scholarly journals Having a Ball With the Sphere

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-100
Author(s):  
Dirk Johan Stromberg ◽  
Robert Casteels
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
Musical Works

Robert Casteels has composed a growing corpus of more than 100 musical works cross cultures, genres and disciplines. These range from miniature to large-scale works in the European tradition, as well as multidisciplinary works which combine European, Chinese and Indian instruments, as well as the gamelan, together with computer-generated sound and images. Instances of space for creative interaction between the performers in these compositions have been far and few between. The work, time:space:, has unveiled new possibilities for interaction and a blurring the line between performer and composer creating an artistic interconnectivity and interdependency.

Marga Richter

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Mirchandani
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Chamber Ensemble ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
American Composer

This is the first full-length introduction to the life and works of American composer Marga Richter (born 1926), who has written more than a hundred works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, dance, opera, voice, chorus, piano, organ, and harpsichord. Still actively composing in her eighties, Richter is particularly known for her large-scale pieces performed by ensembles such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and for other pieces performed by prominent artists including pianist Menahem Pressler, conductor Izler Solomon, and violinist Daniel Heifetz. Interspersing consideration of Richter's musical works with discussion of her life, her musical style, and the origins and performances of her works, the book documents a successful composer's professional and private life throughout the twentieth century. The book covers Richter's formative years, her influences, and the phases of her career from the 1950s to the present. Drawing extensively on interviews with Richter herself, the book also provides detailed descriptions of Richter's scores and uses reviews and other secondary sources to provide contexts for her compositions, including their relationship to modern dance, to other musical styles, and to 1970s feminism.

scholarly journals The Requiem Mass and Sacred Jazz: A Study of catholic Liturgical Forms in the Genre of Sacred Jazz

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
John White
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Jazz Orchestra ◽  
Jazz Composition ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Concert Works ◽  
Requiem Mass ◽  
Musical Forms

<p>This exegesis examines the role of religious and spiritual influence on works by jazz composers as related to my composition, Requiem: a Suite of Jazz Orchestra, a jazz suite based on the Requiem Mass. The exegesis details the Catholic origins of the Requiem and the Mass as musical forms and traces their lineages into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as concert works and memorials not bound by liturgical function. These forms and their lineages frame the development of both religious and religion-inspired musical works in the cultural climate of 1960s America. In particular, I focus on two composers, Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington, both of whom composed large-scale sacred works related to the jazz idiom. This project situates religion, primarily Catholicism, and spirituality in the context of jazz composition, and discusses music composed in this vein, including my own work influenced by the Catholic liturgical tradition.</p>

scholarly journals The Milan edict and the European tradition of scientific substantiation of the norms of religious freedom and tolerance

2013 ◽  
pp. 67-68
Author(s):  
Valeriy Klymov
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Religious Persecution ◽  
Religious Wars ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
Scientific Substantiation

The Milan Edict (313), the Nuntian Edict (1598) and its abolition (1685), the Declaration of Tolerance (1689), adopted in England, became peculiar milestones, which reflected the concern of secular and religious-ecclesiastical authorities with large-scale and long-standing religious conflicts that from time to time grew into religious wars that destabilized states and societies. The abolition of the Nantes' edict, in particular, which at one time tried to consolidate certain rules of tolerance, equality of religious beliefs, signaled a new surge of religious persecution in France and other countries, the introduction of repressive and discriminatory measures in the religious sphere.

"Quelque peu thééââtral": The Operatic Coronation of Charles X

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Walton
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
French History ◽  
Historical Drama ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Dramatic Performance ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Revolution

The intersection of politics and spectacle has a long tradition in French history, from Louis XIV's Versailles to the streets of revolutionary Paris. As a result, Chateaubriand's criticism of the coronation of Charles X in May 1825 as theatrical may at first seem unremarkable. His description of the occasion as a dramatic performance rather than a real event, however, deserves closer examination. In line with Chateaubriand, this article suggests that the anachronistic final Bourbon coronation can best be understood, at the most literal level, as an opera, with music, resplendent costumes, dashes of orientalism (the envoy for the Bey of Tunis provoked much interest), hired claqueurs, and the whole of Rheims turned into a stage set. Conversely, the coronation's reliance on operatic props and aesthetics can shed light on the dramatic crisis that led to the appearance of grand opééra. The largest piece written to celebrate the coronation, the multianchored Pharamond, was performed at the Paris Opééra, but failed to command either critical or popular acclaim, in contrast with Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims at the Thééââtre Italien. Yet Pharamond's troubled negotiation between the demands of historical drama and celebratory Pièèce de circonstance mirrors the logic that underpinned the planning of the coronation: a desire to invoke the authority of French history while bypassing unresolved memories of the Revolution and the Empire. Ultimately, the failure of Pharamond and its selective appropriation of history offer a productive mode for understanding the connections between opera, ceremonial language, and historical precedent, as well as those between musical works and large-scale political events.

A Statistical Approach to Tracing the Historical Development of Major and Minor Pitch Distributions, 1400-1750

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Albrecht ◽  
David Huron
Keyword(s):  
Arbitrary Number ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Cluster Analyses ◽  
Modified Method ◽  
Large Scale Study ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Statistical Studies ◽  
Over Time

A large-scale study is reported whose purpose was to elucidate the historical development of the European major and minor modes. The study involved 455 musical works by 259 composers sampled across the years 1400 to 1750. Beginning with the period 1700-1750, a series of statistical studies was carried out on the distribution of scale tones, progressively moving backward in time. The method utilized a modified method of key determination – generalized to handle an arbitrary number of modal classifications. The results from cluster analyses on this data are consistent with the view that the modern major and minor modes have changed over time and were preceded by a system in which there were more than just two modes.

The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in the British West Indies

1967 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger D. Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New World ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Modifying Factors ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
Field Workers

Most of the countries in the New World were created by economically motivated European colonizers who invaded this hemisphere and defeated the resident populations. The dominant cultural life of these areas is based on the institutions, values and expressions carried by these seekers after empire, as modified by conditions and cultures encountered in the new lands. This is as true of the West Indies as it is of the various larger regions of the two Americas, but the modifying factors are more numerous in these small Caribbean islands. Rarely is there just one European tradition affecting the culture of each of these islands; as European possessions during this era of large-scale wars in Europe, most of them changed hands repeatedly. More important, the establishment of the plantation system and the resultant waves of imported field workers from alien, non-European societies created a cultural conglomerate of incredible variety.

scholarly journals The Requiem Mass and Sacred Jazz: A Study of catholic Liturgical Forms in the Genre of Sacred Jazz

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
John White
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Jazz Orchestra ◽  
Jazz Composition ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Concert Works ◽  
Requiem Mass ◽  
Musical Forms

<p>This exegesis examines the role of religious and spiritual influence on works by jazz composers as related to my composition, Requiem: a Suite of Jazz Orchestra, a jazz suite based on the Requiem Mass. The exegesis details the Catholic origins of the Requiem and the Mass as musical forms and traces their lineages into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as concert works and memorials not bound by liturgical function. These forms and their lineages frame the development of both religious and religion-inspired musical works in the cultural climate of 1960s America. In particular, I focus on two composers, Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington, both of whom composed large-scale sacred works related to the jazz idiom. This project situates religion, primarily Catholicism, and spirituality in the context of jazz composition, and discusses music composed in this vein, including my own work influenced by the Catholic liturgical tradition.</p>

Some comments about observations and image processing of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
D. Kubáček ◽  
A. Galád ◽  
A. Pravda
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Harvard College ◽  
Oak Ridge ◽  
Large Scale Structures ◽  
Short Period Comet ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Scale Structures ◽  
Harvard College Observatory ◽  
Period Comet

AbstractUnusual short-period comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 inspired many observers to explain its unpredictable outbursts. In this paper large scale structures and features from the inner part of the coma in time periods around outbursts are studied. CCD images were taken at Whipple Observatory, Mt. Hopkins, in 1989 and at Astronomical Observatory, Modra, from 1995 to 1998. Photographic plates of the comet were taken at Harvard College Observatory, Oak Ridge, from 1974 to 1982. The latter were digitized at first to apply the same techniques of image processing for optimizing the visibility of features in the coma during outbursts. Outbursts and coma structures show various shapes.

Evolution of Large-Scale Coronal Structures

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
P. Ambrož
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Field Line ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Coronal Magnetic Field ◽  
Source Surface ◽  
Solar Cycles ◽  
Characteristic Relationship ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Coronal Structures

AbstractThe large-scale coronal structures observed during the sporadically visible solar eclipses were compared with the numerically extrapolated field-line structures of coronal magnetic field. A characteristic relationship between the observed structures of coronal plasma and the magnetic field line configurations was determined. The long-term evolution of large scale coronal structures inferred from photospheric magnetic observations in the course of 11- and 22-year solar cycles is described.Some known parameters, such as the source surface radius, or coronal rotation rate are discussed and actually interpreted. A relation between the large-scale photospheric magnetic field evolution and the coronal structure rearrangement is demonstrated.

Large-scale Motion of Solar Filaments

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 205-208
Author(s):  
Pavel Ambrož ◽  
Alfred Schroll
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Flux ◽  
Proper Motion ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Accuracy Of Measurements ◽  
Solar Filaments ◽  
General Movement ◽  
Scale Motion ◽  
Velocity Scatter

AbstractPrecise measurements of heliographic position of solar filaments were used for determination of the proper motion of solar filaments on the time-scale of days. The filaments have a tendency to make a shaking or waving of the external structure and to make a general movement of whole filament body, coinciding with the transport of the magnetic flux in the photosphere. The velocity scatter of individual measured points is about one order higher than the accuracy of measurements.

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