Le roman anglais du XVIIIe siècle à l’opéra : la sentimentalité, Pamela et The Maid of the Mill by Michael Burden

“…From a musical point of view, the opera is not hugely important; in modern day terms, the lack of a single identifiable composer or compositional aesthetic makes it a problematical artistic object to assess today. …”
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« I Speak According to the Book » : écriture et logos dans Nixon in China de John Adams et Alice Goodman by Mathieu Duplay

“…In Nixon in China, composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman recount 1970s America’s historic encounter with Maoist China. …”
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Urbanidade e Justiça Espacial na cidade de São Paulo: metodologia de análise e subsídio para tomada de decisão no planejamento urbano by Katia Canova

“…Mapping is present in research in all its phases, whether it presents the map as an element providing historical data, or as a public good (composer of right) or as a means of analysis, investigation and data processing to support town planning decisions.…”
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Stylization of history in the works of N.V. Kukolnik by Alexandr V. Kubasov

“…Kukolnik’s inclination towards stylization is attributed to his life circumstances and his aesthetic sensibilities as a writer, establishing that the portrayal of the past in his artistic endeavors was connected and influenced by the work of his friends - artist K.P. Bryullov and composer M.I. Glinka. The stylization is closely linked to the phenomena of archaization and the writer’s inclination towards literary examples from the past. …”
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Perception and treatment of melancholy in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098-1179) by Eglė Sakalauskaitë-Juodeikienë

“… Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098-1179) was a medieval nun and an abbess, a mystic, a composer, a poet, an author of medical treatises, and one of the few women at the time who wrote both theological and scientific texts. …”
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Sound Richness of Music Might Be Mediated by Color Perception: A PET Study by Masayuki Satoh, Ken Nagata, Hidekazu Tomimoto

“…Musically naïve subjects listened to familiar melodies with three kinds of accompaniments: (i) an accompaniment composed of only three basic chords (chord condition), (ii) a simple accompaniment typically used in traditional music text books in elementary school (simple condition), and (iii) an accompaniment with rich and flowery sounds composed by a professional composer (complex condition). …”
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Schönberg, Dahlhaus und das Problem der ›emanzipierten Dissonanz‹ – Anmerkungen zu op. 15/14 by Volker Helbing

“…There Schönberg proves as a composer looking for new orientations (after the loss of tonality), whose way towards dodecaphony is all but predefined.…”
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“With a Little Help from my Friends”: Exploring Pseudo-Social Music Listening Experiences by Scott Bannister, Freya Bailes, Alinka E. Greasley

“…Extra-musical knowledge, such as knowledge of the composer, songwriter, or performer, was considered less important. …”
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Æsthetics and Politics: Italian Opera as Revealed in the Correspondence of James Harris by Donald Burrows

“…La concurrence féroce épuise Haendel qui décide que l’opéra italien n’a décidément pas sa place à Londres et cesse d’en composer. Entre les années 1740 et 1780, les sources sur la vie musicale à Londres sont rares, mais la correspondance d’un frère de James Harris révèle qu’une nouvelle forme d’opéra, plus légère, apparaît à ce moment : l’opéra-bouffe. …”
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‘Wisdom is a gift given to the Wise’: Florence Farr (1860–1917): New Woman, Actress and Pagan Priestess by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…To Yeats, Florence Farr was less an actress and a composer than a priestess and a bard. Farr’s method was inspired by her Golden Dawn rituals, when she already combined poetry and contrapuntal music, according to the theory of harmonic convergence. …”
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Æsthetics and Politics: Italian Opera as Revealed in the Correspondence of James Harris by Donald Burrows

“…La concurrence féroce épuise Haendel qui décide que l’opéra italien n’a décidément pas sa place à Londres et cesse d’en composer. Entre les années 1740 et 1780, les sources sur la vie musicale à Londres sont rares, mais la correspondance d’un frère de James Harris révèle qu’une nouvelle forme d’opéra, plus légère, apparaît à ce moment : l’opéra-bouffe. …”
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The Empty Bower and the Lone Fountain by Domenic Leo

“…French poet-composer Guillaume de Machaut’s complete-works manuscripts are illuminated with hundreds of miniatures. …”
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De l’espace incertain : trajectoire spatiale d’une innovation sociale « par retrait ». Étude de la composition de l’association des gîtes et refuges du Queyras (Hautes-Alpes, Franc... by Yann Borgnet

“…Alors qu’ils structuraient et équilibraient jusqu’alors son réseau-support, ce dernier doit alors se (re)composer autour de nouveaux acteurs et actants. Nos conclusions font état d’une évolution improvisée tendant vers l’agilité et la liberté d’action, avec la mise à distance progressive de l’acteur institutionnel. …”
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The Facial approximation of the controversial skull attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) by Cicero Moraes, Jiří Šindelář, Michael E. Habicht, Luca Sineo, Thiago Beaini, Elena Varotto, Francesco Maria Galassi

“…Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) is considered as one of the greatest composers of the Classical Period of music (ca. 1750–1820). …”
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Văcăreşti, poeţii by Stănuţa Creţu

“…Alecu, le fils aîné de Ienăchiţă, reste connu pour son aisance à composer des vers en différentes langues et ses sentiments fougueux qui l’ont mené à une disparition précoce, à trente ans. …”
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The German Days of Dora Pejačević by Domagoj Marić

“…After all, in the same period as Dora Pejačević, the Croatian composer Krsto Odak studied in Munich, but there are no known contacts between them.) …”
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Lilla’s Heritage. Cultural Sketches of the Vay Branch in Hungary by Lili Veronika Békéssy

“…The Vay family, from which Dora Pejačević’s mother Erzsébet (Lilla) hailed, played a significant role in shaping the formative years of the young composer, Dora. There is however, little research on that topic regarding the cultural heritage Dora inherited. …”
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« A Single Tone Coming Out Of A Vast, Empty Space » : John Adams, le contemporain au risque de l’anachronisme by Mathieu Duplay

“…The purpose of this paper is to raise once more the question of music and the “contemporary” in the light of Adorno’s argument and in connection with an American composer known for his keen interest in current events. …”
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The Seasons by James Thomson and the Baltic German Poetry about the Seasons in the Era of Baltic Enlightenment by Kairit Kaur

“…Some years before Thomson the famous Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi had created his violin concerto The Four Seasons (1718) and a German poet and senator from the city of Hamburg, Barthold Hinrich Brockes, had started to publish his series Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott (Earthly Delight in God) (1721–1748) in which he meticulously described many objects from and views of nature as God’s creations, inspired by English and Dutch physical theology. …”
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Dans la douleur des autres by Richard Bégin

“…Qu’il s’agisse d’une remédiation vidéo-ludique de l’expérience catastrophiste (via l’interface du jeu vidéo), d’une virtualisation du paysage cataclysmique (via l’imagerie de synthèse – ou le CGI – au cinéma) ou de la mise en circulation de scènes de dévastation (via la mobilité du dispositif portable), nombreux sont les appareils médiatiques actuels qui contribuent de la sorte à composer une nouvelle iconosphère du désastre susceptible, entre autres, de redéfinir les lieux d’émergence de l’espace traumatique. …”
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