The Architectural Capriccio

The Architectural Capriccio
Author: Dr Lucien Steil
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2014-01-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781409431916

Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Capriccio. It not only explains the phenomena within a historical context, but moreover, demonstrates its contemporary validity and appropriateness as a holistic design methodology, an inspiring pictorial strategy, an efficient rendering technique and an optimal didactic tool. The book shows and comments on a wide range of historic masterworks and highlights contemporary artists and architects excelling in a modern updated, refreshed and original tradition of the Capriccio.

Capriccio

Capriccio
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1987
Genre: Engraving
ISBN:

A Little Book of Capriccios

A Little Book of Capriccios
Author: Stephen Gamble
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0993358527

A collection of tales, anecdotes, fables and short stories written to amuse and to create a place for you to think. Recommended for reflective readers. Themes include philosophy, religion and other general nonsense. These Capriccios are to be read in a casual seated or casual standing manner and they are to be read randomly, that is in no particular order and certainly not all at one time.

Win Me Something

Win Me Something
Author: Kyle Lucia Wu
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1951142810

A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post, Shondaland, NPR Books, Parade, Lit Hub, PureWow, Harper’s Bazaar, PopSugar, NYLON, Alta, Ms. Magazine, Debutiful and Good Housekeeping Best Book of Fall A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging—of a young woman determined to be seen. Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens—a wealthy white family in Tribeca—as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. Self-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, Win Me Something is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.

The Harvard Dictionary of Music

The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Author: Don Michael Randel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1020
Release: 2003-11-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780674011632

This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music. The Harvard Dictionary of Music has long been admired for its wide range as well as its reliability. This treasure trove includes entries on all the styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East; descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background; and articles that reflect today’s beat, including popular music, jazz, and rock. Throughout this Fourth Edition, existing articles have been fine-tuned and new entries added so that the dictionary fully reflects current music scholarship and recent developments in musical culture. Encyclopedia-length articles by notable experts alternate with short entries for quick reference, including definitions and identifications of works and instruments. More than 220 drawings and 250 musical examples enhance the text. This is an invaluable book that no music lover can afford to be without.

The NPR Classical Music Companion

The NPR Classical Music Companion
Author: Miles Hoffman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780395707425

Explains terms used in classical music, from aria, Baroque, and cantata to vibrato, wind instruments, and zarzuela.

The Archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Catalogue

The Archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Catalogue
Author: Axel Fischer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2009-12-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3598441746

With The Archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Catalogue a complete catalogue of the music archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin is now available for the first time since the archive, which disappeared during World War II, was rediscovered in 1999. (The whole work is complete in English and German). Since 2001 the more than 260,000 pages of music manuscripts, copies and first prints (from 17th to early 19th cent.) were revised by two musicologists which compiled an index of shelf marks and an index of composers. Thus detailed searches in the holdings of the archive (which were filmed since 2002 in severeal parts on microfiche at K. G. Saur) are possible for the first time. The Catalogue lists 9,735 works of 1.008 different composers. It provides also a concordance signature – microfiche and therefore serves as a cumulated guide to the microfiche editions, all the more the registers have been revised and improved. The unique collection is introduced by a number of articles by the following musicologists: Axel Fischer (Archive of the Sing-Akademie, Berlin), Christoph Henzel (Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg), Klaus Hortschansky (University of Münster), Matthias Kornemann (Archive of the Sing-Akademie, Berlin), Ulrich Leisinger (Mozarteum, Salzburg), Mary Oleskiewicz (University of Massachusetts Boston), Ralph-J. Reipsch (Zentrum für Telemann-Pflege und -Forschung, Magdeburg), Tobias Schwinger (Berlin).

Organ works

Organ works
Author: Johann Jacob Froberger
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 225
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486280934

This volume contains all 71 of the German composer's works for organ, including 25 toccatas, 8 fantasias, 6 canzonas, 18 capriccios, and 14 ricercares. The music recalls Froberger's teacher, the Italian composer Girolamo Frescobaldi, offering grand visions of the late Baroque. Since the scores do not include pedal indications, they are also appropriate for the piano or harpsichord.

Venus Capriccio

Venus Capriccio
Author: Mai Nishikata
Publisher: CMX
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781401220617

"First published in Japan in 2006 by Hakusensha, Inc., Tokyo"--Colophon.

Orchestral Music

Orchestral Music
Author: David Daniels
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2005-10-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810856743

Also Available: Orchestral Music Online This fourth edition of the highly acclaimed, classic sourcebook for planning orchestral programs and organizing rehearsals has been expanded and revised to feature 42% more compositions over the third edition, with clearer entries and a more useful system of appendixes. Compositions cover the standard repertoire for American orchestra. Features from the previous edition that have changed and new additions include: · Larger physical format (8.5 x 11 vs. 5.5 x 8.5) · Expanded to 6400 entries and almost 900 composers (only 4200 in 3rd Ed.) · Merged with the American Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS (Orchestra Library Information Service) · Enhanced specific information on woodwind & brass doublings · Lists of required percussion equipment for many works · New, more intuitive format for instrumentation · More contents notes and durations of individual movements · Composers' citizenship, birth and death dates and places, integrated into the listings · Listings of useful websites for orchestra professionals