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  • * The Rococo Piano of Art Tatum Pearl Flapper, 1995 * I Know That You Know, Jazz Club Records, 1995 * Piano Solo Private Sessions October 1952 ...
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  • Hill," appealed to the rococo tastes of the time, and by ... part bookcase employs gothic details with Rococo profusion, on a symmetrical ...
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  • a cameo-like "medallion portrait." The Rococo style gave more movement to these figures. ===Post-Renaissance tombs=== The early nineteenth ...
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  • century and peaking in waves, especially Rococo Chinoiserie, ca 1740–1770. From the Renaissance to the eighteenth century Western designers ...
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  • composers themselves in the ornate rococo style that superseded the baroque. ... Bach—were important composers in the rococo style that followed the baroque ...
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  • * The palace of Leopoldskron, a rococo palace and a national historic monument in Leopoldskron-Moos, a southern district of the city of Salzburg ...
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  • to loud), as well as the symphonies written in the Rococo and Classical Period, the need for instant dynamic range in an instrument grew tremendously ...
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  • Irish Palladian Country houses often have robust Rococo plasterwork, frequently executed by the Lafranchini brothers, an Irish speciality, which is ...
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  • Old Town, contains the treasury and the splendid rococo Cuvilliés Theatre. Next door is the neo-classical opera, the National Theatre. ...
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  • the Gold State Coach, are housed. This rococo gilt coach, designed by Sir William Chambers in 1760, has painted panels by G. B. Cipriani. It ...
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  • consists of four identical palace facades with rococo interiors around an octagonal courtyard. * Christiansborg Palace, in central Copenhagen ...
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  • * Suite bergamasque (1890) — recalls, in Verlainian fashion, Rococo decorousness with a modern cynicism and puzzlement. This suite contains ...
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  • the most important work of Northern German rococo. Sanssouci, which translates from French as "Without Cares," was a refuge for Frederick ...
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  • Rubens. This battle was won when, a product of the Rococo period, Antoine Watteau was accepted into the French Academy in 1717, with his Embarkation ...
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  • It is sometimes called "Galant," "Rococo," or "pre-Classical," or at other times, "early Classical." It is ...
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  • * Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33. – 1876 :Reflects his adoration of Mozart and Baroque music. * Piano suite The ...
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  • oboes or other winds. Beginning in the early Rococo era, composers such as Haydn, J.C. Bach, Sammartini and Stamitz included parts that exploited the ...
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  • heavily ornamented styles of the Baroque and the Rococo, and instead embraced a cleaner, uncluttered style reminiscent of Classical Greece. The newly ...
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  • few examples of the Baroque, Renaissance, and Rococo architecture styles so often built by the ruling classes elsewhere in Europe, were constructed ...
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  • Theresa of Austria ordered the palace restyled in Rococo; in 1996, it was added to the United Nations' World Cultural Heritage list. ...
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