Program Music

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Program Music ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Absolute Music ◽  
Interpretive Strategies ◽  
Sociohistorical Context ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Programmatic Music

Studies of program music explore ways in which extra-musical material is expressed and interpreted through music. Conceptions of program music are broadly construed and vary throughout history in correlation with various aesthetic and philosophical perspectives—narrowly defined, programmatic compositions include an extra-musical program describing the musical expression, while a broader definition considers evocative titles, allusive musical material, and conventional musical significations as vehicles of extra-musical meaning. The question of aesthetic value arises in the debate surrounding the ability of music to communicate extra-musical ideas and the quality of music that claims to do so. This question is extensively explored through the polemics of the 19th-century “War of the Romantics,” pitting programmatic music against “absolute music.” Musical and theoretical writings of figures such as Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, and Hanslick provide rich source material informing many studies on program music. The distinction between program music and absolute music is blurred through various approaches to deriving meaning from both types of music. Theories of narrativity propose methods of interpreting formal structures, tonal progressions, and thematic devices interacting in ways reminiscent of literary narrative. Semiotic approaches explore meanings that arise from conventional significations of genre, style, and “topics,” evoking cultural understandings of social position, setting, and affect. Applying interpretive strategies such as these to programmatic music allows for hermeneutic readings mapping the extra-musical program onto the musical events to explore meaningful points of intersection or contradiction. Further studies draw connections to composer biography and sociohistorical context, positioning the music in philosophical perspectives and reception. Broader cultural and political situations inform readings of underlying implications such as nationalism or social commentary. Current studies of program music explore musical narratives in nuanced contexts that parse the historical and cultural atmospheres surrounding composers, their music, and reception to propose new readings and frames of interpretation.

Richard Wagner: Leitmotiv e Música Dramática

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (36) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Elisabete M. de Sousa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Robert Schumann ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Program Music ◽  
Hector Berlioz ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

The present essay presents the content of the landmarks that punctuate the long dialogue between verbal language and musical language during the 19th Century, by means of examples taken from the critical and theoretical writings of Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner. In the search for the dramatic essence of music, such dialogue took different forms: the possibility of verbal language being translated by musical language, the pre-existence of a musical-poetic idea in any musical composition, eventually contributing to the appearance of program music, and finally, the principles presiding over Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk. Special emphasis is given to Richard Wagner’s Parisian article De l'Ouverture (1841), as well as to the impact on Soren Kierkegaard.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF SOME ROOTSTOCK ON THE GROWTH AND QUALITY OF THE VINE PLANTING MATERIAL OF THE MAVRUD VARIETY

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-374
Author(s):  
M. Mihaylov
Keyword(s):  
Vitis Vinifera ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Biological Characteristics ◽  
Vitis Vinifera L ◽  
Red Wines ◽  
Planting Material ◽  
The 19Th Century

The direction related with production of vine planting material originated from the 19th century, after the advent of Phylloxera vastatrix F. in which a large part of the vineyards in Bulgaria and the main wine-growing countries were destroyed. Only solution was proposed for grafting vine varieties from Vitis vinifera L. on resistant rootstocks. A number of biological characteristics of the vine influence both the nursery for scions and the rootstock nursery. One of them, which is main is the affinity of different rootstocks on the different vine varieties. In the southern Bulgaria, where the Mavrud variety is characteristic, high losses are observed due to the low yield of first-class vines. In Bulgaria, the Mavrud variety is highly valued due to its biological qualities, resulting in extracts and dense red wines that have glorified our country.

scholarly journals Potato growing in the Faroe Islands in 19th century

2015 ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Erling Isholm
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Seed Quality ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Seed Potatoes ◽  
Peasant Society ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Limited Supply ◽  
The 19Th Century

The potato became an important crop in the Faroe Islands early in the 19th century and subsequently vital in the 1820s and 1830s, when crofters started to enclose and cultivate small plots of land. These plots of land were crucial in ensuring population growth and in extending cultivated land. Local officials followed these events closely. During the 1830s problems emerged concerning the quality of seed potatoes and the limited supply, problems which only intensified as time passed. Concern was raised by one sheriff that difficulties in finding new seeds would prevent the expanding cultivation, whilst others worried that the deterioration in seed quality would result in a decline in growth, thus jeopardizing the livelihood of crofters. In this article the story of seed potatoes purchased by governor Pløyen in Orkney in 1839 is followed. The point being made is that by acquiring these seed potatoes the authorities ensured that the progress of the previous 20 years continued. Furthermore, the purchasing of a shipment of seed potatoes is linked to other modernization plans for Faroese society, which governor Pløyen and others worked on at the time. For these plans to succeed, it was vital to ensure the living conditions of the crofter families as change would not emerge from the old peasant society.

scholarly journals ON THE WAY TO THE IDEAL TEXTBOOK OF CHEMISTRY

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Sergey Teleshov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Criteria ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Electronic Textbooks ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Ideal

History school textbook on chemistry in the Russian Empire beginning in the first half of the 19th century. Which textbooks in chemistry were the first? Who were their authors? What do You know about first stable tutorials in 1930-ies? All of this is briefly reflected in proposed to Your attention. You will learn about the first criteria that guided the first authors of textbooks in 1803 and 1840 уу. You can read also about the pedagogical censorship, which appeared in 1869. Finally, You will be offered to current approaches to assessing the quality of the texts. The first formulation of this issue was started in the last decades of the 20th century. The author presents a comparative description of modern Russian textbooks, per-formed on the basis of the proposed criteria. Any teacher can evaluate themselves in accord-ance with these views and, on that basis, selective tutoring for his school. Seemingly has everything You need to create the ideal textbook, but it has not yet been established. At the same time in education appeared e-learning tools, including e-learning textbook. In addition to traditional types of information - text, tables, pictures etc. - electronic textbooks may use and new – speech, music, movie videos, animations and other colored. It is possible to use multiple document, presenting system information, hypertext links. Now, authors and consumers will face two challenges: the quality of these tests and their correlation with classical, i.e. paper. Thus arises the question of creation of ergonomic tutorial of the twenty-first century. Keywords: history textbooks, quality criteria for classic and electronic textbooks, ergonomic tutorial.

Methodology for Human Robot Interface in Arc Welding Operation - An Industry Case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Nanditha P C ◽  
Ganesh M A
Keyword(s):  
Arc Welding ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Robot Trajectory ◽  
Welding Operation ◽  
Machine Interface ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Early 18Th Century

Welding is a significant industrial application that has been implemented since the early 18th century. The introduction of welding robots in the 19th century resulted in drastic improvements in the field of welding like improving the accuracy of welding, quality of the weld, etc., However, there is no literature which briefs the industry methodology to interface HMI with the industrial robots. In this paper, MOTOMAN AR1440 Industrial Welding Robot is interfaced with the Human Machine Interface (HMI) panel to improve the communication between the machine and the operator. This improves the safety and handling of the robot. The robot trajectory is taught using a teach pendant and the HMI panel is designed to control the robot. The robot and the HMI panel are interfaced via Ethernet communication. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to brief an industry methodology to interface an AR1440 robot with an HMI panel for arc welding application thereby, improving the communication between the machine and the worker.

Dante’s Models in Romantic Music

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
K.V. Zenkin
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
The World ◽  
Romantic Music ◽  
Interdisciplinary Methodology ◽  
The Given

Dante’s impact on music has been studied completely enough, but so far mainly in an empirical and descriptive way. The article examines the works of romantic composers of the 19th - early 20th centuries, based on the plot of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”: Liszt’s fantasy-sonata “After reading Dante” and the “Dante-Symphony”, the “Francesca da Rimini” by Tchaikovsky (symphonic fantasy) and Rachmaninoff (opera). The author analyses compositional and stylistic models of the romantic music inspired by Dante’s poetry as a system, which is relevant for modern musicology, in particular, for the theories of musical language, style, and musical meaning. Along with the traditional musicological methods of analysis of form and intonational dramaturgy, an interdisciplinary methodology is applied, associated with the coverage of the entire system of musical compositional prototypes as a structuring of meaning. This has a pronounced narrative poetic nature in romantic music. The results of the study demonstrate a system of structural and semantic invariants (secondary, musical models) conditioned by Dante’s figurative world and manifested in melody, harmony, fret organization, composition. The conclusions of the article reveal the roles of Dante’s models of the world in the works considered in the following aspects: in the process of extreme intensification of the contrasts of romantic music in the semantic coordinates of “Hell – Paradise”; “Love – Death”; in the approval of the concept of Liebestod; in the creation of new, extreme expressive possibilities for the given style, which significantly expanded the idea of the boundaries of beauty and caused transformations in musical sound (harmony, texture, melody); in the formation of stable idioms of romantic music from Liszt to Rachmaninov; in the modification of the structures of a one-part sonata, of the cyclic symphony, and of opera, which have received the quality of a vectorial dramaturgical process and open dramaturgy.

Research on the Dynamics of Changes in the Sight-aesthetic Quality of Rural Lake District Landscapes in the Aspect of Implementing the European Landscape Convention

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Senetra
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Land Use Management ◽  
Lake District ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
European Landscape Convention ◽  
General Rules ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Landscape Transformations

The article presents selected methodological assumptions of developing and evaluating landscape attribute maps that could be used in the process of the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (ELC). The Convention led to the passing of the Act of 24th April 2015 on the modification of some acts due to the enhancement of landscape protection tools. Article 7 implements changes in the Act of 23rd March 2003 on spatial planning and land use management. Determining general rules for landscape auditing and defining the priority landscape are elements of the changes. On 11th September 2015, the regulations that partially carry out the recommendation of the Convention entered into force. The regulations oblige local governments to conduct landscape auditing (not less often than every 20 years). The article presents a new method for evaluating the aesthetic-scenic value of landscape (EEVL), developed by the author on the basis of conceptual works done between 2004 and 2008. Tests of this method started in 2008. Then an assessment of the aesthetic value of the municipality of Pozezdrze in the Masurian Lake District was made. The three measurements, collected in 2008, 2012 and 2016, were then used in comparing the dynamics of landscape transformations considering the aesthetic value over 8 years. The research enabled the assessment of the usefulness of the method in landscape auditing.

The Corporate Social Responsibility Meme as a Business Foundation for Economic Peacemaking

2019 ◽  
pp. 440-461
Author(s):  
Corrie Jonn Block
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest

This chapter presents economic peacemaking in historical business terms through an exploration of the meaning of competition in the 20th century. The 19th century meme, “survival of the fittest,” may be considered a quality of natural law that has been used to defend laissez faire capitalism, which has at times produced economic outcomes that are good for a select few at the expense of humanity at large. The counter-concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), which was developed in the mid-20th century, presented an alternative view of the corporation as citizen, and called for the compromise of profits for the sake of the betterment of the community in which the business existed. This chapter explores the historical development of these concepts in the social science context of social Darwinism vs. neo-Darwinism, concluding that economic peacemaking through stakeholder management and CSR implementation is an inherently natural concept and preferable for humanity to unregulated competition.

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