DOC Music Outside the Lines: Ideas for Composing in K-12 Music Classrooms by Maud Hickey in Arts-Photography

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Palladio is the Bible; Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple; gracious; perfectly proportioned villas; Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches; columned porticoes; grand ceilings; and front-door pediments of America today. In The Perfect House; bestselling author Witold Rybczynski; whose previous books (Home; A Clearing in the Distance; Now I Sit Me Down) have transformed our understanding of domestic architecture; reveals how a handful of Palladios houses in an obscure corner of the Venetian Republic should have made their presence felt hundreds of years later and halfway across the globe. More than just a study of one of historys seminal architectural figures; The Perfect House reflects Rybczynskis enormous admiration for his subject and provides a new way of looking at the special landscapes we call "home" in the modern world.