scholarly journals Modal Idioms and Their Rhetorical Associations in Rachmaninoff’s Works

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Equal Interval ◽  
The Third ◽  
Harmonic Language ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Way

In this article, I examine passages from more than a dozen works by Rachmaninoff—especially the Third Symphony, op. 44—in order to better understand the significance that certain modal idioms (diatonic and equal-interval) have in his harmonic language and to show the consistency with which he treats these idioms across his oeuvre. I describe three types of diatonic modal idiom and three types of equal-interval modal idiom and I outline their basic rhetorical associations in Rachmaninoff’s music: diatonic modal idioms are consistently associated with introduction, exposition, digression, and post-climactic activity while equal-interval modal idioms are consistently associated with intensification, climax, and destabilization. I consider the implications those rhetorical associations have for the analysis of entire compositions, and, along the way, I suggest possible avenues for future research on Rachmaninoff’s position within both the pan-Europeanfin de siècleand the so-called Russian “silver age.”

scholarly journals Fin-de-Siècle Rural Teachers in the French Third Republic and in Hebrew Galilee Moshavot

10.33496/002 ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
The Third ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Teachers And Parents

In 1882 modern education in both France and the Galilee began a massive and continuous penetration into rural zones, followed by deep tensions between modernist teachers and local conservative populations. Many similarities existed between those two seemingly unconnected rural environments. This article analyzes the essence and the significances of similar features of the above processes and considers whether they might be the result of transnational influences. In both arenas, tensions between teachers and peasants reflected open and hidden social, political, and cultural differences. Peasants could hardly understand the efforts teachers were required to invest; they saw in them threatening representatives of external authorities—the Third Republic in France or the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA), the dominant philanthropic association in the Galilee. Main contestations concerned religion, which, for the teachers, became a symbol of all the negative aspects of peasant societies. Teachers also made great efforts to implant notions of romantic nationalism into societies to which such concepts were alien. Such attitudes were translated into thorny conflicts of influence between teachers and parents in rural communities. Consequently, teachers remained in practice socially semi-excluded.

Capitalism and world (dis)order

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 257-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Arrighi ◽  
Beverly J. Silver
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Fin De Siècle

A sea change of major proportions is taking place in the historical social system forming the modern world, creating a widespread sense of uncertainty about the present and foreseeable future. In the words of Eric Hobsbawm, as ‘the citizens of the fin de siècle tapped their way through the global fog that surrounded them, into the third millennium, all they knew for certain was that an era of history had ended. They knew very little else’.

Pierre de Coubertin: sport and ideology in the Third Republic, 1870–1914

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-171
Author(s):  
H. L. Wesseling
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Organized Sport ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fin De Siècle

Organized sport was first developed in Germany in the form of the so-called Turnvereine, and in England at the public schools. It came to France later, at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite this, the modern Olympic Games was a French invention, the result of the ambitions and efforts of an aristocratic admirer of England, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. His ideas and attitudes were in many ways characteristic of fin-de-siècle France.

scholarly journals The criticism of language in one-acter cycle of "The Comedy of Seduction" by Arthur Schnitzler

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-112
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Yu. Korshunova
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Common People ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Release Of Information ◽  
The Way

The article deals with the issue of correlation of language and reality in the one-acter cycle "The Comedy of Seduction" by Arthur Schnitzler. It is underlined that this theme was on the front burner among philosophers and writers of the Fin de siècle epoch and was regarded rather negatively: the language seemed not to be able to highlight the outside world in a befitting way. In Arthur Schnitzler’s one-acter cycle "The Comedy of Seduction" the afore-referenced issue is strongly involved in difficulty by the confrontation of the common men and art people. It is demonstrated that the common people use the language for the release of information whereas in contrast the art people always grind their own axe using the language. In this case they have the bulge on the common men. The impossibility of language to be the way of highlighting the outside world is shown in the one-acter cycle.

Anarchist Terrorism in Fin-de-Siècle France and its Borderlands

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivien Bouhey
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
International Scale ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Propaganda By The Deed

In contrast to traditional historiography, which insists on the absence of organization within the anarchist movement and on the individual character of propaganda by the deed, this chapter situates anarchist attacks in the context of a more structured movement that operated on a local, regional, national, and international scale. This movement was not, however, identical to the “Black International,” the fantasy of a small group giving orders to disciplined operatives that was dreamt up at the time by, among others, police informants and journalists. The chapter shows how, although some attacks were indeed individual and spontaneous, others were carefully prepared by local, regional, national, and cross-border networks whose members benefited from active solidarity within the movement and together managed to terrorize the Third Republic.

scholarly journals Beyond the Boundaries of Realism Monstrous Islands and Literary Hybrids at the Fin de Siècle in Conan Doyle’s, R. L. Stevenson’s and H. G. Wells’s Fiction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Gay
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
The Way

This article explores the way in which at the fin de siècle, Doyle, Stevenson and Wells chose to set their works on marginal islands in order to spatially escape not only from the bleak reality of the modern world, but also from the constraints of realism, and to reconnect with more imaginative forms of writing. It thus aims to shed new light on the relationship between geographical space and literary aesthetics, and to demonstrate that the island space is especially conducive to generic excursions out of realism and towards the fantastic, the marvellous and even the monstrous, leading to the creation of eminently hybrid literary texts.

NEW WOMEN, OLD AND NEW

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
New Women ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Core Questions ◽  
The Way

DESPITE SOME TWENTY YEARS of scholarship in the field, core questions such as “what is a New Woman?” and “what is New Woman fiction?” still remain vexed and all too often need more precise definition. Yet one can say that for all the conflicts of meaning and emphasis between sexual and political, discursive and actual, or caricature and didactic, the feminist rediscovery of the New Woman during the late 1970s has not only opened the canon but has also begun a transformation in the way we understand the entire fin de siècle.

Origins of a Menschendarstellerin: Characterization and Operatic Performance in Fin-de-siècle Vienna

2019 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-82
Author(s):  
Melanie Gudesblatt
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Dramatic Performance ◽  
Acting Technique ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn fin-de-siècle Vienna frustrations with ‘lifelessness’ began to boil over. Unlike previous generations of opera-goers, however, the Viennese did not so much fear singers becoming automata as desire dramatic performance that foregrounded humanness and subjectivity. Critics increasingly fetishized vitality – manifested in characters with dramatic integrity and singers capable of nestling themselves in their roles – and by 1910 wanted singers to communicate their own interiority and ‘wilfulness’ as well. This article uses the reception of the soprano Marie Gutheil-Schoder (1874–1935) to demonstrate the growing currency of these imperatives. A controversial hire for the Hofoper, she was initially disparaged by critics as vocally ‘weak’, but the Viennese gradually ‘learnt to love this voice’ for the way in which it could be pressed into the service of the drama and her will. I explain her changing fortunes, arguing that opera-goers valued certain voices in accordance with evolving conceptions of characterization, acting technique and human subjectivity.

scholarly journals РЕМІНІСЦЕНЦІЇ ВІКТОРІАНСЬКОГО «АВАНГАРДУ» В УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ, ПОЛЬСЬКОМУ ТА РОСІЙСЬКОМУ ОБРАЗОТВОРЧОМУ МИСТЕЦТВІ ДЕКАДАНСУ ТА СИМВОЛІЗМУ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Досліджено вплив англійського мистецтва вікторіанської доби на творчість представників українського, польського та російського мистецтва межі століть. Проаналізовано відмінності у втіленні декадентських й символістських тенденцій, які були характерні для кожної з зазначених країн. Зокрема, розглянуто стилістичні рецепції мистецтва руху прерафаелітів та графіки Обрі Бердслея у творах митців об’єднання «Мир искусства», польських і українських художників-символістів, а також роботах Вільгельма Котарбінського як єдиного представника декадансу в українському образотворчому мистецтві.Ключові слова: декаданс, символізм, прерафаеліти, fin de siècle, Англія, Україна, Польща, Росія. The article studies the impact of English art of the Victorian era on the work of representatives of Ukrainian, Polish and Russian art at the turn of the century. In particular, the reception of the art of the movement of the PreRaphaelites and Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was found in the decadent and symbolist works of artists from these countries. By the way, essential differences in themes and images of Decadent movement and Symbolism among the works of Ukrainian, Polish and Russian artists are identified.Key words: Decadence, Symbolism, Pre Raphaelitas, fin de siècle, England, Ukraine, Poland, Russia.

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