Lowell Mason's The Song Garden (1864–66): Its Background, Content, and Comparison to a Twentieth-Century Series

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-244
Author(s):  
Cynthia M. Colwell ◽  
George N. Heller

Lowell Mason's The Song Garden (1864–66) is a progressively arranged set of three volumes that may be regarded as the first music series books for schoolchildren. According to the publisher, the series is a “systematic, intelligible, and thorough course of teaching vocal music” (p. ii). Following Pestalozzian principles, Mason believed that students should first learn by rote before actually reading music. Following the singing-school tradition, each book began with a strong theoretical introduction in addition to singing exercises and literature for practice. A comparison with Audrey Snyder's The Sight-Singer (1993–94) reveals both similarities and differences in their approaches to vocal instruction.

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-346
Author(s):  
Achille Picchi

The cycle of melodramas Pierrot Lunaire op. 21 was written and premiered in 1912 and is one of the capital works of Schoenberg’s output as well as of the vocal music in the twentieth-century music. In this article we examine Nacht, the eighth melodrama, first of the second part, due to its relationships on text-music as a factor of influence in the perception and performance of the work. And we also examine the numerical relations that were so dear to the composer.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
John W De Gruchy

Nelson Mandela and Dietrich Bonhoeffer have become twentieth century icons of resistance against illegitimate regimes and oppression. Both of them were committed makers of peace who were forced by circumstances to engage in violent resistance, the one in an armed struggle and the other in a plot to assassinate a dictator. This recourse to violent means in extraordinary circumstances was driven by moral and strategic considerations that followed a similar logic, even though their contexts were different in important respects. In this essay, we explore these similarities and differences, as well as their reasons for engaging in violent action, and offer certain propositions based on their narrative for responding to political oppression and the call for regime change today.


Chapter 1 explores what tourism policing and private security are and how they differ from other forms of policing. The chapter provides a brief historical overview of American tourism policing in the late twentieth century and twenty-first century. The chapter addresses the similarities and differences between tourism policing and community policing, how they influence each other and where they separate. Finally, this chapter provides a literary overview of the pertinent literature that regarding tourism policing and addresses the lack of specific material in this field.


Author(s):  
Ilan Stavans

“After the expulsion” looks at the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, along with the rise of the Enlightenment, as decisive moments in which Jews entered modernity. The literature of Crypto-Jews in the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas is worth looking at in this area of study, especially the memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger as are the literary manifestations of Sephardic writers such as Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti, Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg, Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua, and Mexican writer Angelina Muniz-Huberman. There are similarities and differences in the relationship between the Ashkenazi and Sephardic branches in modern Jewish literature. Ladino is a language that evolved after the 1492 expulsion but lost steam in the twentieth century.


2007 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Jock Given

For a third of the twentieth century, the only way Antipodeans could talk with people on the other side of the world was by wireless. The submarine cables that traversed the oceans from the 1860s carried messages in Morse code, ‘telegraphy’, but not voice. From 30 April 1930, the wireless telephone service made it possible to conduct a conversation in real time between England and Australia. This article explores the old era of international wireless telephony at a time when wireless is again transforming social and economic possibilities. It examines the economics and politics of the era, the man most closely identified with the Australian services, the technology employed and the way the service was used, identifying similarities and differences between this period and the present.


Author(s):  
Edward Chukwuemeke Okeke

This chapter examines the similarities and differences between the immunities of States and international organizations, as well as their interrelationship with diplomatic immunities. It also points out the pitfalls of analogies among the various immunities. The analogy between the immunities of States and international organizations might have proved promising when international organizations came into existence in the twentieth century, but it is now fraught with pitfalls. In an attempt to restrict the jurisdictional immunity of international organizations, it has been analogized to State immunity, but such an analogy is inapt even though the immunity of international organizations had roots in diplomatic and State immunities. Although the immunity of international organizations originated as “a general principle resting on the questionable analogy of diplomatic immunities; it has become a complex body of rules set forth in detail in conventions, agreements, statutes and regulations.”


Author(s):  
Nader Sohrabi

The history of both modern Turkey and modern Iran have often been told through their founding figures, Atatürk and Reza Shah, whose state-building projects are often assumed to have been similar. This chapter compares the Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire of 1908 with the Constitutional Revolution in Iran in 1906 to point to both similarities and differences in the trajectories of these two countries in the early twentieth century. Both revolutions, it is argued, were foundational moments for the political development and processes of each country and are key to understanding the context in which Atatürk and Reza Shah emerged.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHE TRAÏNI

AbstractAfter a marked decline, protests against cruelty to animals in scientific experiments acquired fresh momentum from the middle of the twentieth century onwards. This article sets out to show that the analysis of emotions and sensitivities is best able to account for the similarities and differences between historically distant mobilisations. While late twentieth-century activists have revived an emotional register invented by their precursors of the previous century, the meaning they attribute to their revolt has been profoundly transformed by sensitivities that derive from a very different social status and a different range of affective experiences.


Tekstualia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Włodzimierz Bolecki

Witkacy, Gombrowicz, and Schulz do not belong to the same generation, but they create – each one differently – outstanding works of Polish modernism. Of the modernism that is the most important trans-generational current of the whole twentieth century, and which has lasted for a century already, because the problems and questions it raised more than 100 years ago have not yet either been solved or discredited. There is no doubt that each of these writers, individually and collectively, weighed down on the forms and themes of twentieth-century Polish literature. Their influence and meaning, however, go far beyond the domain of literature. Without Witkacy, Schulz, and Gombrowicz, Polish artistic culture and Polish intellectual life would be quite different.


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