Georg Ruzitska: Introduction et Variations brillantes sur un thème hongrois, op. 14

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (62) (SI) ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
Zsombor LAZAR ◽  
Ignac-Csaba FILIP
Keyword(s):  
Musical Piece ◽  
Theme And Variations ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Stylistic Elements

In 2019 we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the death of Transylvanian composer, Georg Ruzitska. Living a long 83 years, he experienced the transition from the Classial to Romantic eras. This period’s myriad historic and artistic developments influenced Ruzitska’s music, inspiring the migrant composer’s composition of the Introduction et variations brillantes sur un tême hongrois op. 14. The work is one of Ruzitska's four unedited, unpublished cello pieces that lay in the form manuscript on the shelves of the Széchenyi Library in Budapest. This interesting musical piece is written for cello and piano in the form of theme and variations and represents many elements of the “verbunkos” style, the contemporary national Hungarian musical idiom. This paper seeks to provide a detailed description of the work, with an emphasis on highlighting the above-mentioned stylistic elements.

On the Prophets in the Fatherland (To P. A. Stolypin's 150th Anniversary)

2012 ◽  
pp. 152-155
Author(s):  
A. Tulokhonov
Keyword(s):  
Basic Principles ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
Political Economic

The article gives an assessment of P. A. Stolypin's political, economic and social reforms, their significance for the contemporary development of Russia, including the eastern territories. The author believes that the basic principles of the reform system proposed by Stolypin are relevant today and can become fundamental for improving the country's competitiveness.

The Great Reform and the Fate of Capitalism in Russia (On the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Reform)

2011 ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
M. Voeikov
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
In The Beginning

The paper deals with the problem of the establishment of capitalism in Russia in the late 19 - early 20th centuries. Using a wide array of historical research and documents the author argues that the thesis on the advanced state of capitalism in Russia in the beginning of the 20th century does not stand up to historical scrutiny, and the role of the famous Emancipation reform of 1861 appears to be of limited importance.

Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
Andrea Lynn Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
End Point ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
Major General

The centerpiece of New York State’s 150th anniversary of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was a pageant, the “Pageant of Decision.” Major General John Sullivan’s Revolutionary War expedition was designed to eliminate the threat posed by Iroquois allied with the British. It was a genocidal operation that involved the destruction of over forty Indian villages. This article explores the motivations and tactics of state officials as they endeavored to engage the public in this past in pageant form. The pageant was widely popular, and served the state in fixing the expedition as the end point in settler-Indian relations in New York, removing from view decades of expropriations of Indian land that occurred well after Sullivan’s troops left.

“Against the Background of Pushkin”: S.I. Vavilov’s Speech at a Meeting at the Poet’s Monument in June 1949

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 550-559
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Yu. Samarin
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Russian Scientist ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
The Press ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article introduces a previously unpublished speech of the outstanding Russian scientist-physicist, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, academician Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, which was delivered by him at the anniversary meeting held on June 5, 1949, at the monument to Alexander Pushkin in Moscow in connection with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the great Russian poet’s birth. S.I. Vavilov was a great connoisseur of Pushkin’s poetry and literature about him. In the second half of the 1940s, Vavilov actively participated in projects to prepare the anniversary celebrations dedicated to Alexander Pushkin and perpetuate the memory of the poet. Analysis of S.I. Vavilov’s speech, which, unlike his other “Pushkin speeches”, was not intended for the press, shows that in evaluating the great poet’s work, along with the use of cliches, traditional for the epoch, the scientist also took certain liberties. In particular, he did not utter the ritual words praising Stalin, the Communist Party and the Soviet State. The poet Ya.P. Polonsky quoted by Vavilov was not among the classics recognized by Soviet literary criticism, and the selected quote from him could be interpreted as a hint of condemnation of the surrounding Stalinist reality. Numerous fragments of the scientist’s personal diaries indicate his critical attitude towards the latter, in particular.

EARLY STAGES OF THE FORMATION OF TEACHING ABOUT AGRICULTURAL ORES (DEVOTED TO THE 150 ANNIVERSARY OF YA.V. SAMOILOV)

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-155
Author(s):  
S.P. TORSHIN ◽  
◽  
V.D. NAUMOV ◽  
G.A. SMOLINA
Keyword(s):  
Russian Scientist ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Early Stages

The paper is a tribute to the famous mineralogist, one of the founders of biogeochemistry, a leading specialist in phosphorites to professor Yakov V. Samoilov. The authors show the development of the outstanding Russian scientist as a researcher and a teacheк and emphasize Ya.V. Samoilov’s contribution to development of mineralogy, fertilizers industry, agrochemistry and agriculture of our country. The paper is written in connection with 150th anniversary to Ya.V. Samoilov.

Variations on a Theme by a Rogue A.I.: Music, Gameplay, and Storytelling in Portal 2 (Part 1 of 2)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Reale
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Theme And Variations ◽  
Scientific Experimentation ◽  
Game Developers ◽  
Variations On A Theme

This two-video series explores how the scoring to the video game Portal 2, published by Valve Corporation, not only helps tell the game’s story, but also comments on the game developers’ philosophy of puzzle design. The first video explores how the game’s title theme 9999999, including its texture, voice leadings, and chord qualities, musically enacts dual aspects of the character of the game’s central antagonist GlaDOS: once human, her personality was uploaded into a computer mainframe where she has become a sociopathic, homicidal artificial intelligence who takes delight in subjecting humans to hazardous scientific experimentation. The second video demonstrates that 9999999 serves as the theme for a set of double variations in the game’s middle act. Since Valve’s philosophy of player training centers on iterative puzzle-design that systematically increase in complexity, and the musical accompaniments for these puzzles feature coordinated developments in musical complexity, the scoring here lets us parse the puzzle design into a kind of set of gameplay theme-and-variations.

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