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Is business, for music, a regrettable necessity or a spur to creativity? Are there limits to the influence that economic factors can or should exert on the musical imagination and its product? In the eleven essays contained in this book the authors wrestle with these questions from the perspective of their chosen area of research. The range is wide: from 1700 to the present day; from the opera house to the community centre; from composers, performers and pedagogues to managers, publishers and lawyers; from piano miniatures to folk music and pop CDs. If there is a consensus, it is that music serves its own interests best when it harnesses business rather than denying it

Although backward chaining has been found superior to whole-task training, the effect might depend on the ordering of difficult and easy segments of the task, and forward chaining requires investigation. The experiment uses a musical keyboard task to test these possibilities, counterbalancing difficulty order with direction of chaining in a comparison with whole training. Performance was scored for melodic errors and for rhythmic accuracy and consistency. Both of the part-task methods proved superior to the whole method during training trials, in criterion trials on the whole task, and during retention after one week. However, forward chaining conferred a greater advantage than backward chaining on most measures. The results weaken several explanations for the superiority of backward chaining but confirm the advantages of segmentation methods in part-task training.

The Regional History Project conducted this oral history with Leta Miller, Professor of Music, as part of its University History Series. After earning a B.A. from Stanford University in music, an M.M in music history from the Hartt College of Music, and a PhD from Stanford University in musicology, Miller arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1978. She began as a part-time lecturer, teaching a course in chamber music literature at College Eight and offering flute lessons in a tiny room with no window in the old music building. After several years teaching various classes for UCSC, including a music history survey course, in 1987 Miller applied for and was hired for a tenure-track position in the UCSC Music Department [then called the Music Board]. Miller is passionate about teaching, research, and performance. For many years she was a dedicated professional player of Baroque, Renaissance, and modern flute. Her classes at UCSC range from general education courses in music appreciation (which she confided are still her favorite courses to teach), to advanced seminars in the compositions of Lou Harrison and Renaissance performance practice. In her narration Miller also reflects on the unique aspects of UC Santa Cruz she has experienced over the past four decades: the Narrative Evaluation System, the boards of studies, the college system, the focus on undergraduate education, and the emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. She discusses the design of UCSC's state-of-the-art Music Building, which opened in 1997. She also explores the evolution of UCSC's Music Department, including the unique backgrounds and strengths of many of her colleagues, the birth of the MA, PhD, and DMA in music at UCSC, and the development of the UCSC Orchestra, the UCSC Opera Program, and various student ensembles. Miller found a true home in the UC Santa Cruz Music Department, which is dedicated to what Miller called "this balance between the practical and theoretical." Miller's scholarly interests are also diverse, ranging from Renaissance French chansons and madrigals; to music and politics in San Francisco from 1906 until World War II; to the Jewish American composer Aaron Jay Kernis. But she is perhaps best known for her scholarship on world-renowned composer Lou Harrison, who resided in the mountains near Santa Cruz from 1953 until his death in 2003. An extensive portion of this oral history is devoted to a discussion of Miller's deep connection with Lou Harrison. This part of the oral history illuminates Miller's writings on this extraordinary composer, whose archive is also housed at the UCSC Library's Special Collections Department.

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Although an ontological approach to musical works has dominated analytic aesthetics for almost fifty years, criticisms have recently started to spread in the philosophical literature. Contestants blame mainstream musical ontology for lacking historical awareness, questioning the cogency of metaphysical proposals that are substantially essentialist with regard to our musical concepts. My aim in this paper is to address this accusation by engaging the historicist critics in a sustained debate. I argue that even if the arguments based on history and sociology turn out to be accurate, this may not be enough of a reason to abandon the ontological project altogether. Ontology and history do not necessarily clash. Moreover, historical-sociological examinations do not fulfil our philosophical interest in music. I conclude by making a plea to "historical ontology," a perspective that does not reject ontology but closely connects it to the dialectic between historical research and aesthetic interest.

Being an important component of world music, Russian musical art not only embodied the spirit and culture of the Russian nation, but at the same time influenced the development of musical culture in many neighboring countries, including China. Starting from the northeastern regions of the PRC, the musical culture of Soviet Russia subsequently spread throughout the country, found a response in the hearts of not only ordinary people, but also members of the government. Soviet music played a positive and stimulating role in the development of Chinese music, not only at the level of creativity, but also at the level of the development of ideological and aesthetic consciousness.

Introduction. Notes and queries on global music history / Martin Stokes -- Enlightenment. Ancient Greeks, world music and early modern constructions of Western European identity / David R. M. Irving ; Analytical encounters : global music criticism and enlightenment ethnomusicology / Estelle Joubert ; Musical thought in the global enlightenments / Philip V. Bohlman -- East Asia. Voice and song in early encounters between Latins, Mongols and Persians, c.1250-c.1350 / Jason Stoessel ; The transformation of the world : silk road musics, cross-cultural approaches and contemporary metaphors / Max Peter Baumann ; Music education in modern Japanese society / Rinko Fujita ; The (musical) imaginarium of Konishi Yasuharu, or how to make Western music Japanese / Oliver Seibt ; European music outside Europe : musical entangling and intercrossing in the case of Korea's modern history / Jin-Ah Kim ; Korean music : definitions and practices / Keith Howard ; East Asia in a global historical perspective : approaches and challenges / Nicola Spakowski -- South and South-east Asia. Heavy metal bamboo : how archaic bamboo instruments became modern in Bandung, Indonesia / Henry Spiller ; Cultural autonomy and the Indian exception : debating the aesthetics of Indian classical music in early 20th-century Calcutta / Matthew Pritchard ; Orientalism and beyond : Tagore, Foulds and cross-cultural exchanges between Indian and Western musicians / Suddhaseel Sen -- America. Why did indians sing? The appropriation of European musical practices by South-American natives in the Jesuit reducciones / Leonardo J. Waisman ; The global mission in the music of Jesuit drama / Tomasz Jez ; From abandoned huts to maps of the pampas : the topos of the huella and the representation of landscape in Argentine art music / Melanie Plesch ; Minor mode and the Andes : the pentatonic scale as topic and the musical representation of Peru / Julio Mendívil ; The rending call of the poor and forsaken street crier : the political and expressive dimension of a topic in Silvestre Revueltas's early works / Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus ; Passion and disappointment : waltz and danza topics in a Venezuelan musical nationalism masterpiece / Juan Francisco Sans ; Festivals, violins and global music histories : examples from the Caribbean and Canada / Tina K. Ramnarine

Security practitioners must be able to build cost-effective security programs while also complying with government regulations. Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard lays out these regulations in simple terms and explains how to use control frameworks to build an air-tight information security (IS) program and governance structure. Defining the leadership skills required by IS officers, the book examines the pros and cons of different reporting structures and highlights the various control frameworks available. It details the functions of the security department and considers the control areas, including physical, network, application, business continuity/disaster recover, and identity management. Todd Fitzgerald explains how to establish a solid foundation for building your security program and shares time-tested insights about what works and what doesn't when building an IS program. Highlighting security considerations for managerial, technical, and operational controls, it provides helpful tips for selling your program to management. It also includes tools to help you create a workable IS charter and your own IS policies. Based on proven experience rather than theory, the book gives you the tools and real-world insight needed to secure your information while ensuring compliance with government regulations.

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The goal of this study was to determine the systematic effect that varying the slope angle of a computer keyboard along with varying keyboard height (relative to elbow height) have on wrist extension angle while typing. Thirty participants typed on a keyboard whose slope was adjusted to +15°, +7.5°, 0°, -7.5°, and -15°. The height of the keyboard was set up such that participants' wrists were at the same height as their elbows, above their elbows, and four cm below their elbows. Results showed that as keyboard slope angle moved downward from +15° to -15°, mean wrist extension decreased approximately 13° (22° at +15° slope to 9° at -15° slope). Keyboard height had a similar effect with mean wrist extension decreasing from 21.8° when the keyboard was lower than elbow height, to 7.3° when the keyboard was higher than elbow height. Potential application of this research includes the downward sloping of computer keyboards, which could possibly be beneficial in the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders affecting the wrist