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Dec 16, 2024:
The Flute’s Pleasure Garden
The FLUTE’S PLEASURE GARDEN Artfully …Jacob Van Eyck and Der Fluyten Lust-hof
Full of Psalms, Pavanes, Allemandes, Courantes, Ballets, Airs, &c.
Dec 15, 2024: Digital Garden A serene 18th-century garden as imagined by my digital AI buddy. A Digital Garden is a hybrid between a notebook and a blog: a place to cultivate and …
Dec 15, 2024: Pleasure Garden Vauxhall Gardens by Rowlandson (1785) A singer and orchestra (with organ) are performing from the balcony. A Pleasure Garden is a park or garden …
May 24, 2023:
18th-Century Musicians Saw Themselves as Craftworkers
18th-century metalworkers The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. — L.P. Hartley: The Go-Between (1953) In the …
May 23, 2023:
Telemann’s Flute Fantasias
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1676) played the flute (among several other instruments), which explains his understanding of the capabilities of the …
May 22, 2023:
What is Historically Enlightened Performance?
Adolph von Menzel: Flötenkonzert Friedrichs des Großen in Sanssouci (c.1850)