741 research outputs found
Segmentation and alignment of speech and sketching in a design environment
No full textThesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-205).This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.by Aaron D. Adler.M.Eng
Two Grotesque Scenes
No full textTwo Grotesque Scenes is an 18 minute, two movement musical composition for Clarinet in B flat, Violin, and Cello composed by the author. The present paper will explore its key concerns, which include dichotomies such as repetition vs. non-repetition, sound vs. silence, pulsed vs. non-pulsed rhythms, melody and accompaniment vs. gestural/contrapuntal textures, and 12-tone serial pitch material vs. pitch material derived from unordered pitch class sets. Additional concerns, including a dramatic, often counterintuitive approach to form will also be discussed. The paper will first provide aesthetic context for the work by exploring its influences, primarily including avant-garde rock and post-serial styles. It will then engage in an in-depth analysis of both movements, including technical discussions of approaches to pitch derivation, phrasing, rhythm, and structure, relative to the piece's goals and influences
Aaron Copland's Music for the theatre: a transcription for wind band
No full textAaron Copland’s Music for the Theatre: A Transcription for Wind Band
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) can be considered one of the most significant
musicians of the twentieth century, as his well-documented contributions as a
composer, conductor, and author, are internationally celebrated. While some of
his most well-known works were crafted during the late 1930s and 1940s (e.g., El
salón México, Quiet City, Fanfare for the Common Man, Lincoln Portrait, Appalachian
Spring), it is from an earlier, more developmental period in Copland’s life in
which the inspiration for a new transcription for wind band can be found: his
Music for the Theatre: Suite in Five Parts for Small Orchestra (1925).
Copland’s Music for the Theatre was composed for a small orchestra
consisting of woodwinds, brass, percussion, and reduced string section.
Composed in five contrasting movements, the work displays a strong American
sensibility due to Copland’s use of jazz harmonies, popular sounding themes,
and unique choices in orchestration. Consequently, because of the composer’s
frequent reliance upon woodwind, brass, and percussion timbres in the original
orchestral version, Music for the Theatre possesses great potential as a
transcription for wind band. Two main objectives exist within this project: to
make available a high-quality wind transcription of a substantial orchestral work
and to provide historical and formal information relating to the piece.
More specifically, the final project will consist of a transcription of Music
for the Theatre for wind band, which will include a transposed score with
program notes and a set of transposed parts. Secondly, a prose document
complete with historical information, formal and theoretical considerations, and
correspondence pertaining to the transcription process will be submitted.
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While many transcriptions of Aaron Copland’s music exist, the earliest
known work by the composer transcribed for wind band is El salón México (1935).
By completing this transcription, I hope to contribute to the wind band repertoire
a piece from Copland’s earlier, more formative compositional style and promote
interest in a substantial work by one of America’s most important composers
Optimizing Advanced Ligo's Scientific Output with Fast, Accurate, Clean Calibration
No full textSince 2015, the direct observation of gravitational waves has opened a new window to observe the universe and made strong-field tests of Einstein's general theory of relativity possible for the first time. During the first two observing runs of the Advanced gravitational-wave detector network, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo detector have made 10 detections of binary black hole mergers and one detection of a binary neutron star merger with a coincident gamma-ray burst. This dissertation discusses methods used in low and high latency to produce Advanced LIGO's calibrated strain data, highlighting improvements to accuracy, latency, and noise reduction that have been made since the beginning of the second observing run (O2). Systematic errors in the calibration during O2 varied by frequency, but were generally no greater that 5% in amplitude and 3 deg in phase from 20 Hz to 1 kHz. Due in part to this work, it is now possible to achieve calibration accuracy at the level of ~1% in amplitude and ~1 deg in phase, offering improvements to downstream astrophysical analyses. Since the beginning of O2, latency intrinsic to the calibration procedure has decreased from ~12 s to ~3 s. As latency in data distribution and the sending of automated alerts to astronomers is minimized, reduction in calibration latency will become important for follow-up of events like the binary neutron star merger GW170817. A method of removing spectral lines and broadband noise in the calibration procedure has been developed since O2, offering increases in total detectable volume during future observing runs. High-latency subtraction of lines and broadband noise had a large impact on astrophysical analyses during O2. A similar data product can now be made available in low latency for the first time.2019-11-2
Representations of Teaching, Curriculum Reform, and the Formation of Collegiate English
No full textA close examination of the Shakespearean material in approximately two hundred British and American literary textbooks from the mid nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries reveals that the professionalization of the American professoriate influenced the formation of English literature as a field in American colleges and universities. Professionalization changed the character of the study of English literature from one centered around moral instruction dependent on an a-contextual framing of literary material to one characterized by specialized studies dependent on interpretation. The representation of pedagogy in these textbooks is an index of the effects of this professionalization on the developing professoriate and field of English literature. This dissertation also explores the connections between pedagogy, research, and field formation. Chapter One identifies these institutional changes in American higher education through archival research examining the print history of the Variorum Shakespeare series, begun by Shakespearean scholar, editor, and autodidact Horace Howard Furness and eventually taken up by academic institutions, most notably the University of Pennsylvania, and ultimately the Modern Language Association. Chapter Two examines the implicit and explicit changes in pedagogical theories and practices through the representation of Shakespeare’s work in literary textbooks printed between approximately 1850 and 1875. Chapter Three continues this work with literary textbooks printed between approximately 1875 and 1930, focusing on the textbooks produced by prolific textbook author and future president of Delaware College (1888-1896), Albert Newton Raub. Chapter Four extends this work by performing a curricular history of English at Delaware College between approximately 1850 and 1930 through a detailed examination of archival sources. The conclusion draws an analogy between this historical study of pedagogy and disciplinary formation and composition in the present moment. </p
Combined inclusive diffractive cross sections measured with forward proton spectrometers in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA
No full textA combination of the inclusive diffractive cross section measurements made by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations at HERA is presented. The analysis uses samples of diffractive deep inelastic ep scattering data at a centre-of-mass energy √s= 318 Gev where leading protons are detected by dedicated spectrometers. Correlations of systematic uncertainties are taken into account, resulting in an improved precision of the cross section measurement which reaches 6 % for the most precise points. The combined data cover the range 2.5 < Q 2 < 200 GeV 2 in photon virtuality, 0.00035 < xP < 0.09 in proton fractional momentum loss, 0.09 <{pipe}t{pipe}< 0.55 GeV 2 in squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex and 0.0018 < β <0.816 in β=x/xP, where x is the Bjorken scaling variable. © 2012 The Author(s)
Author Correction: Discovery and refinement of genetic loci associated with cardiometabolic risk using dense imputation maps
No full textCorrection to: Nature Genetics https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3668, published online 26 September 2016.
In the version of the article published, the surname of author Aaron Isaacs is misspelled as Issacs
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Aaron V. Cicourel : de l’ethnométhodologie au problème micro/macro en sciences sociales
No full textPrésentation et introduction du texte d’Aaron V. Cicourel « Notes on the integration of micro- and macro-levels of analysis », extrait de l’ouvrage Advances in Social Theory and Methodology – Toward an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, édité par Karin D. Knorr-Cetina et Aaron V. Cicourel, Boston, London and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, pp.51-80. Traduction française par Alain Accardo et Francis Chateauraynaud, révisée par Philippe Corcuff. Publié avec l’aimable autorisation de l’auteur.Cet article s’efforce de resituer le texte, traduit pour la première fois ici en langue française, dans le parcours scientifique du sociologue américain, né en 1928, relativement méconnu dans le monde francophone. Il retrace son évolution de l’ethnométhodologie à la sociologie cognitive. Puis il s’intéresse à ses originalités quant au problème micro/macro. Dans ces deux principales parties, l’auteur est amené à mettre en évidence des convergences et des différences avec des sociologues importants : Pierre Bourdieu, Harold Garfinkel et Erving Goffman.Introduction to the Aaron V. Cicourel’s text, « Micro-processes and macro-structures » (1981)Presentation and introduction of Aaron V. Cicourel’s text « Notes on the integration of micro- and macro-levels of analysis », taken from Advances in Social Theory and Methodology – Toward an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, edited by Karin D. Knorr-Cetina and Aaron V. Cicourel, Boston, London and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, pp.51-80. French translation by Alain Accardo and Francis Chateauraynaud, revised by Philippe Corcuff. Published with the pleasant authorization of the author. This text is translated here in French for the first time. This article intends to put in perspective the text in the scientific course of the American sociologist, born in 1928 and relatively ignored in the French-speaking world. It gives the general outline of his evolution from ethnomethodology to cognitive sociology. Then it deals with its originalities as for the micro /macro problem. In these two principal parts, the author is brought to highlight convergences and differences with important sociologists: Pierre Bourdieu, Harold Garfinkel and Erving Goffman.Aaron V. Cicourel: de la etno-metodología al problema de lo micro/macro en las ciencias socialesPresentación e introducción al texto de Aaron V. Cicourel « Notes on the integration of micro-and macro-level of analysis » inserto en el libro Advances in Social Theory Toward and Integration of Micro-and Macro- Sociologies, editado por Karin D. Knorr-Cetina y Aaron V. Cicourel, Boston, London and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, pg. 51-80. Traducción francesa de Alain Accardo y Francis Chateauraynaud, revisada por Philippe Corcuff. Publicado con la amable autorización del autor.Este artículo intenta resituar el texto, traducido por la primera vez en lengua francesa, de este sociólogo norteamericano, nacido en 1928 y poco conocido en el mundo francófono. Expone su evolución de la etnometodología a la sociología cognitiva. Seguidamente expone su aproximación sobre lo micro/macro. En estas dos partes principales el autor pone en evidencia las convergencias y divergencias existentes con sociólogos importantes: Pierre Bourdieu, Harold Garfinkel y Erving Goffman
Le Texte biblique et la réflexion politique dans "Aaron s Rod, Kangaroo" et "The Plumed Serpent" de D. H. Lawrence
No full textPrenant appui sur les nombreuses résonances bibliques relevées dans Aaron s Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) et The Plumed Serpent (1926), cette étude montre comment la réflexion politique de David Herbert Lawrence trouve son expression dans le travestissement de l hypotexte biblique. Si Lawrence rappelle Nietzsche dans son rapport à la Bible, il aboutit néanmoins, au moyen d une appropriation des rites religieux et des textes sacrés à une définition du politique qui a pour but de situer l homme dans le cosmos. Il s interroge sur le rôle politique de l homme au sein d une communauté qui se traduit dans des relations de pouvoir et de soumission. Encore traumatisé par son expérience de la guerre, Lawrence met en scène des personnages qui, déçus comme lui, rejettent leur pays d origine et se mettent en quête d une expression politique nouvelle. Ils remettent en cause leur relation à Dieu, à la patrie et à leur conjoint, le dialogisme de l intertextualité donnant voix à leurs interrogations. C est dans l exil que leur distanciation par rapport au pouvoir du Verbe, qui figure le pouvoir politique de l Europe, se confirme, le degré de travestissement de l hypotexte biblique en étant l expression dans la trame narrative. Confrontés enfin à des idéologies telles que le fascisme et le marxisme, les personnages exprimeront leur position dans l intertextualité tissée avec la Bible. Les solutions politiques préconisées par Lawrence trouvent alors leur expression dans une écriture hautement symbolique à caractère apocalyptique. Aaron s Rod, Kangaroo et The Plumed Serpent peuvent donc figurer comme essais politiques dans l œuvre prolifique de cet auteur moderne.This study, based on the numerous Bible references found in Aaron s Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) and The Plumed Serpent (1926), shows how the constant borrowings from Bible sources voice David Herbert Lawrence s political thought. In many ways, Lawrence s relation to the Bible recalls Nietzsche s, however his appropriation of religious rites and sacred texts leads to a new definition of the political which aims at positioning man in the cosmos. The author questions the political role of man in a community in terms of power and submission. Still under the trauma of his war experience, Lawrence introduces characters who, mirroring his own despair, reject their native country and leave in search of a new political voice. They question their relation to God, to homeland and to marital bonds. Intertextual dialogism voices their doubts. In exile, their distancing from the power of the Word, which represents European political power, increases, as does the amount of transformation the biblical text undergoes. Eventually confronted with ideologies such as Fascism and Marxism, the characters state their opinions by weaving intertextual links with the Bible. Thus, Lawrence s political answers are expressed in highly symbolical writing, which becomes apocalyptic. Therefore Aaron s Rod, Kangaroo and The Plumed Serpent can stand as political essays in the prolific work of this modern author.MONTPELLIER-BU Lettres (341722103) / SudocSudocFranceF
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