The Ideology of Competition in School Music explores competition as a structuring force in school music and provides critiques of that system from multiple philosophical and theoretical perspectives.
Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre.
In Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous, author Sean Williams explores the connection of liminality to musical culture by focusing on how performance practices tend to occur at liminal places and times, and often by potentially marginalized people who are, in fact, central to the expression of cultural identity.
Theory in popular music has historically tended to approach musical processes of rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, and form as abstractions, without very directly engaging the intimate connection between the performer and instrument in popular music performance.
We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challenges to this sound-based definition.
Each year, college graduates start jobs teaching elementary music, but not all of them are provided with the direction that they need at the beginning of their career.
Equestrian ballets (balletti a cavallo), although little known today, emerged as valued dramatic entertainments in early modern Europe, capable of demonstrating the wealth and magnificence of the patrons who commissioned them as well as the horsemanship and military skills of the noblemen who rode in them.
Eighteenth-century accounts of Vienna portray the city as one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in Europe, yet most scholarship about Viennese music at that time focuses on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, painting a disproportionately Austro-German picture of the Habsburg capital's musical life.
Topic theory examines the lexicon of conventions that emerged in the late eighteenth century through which composers evoked dances, marches, hunting, the pastoral, and the supernatural.
The explosive new book from Britain's leading investigative biographer, Tom BowerAs one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and Victoria Beckham have attained iconic status.
Each year, college graduates start jobs teaching elementary music, but not all of them are provided with the direction that they need at the beginning of their career.
"e;Intertextuality"e; is the overarching idea that all texts and conversations are linked to other texts and conversations, and that people create and infer meanings in discourse through making and interpreting these links.
This book represents a seminal collection of advanced research, novel methodologies, and transformative practices within the domains of water resources engineering, hydraulic engineering, and hydrology, with a strong emphasis on the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in civil engineering.
This book represents a seminal collection of advanced research, novel methodologies, and transformative practices within the domains of water resources engineering, hydraulic engineering, and hydrology, with a strong emphasis on the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in civil engineering.
Catholicism as Musical Discourse reveals the important role that French-language sacred songs, written primarily for women, played in the evolution of the Catholic Reform over the long seventeenth century.
The Art of Purposeful Engagement examines marketing in arts and cultural organisations as a form of cultural practice rather than a purely promotional function.
The Catholic Beethoven offers a new view of Beethoven and his religious music by demonstrating that both the composer and his sacred works were influenced by the German Catholicism of his era to a greater extent than has been thought.
In Catholic doctrine, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is the belief that Mary, the mother of Christ, was exempt from original sin from the moment of her conception, and thereby a co-redeemer alongside her son.
Simplifying the terms and phrases that make business reporting difficult, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to essential financial and business language for journalists.
Cet ouvrage analyse l'appropriation par les dramaturges africains post-coloniaux de l'histoire des resistances anticoloniales pour faire du theatre une veritable fabrique de heros nationaux.
Simplifying the terms and phrases that make business reporting difficult, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to essential financial and business language for journalists.
This book examines multimodal (im)politeness in telecinematic fiction and its humorous effects for viewers, offering new insights into the forms, meanings, and functions of (im)politeness in contemporary popular culture and audiovisual media.
This anthology examines non-professional performance in cinema, exploring how "e;ordinary people"e; challenge dominant theories of film acting across fiction, documentary, and realist media aesthetics.
This anthology examines non-professional performance in cinema, exploring how "e;ordinary people"e; challenge dominant theories of film acting across fiction, documentary, and realist media aesthetics.
Les Rencontres cinematographiques internationales de Dakar (RECIDAK) conservent leur originalite en s'ouvrant a toutes les cinematographies du monde et en proposant des cadres de reflexions structurantes sur des sujets en adequation a la fois avec les politiques et strategies de developpement du secteur, et avec la substance de la creation cinematographique.
This book examines multimodal (im)politeness in telecinematic fiction and its humorous effects for viewers, offering new insights into the forms, meanings, and functions of (im)politeness in contemporary popular culture and audiovisual media.
Der vorzeitige Ruheständler Kriminalkommissar Giebel erlebt zufällig mitten in München einen Notfall: Eine Frau auf einer Bank bekommt von einem jungen Mann einen Blumenstrauß zugeworfen und erleidet einen Herzstillstand.
This book is the ultimate resource for filmmakers who want to streamline their production process and ensure their films are completed on time and on budget, turning a film's vision into a reality.
