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The twentieth-century revolution in string playing as reflected in the changing performing practices of viola players from Joseph Joachim to the present day: a practice-based study
Full text linkThe aim of this Ph. D. is to investigate string performance practice issues in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century viola repertoires. The study will focus
especially on the use of vibrato and portamento, as well as tempo modification and rhythm adjustment. This practice-based research involves a methodology which explores the close relationship between theory and practice.
Chapter One outlines my methodology, reflecting on the philosophical approach that I have developed throughout my project. The content also describes the importance of first-hand experience, highlighting the link between psychology and qualitative method. These subjects are then developed in Chapter Two, which explores the early stage of my four-year journey of this research. I analyse my two `modern'
recordings of Brahms' Sonatas for Viola and Piano, Op. 120, No. 1 and 2, demonstrating the way in which globalisation and modernised playing have dominated our perception and affected music production in the recording industry.
Chapter Three examines primary sources, and related early recordings(1) together with secondary literature,(2) with reference to my interpretation of German-Romantic viola repertoires by Robert Schumann, Joseph Joachim and Johannes Brahms(3). My intention is to try to understand and apply Joachim's aesthetic to my playing.
Chapter Four focuses upon Lionel Tertis' playing. Using Tertis' treatise, Beauty of Tone in String Playing,(4) as well as his complete Vocalion and Columbia recordings,(5)
and fingerings from his edition, I develop and then criticise my own interpretation. In Chapter Five I examine the process through which I have developed my own taste
as a historically-informed player. I consider my expectations for the future alongside literature related to interpretation.
Details of the recorded portfolio are presented at the end of this thesis, including a description of each CD album, a list of the repertoire and the duration, recording date, instrumental equipment and setting, as well as the recording equipment, software and recording engineer. It is suggested that the reader uses the commentary with the recordings, or if preferred, listens to the recordings first and then uses the written text for detailed explanation regarding my approach to interpretation.
1 See Discography, p. 95-6.
2 See Bibliography, p. 91-4.
3 See Appendix I, pp. 97-102.
4 Lionel Tertis, Beauty of Tone in String Playing (London, 1938).
5 Lionel Tertis' complete Vocalion recordings, 1919-24, Biddulph 80219-2; and Columbia recordings, 1924-33, Biddulph 80216-2
Promoting health, reducing gender inequalities, improving intercultural communications. Prevention of female cancer and sexually transmitted diseases
No full textImmigrant people adhere sparsely to the prevention programs, as well as female cancers and sexually transmitted diseases (still rising among young people and migrant women). The case study concerns two metropolitan cities of the Mediterranean area as Milan and Beirut: the first is characterized by a strong presence of immigrants (15%), the other by an health system based on private insurance, with a massive presence of refugees (Palestinians and Syrians) which covers more than a third of the Lebanese population. The detection of healthcare needs consists of an exploratory "integrated" research that makes use of secondary sources of quantitative data and a qualitative survey on the field (in-depth interviews with stakeholders and focus groups with female patients). The case study aims to produce a comparative analysis between different contexts of the Mediterranean, about both the policies of health prevention targeting women and young people, and the access of migrant people to healthcare and prevention services
Addenda et corrigenda (in tutta l’Edizione)
No full textL'appendice registra i corrigenda emersi successivamente alla pubblicazione dell'Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giuseppe Parin
Giving shape to time: An investigation into mixed-media installation
Full text linkThis research investigates ways of shaping time and identifying the characteristics of time that evolve in my art practice with reference to a synthesis of two and three-dimensional material, sound, and video. The nature of this study is a three-way material exchange between theoretical discourses, my practice, and audience response. The theoretical discourse includes a survey of the notions of time from different fields of knowledge from science, literature, anthropology, and memory studies. Additionally, an analysis of two contemporary installations, Normal & Nature by a Thai artist, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, and Going Forth by Day by an American artist, Bill Viola, is included.
Project 1, A solo show by Toeingam Srisubut, featured three art pieces: time-scape, container site, and ... and a real TV. The first project explored the potential media that can give shape to time and make the characteristics of time explicit. My evaluation of this project focuses on analysing the characteristics of time that grow out of my three works, and examining the audience's multiple readings of time that reveal various indicators, e.g. spaces, narratives, audience's and my memories, and certain Thai social and economic elements.
In Project 2, a sound and performance installation Rush Hour, narrative, space, and audience participation are considered specifically. I am testing out how effective the three indicators can give shape to time, and identifying the different characteristics of time of the installation placed in a specific environment of Koh Samui.
Project 3, a mix-media installation, When I grow rich, say the bells of Shoreditch, re-tested the three indicators. This project demonstrates my personal, cultural engagements and interpretations of these indicators. The research identifies further areas for potential studies within various aspects of time as well as practical ways of giving shape to it
Viola singularis J. M. Watson
No full textViola singularis J.M. Watson & A.R. Flores Type: ARGENTINA. Provincia de Catamarca, Belén, Río de los Nacimientos, entre rocas, en la orilla del río, mimética, 21-I-1992, Luis A. Del Vitto s.n. (MERL 55055). Location:— The true position in Catamarca is sited 600 km to the north and slightly east of the speculative version provided in the protologue (Watson & Flores 2009). Information on the water resources of Catamarca, published by the province’s local government (ETISIG 2014), positions the Río de Los Nacimientos (otherwise known as Río Las Cuevas) north of Belén, above and to the north of Los Nacimientos village. The valley of the Río Villa Vil lies to the west, and both watercourses meet south of Hualfín to form the Río Belén. Several maps we have consulted confirm this geography. We estimate the probable elevation of the viola site at between 3500 and 4500 m. Figs. 1 & 2.Published as part of Watson, John M. & Flores, Ana R., 2014, Upping their number, addressing their risk. Viola singularis (Violaceae) revisited, and an evaluation of sect. Andinium, its higher taxonomic group, pp. 177-182 in Phytotaxa 177 (3) on pages 177-178, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.177.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/514471
The Genus viola in the Balearic Islands
Full text linkS'ha dut a terme l'estudi del gènere Viola a les illes Balears. Es proposen dues noves combinacions nomenclaturals: Viola suavis Bieb. subsp. barceloi (Nyman) Orell & Romo, comb.
nova i Viola odorata L. subsp. stolonifera (Rodríguez Femenías) Orell & Romo, comb. nova.
Es descriuen tres noves notosubspècies de l'illa de Mallorca: Viola alba L. nothosubsp. neusii
Orell & Romo, nothosubsp. nova (=Viola alba subsp. dehnhardtii x V. jaubertiana); Viola alba L.
nothosubsp. bonaefidei Orell & Romo, nothosubsp. nova (=V. alba subsp. dehnhardtii x V. suavis
subsp. barceloi); i Viola suavis Bieb. nothosubsp. cardonae nothopsubsp. nova (=Viola suavis subsp. barceloi x V. jaubertiana).
S'exposen la corologia i l'ecologia dels tàxons de Viola presents a les Illes i es valoren algunes
citacions antigues, probablement errònies.Following the study of Balearic taxa of the genus Viola, two new nomenclatural combinations
are proposed: Viola suavis Bieb. subsp. barceloi (Nyman) Orell & Romo, comb. nova; and
Viola odorata L. subsp. stolonifera (Rodríguez Femenías) Orell & Romo, comb. nova. Three new nothosubspecies from the island of Majorca are described: Viola alba L. nothosubsp. neusii Orell &
Romo, nothosusp. nova (= Viola alba subsp. dehnhardtii x V. jaubertiana); Viola alba L. nothosubsp. bonaefidei Orell & Romo, nothosubsp. nova (= V. Alba subsp. dehnhardtii x V. suavis subsp.
barceloi); and Viola suavis Bieb. nothosubsp. cardonae nothosubsp. nova (= Viola suavis subsp. barceloi x V. Jaubertiana). The chorology and ecology of the Balearic taxa of the genus Viola are
presented and some of the oldest reports, which are probably erroneous, are discussed
Passive kimberlite intrusion into actively dilating dyke-fracture arrays: Evidence from fibrous calcite veins and extensional fracture cleavage
No full textCalcite veins are invariably associated with en-echelon kimberlite dyke-fracture arrays. A detailed microstructural study of veining indicates four vein types. Type I stretched or ataxial veins are defined by high aspect ratio calcite fibers that are crystallographically continuous with calcite of the kimberlite matrix wall rock, by elongated phenocrystic phlogopite with sharp crystal terminations centered on contacts between adjacent calcite fibers and by phenocrystic phlogopite that grows or extends across these veins. Type I vein mineralogy indicates syn-dilational crystallization of vein minerals in local tensional areas within the kimberlite. Vein Types II (stretched to syntaxial elongate-blocky) and III (antitaxial) indicate late crystallization vein mineral growth during subsequent or repeated dilation. Calcite fibers in Type I to Type III veins are orthogonal to the contacts of their host dykes regardless of the orientation of vein margins. Type IV calcite veins, with blocky or mosaic/polycrystalline textures, are attributed to minor post-intrusion extension, which was potentially accompanied by repeated kimberlite intrusion within a given dyke array. Syn-crystallization/syn-intrusion Type I veins and an ubiquitous dyke-parallel fracture cleavage, in a zone up to 4 m on either side of dyke contacts, suggest that en-echelon kimberlite dyke-fracture arrays occupied the approximate center of zones of active dilation within the brittle carapace of the upper crust. Type II and III veins indicate that extension or dilation continued, independently of an occupying kimberlite fluid phase, after initial intrusion. Arrested mobile hydrofracturing, under low differential stress within the upper brittle or seismic carapace of the continental crust, followed by repeated dilation of the dyke-fracture system, is proposed as a mechanism for producing the features observed in this study. The conditions constrained in this study indicate passive dyke intrusion into dilating fracture arrays during crustal extension. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Seeing through the shades of situated affectivity. Sunglasses as a socio-affective artifact
Full text linkDebates on situated affectivity have mainly focused on tools that exert some positive influence on affective experience. Far less attention has been paid to artifacts that interact with the expression of affect, or to those that exert some negative influence. To shed light on that shadowy corner of our affective social lives, I describe the workings of an atypical socio-affective artifact, namely, sunglasses. Drawing on insights from psychology and other social sciences, I construe sunglasses as a social shield that helps us block spontaneous emotional expressions, as well as affecting other social processes that heavily depend on the eye region: gaze direction detection, identity recognition, and the sense of intimacy afforded by eye contact
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