Giovanni Simone Mayr in Venedig
Author : Iris Winkler
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Composers
ISBN :
J. S. Mayr
Author : John Allitt
Publisher : Lilian Barber Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Often thought to be the bridge between 18th century classicism and 19th century romanticism, Mayr is brilliantly illuminated in this book.
The Lost Templar Journals of Prince Henry Sinclair Book 1 - 1353-1395
Author : Diana J Muir
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0359037305
Book Description
The Journals of Prince Henry Sinclair and his descendants (20 books and a lambskin map) were found by accident in 2005 in a dusty dirty basement in Greeneville, TN. They then lay in a trunk in the back of the closet for almost 9 years before the author realized what she had. Translating the journals from Latin, Old English, and modern English she soon learned the story of her own 17th great-grandfather, Prince Henry Sinclair of Orkney and Scotland. Join the author and her great-grandfathers on a voyage of discovery as you learn about the covenant made between the St. Clair/Sinclair and Wemyss family, the Templars, the Native Americans, and the Freemasons. Travel with us as we search for the artifacts mentioned in the journals and validate the story. Book 1 of 10, tells the story of Henry as a young boy from the age of 8 in 1353 until l395 when he plans a voyage with Captain Nicolo Zeno and his son Antonio Zeno to Greenland and beyond.
Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart
Author : Ralph P. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316298205
Book Description
During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history, and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.
Sapeurs
Author : Tariq Zaidi
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2020-05
Category :
ISBN : 9783868289732
Book Description
British photographer Tariq Zaidi presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa & Brazzaville: La Sape, Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes. Its followers are known as 'Sapeurs' ('Sapeuses' for women). Most have ordinary day jobs as taxi-drivers, tailors and gardeners, but as soon as they clock off they transform themselves into debonair dandies. Sashaying through the streets they are treated like rock stars - turning heads, bringing 'joie de vivre' to their communities and defying their circumstances.
The Age of Beethoven, 1790-1830
Author : Gerald Abraham
Publisher :
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780193163089
Book Description
Covers forty years which saw profound changes in music, most of them dominated by Beethoven. Provides a detailed, scholarly critical survey of the music of the period with chapters on French, Italian and German opera and on opera in other countries, on Beethoven's orchestral and chamber music and of his contemporaries on the concerto, on piano music, on solo song and on choral music, as well as an introductory chapter on general musical conditions of the time.
Gaetano Donizetti
Author : James P. Cassaro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 113584660X
Book Description
Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important Italian opera composer. The book opens with a complete chronology of Donizetti's life (1797-1848) and career, relating it to contemporary events. The balance of the book details secondary resources and other works, including general sources, catalogs, correspondence, biographical sources, critical works; production/review sources, singers and theaters, and the individual operas.
Donizetti
Author : Gaetano Donizetti
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457411237
Book Description
This volume brings together a collection of Donizetti's songs, some of which were published in several editions during his lifetime and in the years just following, while others have never been in print. Professor Paton has once again produced a collection that will be a valuable tool both for students of singing, and for professionals looking for fresh recital material.
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.)
Author : Claire Farago
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1371 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 900435378X
Book Description
The basis for our understanding of Leonardo’s theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first scholarly edition of the Italian editio princeps as well as the first complete English translation of this seminal work. In addition, It provides a comprehensive study of the Italian first edition, documenting how each editorial campaign that lead to it produced a different understanding of the artist’s theory. What emerges is a rich cultural and textual history that foregrounds the transmission of artisanal knowledge from Leonardo’s workshop in the Duchy of Milan to Carlo Borromeo’s Milan, Cosimo I de’ Medici’s Florence, Urban VIII’s Rome, and Louis XIV’s Paris.
Musical Exoticism
Author : Ralph P. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521349550
Book Description
A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-'Gypsy' fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don José - portrayals of people and places that are considered somehow 'exotic' have been ubiquitous from 1700 to today, whether in opera, Broadway musicals, instrumental music, film scores, or in jazz and popular song. Often these portrayals are highly stereotypical but also powerful, indelible and touching - or troubling. Musical Exoticism surveys the vast and varied repertoire of Western musical works that evoke exotic locales. It relates trends in musical exoticism to other trends in music, such as programme music and avant-garde experimentation, as well as to broader historical developments such as nationalism and empire. Ralph P. Locke outlines major trends in exotic depiction from the Baroque era onward, and illustrates these trends through close study of numerous exotic works, including operas by Handel and Rameau, Mozart's 'Rondo alla turca', 'Madame Butterfly' and 'West Side Story'.
