Le muse in gara

10.31022/b225 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Domenico Paradies
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
The Future

Le muse in gara, a serenata composed by Pietro Domenico Paradies on a libretto by D. Giacomo De Belli, was a highlight of the Venetian musical and cultural milieu at its premiere in the Ospedale di Mendicanti on 4 April 1740. The performance, given by the Ospedale's all-female musical ensemble, enticed hundreds of esteemed nobles and foreigners, including a special guest, the future Prince-Elector of Saxony Frederick Christian. With so many prestigious audience members in attendance to hear the exceptional female musicians, the text and the context of the performance present an occasion of Venice's foreign relations being fashioned through the Ospedale and its musical performances. This edition of Le muse in gara offers a crucial glimpse of the importance of the Ospedale and its female musicians in Venice's political maneuvering, with an introduction that highlights institutional structure and performer contributions in relation to the work.

Music and Otherness in More’s Utopia

Moreana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (Number 197- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 180-209
Author(s):  
Stelio Cro
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Advanced Degree ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Original Class ◽  
Distinct Features

In several passages of his Utopia, Thomas More evokes a cultural milieu quite different from the current European one. Education and the arts are distinct features of Utopia’s “Otherness”, suggesting radical reforms and a much more advanced degree of civilization, based on the absence of greed and the presence of Christian charity. Students are motivated by an environment that excludes discrimination of sexes and encourages pursuing one’s vocation. Teachers are required to give an example of rectitude and justice. The resulting windfall of this system is a highly original class of educators, scientists and inventors, raising the standard of living of Utopians to levels unknown by the contemporary Europeans. What is particularly striking is the musical achievements of the Utopians. At the time when, at the beginning of the sixteenth-century, the most musically advanced countries in Europe are still playing monophonic music, we read in Utopia a description of musical performances that sound decidedly polyphonic.

China's Foreign Relations: The Long March, Future Uncertain

1999 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 650-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Yahuda
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Relations ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Standing

As we mark the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC) we have the opportunity to assess China's experience over five decades in accommodating itself to the outside world. It is an opportunity to take stock and to consider in the light of this experience what is China's current international standing and what may be said to be its agenda for the future with regard to the conduct of foreign affairs.

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