Two into Three Won't Go? Poetic Structure and Musical Forms in Mozart's Idomeneo

AbstractBy the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the typical Metastasian two-stanza aria text could be set to music in one of two ways: in the ternary form typical of the earlier da capo aria (stanzas 1–2–1) or in a binary one (stanzas 1–2–1–2). Why did Mozart choose one form over the other in Idomeneo (1781); what does this tell us about the role of his librettist, Giovanni Battista Varesco, both before and after the composer left Salzburg for Munich to finish composing the opera and to prepare its performance; and how might these issues enable some rational inquiry into questions of music and drama?

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Arthroscopy in Arthrosis: Is It Worth it? A case Presentation

Revista de Chimie ◽

10.37358/rc.18.8.6506 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 69 (8) ◽

pp. 2232-2235

Author(s):

Marius Moga ◽

Mark Edward Pogarasteanu ◽

Antoine Edu

Keyword(s):

Clinical Status ◽

Loose Body ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Other ◽

Joint Range Of Motion ◽

Objective Evidence ◽

Before And After ◽

Total Knee ◽

Joint Range

The role of arthroscopy in incipient and mild arthrosis, even combined with proximal tibial ostetomy, is well known and well documented. On the other hand, its role in the treatment of advanced arthrosis of the large joints, especially the knee, is a subject of controversy. The proponents of the use of arthroscopy in advanced arthrosis claim that meniscectomy, synovectomy, ostophytectomy, chondral lesion stabilization, arthroscopic release, plica and loose body removal greatly improve the quality of life for most patients, especially if followed by the use of viscoelastic injection, by diminishing pain and improving joint range of motion. The opponents claim that, even though the advantages are clear in the cases that refuse arthroplasty, in all the other cases the surgical indication should be total knee arthroplasty, as the clinical relief is temporary, but with all the risks of a surgical intervention. We have conducted an overview of the recent literature, in order to find objective evidence to sustain either point of view. We focused on articles published that included an objective measurement of before and after clinical status through clinical scores and objective measurements. We also focused on the follow-up period and on the evolution of the pathology after arthroscopy.

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Effect of thromboxane antagonists on ozone-induced airway responses in dogs

Journal of Applied Physiology ◽

10.1152/jappl.1990.69.3.880 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 69 (3) ◽

pp. 880-884 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

G. L. Jones ◽

C. G. Lane ◽

P. M. O'Byrne

Keyword(s):

Airway Hyperresponsiveness ◽

The Other ◽

Receptor Antagonists ◽

Thromboxane Receptor ◽

Before And After ◽

The Mean ◽

Airway Responses ◽

Control Infusion

Airway hyperresponsiveness after inhaled ozone in dogs may occur as a result of thromboxane release in the airway. In this study, two thromboxane receptor antagonists, L-655,240 and L-670,596, were used in doses that inhibit the response to an inhaled thromboxane mimetic, U-46619, to determine further the role of thromboxane in ozone-induced airway hyperresponsiveness. Dogs were studied on 2 days separated by 1 wk. On each day, the dogs inhaled ozone (3 ppm) for 30 min. On one randomly assigned day, 10 dogs received an infusion of L-655,240 (5 mg.kg-1.h-1) and 5 dogs received an infusion of L-670,596 (1 mg.kg-1.h-1); on the other day dogs received a control infusion. Airway responses to doubling doses of acetylcholine were measured before and after inhalation of ozone and were expressed as the concentration of acetylcholine giving a rise in resistance of 5 cmH2O.l-1.s from baseline (acetylcholine provocation concentration). The development of airway hyperresponsiveness after ozone was not inhibited by the thromboxane antagonists. The mean log difference in the acetylcholine provocative concentration before and after ozone on the L-655,240 treatment day was 0.62 +/- 0.12 (SE) and on the control day was 0.71 +/- 0.12 (P = 0.48); on the L-670,596 treatment day the mean log difference was 0.68 +/- 0.15 (SE) and on the control day it was 0.75 +/- 0.19 (P = 0.45). These results do not support an important role for thromboxane in causing ozone-induced airway hyperresponsiveness.

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‘What Shall We Do With the Wanton Student?’: Tutoring the Catholic Gentry in the Eighteenth Century

Recusant History ◽

10.1017/s0034193200001771 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 63-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Leo Gooch

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Early Life ◽

The Other ◽

Proper Role

I am not one to follow in my own footnotes, but a number of correspondents have wondered how the shockingly poor relations between the Catholic gentry and their chaplains described in ‘Priests and Patrons in the Eighteenth Century’ (Recusant History Vol. 20, No. 2 pp. 207–22) could have arisen. One instance might be ascribed to the overbearing demeanour of a squire, or his wife, another to a clash of temperament, and yet another to a differing perception of the proper rôle of a chaplain, but the lack of cordiality between the clergy and the gentry was so widespread that a predisposition to incompatibility might reasonably be suspected. This paper traces the origins of their antipathy to the experience each gained of the other in early life, particularly during their schooldays.

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The existential role of women in The Flies and the dirty hands, by Jean Paul Sartre

Al-Adab Journal ◽

10.31973/aj.v3i137.1665 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (137) ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Majed Jamil NASIF ◽

Ridha Thamer BAQER

Keyword(s):

Human Mind ◽

The Other ◽

Politics And Literature ◽

Dirty Hands ◽

Jean Paul ◽

The Family ◽

Before And After ◽

The Mind ◽

Second World

The freedom and the existential engagement represent two essential notions in the mind of the writer Jean-Paul Sartre. It has been presented in a good and clear way by his philosophy or, in a clearer way, by his artworks. More specifically, the two plays of this author, The Flies and the dirty hands, are the mirror that reflects these twos existential notions. These two plays are the perfect testimonies for the two important periods in the XXth century: before and after the Second World War. These two periods vary in so far, the human mind, politics and literature as are concerned. This variation has followed the historical and the political changes in the world in general and in France in particular. Even if The Flies and the dirty hands are considered like two different existential dramas, but each one completes the other. The first drama evokes a human mind but, indirectly, another political one, whether the other play evokes the inverse. Oreste and Hugo, the two heroes of our study plays, are the superior heroes who try to save humanity of slavery and submission to injustice. Sartre and his audience place their hopes in these two heroes who search for the freedom through their existential engagement. In the other hand, the female characters have played an affective role in the dramatic action in the two plays. By its freedom and its existential engagement, the female condition, according to Sartre's vision, searches for proving his human existence and revolting against the authority of the family, the society and the humanity.

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The Continuities of Late Modernism: Before and after Beckett

10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Tyrus Miller

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Historical Study ◽

Steady Increase ◽

Recent Criticism ◽

Late Modernism ◽

Positive Role ◽

Ethnic Boundaries ◽

Before And After

This chapter presents an extension of the scope of fictional writings that have been previously considered under the aegis of late modernism and some dialogical qualification of the historicizing framework implied by that term. A key development in recent criticism and the historical study of modernism is the steady increase in the number, complexity, and specificity of narratives about modernism’s development. Moreover, a certain historiographic ‘constructivism’ has become necessary to account for and mediate between overlapping, complementary, and somewhat contradictory histories of modernist culture with different national, linguistic, temporal, gender, and ethnic boundaries. This chapter places new emphasis on the positive role of late modernism in bridging the literary changes of mid-century, and accordingly downplay the idea of a putative ‘postmodernism’ on the other shore of a late modernist ‘transition’. It argues that late modernism embodies a paradoxically enduring mode of progress-in-ending.

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Including Islam

Before and After Muhammad ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691158532.003.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Garth Fowden

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

The West ◽

The North ◽

Internal Reasons ◽

Before And After ◽

History Of ◽

First Millennium ◽

The North Atlantic ◽

New Perspective

This book examines history and thought “before and after Muhammad” by offering a new perspective on the debate about “the West and the Rest,” about America's destiny and Europe's identity. One party explains how Europe and eventually North America—the North Atlantic world—left the rest in the dust from about 1500. The other side argues that Asia—China, Japan, and the Islamic trio of Mughals, Safavids, and Ottomans—remained largely free of European encroachment until the mid-1700s, but then either collapsed for internal reasons, or else were gradually undermined by colonial powers' superior technological, economic, and military power. In seeking to overhaul the foundations of this debate, especially as regards the role of Islam and the Islamic world, the book reformulates the history of the First Millennium, by the end of which Islam had matured sufficiently to be compared with patristic Christianity, in order to fit Islam into it. The book draws primarily on Edward Gibbon's account of East Rome and Islam.

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Professional Lobbying in Eighteenth-century Brussels: The Role of Agents in Petitioning the Central Government Institutions in the Habsburg Netherlands

Journal of Early Modern History ◽

10.1163/157006512x613904 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 95-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Griet Vermeesch

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

Central Government ◽

The Other ◽

Poor People ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Crucial Importance ◽

Government Institutions

Abstract Historians have underscored the crucial importance of petitions both in early modern political practice and for relations between rulers and ruled. However, little is known about how formal requests were actually presented to rulers or the role of professional lobbyists. This article describes these individuals, using materials from a well-documented case, namely the court agents who were active in recommending petitions to the central government councils in eighteenth-century Brussels. Via these officially appointed lobbyists, citizens could obtain access to central figures in the decision-making process and express their personal grievances, desires and needs. This article argues that the efforts which court agents had to exert in order to present and recommend such petitions hint at the time- and money-consuming nature of petitioning. Court agents were supposed to offer their services free of charge to poor people, but opportunities for petitioning were in all probability less open to households of modest means. On the other hand, the court agents surely broadened the opportunities for petitioning in general, as—in exchange for a fee—anyone could draw on their expertise and contacts in government circles so as to be heard. Although patronage remained highly important throughout the eighteenth century, government accessibility increased in a more egalitarian manner, due to the work of these agents.

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Stimulating Emotional Intelligence in Seniors: The Peci-Pm Program

European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education ◽

10.1989/ejihpe.v4i3.80 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 329-339

Author(s):

Mª del Carmen Pérez-Fuentes ◽

Mª del Mar Molero ◽

José J. Gázquez ◽

Francisco J. Soler

Keyword(s):

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Older People ◽

Senior Citizens ◽

Cognitive Stimulation ◽

The Other ◽

Before And After ◽

Interpersonal Dimension ◽

Emotional Intelligence Inventory ◽

Stimulation Of

The Cognitive Stimulation and Emotional Intelligence for Seniors Program (PECI-PM), combines cognitive stimulation with intervention and stimulation of aspects related to emotional intelligence. The purpose of this study was to analyze the emotional intelligence results of the first stage of PECI-PM implementation. A sample of 28 program users who had completed 20 sessions and participated in the two evaluations (pre-post) was employed for this. Emotional Intelligence was evaluated before and after intervention using the Inventario Breve de Inteligencia Emocional para Mayores [Brief Emotional Intelligence Inventory for Senior Citizens] (EQ-i-M20). After intervention with the PECI-PM, improvement was observed in most of the emotional intelligence dimensions (Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Adaptability and Mood). In the Stress Management dimension, there was no change in scores after intervention, which leads us to reconsider the weight of this emotional intelligence dimension in the older population. On the other hand, the role of the Interpersonal dimension, which correlates significantly with other emotional intelligence factors (Intrapersonal and Adaptability) in older people, should be emphasized.

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Μεταξύ Αττίλα και Βαϊανού. Το Βυζάντιο και οι νομαδικοί λαοί από το 453 έως το 558

BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA ◽

10.12681/byzsym.1139 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 67

Author(s):

Γεώργιος ΚΑΡΔΑΡΑΣ

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Geographical Area ◽

Cultural Influence ◽

The Other ◽

Font Size ◽

Other Hand ◽

Before And After ◽

Decorative Motifs

Between Attila and Bajan. Byzantium and the nomads from 453 to 558  The paper highlights the relations of Byzantium with the nomads in the period between the collapse of the Hunnic hegemony in Central Europe and the coming of the Avars to the northern frontiers of the Empire. Taking into account the written testimonies, as well as the archaeological finds, the geographical area of the nomadic settlements, the conflicts and treaties with Byzantium, the role of the nomads in the Byzantine-Persian relations, the nomad mercenaries in the Byzantine army and certain Byzantine finds, as jewellery, swords, pendant capsule or other decorative motifs are considered. These relations are distinguished in two periods, before and after 491. During the first one, the Empire was able to control the activity of the nomads offering them settlement permit on Byzantine soil, while for the second is noted, beside the strong conflicts, the cultural influence of Byzantium through Christianity and, on the other hand, the nomadic influences on the Byzantine army.

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The Bifurcations of the Critical Points and the Role of Depth in a Symmetric Caldera Potential Energy Surface

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos ◽

10.1142/s0218127421300342 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 31 (11) ◽

pp. 2130034

Author(s):

Y. Geng ◽

M. Katsanikas ◽

M. Agaoglou ◽

S. Wiggins

Keyword(s):

Potential Energy ◽

Potential Energy Surface ◽

Critical Points ◽

Energy Surface ◽

The Other ◽

Different Types ◽

Before And After ◽

The One ◽

The Way

In this work, we continue the study of the bifurcations of the critical points in a symmetric Caldera potential energy surface. In particular, we study the influence of the depth of the potential on the trajectory behavior before and after the bifurcation of the critical points. We observe two different types of trajectory behavior: dynamical matching and the nonexistence of dynamical matching. Dynamical matching is a phenomenon that limits the way in which a trajectory can exit the Caldera based solely on how it enters the Caldera. Furthermore, we discuss two different types of symmetric Caldera potential energy surface and the transition from the one type to the other through the bifurcations of the critical points.

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