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One can find only a few cassotto registers in German accordions, but they can be found in the Hohner Morino and Gola models, and the Harmona (Klingenthal) Cassotta, Supra & Supita models. There is a special construction in the Weltmeister Cassotta (374 + 414), also known as "Klingenthaler Spezialcassotto" or "Füllungscassotto".
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin is an 1849 oil on canvas painting by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, measuring 83.2 by 65.4 cm and now in the collection of Tate Britain, to which it was bequeathed in 1937 by Agnes Jekyll. [1] It was his first completed oil painting and is signed "Dante Gabriele Rossetti P.R.B. 1849". [2]
Bocca Baciata (1859) is a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti which represents a turning point in his career. It was the first of his pictures of single female figures, and established the style that was later to become a signature of his work. The model was Fanny Cornforth, the principal inspiration for Rossetti's sensuous figures.
The painting depicts a siren in human form playing a musical instrument "in a thoughtful reverie", [1] surrounded by apples, apple blossoms, and a seagull. [2] The instrument being played has been described as a harp [2] and as "somewhat related to the psaltery"; [3] according to an analysis published in the journal Music in Art, it is an unusually short Japanese koto, a traditional 13 ...
The Confédération internationale des accordéonistes (CIA) is an international music association of accordion players. It was originally founded in Paris in 1935 as the Association Internationale des Accordéonistes by the countries of France, Germany, and Switzerland. Later it was re-formed as the CIA in Lausanne, Switzerland in May 1948.
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin by Rossetti (1849), Tate Britain.. Rossetti deliberately used a limited colour range for this oil painting. The predominance of white, symbolic of virginity, is complemented by vibrant blue (a colour associated with Mary, though notably not used in his The Girlhood of Mary Virgin in 1849) and red, for Christ’s blood.
Tula garmon (Russian: тульская гармонь, семиклапанка) was the first Russian accordion, which began to be manufactured since the 1830s. It had five or seven buttons on the right keyboard, and like in the most Western diatonic accordions it produced different sounds on pull and push.
In the introduction of his publication D. G. Rossetti gave to these poems a following presentation: “The shorter poems, and even the fragments, afford many instances of that exquisite metrical gift and rightness in point of form which constitute Blake's special glory among his contemporaries, even more eminently perhaps than the grander ...