Carti Baroque

Jocelyne Saucier (Author)

And Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Editura: COACH HOUSE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Away From Her meets Strangers on a Train in this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained Down A journey as geographical as it is interior... a bumpy route, but one punctuated by contemplative pleasures, by small, lost joys... Simultaneously introspective and captivating, [And Miles to Go Before I Sleep...] reconnects us to what is essential. --Les Libraires "Nostalgic and beautifully grotesque, this novel is delightfully baroque and, although short, so striking it simply will never leave you." --The Coast, on And the Birds Rained Down Cleaving closely to the award-winning Jocelyne Saucier novel on which it's based, this eco-friendly, elegantly delivered tale about the sunset changes in the lives of a trio of graybeards living in the woods is engaging, thought-provoking and ultimately moving. -The Hollywood Reporter, on the film adaptation of And the Birds Rained Down After And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom (with more than 3,000 Goodreads ratings), Jocelyne Saucier is back with this unsettling story about a woman's disappearance. Gladys might look old and frail, but she is determined to finish her life on her own terms. And so, one ...

Artemisia Gentileschi (Author)

Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi

Editura: GETTY PUBN

Anul aparitiei: 2020

A compendium of writings, letters, and records illuminating the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the most influential female painter of the Italian Baroque.Lives of Artemisia Gentileschipresents a fascinating look at the famous Baroque artist. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was an Italian painter known for the naturalism with which she depicted the female body and her use of rich colors and chiaroscuro. Born in Rome, she was trained by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi, and was working professionally by the time she was a teenager. In a period when women artists very rarely achieved success in their field, she was commissioned by royalty across Europe and was the first woman to become a member of Florence's prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, later becoming an educator in the arts. Lending further insight into the extraordinary life of this trailblazing artist, this volume presents an absorbing collection of letters, biographies, and court testimonies supplemented with essays written by contemporaries, several of which are published here in English for the first time. The vivid illustrations include three works that have only recently been attributed to ...

Maria Paula Diogo (Author)

Inventing a European Nation: Engineers for Portugal, from Baroque to Fascism

Editura: MORGAN & CLAYPOOL

Anul aparitiei: 2020

This book deals with the simultaneous making of Portuguese engineers and the Portuguese nation

Alfred Music

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for String Quartet: Conductor Score

Editura: ALFRED MUSIC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Bach's famous Brandenburg Concertos are considered by many to be the pinnacle of the Baroque Concerto Grosso style. These arrangements of the Brandenburgs for string quartet by Lynne Latham have become much-used by professionals and students alike.

Alfred Music

Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 for String Quartet: Conductor Score & Parts

Editura: ALFRED MUSIC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Bach's famous Brandenburg Concertos are considered by many to be the pinnacle of the Baroque Concerto Grosso style. These arrangements of the Brandenburgs for string quartet by Lynne Latham have become much-used by professionals and students alike.

J. S. Bach (Composer)

Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 for String Quartet: Conductor Score

Editura: ALFRED MUSIC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Bach's famous Brandenburg Concertos are considered by many to be the pinnacle of the Baroque Concerto Grosso style. These arrangements of the Brandenburgs for string quartet by Lynne Latham have become much-used by professionals and students alike.

Wayne Koestenbaum (Author)

The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables

Editura: SEMIOTEXTE

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Wayne Koestenbaum's first book of short fiction: a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables. In his first book of short fiction--a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables--Wayne Koestenbaum takes the gloom and melancholy of our own terrifying political moment and finds subversive solace by overturning the customary protocols of tale-telling. Characters and narrators wander into strange locales; the difference between action and thinking, between reality and dream, grows moot in a heightened yet burlesque manner. The activities in The Cheerful Scapegoat are a cross between a comedy of manners and a Sadean orgy. Language has its own desires: figures of speech carry an erotic charge that straddles the line between slapstick and vertigo. Punishment hangs over every dialogue--but in the fable-world of The Cheerful Scapegoat, abjection comes with an undertaste of contentment. The tchotchkes of queer culture--codes and signifiers--get scrambled together in these stories and then blown up into an improbable soufflé. Koestenbaum's fables travel in circles, slipping away from their original point and leading the reader ...

Karen Turner (Author)

Moon Amsterdam, Brussels & Bruges

Editura: AVALON TRAVEL PUBL

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Experience the scenic canals, colorful markets, and medieval history of the top cities in Belgium and the Netherlands. Inside Moon Amsterdam, Brussels & Bruges you'll find: Flexible itineraries for 1 to 5 days in Amsterdam, Brussels, and Bruges that can be combined into a longer tripStrategic advice for foodies, art lovers, history buffs, and moreTop experiences and unique highlights: Cyclealong serene canals and narrow brick roads past baroque architecture, or stroll through Bruges's grand Markt Square. Marvel at the works of famed Dutch and Flemish painters, walk through history at the Anne Frank House, or remember the fallen in the cemeteries and memorials of YpresThe best local flavors: Sip on Amsterdam's specialty liquor at a jenever tasting room, or enjoy a glass of authentic Trappist beer produced in monasteries. Snack on Belgian frites, sample stroopwafel, and savor scrumptious local chocolatesIdeas for side trips from each city, including Lisse, The Hague, Rotterdam, and moreExpert insight from Karen Turner, an expat who's called the Netherlands home for yearsFull-color photos and detailed maps throughoutHelpful resources on COVID-19 and traveling to Amsterdam, Brussels, ...

Loyd Grossman (Author)

The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander II, and the Making of Rome

Editura: PEGASUS BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2021

This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history. By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome--celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)--had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist--no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.

Edward J. Olszewski (Author)

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Kansas City's Shuttlecocks

Editura: DORRANCE PUB CO INC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Claes Olderburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Kansas City's Shuttlecocks is a study of the commission and vicissitudes of a project by the world-renowned sculptors Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen for a major art museum and a public setting. The controversy that the commission initiated presented a challenge to explain a misunderstood work of art in an attempt to confirm the rightness of its acceptance. It is important for the reader to appreciate how artists resolve conflicts, how modern art functions, and to understand something of the cognitive issues undertaken by collaborative artists in the creative process.About the AuthorThe author, a native of Detroit, retired as Emeritus Professor Art History at Case Western Reserve University 2010. He pursued graduate degrees at the University of Illinois (chemistry) and the University of Minnesota (art history). He is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books on such topics as Italian Renaissance art treatises, Master Drawings, Vatican tomb sculpture, late Baroque Roman architecture, and scores of wide-ranging scholarly articles and reviews on the sculpture of Praxiteles, Donatello and Pollaiuolo, Michelangelo's drawings, ...

Hsiao-Yun Kung (Author)

Purely Coincidental? Comparing Baroque Opera Seria and Chinese Peking Opera: 純屬巧合？巴洛克義&

Editura: EHGBOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2013

本書的目的不在於探討陳述義大利歌劇和中國戲曲的歷史發展及其藝術特點，而是從比較的角度挖掘雙方從形成、演變的過程中，針對此一藝術型態的源流、本質、現象、組成要素等各方面所產生的共通性，進行比對與佐證。比較的焦點則為巴洛克晚期的義大利正歌劇與中國京劇，除了嘗試從各種不同的角度切入，證明雙方有極多的共同點 ...

Julia Dokter (Author)

Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque: Treatises, Scores, and the Performance of Organ Music

Editura: UNIV OF ROCHESTER PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Guides modern performers and scholars through the intricacies of German Baroque metric theory, via analyses of treatises and organ music by J.S. Bach and other leading composers, such as Buxtehude, Bruhns, and Weckman. Before the advent of the metronome ca. 1800, there was little in the way of a standardized, commonly accessible method for precisely communicating how fast musical compositions should be performed. Instead of absolute time (that is, plottable on a metronome), Baroque musicians developed notational cues for relative speed: this was accomplished primarily through combinations of time signatures and note values. Julia Dokter's Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque helps decode these tempo cues for modern performers. Part 1 investigates metric theory in music treatises from roughly 1600 to 1790. Parts 2 and 3 explore the organ scores of pivotal composers such as J. S. Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, Matthias Weckman, and Nicolaus Bruhns, and present case studies demonstrating how Baroque tempo indications may interact in performance situations. Readers will discover how Baroque musicians modified the Renaissance mensural system to incorporate tempo shifts; how the various ...

Maria Paula Diogo (Author)

Inventing a European Nation: Engineers for Portugal, from Baroque to Fascism

Editura: MORGAN & CLAYPOOL

Anul aparitiei: 2020

This book deals with the simultaneous making of Portuguese engineers and the Portuguese nation

Alfred Music

Rondeau Fanfare: Conductor Score

Editura: ALFRED MUSIC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

This arrangement of Mouret's famous work is set up like a Baroque concerto grosso, allowing you to feature soloists at an early grade level. Minimal hooked bowings, slurs on adjacent notes, and some low 2s for upper strings all make an appearance.

Thomas Bailey (Author)

Belgium Beautiful City of Antwerp

Editura: BLURB INC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Belgium Beautiful City of Antwerp. Tourism. Antwerp (Antwerpen /Anvers in Dutch/French) is Belgium's second city, biggest port and capital of cool. It has long been a powerful magnet for everyone from fashion moguls and club queens to art lovers and diamond dealers. In the mid-16th century it was one of Europe's most important cities and home to baroque superstar painter Pieter Paul Rubens as many a museum will regularly remind you. Despite many historical travails thereafter, and severe WWII bombing, Antwerp retains an intriguing medieval heart with plenty of café-filled cobbled lanes, a riverside fortress and a truly impressive cathedral. Today, however, Antwerp's top drawcards are its vibrant fashion and entertainment scene, along with its startling architectural and cultural contrasts.

James Baker (Author)

Brussels Travel Guide, Belgium

Editura: BLURB INC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Brussels Travel Guide, Belgium. Brussels has been the de facto capital of the European Community (and now European Union) for decades, and for a good reason. The city's gothic and baroque-style squares, set between medieval streets, are the playgrounds of international politicians and adventurous tourists alike. Authentic Belgian fare offers full three-course meals, and daily doses of chocolate and beer are worth every cent. Brussels is cosmopolitan in ways other cities are not it's truly multilingual (French and Dutch) and almost a third of its residents aren't Belgian. The multicultural influences have led to an explosion of museums, marketplaces, restaurants and boutiques that make it far more than just a sleepy alternative. These Brussels tourist attractions will keep you and children well entertained during your Brussels vacation. They are best visited during daytime. And during evening, you can enjoy some of the great Brussels restaurants and bars. The best way to see Brussels attractions comfortably is the well known hop-on hop-off bus. Also worth considering is the Brussels card, which features discounts for Brussels attractions, free entrance to museums and public ...

Lucas Ball (Author)

Cesky Krumlov

Editura: BLURB INC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic, the People. Cesky Krumlov, in Bohemia's deep south, is one of the most picturesque towns in Europe. It's a little like Prague in miniature a Unesco World Heritage Site with a stunning castle above the Vltava River, an old town square, Renaissance and baroque architecture, and hordes of tourists milling through the streets but all on a smaller scale; you can walk from one side of town to the other in 20 minutes. There are plenty of lively bars and riverside picnic spots in summer it's a popular hang-out for backpackers. It can be a magical place in winter, though, when the crowds are gone and the castle is blanketed in snow. Český Krumlov is best approached as an overnight destination; it's too far for a comfortable day trip from Prague. Consider staying at least two nights, and spend one of the days hiking or biking in the surrounding woods and fields

Ethan Brown (Author)

Dresden Guide, Germany

Editura: BLURB INC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Dresden Guide, Germany. Information Tourism. Dresden was known as both the 'Florence of the North' and the 'Venice of the River Elbe' before the allied bombings at the end of World War II destroyed most of this once magnificent Baroque city. But Dresden has managed to restore much of its former glory. The views from the banks of the Elbe and plentiful architectural delights, such as the rebuilt Frauenkirche or the famous Semper Opera, provide glimpses of what today's vibrant Dresden once looked like. With 63 percent of its area devoted to woods and green spaces, Dresden is also one of the greenest cities in Europe. There is a reason why Dresden is one of the most popular German cities to visit. Dresden is a town filled with history and culture, hence the countless museums. Whether you want to pay a visit to a museum dedicated to jewellery, watch a spectacular performance at the opera house or watch the animals in the Dresden Zoo, you can do it in Dresden

Ethan Brown (Author)

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Editura: BLURB INC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Dubrovnik, Croatia. Self-Tour Guide. Regardless of whether you are visiting Dubrovnik for the first time or the hundredth, the sense of awe never fails to descend when you set eyes on the beauty of the old town. Indeed it's hard to imagine anyone becoming jaded by the city's limestone streets, baroque buildings and the endless shimmer of the Adriatic, or failing to be inspired by a walk along the ancient city walls that protected the capital of a sophisticated republic for centuries. Although the shelling of Dubrovnik in 1991 horrified the world, the city has bounced back with vigour to enchant visitors again. Marvel at the interplay of light on the old stone buildings; trace the peaks and troughs of Dubrovnik's past in museums replete with art and artefacts; take the cable car up to Mt Srđ; exhaust yourself climbing up and down narrow lanes then plunge into the azure sea.

Ethan Brown (Author)

Genoa Tourism, Italy

Editura: BLURB INC

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Genoa Tourism, Italy. Discovery. Genova in Italian is a great destination for a city break, whether you want family fun or a cultural holiday. Italy's largest sea port is indefatigably contradictory, full at once of grandeur, squalor, sparkling light and deep shade. But a gateway to the Riviera for many travellers today, a weighty architectural heritage speaks of its former glory the Most Serene Republic of Genoa ruled over the Mediterranean waves during the 12th to the 13th centuries and history feels alive in Genoa. No more is this true than in its extensive old city, an often confronting reminder of pre-modern life with its twisting maze of narrow caruggi (streets), largely intact. Emerge blinking from this thrillingly dank heart to Via Garibaldi and the splendid Enlightenment-era gold-leaf halls of the Unesco-listed Palazzi dei Rolli. Genoa is the capital of Liguria province, Italy. This is a port-city that has a great economic importance for whole country. La Lanterna lighthouse built in the port of Genoa is one of the most known local places of interest. Genoa is a famous center of ship building and heavy machinery, a city of universities, a large tourist and scientific ...