Physical activity, exercise, and mental health of healthy adolescents: A review of the last 5 ​years by Eva Ruiz-Ranz, Iván Asín-Izquierdo

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O imaginário romântico nas sonatas para violoncelo e piano de Ludwig van Beethoven by Rodrigo Falson Pinheiro, William Teixeira da Silva

“…Dessa forma, ao ligarmos a análise musical com uma leitura histórico-estética, nossas conclusões apontam para uma redefinição de paradigmas estruturais outrora dependentes do dado estrutural (harmonia e desenvolvimento temático) tão somente. …”
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Keszthely ou Le château hongrois comme démonstration du savoir by François Cadilhon

“…His court architect György Rantz rebuilt the castle in neo-classicist and romantic style and Festetics organized regular musical and theatrical performances there. From 1817 he arranged twice a year literary festivity called Helikon in his castle. …”
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BLEISURE AND INFORMAL BUSINESS TOURISM IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE by Logistic MAKONI, Christian M. ROGERSON

“…Bleisure activities identified as significant are visits to friends/relatives, participation in religious activities, personal shopping and the enjoyment of sports, musical events and Harare’s night-time economy.…”
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El retorno a lo humano en Gravedad, de Alfonso Cuarón by Arturo Morales-Campos

“…Bajo una perspectiva socio-semiótica, el filme Gravedad (2013), de Alfonso Cuarón, presenta, dentro de su estructura significante, signos de diferente código (visual, musical, sonoro, lingüístico, etc.), que se agrupan en núcleos semánticos. …”
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Entre critique et poésie, les voies d’une écriture : la Cantata per Maria Magdalena (2017) de Jean-Yves Casanova by Philippe Gardy

“…., La Pantiera. This poetic and musical ensemble is part of the long tradition of texts dedicated to the legendary presence of Mary Magdalene in Provence, notably around the site of the Sainte Baume. …”
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Mel et sal. Suavité et sévérité de la voix dans Twelfth Night by François Laroque

“…In Twelfth Night, the characters’ voices, now acerbic, now suave, turn language into a real chamber of echoes when the sounds and songs of carnival, charivari, buffoonery and folly are alternately heard besides the sweet musical strains. Shakespeare’s comedy thus presents itself like an acoustic maze where identities and genres get blurred. …”
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The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…Duke Ellington and John Latouche made a number of pointed references to “highbrow” and “lowbrow” art in their 1947 musical Beggar’s Holiday. I argue that this dichotomy did more than classify; it also politicized the consumption and composition of art. …”
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La virtuosité comme arme de guerre psychologique by Aurélie Helmlinger

“…Within a system of national competitions, bands now compete in speed, loudness or musical difficulties. At a more local level, the sections—sets of identical instruments—informally compete in games focusing on the difficulty of performance. …”
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Rasga Coração, de Vianinha, e Hair: aproximação e distanciamento num contexto de contracultura by Éwerton Silva de Oliveira

“…Considering the plays’ formal and content structure, and the political and cultural movements of the 60’s and 70’s youth  the counterculture among them  in the North - American context and in the B razilian historical process (including the dictatorship present in Brazil in these decades), this article aims to analyze how the musical called Hair (1967), by the American actors James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and Rasga coração (1974), a play by the Brazil ian playwright Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha), represent the presence of the counterculture, with its innovations and contradictions, similarities and differences, in Brazil and in the United States. …”
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The Rape of Lucretia, premier « opéra anglais » de Britten ?  by Gilles Couderc

“…But the collaboration of designer John Piper for the scenery and of Ronald Duncan for the libretto, the resort to dramatic verse, the borrowings from Blake, Donne and Shakespeare, as well as the musical references to English oratorio and Purcell and to Britten’s own personal questioning contribute to making it Britten’s first “English opera”.…”
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Le personnel est encore politique by Claude Chastagner

“…Corridos, a popular musical genre among Mexican and Mexican-American populations, are part of a realistic aesthetic that for a long time made them vectors of social protest and resistance. …”
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Editorial by Nadia Nicola

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Genie oder kein Genie, ist nicht die Frage. Perspektiven auf Clara Wieck Schumanns Kompetenzerwerb by Janina Klassen

“…Some key questions of this research such as the actors, audiences, actions, artifacts, and sociocultural and material affordances of musical works can be connected to categories of gender studies. …”
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The library of the genius: The manuscript collection of Rasmus Christian Rask by Silvia Hufnagel

“…Three of them are discussed in greater detail in this article: Rask 16 (nineteenth century) contains the lexicon of Jón Ólafsson from Svefneyjar with Rask’s notes, Rask 32 (eighteenth century) containing Old Norse-Icelandic romances, and Rask 98 (seventeenth century) containing 223 Icelandic songs with musical notations.…”
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« Don’t Mention the War ! » : La vie culturelle à Dublin pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Alexandra Slaby

“…Nevertheless, a new perception of this thorny issue seems to be emerging thanks to a new musical which came out in 2004 caricaturing in a comical way an Ireland collaborating with the Nazis. …”
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Combined wideband speech enhancement method based on statistical model and EMD by Xuan ZHOU, Chang-chun BAO, Bing-yin XIA

“…A combined wideband speech enhancement method based on statistical model and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) was proposed.First,statistical model was used to eliminate the main noise component in noisy speech.Then,the residual noise was further suppressed by a post-processing module which is a speech enhancement algorithm with voice activity detection (VAD) based on EMD.The advantages of the two methods were combined effectively.The performance of the proposed method was evaluated under the standard of ITU-T G160.The experimental results indicate that the algorithm is more effective for improving the SNR in the different noise environments than classical statistical model approach.Meanwhile,in low SNR conditions,musical noise is reduced effectively,and the speech sounds more comfortable.…”
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Llegó la murga: una tradición carnavalesca del Uruguay by Héctor Sommaruga

“…Se analiza el fenómeno cultural de la murga, género musical cuyo ori - gen se remonta a la chirigota española y que evolucionó hasta conformar una las tradiciones más ricas del carnaval de Montevideo, en Uruguay. …”
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Polyphonies coloniales by Caroline Déodat

“…Thus, using the concept of polyphony is heuristic in order to show the irreducibly indexical dimension of this social practice — a poetic, musical and danced ritual — in that it refers to other discourses that have preceded it in history and belong to other enunciative times and spaces — i.e., the archives of the slavery and colonial period.…”
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Improved speech enhancement based on spectral subtraction and auditory masking effect by ZHAO Xiao-qun, HUANG Xiao-shan

“…Taking into account the masking properties of human auditory system and the uncertainty of the speech pres-ence,the novel algorithm modifies the log-spectral amplitude estimation and the speech absence probability（SAP） pa-rameter.Then,the smoothing parameters in noise estimation and prior SNR estimation are adaptively adjusted to modi-fied SAP parameter which reflects the degree of stationary of the measured signal.The change of smoothing parameters allows for automatic adaptation with various noisy environments and obtains the best trade-off.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has better performance of speech articulation without any perceptional musical-ity,compared to another modified spectral subtraction algorithms under the same level of noise reduction,and this supe-riority is more significant at very low SNR.…”
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