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Crespin Carlier
Crespin Carlier (or Crépin Carlier) (c. 1560 - 1636) was a French organ builder who had great influence on the development of organs in France. He was a contemporary and colleague of Matthijs Langhedul, another great organ builder who introduced Flemish and Walloon styles to France. Biography Crespin Carlier was born in Laon in the Picardy region of northern France around 1560. Carlier's family had been involved in building organs since the sixteenth century. He was based in Lille from 1590 to 1600, when he moved to Rouen. He is recorded to have done work in Courtrai in 1585, Ghent between 1597 and 1611, the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Namur in 1598, at Hesdin between 1599 and 1600. He was invited to Rouen in 1600 by the composer and organist Jean Titelouze to restore the Rouen Cathedral organ, and was often employed by Titelouze afterwards. He worked in Antwerp in 1601. He worked in various parts of Flanders, including Dunkirk, Saint-Omer, Ghent and Namur. With a gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
