702 research outputs found
Book review: Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): a musical life, by Jennifer L. Oates
No full textBook review of: Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): a musical life (Music in 19th-Century Britain) by Jennifer L. Oates. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013; ISBN 9780754661832 (£60.00)Publisher PD
The music of Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): a critical study
No full textApart from a single study of Jeanie Deans, MacCunn's music has, to date, never received a detailed examination. This thesis aims to provide a contextual basis for, and a stylistic analysis of, his major works, and so establish informed criteria by which a truer assessment of MacCunn's significance may be made, challenging the sovereignty of Land of the Mountain and the Flood in the public's reckoning of his compositions and hence revealing it to be not an isolated peak but one summit among many. Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916) grew up in Greenock on the west coast of Scotland before removing to London at the tender age of 15 to further his musical studies at the Royal College of Music. His assimilation of a robust orchestral technique was rapid and before he reached his twentieth birthday he had already tasted the pleasures of public approbation. Thereafter, a sequence of orchestral works, cantatas, songs and two grand operas with a pronounced Scottish character appeared in the late eighties and nineties. It is this period which is the focus of the study, but later works dating from MacCunn's time conducting West End shows are also discussed. Through a generic survey of his output, the thesis locates the composer's works within a historical and biographical framework, isolating characteristic traits both novel and derived from the earlier Nineteenth Century inheritance, and evaluating his position as a composer of his time and afterwards. In particular his strengths and penchants as a composer have been identified with special emphasis on the composer’s bias for dramatic or narrative music, amply demonstrated in his overtures, cantatas and, above all, his two operas Jeanie Deans and Diarmid. To complement the chapters on MacCunn's musical works, an opening biographical chapter, a comprehensive catalogue, a family tree, iconography and bibliography have been provided. Throughout the thesis, reference has been made to primary sources held in Glasgow and other libraries throughout Britain and the United States, in an attempt to arrive at as complete a picture of MacCunn as possible
Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 4th ed.
No full textAvailable at Evidence : a Canadian casebook : Stewart, Hamish, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivehttps://commons.allard.ubc.ca/books/1055/thumbnail.jp
Reconstructed inflows to the headwater catchments of the Murray River, Australia from 1474 - 2005.
No full textReconstructed annual inflows (10 yr simple moving averages) in gigalitres from 1474 - 2005
Author in waiting : self-portrait of Peter Goldsworthy as a boy
No full textReview of His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy (Hamish Hamilton, 2013)
The Voice of the People: Hamish Henderson and Scottish Cultural Politics
No full textExamining Hamish Henderson’s search for the radical voice of the people in modern Scotland.
How might the alienation of the artist in modern Scotland be overcome? How do you incite a popular folk revival? Can a poet truly speak with the ‘voice of the people’? And what happens to the writer who rejects print culture in favour of becoming Anon.? The life and times of polymath, scholar, author and folk-hero, Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), poses, and helps us to answer, these questions. This book examines his life-long commitment to finding a form of artistic expression suitable for post-war Europe. Though Henderson is a major figure in Scottish cultural history, his reputation is largely maintained through anecdotes and radical folk songs. This study explores his ideas in their intellectual, cultural and political contexts. It describes how all of his works – in war poetry, song collection, folklore scholarship, folksong revivalism, literary translation, and vicious public debates – reflect this desire to see the artist fully reintegrated in society
The Constitutionality of the New Sex Work Law
No full textThis is the version of record of an article authored by Hamish Stewart, and published in the Alberta Law Review.In this article, the author considers the constitutionality of Canada’s new law on prostitution: Bill C-36. When the new sex work law was first introduced into Parliament, a number of advocacy groups and commentators argued that it was unconstitutional because of its failure to respond to the concerns raised in Bedford v. Canada, a case where the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the old sex work law on the ground that its negative impact on sex workers’ security of the person outweighed its nuisance abatement objective. This author agrees that Bill C-36 may be unconstitutional, but for a different reason. The new sex work law adheres to the constitutional norms invoked in Bedford by making use of two novel policy objectives: discouraging sex work and reducing the danger of sex work to sex workers. In practice, however, these objectives are likely to conflict with one another. As a result, Bill C-36 is an incoherent piece of legislation that may be unconstitutional for creating arbitrary and grossly disproportionate effects on the security of the person of sex workers
Stimulus configuration differences between the current study and Meylan & Murray [13].
No full text<p>Stimulus configuration differences between the current study and Meylan & Murray <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0084331#pone.0084331-Meylan1" target="_blank">[13]</a>.</p
Is Indefinite Detention of Terrorist Suspects Really Constitutional?
No full textThis is the version of record of an article authored by Hamish Stewart and published in the University of New Brunswick Law Journal.The Federal Court of Appeal’s holding in Charkaoui suggests the astounding conclusion that it is lawful to detain terrorist suspects indefinitely without placing a criminal charge. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) can be seen to have contemplated both indefinite detention of terrorist suspects and inability of detainees to see the evidence against them. In this article, the author argues that the court should have recognized more of the constitutional challenges to the IRPA provisions. After examining the Federal Court of Appeal’s reasons for rejecting the constitutional challenges, this article revisits the constitutional arguments concerning the principles of fundamental justice, the standard of proof, and equality. Next, the article suggests some ways that the court could have addressed the constitutional infirmities of the security certificate scheme without compromising security: 1) a special advocate to represent the detainee’s position, 2) a clarified standard of proof for the current scheme, and possibly 3) a response to the citizen/non-citizen equality concerns
European Frame Series
No full textConsisting of 21 drawings, this series addresses the questions ‘what is a drawing?’; ‘how can drawings be made collaboratively?’; ‘to what extent is the material used to make a drawing fundamental to its categorization as a drawing?’; and ‘what is the relationship between the picture-frame and drawing?’
Using various weights and thicknesses of pencil lead, profiles of specific picture-frames were made by butting up the leads and mapping a series of points on the frame at pencil lead width to form a negative on one side and positive on the other. The resulting shape is neither positive nor negative, but forms both. The frame is transformed from a decorative, inconsequential object into an abstract, sometimes lyrical form, a line drawing, and a sculpture. This work is the result of the collaboration between Bateson and Hamish Young, co-author of ‘Fine Art Metal Casting: An Illustrated Guide to Mould Making and Lost Wax Processes’ (London, Robert Hale, 2003). The use of a process-oriented method of making drawings, devised by Young, allows both artists to be involved in the physical creation of this work. Background research is undertaken by Bateson allowing an information-rich, theory-based dialogue to take place between the artists
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