“Music and its Narrative Potential” is a book about musical stories. It is a collection of thoughts on how music evokes narratives through its own medium-specific strategies. This book is a versatile consideration of narratives expressed through music. There are several threads that flow and recur through its different chapters, namely contemporary music, interdisciplinary approaches, conte…
While the study and redefinition of the notion of authorship and its relationship to the idea of the literary work have played a central role in recent research on literature, semiotics, and related disciplines, its impact on contemporary musicology is still limited. Why? What implications would a reconsideration of the author- and work-concepts have on our understanding of the creative musical…
How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture. Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks. It is delivered to viewers via apps, screens large and small, and media players of all kinds. In this unfamiliar environment, new global giants of television distribution are eme…
Geography as a concept and as a discipline has provided a number of ways into the analysis of this collection. In this and subsequent chapters, the ideas of historical and cultural geographers are deployed as tools to generate new perspectives on the collection, with particular regard to relationships between colonial settlement and image-making, the visual economies of colonial expans…
The arcades linking downtown Cairo’s boulevards were dotted with sidewalk cafés serving tea, coffee, and shisha, as well as air- conditioned bars where muthaqqafin (the cultured class) met to gossip about art and politics. The Grillon bar was a social institution among state television journalists and employees of the public arts sector, its bow- t…
The stadium, adorned with flags from throughout the world, is packed. On a central arena, thousands of performers present a rich, colorful spectacle to spectators both present and the millions throughout the planet watching it on television. At last, the parade of nations starts, beginning with the Greek delegation and continuing with those of every nation in the world, with that of the host co…
From a flat in Brooklyn, I uploaded bundles of text and images to a website, hoping that—like messages in a bottle, or like the golden record mounted on the Voyager spacecraft—they may reach someone on the other side of the planet, or in other planets altogether. And in a manner of speaking, they did. Shortly thereafter, Organs Everywhere had …
From board maintenance and ollies to vert skating and grinds, a book of tips and techniques uses bite-sized instructions and killer original photography to introduce kids to the action-packed world of skateboarding. Simultaneous.
In recent research, there has been growing emphasis on the collaborative, social, and collective nature of musical behaviour and practices. Among the emerging hypotheses in this connection are the idea that listening to music is always listening together and being with the other; that music making is a matter of intercorporeality, mutuality, and emphatic attunement; and that creative agency in …
fter more than 60 years, the term performance practice in the context of elec-troacoustic music seems to be established in professional circles.1 However, the notion of the interpretation of electroacoustic music, at least of its purely electronic, non-instrumental parts, is not self-evident for experienced audiences and even for professional musicians who are not familia…
This comprehensive photography companion shows you everything you need to do to start taking exquisite photographs. Beginning with core techniques, the updated Digital Photography: An Introduction progresses through a series of 15 projects that encourage you to practice and refine your skills.
The driving force behind this work came from the absence of textile material in Finnish architecture. The goal of this thesis is to bring together the information on architecture and textile and put together a package of information to support the use of architextiles in architecture. The study concentrates on the matter on a general level. The information is meant to serve several fields of s…
The grip you use to serve with will dictate your entire swing. Large numbers of club players tend to use a forehand grip to serve with, which causes many problems as they progress and want more power and spins on their serve. The majority of pro players use the continental grip to serve with and the pros who don’t use an exact continental grip will use some sort of variation of it. The conti…
Badminton has been relatively unknown and unappreciated in the United States. Following its introduction in New York in 1878, the sport developed slowly. The American Badminton Association (ABA), the first national badminton organization in the United States, was formed in 1936. The ABA held the first U.S. National Championships in Chicago in 1937 and the first national junior tournament in 194…
We know that you can never learn from too many people when it comes to preparing for a career in music. Everyone has a different view point and it can be difficult sometimes to work out whose advice to follow. We think that the best answer is to take as much advice and input as possible, explore different directions, and see what works for you. There is so much to know and think about, so we pu…
Though the guitar as we know it is only about a century and a half old, its roots as a plucked stringed instrument go back deep into history. Many ancient folk instruments have followed the basic strings-stretched-overfretboard-and-played-with-fingers design for thousands of years, and the guitar is in some ways the culmination of that legacy. It seems humans have always had something like the …
Music notation is a symbolic language that is designed to illustrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic elements of music. Pitch refers to the relative highness or lowness of a performed sound. In western tonal music, these pitches have designated note names C, D, E, F, G, A and B that occur in ascending and descending fashion. In music notation, note symbols are used to describe the particula…
Each track on the CDs that accompanies “Learn & Master Piano” is presented with an intro (introduction), count off, occasional instructions, and piano part. The track is immediately followed by a version without count offs, instructions, or piano. It’s best to use the latter “bare-bones” version only after you’re sure what to play and where to play it. During the intros to each trac…
The goal of this session is to introduce you to the instrument. Proper hand positions for both hands are introduced. For the picking hand, proper holding of the pick and bracing your hand when picking the strings are important concepts to grasp at this stage. For the fretting hand, make sure that your hand has some air space between the neck of the guitar and the palm of your fretting hand. Sim…
No city in the world is better covered by literature – fictional and non-fictional – than London. From Pepys, via Dickens, to Ackroyd, London has benefited from a series of talented historians, novelists and commentators who have provided detailed accounts of the city’s condition. In the past few years a new tranche of books has been published on the contemporary character of the…
Yet Brown’s family lived in Kirkhale, in Northumberland, a fairly typical small rural community, over 300 miles to the north, far from the glittering metropolitan world. His father, who died in 1720 when Brown was only four, was a farmer and land agent to the local lord, Sir William Loraine, yet the young Brown was educated at the local school in Cambo – possibly through the good offices of…
The handbook Research Video is the introduction to a new kind of software and publication based on annotated videos. Practitioners and researchers who work with motion data, such as those from the fields of performative art, film, behavioral research or sports science, are supported in their work process and are given the opportunity to feed in content that a printed book cannot convey.
Digitisation is complex and although there are many resources available, there is nothing that quite targets the specialist needs of any current or prospective EAP applicant. A potential EAP grant holder needs to become an expert in so many disciplines: they are required to be competent at project management; be able to accurately assess the amount of material t…
A perusal of academic books in fashion studies over the last decade reveals that the term “fad” itself may have fallen out of style. Even Arthur Berger’s text Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture includes little mention of fads. Still, popular media feature lists of “what’s hot” versus “what’s not.” Why aren’t these called fads? Perhaps the timespace nexus associated with contemp…
Historically, schools of higher learning were referred to as stadium generale or universitas; titles conferred by the Pope of the day, with the latter being the higher honor. This early association with religion can still be seen in the similarities between academic dress and church robes. However, the early schools were not religious orders as a rule, but rather scholastic guilds made up of st…
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is an international organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies. GGGI interventions are premised on the promise of green growth—a simultaneous advancement of economic growth, environmental sustainability, poverty reduction, and social inclusiveness.…
More than half of the world’s population currently lives in cities and this share is to increase to 75?% by 2050. Today the most urbanized regions are Northern America (82?%), Latin America and the Caribbean (80?%), and Europe (73%) (FAO, 2015). The growing population of urban centers and the contributions of urbanization to global environmental change have increased the attention to the sust…
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Marvel Encyclopedia features: - Authoritative, Marvel-approved text for more than 1,200 Marvel characters. - Most comprehensive reference guide to Marvel Comics characters on the market, from iconic heroes and villains to a multitude of lesser-known, supporting characters - Lavishly illustrated format will appeal to both Marvel Comics aficionados and more casual fans - A to Z and ranked p…
Are you looking to improve your photography repertoire? Take your photography skills and technique to the next level with this inspiring and informative guide. Featuring a comprehensive range of topics from experimenting with lenses, exposure, and aperture to useful post-production techniques, the easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorials show you how to master the functions on your cameras and …
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Easy-to-understand, and packed with both technical instructions and creative ideas, celebrated author and photographer John Hedgecoe walks you through the world of digital photography and shares his considerable expertise on this ever-changing medium.
Albers advanced the idea that colour is continually deceptive, and that the exact same colour can evoke innumerable responses depending on how it is seen against other colours. He argued against ‘mechanically applying or merely implying laws and rules of colour harmony’, because of the subjective nature of perception – it is almost impossible to see a colour by itself and not interacting …
e concept of the laboratory has a long history in theater and performance. Philosopher of science Robert Crease devoted a volume to developing an analogy between scientific experiments and theatri-cal processes, according to which a laboratory “is a particular space of action” (1993: 106, italics original). But the analogy between laboratory and theater is as problematic for philosophers of…
In computerized societies, Lyotard w rites, knowledge ceases to have an end in itself and starts to be produced in order to be sold and consumed. Exchange becomes its ultimate goal: the introduc-tion of the computer and information technology defines not only a society but a condition at large and a stage of progress in which knowledge turns into a commodity. According to Lyotard, such a con…
Contingent observations like this can be traced to the beginnings of Greek speculative thought—dating back to the Milesian school—where some of “those [philosophers] who discoursed on nature” discovered them in a geometric relation. Similarly, architecture, building from its cosmic foundations and position relative to the sun, also participates in such climatic affairs. As the light of …
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Cat…
Storytelling was clearly of major importance in the development of cinema and television, as well as new forms of printed and graphic media, during the early twentieth century. But even if these media were new (or, more accurately, new inf lections of existing screen and print forms), storytelling is as old and universal as any sense of consciousness, according to the neuroscientist, Antonio Da…
I disagree with such an evaluation and would rather claim that there is more meaning to the film, drawn to it from the original novel, than the audience can take in while watching the film only once, especially if those who watch it are unfamiliar with Herbert’s novel. In fact, every form of literature or visual media is in a way impacted by the time o…
Any moment the earth can shake, but we do not know when or where.As beautiful as fragile, Italy is continuously chasing urgent situations and fixing damages pro-voked by earthquakes and other natural and human disasters. As the news cyclically reports, the tremors compromise the integrity of artworks and museum objects, emphasizing the vulnerability of both movable and immovable heritage. Even …
This book presents the results of the international, interdisciplinaryresearch project ‘Urban Vertical Green 2.0’. It was part of the Sustain-able Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/ Food-Water-Energy Nexus,a call established by the Belmont Forum and the Joint ProgrammingInitiative (JPI) Urban Europe. The aim of the call was to develop op-tions for a sustainable urbanization. In the proj…
In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory (ANT) approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the S…