French Baroque Ornament
French Baroque Ornament

Author: Jean Le Pautre

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-09-11

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0486154114

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A rich assortment of Baroque imagery to use . . . and admire Meticulously reproduced from a valuable portfolio by a notable nineteenth-century French artist, 124 black-and-white illustrations capture the lavish devices and grand sweep of Louis IV-era Baroque design. A gorgeous population of elaborate architectural ornaments, decorative motifs, and border elements, this collection of royalty-free art will inspire ideas for — and immediately embellish — a host of craft, design, and graphics projects. An exhaustive reference for artists and Baroque design enthusiasts.

Baroque Ornament and Designs
Baroque Ornament and Designs

Author: Fran‡oise Stella

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 0486253783

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Extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in design, Baroque art and architecture flourished in 17th-century Europe. These engravings by a noted French artist perfectly embody the Baroque sensibility through architectural ornaments, decorative motifs, lush florals and foliates, borders, and other striking design elements. 46 illustrations.

Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music
Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music

Author: Frederick Neumann

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1983-12-21

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 9780691027074

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Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted. Frederick Neumann, himself a violinist and conductor, questions the validity of the rigid principles applied to their performance. In this controversial work, available for the first time in paperback, he argues that strict constraints are inconsistent with the freedom enjoyed by musicians of the period. The author takes an entirely new look at ornamentation, and particularly that of J. S. Bach. He draws on extensive research in England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States to show that prevailing interpretations are based on inadequate evidence. These restrictive interpretations have been far-reaching in their effect on style. By questioning them, this work continues to stimulate a reorientation in our understandiing of Baroque and post-Baroque music.

On Playing the Flute
On Playing the Flute

Author: Johann Joachim Quantz

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2001-03

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9781555534738

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Originally published in 1752, this is a new paperback edition of the classic treatise on 18th-century musical thought, performance practice, and style

The Ornamentation of Baroque Music
The Ornamentation of Baroque Music

Author: Manfredo Zimmermann

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-07-05

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 3739231971

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Everything you want to know about embellishing Music of the Baroque Era is taught systematically and well-founded here: from the different "essential ornaments" such as trill, mordent, appoggiatura, slide, etc. up to the free melodic ornaments, cadenzas and improvised grounds. In addition, you will find valuable information, tips, constructive exercises, historical examples and much more. Exclusively you get a live recorded harpsichord-basso continuo accompaniment for all exercises, which supports you harmonically and rhythmically. For pupils, students, amateurs and professional musicians

Empire Style Designs and Ornaments
Empire Style Designs and Ornaments

Author: Joseph Beunat

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 9780486229843

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This is a complete reprinting of one of Beunat's later and more complete catalogs, showing and again making available over 900 individual ornaments and designs. There are many repeatable linear patterns, both horizontal and vertical, for frames, friezes, dividers, furniture decoration, figures and scenes based on mythological and biblical motives, plus many more forms.

Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre Dame
Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre Dame

Author: Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0486841170

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Architect and theorist Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–79), a prominent leader in the French Gothic Revival, was active in the restoration of medieval buildings. In 1845 he undertook one of the greatest projects in the history of restoration: the cleansing and restoration of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. For the next twenty-three years he labored at his task, returning the cathedral to its original beauty and charm. This volume is based on a faithful reproduction of the restored mural paintings of the chapels, notable for their originality of design and the soft and subtle harmony of their coloring. The 60 full-page plates lend themselves to numerous graphic arts applications.

Music and the Language of Love
Music and the Language of Love

Author: Catherine Gordon-Seifert

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2011-04-07

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0253000858

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Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of airs, which was based on rhetorical devices of lyric poetry, and explores the function and meaning of airs in French society, particularly the salons. She shows how airs deployed in both text and music an encoded language that was in sensuous contrast to polite society's cultivation of chaste love, strict gender roles, and restrained discourse.

Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque
Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque

Author: Betty Bang Mather

Publisher: Music: Scholarship and Perform

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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Dance Music of the French Baroque brings together information on rhythm from the interrelated fields of music, dance, poetry, rhetoric, and philosophy. Part I is devoted to the various factors involved in dance rhythms, including tempos, rhythmic feet, dance steps, declamation of lyrics, instrumental articulation, and performance of ornaments. Part II describes in alphabetic order the fifteen most frequently encountered dances of the period and identifies the most typical performance of each in relation to the factors discussed in Part I. With reference to numerous illustrations and musical examples, it clearly conveys the manner in which the allemandes, bourées, chaconnes, gigues, etc., may be executed. This practical book presents a myriad of information in a form that is easy to use yet as graceful as the dances it describes.