1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783317203321

Autore

McClary Susan

Titolo

Modal subjectivities [[electronic resource] ] : self-fashioning in the Italian madrigal / / Susan McClary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004

ISBN

0-520-92915-2

1-59734-757-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Disciplina

782.4/3/0945

Soggetti

Madrigals, Italian - Italy - 16th century - Analysis, appreciation

Musical form - History - 16th century

Music theory - History - 16th century

Music and language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Night and deceit : Verdelot's Machiavelli -- The desiring subject, or subject to desire : Arcadelt -- Radical inwardness : Willaert's Musica nova -- The prisonhouse of mode : Cipriano de Rore -- The Coney Island of the madrigal : Wert and Marenzio -- The luxury of solipsism : Gesualdo -- The Mirtillo/Amarilli controversy : Monteverdi -- I modi.

Sommario/riassunto

In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520's through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo.



Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itself-the principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910407733803321

Autore

Yu Wen

Titolo

Active Control of Bidirectional Structural Vibration / / by Wen Yu, Satyam Paul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-46650-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, , 2191-5318

Disciplina

629.8

Soggetti

Buildings - Environmental engineering

Multibody systems

Vibration

Mechanics, Applied

Buildings - Design and construction

Building Physics, HVAC

Multibody Systems and Mechanical Vibrations

Building Construction and Design

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Active Structure Control -- 2. Structure Models in Bidirection -- 3. Bidirectional PD/PID Control of Buliding Structures -- 4. Type-2 Fuzzy PD/PID Control of Structures.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on safeguarding civil structures and residents from natural hazards such as earthquakes through the use of active control.



It proposes novel proportional-derivative (PD) and proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers, as well as discrete-time sliding mode controllers (DSMCs) for the vibration control of structures involving nonlinearities. Fuzzy logic techniques are used to compensate for nonlinearities. The first part of the book addresses modelling and feedback control in inelastic structures and presents a design for PD/PID controllers. In the second part, classical PD/PID and type-2 fuzzy control techniques are combined to compensate for uncertainties in the structures of buildings. The methodology for tuning the gains of PD/PID is obtained using Lyapunov stability theory, and the system’s stability is verified. Lastly, the book puts forward a DSMC design that does not require system parameters, allowing it to be more flexibly applied. Allprogram codes used in the paper are presented in a MATLAB®/Simulink® environment. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to mechanical and civil engineers, and to advanced undergraduate and graduate engineering students in the areas of structural engineering, structural vibration, and advanced control.