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Beyond Bach
Author: Andrew Talle
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017-04-07
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0252099346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer style of music history, Andrew Talle takes us on a journey that looks at how ordinary people made music in Bach's Germany. Talle focuses in particular on the culture of keyboard playing as lived in public and private. As he ranges through a wealth of documents, instruments, diaries, account ledgers, and works of art, Talle brings a fascinating cast of characters to life. These individuals--amateur and professional performers, patrons, instrument builders, and listeners--inhabited a lost world, and Talle's deft expertise teases out the diverse roles music played in their lives and in their relationships with one another. At the same time, his nuanced re-creation of keyboard playing's social milieu illuminates the era's reception of Bach's immortal works.
Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art
Author: Darius A. Spieth
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-11-06
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9004276750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.
Furniture
Author: Judith Miller
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-09-19
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 0756672880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether you want to identify, date or evaluate your own pieces, Furniture is the only comprehensive, full-color reference guide for you. Judith Miller gives a global overview that spans the last 3,000 years of design, guaranteed to turn any amateur into a furniture buff. Furniture defines decorative motifs of key periods with over 3,500 photographs of every style and form. This eBook also includes profiles of influential designers, craftsmen and key movements.
Solveig ou le dernier été
Author: LL MOREE
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1471050602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLéna Caquefou, lieutenant de police en proie aux doutes sur ses propres choix, mène une délicate enquête qui l'emmènera trente ans en arrière sur la piste d'une jeune fille perturbée, Solveig. L'hiver glacial plonge le pays dans une torpeur hostile et Léna aura besoin de toute son énergie et de la lucidité de Marc son collègue misogyne et maniaque pour suivre la piste du tueur qui se débarrasse de ses victimes dans un oléoduc. Pourquoi les tue-t-il? Qu'ont-elles en commun et surtout quel rapport avec cette vieille affaire des deux frères assassinés ?
The Genius of Architecture, Or, The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations
Author: Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780892362356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.
