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In this 22-minute concert rhapsody for mezzo soprano and orchestra, an employee of a leading virtual reality/ pharmaceutical/ self-pleasuring technologies company temporarily escapes the mayhem of an office shooting that has just occurred. She locks herself in a cramped supply closet and tries to recall just what happened, and puzzles through the possible identity of the killer. Audio draft available on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/skyron/casual-sex-friday), and original text on New Dead Families (http://newdeadfamilies.com/past/issue-8/casual-sex-friday-by-thea-zimmer/). C(S)F was presented as part of the premiere of my transmedia opera "MelanchoLalaland™" in Miami Beach, September 2015 ( http://www.melancholalaland.com ). Orchestral parts available on request (serious inquiries only).
Nuevo Repertorio de Danzas Chilenas para Big Band Juvenil, 2018
“Nuevo Repertorio de Danzas Chilenas para Big Band Juvenil” presenta cinco piezas instrumentadas para big band completa, es decir, una sección de maderas, conformada por flauta (opcional), 2 saxofón contralto, 2 saxofón tenor, y saxofón barítono; una sección de metales compuesta por 4 trompetas, 3 trombones tenor y trombón bajo; finalmente, una sección rítmica, constituida por guitarra, piano, bajo, batería y percusiones (bombo, pandero y cascabel), en total 19 instrumentos más el director, generando un elenco de 20 personas para esta big band. Si completamos las pretensiones del texto, incorporando una agrupación de danzas que interpreten estas cinco piezas, sumamos en total entre 25 a 30 personas participando. Las cinco piezas están organizadas a partir de su grado de dificultad. La primera pieza es un vals; la segunda, un trote; la tercera, un cachimbo; la cuarta, una sirilla; y la quinta, una cueca, siendo el vals la pieza más sencilla, y la cueca la pieza más compleja. Los grados de dificultad están regidos por las complejidades que entrega la naturaleza de los instrumentos de viento, además de criterios de complejidad de la música como tal. La sección rítmica merece un trabajo más arduo en lo que se refiere a ejecución, ya que, el entramado rítmico de nuestras danzas, por lo general no son sencillas, implicando en muchos casos, fragmentos de mayor complejidad que las complejidades de los vientos en el transcurso de las piezas. A pesar de esto, se busca simplificar el trabajo de la sección rítmica, de tal manera que no sea inalcanzable para los ejecutantes.
Turkish Studies, 2024
The quantity and quality of the political, economic, social and cultural changes in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century are quite evident and concrete. Cultural change in the Ottoman Empire constitutes a wide range from daily life to reading culture, from the changing nature of cultural production to the endeavour to understand the world outside the Ottoman Empire. There are many studies on the impact of the high Ottoman bureaucracy, one of the actors of this change, on the change in the fields listed above, except for the cultural field. But, it cannot be said that studies on the dimensions of the cultural interest and production of this segment of the bureaucracy are not yet sufficient. The subject of this article is an attempt to reveal the cultural capital, reading habits and predispositions of Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi, who rose to the highest position of the Ottoman Ilmiye class, the position of Sheikhulislam, based on his library. As a member of the high scholarship, the library dominates with classical works related to his field, in other words, Islamic sciences. In addition to Islamic sciences, Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi's library includes a vast collection of books on history, politics, literature, vocabulary, geography, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy, all of which contribute to the worldly knowledge known as âdâb/edeb in Islamic tradition. In this sense, Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi's listed books suggest that the classical texts of Islam formed the basis of his cultural capital and predisposition. When we look at the books in the genre of Edeb, we can see a distinct lack of interest and curiosity in the works produced outside the Islamic geography, especially in Europe. Moreover, this lack of interest and curiosity is valid not only for the European literary genres such as novels, political novels, law, history and philosophy that have influenced Ottoman culture since the late nineteenth century, but also for the works on the political, geographical and cultural situation of the world outside the Ottoman Empire. Moreover, the works of prominent writers of the late Ottoman literature such as Şinasi, Recaizâde Mahmud Ekrem, Halid Ziya, Samipaşazâde Sezai are not available in the library.
2023
This article aims to document the finding of a rare pseudo-Imperial Visigoth solidus in Moraleja (Cáceres, Extremadura). This is a coin, which belongs to an already known issue, but one for whom a clear provenance is provided for the first time. It is our hypothesis that the rare issue to which this coin belongs could perhaps be dated approximately to 555, to celebrate the triumph of Athanagild over Agila in Mérida. The reverse type of this specimen seems to follow closely a Byzantine prototype, which celebrates the Imperial Reconquista of Italy between 536 and 540. The contribution is important in that it provides valuable evidence for understanding better the significance of Lusitania in the middle of the 6th century.
Actes Euromac 9, 2024
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