began to affect interiors and decorative arts throughout Europe. The richest forms of German Rococo are in Catholic Germany (illustration, above). Rococo plasterwork by immigrant Italian-Swiss artists like Bagutti and Artari is a feature of houses by James Gibbs, and the Franchini brothers working in Ireland equalled anything that was attempted in Great Britain. Inaugurated in some rooms in Versailles, it unfolds its magnificence in several Parisian buildings (especially the Hôtel Soubise). In Germany, French and German artists (Cuvilliés, Neumann, Knobelsdorff, etc.) effected the dignified equipment of the Amalienburg near Munich, and the castles of Würzburg, Potsdam, Charlottenburg, Brühl, Bruchsal, Solitude (Stuttgart), and Schönbrunn. In Great Britain, one of Hogarth's set of paintings forming a melodramatic morality tale titled
artists exhibited 212 works in Rome, Budapest, Warsaw, Krakow and Antwerp. A major achievement in Estonian progressive symphonism is the First Symphony (in modo Mixolydio) in 1936 by Heino Eller. This mode is, in the opinion of Eller, akin to the mood of Estonian folk tunes and by using it the composer wished to create a large-scale work with national countenance.1 Eller is exhibiting his lyric-epic manner of expression, common to his shorter works, yet here it is able to attain magnificence. As the central subject of this work, the main theme of the first movement radiates manliness. It progresses towards the grandiose: Example 36. The typical fourth-fifth relation comes to the fore also in harmony, becoming an essential “building block”. All harmonic aspects are fresh; Eller avoids the D function as much as possible. The T function has been emphasised as an organ point while the S function is basic. The subsidiary theme reveals its national flavour:
Angoras and other long-coated cats coming from Persia and Russia. According to the “Illustrated Natural History” by the Rev JG Wood (1853, 1874): There are many varieties of the Domestic Cat, of which the most conspicuous are the MANX CAT and the ANGOLA. [...] the Angola Cat being gorgeous in its superb clothing of long silky hair and bushy tail [...] A fine Angola Cat is as handsome an animal as can be imagined, and seems quite conscious of its own magnificence. It is a very dignified animal, and moves about with a grave solemnity that bears a great resemblance to the stately march of a full-plumed peacock conscious of admiring spectators. It is one of the largest of domestic Cats, and in its own superb manner will consume a considerable amount of food. Wood, a naturalist rather than a cat-fancier, evidently meant the Angora. In 1868, an English writer described the Angora as "a beautiful variety with silvery hair of
But, when I asked, he told me he was singing to himself; it was too low for me to hear. I enjoyed the sun, too, though the air wasn't quite dry enough for my taste. I would have liked to lie back, as he did, and let the sun warm my face. But I stayed curled up, my chin resting on my knees, unwilling to take my eyes off him. The wind was gentle; it tangled my hair and ruffled the grass that swayed around his motionless form. The meadow, so spectacular to me at first, paled next to his magnificence. Hesitantly, always afraid, even now, that he would disappear like a mirage, too beautiful to be real... hesitantly, I reached out one finger and stroked the back of his shimmering hand, where it lay within my reach. I marveled again at the perfect texture, satin smooth, cool as stone. When I looked up again, his eyes were open, watching me. Butterscotch today, lighter, warmer after hunting. His quick smile turned up the corners of his flawless lips. "I don't scare you
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