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Erard

Author : Robert Adelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197565339

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Sébastien Erard's (1752-1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano building today. Drawing on an unusually rich set of archives from both the Erard firm and the Erard family, author Robert Adelson shows how the Erard piano played an important and often leading role in the history of the instrument, beginning in the late eighteenth century and continuing into the final decades of the nineteenth. The Erards were the first piano builders in France to prioritise the more sonorous grand piano, sending gifts of their new model to both Haydn and Beethoven. Erard's famous double-escapement action, which improved the instrument's response while at the same time producing a more powerful tone, revolutionised both piano construction and repertoire. Thanks to these inventions, the Erard firm developed close relationships with the greatest pianist composers of the nineteenth century, including Hummel, Liszt, Moscheles and Mendelssohn. The book also presents new evidence concerning Pierre Erard's homosexuality, which helps us to understand his reluctance to found a family to carry on the Erard tradition, a reluctance that would spell the end of the golden era of the firm and lead to its eventual demise. The book closes with the story of Pierre's widow Camille, who directed the firm from 1855 until 1889. Her influential position in the male-dominated world of instrument building was unique for a woman of her time.

Erard's New patent action Grand Pianoforte

Author : Pierre Erard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10599844

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Charles Valentin Alkan

Author : William Alexander Eddie
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 184014260X

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This comprehensive survey takes as its focus a stylistic analysis of the music of the French composer and virtuoso pianist Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888). There is also consideration of Alkan the performer, and on issues of performance practice in relation to his music, and on its reception history. Useful appendices provide a guide to archival sources for further research, a list of works and a basic discography.

Babel No More

Author : Michael Erard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451628272

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A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review). In Babel No More, Michael Erard, “a monolingual with benefits,” sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century Italian cardinal Joseph Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages, as well as those of living language-superlearners such as Alexander Arguelles, a modern-day polyglot who knows dozens of languages and shows Erard the tricks of the trade to give him a dark glimpse into the life of obsessive language acquisition. With his ambitious examination of what language is, where it lives in the brain, and the cultural implications of polyglots’ pursuits, Erard explores the upper limits of our ability to learn and use languages and illuminates the intellectual potential in everyone. How do some people escape the curse of Babel—and what might the gods have demanded of them in return?

Alphabetical Index of Patentees of Inventions

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Inventors
ISBN : IND:30000107177770

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Le Guide Musical

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024142328

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MTR; Music Trades Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Music trade
ISBN : NYPL:33433074758222

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Patents for Inventions

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Paint
ISBN : NYPL:33433082277041

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The history of the pianoforte

Author : Edgar Brinsmead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590117260

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Ludgate Illustrated Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0004085759

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Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne

Author : Theodore Evergates
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501773518

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Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne by Theodore Evergates traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148–c. 1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade. The fourth son of a knight, Geoffroy became marshal of Champagne, principal negotiator in organizing the Fourth Crusade, chief of staff of the expedition to and conquest of Constantinople, garrison commander of Constantinople and, in his late fifties, field commander defending the Latin settlement in the Byzantine empire against invading Bulgarian armies and revolting Greek cities. Known for his diplomatic skills and rectitude, he served as the chief military advisor to Count Thibaut III of Champagne and later to Emperor Henry of Constantinople. Geoffroy is remarkable as well for dictating the earliest war memoir in medieval Europe, which is also the earliest prose narrative in Old French. Addressed to a home audience in Champagne, he described what he did, what he saw, and what he heard during his eight years on crusade and especially during the fraught period after the conquest of Constantinople. His memoir, The Book of the Conquest of Constantinople, furnishes a commander's retrospective account of the main events and inner workings of the crusade—the innumerable meetings and speeches, the conduct (not always commendable) of the barons, and the persistent discontent within the army—as well as a celebration of his own deeds as a diplomat and a military commander.

Pianos and their makers

Author : A. Dolge
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781171738954

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Comprehensive Flood-control Plans

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021066399

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Musical News

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Music
ISBN : UIUC:30112014391764

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Crusades

Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar,Jonathan Phillips,Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351985475

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Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.