http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6328 Quanto sete per me pigri, o momenti! is a cantata for soprano and basso continuo (vocal range c' to a"-flat) on a poem by Giovanni Apolloni. Two of the three manuscript sources on which the edition is based show conflicting attributions to Antonio Cesti (1623-1669) and Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674). Both the authority of the sources and stylistic features leave little doubt, however, that the attribution to Cesti is the correct one, and it is therefore the one selected here. 2012-06-05T01:20:03.621Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4202 Alessandro Scarlatti's setting of Lucretia Romana (Hanley 377) has been dated to 16 September, 1688. The following detail is given by Edwin Hanley: “On the basis of documents in the Doria-Pamfili archives, Montalto…reports that Benedetto Pamfili is the author of the text of this cantata and that a copy was presented to Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Maria de’ Medici in the winter of 1690.” Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili, author of the text, was one of the principal ecclesiastical patrons of music in late seventeenthcentury Rome, and his poetry was set on numerous occasions by Alessandro Scarlatti. A manuscript in the Vatican Library, Rome, of cantata and other texts for musical settings by Pamphili (I-Rvat Vat. lat. 10206) gives an idea of the range and involvement of the cardinal's literary interests as librettist. 2012-06-05T01:10:06.463Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:10851 The Orpheus myth is central to the symbolic representation of the power of music, synonymous with the birth of opera itself. In his wide-ranging article “Orpheus, Ovid and Opera,” Frederick Sternfeld cites twenty settings of the Orpheus myth from 1599–1699, including intermedii, ballets, and masques, as well as operas. Within the genre of the Italian chamber cantata (not included in Sternfeld’s table of Orpheus settings), there are also several notable Orfeo settings. Probably the most widely performed of these––no doubt due to the popularity of its composer, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi—is the cantata Nel chiuso centro (two recitatives and arias) for soprano, strings, and continuo, presumed to be composed during the period 1730–35. Alessandro Scarlatti's 'L'Orfeo', dating from ca.1700-1702, is a passionate and substantial work for soprano, violins and continuo, consisting of five recitatives and arias with instrumental introduction. 2012-06-05T01:05:46.135Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4227 ‘Renzo Piano: Piece by Piece’, a composition for chamber ensemble and video, celebrates the Italian architect Renzo Piano. It is the composer’s re-edit of five musical cues from the original documentary. The composer’s edit of the original film investigates non mainstream approaches to film music exploring a sensory relation between music and image. It liberates music from its mainstream conventional role, allowing it to function as a primary perceptual element and narrative vehicle. Non-synchronous relationships to image, enable the music to explore analogy evoking the architect’s sense of light, space and density. The viewer experiences a “quasi-synesthesic” relationship with the image, editing and music. This provides insights into the phenomenology of imagination, by exploring the further possibilities of sound/image and spatial relationships, in film and video-making outside the mainstream. 2010-07-13T23:58:14.615Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4183 The A to Z of Spiritual music: a user's guide is a collection of sounds, images, memories, definitions and anecdotes. While not exhaustive, its encyclopedic approach lists various phenomena, metaphors, concepts underpinning the western spiritual ethos and techniques used by composers and musicians to evoke this ethos. 2010-07-13T23:35:00.503Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6356 The interactive documentary ‘Mummies of the Andes’ investigates the provenance of the human remains or ‘mystery mummy’ brought to Australia in 1851 and places the findings within the context of 8000 year-old Andean mummification practices. 2010-07-13T05:30:11.079Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6363 The aim of the Rollermache Makeover website was to fuse interactive media education, safe social networking capabilities, user-generated content (UGC) tools and interactive functionality with a user-friendly interface design to enable children to safely upload media. Rollermache addressed the ABC’s need to prototype a user-generated content management system for the development of Web 2.0. Prior to Rollermache, ABC children’s and youth initiatives such as JTV and triple J Unearthed were limited in interactive and social networking functionality and difficult to use. 2010-07-13T05:06:41.157Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6364 The 'Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil' broadband site was developed for ABC Science Online to meet the need to extend audiences and broaden access to research in the public interest. At that time, Web 2.0 was in its infancy. Previously to Web 2.0, access to broadcast media was through film, television and radio. 'Crude' investigates the journey of oil and the dependence of nearly seven billion people on this finite resource. It enables ongoing access to, collection and retrieval of significant climate change content, additional interviews, innovative Flash interactive media content to create an educational and accessible online interactive media resource for expert, educational and public users. 2010-07-13T05:04:52.281Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6366 “The Oboe Reed Making DVD” is a 96 minute instructional DVD in English, French, German and Spanish which demonstrates the techniques for making reeds for the oboe. Learning to make oboe reeds (the replaceable mouthpiece of the oboe) is an essential part of an oboist’s professional training. This is the first DVD of its kind, as books have been the traditional source of information on this topic such as “The Oboe Reed Book” (Jay Light, 1983). Video has obvious advantages as a visual training medium including the use of recorded sound examples to demonstrate the changes in a reed’s response and characteristics during its construction. This DVD investigates and explains the techniques used in reed making and shows how each part of the reed has a particular function in sound production which can be purposefully adjusted by scraping the reed. It demonstrates the engineering tools and machines required for processing the cane used for reed making. 2010-07-13T01:48:49.599Z ]]>