Competition, Cultural Geography, and Tonal Space in the Book of Madrigals L’amorosa Ero (1588)

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-460
Author(s):  
Marco Bizzarini ◽  
Massimo Privitera
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Military Career ◽  
Melodic Contour ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Tonal Space ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Different Parts

Around 1587 the Brescian nobleman Count Marc’Antonio Martinengo di Villachiara, who was renowned for his political and military experience as well as competence in both music and poetry, wrote a madrigal text, set it to music, and sent it to seventeen composers in different parts of Italy. Published under the title of L’amorosa Ero (Brescia, 1588), the collection gives the opportunity to compare some of the most influential composers such as Marenzio, Luzzaschi, Ingegneri, Striggio, and many others. The first part of the article focuses on the historical background to this collection, with special attention given to the musical activities in Brescia and in other cities (Cremona, Verona, Parma, Turin, and Rome). Martinengo’s political and military career and the music patronage of his family are discussed in detail, followed by an in-depth survey of most of the composers of L’amorosa Ero (particularly Alfonso Ferabosco, Claudio Merulo, Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, and Antonio Morsolino) to unveil their personal relationships with Martinengo. The hierarchy of composers represented in the madrigal collection turns out to be quite elaborate and reflects their political relevance in their time. The second part of the article is dedicated to the musical content of the collection.  Given that L’amorosa Ero consists of the compositional responses of multiple composers to the same text—which, moreover, they all set in the same mode—the collection offers a unique opportunity to compare composers’ styles. Starting with a close examination of Martinengo’s poem, including its formal and emotional aspects, we follow with a comparative analysis, restricted to the first section of eight emblematic madrigals by Martinengo, Fiorino, Bertani, Ingegneri, Marenzio, Zoilo, Giovannelli, and Luzzaschi. The main analytical tool is the definition of tonal space, that is to say a dynamic articulation of mode that emerges through the interaction of such elements as melodic contour and cadences. Our analysis shows that, despite the limitations of mode and text, the music of the collection is strikingly diverse, ranging from traditional to more innovative styles.

scholarly journals APPLYING CONSUMER BEHAVIOR MODEL TO THE STUFF LABOR MOTIVATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
S. I. Dobrydnev ◽  
T. S. Dobrydneva
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Stimulus Selection ◽  
Behavior Model ◽  
Methodological Feature ◽  
Building Models ◽  
Type Definition ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Motivation Model

The article appeals to the problem of designing motivation model for the labor behavior of company stuff. Human behavior is one of the key areas of research in many fields of knowledge. The main forms of human behavior in economics are consumer and labor behavior. For each of them, extensive theoretical and practical material has been developed, a significant variety of behaviors has been proposed. Moreover, in the absence of general models of human behavior that would be applicable in any field of his activity, each science develops its own methodological apparatus and builds models based on its own approaches. Models of consumer behavior describe a clearly defined object (purchasing act), are specific and practically oriented. Patterns of labour behaviour are more general and relate to conduct in general, but not to a specific act of activity. The article attempts to apply the principles of building models of consumer behavior to modeling labor behavior. The model of type “Definition of target actions — Stimulus selection — Information and desire — Choice and location — Check and preference — Confirmation and relation” is proposed. The content of these stages for the task of changing labor behavior is shown. A methodological feature of the model is the isolation of rational and emotional aspects in some elements of labor behavior.

Diminished Parties

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Developing Democracies ◽  
Party Organizations ◽  
Definition Of

Many contemporary party organizations are failing to fulfill their representational role in contemporary democracies. While political scientists tend to rely on a minimalist definition of political parties (groups of candidates that compete in elections), this volume argues that this misses how parties can differ not only in degree but also in kind. With a new typology of political parties, the authors provide a new analytical tool to address the role of political parties in democratic functioning and political representation. The empirical chapters apply the conceptual framework to analyze seventeen parties across Latin America. The authors are established scholars expert in comparative politics and in the cases included in the volume. The book sets an agenda for future research on parties and representation, and it will appeal to those concerned with the challenges of consolidating stable and programmatic party systems in developing democracies.

Characterization of Cutting Parameters in the Minimum Quantity Lubricant (MQL) Machining Process of a Gearbox

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Travieso-Rodriguez ◽  
G. Gomez-Gras ◽  
Silvia Garcia-Vilana ◽  
Ferran Mainau-Noguer ◽  
R. Jerez-Mesa
Keyword(s):  
Cutting Parameters ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Machined Parts ◽  
Minimum Quantity Lubricant ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
A Company ◽  
Production Industry ◽  
Different Parts

This paper aims to find the key process parameters for machining different parts of an automobile gearbox, commissioned by a company that needs to replace with the MQL lubrication system their current machining process based on cutting fluids. It particularly focuses on the definition of appropriate cutting parameters for machining under the MQL condition through a statistical method of Design of Experiments (DOE). Using a combination of recommended parameters, significant improvements in the surface roughness of different machined parts are shown. Production costs are also reduced by decreasing expenses on lubricants and by optimizing the cycle time reached under the new cutting conditions, what would help the implementing company to increase its profits and adapt to a modern sustainability-demanding production industry.

scholarly journals Understanding Immobility: Moving Beyond the Mobility Bias in Migration Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerilyn Schewel
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Migration Theories

This article suggests that there is a mobility bias in migration research: by focusing on the “drivers” of migration — the forces that lead to the initiation and perpetuation of migration flows — migration theories neglect the countervailing structural and personal forces that restrict or resist these drivers and lead to different immobility outcomes. To advance a research agenda on immobility, it offers a definition of immobility, further develops the aspiration-capability framework as an analytical tool for exploring the determinants of different forms of (im)mobility, synthesizes decades of interdisciplinary research to help explain why people do not migrate or desire to migrate, and considers future directions for further qualitative and quantitative research on immobility.

scholarly journals Developmental dyslexia: a condensed review of literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-270
Author(s):  
Anna Belavina Kuerten ◽  
Mailce Borges Mota ◽  
Katrien Segaert
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Dyslexia ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Reading Disorder ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Developmental Progression ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Double Deficit ◽  
Deficit Theory

In this article we provide a condensed review of literature on developmental dyslexia. Starting with the historical background to this language-based reading disorder, we discuss four key components that are crucial for a valid and operational definition of developmental dyslexia. We then present the major theoretical explanations of developmental dyslexia in order to gain a better understanding of the causes of this reading disorder. These causal explanations are addressed in the context of Morton and Frith’s (1995) model. Four major theories of developmental dyslexia are discussed: the phonological deficit theory, the double-deficit theory, the magnocellular theory, and the cerebellar theory. The last section of this review addresses the model of reading development proposed by Frith (1986). Understanding the developmental progression of children’s abilities in reading is crucial in order to detect in which phase of this progression a breakdown attributed to dyslexia occurs.

scholarly journals The Canmore Declaration: Statement of Principles for Planetary Health

Challenges ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Prescott ◽  
Alan Logan ◽  
Glenn Albrecht ◽  
Dianne Campbell ◽  
Julian Crane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
World Health ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Health And Place ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Anthropogenic Ecosystems

The term planetary health—denoting the interdependence between human health and place at all scales—emerged from the environmental and preventive health movements of the 1970–80s; in 1980, Friends of the Earth expanded the World Health Organization definition of health, stating: “health is a state of complete physical, mental, social and ecological well-being and not merely the absence of disease—personal health involvesplanetary health”. Planetary health is not a new discipline; it is an extension of a concept understood by our ancestors, and remains the vocation of multiple disciplines. Planetary health, inseparably bonded to human health, is formally defined by the inVIVO Planetary Health network as the interdependent vitality of all natural and anthropogenic ecosystems (social, political and otherwise). Here, we provide the historical background and philosophies that have guided the network, and summarize the major themes that emerged at the 7th inVIVO meeting in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. We also provide the Canmore Declaration, a Statement of Principles for Planetary Health. This consensus statement, framed by representative participants, expands upon the 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and affirms the urgent need to consider the health of people, places and the planet as indistinguishable.

scholarly journals The role of the non-human in relations of care: baby things

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Waight ◽  
Kate Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Young Child ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Conceptual Work ◽  
Different Parts

In this article, we argue that the non-human plays a vital role within networks of care. We do this through a consideration of the forms of work done by baby things in the giving and receiving of young-child care. We extend existing understandings of human–non-human relations by arguing that beyond the work of warming babies’ bodies and providing comfort, baby things function within care assemblages as both a means and a metric of parental care. Within the consumption literature, the work of home provisioning (typically undertaken by mothers) has been cast as an expression of love for others. We build on this by exploring the forms of participation and ‘caring capacities’ of matter itself – objects such as blankets, soft-toys and pacifiers – in the caring-for of babies and young children. We attend to the flows and stoppages of baby things across networks of early childhood caregiving to consider what these patterns of movement suggest about how such artefacts participate within relations of care, and how they are used as a means to reflect on the care practices of others. Analysis is based on 30 interviews with mothers and ethnographic and survey work at 14 children’s clothing exchanges in different parts of England and Scotland. Drawing on scholarship from the New Materialism as well as Mary Douglas’s conceptual work on dirt and cleanliness,1 we advance conceptual work within and beyond Cultural Geography by arguing that analytical attention to the role of the more than human leads to richer and more nuanced understandings of how care relations work.

Book I Diplomacy in General, 1 Diplomacy—a Short History from Pre-Classical Origins to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberts Ivor
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Short History ◽  
Renaissance Period ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
European Diplomacy

This chapter provides the historical context underpinning this study. It elaborates on the definition of the term ‘diplomacy’—the conduct of business between States by peaceful means—at the same time dispelling misconceptions regarding the term, as well as discussing its origins. Aside from that, the chapter largely focuses on a historical background of diplomacy as a whole, beginning from the earliest practices of sending emissaries to open negotiations. These origins may in fact go back at least as far as the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East in the second, and possibly even as early as the late fourth millennium BC, to the cuneiform civilizations of Mesopotamia. From there, the chapter maps out this history through the Renaissance period to the beginnings of classical European diplomacy, and later on to the two World Wars and the post-war world.

A propos de l'histoire du continent africain

1953 ◽  
Vol S6-III (4-6) ◽  
pp. 459-470
Author(s):  
Henri Termier ◽  
G. Termier
Keyword(s):  
Structural Evolution ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Spatial Unit ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Orogenic Cycle ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract The definition of a unit of structural evolution which can be applied to Precambrian as well as to younger areas is discussed, and the spatial unit "orogen" is selected as the most suitable term for such a unit. It means any zone in which orogenic movements occur. This term is broader than "geosyncline," for such movements are not limited to geosynclines. The orogens of the different parts of the earth vary greatly in dimension, form, and situation with respect to older zones. The stages of a "drama" (a term preferred to "orogenic cycle") are outlined and applied to an interpretation of the history of the African continent.

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