Chant research at the turn of the century and the analytical programme of Helmut Hucke

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Nowacki
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Musical Notation ◽  
Medieval Music ◽  
Twenty First Century

The end of a century, like the end of any era, is a time to take stock and lay plans. This is no less true of plainsong and medieval music than of any field of human endeavour. So it comes as no surprise to encounter in our professional literature exhortations to re-envision our subject and to contemplate its direction in the twenty-first century. Richard Crocker has been particularly cogent in recommending the abandonment of lost causes and the adoption of new or neglected research methods.1 The attempt to read the oldest melodic texts of plainchant as the trace of the sumptuous oral tradition that preceded them, however tantalizing, is ultimately unsatisfying in his view, perhaps even vain. In its place he urges us to cultivate a critical, evaluative understanding of chants composed in the era of musical notation, that is, as authoritative compositions of the time when they were copied rather than as witnesses to an obsolescent oral tradition. Putting this advice into practice would require more listening, performing and remembering of chants as they are and less speculation about how they got that way.

Why is everything old new again? Revisiting debates about the form and function of research in educational administration

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-356
Author(s):  
Robert Donmoyer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
First Century ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Historical Essay ◽  
Twenty First Century

PurposeThis paper has a twofold purpose: (1) to demonstrate, largely with historical evidence, that, contrary to what some have argued, thinking about educational research articulated at the start of the twenty-first century was not really “new wine in new bottles” but, rather, a continuation of the so-called paradigm wars about, ultimately, unresolvable methodological and epistemological issues that occurred during the twentieth century; (2) to suggest a way members of the educational administration field might transcend, or at least circumvent, time-consuming and distracting battles about unresolvable methodological and epistemological issues in the future while keeping their focus on issues of practice.Design/methodology/approachThis is a quasi-historical essay that uses influential literature during the historical periods focused on as evidence to support the essay's arguments.FindingsThe paper demonstrates that twentieth century philosophical disagreements about research methods and the role that educational research can play in policy and practice decision making were not resolved but, rather, were largely reenacted during the first decade of the twenty-first century, again without a resolution. The paper proposes a way that administrators, policymakers and researchers can manage this situation and still use research to make policy and practice decisions.Practical implicationsThe paper suggests a new role for both school administrators and policymakers to play. If administrators/policymakers play this role successfully, all types of research can inform decision making about policy and practice, and researchers can concentrate on doing their research rather than engaging in unresolvable philosophical disputes.Originality/valueAlthough a great deal has been written about the twentieth century's theory movement and paradigm wars and the twenty-first century's so-called science wars, the link between these phenomena has not been discussed in the literature. In addition, there have been few attempts to articulate an operational strategy for managing unresolvable philosophical disputes about research methods and the role that research can play in decision making. This paper tackles both matters.

The Image of Tist Ivan in V. A. Savin’s Story “Lucha” and the Vishera Folklore Tradition of the Komi

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Алексей Николаевич Рассыхаев
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Central Moment ◽  
Komi Republic ◽  
First Century ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
New Name ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Demonic

В статье проанализирован образ Тист Ивана в устных рассказах, записанных в начале XXI в. среди вишерских коми, и рассказе коми писателя В. А. Савина «Луча» (1926). Авторский рассказ был создан на основе слухов и сообщений о неординарном поступке Тист Ивана (Ивана Феоктистовича), который впервые в селе провел «октябрины» вместо крещения сына. Нарративы о нем локализуются преимущественно в фольклорной традиции села Большелуг (Корткеросский район, Республика Коми). В других местах рассказы о нем тяготеют к демонологической прозе, в которой герой в образе еретника занимается ритуальным отниманием коровьего молока накануне Великого четверга. В литературном и фольклорном дискурсе герой одинаково активен: он постоянно находится в движении, перемещается из одного населенного пункта в другой на вороном коне. Центральным моментом является имянаречение новорожденного сына героя. Если в рассказе В. А. Савина Тист Иван сначала дает сыну новое имя, а потом его жена крестит новорожденного в церкви, то в фольклорной традиции сначала жена крестит сына в церкви, где священник нарекает его Лукой, а потом Тист Иван дает сыну новое имя, связанное с Советским государством - Новолучинский. В отличие от литературного героя, фольклорный персонаж безнаказанно ворует в соседнем селе из амбаров хлеб, используя для этого напоенного вином коня. По мере распространения книжного источника рассказ «Луча» начинает оказывать влияние на фольклорную традицию. The article analyzes the image of Tist Ivan in oral stories recorded at the beginning of the twenty-first century among the Visher Komi, and in the story by the Komi writer V. A. Savin, “Lucha” (“Beam”) of 1926. The author’s story was based on rumors and reports about the extraordinary act of Tist Ivan (Ivan Feoktistovich), who for the first held an “Oktyabrina” in the village in place of a baptism. Narratives about it are circulated mainly in the folklore of Bolshelug Village (Kortkeros District, Komi Republic). In other places, stories about him tend to the demonic, in which the hero, in the form of a heretic, engages in the ritual of stealing cow’s milk on the eve of Great Thursday. In literary and folkloric descriptions, the hero is equally active: he is constantly on the move, going from one place to another on a black horse. The central moment is the naming of the hero’s newborn son. If in V. A. Savin’s story Tist Ivan first gives his son a new name and then his wife baptizes him in church, in the oral tradition the wife first baptizes her son in church, where the priest names him Luka, and then Tist Ivan gives his son a new name associated with the Soviet state - “Novoluchinskiy” (New Beam). In contrast to the literary hero, the folkloric character steals bread from barns in a neighboring village with impunity, using a horse drunk with wine for this purpose. As the literary version has become increasingly well known, it has begun to have an impact on the folk tradition.

scholarly journals OPENING OFFER OR CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION? ON THE PRESCRIPTIVE FUNCTION OF NOTATION IN MUSIC TODAY

Tempo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (269) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Christopher Fox
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Musical Notation ◽  
Contractual Obligation ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Graphic Scores ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Hybrid Forms

AbstractThis article explores some of the diverse forms that musical notation has assumed in the early twenty-first century and discusses its use along a broad spectrum of creative intention, which includes visual representation of sounds, verbal lists of instructions or provocations, and much else. Drawing upon his own experience as a composer, and on studies of the work of composers both older and younger (Stockhausen, Lucier, Wolff; Molitor, Lely), the author examines the changing meanings of notes, staves and clefs, and the possibilities of graphic scores, text scores, and hybrid forms of notation.

scholarly journals As Real as the Spice Girls: Representing Identity in Twenty-first Century New Zealand Literature

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Mercer
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Twenty First Century

The concept of authenticity has long been inextricable from identity in Aotearoa New Zealand, ever since Allen Curnow famously urged midtwentieth century artists to focus on the local and the specific in order to create an island nation clearly differentiated from Britain. Recent writers, however, particularly in works that have appeared since the turn of the century, are increasingly questioning just what 'authenticity' means in relation to identity. There is a marked contrast between the part-Maori, part-Pakeha protagonist in Keri Hulmes' 1984 novel the bone people, who explains that 'by blood, flesh, and inheritance, I am but an eighth Maori, by heart, spirit, and inclination, I feel all Maori', and the Fijian New Zealander in Toa Fraser's 1999 play No. 2, who insists that her Nanna is 'about as real Fijian as the Spice Girls'. Writers such as Fraser, Paula Morris and Eleanor Cattan represent identity not as inherent or authentic but as constructed and performed.

The Future of the Novel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Boxall ◽  
Bryan Cheyette
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter addresses the future of the novel. It also reflects on the possibility and nature of historical change. The push and pull between the novel as an expressive symptom of an ailing culture, and the novel as the engine for the production of new cultural possibilities, runs through the long history of novelists’ reflections on the future of the novel. From our perspective in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the perception of a watershed triggered by 1973, and a new understanding of the relationship between style, fiction, and knowledge, seems remarkably prescient. Moreover, the new generation of novelists that have emerged since the turn of the century have collectively registered the re-emergence of a kind of historical vitality in the culture.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geiß Robin ◽  
Melzer Nils
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Economic Nature

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the twenty-first-century global security environment. Since the turn of the century, the global security environment has become increasingly dynamic, complex, and volatile; and the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of national and international (in-)security have become increasingly transnational and global in nature. Various powerful dynamics of a geopolitical, demographic, climatic, technological, social, and economic nature have been driving this trend, which has now been taken to entirely new levels by the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The convergence of so-called ‘old and new security challenges’, such as the return to power politics, the rise of asymmetric and hybrid warfare, and the emergence of novel threats posed by potent non-State actors, technological innovation, as well as dramatically increased economic, pandemic, and environmental risks, have entailed a veritable globalization of the security agenda. The chapter then outlines a number of overarching key dynamics, trends, and contestations that reflect the various intrinsic and extrinsic pressures and tensions international law is exposed to in the global security environment of the twenty-first century.

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