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Ethnography In Student-Owned Spaces: Using Whiteboards To Explore Learning Communities And Student Success, Anna Sandelli, Sojourna J. Cunningham
Ethnography In Student-Owned Spaces: Using Whiteboards To Explore Learning Communities And Student Success, Anna Sandelli, Sojourna J. Cunningham
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
“Student success” and the “user experience” are terms that have gained prominence in conversations around the ways in which academic libraries support and engage with their student populations. Ethnographic methods provide a unique opportunity to incorporate student voices into these conversations. This study reports on a longitudinal ethnographic study conducted at two academic libraries in the United States. Through a semi-structured participatory approach using whiteboards, the researchers garnered more than 2,000 responses. By coding that qualitative data, the researchers were able to examine student usage of library spaces, how students create informal learning communities within these spaces, and how students …
Giacomo Puccini, La Fanciulla Del West Nina Stemme (Minnie) Soprano, Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson) Tenor, Tomasz Konieczny (Jack Rance) Baritone, Norbert Ernst (Nick) Tenor, Boaz Daniel (Sonora) Baritone Orchestra And Chorus Of The Vienna State Opera, Franz Welser-Möst Cond Marco Arturo Marelli, Stage Director Sony Classical 88875064069, 2015 (1 Dvd: 138 Minutes) (Music Review), Linda B. Fairtile
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Review of the DVD performance, Giacomo Puccini, La fanciulla del West Nina Stemme (Minnie) soprano, Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson) tenor, Tomasz Konieczny (Jack Rance) baritone, Norbert Ernst (Nick) tenor, Boaz Daniel (Sonora) baritone Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Franz Welser-Möst cond Marco Arturo Marelli, stage director in Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 2017, 1–3. doi:10.1017/S1479409817000416.
Sources, Linda B. Fairtile
Sources, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Sources of instrumental music and of non-dramatic vocal music are generally understood to include preliminary sketches and drafts, manuscript and printed scores, performing parts, and, in the latter case, materials related to the choice or development of the vocal text. Letters, diaries, administrative papers, and even journalistic reviews can also be considered sources. Opera, as a collaborative fusion of music and drama, expands this list to include such materials as set and costume designs, staging manuals, lighting plots, and prop lists. Technology has further augmented the inventory, first with still photographs, and later with audio and video recordings. This chapter …
Scapigliatura, Linda B. Fairtile
Scapigliatura, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
An artistic movement founded in the 1860s by Arrigo Boito, Emilio Praga, and other young Italians seeking to revitalize culture by rejecting middle-class values.
American Institute For Verdi Studies, Linda B. Fairtile
American Institute For Verdi Studies, Linda B. Fairtile
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The AIVS was founded in 1976, in response to a tide of scholarly interest in Verdi. Its first director, Martin Chusid, assembled an archive of materials at New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.
Iago, Linda B. Fairtile
Iago, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
An alternate title for Otello, used intermittently throughout much of its composition, possibly to avoid comparison to Rossini's opera of the same name.
Unni E I Romani, Gli, Linda B. Fairtile
Unni E I Romani, Gli, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
A censored version of Attila first performed at Palermo's Teatro Carolino in 1854.
Otello, Linda B. Fairtile
Otello, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Verdi's penultimate opera represents his first new work for the stage after a nearly sixteen-year hiatus. As battles raged over the future of Italian opera-whether it should remain rooted in song or follow foreign trends that assign a greater role to the orchestra-Giulio Ricordi and Boito patiently lured Verdi back into the fray. Boito's libretto, an ingenious and at times eccentric adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, inspired the composer to a highly personal fusion of tradition and innovation. At its premiere Otello was widely hailed as a masterpiece, an emphatic and fundamentally Italian answer to the debate over music and …
Verdi At 200: Recent Scholarship On The Composer And His Works, Linda B. Fairtile
Verdi At 200: Recent Scholarship On The Composer And His Works, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The 100th anniversary of Verdi’s death, observed in 2001, inspired nearly a dozen academic conferences. At the dawn of his 2013 bicentennial, a celebratory year shared with Richard Wagner, hundreds of recent studies assess Verdi’s life, his works, and his impact. The present article surveys a selection of books and articles published between these two commemorations. A popular topic is Verdi’s role as a national icon, the calculated product of Italy’s search for a postunification identity. His engagement with foreign cultures has also received attention, for his German literary sources, his forays into French grand opera, and his use of …
The Verdi Forum, Linda B. Fairtile
The Verdi Forum, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The peer-reviewed journal of the AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR VERDI STUDIES (AIVS). Early issues, first titled A/VS Newsletter (1976) and later Verdi Newsletter (1977-98), were edited by the AIVS's director, Martin CHUSID. They featured scholarly articles, essays of more general interest, and news items about performances, recordings, and conferences. While Nos. l-7 were issued semi-annually, beginning with No. 8 (1980) the Verdi Newsletter became an annual publication. Nos. 7 (1979), 9-ro (1981-82), and 17-18 (1989-90), collectively titled 'The Verdi Archive at New York University,' document the history and holdings of the AIVS Archive at that time.
Spirit Politics: Radical Abolitionists And The Dead End Of Spiritualism, Robert Nelson
Spirit Politics: Radical Abolitionists And The Dead End Of Spiritualism, Robert Nelson
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
On June 30, 1858, abolitionist Parker Pillsbury wrote William Lloyd Garrison and readers of the Liberator that he had “just returned from attending one of the largest and most important Reformatory Conventions ever held in this or any other country.” In his report on the “Free Convention” held at Rutland, Vermont, Parker praised the “character and quality” and the “large brains and full hearts” of the convention participants. “The most numerous class” among these participants, he noted, were Spiritualists. Spiritualism had burst on the American scene a decade earlier, quickly attracting thousands of adherents who believed that communication and communion …
Real Americans Mean Much More: Race, Ethnicity, And Authenticity In Belasco's Girl Of The Golden West And Puccini's La Fanciulla Del West, Linda B. Fairtile
Real Americans Mean Much More: Race, Ethnicity, And Authenticity In Belasco's Girl Of The Golden West And Puccini's La Fanciulla Del West, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Conceived by Belasco and filtered through Puccini, the characters in La fanciulla del West exhibit a diversity that is unusual even for an opera with an exotic setting: Mexicans, Australians, and European-Americans of various backgrounds reinvent themselves in a new land of seemingly endless possibilities, while the area's native inhabitants struggle to survive. California's multi-cultural population as understood by Belasco, by his Broadway audience, and by Puccini and his operatic audience create compound layers of difference that both focus and obscure the racial and ethnic hierarchies that played out in the 1840s and 50s. This article will begin to untangle …
Revising Cio-Cio-San, Linda B. Fairtile
Revising Cio-Cio-San, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Some of the mast extensive and significant textual changes in all of Puccini's operas appear in the published revisions of Madama Butterfly. Many of these verbal modifications, together with cuts and additions to the score, influence the dramatic depiction of the protagonists. Changes to Pinkerton's character soften an insensitive and even offensive figure who, after all, needs to be convincing as the object of Butterfly's love. For Cio-Cio-San, three rounds of revision mean a gradual loss of complexity on any fronts, bringing an exotic, mercurial heroine closer to operatic convention. The Butterfly that we know today has a more …
Toscanini And The Myth Of Textual Fidelity, Linda B. Fairtile
Toscanini And The Myth Of Textual Fidelity, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Changes in the public perception of performing artists make for fascinating study. There once was a time when the Three Tenors were considered mere mortals. And there was a time when a conductor, Arturo Toscanini, was considered the living embodiment of the composers whose music he performed. Largely through the efforts of the press and the National Broadcasting Company, Toscanini came to be known as the only musician with the integrity and modesty to perform a composition exactly as it was notated in the musical score. Thanks to the existence of recorded performances, as well as the reminiscences of some …
Music Collections In American Public Libraries, Linda B. Fairtile, Karen M. Burke
Music Collections In American Public Libraries, Linda B. Fairtile, Karen M. Burke
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This article presents a broad survey of music collections in public libraries in the United States. Characteristics common to the majority of American public libraries are discussed, including origin, funding, and mission as an educational institution. Using a 1949 survey compiled by Otto Luening, Music Materials and the Public Library, as a basis for comparison, the authors surveyed seven libraries representing one or more of the following communities: small towns, school districts with nationally recognized music education programs, large cities, and locations associated recognizably "American" musical styles (e.g., New Orleans and jazz). The results this informal web survey demonstrate …
The Works Of Giuseppe Verdi: A Consideration Of Its Impact, Linda B. Fairtile
The Works Of Giuseppe Verdi: A Consideration Of Its Impact, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The rationale for preparing a critical edition of Verdi's works is by now well known. The unavailability of printed orchestral scores for some operas, disagreements among performing materials for others, and a proliferation of new scholarship illuminating the complex Verdian source situation all point to the need for a scholarly edition of the complete works of this extremely popular composer. In 1983 the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi began jointly producing scores and other performing materials in a series entitled «The Works of Giuseppe Verdi» («WGV»). Rigoletto was the first volume to appear, followed by Ernani, Nabucco, …
Enhancing Women's Studies Action Research Projects Through Technology, Lucretia Mcculley
Enhancing Women's Studies Action Research Projects Through Technology, Lucretia Mcculley
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This article describes how library and Internet technology enhanced an action research assignment in a unique women’s studies program, Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL), at the University of Richmond. The Women’s Studies Liaison Librarian and the Director of the WILL Program collaborated to provide a meaningful assignment that incorporated the use of online databases and the Internet. The main objective of the assignment was to provide a research opportunity whereby the students would learn to use electronic women’s studies resources and actually utilize the information into some type of social action, such as writing a letter, volunteering in …
Performing Arts Manuscript Collections: Balancing Access And Privacy, Linda B. Fairtile
Performing Arts Manuscript Collections: Balancing Access And Privacy, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This essay examines some of the issues involved in administering performing arts manuscript collections. After briefly discussing the evolving notion of privacy in both its legal and moral senses, it will turn to the relationships and interlocking responsibilities of the four groups concerned with access to manuscript collections: donors, custodians, users, and "third-party" contributors. Finally, the results of a survey of performing arts repositories will reveal the variety of ways in which these responsibilities are addressed. It will be demonstrated that despite the attention paid to issues of access by professional organizations, agreements in theory, much less in practice, have …
Bibliografia Degli Scritti Su Giacomo Puccini: Aggiornamenti 1997-99, Linda B. Fairtile
Bibliografia Degli Scritti Su Giacomo Puccini: Aggiornamenti 1997-99, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Bibliography of studies about Puccini (1997-1999).
A Fragment From Act Ii Of Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, Linda B. Fairtile
A Fragment From Act Ii Of Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This manuscript transmits ten measures from the so-called "Sextet" in the opera's second act, corresponding to pages 207 (measure 2) through 210 (measure 1) of the current published orchestral score. The passage forms part of the middle section of a tripartite structure that begins and ends with the renowned "Musetta's Waltz" ("Quando m'en vo"). At this point in the plot, the inhabitants of Paris's Latin Quarter, gathering to celebrate Christmas Eve at the Cafe Momus, witness the spectacle of Musetta's successful attempt to win back her lover. The section as a whole presented a problem for Puccini's librettists, who had …
The Violin Director And Verdi's Middle-Period Operas, Linda B. Fairtile
The Violin Director And Verdi's Middle-Period Operas, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The operas of Verdi provide an excellent laboratory for studying the transition from violin director to conductor. By the mid 1860s, some two dozen of his works had been presented hundreds of times throughout Italy. Information on many of these performances is currently available in periodicals, theater histories, and other chronicles. In addition, the American Institute for Verdi Studies (AIVS) has microfilmed over sixty documents that offer a unique perspective on the role of the violin directors, namely, the parts from which they performed. These parts are enlightening both for what they contain and what they omit, suggesting in greater …
Verdi's First "Willow Song": New Sketches And Drafts For Otello, Linda B. Fairtile
Verdi's First "Willow Song": New Sketches And Drafts For Otello, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The genesis of Verdi's Otello is a familiar episode in the history of Italian opera. The semiretired composer's reluctance to reenter the operatic fray, his gradual interest in Arrigo Boito's draft libretto, and the astonishing speed with which he composed the music have been the subject of both musicological and biographical study. Letters between librettist and composer detail the textual modifications that Boito made to accommodate Verdi's needs. Up until now, however, we have had few corresponding musical documents readily available to illustrate how Verdi grappled with the challenges of Boito's libretto. Beginning with his draft text, dispatched to Verdi …
Feminist Empowerment Through The Internet, Lucretia Mcculley, Patricia Patterson
Feminist Empowerment Through The Internet, Lucretia Mcculley, Patricia Patterson
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The University of Richmond's upper division Political Science course, "Women and Power in American Politics," has several ambitions. Among these is an exploration of the power of information technology to foster political research by and about women and to advance feminist political aims.
Women's Studies Student Questionnaire, Lucretia Mcculley, Patricia Patterson
Women's Studies Student Questionnaire, Lucretia Mcculley, Patricia Patterson
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The University of Richmond Women's Studies program developed a student questionnaire in 1996 as part of larger program assessment project from 1993-1996.