Rococo Á Go Go (released as Swingling Telemann in France) is the fifth album released by the Swingle Singers. The album was nominated for a 1966 Grammy...
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Rococo, less commonly Roccoco (/rəˈkoʊkoʊ/ rə-KOH-koh, US also /ˌroʊkəˈkoʊ/ ROH-kə-KOH; French: [ʁɔkɔko] or [ʁokoko] ), also known as Late Baroque, is...
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Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus was awarded from 1961 to 1968. In its first year, the award specified that a "chorus" contains seven or more...
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The following is a list of Grammy Awards winners and nominees from France: Sandy Vee Grammy nods Grammy noms by Gypsy Kings A Greek-French composer wins...
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Telemann a.k.a. Rococo Á Go Go (1966) Disk 8: Les Quatre Saisons a.k.a. The Joy of Singing (1972) Disk 9: Sounds of Spain: Concerto d'Aranjuez a.k.a. Spanish...
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Baroque (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as "late Baroque") and Neoclassical styles. It was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a means to counter...
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major" ("Spring"), Op. 24: Scherzo (Beethoven) – 1:13 "Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major" ("Funeral March"), Op. 26: Allegro (Beethoven) – 2:35 "Etude for...
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the Swingle Singers performing with the Modern Jazz Quartet. The album was a 1967 Grammy award nominee. All tracks from this album are also included on...
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a.k.a. Getting Romantic Swingling Telemann (1966) Philips – a.k.a. Rococo À Go Go Place Vendôme with the Modern Jazz Quartet (1966) Philips – a.k.a....
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The Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, for cello and orchestra was the closest Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ever came to writing a full concerto for cello...
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Art of Europe (section Mannerism, Baroque, and Rococo)
periods are, Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, Modern, Postmodern and New European Painting. European prehistoric...
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in 1898. Its interior architecture and façade are characteristic of the Rococo Revival style of the early 1900s. The main room is decorated with large...
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the visual arts began c. 1760 in opposition to the then-dominant Rococo style. Rococo architecture emphasizes grace, ornamentation and asymmetry; Neoclassical...
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Antoine Watteau (category Rococo painters)
formally classical, Rococo. Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air...
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Piano Trio (Tchaikovsky) (redirect from Piano Trio in A Minor)
Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello, and then proceeds with an assured set of variations, also like the Rococo Variations. After working...
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Louis XV furniture (category Rococo art)
though the rocaille style never reached the excess of exuberance of the Rococo style that appeared in Italy, Austria and Germany. In the 1740s, the style...
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Portuguese architecture (section Rococo style)
Romanesque, Gothic, Manueline, Portuguese Renaissance, Portuguese Baroque, Rococo, Pombaline, Neo-Manueline, Soft Portuguese style, and contemporary architecture...
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Joris-Karl Huysmans (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from December 2018)
eight years later. Huysmans's next book after Á rebours was the novella Un dilemme, which tells "the story of a poor working-class woman who gives birth out...
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Variations on a Rococo Theme, according to music critic Michael Steinberg. Tchaikovsky was angered by Fitzenhagen's license but did nothing; the Rococo Variations...
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Guilloché (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
of Art Rococo guilloché on a tureen with cover, Edme-Pierre Balzac, 1757–1759, silver, Metropolitan Museum of Art Neoclassical guillochés on a tripod...
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writer's block and began to fashion himself as a "dandy", cultivating "a taste for Savile Row suits, rococo conversational riffs and Churchillian oratory"...
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façade; this fully classicising statement was made at the height of the rococo. Its revolutionary character was recognised by the architect and teacher...
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Alexander Roslin (category Rococo painters)
with a skillful representation of fabrics and jewels. His style combined Classicist tendencies with the lustrous, shimmering colours of Rococo, a jocular...
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List of Catholic artists (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
and the city's 14th-century art Cosmas Damian Asam, German late Baroque/Rococo painter and architect, who worked with his brother Egid Quirin Asam in designing...
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century, it is the oldest Rococo theatre in Sweden. The history of the theatre goes back to the 1750s, making it the oldest Rococo theatre in Sweden. In 1751...
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Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Picasso would go so far as to call Cézanne "The father of us all". A prolific artist, he produced more than 900 oil paintings...
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Architecture of Leipzig (section Rococo (18th century))
Dresden. Gurlitt describes Rococo buildings in Leipzig. The Rococo style was represented in Leipzig by George Werner, who had a preference for grouping the...
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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (redirect from M. A. E. Vigee-Lebrun)
the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style...
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Madeleine de Scudéry (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
incidents go, successive abductions of the heroines, conceived and told decorously. Contemporary readers also enjoyed these novels because they gave a glimpse...
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Brazil (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
influenced by Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Cubism and Abstracionism making it a major art style...
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