Implementation of the Jewish Musical Tradition in the Opera “Uriel Akosta” by Valentina Serova

10.34690/116 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 118-131
Author(s):  
Евгения Романовна Скурко ◽  
Ангелина Васильевна Щевелёва
Keyword(s):  
Public Figure ◽  
Musical Tradition ◽  
First Time ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
Jewish Ritual

Статья посвящена малоизвестной опере «Уриель Акоста» Валентины Серовой - русского композитора, общественного деятеля, музыкального критика. Определяется идея оперы, очерчивается главный драматургический конфликт, а также рассматривается один из важнейших интонационных пластов оперы, связанный с еврейской народной и синагогальной музыкой. Выявляются особенности их претворения на уровнях ладовой, интонационно-ритмической и фактурной организации музыкального текста. В качестве примера претворения народной песенной традиции анализируется Колыбельная. Принципы речитации и кантилляции, типичные для синагогальной музыки, прослеживаются в Молитве Эсфири и Рахили. Однако наиболее последовательно данная традиция раскрывается в кульминационной Сцене в синагоге, где воспроизводятся структура и характерная лексика иудейского ритуала. The article is devoted to the little-known Opera “Uriel Acosta” by Valentina Serova a Russian composer, public figure, and music critic. The idea of the opera is defined, as well as the main dramaturgical conflict. For the first time, we consider one of the most important intonation layers of the opera associated with Jewish folk and synagogue music. The features of their implementation at the levels of modal, intonation-rhythmic and textural organization of the musical text as a whole are revealed. The Lullaby is analyzed as an example of implementation of Jewish folk tradition. The principles of recitation and cantillation typical of synagogue music are analysed in the Prayer of Esther and Rachel. However, this tradition is most consistently revealed in the culminating Scene in the synagogue, where V. Serova reproduces the structure and characteristic vocabulary of the Jewish ritual service.

scholarly journals The motif of establishment of relationships in the Karelian wedding runes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
V. P. Mironova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
Young Wife

Introduction: the ceremony of the Karelian wedding was accompanied by the performance of various folklore works, which performed a certain function and were a reflection of the ritual. The article, based on the texts of the Karelian wedding runes, considers how the process of change of the family and kin status by the bride after marriage took place in the folk tradition. The theme of parting with the parental home and kin is presented in the analyzed texts through stable motifs and images. Objective: to consider through textual analysis with ethnographic context the representation of the image of a young wife and the images of other figures exposing the establishment of new kinship relationships. Research materials: the archival and published variants of Karelian wedding runes recorded during the second half of the XIX – first half of the XX centuries. Additional sources are the dialectal Karelian dictionaries and collections of folklore texts of various genres. Results and novelty of the research: the result of the study is identification and description of the plots, motifs, poetic formulas and methods that characterize the status of a young wife in her husband’s home and describing the process of establishment of new family relations. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that the material of the Karelian wedding runes is used as an independent object of research for the first time. The analyzed names and the motif of establishment of new family relations are considered with the help of linguistic and ethnographic sources, which allows us to fully reveal their semantics.

scholarly journals TRADITIONS OF V.V. BIANKI IN THE WORKS OF OSSETIAN CHILDREN’S WRITERS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.Б. БРИТАЕВА
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
First Time ◽  
Folk Tradition

В статье впервые в осетиноведении анализируется влияние традиций русской позна- вательной, научно-художественной литературы, а именно творчества Виталия Вален- тиновича Бианки, на становление осетинской детской словесности, на развитие жанров литературной сказки, природоведческого рассказа, научно-популярной повести. На мате- риале произведений осетинских авторов познавательный аспект рассматривается как один из важнейших составляющих детской литературы. Произведения К. Дзесова, В. Га- глоева М. Купеева, Ч. Айларова, М. Дзасохова, Г. Чеджемова и др. пропагандируют знания о природе, обществе, человеке и его деятельности, способствуют расширению кругозора ребенка. Во многих отношениях современная осетинская природоведческая литература – это продолжение и развитие традиций архаического животного эпоса. Герои ее наделены двойственными признаками – человеческими и животными. Они – своеобразный способ разговора взрослого с ребенком о жизненно важных вещах, которые невозможно объяснить на языке абстракций. Проведенные параллели позволили обозначить границы преемствен- ности в тематических, нравственно-этических и эстетических исканиях осетинских авторов. На основе сравнительного анализа произведений Бианки и осетинских детских писателей прослежены основные тенденции и характерные черты развития осетинской познавательной и природоведческой литературы XX в., а именно: синтез научных знаний и фольклорных традиций (система образов, антропоморфизм, прозрачная мораль расска- зов и сказок, находящаяся в несомненной связи с народной традицией и т.д.). Сочетание различных аспектов детской литературы, как то: познавательность, занимательность, художественность, соответствует специфике детского восприятия и способствует вы- полнению главной функции природоведческой литературы: экологическому воспитанию подрастающих поколений. In the article for the first time the influence of the traditions of Russian educational, scientific and fiction literature is analyzed, namely, the works of V.V. Bianki, on the formation of Ossetian children’s literature, on the development of genres of literary tales, natural stories, popular science novels. On the basis of the works of Ossetian authors, the cognitive aspect is considered as one of the most important component of children’s literature. The works of K. Dzesov, V. Gagloyev, M. Kupeev, Ch. Aylarova, M. Dzasokhova, G. Chedzhemova, and others advocate knowledge about nature, society, man and his activities, expand the child’s horizons. In many ways, modern Ossetic naturalistic literature is a continuation and development of traditions of archaic animal epic. Its heroes are endowed with dual signs – human and animal. They are a kind of way to an adult conversation with your child about the vital things that can not be explained in the language of abstraction. The parallels made it possible to identify the borders of continuity in the thematic, moral, ethical and aesthetic quest of the Ossetian authors. Based on the comparative analysis of works by V.V. Bianki and Ossetian children’s writers the main trends and characteristics of the development of Ossetian cognitive and natural history literature of the 20th century are traced, namely: the synthesis of scientific knowledge and folk traditions (images system, anthropomorphism, transparent morality of stories and fairy tales, which is undoubtedly connected with the folk tradition, etc.). The combination of various aspects of children’s literature, such as cognitive, entertaining, artistic, corresponds to the specifics of children’s perception and contributes to the implementation of the main function of natural history literature: the environmental education of the younger generation.

scholarly journals Enthusiast bibliographer Vladimir I. Charnolusky and his projects (following the archival sources)

2016 ◽  
pp. 72-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Stolyarov
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Central Executive ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Russian State ◽  
State Library ◽  
First Time

The first in the series article on the multifarious activities of Vladimir Ivanovich Charnolusky (1864-1941), outstanding though forgotten Russian bibliographer, public figure and pedagogue. His professional career (before the October Revolution and during the Soviet era) is reviewed, in particular his service for the People’s Commissariat of Education and V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR. For the first time, data on the Russian State Library for People’s Education existing back in 1920ies, the project of All-Union Information and Bibliographic Bureau of the USSR Central Executive Committee Academic Committee are presented.

scholarly journals Ongoing “bernhardisation”: Alexander Schimmelbusch’s novel“Murau Identity” (Die Murau Identität, 2014)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Svetlana Novikova
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
German Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Austrian Literature ◽  
Thomas Bernhard ◽  
First Time

For the first time in German literature studies the article examines the novel “Murau Identity” (“Die Murau Identität”, 2014) by Alexander Schimmelbusch (1975) entirely devoted to the oeuvre and public figure of Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), one of the most important authors in the Austrian literature of the 20th century. The article deals with the representation of Bernhard’s literary style and his public mask in the Schimmelbusch’s novel. Special attention is given to the Schimmelbusch’s interpretation of the characteristic stylistic, narratological, and semantic constants of Bernhardian works. In the article we reveal two main forms of the Bernhardian word’s representation in the novel: parody and stylization. They correspond with two different narrative plans – first person narratives, one of which belongs to the journalist-character, the other one – to the publisher-character. The detailed analysis of the Schimmelbusch’s novel helps to complement the picture of the creative reception of Bernhard’s works in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Personal Narrative: Out of the Mikvah, into the World

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
Tova Mirvis
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Menstrual Period ◽  
Personal Essay ◽  
Religious Observance ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Evolution ◽  
First Time ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Jewish Ritual

Abstract In this personal essay, Tova Mirvis describes her religious evolution concerning the Jewish ritual of mikvah, or women’s immersion into a bath to attain a state of ritual purity. Her initiation begins before her wedding night, when she is accompanied by her mother to the mikvah to be purified before having sex for the first time. The practice continues each month, at the conclusion of her menstrual period. As the years go by, Mirvis begins to experience doubt about her religious observance in general and adherence to the practice of mikvah in particular, chafing at the requirement to ‘cleanse’ herself monthly. Mirvis writes that her discomfort over time leads her to experiment with other forms of ritual immersion and, eventually, she leaves the religious world that had been so central to her.

scholarly journals Migrant and Autochthonous Traditions within Udmurt Folksong (on the Example of the Siberian Udmurt)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Nikolai Anisimov ◽  
Irina Pchelovodova ◽  
Ekaterina Sofronova
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Musical Tradition ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Udmurt Republic ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
First Time

AbstractThis article* investigates, for the first time, the local musical tradition of the Udmurt of Chainsk district (Tomsk oblast). The overwhelming majority of migrants in this region arrived from the Sharkan district of the Udmurt Republic, in Siberia, at the beginning of the 20th century. For a long time they kept their original culture in an ethnically alien environment. However, at the beginning of the 21st century, their singing tradition started to fade under the influence of different factors (such as the disappearance of Udmurt rituals and festivals, as well as mixed marriages). The aim of this article is to compare the ‘Chainsk migrational’ singing tradition to the ‘Sharkan original’ musical tradition. The main collection of audio recordings covering the Chainsk district Udmurt musical tradition is conserved in the archives of the Udmurt Research Institute at the Russian Academy of sciences.1 It is comprised of fieldwork material gathered by researchers from the Institute in 1974 and 2006. We discovered new sources of audio and video recordings of the singing tradition in this territory, which allowed us to integrate more song samples. The analysis of both traditions reveals the basic genres of ritual singing, each of which has been examined from the point of view of the topic of the poetic text, the mood structures, and the metro-rhythmic and melodic peculiarities of their development.

scholarly journals All Roads Lead to Guča: Modes of Representing Serbia and Serbs during the Guča Trumpet Festival

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-470
Author(s):  
Marija Krstić
Keyword(s):  
Music Festivals ◽  
Brass Band ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
First Time ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
The Village

In this paper I research famous Serbian music event, the Dragačevo Trumpet Festival, better known as the Guča festival, by analysing on line photographs about the festival. The Dragačevo Trumpet Festival is one of the most famous music festivals in Serbia and one of the most famous brass band festivals in the world. Since 1961, it is annually held in the village of Guča in western Serbia. From 1962, the participants from other parts of Serbia came to Guča, while in 1963 for the first time the Roma players participated. From that time on, Roma remained among the best trumpeters at the competitions. However, during these fifty years, the festival always demonstrated and was conceptualised as the carrier of the Serbian folk tradition and culture. In my research I use visitors’ photographs available on one of the websites dedicated to Guča, www.guca.rs, in order to question how the festival’s photographs visually represent the Serbs. The main goal of the paper is to explain and show how Guča festival found its place in modern Serbia in spite of its rural, folk, barbarian and sometimes nationalist representation.

Annulate lamellae in the Sertoli cells of guinea pig testis after unilateral torsion of the spermatic cord

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 196-197
Author(s):  
J. Chakraborty ◽  
A. P. Sinha Hikim ◽  
J. S. Jhunjhunwala
Keyword(s):  
Sertoli Cells ◽  
Guinea Pigs ◽  
Spermatic Cord ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Annulate Lamellae ◽  
Spermatogenic Cells ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Structural Details ◽  
First Time

Although the presence of annulate lamellae was noted in many cell types, including the rat spermatogenic cells, this structure was never reported in the Sertoli cells of any rodent species. The present report is based on a part of our project on the effect of torsion of the spermatic cord to the contralateral testis. This paper describes for the first time, the fine structural details of the annulate lamellae in the Sertoli cells of damaged testis from guinea pigs.One side of the spermatic cord of each of six Hartly strain adult guinea pigs was surgically twisted (540°) under pentobarbital anesthesia (1). Four months after induction of torsion, animals were sacrificed, testes were excised and processed for the light and electron microscopic investigations. In the damaged testis, the majority of seminiferous tubule contained a layer of Sertoli cells with occasional spermatogonia (Fig. 1). Nuclei of these Sertoli cells were highly pleomorphic and contained small chromatinic clumps adjacent to the inner aspect of the nuclear envelope (Fig. 2).

Electron spectroscopic imaging and diffraction

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 706-707
Author(s):  
M. Rühle ◽  
J. Mayer ◽  
J.C.H. Spence ◽  
J. Bihr ◽  
W. Probst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Electron Spectroscopic Imaging ◽  
Magnetic Filter ◽  
Magnetic Imaging ◽  
Illumination System ◽  
Probe Size ◽  
Diffraction Patterns ◽  
Fritz Haber ◽  
Koehler Illumination ◽  
First Time

A new Zeiss TEM with an imaging Omega filter is a fully digitized, side-entry, 120 kV TEM/STEM instrument for materials science. The machine possesses an Omega magnetic imaging energy filter (see Fig. 1) placed between the third and fourth projector lens. Lanio designed the filter and a prototype was built at the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin, Germany. The imaging magnetic filter allows energy-filtered images or diffraction patterns to be recorded without scanning using efficient area detection. The energy dispersion at the exit slit (Fig. 1) results in ∼ 1.5 μm/eV which allows imaging with energy windows of ≤ 10 eV. The smallest probe size of the microscope is 1.6 nm and the Koehler illumination system is used for the first time in a TEM. Serial recording of EELS spectra with a resolution < 1 eV is possible. The digital control allows X,Y,Z coordinates and tilt settings to be stored and later recalled.

A Novel TEM Technique for Characterizing As-Grown CVD Diamond Films

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 956-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.L. Wang ◽  
J. Bentley ◽  
R.E. Clausing ◽  
L. Heatherly ◽  
L.L. Horton
Keyword(s):  
Diamond Films ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Growth Direction ◽  
Dark Field ◽  
Growth Surface ◽  
Specimen Preparation ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Diffraction Patterns ◽  
First Time ◽  
Microstructural Studies

Microstructural studies by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of diamond films grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) usually involve tedious specimen preparation. This process has been avoided with a technique that is described in this paper. For the first time, thick as-grown diamond films have been examined directly in a conventional TEM without thinning. With this technique, the important microstructures near the growth surface have been characterized. An as-grown diamond film was fractured on a plane containing the growth direction. It took about 5 min to prepare a sample. For TEM examination, the film was tilted about 30-45° (see Fig. 1). Microstructures of the diamond grains on the top edge of the growth face can be characterized directly by transmitted electron bright-field (BF) and dark-field (DF) images and diffraction patterns.

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