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ArtsJournal: music
2017-06-02 17:06:47
Viva Quixotism! In Praise Of Fighting For Hopeless Causes
Quixotism - "adopting the moral courage necessary to fight for lost causes without caring what the world thinks" - can "save people from the paralysis that often accompanies defeatism." Mariana Alessandri argues that "today, when much of society and politics - both in and outside the United States - looks like a lost cause to a great number of people, we might do well to consider Quixote's brand of lunacy."
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2016-04-27 10:11:02
Academic study: Classical reviews have not changed in 90 years
[…] the valence (positive/negative) expressed by critics’ statements and the evaluation criteria that underpinned their judgements. The outcome is a model of the main evaluation criteria used by professional critics: aesthetic properties, including intensity, coherence, and complexity, and achievement-related properties, including sureness, comprehension, and endeavour. The model also emphasizes how critics consider the suitability and balance of these properties across the musical and cultural context of the performance. And the conclusions? In line with previous results (Alessandri et al., 2015 ), the majority of critics’ statements (87.57%) were valence loaded, although the valence was typically mixed within each review, with a combination of positive, negative, and mixed statements. Alongside valence loaded judgements given in the canonical form “Performance P is good/bad because of feature F” numerous judgements were found in the form “P is X,” where X is a performance descriptor that also implies an evaluation by being inherently valence loaded. […]
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