Published in 1887; this is the history of religion and Christianity in the Confederate Army and the Christian revivals which took place in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. The Rise and Fall of the Glass ArmonicaBy NancyAdairBAngelic Music by Corey Mean is the story of Ben Franklin's Glass Armonica; the invention that gave him the "greatest personal satisfaction."When we lived in Philadelphia in the mid-1970s to late 1980s we saw the Glass Armonica at the Franklin Institute. And we had heard a man perform on musical glasses in several venues around the time of the Bicentenniel. So I had heard the ethereal; angelic music of the musical glasses.I had not realized that the Glass Armonica was all the rage in the 18th c and early 19th c. Chamber music including the instrument was written by Mozart; Beethoven; and Handel. Vituosos toured Europe playing the music that made women swoon.It gained a tarnished reputation in the early 19th c when people believed the music could drive one mad and cause illness; or summon the dead with magical powers. Mesmer used it in his seances.As music changed from small ensambles to large symphonic orchestras in halls the Armonica fell out of favor; relegated to being a museum curiosoity. But in the last twenty years it has found a revival; electronically enchanced; and used in pop music; movies; opera; and chamber music.I was fascinated by this book. Corey covers the rise and fall of the musical glasses; the development of glassmaking; early musical glasses; Franklin's musical background and development of the Armonica; the hey-day of the Glass Armonica; and Mesmer's career and his use of the instrument; including his comissioning an opera from Mozart; the decline and revival of the instrument.When German glassblower Gerhard Finkenbeiner saw a Glass Armonica in a musem in 1960 it was a curiosity. He rediscovered how to create the glass and instrument and the instrument found a revival.Today a few people are experts; including Dennis James whose collaboration with Linda Ronstadt on six CDs revived an interest in the instrument. A a boy he saw Franklin's instruemtent at the Franklin Institute; in music school he asked what it sounded like and his professor answered; "No one knows. It hasn't been played for two hundred years." Now he leads the world's first known glass music studies program at Rutgers University.I received a free ebook from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
