2014年7月11日 星期五

chiaroscuro, K-pop, -ian, Wagnerian

  Video: K-Pop Meets Broadway
Theater producers in Seoul have been increasingly hiring K-pop stars, as well as Korean soap opera actors and other celebrities, to perform in homegrown versions of American and European shows.


 This is the new Jew. Where Sammler's suffering in World War II has
merely added depth and chiaroscuro to his character, has taught him to
look at horror with rhetoric, as an ordinary ingredient, a staple, of
modern life, his son-in-law sees the world in terms of
kill-or-be-killed absolutes. Where Sammler is a scholar, his
son-in-law is a demonstrator.



  * Appreciated by other artists and writers like Stendhal , Delacroix, Millet and Baudelaire for his chiaroscuro and for the convincing realism, his most famous painting is probably Crucifixion (1822) painted for the St. Etienne's cathedral in Metz. Crucifixion now hangs in the Louvre. ( Crucifixion at Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/p/prudhon/7crucifi.html))



 Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of art and music students had gathered to discuss chiaroscuro, Wagner, music, Rembrandt's works, pictures, Waldteufel, wall paper, Chopin and Oolong.

  喬和迪麗娅【德麗雅】在一個畫室裏相遇了,有許多研究美術和音樂的人經常在那兒聚會,討論明暗對比、瓦格納、音樂、倫勃朗的作品、繪畫、瓦爾特杜弗、糊牆紙、蕭邦、奧朗①。



Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950 (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press) [Paperback] William H. McNeill (Author)
  • Paperback: 204 pages
  • Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (October 30, 2007) 漢譯本
  • 《哈欽斯的大學》蕭明波等譯,杭州:浙江大學出版社,2013 (雖有索引不過缺原書的注解損失不少*  另外翻譯本身也可能有些問題    譬如說 第三章: Chiaroscuro of the Depression Years, 1931-36  其中的chiaroscuro不是黑白照而是西洋繪畫中的"淡彩明暗画法" ......)

    -ian

    SUFFIX

    Forming adjectives and nouns such as antediluvianand Bostonian. Compare with -an.

    Origin

    from French -ien or Latin -ianus.

    More definitions of -ian

    K-pop

    Syllabification: (K-pop)

    noun

    Korean pop music: the band has a style that mixes European music and K-pop [as modifier]:K-pop fans

    chiaroscuro

    Syllabification: (chi·a·ro·scu·ro)


    noun

    • the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.
    • an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something:the chiaroscuro of cobbled streets

    Origin:

    mid 17th century: from Italian, from chiaro 'clear, bright' (from Latin clarus) + oscuro 'dark, obscure' (from Latin obscurus)

    chiaroscuro


     
    音節
    chi • a • ro • scu • ro
    発音
    kiɑ`ːrəskjúərou | -skúər-
    [名](複〜s)[U]
    1 《絵画》キアロスクーロ, 明暗法.
    2 キアロスクーロ画, 淡彩明暗画.
    [イタリア語←ラテン語clārus(明るい)+obscūrus(暗い). △CLEAR, OBSCURE
    -rist
    [名]


Tonight at 8, Reflections from the Keyboard considers Richard Wagner with piano transcriptions of his work. We’ll see if you like your Wagner piano-ized instead of vocalized and orchestrated.
Reflections from the Keyboard considers Richard Wagner with piano transcriptions of his work written by Liszt, Busoni, Gould and more.
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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Wagner +‎ -ian

Adjective[edit]

Wagnerian (comparative more Wagneriansuperlative most Wagnerian)
  1. of, or characteristic of Richard Wagner, or of his music

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