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After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men, singing in
Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1.25 songs and 9.95 lines of
singing per play to 3.44 songs and 29.75 lines of singing, a
virtually unnoticed phenomenon. In addition, many of the songs
became seemingly improvisatory-similar to Armin's personal style as
an author and solo comedian. In order to study Armin's
collaborative impact, this interdisciplinary book investigates the
songs that have Renaissance music that could have been heard on
Shakespeare's stage. They occur in some of Shakespeare's most
famous plays, including Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night,
Hamlet, and The Tempest. In fact, Shakespeare's plays, as we have
them, are not complete. They are missing the music that could have
accompanied the plays' songs. Significantly, Renaissance vocal
music, far beyond just providing entertainment, was believed to
alter the bodies and souls of both performers and auditors to agree
with its characteristics, directly inciting passions from love to
melancholy. By collaborating with early modern music editor and
performing artist Lawrence Lipnik, Catherine Henze is able to
provide new performance editions of seventeen songs, including
spoken interruptions and cuts and rearrangement of the music to
accommodate the dramatist's words. Next, Henze analyzes the
complete songs, words and music, according to Renaissance literary
and music primary sources, and applies the new information to
interpretations of characters and scenes, frequently challenging
commonly held literary assessments. The book is organized according
to Armin's involvement with the plays, before, during, and after
the comic actor joined Shakespeare's company. It offers readers the
tools to interpret not only these songs, but also vocal music in
dramas by other Renaissance playwrights. Moreover, Robert Armin and
Shakespeare's Performed Songs, written with non-specialized
terminology, provides a gateway to new areas of research and
interpretation in an increasingly significant interdisciplinary
field for all interested in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
There are many books on individual countries of the Horn, but this
one is unique in treating the region as a whole, stressing
interactions among as well as within Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia
and, in turn, their relations with neighbouring regions of Africa
and the Middle East. The author summarizes the history of the
region from earliest times to the 19th century and then
concentrates on Russian and American involvements.
This book is designed to provide valuable insight into how to
improve the return on your investment when playing the lottery.
While it does not promise that you will win more often, it does
show you how to improve the odds of winning larger amounts when
your numbers do come up. So, when you do win that million-dollar
jackpot, you will be less likely to have to share it with anyone
else.
Among the intriguing topics covered are the most popular (and
the most foolish) combinations of numbers, why it is impossible to
improve the odds of any legitimate lottery, how popular (and thus
unprofitable) an attractive-looking ticket might be, why not to
follow the suggested numbers from so-called "expert advisors" and
why it is important to avoid winning combinations of past drawings.
With this book and a little luck, the dream of winning millions
might just come true.
Based on an ethnographic study conducted in a Greek community, this
book celebrates the small ways people teach and learn while they
are engaged in other, supposedly more important, activities. By
examining the intricate ways in which knowledge and skills of
everyday life are transmitted, it shows how family, community, and
culture shape the cognitive world of learners. Beginning with a
rich description of the community and its culture, the book then
focuses on six contrasting episodes of informal instruction. Video
and audiotaped scenes of learning to dance, learning to perform the
healing art of cupping, and learning about kinship, for example,
provide material for detailed analyses. The book demonstrates the
interplay of culture and learning by exploring how the cultural
theme of struggle and the use of different interpretive frames
shaped informal instruction in this community and how, at the same
time, processes of informal teaching and learning contributed to
the evolving construction of culture by its members. Interpretive
framing emerges as a key concept that studies of situated cognition
must consider. Since formal and informal instruction are closely
linked, the culturally specific ways of teaching and learning shown
in informal instruction will help all educators meet the needs of
diverse student bodies.
Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America provides in-depth
insights into the education and training of cultural managers from
interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. The book focuses on
the effects of neoliberalism on cultural policies across the
region, and questions how cultural managers in Latin America deal
not only with contemporary political challenges but also with the
omnipresent legacy of colonialism. In doing so, it unpacks the
methods, formats, and narratives employed. Reflecting on emerging
and contemporary research topics, the book analyses the key
literature and scholarly contexts to identify impacts in the region
and beyond. The volume provides scholars, students and reflective
practitioners with a comprehensive resource on international
cultural management that helps to overcome Western-centric methods
and theories.
This book provides new insights into the relationship of the field
of arts and cultural management and cultural rights on a global
scale. Globalisation and internationalisation have facilitated new
forms for exchange between individuals, professions, groups,
localities and nations in arts and cultural management. Such
exchanges take place through the devising, programming, exhibition,
staging, marketing, and administration of project activities. They
also take place through teaching and learning within higher
education and cultural institutions, which are now
internationalised practices themselves. With a focus on the fine,
visual and performing arts, the book positions arts and cultural
management educators and practitioners as active agents whose
decisions, actions and interactions represent how we, as a society,
approach, relate to, and understand ourselves and others. This
consideration of education and practice as socialisation processes
with global, political and social implications will be an
invaluable resource to academics, practitioners and students
engaging in arts and cultural management, cultural policy, cultural
sociology, global and postcolonial studies.
This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of
Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about
how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by
the Tsarist regime. It focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera
in the city of Saratov on the Volga, in particular contrasting the
outbreak of 1892 - widely regarded at the time as a national fiasco
and a transformative episode for the Russian Empire - with the
cholera epidemics of 1904-1910 when - despite completely new
scientific discoveries and administrative arrangements - Russia
suffered another national outbreak of the disease.
The book sets these outbreaks fully in their social, economic,
political and cultural context, and explains why a medical and
social disaster - which had long since been overcome in other parts
of Europe - continued much later in Russia. It explores autocratic
government, urban renewal, public health, and disaster management,
including the management of widespread public hysteria and social
unrest. The book further analyses the assimilation of Western
medical knowledge, and the resulting institutional and
epistemological changes. Overall, it demonstrates that Russia 's
medical history was inseparably linked to the nature of the tsarist
regime itself in its confrontation with modernity.
Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America provides in-depth
insights into the education and training of cultural managers from
interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. The book focuses on
the effects of neoliberalism on cultural policies across the
region, and questions how cultural managers in Latin America deal
not only with contemporary political challenges but also with the
omnipresent legacy of colonialism. In doing so, it unpacks the
methods, formats, and narratives employed. Reflecting on emerging
and contemporary research topics, the book analyses the key
literature and scholarly contexts to identify impacts in the region
and beyond. The volume provides scholars, students and reflective
practitioners with a comprehensive resource on international
cultural management that helps to overcome Western-centric methods
and theories.
After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men, singing in
Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1.25 songs and 9.95 lines of
singing per play to 3.44 songs and 29.75 lines of singing, a
virtually unnoticed phenomenon. In addition, many of the songs
became seemingly improvisatory-similar to Armin's personal style as
an author and solo comedian. In order to study Armin's
collaborative impact, this interdisciplinary book investigates the
songs that have Renaissance music that could have been heard on
Shakespeare's stage. They occur in some of Shakespeare's most
famous plays, including Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night,
Hamlet, and The Tempest. In fact, Shakespeare's plays, as we have
them, are not complete. They are missing the music that could have
accompanied the plays' songs. Significantly, Renaissance vocal
music, far beyond just providing entertainment, was believed to
alter the bodies and souls of both performers and auditors to agree
with its characteristics, directly inciting passions from love to
melancholy. By collaborating with early modern music editor and
performing artist Lawrence Lipnik, Catherine Henze is able to
provide new performance editions of seventeen songs, including
spoken interruptions and cuts and rearrangement of the music to
accommodate the dramatist's words. Next, Henze analyzes the
complete songs, words and music, according to Renaissance literary
and music primary sources, and applies the new information to
interpretations of characters and scenes, frequently challenging
commonly held literary assessments. The book is organized according
to Armin's involvement with the plays, before, during, and after
the comic actor joined Shakespeare's company. It offers readers the
tools to interpret not only these songs, but also vocal music in
dramas by other Renaissance playwrights. Moreover, Robert Armin and
Shakespeare's Performed Songs, written with non-specialized
terminology, provides a
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The complete third season of the American comedy series following
the misadventures of fake psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday) and
his cynical friend, Gus (Dulé Hill). The episodes are: 'Ghosts',
'Murder?... Anyone?... Anyone?... Bueller?', 'Daredevils', 'The
Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable', 'Disco Didn't
Die. It Was Murdered!', 'There Might Be Blood', 'Talk Derby to Me',
'Gus Walks Into a Bank', 'Christmas Joy', 'Six Feet Under the Sea',
'Lassie Did a Bad, Bad Thing', 'Earth, Wind and... Wait for It',
'Any Given Friday Night at 10PM, 9PM Central', 'Truer Lies',
'Tuesday the 17th' and 'An Evening With Mr. Yang'.
This book aims at providing algorithms for balance control of
legged, torque-controlled humanoid robots. A humanoid robot
normally uses the feet for locomotion. This paradigm is extended by
addressing the challenge of multi-contact balancing, which allows a
humanoid robot to exploit an arbitrary number of contacts for
support. Using multiple contacts increases the size of the support
polygon, which in turn leads to an increased robustness of the
stance and to an increased kinematic workspace of the robot. Both
are important features for facilitating a transition of humanoid
robots from research laboratories to real-world applications, where
they are confronted with multiple challenging scenarios, such as
climbing stairs and ladders, traversing debris, handling heavy
loads, or working in confined spaces. The distribution of forces
and torques among the multiple contacts is a challenging aspect of
the problem, which arises from the closed kinematic chain given by
the robot and its environment.
This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of
Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about
how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by
the Tsarist regime. It focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera
in the city of Saratov on the Volga, in particular contrasting the
outbreak of 1892 - widely regarded at the time as a national fiasco
and a transformative episode for the Russian Empire - with the
cholera epidemics of 1904-1910 when - despite completely new
scientific discoveries and administrative arrangements - Russia
suffered another national outbreak of the disease. The book sets
these outbreaks fully in their social, economic, political and
cultural context, and explains why a medical and social disaster -
which had long since been overcome in other parts of Europe -
continued much later in Russia. It explores autocratic government,
urban renewal, public health, and disaster management, including
the management of widespread public hysteria and social unrest. The
book further analyses the assimilation of Western medical
knowledge, and the resulting institutional and epistemological
changes. Overall, it demonstrates that Russia's medical history was
inseparably linked to the nature of the tsarist regime itself in
its confrontation with modernity.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book is designed to provide valuable insight into how to
improve the return on your investment when playing the lottery.
While it does not promise that you will win more often, it does
show you how to improve the odds of winning larger amounts when
your numbers do come up. So, when you do win that million-dollar
jackpot, you will be less likely to have to share it with anyone
else. Among the intriguing topics covered are the most popular (and
the most foolish) combinations of numbers, why it is impossible to
improve the odds of any legitimate lottery, how popular (and thus
unprofitable) an attractive-looking ticket might be, why not to
follow the suggested numbers from so-called "expert advisors" and
why it is important to avoid winning combinations of past drawings.
With this book and a little luck, the dream of winning millions
might just come true.
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