scholarly journals Commentary on Neumann's "Phenomena, Poiēsis, and Performance Profiling: Temporal-Textual Emphasis and Creative Analysis in Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera"

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Daniel Barolsky
Keyword(s):  
Musical Work ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Performance Profiling ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
Listening Experience ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Analysis Of Performance

This commentary situates Neumann's research within the existing literature on musicological ontologies of the musical work as well as scholarship on the analysis of performance and recordings. The response focuses on the interdisciplinary strength of the author's method while offering a few caveats about the analytical tools used. Although Neumann ventures into an under-explored territory (i.e. the analysis of operatic voices), I urge the author not to isolate this analysis from other elements of performance, including both visual content and listening experience

scholarly journals Phenomena, Poiēsis, and Performance Profiling: Temporal-Textual Emphasis and Creative Process Analysis in Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Joshua Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Process Analysis ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Performance Profiling ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Machine Learning Applications ◽  
And Performance

Amidst discussions regarding the nature of a musical work, tensions within and between score- and performance-based approaches often increase ideological entrenchment. Opera's textual and visual elements, along with its inherently social nature, both simultaneously complicate understanding of a work's nature and provide interdisciplinary analytical inroads. Analysis of operatic performance faces challenges of how to interrogate onstage musical behaviors, and how they relate to both dramatic narrative and an opera's identity. This article applies Martin Heidegger's dichotomy of technē and poiēsis to relationships between scores, performances, and works, characterizing works as conceptual, and scores and performances as tangible embodiments. Opera scholarship relies primarily upon scores, creating a lacuna of sound-based examinations. Adapting analyses developed in CHARM's "Mazurka Project," this essay incorporates textual considerations into tempo hierarchy as a means of asserting each performance's nuanced uniqueness and thus provides a window into performers' creative processes. Interviews with the performers considered in this study confirmed postulations derived from analyzing temporal-textual emphases. This approach is adaptable to other expressive elements employed in creating a role onstage. In addition to the hybrid empirical-hermeneutic application, the datasets created in this approach could be valuable as ground truth in machine learning applications.

scholarly journals Re-imagining Operatic "Objects": Commentary on Neumann's Phenomena, Poiesis, and Performance Profiling: Temporal-Textual Emphasis and Creative Process Analysis in Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Georgia Volioti
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Performance Profiling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
Musical Object ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
And Performance

Objects come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and forms. The notion of musical works as objects, represented by their written scores, has proved to be effete and limiting to the study of music as diverse social-cultural practice and performed craft. The past two decades have witnessed considerable efforts to renew conceptual and methodological tools, and Neumann's study makes a valuable contribution to this effect. This commentary responds to some issues raised by Neumann's article in relation to the notion of musical "object". Specifically, I retrace the shift from a score-based to a process-oriented musicology geared towards performances, placing the concerns of contemporary opera studies within this broader disciplinary change. I consider some implications of technology in mediating new operatic objects for discourse. Finally, I reflect on some of the inherent dangers of objectifying performance in empirical analyses.

Methodology for analyzing PR activities of public authorities

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
VALERYA DAMBUEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Commercial Organizations ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Evaluation Parameters

The article analyses various approaches to assessing the PR activities of commercial organizations and public authorities. The author concludes that there is no comprehensive methodology for analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of PR activities. This indicates the relevance and the need to develop a special methodology to identify relevant and potential sources for the formation and development of a complex image and reputation characteristics of public authorities with which citizens of the Russian Federation could operate. The basis of the proposed theory is the materials of works on communication by G. Lasswell (model of mass communication, pentad). The method is a system of evaluation parameters, performance indicators, and analytical tools for each structural component of such activities, as well as an algorithm for their analysis and evaluation. When developing this methodology, we try to take into account the maximum number of criteria and performance indicators, but in practice, it is not always possible. To increase the effectiveness of the methodology, the author conducts the structuring of the pentad, which allows to distinguish the main processes of PR activity of a public authority. The assessment of each component of the pentad is a separate study in which we can identify the relevant PR activity processes that require adjustment.

Analysis of Performance of Automotive Exhaust Muffler Based on ANSYS Finite Element

2014 ◽  
Vol 509 ◽  
pp. 118-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Hui Ma ◽  
Peng Guo
Keyword(s):  
Power Loss ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Engine Exhaust ◽  
Experiment Method ◽  
Exhaust Noise ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Analysis Of Performance ◽  
Performance Research ◽  
Engine Power

At present, the control of the automobile engine exhaust noise is mainly installed exhaust muffler. Muffler design and performance research mainly around the silencing performance and the influence to engine power loss. This article built the 3d modeling of automobile exhaust muffler and through simulation analysis obtained the muffler internal acoustic pressure distribution and changes of insertion loss with frequency. Predict the silencer muffler performance as well as the influence on engine power loss. Provide a reference basis for the design of the silencer and optimization. Compared to the traditional experiment method, the method in this article has the advantages of short cycle, low cost.

The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Musical Time ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Profound Insight

As the art that calls most attention to temporality, music provides us with profound insight into the nature of time, and time equally offers us one of the richest lenses through which to interrogate musical practice and thought. In this volume, musical time, arrayed across a spectrum of genres and performance/compositional contexts is explored from a multiplicity of perspectives. The contributions to the volume all register the centrality of time to our understanding of music and music-making and offer perspectives on time in music, particularly though not exclusively attending to contemporary forms of musical work. In sharing insights drawn from philosophy, music theory, ethnomusicology, psychology of performance and cultural studies, the book articulates a range of understandings on the metrics, politics and socialities woven into musical time.

Caccini’s Stages: Identity and Performance Space in the Late Cinquecento Court

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL MARKHAM
Keyword(s):  
Abstract Space ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Physical Transformation ◽  
And Performance

Celebrated performer Giulio Caccini's life as a court musician throws light on the ways in which the soloist formulated and reformulated his/her own identity in order to fit within each of the spaces used for music. Tracing the documented performances associated with Caccini, one can map them onto a continuum of spaces from the most public to the most private. Caccini's successful passage into the more intimate spaces required him to re-form himself as the inheritor of the century-old tradition of the intimate vocal improvvisatori, a stylistic and physical transformation that was, in a sense, his life's work. This performative conception of his musical work is a potent reminder of the ambiguous status of solo song at the beginning of the Seicento, perched between the abstract space of the printed score and the traditional space of the court chamber.

scholarly journals Animations in Cross-Platform Mobile Applications: An Evaluation of Tools, Metrics and Performance

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 2081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Biørn-Hansen ◽  
Tor-Morten Grønli ◽  
Gheorghita Ghinea
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Memory Usage ◽  
Performance Profiling ◽  
App Development ◽  
Cpu Usage ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Platform Development ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

Along with the proliferation of high-end and performant mobile devices, we find that the inclusion of visually animated user interfaces are commonplace, but that research on their performance is scarce. Thus, for this study, eight mobile apps have been developed for scrutiny and assessment to report on the device hardware impact and penalties caused by transitions and animations, with an emphasis on apps generated using cross-platform development frameworks. The tasks we employ for animation performance measuring, are those of (i) a complex animation consisting of multiple elements, (ii) the opening sequence of a side menu navigation pattern, and (iii) a transition animation during in-app page navigation. We employ multiple performance profiling tools, and scrutinize metrics including frames per second (FPS), CPU usage, device memory usage and GPU memory usage, all to uncover the impact caused by executing transitions and animations. We uncover important differences in device hardware utilization during animations across the different cross-platform technologies employed. Additionally, Android and iOS are found to differ greatly in terms of memory consumption, CPU usage and rendered FPS, a discrepancy that is true for both the native and cross-platform apps. The findings we report are indeed factors contributing to the complexity of app development.

Water quality and performance evaluation at seawater reverse osmosis plants through the use of advanced analytical tools

Desalination ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 203 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 243-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Leparc ◽  
Sophie Rapenne ◽  
Claude Courties ◽  
Philippe Lebaron ◽  
Jean Philippe Croué ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Seawater Reverse Osmosis ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Analytical Tools

scholarly journals Monteverdi, the 1610 Vespers and the Beginnings of the Modern Musical Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-50
Author(s):  
John Butt
Keyword(s):  
Musical Work ◽  
Original Performance ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Actual Service ◽  
Listening Experience

ABSTRACTThe elevated status of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers over the last century provides the starting point for an enquiry into which factors render it so durable. In going against the grain of recent attempts to discern the possible liturgical context for its original performance, this study claims that the collection as a whole (components of which undoubtedly had liturgical origins) can only be exemplary. Moreover, Monteverdi, in his intense engagement with the impersonation of liturgical chanting, has effectively rendered it the analogue of an actual service. Several features suggest that he is capturing something of the listening experience of a liturgy, complete with its distortions and memories. As a collection that is ‘about’ Vespers and which doubles the experience one might be having, this has something in common with the ‘musical work’ as defined by later classical practice, and its very religiosity resonates with the secularized ideology of musical autonomy.

Emotions, Perceived Qualities, and Performance of Rugby Players

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina D’Urso ◽  
Andreina Petrosso ◽  
Claudio Robazza
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Performance Profiling ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Predicting Performance ◽  
Optimal Functioning ◽  
Emotion Model ◽  
External Events ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Rugby Players

This study was mainly designed to contrast the Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF) emotion model and the performance profiling approach in predicting performance of rugby players based on normative, individualized, situational, and relatively stable characteristics. Pregame assessments were accomplished in 33 male Italian rugby players of a top-level team over a whole championship, and individual interviews were conducted at the end of the season. Performance differentiation and discrimination between athletes were reached on relatively stable qualities (i.e., constructs), according to predictions within the performance profile framework. Study findings also revealed that emotions modify widely during the game because of external events (e.g., behaviors of teammates or opponents) or individual behaviors (e.g., individual faults). In conclusion, findings add support to the contention that extending the IZOF model to other physical or performance related components would require situational rather than relatively stable qualities. On the other hand, the concept of zones extended to constructs seems beneficial for practical purposes.

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