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31	Czech Opera Arias: An Anthology for Soprano Nichols, Bree 05 1900 (has links) This anthology of late 19th- and early 20th-century Czech opera arias for soprano focuses on works that lack existing scholarship, bridging the language gap through translations and pronunciation materials for English-speaking singers. Its 24 arias supplement the works of Smetana, Dvořák, and Janáček with those of contemporaneous composers Karel Bendl, Zdeněk Fibich, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Karel Kovařovic, Vítězslav Novák, and Otakar Ostrčil. Its musicological scope provides vignettes of the musical-cultural landscape of Czech opera around the turn of the 20th century, the transformation of Czech declamation during that period, and the language knowledge needed to sing the works thereof. Chapter 2 elucidates the methodology used in the anthology's phonetic transcriptions and discusses the unique articulatory demands of singing in Czech. Chapter 3 grounds contemporaneous discussion of Czech declamation as late 19th- and early 20th-century composers and librettists sought to shape a musical voice suited to the features of their language. The following chapter is a look at Janáček's unique solution to this challenge. In Chapter 5, the relationship between criticism and composition is examined for these two faces of Czech modernism. Finally, Chapter 6 includes new performance editions of the arias curated for the anthology. Each aria is accompanied by an idiomatic translation, an inline phonetic transcription and word-for-word translation, a brief biographical introduction of the composer, and background information contextualizing the aria and the work from which it is derived. The objective of the anthology is to facilitate a broader range of well-informed performances of Czech repertoire as well as the acquisition of Czech lyric diction for singers at various experience levels. Czech opera Czech diction Czech aria 19th-century Czech music 20th-century Czech music Declamation in opera Czech modernism Language, Linguistics Anthology Songs, Czech -- Analysis, appreciation. Czech language -- Diction. Operas -- Excerpts. Academic theses Songs Art music Operas Excerpts
32	TELEMETRY IN THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT Toole, Michael T. 10 1900 (has links) International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / Since the Gulf War, there has been significant interest in Theater Missile Defense (TMD) resulting in funding growth from tens of millions of dollars at the time of the Gulf War to $1.7 Billion in 1994. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) has developed a Theater Missile Defense test and evaluation program that will assess technological feasibility and the degree to which system functionality and performance meet technical and operational requirements. The complexity of the TMD program necessitates a comprehensive test program which includes flight testing, ground testing, and modeling and simulation. This article will provide and overview the requirements and capabilities needed to satisfy these requirements. The data processing, and telemetry communities will play a major role in providing the expertise to support the development of the nation’s future Theater Missile Defense capabilities. Theater Missile Defense test and evaluation system performance live flight testing ground testing modeling and simulation Air Defense CINCs experiments optical measurement X-band measurement phenomenology data collection THAAD interceptor radar BMC3 System Integration Test ERINT missile Sealite Beam Director High Energy Laser National Test Facility Airborne Surveillance Testbed HALO Rapid Optical Beam Sensing system Cobra Eye Cobra Judy Aria P3 GPS WSMR TSPI Kwajalein distributed interactive simulation

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