1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454356503321

Autore

Vijayakrishnan K. G

Titolo

The grammar of Carnatic music [[electronic resource] /] / by K.G. Vijayakrishnan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007

ISBN

1-282-19460-7

9786612194603

3-11-019888-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Phonology and phonetics ; ; 8

Disciplina

780.954/8

Soggetti

Carnatic music - Theory

Music theory - India

Music and language

Electronic books.

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 (p. [331]-334) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Language and (Carnatic) music -- Introduction to a constraint-based approach to Carnatic music -- Conversion of pitch values to notes -- Classifying pitch variations and assigning structure to a line of Carnatic music -- Construing meaning in Carnatic music : determining grammaticality -- Construing meaning in Carnatic music : style/stylistic issues -- The lexicon of Carnatic music -- Accounting for variation in Carnatic music.

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that Carnatic music as it is practiced today can be traced to the musical practices of early/ mid eighteenth century. Earlier varieties or 'incarnations' of Indian music elaborately described in many musical treatises are only of historical relevance today as the music described is quite different from current practices. It is argued that earlier varieties may not have survived because they failed to meet the three crucial requirements for a language-like organism to survive i.e., a robust community of practitioners/ listeners which I call the Carnatic Music Fraternity, a sizeable body of musical texts and a felt communicative need. In fact, the central thesis of the book is that Carnatic music, like language, survived and evolved from early/mid



eighteenth century when these three requirements were met for the first time in the history of Indian music.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779828103321

Autore

Freidenreich Harriet Pass <1947->

Titolo

Female, Jewish, and educated [[electronic resource] ] : the lives of Central European university women / / Harriet Pass Freidenreich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-06280-8

9780253109272

9786612062803

0-253-10927-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Modern Jewish experience

Disciplina

305.48/8924043/0922

B

Soggetti

Jewish women - Germany

Jewish women - Austria

Jews - Germany

Jews - Austria

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 (p. [263]-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Finding Our Mothers, Finding Ourselves; Note on Women's Names; ONE Emancipation through Higher Education; TWO Dutiful Daughters, Rebels, and Dreamers: Shaping the Jewish University Woman; THREE University Years: Jewish Women and German Academia; FOUR Professional Quest and Career Options; Illustrations; FIVE The Marriage Plot: Career versus Family?; SIX Jews, Feminists, and Socialists: Personal Identity and Political Involvement; SEVEN Interrupted Lives: Persecution and Emigration; EIGHT Reconstructing Lives and Careers

Epilogue: The LegacyGlossary and Abbreviations; Appendix: Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Female, Jewish, and Educated presents a collective biography of Jewish                



women who attended universities in Germany or Austria before the Nazi era. To what                extent could middle-class Jewish women in the early decades of the 20th century                combine family and careers? What impact did anti-Semitism and gender discrimination                have in shaping their personal and professional choices? Harriet Freidenreich                analyzes the lives of 460 Central European Jewish university women, focusing on                their family backgrounds, unive