Ina Lohr (1903–1983) - Transcending the Boundaries of Early Music

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Smith
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Chamber Orchestra ◽  
Early Music ◽  
Early Music Movement ◽  
Schola Cantorum

<P>Although almost forgotten today, Ina Lohr played a significant role in Basel’s 20th-century musical world. In 1930, she became Paul Sacher’s musical assistant, helping in the preparations for performances of the Basel Chamber Orchestra, of which he was the director. Just three years later, she was one of the courageous pioneers who under the direction of Paul Sacher founded the now internationally renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. As Ina Lohr was instrumental in creating its program, her work indirectly had an enormous impact on the Early Music Movement. Through her biography, we learn to see Early Music within the complex cultural and religious matrix of her time, forcing ourselves to transcend our own boundaries to understand her life.</P>

scholarly journals The plague, a metal monster, and the wonder of Wanda: in pursuit of the performance style

Per Musi ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 79-100
Author(s):  
David Kjar
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Early Music ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
Musical Education ◽  
Significant Contributor ◽  
Modern Style ◽  
Early Music Movement ◽  
Early Music Revival

The claim of having achieved "authenticity" in performance has today almost disappeared without a trace. However, Richard Taruskin's efforts to disprove the premise through a series of articles in the 1980s still beg important questions, such as exactly what are the origins of the early music movement's performance style and which performers had a role in its transmission? Taruskin contends that Stravinsky transmitted the "geometrical," or modernist, Bach to the musical world, and that Stravinsky might have learned it from Wanda Landowska. Taruskin's accolade exposes more than a bit of irony within the early-music revival, since Landowska is seldom, if ever, acknowledged as a significant contributor to the development of the early-music "style" of performance, even though Landowska's recordings reveal a performer with a modern style, one that foreshadows 1980s early-music performances. Due primarily to the sound of her non-historic harpsichord, Landowska's influence, however, has been diminished, and her significant role was negated in the post-"authenticity" early music movement. This paper traces Landowska's central influence through an investigation of her Varsovian musical education, Parisian residency, and recordings. It recognizes and advocates for the contributions made by Landowska before the advent of the "authenticity" era.

Economic Views of L. Trotsky

2004 ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
M. Voeikov ◽  
S. Dzarasov
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Russian History ◽  
History Of

The paper written in the light of 125th birth anniversary of L. Trotsky analyzes the life and ideas of one of the most prominent figures in the Russian history of the 20th century. He was one of the leaders of the Russian revolution in its Bolshevik period, worked with V. Lenin and played a significant role in the Civil War. Rejected by the party bureaucracy L. Trotsky led uncompromising struggle against Stalinism, defending his own understanding of the revolutionary ideals. The authors try to explain these events in historical perspective, avoiding biases of both Stalinism and anticommunism.

Women's Parties in Israel: Their Unrecognized Significance and Potential

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Esther Hertzog
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Scene

Women's parties have played a significant role on the Israeli political scene since the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Moreover, women's parties had far reaching impact on both the status of women and wider society. However, the significance of women's parties has been underrated by academia and the media, and their potential prospects have been continuously denied. Women's antagonistic attitudes towards women's parties are in particular conspicuous. The article describes and analyzes this phenomenon.

Motet Cycles between Devotion and Liturgy

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Early Music ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
Design Function ◽  
Presentation Formats ◽  
The Rich ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Schola Cantorum

This book explores the corpus of motet cycles composed and disseminated in manuscript and printed sources of polyphony c.1470–c.1510 (including, but not limited to, the motetti missales). The different chapters investigate issues of textual and musical design, function, and performance, at the same time illuminating the rich devotional and cultural context in which this fascinating repertory flourished. About the series Since its establishment in 1933, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland / Basel Academy of Music) has been involved in the research of historical musical practice. The series Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Scripta presents topical subjects and research results mostly in monographic form, whereby a broad spectrum of issues and presentation formats is cultivated. The publications are intended not only for specialists, but also for students and interested persons outside the immediate field, and in this way encourage an in-depth occupation with the diversity of Early Music.

Postmodernism in Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Tesar ◽  
Andrew Gibbons ◽  
Sonja Arndt ◽  
Nina Hood
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Education Philosophy ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Philosophical Project ◽  
Multiple Discourses

The period of postmodernism refers to a diverse set of ideas, practices, and disciplines that came to prominence in the later 20th century. It is the overarching philosophical project that responds to and critiques the principles of modernity and challenges the established ways of thinking. It opposes the ideas that it is possible to rationalize life through narrow, singular disciplinary thinking or through the establishment of a universal truth and grand narratives that strive for the value-neutral homogeneity that defined Enlightenment thinking. Postmodernism questions ontological, epistemological, and ethical conventions, and it opens up possibilities for multiple discourses and accepting marginalized and minority thoughts and practices. Openness to diversity is a key outcome of the multiplicities arising in postmodernity across a range of fields, including, among others, art, education, philosophy, architecture, and economics. Through its rejection of the totalizing effects of metanarratives and their intentions to achieve universal truths, goals, outcomes, and sameness, the postmodern condition opens an ethical responsibility toward otherness, to allow for diversity, and thus to elevate those who have been subjugated or marginalized in modernity. Postmodernism has been playing a significant role in what sometimes is termed the equity approach in education. While postmodernism may be eventually overtaken by other “posts”—post-qualitative, post-truth, post-digital—it still remains an important part of philosophy of education scholarship and broader understandings and conceptualizations of education.

Sessions's Concertino

Tempo ◽  
1975 ◽  
pp. 2-10
Author(s):  
Edward T. Cone
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Chamber Orchestra ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Solo Performance ◽  
The University

‘A concerto of relatively small dimensions’ is Roger Sessions's own characterization of his Concertino for Chamber Orchestra. In a programme note accompanying the recording and (in slightly abridged form) the score, the composer explains how his conception of the work arose largely from practical, though artistically relevant, circumstances. The Concertino, written in 1971–72, had been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for The Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago, a group directed by the wellknown composer and conductor Ralph Shapey:… Mr. Shapey's organization is composed of players who, especially among the woodwinds, are accustomed to playing several instruments in their chosen categories. Since this work, designed as it is for an orchestra of chamber dimension, … by conception as well as by the demands of the medium itself, emphasizes solo performance, I decided to avail myself of the players' versatility and give each of the various available instruments a significant role to play.

Probability Theory on Fuzzy Sets

2017 ◽  
pp. 55-83
Author(s):  
Renáta Bartková ◽  
Beloslav Riečan ◽  
Anna Tirpáková
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Fuzzy Sets ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Fuzzy Set Theory ◽  
Multivalued Logic ◽  
Probability Spaces

Similarly as the Kolmogorov probability theory in the first half of the 20th century, the Zadeh fuzzy set theory played a significant role in the second half of the 20th century. In this chapter we present probability theory on intuitionisic fuzzy sets as well as probability spaces on multivalued logic.

Twentieth- and Twenty-First–Century Interpretations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen T. Harris
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Performance History ◽  
Early Music ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
The Third ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Early Music Movement ◽  
Historical Instruments

The performance history of Dido and Aeneas from 1950 can be divided into three distinct periods. The first (1951–80) concentrated on the establishment of an accurate score based on the earliest sources and was defined by two major performances in London in 1951. The second (1980–95), coincident with the growth of the early music movement, focused on a transition to historical instruments, performance practices, and vocal techniques and to smaller forces; it is represented by an abundance of audio recordings. The third period (1995–2016) is defined by scholarly and theatrical interpretations of Dido and Aeneas that consider issues of gender, race, sexuality, and colonialism. An array of recordings, videos, and scholarly writings demarcate this postmodern period of interpretation. Each of these periods is discussed in turn.

Domra and Chamber Orchestra in Concertos by Igor Rogalyov and Andrey Tikhomirov. An Alliance with a “Stranger”?

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
А.А. Упанова
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Chamber Orchestra ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Instrumental Performance ◽  
Chamber Symphony

Статья посвящена сочинениям известных петербургских композиторов — Концерту «Доменико Скарлатти» для четырехструнной домры (мандолины) и  камерного оркестра Игоря Ефимовича Рогалёва и  Концерту для домры и  камерно-симфонического оркестра Андрея Генриховича Тихомирова. Эти произведения представляют примеры взаимодействия сфер народно-инструментального исполнительства и  академического музыкального искусства. Ранее данная проблема не  рассматривалась в  отечественном музыкознании. Появление в  последней четверти XX века сочинений, в которых домра выступает в качестве солиста с симфоническим оркестром, в значительной мере способствовало расширению ее выразительных возможностей, а  также становлению и  развитию нового направления в  домровом репертуаре. Основными позициями сравнительного анализа концертов И.  Е.  Рогалёва и  А.  Г.  Тихомирова стали трактовка роли солирующей домры, различия в композиции и драматургии названных сочинений. Отдельное внимание уделяется вопросам исполнительской интерпретации. Автором статьи приведены нотные примеры, иллюстрирующие наиболее важные с его точки зрения идеи и положения. The article is devoted to the works of famous St. Petersburg composers — Concerto Domenico Scarlatti for four-string domra (mandolin) and chamber orchestra by Igor Ye. Rogalyov and Concerto for domra and chamber symphony orchestra by Andrey G. Tikhomirov. These works are examples of interaction of the spheres of folk-instrumental performance and academic musical art. Previously, this problem was not considered in Russian musicology. In the last quarter of the 20th century, compositions appeared, where domra acts as a soloist with a symphony orchestra, which to a large extent contributed to expansion of its expressive capabilities, as well as formation and development of a new direction in the domra repertoire. The main positions of the comparative analysis of the Rogalyov’s and Tikhomirov’s concertos were: interpretation of the solo domra’s role, differences in the composition and dramaturgy of the above works. Special attention is paid to the issues of performing interpretation. The author of the article proposes musical examples illustrating the most important ideas and provisions from her point of view.

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