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Le pubbliche feste: Musical performances and propaganda strategies in Jacobin Milan (1796-1799)
No full textFollowing the unstable consequences of the Napoleonic wars, Lombardy saw its political layout entering a quick transitional phase. While supposedly republican forms of government replaced former states, the new governors aimed at both wiping out every trace of the past and introducing a new palette of values through a carefully regulated plan of control and propaganda. Performing arts such as theatre, opera and music played a major role within this project, but new genres and occasions of performance were also created.In this context, republican feasts, based on the model imported from early-1790s Paris, acquired a great importance: planned and realized by dedicated governmental commissions, they took place with increasing frequency and required huge expenditures of time, money and labour. Musical performances, interestingly combining pre-existing, modified and newly commissioned repertoires, were paired with various propaganda strategies, thus creating new cultural products and events.This paper, making use of several primary sources coming from Milanese archives, will proceed from a carefully reconstructed historical and social context to the detailed description of some of the celebratory events that took place in republican Mila
‘D’un bel canto patrioto francese’: On the penetration of French revolutionary elements in the spectacles of republican Milan (1796–1802)
Get PDFFollowing the arrival of the French army in April 1796, Milan became the capital of the Cisalpine Republic (1797–1802), a ‘sister republic’ of France— a stark transformation after decades of Austrian control. While disastrous in terms of economic exploitation, the French republican governments identified spectacle as an essential tool for propaganda, control, and education. Milan was a major centre for opera, but was rather conservative as to repertoire and practices, particularly in terms of rigid separation between theatrical and nontheatrical performances. This separation was challenged with the new republican festivities. Drawing upon archival material, this article examines how spectacular elements from revolutionary France and its republican festivals infiltrated Milanese opera’s ivory tower, and how operatic elements in turn seeped into the streets to celebrate republican ideals. In so doing, this article sheds new light on theatrical and musical encounters between revolutionary France and its sister republics
"Lettre sur Omphale" di Friedrich Melchior Von Grimm
Get PDFTraduzione della Lettre sur Omphale di Friedrich Melchior Von Grimm
Milan and the music of political transitions in the Napoleonic period: the case of Ambrogio Minoja (1752-1825).
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Puccini in Pictures
No full textThis chapter considers how Puccini was represented visually, predominantly through the still fairly new medium of photojournalism. The author discusses the marketing strategies devised by the Ricordi publishing house in order to promote Puccini to the readers of its various illustrated magazines as the successor to Verdi. Initially portrayed as a rather Bohemian young student, Puccini soon came to be depicted as the epitome of stylish Italian manliness. Visual representations of the composer – not only photographs but also paintings and sketches – exploited his connections to the Tuscan landscape of his native region, as Puccini was increasingly co-opted into the project of forging a national identity for the recently unified country. Care was taken to represent Puccini as an emblem of modernity and dynamism, and this was an image of the composer that was presented not only at home in Italy but all around the world
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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