Performing rustics: pastoral moments and masques in Henry Purcell’s King Arthur (1691) and Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana (1953) by Catherine HOFFMANN

“…They invite reflection on the relation between the pastoral texts and their musical settings, and raise the question of what constitutes “pastoral” music. …”
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The Black Arts Movement Reprise: Television and Black Art in the 21st Century by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar

“…It was represented by a rich cross section of artistic work, often forged by young urban artists in genres as diverse as music, dance, visual arts, literature and theatre. …”
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Un opéra français d’après la Salomé de Wilde, l’appropriation d’un drame by Déborah Bonin

“…These different questions allow us to establish how the composer, before setting the text to music, came to understand the playwright’s work in order to write his own libretto.…”
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When Durga Strikes. The Affective Space of Kolkata’s Holy Festival by Federico De Matteis

“…The colourful marquees host rituals and music, flooding urban space with a festive atmosphere that has become a hallmark of Kolkata, attracting large crowds of visitors and tourists who are interested in the folk festival and in its religious connotation. …”
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Le silence et le cri : Salomé, d’Oscar­­ Wilde à Richard Strauss by Pascal Aquien

“…Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera can be considered as the acme of the literary, pictorial and musical currents that have been exploring the theme of Salome since the Middle Ages. …”
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La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien by Liliane Lascoux

“…If the libretto is unfaithful to the letter of the source, the music pays homage to its spirit and conveys the heroic and legendary aspect of the drama with an extended, inventive and attentive orchestration, thus indicating a decisive step in the “Rossinian Revolution” with the development of a pastoral style, one of the bases of Romantic opera.…”
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Improved CPD based DOA estimation of nested array by Sibei CHENG, Xiao LUO, Bochou JIANG, Yuting WANG, Huanyu WU

“…In order to avoid searching the peak value in space domain, when estimating nested array’s the direction of direction of arrival(DOA), the canonical polyadic decomposition(CPD) was applied into the nested array, namely using the one time singular value decomposition(SVD), bilinear mapping and tensor decomposition to obtain the steering vector matrix and arrival angle.However, the existing CPD algorithm only can be applied in noiseless environment, the algorithm was improved by utilizing SVD two times, and was made to be applied in both noiseless and noisy environments.The simulation results demonstrate that in the same signal to noise ratio(SNR) and snapshot, the DOA estimation algorithm of nested array based on the improved CPD has better performances and less running time than the MUSIC and space smoothing algorithms.…”
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Berthe de Rayssac, muse et artiste sans œuvre by Sarah Hassid

“…By retracing the career of this forgotten personality, notably through her artistic training and practice of music, it is possible to describe this ambivalent figure, who combined the symbolic faces of the muse and the artist, paradoxically without an oeuvre. …”
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Cartographie du vide : les "non-lieux" de l’espace américain dans The Informers de Bret Easton Ellis by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…Published in 1994, The Informers is a collection of thirteen short stories which aim to explore the various facets of a certain Los Angeles social microcosm in the nineteen-eighties.The first-person narration, based on a deliberately minimalist paratactic structure which involves recurrent snatches of dialogue, moves through an endless succession of toponyms (Palm Springs, Melrose etc.) and cultural clichés (trendy places, music or clothing) which all seem to trap people and places within an imprisoning landscape—most aptly metaphorized by the Sunset Boulevard.Both huge and confined to the specific landmarks or "non-places" of an interlope society, this landscape provides an ambivalent area in which people are cast adrift, wandering like ghosts in some kind of existential nowhere described by Michel de Certeau as "un théâtre de passants".…”
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Examining the Impact of Repetition on the Eloquence of Bustan by بتول واعظ, رقیه کاردل ایلواری

“…At the end, a novel type of repetition in the area of semantics in Saadiâs discourse is introduced which reveals that this type of repetition is found in the area of semantics with the purpose of transferring information, meaning, and thoughts through linguistic functions than creating music and demonstrating aesthetic appeal in discourse. …”
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MEDIA USE AND HAPPINESS IN SERBIA by LJubiša Bojić, Maja Pavlović

“…When looking at television use, individuals that prefer programs such as cartoons, culture, music, fashion, science, IT and sports are happier than others. …”
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The migrant and refugee entrepreneur (of the self): vernacular modes of immaterial labor as (re)invention of the self in the destination country by Laura Alves Scherer1, Carmem Ligia Iochins Grisci

“…The cartographic method was used to collect data from interviews and participant observation in Porto Alegre (Brazil), exploring events-activities, key informants, and economic migrants and refugees from the global south who work with music, dance, food, fashion, language, and political-cultural representation. …”
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From Trinidad to Cyberspace: Reconsidering Ernst Toch’s “Geographical Fugue” by Carmel Raz

“…Ernst Toch’s “Geographical Fugue” was conceived of as a work for technological media, designed as a recording to be ‘performed’ by gramophone set to a faster speed. Perhaps uniquely in music history, this electronic work has had an almost exclusively acoustic performance history of more than eight decades. …”
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Analyse des Werturteils – Analysen, wer urteilt?. ›Qualität‹ und Qualitätsmaßstäbe in der Musikforschung by Nina Noeske

“…The article pleads for a considered reintroduction of a subjective perspective (including value judgement) into analysis and music historiography, especially where gender issues are concerned – in full awareness that there is no absolute value standard in art, that music cannot be weighed “like sugar and butter,” to quote Virginia Woolf.…”
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Indoor RFID localization algorithm based on adaptive bat algorithm by Liangbo XIE, Yuyang LI, Yong WANG, Mu ZHOU, Wei NIE

“…Aiming at the problem that long time-consuming and poor positioning accuracy using geometric method in the traditional UHF RFID indoor localization algorithm, an RFID indoor positioning algorithm based on adaptive bat algorithm (ABA) was proposed.Firstly, the phase of multiple frequency points was obtained by frequency hopping technology, and the location evaluation function of bat algorithm was established based on the angle information of multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm and the distance information of clustering.Secondly, the bat location was initialized by tent reverse learning to increase the diversity of the population, and the adaptive weight factor was introduced to update the bat location.Finally, the target position was searched iteratively based on the position evaluation function to achieve fast centimeter level positioning.Experimental results show that the median localization error of the proposed algorithm is 7.74 cm, and the real-time performance is improved by 12 times compared with the traditional positioning algorithm based on the Chinese remainder theorem (CRT).…”
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“aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambition makes you look [pretty] ugly”: Mass consumption and computer-generated art in Radiohead’s OK Computer by François Hugonnier

“…In spite of its ironic playfulness, OK Computer will not escape the commercial and technological mutations it scrutinizes: it is therefore acknowledging, in a performative way, the computer’s win over the band’s scope and music. OK Computer being thoroughly transmedia, all the elements (musical, linguistic and visual) surrounding its 1997 release are taken into account in this article, which analyses the paradox of mass-consumption denunciation, engages in cryptic decoding, and envisions this record as the first step in the band’s innovative adjustments to new technologies, be they musical or commercial.…”
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Analyse des emplois non locatifs de BY by Lionel Dufaye

“…The values differ depending on the nature of the interval, which can be a route (I came here by bus), a gradual process (it grew hotter by the minute), a concurring process (I know some good music to cook by), any form of counter-expectation (I was late by 10 days), a change of state (as in passives)... …”
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A Dinner Engagement (1954) de Lennox Berkeley : un opéra-bouffe anachronique ? by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…As regards Albert Herring, it served to a certain extent as a model for Berkeley’s opera as is illustrated by the way the text was set to music, by the use of the repetition of musical motifs, etc. …”
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Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Patricia Highsmith’s fifth novel, Deep Water (1957), revolves around three murders committed by 36-year-old Victor Van Allen, head of Greenspur Press in Little Wesley, Massachusetts, and a genuine aesthete whose interests include handset colophons, snails, bee culture, carpentry, music, painting, stargazing, and gardening. An esteemed non-conformist in an upscale New England community, Van Allen is initially tolerant of his wife’s serial infidelities but reaches a breaking point when he kills two of her lovers before strangling his spouse. …”
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Salome, an Obsessive Compulsive Myth, from Oscar Wilde to Richard Strauss by Jacques Coulardeau

“…Richard Strauss amplifies the text and the subject with his music and his German libretto.…”
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