Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the seventeenth century, Five Lives in Music brings to light the private and performance lives of five ...remarkable women musicians and composers. Elegantly guiding readers through the Thirty Years War in central Europe, elite courts in Germany, urban salons in Paris, Nazi control of Germany and Austria, and American musical life today, as well as personal experiences of marriage, motherhood, and widowhood, Cecelia Hopkins Porter provides valuable insights into the culture in which each woman was active._x000B__x000B_Porter begins with the Duchess Sophie-Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lueneberg, a harpsichordist who also presided over seventeenth-century North German court music as an impresario. At the forefront of French Baroque composition, composer Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre bridged a widening cultural gap between the Versailles nobility and the urban bourgeoisie of Paris. A century later, Josephine Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important arts salon. Lastly, the book profiles two exceptional women of the twentieth century: Baroness Maria Bach, a composer and pianist of twentieth-century Vienna's upper bourgeoisie and its brilliant musical milieu in the era of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Erich Korngold; and Ann Schein, a brilliant and dauntless American piano prodigy whose career, ongoing today though only partially recognized, led her to study with the legendary virtuosos Arthur Rubinstein and Myra Hess._x000B__x000B_Mining autograph manuscripts, unpublished letters, press reviews, interviews, and music archives in the United States and Europe, Porter probes each musician's social and economic status, her education and musical training, the cultural expectations, traditions, and restrictions of each woman's society, and other factors. Throughout the lively and focused portraits of these five women, Porter finds common threads, both personal and contextual, that extend to a larger discussion of the lives and careers of female composers and performers throughout centuries of music history.
The medieval German courtly romance, 'Reifried von Braunschweig' (ca. 1300) and the short Yiddish text 'The Story from Mainz' (16th century) can both be classified as being or containing bridal quest ...narratives. Comparing them shows the sophisticated and varied deployment of this plot
structure and reveals the different perspectives of the Christian and Jewish author, respectively, on themes such as marriage, heroic mettle, community membership, and elite formation.
In Woyzeck, an unfinished and fragmentary play written by Georg Büchner (1837), the question of anthropomorphism is raised when a monkey enters the stage at the beginning of the fair scene (H1,1). ...Through the phenomenon of theatre within the theatre, the monkey disguised as a soldier symbolizes the fair’s audience, composed mainly of soldiers. He not only takes on human physical characteristics, by standing up and wearing a military uniform, but he also mimics human behaviour by bowing, shooting or playing music. This article focuses on the representation of this case of anthropomorphism in Werner Herzog’s film (1979), as well as its staging in two contemporary performances, one by Stéphane Braunschweig (1999) and one by Leander Haußmann (2014). The analysis of performances will allow us to see how the imaginary power of “human” animals enhances the potentialities of stage practices and how the scenography enhances the representation of anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism can be considered as an aesthetic issue participating, in Woyzeck’s case, in a critique of society.
The article considers the problem of the Evangelical Church institutions formation in Braunschweig as part of Lutheran confessionalization. This article analyses the principles and main tasks of the ...Church organization’s activity in the confessional era. It also defines the main features of Braunschweig churches’ activities, educational programs in schools, and means of control over their activities carried out by the authorities. In conclusion, the article notes that the principles of the Reformation in Braunschweig in the late 1520s to the first half of the 1550s became primarily a means of resolving political and administrative issues.
Kreativität ist ein Produkt sozialer Austauschprozesse, die auch im digitalen Zeitalter noch an konkreten, physischen Orten stattfinden. Für eine erfolgreiche Stadtentwicklung ist es daher ...erforderlich, die Produktionsorte der Kreativität zu identifizieren und zu stärken. Mithilfe qualitativer Methoden deckt Katharina Bingel die Mechanismen von Entstehung, Aneignung und Bedeutungszunahme von Dritten Orten kreativ-urbaner Milieus unter Berücksichtigung sozialer In- und Exklusionslinien auf. Dabei fragt sie nach der sozialen Produktion Dritter Orte im Zusammenspiel mit dem physischen Raum und leitet daraus Implikationen für eine nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung ab.
In the German industry Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems account for 11 %–20 % of the final energy consumption. Usually HVAC systems are dimensioned based on static extreme ...values and thus during most of the operation time, HVAC systems tend to be overdimensioned. In addition, the extensive literature review of 40 papers shows that often topics on model-based energy efficiency improvement are commonly performed for office or residential buildings, but rather rarely for production environments. Furthermore, the performance of control schemes for energy efficiency improvement are rarely compared with each other or incompletely compared with each other. In this publication, we use the framework of a Cyber–Physical Production System (CPPS) to compare the performance of four main control schemes, ranging from simple time-based control to model-predictive control, which has not been done in the context of battery production before. Over a fixed observation period, the four control schemes are transparently compared with each other in a case study using the example of the Battery LabFactory Braunschweig (BLB). Compared to the initial state, a significant reduction in final energy demand can be achieved with all examined control approaches, which is even up to 37.29% in case of the model-predictive control. Surprisingly, even simple control approaches, without any predictions, have a good energetic saving potential of up to 20.22% compared to the initial state, which is why they are initially recommended for practical implementation. Moreover, we publish all source code of the control schemes, in order to encourage the implementation of energy efficiency measures in further applications not restricted to battery production.
•Comparison of control schemes for energy efficiency improvement of HVAC systems.•Considering scheduled to model-predictive control applied to battery production.•Best control scheme achieves energetic reduction of up to 37.29% in case study.•Control scheme approaches transferable to other cases outside of battery production.•Publication of source code to encourage implementation of efficiency measures.
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in a production environment ensure a variety of functions, such as providing a pleasant room climate, ensuring defined process conditions and ...maintaining clean air in the workplace. In fulfilling these functions, they contribute significantly to the overall energy demand in industry. With the rise of fluctuating renewable energies, HVAC systems are interesting in the context of energy flexibility measures to ensure grid stability. In this context, model-based, quantitative analyses are of interest in order to evaluate the effects of energy flexibility measures on the indoor climate or process conditions. In the Battery LabFactory Braunschweig (BLB), research is being conducted on the production of batteries on a laboratory to pilot plant scale. In the BLB the semi-automated cell production takes place in a large drying room, which is supplied by a specially designated HVAC system, which requires more than 70 % of the total energy demand of the BLB. In addition, by using a continuous data acquisition system, the HVAC system records over 90 data points in high temporal resolution. Using a validated physical simulation model of the HVAC system different alternative, energy flexible operating modes can be examined. As alternative modes of operation, a simple rule-based method is compared with a mathematical optimization, which optimizes the overall system in terms of cost and air quality. Mathematical optimization is preferable in terms of the amount of energy potential that can be flexibilized. However, since the optimization involves a higher computational as well as implementation effort and the results of the rule-based method are very similar in terms of cost savings, the rule-based method can also be interesting when the cost-benefit trade-off is taken into account.
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On 10 April 1654, Duke August the Younger of Braunschweig-Lüneburg celebrated his 75th birthday. Three days later the occasion was celebrated at the Wolfenbüttel court with a masquerade ...entitled Der Natur Banquet, conceived and organized by August’s wife, Duchess Sophie Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. This article focuses on the opening of Der Natur Banquet, a procession of seven celestial bodies with accompanying music. Investigating the characteristics of these celestial bodies as described in contemporary astrological sources, I demonstrate that visual and aural rhetoric worked in tandem to display the political power and virtue of the duke and his dynasty. The article investigates the affective links between the astrological characteristics of each celestial body and the instruments used with it, and explores the possible influence of ‘Die Tugendsterne’ by Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and Sigmund Theophil Staden.
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