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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.
In Musical Form, Forms, and Formenlehre, three eminent music
theorists reflect on the fundamentals of "musical form." They
discuss how to analyze form in music and question the relevance of
analytical theories and methods in general. They illustrate their
basic concepts andc oncerns by offering some concrete analyses of
works by Mozart (Idomeneo Overture, Jupiter Symphony) and Beethoven
(First and Pastoral Symphony, Egmont Overture, and Die Ruinen von
Athen Overture).
The volume is divided into three parts, focusing on Caplin's
"theory of formal functions," Hepokoski's concept of "dialogic
form," and Webster's method of "multivalent analysis" respectively.
Each part begins with a basic essay by one of the three authors.
Subsequently, the two opposing authors comment on issues and
analyses they consider to be problematic or underdeveloped, in a
style that ranges from the gently critical to the overtly
polemical. Finally, the author of the initial essay is given the
opportunity to reply to the comments, and to further refine his own
fundamental ideas on musical form.
In the early 20th century, a new and distinctive concept of the
audience rose to prominence. The audience was seen as a mass -- a
large collection of people mostly unknown to one another -- that
was unified through exposure to media. This construct offered a
pragmatic way to map audiences that was relevant to industry,
government, and social theorists. In a relatively short period of
time, it became the dominant model for studying the audience.
Today, it is so pervasive that most people simply take it for
granted.
USE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... Recently,
media scholars have reopened inquiry into the meaning of
"audience." They question the utility of the mass audience concept,
characterizing it as insensitive to differences among audience
members inescapably bound up with discredited notions of mass
society, or serving only a narrow set of industrial interests. The
authors of this volume find that these assertions are often false
and unwarranted either by the historical record or by contemporary
industry practice.
Instead, they argue for a rediscovery of the dominant model by
summarizing and critiquing the very considerable body of literature
on audience behavior, and by demonstrating different ways of
analyzing mass audiences. Further, they provide a framework for
understanding the future of the audience in the new media
environment, and suggest how the concept of mass audience can
illuminate research on media effects, cultural studies, and media
policy.
In the early 20th century, a new and distinctive concept of the
audience rose to prominence. The audience was seen as a mass -- a
large collection of people mostly unknown to one another -- that
was unified through exposure to media. This construct offered a
pragmatic way to map audiences that was relevant to industry,
government, and social theorists. In a relatively short period of
time, it became the dominant model for studying the audience.
Today, it is so pervasive that most people simply take it for
granted.
USE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... Recently,
media scholars have reopened inquiry into the meaning of
"audience." They question the utility of the mass audience concept,
characterizing it as insensitive to differences among audience
members inescapably bound up with discredited notions of mass
society, or serving only a narrow set of industrial interests. The
authors of this volume find that these assertions are often false
and unwarranted either by the historical record or by contemporary
industry practice.
Instead, they argue for a rediscovery of the dominant model by
summarizing and critiquing the very considerable body of literature
on audience behavior, and by demonstrating different ways of
analyzing mass audiences. Further, they provide a framework for
understanding the future of the audience in the new media
environment, and suggest how the concept of mass audience can
illuminate research on media effects, cultural studies, and media
policy.
In October, 1975, the International Haydn Conference was held in
Washington, D.C., during the last eight days of the Haydn Festival
at Kennedy Center. Scholars and musicians from all over the world
were brought together for the conference, participating in panel
discussions, round tables, and workshops. This collection of Haydn
studies is the meticulously edited result of those activities.
Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles
Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi,
and Stockhausen. Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is
perhaps the single most influential writer on music of the past
half-century. While Rosen's vast range as a writer and performer is
encyclopedic, it has focused particularly on theliving "canonical"
repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness
and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challenging
work, Variations on the Canon offers original essays by some of the
world's most eminent musical scholars. Contributors address such
issues as style and compositional technique, genre, influence and
modeling, and reception history; develop insights afforded by close
examination of compositional sketches; and consider what language
and metaphors might most meaningfully convey insights into music.
However diverse the modes of inquiry, each essay sheds new light on
the works of those composers posterity has deemed central to the
modern Western musical tradition. Contributors: Pierre Boulez,
Scott Burnham, Elliott Carter, Robert Curry, Walter Frisch, David
Gable, Philip Gossett, Jeffrey Kallberg, Joseph Kerman, Richard
Kramer, William Kinderman, Lewis Lockwood, Sir Charles Mackerras,
Robert L. Marshall, Robert P. Morgan, Charles Rosen, Julian
Rushton, David Schulenberg, Laszlo Somfai, Leo Treitler, James
Webster, and Robert Winter. Robert Curry is principalof the
Conservatorium High School and honorary senior lecturer in the
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney; David Gable is
Assistant Professor of Music at Clark-Atlanta University; Robert L.
Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus
of Music at Brandeis University.
This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known
team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development
of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of
the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers
and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the
topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to
French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender,
nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as
close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di
Figaro.
This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music.
It argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic
instrumental works are 'through-composed' in the sense that their
several movements are bound together into a cycle. This cyclic
integration is articulated, among other ways, by the 'progressive'
form of individual movements, structural and gestural links between
the movements, and extramusical associations. Central to the study
is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the 'Farewell'
Symphony, No. 45 in F sharp minor (1772). The analysis is
distinguished by its systematic use of different methods (Toveyan
formalism, Schenkerian voice leading, Schoenbergian developing
variation) to elucidate the work's overall coherence. The work's
unique musical processes, in turn, suggest an interpretation of the
entire piece (not merely the famous 'farewell' finale) in terms of
the familiar programmatic story of the musicians' wish to leave
Castle Eszterhaza. In a book which relates systematically the
results of analysis and interpretation, Professor Webster
challenges the concept of 'classical style' which, he argues has
distorted our understanding of Haydn's development, and he stresses
the need for a greater appreciation of Haydn's early music and of
his stature as Beethoven's equal.
This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known
team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development
of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of
the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers
and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the
topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to
French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender,
nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as
close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di
Figaro.
This 4th edition of Ratings Analysis describes and explains the
current audience information system that supports economic exchange
in both traditional and evolving electronic media markets.
Responding to the major changes in electronic media distribution
and audience research in recent years, Ratings Analysis provides a
thoroughly updated presentation of the ratings industry and
analysis processes. It serves as a practical guide for conducting
audience research, offering readers the tools for becoming informed
and discriminating consumers of audience information. This updated
edition covers: International markets, reflecting the growth in
audience research businesses with the expansion of advertising into
new markets such as China. Emerging technologies, reflecting the
ever increasing ways to deliver advertising electronically and
through new channels (social media, Hulu) Illustrates applications
of audience research in advertising, programming, financial
analysis, and social policy; Describes audience research data and
summarizes the history of audience measurement, the research
methods most often used, and the kinds of ratings research products
currently available; and Discusses the analysis of audience data by
offering a framework within which to understand mass media
audiences and by focusing specifically to the analysis of ratings
data. Appropriate for all readers needing an in-depth understanding
of audience research, including those working in advertising,
electronic media, and related industries, Ratings Analysis also has
much to offer academics and policy makers as well as students of
mass media.
From the scorching center of Earth's core to the outer limits of
its atmosphere, from the gradual process of erosion that carved the
Grand Canyon to the earth-shaking fury of volcanoes and
earthquakes, this fascinating book -- inspired by the award-winning
Hall of Planet Earth at New York City's American Museum of Natural
History -- tells the story of the evolution of our planet and of
the science that makes it work. With the same exuberance and
expertise they brought to the creation of the Hall of Planet Earth,
co-curators Edmond A. Mathez and James D. Webster offer a guided
tour of Earth's dynamic, 4.6-billion-year history.
Including numerous full-color photographs of the innovative
exhibit and helpful, easy-to-understand illustrations, the authors
explore the major factors in our planet's evolution: how Earth
emerged from the swirling dusts of a nascent solar system; how an
oxygen-rich, life-sustaining atmosphere developed; how continents,
mountain ranges, and oceans formed; and how earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions alter Earth's surface. Traversing geologic time
and delving into the depths of the planet- -- beginning with
meteorites containing minuscule particles that are the solar
system's oldest known objects, and concluding with the unusual
microbial life that lives on the chemical and thermal energy
produced by sulfide vents in the ocean floor -- "The Earth Machine"
provides an up-to-date overview of the central theories and
discoveries in earth science today. By incorporating stories of
real-life fieldwork, Mathez and Webster explain how Earth is
capable of supporting life, how even the smallest rocks can hold
the key to explaining the formation of mountains, and how
scientists have learned to read nature's subtle clues and interpret
Earth's ever-evolving narrative.
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
Title: Travels through the Crimea, Turkey and Egypt; performed
during the years 1825-28, including particulars of the last illness
and death of the Emperor Alexander, and of the Russian conspiracy
in 1825. (Memoir of Mr. J. W.).Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and
documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also
included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of
trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and
the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Webster, James;
Noronha, Garcia de; 1830. 2 vol.; 8 . 1046.k.23.
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