2,201 research outputs found
Ep096 The Neighbours: Exploring Stories and Songs with Meghan Forsyth
No full textMeghan Forsyth is the Project Coordinator and Researcher at the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place, and the Director of the Bruneau Centre for Excellence in Choral Music at MUN. She is an ethnomusicologist specializing in music and dance of the Acadian diaspora, and is co-author, with Ursula Kelly, of the forthcoming book The Music of Our Burnished Axes: Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador. In addition to her work at MMaP, Meghan teaches courses in ethnomusicology, musicology and popular music at MUN’s School of Music. Recently, MMaP launched “The Neighbours: St. John’s” -- an app for mobile devices. In this episode, we chat about how this new app presents fascinating stories from cultural communities in and around St. John’s. Meghan describes how the app enables users to take a walking tour of downtown St. John’s and Middle Cove Beach to hear stories associated with individual locations, and then she gives us a preview of her new book on logging song traditions. Recorded 9 January 201
Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-309).This is the first comprehensive investigation of music for, or including, the classical guitar by South African composers. The focus of this research has been, firstly, to uncover as much of the repertoire as possible, and, secondly, to collate, study, catalogue and report on the information. A brief historical survey of the guitar in South Africa provides the context within which this study was conducted. The primary sources of quantitative data collection were through the archival catalogues of the South African Music Rights Organisation and through personal contact with guitarists, composers and guitar teachers. Other sources consulted were publishers, broadcasting corporations, recording companies, libraries and the internet. The body of the dissertation comprises biographical sketches, background notes, analyses and technical notes on 17 selected solo and chamber works dating from 1947 to 2007 by some of South Africa's most prominent composers and guitaristcomposers. The repertoire ranges in style from the traditional and ethnically inspired to the experimental and abstract. As this is an empirical survey, each selected entry includes details on instrumentation, duration, level of difficulty, number of pages, scordatura, commissions or requests, sources or publishers, premières and recordings. A biography of each composer is provided as well as background notes which offer an overview of the selected work. The notes discuss historical, cultural, musical and extra-musical influences, and frequently include references to interview material. The commentaries on the selected works, with musical examples, include an analytical component describing structure, form, stylistic and compositional elements, while the technical observations include performance suggestions and a grading for each work
La justice de Dieu : Les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigne et la Reforme protestante en France au XVIe siecle / Elliott Forsyth.
No full textAlso submitted by the author as part of application for candidature for the degree of Doctor of Letters, University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, Discipline of European Studies and Linguistics, 2006.Includes bibliographical references and index.564 p.Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library
Author Arna Bontemps reads to children at the East Winston Branch Library, 1956.
No full textAuthor Arna Bontemps reads to children at the East Winston Branch Library, 1956
The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon\u27s Italy
No full textThe Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, traveling through an Italy plundered by Napoleon, was unjustly imprisoned in 1803 by the French as an enemy alien. Out of his arduous eleven-year “detention” came his only book, Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy (1813). Written as an (unsuccessful) appeal for release, praised by Forsyth’s contemporaries for its originality and fine taste, it is now recognized as a classic of Romantic period travel writing. Keith Crook, in this authoritative study, evokes the peculiar miseries that Forsyth endured in French prisons, reveals the significance of Forsyth’s encounters with scientists, poets, scholars, and ordinary Italians, and analyzes his judgments on Italian artworks. He uncovers how Forsyth’s allusiveness functions as a method of covert protest against Napoleon and reproduces the hitherto unpublished correspondence between the imprisoned Forsyth and his brother.https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/bucknell-press/1041/thumbnail.jp
Rita McKeough : Shudder // Reva Stone : Carnevale (Without Flesh)
No full textThis catalogue presents the work of two artists who use the body to explore the relationship between art and technology. Underlining the artists’ preoccupation with the control technology has over our lives, author Forsyth discusses Stone’s installation (which shows the influence of technology on the transformation of the body) and McKeough’s work (an investigation of fear through a performance combining images and sounds with human voice and gestures.) Text in English and French. Biographical notes on artists and author. 4 bibl. ref
The legal effect of unlawful administrative acts: the theory of the second actor explained and developed
No full textThe author looks at the impact of decided cases in English law on the effectiveness of void acts such as administrative acts rendered unlawful. Article by Dr Christopher Forsyth (Reader in Public Law, University of Cambridge) taken from a seminar given by the author at IALS on 8 March 2001. Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
The legal effect of unlawful administrative acts: the theory of the second actor explained and developed
No full textThe author looks at the impact of decided cases in English law on the effectiveness of void acts such as administrative acts rendered unlawful. Article by Dr Christopher Forsyth (Reader in Public Law, University of Cambridge) taken from a seminar given by the author at IALS on 8 March 2001. Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Lightness Recovery for Pictorial Surfaces
No full textAn important technique in cultural heritage preservation is multispectral acquisition, where one recovers a detailed spectral record of a painting using carefully calibrated lighting. This is difficult to do with frescoes, because it is hard to recover the spatial variation in light intensity that results from factors like the imaging setup and the curvature of the fresco. We introduce a new formulation of the lightness problem applied to images of pictorial artworks. The problem is different from the conventional lightness problem, because artists often paint the effects of light, so the albedo field contains a component that mimics an illumination field. Our method distinguishes between physical illumination and painted shading through spatial frequency effects and dynamic range considerations. We evaluate our method using multispectral images of paintings, where the physical illumination field is known. Our method produces estimates of the illumination intensity field that compare very well with the known ground truth, and outperforms other state-of-the art lightness recovery algorithms. For frescoes, ground truth is not available, but we show that our method produces consistent results, in the sense that the illumination functions estimated on the image and on (some of) its subimages are very similar on the overlap. We show our method produces qualitatively good color corrections for images of frescoes found on the web
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