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Extraordinary, April 18, 2009
E.V. Williams is a professor of music, but his readable, exhaustive, and illustrated study of The Bells of Russia is multi-disciplinary: historical, musical, technical, ethnographic, architectural, and liturgical. One thousand years of Russian Bells! Here is an author interested in tracing, for example, the Western and Byzantine traditions that influenced Russian Bells but, more importantly, the impact that these bells have have on Russian culture and on Russians' perspectives of Mother Russia. From the flap: The bells are "awe-inspiring instruments that gave voice to the visual splendors or Russian orthodoxy and to the political aspirations of the Tsars. Named and blessed, the bells are associated with some of the most colorful episodes in the history of the old regime." Book details: 276 pp, large format, cloth over hardback boards with a sewn binding. In dustjacket. 121 b&w illustrations and several tables: photos, paintings, schematics, music notation, historic prints, and technical drawings. 5 Appendices. Glossary and Index. Over 50 pp of narrative and bibliographic End Notes. 12 p Bibliography.
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Extraordinary, April 18, 2009
E.V. Williams is a professor of music, but his readable, exhaustive, and illustrated study of The Bells of Russia is multi-disciplinary: historical, musical, technical, ethnographic, architectural, and liturgical. One thousand years of Russian Bells! Here is an author interested in tracing, for example, the Western and Byzantine traditions that influenced Russian Bells but, more importantly, the impact that these bells have have on Russian culture and on Russians' perspectives of Mother Russia. From the flap: The bells are "awe-inspiring instruments that gave voice to the visual splendors or Russian orthodoxy and to the political aspirations of the Tsars. Named and blessed, the bells are associated with some of the most colorful episodes in the history of the old regime." Book details: 276 pp, large format, cloth over hardback boards with a sewn binding. In dustjacket. 121 b&w illustrations and several tables: photos, paintings, schematics, music notation, historic prints, and technical drawings. 5 Appendices. Glossary and index. Over 50 pp of narrative and bibliography End Notes. 12 p Bibliography.
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Extraordinary, April 18, 2009
This review is from: The Bells of Russia: History and Technology (Hardcover)
E.V. Williams is a professor of music, but his readable, exhaustive, and illustrated study of The Bells of Russia is multi-disciplinary: historical, musical, technical, ethnographic, architectural, and liturgical. One thousand years of Russian Bells! Here is an author interested in tracing, for example, the Western and Byzantine traditions that influenced Russian Bells but, more importantly, the impact that these bells have have on Russian culture and on Russians' perspectives of Mother Russia. From the flap: The bells are "awe-inspiring instruments that gave voice to the visual splendors or Russian orthodoxy and to the political aspirations of the Tsars. Named and blessed, the bells are associated with some of the most colorful episodes in the history of the old regime." Book details: 276 pp, large format, cloth over hardback boards with a sewn binding. In dustjacket. 121 b&w illustrations and several tables: photos, paintings, schematics, music notation, historic prints, and technical drawings. 5 Appendices. Glossary and index. Over 50 pp of narrative and bibliography End Notes. 12 p Bibliography.
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