Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation
Title | Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Frisch |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1990-04-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780520069589 |
This volume is an analytical study of 18 works by Brahms, making skillful use of Schoenberg's provocative concept of developing variation. It traces a genuine evolution through Brahm's compositions, considering their relationship to each other.
Developing Variations
Title | Developing Variations PDF eBook |
Author | Rose Rosengard Subotnik |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780816618743 |
A collection of essays, most previously published on the critical theory, aesthetics, and social historiography of western classical music since the late 1700's. Based largely on the ideas of Theodor W. Adorno. A companion volume, Deconstructionist variations, is planned. A paper edition is available (1874-7), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Deconstructive Variations
Title | Deconstructive Variations PDF eBook |
Author | Rose Rosengard Subotnik |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0816621977 |
Balanced between the traditional and the postmodern, Subotnik (music, Brown U.) deftly and articulately manages to use the philosophies of Kant, Adorno, Bakhtin, and Derrida to review the music of Chopin, Mozart, and Stravinksy. Her discussion of the Magic Flute brings new rigor to the more usual romantic studies, and her exposition on Allan Bloom and Spike Lee in the final essay contextualizes the deconstructive critique she employs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Variations in C
Title | Variations in C PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Schustack |
Publisher | |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Computers |
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A valuable guide for experienced programmers who want to develop professional level expertise in C. The book also gives readers detailed programming information on developing serious business applications for commercial use.
Developmental Variations in Learning
Title | Developmental Variations in Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria J. Molfese |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2001-10-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1135690707 |
Developmental changes in cognitive abilities in childhood have long been of interest to researchers across many fields, including behavioral sciences, communications, education, and medicine. With the publication of research findings showing individual differences in the development of children's learning skills has come the realization that models, methodologies, and analysis approaches that include consideration of individual differences are needed. It has brought an increase in research collaborations among experts in different fields who bring different approaches together in studies of cognitive abilities. This work has yielded a growing body of knowledge about how children with normal abilities and those with developmental disorders learn, gain skills in social competency, develop decision making and planning abilities, and acquire language skills and the skills needed for reading and writing. More recently, researchers have sought to use this body of knowledge as a basis for the early identification of children at risk for cognitive delays and for the development and evaluation of intervention approaches. The chapters in this book review literature in five areas of cognition, and provide theory- and research-based information on the applications of research findings and intervention approaches. Throughout the chapters, information on the interactions of different cognitive abilities and the role of individual differences in development that influences development assessments is included.
The Venice Variations
Title | The Venice Variations PDF eBook |
Author | Sophia Psarra |
Publisher | UCL Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2018-04-30 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1787352390 |
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.
The Experience Machine
Title | The Experience Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Gloria Sutton |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-02-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0262324245 |
An argument that the collaborative multimedia projects produced by Stan VanDerBeek in the 1960s and 1970s anticipate contemporary new media and participatory art practices. In 1965, the experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927–1984) unveiled his Movie-Drome, made from the repurposed top of a grain silo. VanDerBeek envisioned Movie-Drome as the prototype for a communications system—a global network of Movie-Dromes linked to orbiting satellites that would store and transmit images. With networked two-way communication, Movie-Dromes were meant to ameliorate technology's alienating impulse. In The Experience Machine, Gloria Sutton views VanDerBeek—known mostly for his experimental animated films—as a visual artist committed to the radical aesthetic sensibilities he developed during his studies at Black Mountain College. She argues that VanDerBeek's collaborative multimedia projects of the 1960s and 1970s (sometimes characterized as “Expanded Cinema”), with their emphases on transparency of process and audience engagement, anticipate contemporary art's new media, installation, and participatory practices. VanDerBeek saw Movie-Drome not as pure cinema but as a communication tool, an “experience machine.” In her close reading of the work, Sutton argues that Movie-Drome can be understood as a programmable interface. She describes the immersive experience of Movie-Drome, which emphasized multi-sensory experience over the visual; display strategies deployed in the work; the Poemfield computer-generated short films; and VanDerBeek's interest, unique for the time, in telecommunications and computer processing as a future model for art production. Sutton argues that visual art as a direct form of communication is a feedback mechanism, which turns on a set of relations, not a technology.