son. This appointment brought Bentley into contact with the most eminent men of the day, gave him access to the best private library in England, and pu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=188937 ... Read more

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Here are six of Leighton's original compositions for organ. Ranging from the quietly expressive to the rhythmically exuberant, and with hymn tune preludes, fanfares, and toccatas, the pieces form a striking and contrasted collection suitable for many occasions. The set ends with 'Paen', an energetic and defiantly optimistic work and one of Leighton's finest and most popular organ pieces. ... Read more

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Short but great story of boating along the BC coastline
At 152 pages it isn't a long book by any standards, and those hoping for a lot of technical boat-related data may be a bit disappointed, as he mostly covers his route and internal dialog about the trip.

I'm certainly not slighting the stamina and determination required for a trip like this, mostly under oar. And his descriptions of all the various hospitality offered by those he met onshore and on the water are wonderful, as are the details of the route and how weather and water conditions influenced it.

This book is well worth the money and time for anyone thinking of boating in that area, but is certainly different in tone from many other boating stories with much more focus on gear, rigging, and specific techniques for operating boats under oar and sail. ... Read more

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Featuring words by Peter Abelard, this piece is set for SATB and organ. ... Read more