Ronnie James Dio: the man on the silver mountain by Joe Weber

“…In 1957 he began what became a fifty three-year career in music career. In 1960 he began singing under the name Ronnie Dio, and then Ronnie James Dio. …”
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Cosmetic Surgery and the Christian Body: Comparative Ethical Reflections from Orthodox and Catholic Traditions by Angelos Mavropoulos

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DEVELOPMENT OF A PROJECT BASED ONLINE LEARNING MODEL TO IMPROVE THE SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF ACTORS FOR STUDENTS by Welly Suryandoko

“…The implementation stage of this research is only until development is carried out in the drama, dance, and music education study program with students consisting of one Sendratasik study program consisting of 3 traditional theater, actor, and educational theater courses. …”
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Joyful Encounters: Learning to Play Well with Machines by Sandry Eleanor, Peaty Gwyneth

“…Although human– machine interaction can be theorized as ‘cyborg’ or ‘hybrid’, this paper argues that adopting the idea of the ‘assemblage’ is a better way recognize the flexibility of bringing disparate humans and machines together, whether in relation to playing a game or playing music. In rethinking the value of play, this paper emphasizes how people’s time spent interacting, whether with video games or robots, provides opportunities for them to learn more about themselves and others.…”
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La Jolie Fille de Perth de Bizet  ou comment trahir et honorer Walter Scott by Gilles Couderc

“…In spite of borrowing freely from French grand opera and opéra-comique, Bizet here attempts to find his own musical expression and his opera reflects aspects of Second Empire French society and the roles it assigned to women, before the appearance of his revolutionary Carmen on the stage.…”
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As múltiplas faces da comodificação e a constituição da crítica acerca das práticas de consumo contemporâneas by Ceres Grehs Beck, Luis Henrique Hermínio Cunha

“…The examples involve tangible goods and symbolic aspects of daily life that become alienable, revealing how the culture, music, food, natural resources, places, violence, body parts, sex, traditions, education, religion and even emotions begin to have value in the market arena. …”
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“Itai Amen Satani Abhoikane” by Princess Sibanda

“…I was sold on her disruptive use of language, the singing of secular music in church, and dancing with abandon on the pulpit. …”
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Shakespeare revisité, entre fidélité et parodie : de La Nuit des Rois à Shake de Dan Jemmett by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…It is called Shake, with a modest sub-title « around Twelfth Night », but which is indeed at the heart of the topic.Through the exploration of three themes: symmetry (of situations, of twin binarities), love’s misunderstanding, and music, I will argue that this comedy, whose title is a mix between the name of the Bard and the etymological meaning of the verb “to shake” as far as traditions are concerned, is faithful to the spirit (rather than the letter) of the Shakespearean original in a very healthy comic vein.It is not worth wondering if the spectators fully understood the meaning of this comedy in which the four actors change roles all the time: their frequent bursts of laughter clearly showed that they enjoyed the spirit of the comedy, whether they knew Twelfth Night or not.…”
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St. Yared in the Sǝmen Mountains of northern Ethiopia: The Ethiopian Orthodox and Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish) religious sites by Bar Kribus, Sophia Dege-Müller

“…One striking exception is Yared, perhaps the most renowned local saint of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, traditionally the composer of numerous elements of its liturgical music and hymns. The Betä Ǝsraʾel identify Yared as a member of their community, and holy sites of both groups, dedicated to him, existed in the Sǝmen Mountains of northern Ethiopia, in significant proximity to each other. …”
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Research of organisation specifics of shooting process in the creation of an audiovisual product by Yu. V. Vorontsova, A. Yu. Mazur

“…Saura made a series of films based on the flamenco culture, reflecting his experiments to establish the relationship between the beat of the music and dance and the rhythm of the set-up and movement of the camera. …”
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Robert Duncan and the Vernacular of Preliteracy by J. Peter Moore

“…The poet’s task, in Duncan’s imagination, is to return to those seedbanks of language, to re-plant the words of that early stage, in order to activate an organic music arising from preliterate babble that might transcend the boundaries that segregate speech communities.…”
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An Improved Harmony Search Algorithm for Power Distribution Network Planning by Wei Sun, Xingyan Chang

“…Harmony search (HS) algorithm is a metaheuristic algorithm inspired by the improvisation process of music players. HS algorithm has several impressive advantages, such as easy implementation, less adjustable parameters, and quick convergence. …”
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Turning the spotlight: Hostile behavior in creative higher education and links to mental health in marginalized groups. by Marina Fischer, Susanne Veit, Pichit Buspavanich, Gertraud Stadler

“…To address this gap, we conducted a survey among individuals studying at higher education institutions for art and music (N = 611). In our analyses of different types of hostile behaviors and their associations with mental health and professional thriving, we focused on differences and similarities between marginalized and more privileged groups across multiple diversity domains. …”
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Das valas comuns aos direitos humanos: a descoberta dos desaparecimentos forçados na Espanha contemporânea by Francisco Ferrándiz

“…The ethnography has been carried out in different research scenarios: exhumations, commemorative rituals, academic conferences on memory, teach-ins, demonstrations, book presentations, music concerts, NGOs for the 'recovery of historical memory', different working teams with institutional support, forensic laboratories, art exhibits and so forth. …”
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An Opinion on Soft Power by E. M. Astakhov

“…This potential is primarily due to the famous Russian science, literature, music and art. But this "natural"potential has to be used in the national interests abroad. …”
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OPERA AND ITALIAN IDENTITY: THE LONG VIEW by Stefano CASTELVECCHI

“…Here I take a longer view, and begin to explore the more elusive ways in which music and opera may have contributed to the emergence of an Italian identity (an important condition for any thought about political unification) in the eighteenth century. …”
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The Order of Things. Analysis and Sketch Study in Two Works by Steve Reich by Twila Bakker, Pwyll ap Siôn

“…The article begins by examining the relationship between analysis and sketch study in relation to minimalist music. From this initial overview, the authors propose that one of the dangers intrinsic to sketch study—not saying anything particularly revealing about the musical work—can also be found in musical analysis. …”
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A Descriptive -Analytical View at the Linguistic Features of the Book Entitled Rotbat Al Hayat Based on the Speech Act Theory by Gholamreza Salemian, Majid Rastande

“…Undoubtedly, in addition to the element of emotion, in which it is clearly recognizable, its characteristic feature is the music of the word. The author spoke in the book in "The Secret Language." …”
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›Though this is madness, yet there’s method in it‹. Zur Einordnung harmonischer ›Bizarrerien‹ im Klavierwerk Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs by Sören Sönksen

“…Eventually, it carves out to what extent the peculiarity attested to Bach can be abstracted from his personal style and be seen as a part of the general development of style and form in musical history.…”
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Information from sound: exploring sounds and listening in information practices research by Owen Stewart-Robertson

“…Some information practices-related research has highlighted the complexity of interactions with sounds and related technologies and explored interactions with oral and music information sources. However, experiences and perceptions around seeking, creating, and using information from sounds lack in-depth study. …”
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