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An interdisciplinary study of the interconnected subtexts of erotic attraction, illness, and death in several 19th- and 20th-century operatic texts. This is an examination of how opera uses the singing body to give voice to the suffering person. It presents medical and literary sources to make sense of the changing depiction of disease in opera.
This volume describes in detail teaching philosophies, curricular structures, research approaches and organizational models used in European countries. It offers concrete teaching strategies and examples: from individual tutorials to large classes, from face-to-face to web-based teaching, and addresses educational and cultural differences between writing instruction in Europe and the US.
George Whitefield Chadwick (18541931), a Massachusetts native identified with the so-called second New England School of composers, is among the most important and creative American composers in the generation that bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Trained in part in Germany, he spent much of his working life educating other musicians at the New England Conservatory of Music, which he led from 1897 until his death. Chadwick fashioned a compelling individual musical voice rooted in a Euro-American musical idiom; his orchestral and chamber music was performed with some frequency in his own day and has been revived in ours. His opera The Padrone, set to a libretto by David K...
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WRITING PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors of its program profiles show how innovators at a diverse range of universities on six continents have dealt creatively over many years with day-to-day and long-range issues affecting how students across disciplines and languages grow as communicators and learners.
Das Adjektiv 'professionell' ist schnell zu Hand, wenn es um die qualitative Einschätzung von populärmusikalischen Handlungen und Produkten geht. Sei es, dass etwas 'professionell gemacht' ist, sich im musikalischen Handeln eine 'professionelle Haltung' widerspiegelt oder der/die AkteurIn einfach ein 'Profi' ist oder zumindest so agiert. Das 'Professionelle' als Kategorie der Zuschreibung funktioniert in unserer alltäglichen und Fachkommunikation, es erleichtert uns in gewisser Weise die Verständigung über gemeinsam verhandelte Phänomene. Oft schwebt aber die ungeklärte Frage im Raum, wer oder was eigentlich bestimmt, wer oder was professionell ist. Unter diesem Themenschwerpunkt sind Beiträge aus der Musikpädagogik, der Musikwirtschaftsforschung, der Soziologie, der historischen Musikwissenschaft und der Popmusikforschung versammelt.