Catalogue of Musical Instruments

Catalogue of Musical Instruments PDF Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
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Category : Keyboard instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Catalogue of Musical Instruments

Catalogue of Musical Instruments PDF Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
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ISBN:
Category : Keyboard instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum PDF Author: Carl Engel
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Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Catalogue of Musical Instruments

Catalogue of Musical Instruments PDF Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
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Category : Keyboard instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries PDF Author: Allyn Miner
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120814936
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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The music of north India has attained its world renown largely through its most prominent stringed instruments, the sitar and the sarod. This work bring together material from written, oral and pictorial sources to trace the early history of the instruments, their innovators and their music.

Vermeer's Camera

Vermeer's Camera PDF Author: Philip Steadman
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ISBN: 9780192803023
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have drawn many to describe his work as "photographic." Indeed, many wonder if Vermeer employed a camera obscura, a primitive form of camera, to enhance his realistic effects? In Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman traces the development of the camera obscura--first described by Leonaro da Vinci--weighs the arguments that scholars have made for and against Vermeer's use of the camera, and offers a fascinating examination of the paintings themselves and what they alone can tell us of Vermeer's technique. Vermeer left no record of his method and indeed we know almost nothing of the man nor of how he worked. But by a close and illuminating study of the paintings Steadman concludes that Vermeer did use the camera obscura and shows how the inherent defects in this primitive device enabled Vermeer to achieve some remarkable effects--the slight blurring of image, the absence of sharp lines, the peculiar illusion not of closeness but of distance in the domestic scenes. Steadman argues that the use of the camera also explains some previously unexplainable qualities of Vermeer's art, such as the absence of conventional drawing, the pattern of underpainting in areas of pure tone, the pervasive feeling of reticence that suffuses his canvases, and the almost magical sense that Vermeer is painting not objects but light itself. Drawing on a wealth of Vermeer research and displaying an extraordinary sensitivity to the subtleties of the work itself, Philip Steadman offers in Vermeer's Camera a fresh perspective on some of the most enchanting paintings ever created.

Three Hundred Years of Composers' Instruments

Three Hundred Years of Composers' Instruments PDF Author: Alec Cobbe
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843839576
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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A lavishly-illustrated and meticulously-documented catalogue of the Cobbe Collection, which includes over forty keyboard instruments around half of which were owned and played by composers such as Purcell, Mahler, Chopin and Elgar.

The Buxheim Organ Book

The Buxheim Organ Book PDF Author: Eileen Southern
Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Institute of Mediaeval Music
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Category : Buxheimer Orgelbuch
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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The Cast Courts

The Cast Courts PDF Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
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ISBN: 9781851779796
Category : Plaster casts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"First opened in 1873, the Victoria and Albert Museum's 'Cast Courts' were purpose built to house copies of architecture and sculpture from around the world. They contain some of the Museum's largest objects, including casts of Trajan's Column (shown in two halves) and the twelfth century Portico de la Gloria from the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela. Among the Museum's most popular galleries, the Cast Courts are an extraordinary expression of Victorian taste, ambition and public spirit. Published to celebrate the opening of the refurbished 'Cast Courts' at the V & A, this book presents a fresh perspective on the Museum's diverse collection of reproductions including plaster cats, electrotypes and photographs." -- provided by publisher.

David Bowie Is...

David Bowie Is... PDF Author: Camille Paglia
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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David Bowie's career as a pioneering artist spanned nearly 50 years and brought him international acclaim. He continues to be cited as a major influence on contemporary artists and designers working across the creative arts. This book, published to accompany the blockbuster international exhibition launched at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, is the only volume that grants access to Bowie's personal archive of performance costumes, ephemera, and original design artwork by the artist, bringing it together to present a completely new perspective on his creative work and collaborations. The book traces his career from its beginnings in London, through the breakthroughs of Space Oddity and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and on to his enormous impact on 20th-century avant-garde music and art. Essays by V&A curators on Bowie's London, image, and influence on the fashion world are complemented by Howard Goodall on musicology; Camille Paglia on gender and decadence, and Jon Savage on Bowie's relationship with William Burroughs and his fans. The more than 300 color illustrations include personal and performance photographs, album covers, costumes, original lyric sheets, and much more. Praise for David Bowie Is "Perusing David Bowie Is (V&A Publishing, distributed by Abrams), the exhibition's catalog, with its procession of poses and costumes and weighty essays tracking the cross-references to pop culture and high art, you get a sense of how much hard work it took to be Mr. Bowie." --The New York Times "The fans of 50 years or those making discoveries in retrospect will be intrigued by the accompanying book David Bowie Is that is far more than a fanzine."--The New York Times "Lends context and picks away at Bowie with such insight that it's a rare hagiography with soul." --Chicago Tribune "Combining top-notch articles on the singer/actor's life and work with official images and reproductions of his fashion and associated ephemera, the hefty, mango-colored book is nothing short of a treasure trove of all things Bowie; a one-stop smorgasbord for the eyes whose pictorials chronicle the groundbreaking star from Ziggy Stardust to Thin White Duke to Heathen and every personality in between." --Examiner.com

Vermeer and Music

Vermeer and Music PDF Author: Marjorie E. Wieseman
Publisher: National Gallery London
ISBN: 9781857095678
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Of Johannes Vermeer's 36 surviving paintings, 12 depict musical themes or a musical instrument. These include the magnificent 'Young Woman Standing at a Virginal', 'Young Woman Seated at a Virginal', 'The Music Lesson' and 'The Guitar Player'. All are featured in this book, which provides new insight into the cultural significance of these images.