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Download or read book Pr cis of the Lectures on Architecture written by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.

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Download or read book Crescendo of the Virtuoso written by Paul Metzner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.

Download or read book The Genius of Architecture Or The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations written by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

Download or read book Quid est sacramentum written by Walter Melion and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Quid est sacramentum?’ Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700 investigates how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature such as catechisms, prayerbooks, meditative treatises, and emblem books, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700. The contributors ask why the mysteries of faith and, in particular, sacramental mysteries were construed as amenable to processes of representation and figuration, and why the resultant images were thought capable of engaging mortal eyes, minds, and hearts. Mysteries by their very nature appeal to the spirit, rather than to sense or reason, since they operate beyond the limitations of the human faculties; and yet, the visual and literary arts served as vehicles for the dissemination of these mysteries and for prompting reflection upon them. Contributors: David Areford, AnnMarie Micikas Bridges, Mette Birkedal Bruun, James Clifton, Anna Dlabačková, Wim François, Robert Kendrick, Aiden Kumler, Noria Litaker, Walter S. Melion, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Elizabeth Pastan, Donna Sadler, Alexa Sand, Tanya Tiffany, Lee Palmer Wandel, Geert Warner, Bronwen Wilson, and Elliott Wise.

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Download or read book Women Composers written by Martha Furman Schleifer and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The composers included in Volume 4 of "Women Composers: Music Through the Ages, Vocal Music," were born between 1700 and 1799. Some of the women found in Volume 4 are also represented in Volumes 3 (keyboard) and 5 (large and small instrumental ensembles). Unlike most of the composers in Volumes 1 and 2 who belonged to religious orders or noble families, those in the 18th-century volumes are of secular background. Many are members of musical families that include mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters-in-law of other composers and musicians. The women represented in this volume performed and composed in a variety of vocal forms and genres. Volume 4 includes sixty-five works by twenty-three composers from eleven countries: the American colonies, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Netherlands, and Martinique. Two composers lived in the American colonies. Maria Eicher reached a position of prominence within Georg Conrad Beissel's Ephrata Cloister. Five main collections of music manuscripts were created there; one of the most important, known as the "Turtel-Taube" (Turtle Dove), contains twelve hymns by Maria Eicher. The colonies also became the home of Mary Ann Wrighten Pownall, nee Matthews, one of the group of English actress-singers who composed songs. After a successful career under her first married name (Wrighten) in England she came to America where she was one of the first female published songwriters. As a performer she also participated in some of the earliest American performances of opera and oratorio excerpts from works of Handel, Haydn, and Gluck. About half of her surviving songs were published in England as Mrs. Wrighten; fiveAmerican songs are under the name Mrs. Pownall. One of each is included in this volume. The Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, nee Spencer, was a noblewoman of high rank who lived at the center of a circle of writers, artists, and politicians. Her only extant music, the songs "I Have A Silent Sorrow Here" (written for a play by R. B. Sheridan) and "Sweet Is the Vale," were reissued in many versions and arrangements both in Great Britain and America, evidence of their great popularity. Margaret Essex is known today only by her published works, which span a twelve-year period at the turn of the 19th century. They comprise thirteen publications, all of them chamber works for domestic use. Mrs. Jordan, nee Dorothea Bland, was a successful actress-singer who made her debut in Dublin and spent most of her career in London. She also composed songs, including one of the most popular songs in the English language, "The Blue Bell of Scotland." This version is thought to be the earliest available. The most published of the English singer-composers was Miss Abrams. She was from a family of musicians of Jewish descent. Her sisters, Theodosia and Eliza, were well-known singers and performed in concerts with her. Abrams appeared with Haydn and in the series organized by Johann Peter Salomon. Her publications include songs in both English and Italian, examples of which are included. Haydn served as a connection among several of the 18thcentury composers in this volume. Composer-poet, Anne Home Hunter, wrote texts for Haydn for some of his finest songs. She was an early figure in the Scottish national song movement of the late-18thcentury, and also wrote several texts to pre-existingmelodies. Haydn taught Marianna Martines daily for three years and received free board in Vienna from her family in exchange for these lessons. She acquired the skill of" bel canto" singing and composition from Nicolo Porpora, and absorbed the early Classical style through the teaching of Johann Adolf Hasse. Martines composed over 200 works, and of these, sixty-nine are known to have survived. "La tempesta" (1778), is an Italian-style chamber cantata comprised of two recitatives and two arias for soprano and ensemble. One aria is reproduced here. German and Austrian born composers included in Volume 4 are Madame Mara, Sophie Westenholz, Louise Reichardt, Emilie Zurnsteeg, and Bettine von Arnim. Mara, the first German opera star, was important primarily as a great singer. Like many famous singers, she published a few works which became popular partly on the strength of her fame as a performer. She traveled to Vienna, Paris, and London, where she was particularly noted for her brilliant performances in Handel's works. She also appeared in Salomon's and other subscription concerts in the 1790s. Say Can You Deny Me illustrates the English popular song of the 1790s. The version represented here has the type of orchestral accompaniment that the song would have had in theatre performances or subscription concerts. Sophie Westenholz was a court musician and composer for over forty years, and had great success as a singer and pianist. Although some of her music was published in her lifetime, most of it exists only in manuscript. Her work as a composer has received little previous recognition. She contributed to the development of the late-18thand early-19th century lied at a time when artsongs for solo voice and piano were becoming distinguished from the folksong style of writing. Her three songs illustrate many characteristics of early Romanticism. Louise Reichardt was the daughter of two musicians, Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Juliane Reichardt, nee Benda (see Vol. 3). Her father took scant interest in her musical education, which was casual and unorganized. Nonetheless, her creative talents were so outstanding that a number of her songs were included in a collection from 1800 titled: "Deutsche Lieder von Johann Friedrich Reichardt und dessen Tochter Luise Reichardt "(German songs by Johann Friedrich Reichardt and his daughter Luise Reichardt). Her contributions to this collaborative effort, identified by her initials, were the first of over ninety published vocal compositions which appeared during her lifetime. They were favorably received by critics and the public. Emilie Zumsteeg was born in Stuttgart in 1796, the daughter of Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760-1802) the well-known composer of opera, lieder, and ballads. She was beloved in Wurttemberg as a singer, pianist, conductor, and extraordinary teacher. She was responsible for preparing the choruses for many first performances in Stuttgart of the great oratorios of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn. Emilie Zumsteeg's compositions included lieder for voice and piano or voice with guitar, music for solo piano, choral settings for three, four, and six voices, a cantata, an overture for orchestra, and variations for flute and harp. As a composer Zumsteeg may be described as a bridge between the early German Romantic composers, including her father Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, Conradin Kreutzer, Friedrich Silcher, andFranz Schubert, and the Romantic school of Robert Schumann. Bettine von Arnim, while known primarily as an author of novels based on her correspondence with prominent Romantic figures such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was also a composer. As a young woman she pursued music studies and set to music texts of Goethe, Achim von Arnim (whom she married in 1811), and her brother, Clemens Brentano. Fewer than a dozen songs were published during her lifetime, but her manuscripts attest to a wealth of musical ideas. Some songs have appeared in heavily edited versions. Corona Schroter, born in Poland into a musical family, spent a significant part of her life in Germany. A virtuosa singer and actress, her close association with Goethe led her to set some of his poetry for her lieder. Also born in Poland, Maria Szymanowska (born Marianna Agata Wolowska), was a virtuosa pianist and composer of over 100 pieces, mostly for the piano. Szymanowska's twenty-two songs based on sentimental or heroic texts belong to the genre of the romance. Her works appear in all of the eighteenth-century volumes in this series. Marie Teresa Agnesi, the only Italian woman of this period known to have composed opera seria, is represented by an accompanied aria in this volume and by a keyboard sonata in Volume 3. Although Isabella Colbran was born in Spain, she spent much of her successful operatic career in Italy. Four of her songs are presented here. Dutch composer Josina Anna Petronella van Boetzelaer, nee van Aerssen, closely associated with the musical royalty in the House of Orange, concentrated on writing vocal music. Her opus 2 is dedicated to Maria Teresa Agnesi. The young Parisian musician, Sophie Gail(nee Edme-Sophie Garre), impressed family friends with her talents as a pianist, singer, and composer, as she would later impress the French musical milieu. She was a successful performer and composer of songs and opera. Born in Martinique, Pauline Duchambge was a French Creole pianist, singer, and composer. She studied composition in Paris with Daniel Auber, Luigi Cherubini, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. Duchambge wrote over 300 songs, setting many texts by the poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, who was her lifelong friend. Madame Louis, French pianist and composer, published six keyboard sonatas and a two-act opera comique. Several arias from this opera appear here; the "Overture" is in Volume 5. A leading singer with the "Academie royale de musique" (the Paris Opera), Henriette-Adelaide de Villars, dite Beaumesnil, may have written music during her singing career. However, it was only after her retirement from the stage that her compositions were actually performed and published. Between 1781 and 1792, she wrote at least three short operas and an oratorio, of which only the score of her one-act opera "Tibulle et Delie "appears to have survived. Amelie-Julie Candeille, an actress, singer, playwright, pianist, harpist, composer, novelist, and music teacher made her debuts at the Paris Opera and Comedie Francaise while in her teens. She performed her own piano concerto at the "Concert Spirituel." Her first play w

Download or read book Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art written by Darius A. Spieth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-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.

Download or read book The Chevalier de Saint Georges written by Gabriel Banat and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banat, a concert violinist and teacher, describes the life of this virtuoso violinist, who is thought to be the earliest black European composer, born on his father's plantation on Guadeloupe.

Download or read book Western Plainchant written by David Hiley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.

Download or read book Extravagant Inventions written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.

Download or read book Music and the Occult written by Joscelyn Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an adventure into the unexplored territory of French esoteric philosophies and their relation to music. Occultism and esotericism flourished in nineteenth-century France as they did nowhere else. Many philosophers sought the key to the universe, some claimed to have found it, and, in the unitive vision that resulted, music invariably played an important part. These modern Pythagoreans all believed in the Harmony of the Spheres and in the powerful effects of music on the human soul and body. Faced with the challenge of the rationalist Enlightenment, then with that of modern scientism, they adapted their occultism to the prevailing style ... A widely published musicologist and authority on esotericism, Godwin is able to give a clear and concise context for these philosophers' often surprising beliefs, and he demonstrates how this "speculative music" influenced composers such as Satie and Debussy, who were familiar with occultism. His long study of music and the Western esoteric tradition makes him uniquely qualified to unravel the strange story of these forgotten sages."--Publisher's description.

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