The Sun-Sounding Scythian

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-152
Author(s):  
Polina Dimova
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Early Music ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Russian Symbolism ◽  
Rite Of Spring ◽  
Early Songs

The chapter examines the relationships between Prokofiev’s early music and the poets that inspired him. Guided by Konstantin Balmont’s poetic characterization of him in the early 1920s as a “sun-sounding Scythian,” it looks at two specific facets of Russian Symbolism and post-Symbolism that informed Prokofiev’s works: the sun cult and Scythianism. Prokofiev’s luminous Scythianism encompasses the paradox of the lyricism of his early songs and the perceived barbarism of his rejected ballet Ala and Lolli, from which the composer derived his Scythian Suite. By analyzing Prokofiev’s collaboration with Gorodetskii on Ala and Lolli and the composer’s settings of Balmont’s and Akhmatova’s poems, we can understand how the incarnations of the sun god in the Russian Silver Age informed both the sunrise music and the aesthetics of horror in the ballet and the suite. The chapter also reflects on Ala and Lolli as an unrealized ballet in the shadow of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

The Spanish Reception of Le Sacre du Printemps (1913–1936)

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-66
Author(s):  
Idoia Murga Castro
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
Rite Of Spring ◽  
Le Sacre Du Printemps ◽  
Cultural Expansion

Centenary celebrations are being held between 2016 and 2018 to mark the first consecutive tours of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Spain. This study analyses the Spanish reception of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1913), one of its most avant-garde pieces. Although the original work was never performed in Spain as a complete ballet, its influence was felt deeply in the work of certain Spanish choreographers, composers, painters and intellectuals during the so-called Silver Age, the period of modernisation and cultural expansion which extended from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Characterization of the Microbial Community in the Rhizosphere of Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin ex. Steudel Growing in the Sun Island Wetland

2014 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Ma ◽  
Jieting Wu ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Jixian Yang ◽  
Shiyang Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Phragmites Australis ◽  
The Sun

The “estate topos” in the works of representatives of the “peasant concord” group

2020 ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Skorokhodov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Long Time

“Estate topos” is usually considered in the works of authors who had estates or for a long time were living in estates of their relatives and friends. Significantly less attention is paid to the characterization of the “estate topos” in the texts of the authors, who, due to class restrictions, were not the owners of the estates and their frequent guests. In the literature of the Russian Silver Age, these are primarily the poets of the “peasant concord” group: N. Klyuev, S. Ese nin, A. Shiryaevets, S. Klychkov and oth- ers. For them, the most important and often the earliest in time of development of the source of knowledge about the Russian estate was Russian literature. The poets got an idea of estate complexes from personal experience. Elements of these complexes become symbols, each of which has a semantic filling formed over a long period. Revolutionary events of 1917–1921 lead to the rapid death of the estate world. If Klyuev in the early post-revolutionary years welcomed this process, then for Shiryaevets the Russian estate is inseparable from peasant life, Esenin is characterized by the transfer of elements of landlord complexes to the space of the peasant estate, in the heritage of Klychkov, like some other authors, an important role is played by a garden connected not only with the landowner estate, but also with peasant life, with the Garden of Eden.

Masks of the Poet, Myths of the People: The Performance of Individuality and Nationhood in Georgian and Russian Modernism

Slavic Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-590
Author(s):  
Harsha Ram
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Commedia Dell'arte ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
The People ◽  
Russian Symbolism ◽  
The One

Georgian and Russian modernisms engaged in a conversation that was by no means one-way and in which the chronological development and aesthetic premises of Russian symbolism became curiously inverted. Piecing together this forgotten dialogue allows us to recover a neglected crosscultural and properly Eurasian dimension of the Silver Age. Russians and Georgians alike invoked the mask as a theatrical form and myth as a narrative structure to articulate problems of individual, collective, and national identity. Mask and myth shared two distinct and somewhat incompatible genealogies, the one deriving from the Italian commedia dell'arte and the other from Friedrich Nietzsche's reading of Greek tragedy, both of which corresponded in turn to a typically Russian tension between the “decadent” and “mythopoetic” redactions of symbolism. These genealogies were critically adapted by the Georgians in an attempt to address the perceived needs of Georgian national culture. Aesthetic and philosophical problems concerning the semiotics of the name, the nature of the poetic persona, and the structure of myth came to be related to wider questions proper to an era of crisis and transition: modernity and historical belatedness, the dynamics of cultural importation, the gendered nature of nationhood, and the vexed relationship between popular culture and modernism as an elite cultural formation.

scholarly journals Atmospheric Characterization of Cold Exoplanets Using a 1.5-m Space Coronagraph

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S293) ◽  
pp. 289-291
Author(s):  
Anne-Lise Maire ◽  
Raphaël Galicher ◽  
Anthony Boccaletti ◽  
Pierre Baudoz ◽  
Jean Schneider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Species ◽  
Circumstellar Disks ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Habitable Zone ◽  
Spectral Signatures ◽  
Solar Type ◽  
Science Performance

AbstractWe present numerical results of the science performance of the SPICES mission, which aims to characterize the spectro-polarimetric properties of cold exoplanets and circumstellar disks in the visible. We focus on the instrument ability to retrieve the spectral signatures of molecular species, clouds and surface of super-Earths in the habitable zone of solar-type stars. Considering realistic reflected planet spectra and instrument limitation, we show that SPICES could analyse the atmosphere and surface of a few super-Earths within 5 pc of the Sun.

Electronic microscopy and EDX characterization of teotihuacan prehispanic mortar from the cave under the sun pyramid

2005 ◽  
Vol 63 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 705-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Martinez ◽  
G. Martinez ◽  
D. Mendoza ◽  
F. Juarez ◽  
L. Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Electronic Microscopy

scholarly journals CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NEARBY L/T BINARY BROWN DWARF WISE J104915.57–531906.1 AT 2 pc FROM THE SUN

2013 ◽  
Vol 770 (2) ◽  
pp. 124 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Y. Kniazev ◽  
P. Vaisanen ◽  
K. Mužić ◽  
A. Mehner ◽  
H. M. J. Boffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Brown Dwarf

scholarly journals Stellar ages, masses, and radii from asteroseismic modeling are robust to systematic errors in spectroscopy

2019 ◽  
Vol 622 ◽  
pp. A130 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. Bellinger ◽  
S. Hekker ◽  
G. C. Angelou ◽  
A. Stokholm ◽  
S. Basu
Keyword(s):  
Effective Temperature ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Systematic Errors ◽  
Scaling Relations ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Stellar Ages ◽  
Oscillation Frequencies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Era

Context. The search for twins of the Sun and Earth relies on accurate characterization of stellar and the exoplanetary parameters age, mass, and radius. In the modern era of asteroseismology, parameters of solar-like stars are derived by fitting theoretical models to observational data, which include measurements of their oscillation frequencies, metallicity [Fe/H], and effective temperature Teff. Furthermore, combining this information with transit data yields the corresponding parameters for their associated exoplanets. Aims. While values of [Fe/H] and Teff are commonly stated to a precision of ∼0.1 dex and ∼100 K, the impact of systematic errors in their measurement has not been studied in practice within the context of the parameters derived from them. Here we seek to quantify this. Methods. We used the Stellar Parameters in an Instant (SPI) pipeline to estimate the parameters of nearly 100 stars observed by Kepler and Gaia, many of which are confirmed planet hosts. We adjusted the reported spectroscopic measurements of these stars by introducing faux systematic errors and, separately, artificially increasing the reported uncertainties of the measurements, and quantified the differences in the resulting parameters. Results. We find that a systematic error of 0.1 dex in [Fe/H] translates to differences of only 4%, 2%, and 1% on average in the resulting stellar ages, masses, and radii, which are well within their uncertainties (∼11%, 3.5%, 1.4%) as derived by SPI. We also find that increasing the uncertainty of [Fe/H] measurements by 0.1 dex increases the uncertainties of the ages, masses, and radii by only 0.01 Gyr, 0.02 M⊙, and 0.01 R⊙, which are again well below their reported uncertainties (∼0.5 Gyr, 0.04 M⊙, 0.02 R⊙). The results for Teff at 100 K are similar. Conclusions. Stellar parameters from SPI are unchanged within uncertainties by errors of up to 0.14 dex or 175 K. They are even more robust to errors in Teff than the seismic scaling relations. Consequently, the parameters for their exoplanets are also robust.

scholarly journals Characterization of Old Nipah (Nypa fruticans Wurmb) Fruit Endosperm Flour and Its Application for Gluten-Free Cookies

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 354
Author(s):  
Risa Nofiani ◽  
Jorion Romengga ◽  
Titin Anita Zaharah
Keyword(s):  
Wheat Flour ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Absorption Index ◽  
Consumer Acceptability ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Gluten Free ◽  
Nypa Fruticans ◽  
Swelling Capacity ◽  
Different Types

Old nipah fruit endosperms (ONFEs) contain high carbohydrates that have a potency to be applied to make flour. In this study, we made flour from ONFEF and its cookies. This study aimed to characterize the functional properties of unbleached and bleached old nipah fruit endosperm flour (UONFEF and BONFEF) and to assess the consumer acceptability of ONFEF flour and gluten-free cookies made from UONFEF and BONFEF. UONFEF and BONFEF were prepared from the ONFEs. They were cut, dried and ground, and sieved to obtain the UONFEF. TheUONFEF was bleached using Na2S2O5 0.4% for 15 mins then filtered, and the precipitates were dried under the sun. The dried precipitates were sieved to obtain the BONFEF. Both of the flour types were analyzed in terms of their functional properties (bulk density, swelling power, solubility, swelling capacity, water absorption index, and viscosity) and were used to make gluten-free cookies. The following ingredients were prepared to make the the gluten-free cookies: 200 g of flour (each of the UONFEF, BONFEF, and commercial wheat flour (CWF, Segitiga Biru brand) as a control), 100 g of margarine, 60 g egg, 125 g of fine granulated sugar, and 2 g of vanillin. Margarine, egg, and fine granulated sugar were mixed using a hand mixer and added with the flour, blended, molded, then baked. Consumer’s acceptability of each type of flour and cookies from different types of flour was evaluated using semi-trained panelists. The bleached treatment (the BONFEF) caused differences of the flour, particularly in terms of the physical properties (particle size, color, and odor) from the unbleached treatment and rated thehighest score for the overall criteria. Besides, the functional properties of the UONFEF were significantly different (p < 0.05) from those of the BONFEF except for the rendement, SP, and viscosity. The gluten-free cookie made from the UONFEF was the most preferred by the panelists. Therefore, the UONFEF can be successfully used as a substitute flour of wheat flour to make cookies.

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