Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music [[electronic resource] /] / Susan McClary

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457885603321
• Autore: McClary Susan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-11659-5; 9786613520883; 0-520-95206-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Disciplina: 780.9/032
• Soggetti: Music - 17th century - History and criticism; Musical criticism; 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: The Music of Pleasure and Desire -- Part I. The Hydraulics of Musical Desire -- Part II. Gendering Voice -- Part III. Divine Love -- Part IV. Dancing Bodies -- Part V. La Mode Française -- Postlude: Toward Consolidation -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states-desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. While she analyzes the social and historical reasons for the high value placed on expressive intensity in both secular and sacred music, and she also links desire and pleasure to the many technical innovations of the period. McClary shows how musicians-whether working within the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Venice-were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self.

André Gide & Fédor Rosenberg : Correspondance 1896-1934 / André Gide, Fédor Rosenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910588798603321
• Autore: Gide André
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lyon, : Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2022
• ISBN: 2-7297-1247-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (604 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RosenbergFédor; DziubNikol
• Soggetti: Literature (General); Russie; révolution; lettre; voyage; Cuverville; amitié; homosexualité; littérature; Dostoïevski
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: C’est à Florence, en 1896, qu’André Gide et Fédor Rosenberg se rencontrent. Leur amitié est d’emblée si vive que l’orientaliste russe accompagne Gide et son épouse Madeleine pendant une partie de leur voyage de noces. Plus tard, il rend régulièrement visite aux Gide, à Cuverville notamment, et devient un familier des proches de l’écrivain. Cette amitié, en grande partie épistolaire, perdurera jusqu’à la mort du « bon Fédor », en juin 1934. Cette correspondance donne à lire un Gide intime, prêt à dévoiler son homosexualité à un interlocuteur qui fait de même ; elle offre aussi un témoignage historique et culturel sur l’Europe des lettres et la circulation des idées au début du xxe siècle. En arrière-fond des réflexions sur la vie quotidienne, la santé, les projets ; en cours ou la littérature, sont aussi évoquées la Première Guerre mondiale et la révolution bolchévique, que viennent matérialiser des interruptions momentanées dans les échanges entre les deux hommes. Si toutes les lettres n’ont pu être retrouvées, ce sont près de 350 courriers qui sont rassemblés ici. Ces trente-huit ans de correspondance assidue permettent de découvrir le dialogue passionné entre le « contemporain capital » et son « ami le plus délicat, le plus sûr et le plus fidèle ».

Assessment of Different Contaminants in Freshwater : Origin, Fate, and Ecological Impact

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557109303321
• Autore: Galassi Diana M. P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (182 p.)
• Soggetti: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Ecological science, the Biosphere
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: In many parts of the world, freshwater is a subject of frequent and intense large-scale disturbances. Pollution, water withdrawal, alteration of freshwater flows, road construction, aquifer mining, surface water diversion, desertification, wetland drainage, soil erosion in agriculture, deforestation, and dam building have led to some irreversible species losses and severe changes in community compositions of freshwater ecosystems. Pollution represents one of the most relevant impacts on freshwater environments, ranging from surface water bodies—such as springs, streams, rivers, lakes, and intermittent waterbodies—to groundwater and transitional habitats between surface waters and ; groundwaters. The origins and fates of pollutants are different and depend on various pollutants, including fertilizers with pesticides in agricultural areas, heavy metals, chlorinated organic compounds, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are predominantly derived from industrial and urban settlements. Another pollutant is microplastics, which can increase in concentration in freshwater bodies and constitute emerging contaminants in freshwater systems when taken together with pharmaceuticals, personal care products (PCPs), and endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs). The broad distribution of several pollutants leads to significant changes of freshwater ecosystems, together with the extinction of the most sensitive species or the drastic lowering in abundances of others, thus altering community compositions and the ecosystem services provided by freshwater biodiversity.