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Elements of Impressionism evoked in Debussy and Ravel's Reflets dans l'eau and Jeux d'eau: The theme of water
No full textThesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2012Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) were leading figures of the innovative musical language in the late nineteenth century that is known as French Impressionism. They developed revolutionary compositional style that departed from classical Romanticism and was greatly influenced by Symbolist poets and Asian arts. The piano works on the motive of water, Reflets dans l'eau from Images I by Debussy and Jeux d'eau by Ravel, are selected to analyze their impressionistic components. This dissertation discusses the similarities and differences between the two works and the composers' compositional techniques. In both works, many of technical applications such as arpeggio, pedal-point, staccato, tremolo and glissando are widely used to describe the variable movements of water from small ripples to raising surges or giant cascade. Dissonances (sevenths, ninths and elevenths), pentatonic scale and whole-tone scale are also freely used, as well as parallel movements of perfect intervals (fourths, fifths and octaves) and polytonality. All of these new compositional techniques, which were not commonly used in the previous periods, effectively evoke impressionistic images through various sonorities. Nevertheless, the two works are different from each other in several aspects. Debussy's idea on form, structure, melodies and rhythms are more peculiar and vague. Also, abrupt changes of rhythms occur in many places. On the other hand, Ravel's melodies and rhythms in general are traditional and clearly shaped. His idea on form, although not following the classic tonal scheme, is still more classically oriented compared to Debussy's. As used in both works of Ravel and Debussy, water is often chosen as a descriptive theme among the many natural phenomena. Water has optimal possibilities to carry out various imageries due to its fluidity and amorphousness. Debussy and Ravel accomplished the picturesque expressions of variable movements of water in Reflets dans l'eau and Jeux d'eau through many impressionistic elements and compositional skills
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Selected Piano Music for Children by Nineteenth-Century Female Composers: Cécile Chaminade and Amy Beach
No full textThesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2019Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) and Amy Beach (1867-1944) were two significant pianists and composers in the nineteenth century. They both wrote elementary and intermediate-level pieces suitable for young students. Among these educational pieces are works with titles specific to “children.” These pieces are: Chaminade’s Children’s Album I, op. 123; Children’s Album II, op. 126 and Beach’s Children’s Carnival, op. 25; Children’s Album, op. 36. In this paper, eighteen pieces selected from their works are analyzed and categorized into three levels. Preparatory exercises are provided for each piece
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