本书以大量的图片，介绍了时尚写真文化。包括什么是艺术、艺术写真的“性感”、切肤之爱?贴身情人、拍摄中的亲密接触、艺术写真的艺术素质、艺术写真的创作过程等。

本书以大量的图片，介绍了时尚写真文化。包括什么是艺术、艺术写真的“性感”、切肤之爱?贴身情人、拍摄中的亲密接触、艺术写真的艺术素质、艺术写真的创作过程等。

This collection of Brahms' enchanting Hungarian Dances will thrill intermediate and advanced pianists. Based on Hungarian themes, this lively and popular set of 21 dance arrangements contains some of the Romantic classicist's most popular piano pieces in one low-priced edition.

This affordable volume features 371 of Bach's harmonized chorales in closed scores. A staple of every music program, Bach's chorales spell out the rules of music theory that remain the cornerstones of modern composition. Students of counterpoint and harmony will find this collection of enormous theoretical importance. Unabridged republication of a Breitkopf-H rtel edition.

An influential early Romantic composer for piano, John Field (1782-1837) redefined the term "nocturne." Field's dreamy, poetic style exerted a lasting effect on such later composers as Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann. This new collection brings together the most popular and often performed of Field's nocturnes, along with a selection of his most important solo piano works.

Few works in the piano literature are as essential to an understanding ofeighteenth-century style as Mozart's solo sonatas. Almost without exception, they are works of great sensitivity, classic design, and a wonderful balance oflyricism and drama. This new compilation unites 6 of Mozart's most familiar sonatas, including Sonata No. 8 in A minor (K310); Sonata No. 10 in C major (K330); Sonata No. 11 in A major (K331); Sonata No. 12 in F major (K332); Sonata No. 14 in C minor (K457); Sonata No. 16 in C major (K545).

Here, in one concise volume, are all 6 pieces from Debussy's Images — the Impressionist masterpieces that are among the composer's most popular works. Written in two sets from 1905 to 1907, the complete collection of Images is featured here in scores for solo piano, including "Reflets dans l'eau" and "Poissons d'or."

Features Deux Arabesques, Suite Bergamasque, Masques, 1st series of Images, etc. 9 others, in corrected editions.

Beginning with works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Giambattista, and Handel, this collection features several compositions by the fugue's most famous expositor, Johann Sebastian Bach, including many pieces from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Contributions from latter-day composers include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, Brahms, and Saint-Sa ns.

By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958 1990) was already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures, won him the appreciation of both the art world and the general public; his work appeared simultaneously on T-shirts, gallery walls, and public murals. In 1986, Haring founded Pop Shop, a boutique in New York SoHo selling Haring designed memorabilia, to benefit charities and help bring his work closer to the public and especially street kids, with whom he never lost contact.

Nowadays there is hardly an interior design publication which does not contain at least one article on Feng Shui, the one-thousand-year-old Chinese tradition of the harmonious arrangement of sacred buildings, graves, palaces and streets. The universal value systems of Buddhism and Zen and the principles these involve, such as an affinity with nature and life energy, have left a deep impression on Western lifestyle and have had an important influence on today's trends in design and architecture. This volume attempts, with its selection of particularly interesting and concise examples, to present the inexhaustible variety of Asian living and lifestyles.

The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site stillknown as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sortflourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. Buttheir discreet trade is upset when two employees of the SplendourRefuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer SilvioLuparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceasedin flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death fromnatural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But InspectorSalvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing tofools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is notready to close the case - even though he's being pressured byVigata's police chief, judge, and bishop. Picking his way through alabyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendettafirepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can berelied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of thematter.

Sixteen of Bach’s tran*ions for solo keyboard instruments (piano and harpsichord) of concertos for violin and other non-keyboard instruments by Vivaldi, Telemann and others. Reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition prepared by Ernst Naumann. Table of Contents.

A brilliant example of Moussorgsky's innovative techniques, this dramatic work was completed and orchestrated by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov after Moussorgsky's death. Full of intense effects, the piece has long been a staple of the orchestral repertoire, particularly after its memorable accompaniment to the Witches' Sabbath sequence of Disney's "Fantasia."

From the author of Hiding the Elephant and The GloriousDeception comes a collection of five essays that shows how thegreat stage illusions were integrally products of their time, basedon the traditions and fashions of the people, and the offspring ofthe incredible, inventive personalities who brought them to thestage. Like no other author, Jim Steinmeyer gives us insight intothe timeless appeal of magic. His human subjects include suchcharacters as Steele MacKaye, Maskelyne, David Devant, P.T. Selbit,Horace Goldin, and Charles Morritt. Illusions he discusses include:The Mascot Moth, Sawing a Lady in Halves, and Morritt'sDisappearing Donkey.

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Tradition has it that the young American republic had anatural affinity with the 17th-century Dutch oligarchy--they sharedconcepts of democracy, religious freedom, the rise of the middleclass, and a protestant work ethic. Bostonians from the 18thcentury to the present have turned this affinity into a passion forcollecting Dutch painting. Landscapes that capture the subtletiesof southern light, cityscapes and church interiors, seascapes,portraits, genre scenes, and still lifes are among the humble,precious, everyday subjects that have appealed to them. This booktraces the history of Boston's remarkable collection of Dutchpainting, including little-known works by Rembrandt, Balthasar vander Ast, Jan van der Heyden, and Jacob van Ruisdael, bringingtogether works from private collections usually seen only in theirowner's homes. Essay by Ronni Baer. Artists include: Balthasar van der Ast,Franz Hals, Jan van der Heyden, Rembrandt, Jacob Ruisdael.

Product De*ion The renowned art collection originally built up by the industrial magnate Samuel Courtauld in the 1920s, and since greatly expanded thanks to generous gifts and bequests, is now permanently housed in the splendid architectural surroundings of London's Somerset House. The nineteenth-century core of the collection reflects Samuel Courtauld's policy of buying paintings by the leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. As a result of subsequent expansion, the collection bearing Courtauld's name now also embraces important paintings ranging in period from the fourteenth century to the twentieth, including works by Bruegel, Rubens, Gainsborough, Goya, and Modigliani. This invaluable survey includes a representative selection of 77 paintings from all periods, each reproduced in color and accompanied by an authoritative note. An illustrated account of the growth of the collection and of the history of Somerset House has been provided by the Director of the Courtauld Gallery, John Murdo