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The Emotional Power of Music
How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states? In the past ten years, research into the topic of music and emotion has flourished. This book explores the relationship between music and emotion, bringing together contributions from psychologists, neuroscientists, musicologists, musicians, and philosophers
Voice Machines
An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine. Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebrity status on the operatic stage. Constructed through surgical alteration and further modified by rigorous training, castrati inhabited human bodies that had been “mechanized” to produce sounds in ways that unmechanized bodies could not. The voices of these technologically enhanced singers, with their unique timbre, range, and strength, contributed to a dramatic expansion of musical vocabulary and prompted...
O HOMEM COBRA
Sofia está no último ano do colegial, cheia de desejos, sonhos e insegura acerca de seu futuro. Ela vive uma vida pacata e sem graça na casa de seus pais.Desprezada por suas "amigas", Sofia espera que os estudos terminem logo para começar uma nova etapa, quem sabe, com sucesso e novas amizades.Infelizmente, ela descobre que sua amada avó está muito doente e, à revelia das ordens maternas, se muda para lá, por alguns dias, a fim de ajudá-la.E, por coincidência ou destino, acaba indo para o jardim e lá encontra algo que irá mudar sua vida completamente.Uma píton, de mais de 2 metros de comprimento, com exuberantes olhos azuis, rasteja pela grama. Após vários momentos de terror e medo, Sofia percebe que a cobra quer se aproximar de maneira inofensiva, então fica radiante, pois terá um bicho de estimação.Era isso que ela pensava...
Innovative Wastewater Treatment & Resource Recovery Technologies: Impacts on Energy, Economy and Environment
This book introduces the 3R concept applied to wastewater treatment and resource recovery under a double perspective. Firstly, it deals with innovative technologies leading to: Reducing energy requirements, space and impacts; Reusing water and sludge of sufficient quality; and Recovering resources such as energy, nutrients, metals and chemicals, including biopolymers. Besides targeting effective C,N&P removal, other issues such as organic micropollutants, gases and odours emissions are considered. Most of the technologies analysed have been tested at pilot- or at full-scale. Tools and methods for their Economic, Environmental, Legal and Social impact assessment are described. The 3R concept is also applied to Innovative Processes design, considering different levels of innovation: Retrofitting, where novel units are included in more conventional processes; Re-Thinking, which implies a substantial flowsheet modification; and Re-Imagining, with completely new conceptions. Tools are presented for Modelling, Optimising and Selecting the most suitable plant layout for each particular scenario from a holistic technical, economic and environmental point of view.
Algarve Building
Foreword by Adrian Forty. The Algarve is not only Portugal’s foremost tourism region. Uniquely Mediterranean in an Atlantic country, its building customs have long been markers of historical and cultural specificity, attracting both picturesque driven conservatives and modernists seeking their lineage. Modernism, regionalism and the ‘vernacular’ – three essential tropes of twentieth-century architecture culture – converged in the region’s building identity construct and, often the subject of strictly metropolitan elaborations, they are examined here from a peripheral standpoint instead. Drawing on work that won the Royal Institute of British Architects President’s Award for Out...
Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750
"Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world's most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an enviable place in the historical imagination. But its music-historical importance is less well understood than it should be. If Florence was the city of Dante, Michelangelo, and Galileo, it was also the birthplace of the madrigal, opera, and the piano. This is the only book of its kind, a comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. It recounts the principal developments in the history of Florence's contributions to music and how music was heard and cultivated in the city, from civic and religious institutions to private patronage and the academies. Scholars from sister disciplines and a general readership interested in the history and culture of Florence will find this book an invaluable complement to studies of the art, literature, and political thought of the late-medieval and early-modern eras and the quasi-legendary figures in the Florentine cultural pantheon"--
Mulheres de Hoje
Como a psicanálise de orientação lacaniana pode pensar as mulheres, e como podemos pensá-las hoje, ou seja, trinta anos depois da morte de Lacan, com as mudanças que o início do século XXI nos trouxe? Tratar o gozo feminino supõe encontrar outras palavras que remetam ao ponto de inconsistência no Outro, ponto em que não há solução pela identificação. Outras palavras que – esta é a nossa aposta – possam ser inventadas para tratar os impasses do real. (Cristina Drummond)
