Types Of Repertoires Research Articles

Musicality and functions of Mandolin Gamelans in Pupuan Tabanan Village

Gamelan Mandolin is a traditional music in Pupuan Village, Tabanan whose existence is still maintained today. Gamelan Mandolin as part of Balinese karawitan, is very rich in musical elements. The richness of his musical elements can be seen from the form and type of repertoire, composition, rhythm, melodic formula, and patterns he works on. Apart from containing elements of musicality, Gamelan Mandolin in Pupuan Village has a close correlation with the function of art in people's lives. Its existence is indispensable in community life which can be functioned in various patterns of social activities. In its development in society, Gamelan Mandolin has several functions, both primary and secondary functions. This paper discusses the musicality and function of the Mandolian Gamelan in the social life of the Pupuan people. The method used is a qualitative method by describing the musicality and function of Gamelan Mandoli in the social life of the community.

Disaster communication behaviors in the U.S. and China: which channels do you use and with whom?

ABSTRACT Enriching the social-mediated crisis communication model (SMCC) with the media theories of information repertoire and curation as well as the literature of risk communication, this study examines the antecedents, processes, and protective outcomes of disaster communication in the form of information gathering and sharing across countries. Analysis of online survey data collected in the United States and China shows that while Americans and Chinese exhibit similar patterns in using repertoires for disaster information gathering, they differ in the repertoires used for sharing disaster information. Moreover, different inter-repertoire patterns are manifested in disaster information gathering and sharing. Both countries also exhibit similarities and differences in terms of the association between the repertoires of disaster communication and protective action taking. Furthermore, the results show that subjective norms are the most consistent predictor of all types of repertoires of disaster information gathering across countries.

Time for practice: implications of undergraduate pianists’ choices of repertoire

AbstractThere is an on-going debate as to the skills needed for 21stcentury careers in classical music and how undergraduate students should learn them. Many graduate pianists report being under-prepared for the music profession, lacking sight-reading skills in particular. While research-evidenced pedagogy for improving sight-reading skills has been developed, little is known regarding what impact enhancing this skill could have on undergraduate educational experience. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of sight-reading training on undergraduate pianists’ choices of repertoire for practice. Two groups of 12 participants were recruited from three institutions in the UK and Australia. One group undertook the sight-reading training programme for 10 weeks. Both groups listed the solo, concerto, chamber and accompanying repertoire they practised. The mean lengths of time participants spent practising each kind of repertoire were calculated. There were significant effects of institution and therefore country on practice time but no effects of the sight-reading training. Nevertheless, the findings suggest that interventions should be designed to develop pianists’ practical skills, including sight-reading, and the long-term effects of such interventions on quality of deliberate practice, particularly on the types of repertoire that are likely to be most valuable for pianists in the early stages of their career, should be evaluated.

Maintaining Meat: Cultural Repertoires and the Meat Paradox in a Diverse Sociocultural Context

Despite rising concerns about the meat industry and animal slaughter, meat consumption in Europe and North America remains relatively high, what has been called the “meat paradox.” In this article, we examine a diverse sample of Canadian meat eaters and vegetarians to build on earlier work on the psychological strategies people employ to justify eating meat. We analyze the explanations people give for meat eating within the context of what sociologists term cultural repertoires—the taken‐for‐granted, unarticulated scripts that inform actions. We distinguish between two types of repertoires: identity repertoires that have a basis in personal, embodied group identities and regularly draw from vivid first‐person experiences; and liberty repertoires that are more abstractly conceptualized and signal peoples' sense of their rights in social space. We find that these repertoires function in distinct ways, both in regard to how participants situated themselves within them, and in their capacity to facilitate active engagement with the ethical implications of conduct. Through these repertoires, we show how the meanings attributed to meat consumption are crucial for understanding its persistence in the face of strong reasons to change, while also advancing literature on cultural repertoires by highlighting their variability.

El tratamiento de la equivalencia verbal en diccionarios (semi)bilingües para el aprendizaje de la lengua española

In this work, we propose some reflections on the treatment of the equivalents offered to verbs in a lexicographical (semi) bilingual repertoire for the learning of the Spanish language. It is based on a notion of language teaching from a communicative perspective and productive autonomy. We proposed a historical, terminological and conceptual analysis of the (semi) bilingual dictionary, and we established a relationship between the equivalents included and this type of repertoire. From the observation of the translation equivalents of the verbs offered in a lexicographical repertoire of the Spanish language for Brazilian apprentices, we have been analyzed whether this choice obeys to systematic and coherent criteria from the linguistic and lexicographical perspective, as well as if they take into account to the potential user of the dictionary.

Beauty and distinction? The evaluation of appearance and cultural capital in five European countries

To what extent do tastes in the field of beauty demarcate symbolic boundaries? This article analyzes social differences in the evaluation of the beauty of female and male faces in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK. Combining Q-methodology and open interviews (N=150), it presents a quantifiable comparative measurement of ‘beauty tastes’, and a qualitative analysis of the underlying ‘repertoires of evaluation’. Four types of repertoires were found: aesthetic repertoires; subjectification versus objectification; gender-normative; and racial repertoires. Aesthetic and objectifying evaluations are typically applied to women, whereas evaluative repertoires for men are more subjectified, less aestheticizing, more overtly gendered and racial. Aesthetic repertoires reflect the opposing popular and highbrow logics well-known in cultural sociology. These repertoires resonate with the aesthetics of cultural institutions, notably fashion modeling and pornography. Regression analysis shows that these aesthetic repertoires demarcate boundaries along lines of education, age and urbanity, suggesting that they function as ‘emerging cultural capital’, applying highbrow logics beyond traditional high art fields. While nationality hardly affects the evaluation of female beauty, significant national differences are found in evaluations of male looks. Long-standing traditions of female depictions have produced more transnational stylistic conventions and repertoires. The evaluation of male facial beauty, on the other hand, appears to be shaped by more nationally specific racial and gender norms and ideologies.

Adaptation of Robot Skills Models to New Task Contraints

Humanoid robots are required to perform a wide repertoire of tasks working beside humans in complex dynamic environments. Learning mechanisms are important for building up these types of repertoires of robot skills. However, despite the clear advantages of these approaches, it would be impractical to teach the robot skills for every needed task and for every foreseen situation. Robot skills learning approaches to develop humanoid robotic systems would have greater impact if the models of the skills can be operated upon to generate new behaviors of increasing levels of complexity. A framework that allows the adaptation of previously learned motion skills to new unseen contexts is necessary. In this work, we present different modalities for the adaptation and generation of new skill models based on the already learned models of the skills. Experimental results are presented to validate this approach.

Style repertoire and social change in British Asian English

This study has two goals: empirically, it accounts for variation found in the use of ethnically‐marked variants among British‐born Asians; methodologically, it assesses the variationist approach against a repertoire approach. In Part I, analysis of one Punjabi‐derived phonetic trait, examined in interview data only, suggests that younger women shift to exclusive use of the British prestige variant. Part II expands the analysis to four variables and to broader speech repertoires for four individuals. The repertoire analysis shows the conclusions in Part I to be inaccurate, and instead reveals: (1) retention of Punjabi traits by young women in the home domain; (2) two types of repertoire – flexible and fused; (3) a gendered reversal in repertoire type over time; and (4) a network diversity basis for these differences. Unlike the initial variationist analysis, the use of repertoire analysis and a new Network Diversity Index leads to the discovery of a shift among lower‐middle‐class British Asians from traditional Punjabi to urban British social structures.

Extended Play: Reflections of Heinrich Isaac's Music in Early Tudor England

The so-called Henry VIII's Book (London, British Library Add. MS 31922) contains two textless pieces by Isaac—his three-part Benedictus and the four-part La my—together with a number of other Franco-Flemish “songs without words” typical of the contents of manuscripts copied for the North Italian courts where the earliest viol consorts were being developed in the 1490s and early 1500s. Alongside these pieces are works by native English composers, including William Cornyshe, whose extended three-part Fa la sol has a number of stylistic traits in common with some works by Isaac (for example, his three-part Der Hundt) and Alexander Agricola (his three-part Cecus non judicat de coloribus) that were also transmitted in textless format. The fact that these latter two pieces were published in Hieronymus Formschneider's Trium vocum carmina (Nuremberg, 1538) while Cornyshe's Fa la sol was published in XX Songes (London, 1530) shows that this type of repertoire was still prized several years after the composers' deaths. Analysis of musical connections between the work of Isaac and Cornyshe, as evident in pieces such as those from Henry VIII's Book—in particular, techniques employed by the composers to extend the structures of their “songs without words”—sheds fresh light on the reception in England of Isaac's music and that of his continental contemporary Agricola. Relevant considerations include the context in which these pieces were anthologized together and the introduction into England of viols similar to those Isaac may have known in Ferrara in 1502, when La my was composed. Such pieces are representative of a typical courtly repertoire that developed into the riches of the later Tudor instrumental consort music.

Notas preliminares sobre o cantochão acompanhado na prática musical luso-brasileira dos séculos XVIII e XIX: o Hino a São João Batista de José Maurício Nunes Garcia

A partir de registros que comprovam o uso de acompanhamento do cantochão na prática musical de catedrais brasileiras nos séculos XVIII e XIX, este estudo procura discutir preliminarmente a utilização de documentos pertencentes ao Cabido Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro (RJ) para a realização deste tipo de repertório, exemplificado no Hino a São João Batista de José Maurício Nunes Garcia. Busca estimular futuros estudos sobre o tema e, sobretudo, a performance desta música. Indiretamente, pretende-se fornecer subsídios para novas formas de utilização do instrumento catedralício por excelência - o órgão de tubos - re-inserindo este repertório litúrgico nas práticas sócio-culturais e musicais atualmente em voga, estimulando a reutilização deste instrumento nos circuitos históricos brasileiros em que se encontram.

Triad Model of Education (II) and Instructional Engineering

Despite the money and sweat that go into new instructional technologies, they do not produce the overall high level of student performances that societies seek. More effective teaching calls for a profound solution. It requires a coordinate triad of factors: a proper science, the correct organizational structure, and an engineering instructional technology. This second of a series of articles on the Triad Model of Education concentrates on instructional engineering. The instructional engineering drawn from the science is contingency-based. Contingency-based instructional systems always handle the inevitable two components of instruction: the repertoires of students and the setups that shape those repertoires. The setup component features five elements: subject matter, objectives, quality control, presentation modes, and logistics. The repertoire component consists of the governance of repertoires-event and lingual governed, the type of repertoire-knowing, solving, and creating, and the variability of the repertoire--convergent and divergent. These elements, and their required engineering, reveal an instructional task more complex than previously considered. Progress with such complexity occurs only when all components of the triad are in place.

File Sharing and International Sales of Copyrighted Music: An Empirical Analysis with a Panel of Countries

Abstract Global music sales have substantially fallen in the last four years. This paper uses a panel of country-level data to investigate the extent to which this is a consequence of file sharing. I find that countries with higher internet and broadband penetration have suffered higher drops in music sales, suggesting that music downloads may explain at least part of the recent reduction in sales. I also find some evidence that file sharing may explain a change in the composition of sales by types of repertoires, with a higher reduction of sales of types of music that are being shared more heavily.

File Sharing and International Sales of Copyrighted Music: An Empirical Analysis with a Panel of Countries

Global music sales have substantially fallen in the last four years. This paper uses a panel of country-level data to investigate the extent to which this is a consequence of file sharing. I find that countries with higher internet and broadband penetration have suffered higher drops in music sales, suggesting that music downloads may explain at least part of the recent reduction in sales. I also find some evidence that file sharing may explain a change in the composition of sales by types of repertoires, with a higher reduction of sales of types of music that are being shared more heavily.

Music in Lubavitcher Life (review)

Reviewed by: Music in Lubavitcher Life Beverley Diamond (bio) Music in Lubavitcher Life. By Ellen Koskoff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 2001 pp. Glossary, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. The ethnomusicologist Ellen Koskoff has produced a long-anticipated study of music in the Lubavitcher Jewish community in America (particularly Crown Heights, New York, but also smaller communities in Pennsylvania and Minnesota). The book is based on fieldwork conducted over a twenty-two-year period. The lengthy engagement with this branch of the Hasidic Jewish religion not only has deepened her knowledge but has also allowed her to reflect on shifts in beliefs within the community and within her own attitudes toward Orthodox Judaism. It is rare that we read products of such extended reflection about an encounter that is effectively cross-cultural. Koskoff was raised in "an upwardly mobile, politically left-wing Jewish family" that had no prior involvement with the Hasidic world. As the specific subject matter of the book is completely outside the experience of this reviewer, I appreciate Koskoff's clear writing about Lubavitcher history and Hasidic theology. The role of the musical genre of nigunim (song) in relation to that history and theology is explicit. But most importantly, the lived experience of the musical performance of nigunim in relation to the laws of Lubavitcher belief, the stages of devekut, and the tensions between tradition and modernity come alive in this engaging book. In the first two parts of her study, Koskoff unfolds an idealized account of Lubavitcher belief and spiritual practice, while the next two look at the inherent tensions and contradictions of life lived, "the untidy ground of culture" (105). Koskoff makes effective use of the strategy of shifting between experiential description and more objectified explanation, a style of representation found in a number of recent ethnomusicological monographs. She includes fieldwork "scenes" to help us understand her relationship to the community and to enliven descriptions of individuals and experiences. These first-person accounts incorporate her questions, some of her insecurities, and even her disagreements with Lubavitcher friends. A vividly crafted opening ethnography of a farbrengen (a spiritual and social gathering) introduces many concepts that recur subsequently. Chapter 2 moves to analytical issues, discussing ethnomusicological approaches, Jewish music scholarship, gender theory, and performance study. Parts of this chapter still read like the literature review in a PhD dissertation, with references that provide a broad framework, rather than a real working of ideas, but she has certainly rethought and updated the material in the long period since she wrote her dissertation on this subject. We learn that this study is rooted in cognitive approaches and studies of culture as performance. She sees "culture as ideational and internal, as well as material and external" (23). Part 2, "Inside the Context," presents core religious beliefs, Lubavitcher Hasidim's history and philosophy, as well as contemporary social contexts. Her account clarifies the meaning of the ten sefirot that symbolize stages of seeking unity with the divine (devekut). A large array of Lubavitcher laws, sometimes described by the metaphor of fences, are described. The challenges they present for modern adherents are [End Page 92] also acknowledged. We also learn of the distinctions between "lifers" (those born Lubavitcher), ba'alei teshuvah (converts), and secular Jews. The hierarchical power of the rebbe and his circle are respectfully presented. The remaining chapters explore music more specifically, explaining its power of redemption and restoration. She analyzes a nigunim (song) collection of central importance, the Sefer Ha-Nigunim, as a window on social and spiritual hierarchy. Chapter 6 describes basic musical features (scales, formal structures, ornamentation) as codes of Lubavitcher belief, and introduces different types of repertoire that are either nearer to or farther from the spiritual core or "crown." Part 3, "Inside the Performance," is the most compelling part of the book. Here the author moves beyond an "idealized" account to explore how Lubavitcher actually use musical performance to "perform their core beliefs into being" (103). She demonstrates how singing reflects fundamental tenets of Lubavitcher belief: (1) the belief that true spirituality is irrevocably linked to the past; (2) the conviction that women are inherently closer to God but...

Identification of keratinocyte-specific markers using phage display and mass spectrometry.

Specific molecular markers for various normal and pathogenic cell states and cell types provide knowledge of basic biological systems and have a direct application in targeted therapy. We describe a proteomic method based on the combination of new and improved phage display antibody technologies and mass spectrometry that allows identification of cell type-specific protein markers. The most important features of the method are (i) reduction of experimental noise originating from background binding of phage particles and (ii) isolation of affinity binders after a single round of selection, which assures a high diversity of binders. The method demonstrates, for the first time, the ability to detect, identify, and analyze both secreted and membrane-associated extracellular proteins as well as a variety of different cellular structures including proteins and carbohydrates. The optimized phage display method was applied to analysis of human skin keratinocytes resulting in the isolation of a panel of antibodies. Fourteen of these antibodies were further characterized, half of which predominantly recognized keratinocytes in a screen of a range of different cell types. Three cognate keratinocyte antigens were subsequently identified by mass spectrometry as laminin-5, plectin, and fibronectin. The combination of phage display technology with mass spectrometry methods for protein identification is a general and promising approach for proteomic analysis of cell surface complexity.