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Chloupek, Jan, and Jiří Nekvapil, eds. Studies in Functional Stylistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/llsee.36.
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Jan, Chloupek, and Nekvapil Jiří, eds. Studies in functional stylistics. J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993.
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Allon, Mark. Style and function: A study of the dominant stylistic features of the prose portions of Pāli canonical sutta texts and their mnemonic function. The International Institute for Buddhist Studies of the International College for Advanced Buddhist Studies, 1997.
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Sokolova, Elena, and Aleksandra Ushakova. Old Slavonic language. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1870286.
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The textbook is devoted to theoretical and practical issues of studying the Old Slavic language, which appeared in the middle of the IX century and had a significant impact on the development of Slavic cultures in general and the emergence of book-written Slavic languages on a national basis in particular. The manual includes educational and methodological materials on the analysis of phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, syntax; texts of the Old Slavic language from glagolitic and Cyrillic monuments, tasks for the analysis of texts, a dictionary.
 The educational and methodological materials presented in the manual meet the main goals and objectives of the discipline: mastering the grammar system of the classical (Old Slavic) language in comparison with the grammar of the studied foreign languages and vocabulary, productive in the formation of the vocabulary of new languages and international terminology; developing skills of comparative analysis of facts of diverse languages (classical and new) in order to ensure the success of mastering modern foreign languages and other philological disciplines; implementation of practical tasks of reading, translation and historical and linguistic analysis of Old Slavic texts.
 Knowledge of the socio-cultural functions of the Old Slavic language, linguistic phenomena in the field of phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, syntax, winged words and phraseological units of biblical origin included in the national linguistic and cultural fund will allow students to comprehend the role of the oldest written language in the development and formation of the lexical and grammatical system and semantic and stylistic richness of the modern Russian literary language.
 Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
 For philology students of higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation studying in the field of training 45.03.01 "Philology".
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Kislicyna, Natal'ya, and Ekaterina Novikova. Genres sports discourse: linguistic and cognitive aspect. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1077732.
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The monograph is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of "discourse" from the perspective of its institutionality. The focus of research interest is sports discourse, presented in the form of a complex conceptual space with a particular genre-stylistic and pragmatic characteristics.
 As a material of study are sports articles, sports interviews and sports commentary, considered as genres of sports discourse, allocated according to criteria focus of the text and its function. The use of frame analysis, content analysis and conversational analysis have shown the peculiarities of representation of speech and thoughts of individuals, operating in the conditions of specific discursive practices. 
 Addressed to specialists in the field of language theory, cognitive linguistics, decorology, pragmatics, teachers, postgraduates and students.
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Veretennikov, Dmitry. Central territories of Tolyatti: history of formation and development prospects. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2144526.
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For the first time, quantitative parameters of the growth and preservation of urban areas, the street and road network, and elements of the Tolyatti center system were obtained. A model of prospective development of the central territories of the city has been developed. Proposals have been formulated for the creation and functional filling of Tolyatti pedestrian zones. The developments on the creation of artistic decoration of the central territories of Tolyatti are presented. The directions of the development of the stylistics of the design of public spaces of the center system are proposed individually for each district of the city. The subject content of the public spaces of the central territories of Tolyatti has been determined. It is intended for a wide range of specialists dealing with the problems of urban development and aspects of the design of their central territories, as well as for students and postgraduates of architectural universities in the fields of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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Kovadlo, Lyudmila. Russian language and speech culture. Workshop. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1014771.
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The textbook is a didactic material for the textbook "Russian language and culture of speech. Theory". Russian Russian vocabulary and stylistics are outlined in the books, which instills the skills of using the norms of Russian speech.
 The study of the Russian language in professional educational organizations implementing the educational program of secondary general education has its own characteristics depending on the profile of vocational education, which is expressed through the content of training. When mastering the professions of technical, natural-scientific, socio-economic profiles of vocational education, the Russian language is studied at the basic level of secondary education. When mastering the specialties of secondary vocational education in the humanities, the Russian language is studied in depth as a specialized academic discipline that requires a higher level of language training of students. In this regard, much attention is paid to functional styles of speech, especially the official business style, and the specifics of the use of language units in accordance with the speech situation, which has practical application not only for students of secondary vocational education, but also for a wide range of business people.
 The manual contains practical material: tasks of varying complexity; answers to questions and tasks; historical references, as well as historical information on the history of the origin of words related to all parts of speech; entertaining and reference materials that can be useful for reports, abstracts and other independent works.
 Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of secondary vocational education of the latest generation.
 For students of secondary vocational education, applicants and high school students.
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Kovadlo, Lyudmila. Russian language and speech culture. Theory. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1013721.
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Russian Russian Language and Culture of Speech textbook consists of two books: "Russian language and culture of speech. Theory" and "Russian language and speech culture. Practicum".
 The study of the Russian language in professional educational organizations implementing the educational program of secondary general education has its own characteristics depending on the profile of vocational education, which is expressed through the content of training. When mastering the professions of technical, natural-scientific, socio-economic profiles of vocational education, the Russian language is studied at the basic level of secondary education. When mastering the specialties of secondary vocational education in the humanities, the Russian language is studied in depth as a specialized academic discipline that requires a higher level of language training of students. In this regard, much attention is paid to functional styles of speech, especially the official business style, and the specifics of the use of language units in accordance with the speech situation, which has practical application not only for students of secondary vocational education, but also for a wide range of business people.
 Russian Russian vocabulary and stylistics are outlined in the textbook, which instills the skills of using the norms of Russian speech. In addition, attention is drawn to the norms of Russian literary pronunciation, the rules of text construction are given. The main part is devoted to the culture of Russian speech in the study of grammar and syntax. A separate chapter is devoted to punctuation of the Russian language.
 Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of secondary vocational education of the latest generation.
 For students of secondary vocational education, applicants and high school students.
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Caplin, William. Topics and Formal Functions. Edited by Danuta Mirka. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841578.013.0016.
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This chapter examines the relationship of the lament topic to various form-functional contexts. After explaining that this topic is inextricably linked with a schema defined essentially by its bass voice, the study considers how the intrinsically sequential harmonic content of the schema lends itself well to expressing the formal sense of “being in the middle.” It further demonstrates that the schema can also participate in creating a formal ending, a cadence, and can even be used in an initiating formal context, which may engender the perception of a “formal dissonance,” a conflict between intrinsic and contextual functionality. The pervasive descending bass line of the lament schema, while appropriate for baroque compositional practice, jars somewhat with classical practice, such that the lament topic becomes a touchstone for highlighting stylistic differences among earlier and later works within the eighteenth century.
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Jiří Nekvapil. Studies in Functional Stylistics. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 1993.
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Zhang, Delu. Gong neng wen ti xue =: Functional stylistics. Shandong jiao yu chu ban she, 1998.
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Busse, Beatrix. Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190212360.001.0001.
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The present study investigates speech, writing, and thought presentation in a corpus of 19th-century narrative fiction including, for instance, the novels Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, and many others. All narratives typically contain a reference to or a quotation of someone’s speech, thoughts, or writing. These reports further a narrative, make it more interesting, natural, and vivid, ask the reader to engage with it, and, from a historical point of view, also reflect cultural understandings of the modes of discourse presentation. To a large extent, the way a reader perceives a story depends upon the ways discourse is presented, and among these, speech, writing, and thought, which reflect a character’s disposition and state of mind. Being at the intersection of linguistic and literary stylistics, this study develops a new corpus-stylistic approach for systematically analyzing the different narrative strategies of historical discourse presentation in key pieces of 19th-century narrative fiction, thus identifying diachronic patterns as well as unique authorial styles, and places them within their cultural-historical context. It shows that the presentation of characters’ minds reflects an ideological as well as an epistemological concern about what cannot be reported, portrayed, or narrated and that discourse presentation fulfills the narratological functions of prospection and encapsulation, marks narrative progression, and shapes readers’ expectations as to suspense or surprise.
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(Editor), Jan Chloupek, and Jiri Nekvapil (Editor), eds. Studies In Functional Stylistics (Linguistic & Literary Studies in Eastern Europe). John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2000.
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Caplin, William E. Cadence. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190056445.001.0001.
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Abstract This work is the most comprehensive examination to date of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure by means of cadence, a highly conventional device for ending middle-ground thematic units. Rooted in the author’s broader “theory of formal functions,” the book first develops concepts of cadence for music of the high classical style and then extends these ideas to gauge cadential practice in earlier and later style periods. Throughout the study, various manifestations of cadence are defined in terms of their morphology (their harmonic and melodic profiles) as well as their function (the specific formal contexts in which they are deployed). Following an introductory chapter on concepts of closure in general (in psychology, literature, and music), Part I of the book examines the “classical cadence” by first laying out a series of general concepts that inform the rest of the study and then defining the harmonic and melodic content of the basic cadence types—perfect authentic, imperfect authentic, and half cadences. Along the way, readers learn how promised cadences can fail to be realized by various deviation techniques (deception, evasion, abandonment, and dominant arrival) and how cadential expansion can significantly loosen the formal organization of thematic units. Part II broadens the stylistic horizon to consider how formal closure is achieved in the style periods of the high baroque, the galant, the early Romantic, and the mid- to late nineteenth century. Specific compositional procedures especially characteristic of these styles are shown to impact how closure is achieved by cadential, but also noncadential, means.
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Berliner, Todd. Hollywood Style. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190658748.003.0005.
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Chapter 5 investigates the aesthetic pleasures of Hollywood’s stylistic norms, as well as pleasures afforded by a handful of noteworthy stylistic deviations. The chapter examines the ways in which Hollywood film style both supports a film’s storytelling function (by enhancing clarity and expressiveness) and offers aesthetic pleasures independent of storytelling (decoration and stylistic harmony). A film’s style may also compete with story (e.g., Touch of Evil), with genre (Leave Her to Heaven), or even with itself (Goodfellas) for control of a film’s mood and meaning. Such stylistically dissonant works inspire cognitive play as we adjust to stylistic cues that harbor disparate attitudes and meanings.
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Butler, Melvin L. Island Gospel. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042904.001.0001.
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For Jamaican Pentecostal Christians, music is a form of worship that opens pathways to the Spirit and brings about deliverance from sin. It is also a way of drawing and transcending boundaries, as practitioners sing about what they believe and identify where they stand in relation to cultural and religious outsiders. This book explores these ritual functions as they are fulfilled within Jamaican church services and concerts. It highlights the ways in which Pentecostals cultivate feelings of collective distinctiveness by rendering gospel music with an island flavor and by patrolling stylistic boundaries between a holy “home” and a profane “world.” This dichotomy is destabilized through the transnational flow and appropriation of popular culture and “American” media. What emerges are the strategies of musical worship through which Pentecostals embody their religion and seek spiritual transcendence while navigating the crossroads of local and global practice. Pentecostals describe themselves as “in the world, but not of the world,” meaning that while they live and work in the broader society, they strive to be “sanctified” from it by upholding a distinct moral code. This narrative of worldly renunciation prompts believers to abandon prior habits of conduct while embracing newer, localized identities as children of God. This book uncovers how gospel music, as a dynamic cultural practice, complicates these theological affirmations and reveals the shifting foundations of Pentecostal identity in Jamaica and its diaspora.
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Grekova, Olga. Essays on Modern Russian Functional Aspectology. Book one. LCC MAKS Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m3020.978-5-317-06861-5.
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Modern Russian Aspectual Senses are presented here as a system with a zero starting point. The monograph has resulted from lifelong teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) for multilingual students and it figures out the procedure of choosing the Aspect, Aspect-Temporal form in discourse. Essays provide short guidelines starting from the position of a viewer, observing a certain situation, up to Discourse Activities of a speaking person, reflecting the situation in an adequate way. The monograph takes into account the necessary mental processes: awareness of the Aspectual Senses involved in the situation (from the native speaker's point of view), ranking them, choosing the dominant, distinguishing the features, succumbing to expression and not, and putting the last aside. The monograph outlines some Aspectual Forms' Pragmatic Spheres, displays the stylistic peculiarities of using them in modern discourse. The edition is addressed to foreign and home Russian philologists, RFL teachers and students.
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Pettis, Joyce. African American Poets. Greenwood, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400607776.
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Covering 46 poets from more than two centuries of African American literary history, this biocritical dictionary is an important contribution to any reference collection. The poets are situated within their historical and literary context, and for each a brief biographical sketch is given, with information on the poet's personal history, education, influences, and accomplishments. Each entry examines the poet's work as a whole, with a discussion of selected important poems and their recurrent themes. Students and interested readers will gain a good appreciation for the stylistic features and artistic contributions made by these African American poets. For further research, each essay concludes with a list of the poet's published book-length works, anthologies where their poetry appears, and information on reference resources. This reference work is introduced with an insightful overview of the significant developments and contributions in African American poetry, from the 18th century poetry of Phillis Wheatley, through the major arts movements including the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, up to the present time. This thoughtful dictionary explores both the aesthetic and the social functions of the literary movements, as well as the individual poet's contributions to the body of poetic output. Covered here are numerous contemporary African American voices such as Maya Angelou, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Rita Dove. Alongside the names synonymous with the Harlem Renaissance, such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes, are lesser known poets about whom students often have trouble finding information but whose contributions are no less significant.
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Schaafsma, Polly. North America—Southwest. Edited by Timothy Insoll. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675616.013.016.
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This broad overview considers the long discontinuous and diverse history of anthropomorphic figurine production in the ancient American Southwest. While the primary focus is on the Hohokam, Fremont, and Ancestral Pueblos, other cultural contexts are considered. Numerous figurine styles are described, as are close stylistic relationships between certain figurine traditions and rock art. Stylistic trends in the graphic rock art may have influenced the aesthetics of figurine production and vice versa. Discarded in refuse mounds, cached in association with burials and cremations or in crypts within architectural confines, figurines and their roles were diverse between cultures and changed through time. Regarded as active agents within their respective cultural frameworks, the chapter proposes that they functioned as social mediators, promoted fertility, increase, and community well-being, and as they served as conduits to the ancestors and cosmological entities.
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Gordon, Robert. “Old Situations, New Complications”. Edited by Robert Gordon. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391374.013.0004.
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Forumrepresents an idiosyncratic attempt to reconcile the principles of musical comedy with Sondheim’s avowed preference for writing integrated musical drama. The sources of its plot in Roman farce become a pretext for a camp pastiche of the vulgar clichés of American burlesque and vaudeville. By analyzing the dramaturgical function of the individual songs, the chapter illustrates the various ways in which their evocation of the thought processes of type characters motivates the causal logic of the plot. The ingenuity of their placement and form is shown to shape the mood and pace of the action, while their stylistic cleverness is revealed as an enhancement of the metatheatricality of Shevelove and Gelbart’s book, producing a play of self-reflexive ironies that foreshadows Sondheim’s later experiments with the nonlinear structure of the postmodern musical.
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Hao, Xinggang. Diachronic Approach to the Construction of the National Image of China by Editorials (1949-2019) in the Mainstream British Newspaper from the Perspective of Functional Stylistics. Chinese Literature Press, 2023.
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Ferrando, Ignacio. The adnominal linker -an in Andalusi Arabic, with special reference to the poetry of Ibn Quzmān (twelfth century). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198701378.003.0004.
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This chapter describes a syntactical structure typical of Andalusi Arabic, as well as many other Arabic varieties: the use of a nominal suffix -an/-in after an indefinite noun followed by a modifier. Some scholars have linked this morpheme to the so-called tanwīn (‘nunation’), the morpheme of indefiniteness of Classical Arabic. However, both the synchronic analysis of the linguistic facts as they appear in the Andalusi corpus explored in this chapter (the poetry of Ibn Quzmān, twelfth century) and the use of this suffix in other Arabic dialects suggest a different function. The adnominal linker represents not an indefiniteness morpheme or the remains of the tanwīn of Classical Arabic, but a syntactic connection between the indefinite noun and its modifier. It was not a sporadic, stylistic, or optional trait, but a specific and almost compulsory feature widespread in Andalusi Arabic sources, at least until the thirteenth century.
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Winand, Jean. Words of Thieves. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768104.003.0006.
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This chapter studies how scribes handled the testimonies given during the trials related to the Great Tomb Robbery case at the end of Egypt’s Twentietn Dynasty. Some stylistic uniformization took place, e.g. in narrative sections. This is illustrated by how scribes completed and modified the evidence given to match administrative format (e.g. function titles, the lists of the stolen items), and by how they rephrased words spoken by the accused/witnesses. Sometimes, verbatim quotations could be kept, as shown by occasional intrusions of slang. Variation occurred even in general formulae, the spelling of common words, and phraseology. Four case studies are directly relevant for the discussion of variation: 1) reported by two witnesses, same papyrus; 2) reported by one witness, two different papyri; 3) parallel wording in two unrelated cases reported by two witnesses, same papyrus; and 4) parallel wording in two unrelated cases reported by two witnesses, two different papyri.
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Seeley, William P. Attentional Engines. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662158.001.0001.
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What is it about art that can be so captivating? How is it that we find value in these often odd and abstract objects and events that we call artworks? My proposal is that artworks are attentional engines. They are artifacts that have been intentionally designed to direct attention to critical stylistic features that reveal their point, purpose, or meaning. My suggestion is that there is a lot that we can learn about art from interdisciplinary research focused on our perceptual engagement with artworks. These kinds of studies can reveal how we recognize artworks, how we differentiate them from other, more quotidian artifacts. In doing so they reveal how artworks function as a unique source of value. Our interactions with artworks draw on a broad base of shared artistic and cultural constitutive of different categories of art. Cognitive systems integrate this information into our experience of art, guiding attention, and shaping what we perceive. Our understanding and appreciation of artworks is therefore carried in our perceptual experience of them. Teasing out how this works can contribute valuable information to our philosophical understanding of art. Attentional Engines explores this interdisciplinary strategy for understanding art. It articulates a cognitivist theory of art grounded in perceptual psychology and the neuroscience attention and demonstrates its application to a range of puzzles in the philosophy of the arts, including questions about the nature of depiction, the role played by metakinesis in dance appreciation, the nature of musical expression, and the power of movies.
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Kresky, Jeffrey. A Reader's Guide to the Chopin Preludes. Greenwood, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216005162.
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In Chopin's set of 24 interconnectedPreludes (Op. 28), we are presented with 24 distinct compositional surfaces, aiming at as many distinguishable emotional expressions. As such, the Preludes stand as a virtual survey of the developing musical manners of the 19th century--which was, after all, the stylistic period in which mood was promoted most energetically and frankly. Under analytic investigation, the technical means to these varied expressive ends can be discovered and assessed. 24 separate explorations reveal themselves to the inquiring musician, who can investigate any or as many of the pieces as is wished or needed. At the same time, the Preludes form a fairly compelling total entity, related by precise balances of mood and key, as well as certain subtler interconnecting details. The individual analyses aim at conjoined descriptive statements that take into account the various separable, but ultimately fused, musical elements: line and harmony in the pitch domain; rhythm in terms of local detail, but also at the levels of meter, phrase, and form; and the various expressive modifications of dynamics and articulation. Form is seen to grow out of the harnessed progress of these elements, which together determine expressive content.The Chopin Preludes, a centerpiece of 19th-century Romanticism, are unique: two dozen distinct moods that seem to summarize the musical manners of the time, they also function as an organic whole. This book is a detailed guide through thePreludes, both individually and as a group. The analyses assess technical and expressive means and ends.
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Giles, Bretton T., and Shawn P. Lambert, eds. New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery. University Press of Florida, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683402121.001.0001.
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In this book, various scholars explore how stylistic and iconographic analyses of Mississippian imagery provide new perspectives on the beliefs, narratives, public ceremonies, ritual regimes, and expression of power in Mississippian communities. Their work advances through well-contextualized case studies that build on Vernon James Knight’s Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory. It is organized into three sections:(1) the use of style in Mississippian iconographic studies, (2) interpreting Mississippian imagery, and (3) situating and historicizing Mississippian symbols. Semon addresses regional variation in Late Mississippian complicated stamped ceramic assemblages of the filfot-cross motif along the Georgia coast. Stauffer investigates Mississippian spider-themed imagery, which are carved on marine shell, copper, stone, and wood media. Scarry presents a preliminary assessment of Pensacola ceramic vessels from Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida. Lankford examines how comparative mythology and the analysis of historic-geographic patterns can have a recursive relationship with iconographic analyses. Dye delves into how owl effigy vessels are a materialization of witchcraft in Mississippian societies and how elites employed witchcraft accusations for political aggrandizement. Giles considers how the imagery on certain Pecan Point headpots materializes a layered cosmos and might typify (mnemonic) parallelism. Nowak employs a Peircean approach to consider the agential properties of Early Caddo bottles and how they might have functioned as Native American bundles. Lambert traces how Caddo pottery and motifs moved through two diverse areas and how these movements resulted in the transformation of iconographic meanings. Knight provides an extension of his perspective on iconographic analysis and its relationship to Mississippian archaeology.
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Brackett, Donald. Dark Mirror. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400637773.
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Singer-songwriters’ lyrical reflections have a magical way of expressing our own sentiments and feelings. Almost all of the singer-songwriters discussed here—including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Tom Waits, Amy Winehouse, The White Stripes, and many more—sing in an exotic and raw vocal style, which one would not traditionally call reassuring, and yet their profoundly unique voices appear to be the only ones capable of conveying their unique messages. One of the key elements being studied in this book is the fact that singer-songwriters often suffer from a deep sense of loneliness, perhaps associated with a sense of being the only one who could adequately sing and perform what they compose. Often, even those who write within a famed partnership still compose for that other voice exclusively, much to their chagrin. The irony here is that it is this very tendency towards self-absorption that allows these artists to speak so eloquently for all the rest of us. Utilizing firsthand musical reflections on the nature of the singer-songwriter psychology and its consequences on art and private life, Dark Mirror explores the intricate nature of isolation and self-absorption in the singer-songwriter’s creative work. Lyrical reflections have a magical way of expressing our own sentiments and feelings. Almost all of the singer-songwriters discussed in this volume-including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Tom Waits, Amy Winehouse, The White Stripes, and many more—sing in an exotic and raw vocal style, which one would not traditionally call reassuring, and yet their voices appear to be the only ones capable of conveying their own unique messages. One of the key elements being studied in this book is the fact that singer-songwriters often suffer from a deep sense of loneliness, perhaps associated with a sense of being the only one who could adequately sing and perform what they compose. Often, even those who write within a famed partnership still compose for that other voice exclusively-much to their chagrin. The irony here is that it is this very tendency towards self-absorption that allows these artists to speak so eloquently for all the rest of us. This work is divided into three principal sections: part one delves into the singer-songwriters who function primarily as solo artists; part two explores singer-songwriters who function primarily as part of a team - and who wouldn’t write quite the same material for a different partner; and part three surveys those who function as members of a larger thematic community or stylistic tribe, within which they share certain creative sentiments. Utilizing firsthand musical reflections on the nature of the singer-songwriter psychology and its consequences on art and private life, Dark Mirror explores the intricate nature of isolation and self-absorption within the singer-songwriter's creative work.