American Silversmiths and Their Marks

American Silversmiths and Their Marks"So thoroughly is the American ethos embodied in the works of American silversmiths that it has given to their product a typical identity and it never can be mistaken for that of any other country." Charles Messer Stow in the Introduction. Forsaking the flourishes and ornamentation favored by their European contemporaries, early American gold and silver smiths pioneered a new American aesthetic sensibility in creating for their well heeled clients

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English scholar Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783–1848) pursued a lifelong passion for studying and collecting medieval armory

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The student is encouraged to begin seeing and thinking in terms of tonal masses immediately

David eludes his shipboard captors and joins Stewart on a wild flight through the Highlands

The result is an indispensable source of information about one of history's greatest musical geniuses — a standard reference work as appealing to the general music lover as it is essential to the Beethoven scholar

but Heath is not content with plain exposition:

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vivid narration

it features strikingly original harmonies