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The Bassoon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

The Bassoon

This welcome volume encompasses the entire history of the bassoon, from its origins five centuries ago to its place in twenty-first-century music. James Kopp draws on new archival research and many years' experience playing the instrument to provide an up-to-date and lively portrait of today's bassoon and its intriguing predecessors. He discusses the bassoon's makers, its players, its repertory, its myths, and its audiences, all in unprecedented detail. The bassoon was invented in Italy in response to the need for a bass-register double-reed woodwind suitable for processionals and marching. Composers were quick to exploit its agility and unique timbre. Later, during the reign of Louis XIV, t...

On Divers Arts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

On Divers Arts

  • Categories: Art

"I have made it my concern to hunt out this technique for your study as I learned it by looking and listening." On Divers Arts, c. 1122, is the oldest extant manual on artistic crafts to be written by a practicing artist. Before Theophilus, manuscripts on the arts came from scholars and philosophers standing outside the actual profession. On Divers Arts describes actual 12th-century techniques in painting, glass, and metalwork, which the Benedictine author wished to pass on to those gifted by God with a talent for making beautiful things. Theophilus teaches, with rigorous attention to fact but also with great reverence the making of pigments for fresco painting, the manufacture of glue, the ...

The Technique of Accompaniment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

The Technique of Accompaniment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1970
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Yellow Kid
  • Language: en

The Yellow Kid

The comic strip that started it all, the American comic strip that laid the groundwork for an art form. This precocious kid from the barrio of Brooklyn took the US by storm in the late 1800s and coined the termed 'yellow journalism'. Collected here is the entire run along with dozens of never-before-collected images by Outcault. Also included is the extraordinarily rare strip Pore Lil Mose.

Vasari on Technique
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Vasari on Technique

  • Categories: Art

Giorgio Vasari (1511–1571) is well known for his celebrated work on the lives of the Renaissance artists. But not many people know that Vasari was a painter and architect as well as a biographer, and that he wrote one of the most valuable treatises on the technical methods of the painters, architects, and sculptors of his time. This is the first and only English translation of this important technical material (originally published in 1550 as an introduction to Vasari's Lives of the Artists). Vasari, as a practical craftsman, brings to his work as unusual understanding of the processes and materials he writes about, and conveys this knowledge to the reader in a style of the pleasantest and...

Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1284

Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting

  • Categories: Art

Rare 1849 work reprints 12th- through 17th-century manuscripts on painting and related arts — oil painting practices, mixing pigments, and much more. Commentary on each treatise, plus an extensive introduction.

Citizen Dog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Citizen Dog

A collection of cartoons shows the day to day struggle between a dog and his owner.

The Orchestra and Its Instruments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

The Orchestra and Its Instruments

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1917
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence Analysis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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