Bartók’s Bulgarian Dances and the order of things

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
László Vikárius
Keyword(s):  
Central Element ◽  
Piano Music ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Pedagogical Issue ◽  
Performance Issues ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Jewish Descent

Bartók’s “Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm,” the only formally self-contained set within the Mikrokosmos, is the crowning series of pieces in this huge compendium of the composer’s later piano music. Since Bartók recorded all six of them in 1940, they are ideal for an investigation of performance issues. The recordings from the Mikrokosmos, although relatively late, are fortunately close to the composition of most of the pieces, which makes these recordings all the more “authentic.” The essay, however, focuses on the concept of the series as a series revisiting the compositional manuscripts, discussing the evolution of the individual pieces and the emergence of the idea of the set (first intended to comprise only five pieces) and Bulgarian rhythm as a pedagogical issue within the series. The “Six Dances” also bear a somewhat enigmatic dedication to the British pianist of Jewish descent, Harriet Cohen, obviously not an accidental choice. The dedication might be considered with what Bartók said in an interview in 1940 about the “hibridity” of national musical types in his “Bulgarian” pieces as well as with his article “Race Purity in Music” (1942) in mind. The significance of order and ordering in Bartók’s creative work, a hitherto little discussed common central element in the various fields of his activity, collecting, performing and composing, are also discussed.

scholarly journals Spectral Pitch Similarity is a Predictor of Perceived Change in Sound- as Well as Note-Based Music

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 205920431984735
Author(s):  
Roger T. Dean ◽  
Andrew J. Milne ◽  
Freya Bailes
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Piano Music ◽  
Individual Response ◽  
Discrete Events ◽  
Acoustic Intensity ◽  
Spectral Parameters ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Perceived Change ◽  
Predictive Role ◽  
The Individual

Spectral pitch similarity (SPS) is a measure of the similarity between spectra of any pair of sounds. It has proved powerful in predicting perceived stability and fit of notes and chords in various tonal and microtonal instrumental contexts, that is, with discrete tones whose spectra are harmonic or close to harmonic. Here we assess the possible contribution of SPS to listeners’ continuous perceptions of change in music with fewer discrete events and with noisy or profoundly inharmonic sounds, such as electroacoustic music. Previous studies have shown that time series of perception of change in a range of music can be reasonably represented by time series models, whose predictors comprise autoregression together with series representing acoustic intensity and, usually, the timbral parameter spectral flatness. Here, we study possible roles for SPS in such models of continuous perceptions of change in a range of both instrumental (note-based) and sound-based music (generally containing more noise and fewer discrete events). In the first analysis, perceived change in three pieces of electroacoustic and one of piano music is modeled, to assess the possible contribution of (de-noised) SPS in cooperation with acoustic intensity and spectral flatness series. In the second analysis, a broad range of nine pieces is studied in relation to the wider range of distinctive spectral predictors useful in previous perceptual work, together with intensity and SPS. The second analysis uses cross-sectional (mixed-effects) time series analysis to take advantage of all the individual response series in the dataset, and to assess the possible generality of a predictive role for SPS. SPS proves to be a useful feature, making a predictive contribution distinct from other spectral parameters. Because SPS is a psychoacoustic “bottom up” feature, it may have wide applicability across both the familiar and the unfamiliar in the music to which we are exposed.

scholarly journals Ideas of Civil Religion in the Creative Work of Cyril Methodians

2018 ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Leonid Kondratyk
Keyword(s):  
Civil Religion ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Social Force ◽  
Linear Character ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Main Ideas

Kondratyk L. "Ideas of Civil Religion in the Creative Work of Cyril Methodians". The author is based on the fact that the civil religion is such a sociocultural phenomenon in which, through the prism of a peculiar religious language and specific practices, the necessity of acquiring and establishing a national state is substantiated, which originates in the need of the community to find the sacral in the activity that is inherent in the transcendent, eternally -linear character and which is rooted in the history of the territory. It is proved that the soil on which the ideas of the Cyril and Methodius civil religion originated is Western European romanticism, religiosity, the starting point of which was the idea of religion as the focus of the spiritual world of the individual and community, the idea of the Higher Reason that sets the directions for historical development, Christianity a decisive role in the spiritual and moral and social renewal of mankind, the view of Ukraine as an independent cultural and historical and social force, the influence of creativity T. Shevche gt; The main ideas of the civil religion of the Cyril Methodians are as follows: the messianism of the Ukrainian spirit manifests itself in the ability to unite the Slavs in the best way, because Ukraine is inspired by self-sacrifice with the Christian spirit and has apostolic intercession; Kiev - the capital of the resurrected from the oppression of the Slavs, the city - in which the courts prevail, truth, equality; concepts "temple", "truth", "righteous judgment", "freedom", "brotherhood", "equality", "love", "Kiev", "Kiev mountains" - the basic concepts-symbols of the Ukrainian civil religion; in the Ukrainian community with the need to coincide Christian values and moral standards, which dominate it.

E-Mentoring the Individual Writer within a Global Creative Community

2010 ◽  
pp. 98-116
Author(s):  
Linda Venis
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Perfect Match ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Online Curriculum ◽  
Student Advisor ◽  
The Individual

This chapter presents a case study of how the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, which is America’s largest continuing education provider of online creative writing and screenwriting courses and services, offers individualized feedback and mentoring to 1,000’s of aspiring and practicing writers worldwide. Writing creatively is singularly private and can be isolating; the Writers’ Program’s 220 annually-offered online courses in fiction writing, memoir, personal essay, children’s literature, playwriting, poetry, publishing, feature film writing, and television writing provide access to in-depth instructor/student, student/student, and student/advisor relationships designed to help meet individual writing goals. Writing education is particularly well-suited for online delivery because writers write: students submit their work in writing; the teacher and fellow students give their feedback in writing. For students, the act of learning to write online reinforces their accountability to create in a disciplined way and allows time to absorb and respond to critiques with reflection. For teachers, e-mentoring requires unusual rigor and preciseness in order to give thoughtful feedback on each piece of creative work, and the 80 professional writers who teach the Writers’ Program online courses employ a range of pedagogical strategies to do so. In addition, the Writers’ Program provides personalized guidance and advice on writing online through its student advisors as well as an array of services, including one-on-one manuscript and script consultations; feature film mentorships for which students sign up monthly and receive “on demand” guidance on their projects; and a first-of-its-kind course limited to six advanced students in which they hold virtual internships at production companies and studios as script readers. The chapter begins with an overview of UCLA Extension and the Writers’ Program’s history, mission, products, services, and managerial structure, and then describes the origins and current status of the Writers’ Program’s online curriculum and educational services. The ways in which writing education comprises a near-perfect match for a virtual delivery system are explored, followed by a discussion of what makes Writers’ Program’s products and services uniquely suited to deliver e-mentoring for a global, mostly post-baccalaureate student body who puts a high premium on results and quality of interaction. The chapter next outlines how clear expectations, course design, lectures and critiquing guidelines ensure successful response to creative work (instructor/student and student/peers), and then focuses on “best practices” techniques and strategies that online Writers’ Program instructors use to shape and deliver critiques, including a common critiquing vocabulary and methodology, use of technological tools to provide sustained, personalized feedback, and ways to cultivate the individual writer’s sense of place in the global literary and entertainment communities. The chapter concludes by addressing technological, pedagogical, and economic challenges and future directions of e-mentoring aspiring creative writers and screenwriters.

After All

differences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Nell Wasserstrom
Keyword(s):  
Central Element ◽  
Singular Problem ◽  
Individual Psychology ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Deferred Action ◽  
The Individual

Through a close reading of Freud’s last major work, Moses and Monotheism (1939), this article considers the socio-political and literary stakes of a central element of Freud’s oeuvre, which reaches its fullest elaboration in the Moses text: belatedness. Belatedness, or deferred action (Nachträglichkeit), which structures the movement of repression and return in the individual psychology of Freud’s earlier work, is aggravated and intensified in this late modernist text. Now, it is an entire people (the Jews) and (Judeo-Christian) civilization founded upon the temporal predicament of trauma, latency, and the return of the repressed. What is most innovative about Moses—its fragmentary style, its rewriting of biblical origins, its daring conjectures and methods of recording history—gestures back, after all, to the singular problem that both Freudian psychoanalysis and modernism are destined to repeat: the constitutive belatedness of all experience.

scholarly journals La construcción de la identidad personal como proyecto de educación moral. Supuestos teóricos y delimitación de competencias

10.14201/3033 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Bernal Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Nous Proposons ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The Individual

RESUMEN: En este estudio, replanteamos, vinculándolo a su dimensión moral, el problema de la identidad personal. Analizamos los elementos esenciales para la comprensión del fenómeno moral y proponemos el reconocimiento de la identidad en sentido formal, fundamento para el reconocimiento de la identidad de los demás, como alternativa a la tradicional perspectiva sustancializadora y al enfoque posmoderno que propone su disolución. Desde esta fundamentación del constructo identidad personal, se plantea la posibilidad de la construcción de la dimensión moral como parte central de la configuración positiva, humanizadora, de la identidad de la persona. Como componente esencial de un proyecto de educación moral, tratamos de delimitar las competencias generales que configuran la identidad moral del sujeto. Desde un enfoque educativo que asume la complejidad y la incertidumbre de los fenómenos humanos, las competencias propuestas se dirigen a la construcción posible de una persona moralmente autónoma.ABSTRACT: This study approaches the problem of personal identity linked to its moral dimension. We analyse the elements that are essential for understanding the moral phenomenon and we propose the recognition of identity in a formal sense, the basis for the recognition of the identity of others as an alternative to the traditional substantialising focus and to the post-modern focus that proposes its dissolution. From this basis for the personal identity construct, we propose the possibility of constructing the moral dimension as a central element of the positive, humanising configuration of the individual. As an essential component of a moral education project, we try to define the general responsibilities that configure the subject's moral identity. The proposed responsibilities are directed towards the possible construction of a morally autonomous individual from an educational approach that is fully aware of the unpredictable nature of human phenomena.SOMMAIRE: Dans cette étude, nous posons une fois de plus, en le rattachant à sa dimension morale, le problème de l'identité personnelle. Nous analysons les éléments essentiels en vue de la compréhension du phénomène moral et nous proposons la reconnaissance de l'identité dans son sens formel, comme fondement de la reconnaissance de l'identité des autres, comme alternative au point de vue substancialisateur et d'une optique post-moderne qui propose sa dissolution. À partir du fondement de la constructivité de l'identité personnelle, on envisage la possibilité de la construction de la dimension morale comme partie centrale de la configuration positive, humanisatrice, de l'identité de la personne. Comme compétence essentielle d'un projet d'éducation morale, nous essayons de délimiter les compétences générales qui configurent l'identité morale du sujet. D'un point de vue éducatif qui assume la complexité et l'incertitude des phénomèmes humains, les compétences proposées visent à la construction possible d'une personne moralement autonome.

scholarly journals THE LANGUAGE AND AESTHETIC PARAMETERS OF A NEW STYLE IN UKRAINIAN FEMALE WRITERS’ PROSE TEXTS

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
V. I. Kononenko
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Image Creation ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
The Individual

The article deals with the features of the use of language aesthetic means of novostyl’ in the prose texts of the Ukrainian writers, representatives of postmodernism in fiction. In the creative work of the authors (I. Rozdobudko, I. Karpa, Tanya Maliarchuk) the typological features of the renewed idiolect were reflected, a number of changed norms in the system of text creation and image creation were recorded, and innovational processes in modern literary speech were reproduced. The following features are characteristic for their artistic discourse: the updating of the lexicon, the use of non-normative and slang language practices, and the destruction in the organization of the language use. The writers' texts are in close connections, in the language-stylistic sense, while denoting the individual-authorial differences of the idiostyle, the search for peculiar language-literary manners of writing.

scholarly journals The importance of efficient territory management in distribution planning

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioana Olariu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Sales Force ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
Distribution Planning ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Territory Management ◽  
Commercial Performance ◽  
The Way

The current paper is a theoretical approach to the management of territories according to sales force, which has an important role in the realization of distribution. The central element is the way in which agents split their efforts between the activities and routes they are responsible with. A related issue is that of establishing what comes first – defining the sales territory or performing the selling. The effects of the interaction between the number of distribution representatives and the delimiting of the territory they cover influence the measurement of the individual elements that contribute to achieving commercial performance.

Dostoevsky's Social Ideal and “Revived School of Natural Law”

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 270-279
Author(s):  
Аleksandra I. Vakulinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

This article deals with the influence of the ideas raised in Dostoevsky’s works on some representatives of the “revived school of natural law” in Russia. The author analyzes the ethical aspects of the Russian writer’s creative work, which are closely connected with the social and legal sphere of society. The article presents the interpretation of Dostoevsky's social ideal in the philosophical and legal works of P.I. Novgorodtsev, V.S. Solovyov, E.N. Trubetskoy and I.A. Ilyin. The author analyzes the origins of the idea of moral interconnectedness of the individual and society found in the works of one or other philosopher of law. It is emphasized that the work of F.M. Dostoevsky was most in demand with Russian thinkers during the periods of the greatest social upheavals, such as war or revolution. The author comes to the conclusion that the reflections on the moral interconnectedness of individual and society, found in the works of the writer, became the foundation of the idealistic philosophical and legal theory in Russia.

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