La Belleza necesaria. Manifiesto a favor de la Belleza en el sistema educativo

This manifesto argues for the importance of cultivating the fine arts in the education of children and their relationship with the cultivation of intelligence. Poetry, music, drawing, painting, and philosophy transmit Beauty, which is inseparably linked to reason and truth. Teachers must know how to use knowledge to light a flame in the minds and souls of their students, and how to transmit to the them the sacred fire of culture. To keep this flame, which is the search for Beauty, burning, the fine arts are essential.

SYMPHONY CONCERTO FOR PERCUSSION AND ORCHESTRA "SACRED FIRE 2008" BY TANG JIANPING: THE PROGRAM AND ITS INSTRUMENTAL IMPLEMENTATION

The article introduces the famous Chinese composer Tang Jianping's "Sacred Fire 2008" Symphony Concerto for percussion instruments for the first time. The composition inherits the principles of a classical concert, in which the idea of a competition between a solo instrument (or a group of instruments) and an orchestra is brought to the fore. The Concerto was written for a triple orchestra with a significant expansion of the percussion instrument group, which are represented by both European varieties and national phono instruments (small Chinese cymbals and Peking Gong), helping the composer to achieve unusual timbre combinations. The soloist's part is also assigned to percussion tools. The considerable expansion of the percussion instruments and their promotion to leading positions is due not only to special attention to their timbre and imaginative capabilities. Among the reasons is the author's desire to establish a connection with ritual music through percussions, which is extremely important considering his special attention to the history and culture of his country. The Concerto is permeated with symphonic development, as indicated by a number of specific features that are revealed through musicological analysis. Special attention is paid to the Concerto program, which was inspired by the XXIXth Summer Olympic Games, but has a deeper meaning — it reflects the worldview of Chinese people and Chinese history.

Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus

Chantal Fiola, Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality. Reviewed by Jonathan AnuikPhillip McCann, Island in an Empire: Education, Religion, and Social Life in Newfoundland, 1800–1855. Reviewed by Jerry BannisterGeorge E. Boulter II and Barbara Grigor-Taylor comp., The Teacher and the Superintendent: Native Schooling in the Alaska Interior, 1904 –1918. Reviewed by Sean CarletonCecilia Morgan, Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860 –1980. Reviewed by Ryan EyfordElsie Paul, Paige Raibmon, and Harmony Johnson, Written as I Remember It: Teachings (??ms ta?aw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder. Reviewed by Alison NormanDavid Fraser, Honorary Protestants: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867–1997. Reviewed by Mary Anne PoutanenAndrew Woolford, This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States. Reviewed by Brian RiceLinda M. Ambrose, A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW. Reviewed by R. W. SandwellFrançoise F. Laot et Rebecca Rogers (dir.), Les Sciences de l’éducation. Émergence d’un champ de recherche dans l’après-guerre. Reviewed by Normand BaillargeonMartine Ruchat, Édouard Claparède. À quoi sert l’éducation ? Reviewed by Alexandre KleinMathieu Ferrand et Nathaël Istasse (éd.), Nouveaux regards sur les « Apollons de collège ». Figures du professeur humaniste en France dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle. Reviewed by Lyse Roy