Use of arbitration by construction companies
Construction activities are intrinsically complex, the result of many variables and a large amount of information involved, which makes it difficult to manage risks and predict conflicts, which can turn into a dispute. Contracts, which are instruments of agreement and regulate the actions of the agents and are signed for the realisation of projects, are often poorly drafted and create fertile ground for disputes and lawsuits, which generate losses for the agents and stakeholders involved. State justice is slow due to the backlog of cases and high costs. As an alternative, federal law 9307/96 instituted arbitration, a form of private dispute resolution created with the intention of being quick, low-cost and confidential. The aim of this work is to analyse the frequency and conditions of use of arbitration in construction contracts, to identify the advantages and disadvantages that a construction company will have in using it, in order to suggest actions aimed at increasing its use by construction companies.
Agromusical Ecosophy
Agromusical Ecosophy: peasant knowledge in mariachi sones, is a work where the lyrics of the sones are analyzed and the peasant knowledge implicit in them is contextualized, reflecting on agro-historical data of the time in which they were composed, thus understanding their ecosocial impact, both on the public and on the composers and musicians. The objective was to locate and interpret such knowledge contained in the sones, in order to reevaluate them through their discussion in the agronomic field. It was found that there are many sones whose meaning has to do with the activities of the rural environment, with such a validity that they are highly appreciated for their complexity, both musical and identity in the current context of the new rurality and environmental complexity.
Sound Research for Troubling Times
This edited collection takes the prompt "hope in crisis" as a starting point for investigating sound research as it is situated in these troubling times. The book brings together thinkers from numerous scholarly domains (i.e. communication studies, art education, creative art therapy, psychology and philosophy) to explore the question of hope as it relates to sonic research-creation practices in/and times of crisis. Some of the prompts and provocations explored by the authors within the collection include, but are not limited to: explorations of sonic research-creation practices as they are situated within contemporary convergence of crises; theoretical investigations of the concept of hope as it relates to sonic temporalities, ontologies, and epistemologies; articulations of experimental sonic pedagogies; examinations of hope as it plays out in institutional settings and/or sound and music scenes (i.e. music education, artistic communities, activist communities); investigations of experimental listening practices as they relate to contemporary crises; explorations of post-human, non-human, and inhuman sonic resonances in research-creation practices; and experimental practices that deploy sound and sonic approaches for emergent, collective research both within, but also outside of, academic institutions. Positioned as a material that holds the potential to frustrate common approaches to research, whether through its refusal of occularcentric perspectives, its leaky data protocols or its distortion of future horizons, sound is explored here as that which might counter the default refrains that have pushed hope itself into crisis. Importantly, while sound research is explored in this book in relation to hope, it is not offered up as a better way forward, nor is it presented as a solution. Sound research is instead posed as a question, with each author responding in their own way through experiments with the potentials, but also limits, of and for sonic practices. Central to the project, then, is the question of how to collectively and creatively respond to the increasingly difficult- even untenable-circumstances that have come to limit future possibilities, both within fields of research but also beyond, without falling back on the unquestioned assumption that hope alone will actualize a desired otherworld. The sound research gathered here experiments with such possibilities in order to grapple with how present conditions, including conditions for research, are always contingent-always already in trouble-and thus also subject to change both conceptually and materially.
Memories on screen
Between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, L繳cia Maria Murat Vasconcellos was a young middle-class woman from Rio de Janeiro and a university student involved in armed resistance against the regime. Having lived underground and been arrested by agents of political repression, her personal story is marked by the hardships suffered by part of the Brazilian left under the dictatorship. Today she has a well-established career in Brazilian cinema, in which she does not shy away from tackling intimate and sensitive themes that relate to her experiences and to this dark period in national history. These are the questions that permeate this book, which is the result of my monograph, defended at the History Institute of the Federal University of Uberl璽ndia (UFU) in 2016, to obtain my bachelor's and licentiate's degrees in History, under the guidance of Professor Dr M繫nica Brincalepe Campo.
The Hyperorchestra
This book studies the "hyperorchestra" as used in music for the screen and draws from the intersection of practice and theory. The term hyperorchestra derives from hyperreality, a postmodern philosophical concept coined by Jean Baudrillard. The hyperorchestra is a virtual ensemble that inhabits hyperreality. It approaches music spectrally with the aim of becoming a more effective vessel for meaning generation. The book is informed by concepts from postmodern philosophy, such as hyperreality and Marshall McLuhan's theory of media. The book is also informed by the author's own compositional practice; it describes contemporary processes, current software tools, orchestration and instrumentation principles, and contemporary approaches to music composition (such as spectral music). In doing so, the book proposes a new perspective for analyzing contemporary film music that pinpoints the importance of the relationship between timbre, meaning, and the different narrative levels within an audiovisual piece.
The Pocket Miley Cyrus
From Disney darling to daring icon, this book offers an insight into Miley Cyrus's unforgettable and outrageous life and career.Famed singer, songwriter and actor Miley Ray Cyrus is without question pop royalty. Having begun her career as the beloved Hannah Montana on Disney Channel, the singer has created an extensive discography, comprised of chart-topping hits such as 'The Climb', 'Wrecking Ball' and 'Flowers', to name a few.This unofficial and unauthorized pocketbook is a must-have for avid fans of the child-star-turned-global-icon, containing facts and stats on her Tennessee roots, her albums, tours and artistic collabs - not to mention Miley's heartbreak, controversial moments and empowering persona.Gemini PocketsFrom little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.
The Pocket Bob Marley
A celebration of the reggae musician's career and legacy.From lead singer and guitarist of the Wailers, to his international solo success in the 1970s, Bob Marley is largely credited with the popularization of Reggae music worldwide. Having died in 1981, Marley's legacy is clearly evident within society today, and the recent biopic, One Love (2024), achieved widespread success.With the current influx of Gen Z fans, as well as lifelong followers, this unofficial and unauthorized book celebrates the career of the 1978 United Nations Peace Medal winner and features facts about his life and background, discography and live shows which have gone down in history.Gemini Pockets From little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.
Rick's # Eleven Song Book
As a Canadian songwriter, I present original songs in all genre for the amateur and professional musician. For those singers and musicians seeking new material for their repertoire, they may find that potential hit song in one of my many song books. I do hope that musicians of all abilities enjoy the songs I have to offer.
Moonshine Music and Ghosts
A Journey of Grit, Music, and the SupernaturalStep into the world of Tony-a man whose life reads like a country-rock ballad fused with spine-tingling ghost stories. In Moonshine, Music, and Ghosts, Tony takes you on a ride through the backwoods of Alabama, where moonshine ran like water and every story carried the grit of survival and rebellion.From the humble beginnings in a family steeped in the moonshine trade, to the bright lights of Midwest dance halls where his music ignited crowds, Tony's life has been a symphony of adventure, hardship, and triumph. His journey is a vivid testament to the human spirit, whether he's rocking the stage with his bands Wanted and Natchez Trace, or facing a life-altering accident that threatened to silence his music forever.But there's more to this story. Alongside the heartwarming tales of family and friendship, Tony shares chilling encounters with ghosts that blur the boundary between this world and the next, offering a supernatural twist to an already unforgettable life.Moonshine, Music, and Ghosts will make you laugh, give you chills, and remind you of the enduring spirit that connects us all.
Studies in the Wagnerian Drama
Studies in the Wagnerian Drama, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, and now, through the dedication of Alpha Editions-your trusted book publisher-it's reborn in a fresh, elegant format. We've carefully retyped, redesigned, and improved this book so it's much more than just another title to read. Now you can enjoy clear, easy-to-read pages without any blurry scans or faded text. By choosing this edition, you're investing in more than a book-you're safeguarding a legacy. Your support keeps a remarkable piece of human heritage alive, ensuring its lessons and inspirations continue to resonate well into the future.
Vocal Mastery; Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others
Vocal Mastery; Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others"", constitue un phare dans le monde du livre, comblant le foss矇 entre le pass矇 et le pr矇sent. Autrefois consid矇r矇 parmi les livres anciens, cet ouvrage classique, comme tant de livres anciens et oubli矇s, a fa癟onn矇 notre compr矇hension de la culture et de l'histoire. exemple remarquable de livres d'histoire qui ont influenc矇 des g矇n矇rations, et maintenant, gr璽ce au d矇vouement d'Alpha Editions, votre 矇diteur de livres de confiance, il rena簾t dans un format frais et 矇l矇gant. Nous avons soigneusement retap矇, remani矇 et am矇lior矇 ce livre pour qu'il soit bien plus qu'un simple titre ? lire. Vous pouvez d矇sormais profiter de pages claires et faciles ? lire, sans num矇risation floue ni texte d矇color矇. En choisissant cette 矇dition, vous investissez dans plus qu'un livre: vous sauvegardez un h矇ritage. Votre soutien maintient en vie un morceau remarquable du patrimoine humain, garantissant que ses le癟ons et ses inspirations continuent de r矇sonner dans le futur.
The Voice in Singing
The Voice in Singing, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, and now, through the dedication of Alpha Editions-your trusted book publisher-it's reborn in a fresh, elegant format. We've carefully retyped, redesigned, and improved this book so it's much more than just another title to read. Now you can enjoy clear, easy-to-read pages without any blurry scans or faded text. By choosing this edition, you're investing in more than a book-you're safeguarding a legacy. Your support keeps a remarkable piece of human heritage alive, ensuring its lessons and inspirations continue to resonate well into the future.
The Voice
The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, and now, through the dedication of Alpha Editions-your trusted book publisher-it's reborn in a fresh, elegant format. We've carefully retyped, redesigned, and improved this book so it's much more than just another title to read. Now you can enjoy clear, easy-to-read pages without any blurry scans or faded text. By choosing this edition, you're investing in more than a book-you're safeguarding a legacy. Your support keeps a remarkable piece of human heritage alive, ensuring its lessons and inspirations continue to resonate well into the future.
Voice production in singing and speaking, based on scientific principles
Voice production in singing and speaking, based on scientific principles, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, and now, through the dedication of Alpha Editions-your trusted book publisher-it's reborn in a fresh, elegant format. We've carefully retyped, redesigned, and improved this book so it's much more than just another title to read. Now you can enjoy clear, easy-to-read pages without any blurry scans or faded text. By choosing this edition, you're investing in more than a book-you're safeguarding a legacy. Your support keeps a remarkable piece of human heritage alive, ensuring its lessons and inspirations continue to resonate well into the future.
Studies in Modern Music, Second Series;Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvoř獺k, Johannes Brahms
Studies in Modern Music, Second Series;Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvoř獺k, Johannes Brahms, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, and now, through the dedication of Alpha Editions-your trusted book publisher-it's reborn in a fresh, elegant format. We've carefully retyped, redesigned, and improved this book so it's much more than just another title to read. Now you can enjoy clear, easy-to-read pages without any blurry scans or faded text. By choosing this edition, you're investing in more than a book-you're safeguarding a legacy. Your support keeps a remarkable piece of human heritage alive, ensuring its lessons and inspirations continue to resonate well into the future.
The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music
In both video games and animated films, worlds are constructed through a combination of animation, which defines what players see on the screen, and music and sound, which provide essential cues to action, emotion, and narrative. This book offers a rich exploration of the intersections between animation, video games, and music and sound, bringing together a range of multidisciplinary lenses. In 14 chapters, the contributors consider similarities and differences in how music and sound structure video games and animation, as well as the animation within video games, and explore core topics of nostalgia, adaptation, gender, and sexuality. Offering fresh insights into the aesthetic interplay of animation, video games, and sound, this volume provides a gateway into new areas of study that will be of interest to scholars and students across musicology, animation studies, game studies, and media studies more broadly.
Exploring the Ecologies of Music and Sound
Makis Solomos explores the ecologies of music and sound, inspired by Felix Guattari, for whom environmental destruction caused by capitalism goes hand in hand with deteriorating ways of living and feeling, and for whom an ecosophical stance, combining various ecological registers, offers a glimpse of emancipation, a position strengthened today by intersectional approaches. Solomos explores environmental, mental and social ecologies through the lens of the history of music and current artivisms - especially in the fields of acoustic ecology, contemporary music and sound art. Several theoretical and analytical debates are put forward, including a theory of sound milieus and the biopolitics of sound; the relationships between music and the living world; soundscape compositions, field recording, ecomusicology, and the creation of sound biotopes; the use of sound and music to violent ends as well as considering the social and political functions of music and the autonomy of art, sonic ecofeminism, degrowth in music, and much more.
3D Technology
This monograph explores 3D technology and its key aspects, including 3D modelling and virtual reality. It introduces a novel boundary approach method for creating geometric objects, which serve as the foundation for modelling real or imaginary entities using a 3D modelling program. The book details fundamental primitives, transformations, and visualization techniques essential for processing, combining, and crafting diverse and realistic 3D objects and scenes. Programming codes are included to provide a comprehensive understanding of these concepts. The 3D objects generated through the newly introduced stereoscopic system have applications in fields such as stereometry training, advanced 3D game development, and the study of cardiac health using virtual reality.
Mahler's Symphonic World
A new analysis of Mahler's symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing the world. Between 1888 and 1909 Gustav Mahler completed nine symphonies and the orchestral song cycle Das Lied von der Erde; his tenth symphony was left incomplete at his death in 1911. Mahler's Symphonic World provocatively suggests that over his lifetime, the composer pursued a single vision and a single, ideal symphony that strived to capture his personal outlook on human existence. Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, when all trust in firm philosophical and spiritual foundations had evaporated, Mahler's music reflected a deep preoccupation with human suffering and transience and a search for sources of possible consolation. In Karol Berger's reading, each of the symphonies follows a similar trajectory, with an opening quest leading to the final unveiling of a transcendent, consolatory vision. By juxtaposing single movements--the opening Allegros, the middle movements, the Finales--across different works, Berger traces recurring plotlines and imagery and discloses the works' multiple interrelationships as well as their cohesiveness around a central idea. Ultimately, Mahler's Symphonic World locates Mahler's music within the matrix of intellectual currents that defined his epoch and offers a revelatory picture of his musical way of being in the world.
A Revolution in Music
Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concr癡te. ?velyne Gayou--herself a researcher, composer, and producer at the GRM--tells the history of the storied institution through the people, works, technologies, and research developed there. Placing musique concr癡te within a broad historical context extending from the early twentieth-century avant-garde's experiments with noise to the development of techniques in sound recording (at the Studio d'Essai in the 1940s) and later in sound synthesis, Gayou shows how recording technology made it possible for composers to not only create music from sounds in the world around them but also create acousmatic music--novel sounds without a visible connection to their source. Available in English translation for the first time, this updated edition will be an important resource for readers interested in the pioneering works and techniques of Schaeffer and his contemporaries, as well as their influence on the makers of new music and the contemporary avant-garde.
Narratives of teachers who teach maths in the municipality of Arari
In this book, the author aims to identify how the process of training maths teachers is constituted in the state of Maranh瓊o, with a focus on the municipality of Arari. The historical framework used is the implementation of the National Education Guidelines and Bases Law - LDBEN, Law No. 9.394/96. The research used the theoretical framework of Oral History as a qualitative research methodology. The oral narratives were based on interviews with teachers from the public school system in the municipality. The following procedures were adopted in the process of creating the oral sources: drawing up the interview script, conducting recorded interviews, transcribing and textualising the interviews and obtaining a letter of assignment. The script contained questions about the initial training of maths teachers, so as to enable them to revisit memories of their initial training. However, some changes were necessary as one of the teacher's answers prompted other questions. From the analysis of the narratives, the conditions of initial training and experiences in teaching stand out.
Physical disability
This research identified that the main barriers to learning for physically disabled students are: physical, attitudinal and communication, because many schools still don't have adapted physical structures and professionals trained to deal with different disabilities. It was noted that there is a need to adapt the academic environment to overcome the barriers that interfere with the teaching-learning process of physically disabled students, such as: building access ramps, wheelchair-accessible toilets, hiring Libras and Braille teachers, reducing prejudice and assistive media. The descriptive research used a questionnaire, mediated by an interview, as a data collection tool. It was noted that the failure to provide conditions for access, permanence, success and guaranteeing quality standards in this process has an impact on learning difficulties, low grades and the interaction process of these students. This work served as a guide for eliminating physical, attitudinal and communication barriers to learning for the physically disabled.
Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 1
This Element offers a critical analysis of the history of Elliott Carter's String Quartet No. 1 and the composer's rise to public acclaim, not through the study of the work itself but through intriguing and captivating narratives that surround this quartet and their socio-cultural-political context, which led Carter to become one of the most dominant voices in the post-1945 American music scene. Carter's road to success was meticulously paved by powerful institutions and individuals, including critics, scholars, festival and radio programming directors, and the US government, for whom, in the context of the Cold War, Carter was chosen to represent an exemplary American triumphant story. The author argues that it is not the quartet itself that contributed to Carter's reception and legacy, but the inextricable narratives that we associate with this work.
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
You could consider Kate Bush's The Dreaming to be her finest moment, depending on whether you value the rejection of compromise and see that as a sign of authenticity. Or, you may see her Hounds of Love - equal-parts artful and accessible - as the benchmark for artistic integrity meeting commercial success: a slippery and completely unpredictable schizoid beast at the best of times. As much as The Dreaming seems to be viewed as Bush's most difficult record to consume, it's easy to forget that it was a top 20 album in multiple countries. In reality, it has a beautiful simplicity, if only for its intention to exist for its own sake - as they say, 'It is what it is', and the rest is up to the listener. And what it is, is perhaps one of rock's most pure examples of a musician doing their thing, simultaneously (and conveniently) operating at the top of their game, and not sweating the resulting views of others. That recipe transcends genre, and even field itself. Ultimately, The Dreaming is just art - music, yes, but I suggest it crosses the line into sculpture. You can walk around it, try to decipher it, and still be stumped. Isn't that how art is supposed to be?
Rush 1973 to 1982
Rush. In their own words, 'The World's Biggest Cult Band', started from humble beginnings: three suburban teenagers. Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and John Rutsey formed a Led Zeppelin-influenced trio, eventually scratching a living playing the bars and clubs of their native Toronto. A hard work ethic, no small amount of talent, and a slice of good fortune enabled their first, self-financed and distributed album to gain a foothold in the American market. And then, on the eve of their first American tour, drummer Rutsey quit. Fortune smiled on them again when auditions for a replacement shed builder produced Neil Peart, who could not only drum like a demon but was adept at lyric writing. Sharing a love of the then emerging progressive rock scene, the trio embarked on crafting a series of albums from the 'second' debut, Fly By Night, to the career-defining and best-selling masterpiece Moving Pictures; records which would secure them a permanent place in the rock hierarchy. This book reviews all these albums up to Signals, their 1982 release, which saw the band embracing keyboard technology and severing their connections with long-time producer Terry Brown, the unofficial fourth member of the trio.
Camilla
NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS Camilla: A Tale Of A Violin. Being The Artist Life Of Camilla Urso. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a fresh and newly reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.
Elvis: The King of Fashion
A marvel and celebration that contains interviews of those intimately involved in the legacy of an intensely shy and disadvantaged boy from the wrong side of Tupelo, Mississippi who went on to become one of the most idolized and imitated solo performer of all time.A highly engaging homage to the iconic style of Elvis Presley, who shook up the world of music and fashion, triggering a cultural revolution that stopped 1950s America in its tracks.Born into poverty, his voice of liquid gold and show-stopping appearance propelled him into a life of extreme wealth.Elvis's extraordinary story - told through a fashion lens - celebrates the shy, lonely boy who awakened an entire generation to forbidden fruit.The defiant hair, the sultry good looks, the gender-ambivalent outfits - even the famous sideburns of the man who would be King - are all considered in loving detail.From impoverished scamp and teenage antihero in pink, through Hollywood heartthrob and sensual leather-clad rock star, to caped superhero in Vegas jumpsuits, the author describes his clothes with as much joy as she does his journey through the decades.A contemporary take on the evolution of Elvis the Showman, featuring interviews with people who knew, met and dressed him, and analysis of the 2022 hit movie, Elvis.A rags-to-riches tale, forged in the hardship and music of the poor South, it personifies the American Dream, retold with style by an author raised on Elvis's songs and movies and who walked in his shoes through Memphis to discover they really were two-toned.Set in a fascinating period in time, it looks at his powerful legacy, preserved by his devoted fans, and the films and tributes still being produced in his honour today.
We Take Care of Our Own
We Take Care of Our Own traces the evolution of Bruce Springsteen's beliefs, beginning with his New Jersey childhood and ending with his most recent works from Springsteen on Broadway to Letter to You. The author follows the singer's life, examining his albums and a variety of influences (both musical and nonmusical), especially his Catholic upbringing and his family life, to show how he became an outspoken icon for working-class America--indeed for working-class life throughout the world. In this way, the author emphasizes the universality of Springsteen's canon and depicts how a working-class sensibility can apply to anyone anywhere who believes in fairness and respect. In addition, the author places Springsteen in the historical context not only of literature (especially John Steinbeck) but also of the art world (specifically the work of Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper). Among the themes explored in the book include community, a sense of place, America as the Promised Land, the myth of the West, and, ultimately, mortality.
A Music of Stormy Cs
This collection of compositions by David Petersen offers a diverse and captivating musical journey. From the delicate lyricism of "A Gentle Everest" to the breathtaking virtuosity of "Horseback", these works challenge performers to explore the full range of expression and technical prowess on their instruments. Whether for piano, strings, winds, or voice, each piece weaves intricate harmonies and rhythms that both delight the listener and inspire the musician. Petersen's compositional voice is at once innovative and rooted in classical tradition, creating a dynamic interplay of the familiar and the unexpected. Performers and audiences alike will be transported by the emotional depth and intellectual rigor inherent in these compelling additions to the contemporary repertoire.
The Military Band and the Musical Organization of an Army
Following the victory of the band of the Prussian Guards at the 1867 European Military Band Competition in Paris, Wilhelm Wieprecht, the director of all the music of the Royal Prussian Guard Corps, promised Emperor Napoleon III of France that he would write him a detailed memorandum on the purposes and organisation of military music. Repeated illness and official matters prevented Wieprecht from presenting this memorandum to the Emperor in person, and finally the Franco-German war made it impossible. The memorandum was eventually published after Wieprecht's death in 1872. This work contains Wieprecht's detailed instructions for the instrumentation of all military bands, as well as the roles and responsibilities of the conductors and musicians.
Tales from the Flipside
In 2007 Mark Devlin self-published his first ever book. Having since become eclipsed by his 'Musical Truth' series and his allegorical novels, it remains something of a "lost" or "forgotten" work.The book stood as a compendium of anecdotes about life as a full-time travelling DJ, delivered with wry humour throughout. It was written, however, in a time before he had undergone any semblance of a "conscious awakening." As such, it stands as a fascinating glimpse into a mindset still conditioned by mainstream ways of seeing the world.Here, the book is presented in its original form, but with a new foreword from the author, and with new footnotes throughout.
Original Pirate Material
With his debut album Original Pirate Material (2002), Mike Skinner, who recorded under the name The Streets, combined the world of UK dance music with US hip-hop. OPM is the result of the so-called 'bedroom producer', hybridizing previous forms into something novel. This Element explores a number of themes in this album: white masculinity, the everyday, technology, sampling, hybridity, the Black Atlantic, and US-UK transatlantic relations. It examines the exoticism of Englishness from a US perspective as well as within the wider context of Anglo-American cross influence in post-WWII popular music. Twenty years since the album's release, this element provides an investigation of the album's content and reception, as an important case study of (postcolonial) hybridity and (English, male) identity.
Opera in Warsaw
A microcosm of busy operatic life during the reign of the enlightened King Stanislaw August Poniatowski (r. 1764-95), Warsaw reveals complex processes and entanglements affecting dissemination of opera in the late eighteenth century. To the fun-loving city torn by whimsical contradictions, imported as well as domestic opera provided attractive and increasingly accessible urban entertainment, while also serving important utilitarian functions prescribed by local initiatives. Warsaw's participation in transnational circulations of works and performers encompasses both ideological and pragmatic factors that had far-reaching consequences not only for the city itself but also for Europe's shared cultural space.
Original Pirate Material
With his debut album Original Pirate Material (2002), Mike Skinner, who recorded under the name The Streets, combined the world of UK dance music with US hip-hop. OPM is the result of the so-called 'bedroom producer', hybridizing previous forms into something novel. This Element explores a number of themes in this album: white masculinity, the everyday, technology, sampling, hybridity, the Black Atlantic, and US-UK transatlantic relations. It examines the exoticism of Englishness from a US perspective as well as within the wider context of Anglo-American cross influence in post-WWII popular music. Twenty years since the album's release, this element provides an investigation of the album's content and reception, as an important case study of (postcolonial) hybridity and (English, male) identity.
Singing Zarzuela, 1896-1958
In the last few years, digitizations and reissues of historical recordings of Spanish zarzuela - from wax cylinders in the 1890s to long-play records in the 1950s - have revealed a range of contrasting vocal performance styles. By focusing on portamento, this Element sets the foundations for a contextually sensitive history of vocal performance practices in zarzuela. It takes stock of technological changes and shifts in commercial strategies and listening habits to reveal what the recorded evidence tells us about the historical development of portamento practices and considers how these findings can allow us to reconstruct the expressive code of zarzuela as it was performed in the late nineteenth century and how it transformed itself throughout the next half century. These transformations are contextualized alongside other changes, including the make-up of audiences, the discourses about the genre's connection to national identity and the influence of other musical-theatrical genres and languages.
Singing Zarzuela, 1896-1958
In the last few years, digitizations and reissues of historical recordings of Spanish zarzuela - from wax cylinders in the 1890s to long-play records in the 1950s - have revealed a range of contrasting vocal performance styles. By focusing on portamento, this Element sets the foundations for a contextually sensitive history of vocal performance practices in zarzuela. It takes stock of technological changes and shifts in commercial strategies and listening habits to reveal what the recorded evidence tells us about the historical development of portamento practices and considers how these findings can allow us to reconstruct the expressive code of zarzuela as it was performed in the late nineteenth century and how it transformed itself throughout the next half century. These transformations are contextualized alongside other changes, including the make-up of audiences, the discourses about the genre's connection to national identity and the influence of other musical-theatrical genres and languages.
Opera in Warsaw
A microcosm of busy operatic life during the reign of the enlightened King Stanislaw August Poniatowski (r. 1764-95), Warsaw reveals complex processes and entanglements affecting dissemination of opera in the late eighteenth century. To the fun-loving city torn by whimsical contradictions, imported as well as domestic opera provided attractive and increasingly accessible urban entertainment, while also serving important utilitarian functions prescribed by local initiatives. Warsaw's participation in transnational circulations of works and performers encompasses both ideological and pragmatic factors that had far-reaching consequences not only for the city itself but also for Europe's shared cultural space.
DIL Chahta Hai Soundtrack
The 2001 buddy film Dil Chahta Hai (dir. Farhan Akhtar), had arguably the first rock soundtrack in Bollywood. The award-winning soundtrack is an entry point into the relationship between Bollywood film songs, Hindi language music, and the Indi-pop movement of the '80s and '90s. Beaster-Jones draws from reviews by music critics and fans, industry interviews, and his own close analysis of the music and the film to trace the role of the Dil Chahta Hai soundtrack in transforming both the sound and production practices of Bollywood cinema in the new millennium. These songs emerged from the rock band and live performance aesthetic of writing trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Their collaborative compositional approach for this soundtracks and later soundtracks reveals the changing tastes of India's urban youth audiences and how that taste fueled the rise of the rockstar narrative in Hindi films. The music for this soundtrack was the second Bollywood soundtrack composed by the superstar trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (i.e. Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonsa), with lyrics penned by the inimitable Javed Akhtar. The songs from this soundtrack paved the way for the rock and EDM-oriented compositions of Hindi-language cinema that came to dominate the first decades of the 21st century, making Dil Chahta Hai among the most influential soundtracks in Indian cinematic history.
A Year In The Country
Lost Transmissions weaves amongst brambled pathways to take in the haunted soundscapes of electronica, the rise of the occult in the 1970s, cinema and television's dystopian dreamscapes and hauntological work which creates and gives a glimpse into parallel worlds. It is a recording of a personal journey that delves amongst both the esoteric fringes and mainstream of culture, and which at times holds a shadowed scrying mirror up to the modern world and some of its ills, while also reflecting visions of a hopeful future in its depths. Alongside other experimenters in electronic sound the book explores Boards of Canada's invoking of "the past inside the present"; Paul Weller's visiting of Ghost Box Records' elsewhere universe; work by Cosey Fanni Tutti, Hannah Peel and the reformed Radiophonic Workshop, and their collaborations across time with electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire; Dominik Scherrer and Natasha Khan's summoning of "pastoral spook" via a hidden language of angels; and takes a trip in the company of fairground and rural ghosts conjured up on records released by Castles in Space. Alongside these it examines the paranormal and "worlds beyond" via the semi-lost supernatural-orientated television series Leap in the Dark which included work by Alan Garner and David Rudkin, Sharron Kraus' contemporary investigations into the preternatural and the conjuring of modern-day phantasms in Luciana Haill's artwork. The book also includes an intertwined consideration of the "deluxe dystopias" that can be found in films such as Rollerball and Andrew Niccol's Gattaca and prescient views of the future's past & media collusion in film and television including Nigel Kneale's work and the overlooked corners of science fiction. * * * Book chapters: Leap in the Dark, Alan Garner, David Rudkin, Fay Weldon and Russell Hoban: The Rise of the Paranormal 77 Posters/77 Plakatow, Quest for Love & The Man Who Haunted Himself: The Phantasmagoric World of Polish Film Posters and Other Celluloid Alternate Realities Boards of Canada: The Past Inside the Present Andrew Niccol's Gattaca, In Time and Anon: Striving for the Stars and Tales of Near Tomorrows Andy Votel's Styles of the Unexpected & Bridge and Tunnel: Revisiting Hauntological Precursors Rollerball, Three Days of the Condor and The Anderson Tapes: Deluxe Dystopias and the Cinema of Paranoia Paul Weller's In Another Room & Broadcast: Psychedelic Reimaginings & Signposts Towards Ghost Box Records' Elsewhere Universe Luciana Haill's Apparitions: A Modern-Day Conjuring of Dreamlands Burial: Spectres of Spectres Awash in a Landscape of Static Death Watch, The Vision, The Year of the Sex Olympics & Network: Prescient Views of the Future's Past The Heartwood Institute's Tomorrow's People: Exploring Far Off Utopian Flipsides Delia Derbyshire, Caroline Katz, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Hannah Peel, The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, The Radiophonic Workshop & Drew Mulholland: Forging Bridges Across Time Michael Radford's 1984: Searching for a Last Inch of Space Castles in Space, Nick Taylor, Pulselovers, Keith Seatman & Dave Clarkson: Otherly Geometries & Ghosts of the Seaside Dominik Scherrer & Natasha Khan's Soundtrack for Requiem: The Unexpected Appearance of the Language of Angels Sharron Kraus' Preternatural Investigations, Simon Reynolds' "Haunted Audio" and Oliver Assayas' Personal Shopper: Journeys on the Edge of Knowing * * * The book is released as part of the A Year In The Country project, which explores wyrd rural & folk culture, the hidden tales of the land & where they intertwine with the parallel wo
Clump-A-Dump and Snickle-Snack
What is it about the pentatonic scale that children like so much? It's always harmonious, therefore it always sounds good and adds to the fun.Gnomes, fairies, sylphs, sprites, and all the "people" in a child's world animate these 42 pentatonic songs for young children aged 4 years and older.
Performing by the Book?
To perform a musical score implies the transformation of a symbolically coded text into vibrant sound. In Performing by the Book? a carefully selected cadre of artist-researchers dissects this delicate act in critical ways. Offering first-hand insights into the notational, structural and interpretative challenges faced by musicians in dealing with texts of all kinds, the chapters traverse the spectrum between the Middle Ages and the age of Stockhausen. In a harmonious blend of scholarly allure and individual artistry, free from academic obfuscation, the contributors keep a keen eye on the limits of interpretation, both in terms of the interpretative process itself and of the balance between textual faithfulness and artistic autonomy. This comprehensive volume is an indispensable guide for everyone interested in the relationship between musical performance and texts.Contributing authors: Niels Berentsen (Haute 矇cole de musique de Gen癡ve-Neuch璽tel (HES-SO) / conductor of Diskantores), Bj繹rn Schmelzer (artistic director of Graindelavoix / independent researcher), Jonathan Ayerst (freelance organist and improviser), Elizabeth Dobbin (Le Jardin Secret / Haute 矇cole de musique de Gen癡ve (HES-SO)), Camilla K繹hnken (freelance pianist-researcher / Bern Academy of the Arts), George Kennaway (cellist, conductor, teacher, publisher and musicologist / University of Leeds), Kate Bennett Wadsworth (cellist / Guildhall School of Music and Drama), Nir Cohen-Shalit (conductor and independent researcher), Xiangning Lin (pianist / Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore), Clare Lesser (independent performer, musicologist and composer).
Blues Soloing For Guitar, Volume 2
Volume 2 in the blues guitar book series gives you everything you need to know to play smokin' blues guitar. Packed with blues guitar licks and solos, essential blues guitar techniques, scales, and chords demonstrating some more advanced blues guitar concepts.With video lessons, backing tracks and audio demo tracks included, Blues Soloing for Guitar, Volume 2 is the perfect blues guitar book for intermediate level blues guitar players or beginner players who have completed Volume 1 in the series: Blues Basics.A complete blues guitar method book for intermediate guitar players who want to go beyond the basics of electric blues guitar and study some more advanced conceptsMaster the blues guitar techniques, licks and solos you need to sound like an authentic blues player. Taught step-by-step using 100% confusion-free language and with simple explanationsSee all the blues licks and solos demonstrated up close with the dedicated website featuring video lessons and easy to follow demonstrations at multiple speedsNo music reading necessary: guitar tab, chord and fretboard diagrams make it easy to learn even if you can't read musicDownloadable 'play-along' audio practice tracks and blues backing tracksBlues Soloing for Guitar, Volume 2 gives you a complete course for building on the basics of blues guitar. You'll learn: The 12 bar minor blues form plus variationsMinor blues soloing and chord shapesOpen string blues scales, Texas blues licks, jazz style blues licks ('jump blues' style) and moreComplete blues solos in the styles of BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, T-Bone Walker, Albert King and other blues legends, complete with a lick-by-lick breakdownString bending, blues curls, vibrato, mixing major and minor sounds and other important blues techniques and approachesHow to apply basic jazz concepts to your blues soloing (chord tones, 'minor 6' pentatonic etc.)How to jam and improvise your own tasty blues licks and solos (with my blues 'power moves' method)This book is perfect for you if: You want a blues guitar course for learning intermediate blues concepts without it being confusing and taking you yearsYou want to play cool blues solos using a range of blues licks, techniques and approachesYou are an intermediate blues guitar player who wants to brush up your skills, learn new techniques and build up your vocabulary of blues licksYou want to feel more confident when you step up to play blues in your band or at a jam sessionYou're fed up of trawling through millions of YouTube guitar lessons and want a proven, easy to use method to follow which will get you resultsSo if you're ready to take your blues playing to a new level, then I'm looking forward to seeing you in Blues Soloing for Guitar, Volume 2: Levelling Up
Hallelujah
Having sung as a first tenor in the Royal Choral Society for 38 years Graham Lenton gives his personal memories of all that is entailed in a commitment for singing with a top London choir. Driving from his home, firstly from Buckinghamshire and later from Oxfordshire, a total drive of around 125,000 miles was made over the duration of his membership for 38 years, plus 700 rail journeys; every minute and mile worth it for the joy of singing and making music. Weekly rehearsals, concerts in many venues including many cathedrals in England and Europe, tours abroad in USA, France, Portugal, Slovakia, Malta, Poland, Germany, all feature in his recollections. Stories about concerts, soloists, conductors, recording studios, TV broadcasts and overseas tours all add to a colourful kaleidoscope of memorable markers in his life, as a tenor in one of London's major choirs. Having had no formal training, music was part of his life for over 60 years.
Roxy Music
In ten short years, Roxy Music made two of the most experimental albums in popular music history and one of the most smoothly romantic. Conceived by Bryan Ferry at the turn of the 1970s, the band released its first album, Roxy Music, to wide acclaim in 1972 and swiftly followed up with the ground-breaking single 'Virginia Plain'. Ferry, Andy Mackay, and Phil Manzanera remained Roxy's core players over seven more albums, in three distinct phases. The debut and For Your Pleasure (1973) featured all manner of electronic weirdness from Brian Eno, while Stranded (1973), Country Life (1974), and Siren (1975) marked the peak of Ferry's songwriting and struck a delicate balance between edgy art and gorgeous craft. Finally, Manifesto (1979), Flesh + Blood (1980), and Avalon (1982), the last two without powerhouse founding drummer Paul Thompson, framed Ferry's tales of doomed romance within a sophisticated wash of sound that used the studio itself as an instrument. The members of Roxy Music have had long and distinguished careers outside the band, but nothing can surpass the eight albums they made together. This book tells the musical story of this most enigmatic of British bands.
Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll
Dury always met life head on, both in his relationships and in his music. As rocker, lyricist, artist and actor he was unsentimental and uncompromising. As a man he was harder to fathom - until now.This acclaimed biography shines a light on it all, chronicling his darker moments as well as his triumphs.Author Richard Balls talked to more than fifty of Dury's friends, as well as to Dury himself shortly before his death. This remastered edition includes the continuing success of The Blockheads and tells the inside story of the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, a foreword by Martin Freeman and an afterword from Andy Serkis.There are vivid insights into harsh post-war schools for disabled children, the fifties art school scene and the ramshackle pub rock circuit, plus a mixed bag of celebrities from Peter Blake to Omar Sharif.
Diagnostic Jaw Model
The research data on all major sections of dentistry with the use of diagnostic models are presented in detail. The indications and principles of using dental diagnostic models are defined and clarified. The necessity of such improvements, implementation and use is caused by the great interest to this problem due to their wide diagnostic, prognostic and practical possibilities.Attention is paid to medical, deontological and legal problems, as well as many other aspects arising from the use of diagnostic jaw models.
The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin
This book transforms our understanding of a fifteenth-century musical revolution. Renaissance composers developed fresh ways of handling musical flow in pursuit of intensifications, unexpected explosions, dramatic pauses, and sudden evaporations. A new esthetics of opposition, as this study calls it, can be contrasted with smoother and less goal-oriented approaches in music from before - and after - the period ca. 1425-1520. Casting wide evidentiary and repertorial nets, the book reinterprets central genres, theoretical concepts, historical documents, famous pieces, and periodizations; a provocative concluding chapter suggests that we moderns have tended to conceal the period's musical poetics by neglecting central evidence. Above all the book introduces an analytical approach sensitive to musical flow and invites new ways of hearing, performing, and thinking about music from Du Fay to Josquin.
The perception of relatives of ICU patients about communication
The object of this study is 'The perception of relatives of patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) about the process of communication with the nursing team'. In common sense, the ICU environment is characterised by being cold, dark, noisy and not very welcoming, where users' first contact with this environment can cause fear, but it is the only high-tech environment that can provide adequate care for cases of serious complexity, and with good communication, it can transform the fear felt into hope. To guide this work, we set out to answer the following question: What is the perception of the relatives of ICU patients about the communication process with the nursing team? In order to answer this question, we set ourselves the following objective: To describe the perception of the relatives of ICU patients about the communication process with the nursing team.
