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.

Orientador: Martha Herr / Banca: Clóvis Afonso de André / Banca: Luciano Simões Silva / Resumo: Buscou-se neste trabalho a recuperação histórica da pronúncia do português brasileiro cantado, tal como proposta nas normas expostas nos Anais do Primeiro Congresso da Língua Nacional Cantada, de 1938, bem como a realização de uma análise prático-comparativa destas com as normas atuais, publicadas em 2007, destacando os principais pontos que as distinguem e elementos que proporcionam modificações na interpretação de canções em idioma brasileiro. O estudo baseado em documentos históricos e na investigação das circunstâncias que favoreceram a normalização do português brasileiro cantado teve, em sua fase prática, a realização de dois recitais e a gravação de um CD demonstrativo, com a execução de peças cujas pronúncias estão fundamentadas nas normas de 1938 e 2007, buscando evidenciar os elementos de divergência entre elas / Abstract: The aim of this research is to recover the historical pronunciation of Brazilian Portuguese sung as proposed in the standards set out in the Annals of the First Congress of the National Language as Sung (1° Congresso da Língua Nacional Cantada), in 1938, and the realization of a practical-comparative analysis between these and the current norms, published in 2007, highlighting the main points that distinguish them and evidences that provide changes in the interpretation of songs in Brazilian Portuguese. The study, based on historical documents and investigation of the circumstances which furthered the standardization of Brazilian Portuguese as sung, included the of two concerts and the recording of a demo CD with the execution of pieces whose pronunciations are based on norms from 1938 and 2007, seeking evidences of diverging elements between them / Mestre

Partindo da Teogonia e dos Trabalhos e dias de Hesíodo, modelos de poética fundada na verdade, e do conceito de sabedoria humana, como aparece na Apologia de Sócrates de Platão, o presente trabalho estuda a relação entre verdade e poesia nos Idílios de Teócrito fundamento de seu programa poético , e a elocução contenciosa ou competitiva que a veicula. Ao que se segue tradução em verso de todos os idílios hexamétricos autênticos do autor. / Starting from Hesiods Theogony and Works and days, models of a truth-based poetics, and from the concept of human wisdom as it stands in Platos Apology of Socrates, this work focuses on the so-called reciprocal conditioning of truth and poetry in Theocritus Idylls the very basis of his poetic program as well on the quarrelsome or competitive diction which conveys it. There follows a versetranslation of all the true Theocritean Idylls written in hexameters.

Partindo da Teogonia e dos Trabalhos e dias de Hesíodo, modelos de poética fundada na verdade, e do conceito de sabedoria humana, como aparece na Apologia de Sócrates de Platão, o presente trabalho estuda a relação entre verdade e poesia nos Idílios de Teócrito fundamento de seu programa poético , e a elocução contenciosa ou competitiva que a veicula. Ao que se segue tradução em verso de todos os idílios hexamétricos autênticos do autor. / Starting from Hesiods Theogony and Works and days, models of a truth-based poetics, and from the concept of human wisdom as it stands in Platos Apology of Socrates, this work focuses on the so-called reciprocal conditioning of truth and poetry in Theocritus Idylls the very basis of his poetic program as well on the quarrelsome or competitive diction which conveys it. There follows a versetranslation of all the true Theocritean Idylls written in hexameters.

<p>Compulsory treatment is regulated by the Care of Alcoholics and Drug Abusers Act (LVM; 1988:870), and aims, among other things, at motivating addicts to treatment. Research has, up til now, mostly disregarded the client-perspective on compulsory measures. This dissertation has its starting point in the experiences of 54 alcohol- and drug addicts. The intention is to describe and analyse their view on coercive care and the possibilities to become motivated for change and/or voluntary treatment in such a context.</p><p>A central question during the interviews (which took place at five different institutions for compulsory commitments) is the addicts´ problem recognition, desire for help and willingness to participate in treatment. These dimensions are also illuminated quantitatively by use of a questionnaire. The results of this questionnaire form the basis of a division of the addicts into three groups with varying de-gree of treatment motivation. Comparisons between the groups are done with reference to the evaluation of present treatment context and of the institutions’ efforts to enhance motivation. In addition to this the groups are compared regarding how they perceive limita-tions in their freedom of action.</p><p>The results showed that the three groups had different motiva-tional structures. The “least motivated” stated that the addiction was not their major problem and wanted no help with that aspect of their lives. The “middle-group” claimed to have alcohol-/drug problems that, however, were not too serious. They were not sure that the coercive care was adequate for their situation. The “most motivated” said that they had vast problems with their addiction, were help-seeking and satisfied with having the chance to participate in any kind of treatment program at all. Less differences between the groups were noticeable when it came to a direct evaluation of com-pulsory treatment. The majority reported that they, through the co-ercion, had been exposed to violations of their autonomy. Whether motivated for treatment or not, the interviewees were also sceptical about the possibilities of the institutions to enhance motivation among the incarcerated addicts.</p><p>In the dissertation, addiction and motivation is furthermore dis-cussed from the perspective of rational choice and motivational the-ory. It is concluded that committed addicts think and act strategically in order to maximise their personal use of involuntary incarcerations. It is also asserted that their view on what happens during commit-ment, in some respects, is opposed to the “establishment’s”. For instance, the addicts claim that you don’t become motivated by way of compulsory treatment, while the opposite of their notion form the basis of the legislation.</p>

Compulsory treatment is regulated by the Care of Alcoholics and Drug Abusers Act (LVM; 1988:870), and aims, among other things, at motivating addicts to treatment. Research has, up til now, mostly disregarded the client-perspective on compulsory measures. This dissertation has its starting point in the experiences of 54 alcohol- and drug addicts. The intention is to describe and analyse their view on coercive care and the possibilities to become motivated for change and/or voluntary treatment in such a context. A central question during the interviews (which took place at five different institutions for compulsory commitments) is the addicts´ problem recognition, desire for help and willingness to participate in treatment. These dimensions are also illuminated quantitatively by use of a questionnaire. The results of this questionnaire form the basis of a division of the addicts into three groups with varying de-gree of treatment motivation. Comparisons between the groups are done with reference to the evaluation of present treatment context and of the institutions’ efforts to enhance motivation. In addition to this the groups are compared regarding how they perceive limita-tions in their freedom of action. The results showed that the three groups had different motiva-tional structures. The “least motivated” stated that the addiction was not their major problem and wanted no help with that aspect of their lives. The “middle-group” claimed to have alcohol-/drug problems that, however, were not too serious. They were not sure that the coercive care was adequate for their situation. The “most motivated” said that they had vast problems with their addiction, were help-seeking and satisfied with having the chance to participate in any kind of treatment program at all. Less differences between the groups were noticeable when it came to a direct evaluation of com-pulsory treatment. The majority reported that they, through the co-ercion, had been exposed to violations of their autonomy. Whether motivated for treatment or not, the interviewees were also sceptical about the possibilities of the institutions to enhance motivation among the incarcerated addicts. In the dissertation, addiction and motivation is furthermore dis-cussed from the perspective of rational choice and motivational the-ory. It is concluded that committed addicts think and act strategically in order to maximise their personal use of involuntary incarcerations. It is also asserted that their view on what happens during commit-ment, in some respects, is opposed to the “establishment’s”. For instance, the addicts claim that you don’t become motivated by way of compulsory treatment, while the opposite of their notion form the basis of the legislation.

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Poetry, as a special form of literature, is crucial for computational linguistics. It has a high density of emotions, figures of speech, vividness, creativity, and ambiguity. Poetry poses a much greater challenge for the application of Natural Language Processing algorithms than any other literary genre. Our system establishes a computational model that classifies poems based on similarity features like rhyme, diction, and metaphor. For rhyme analysis, we investigate the methods used to classify poems based on rhyme patterns. First, the overview of different types of rhymes is given along with the detailed description of detecting rhyme type and sub-types by the application of a pronunciation dictionary on our poetry dataset. We achieve an accuracy of 96.51% in identifying rhymes in poetry by applying a phonetic similarity model. Then we achieve a rhyme quantification metric RhymeScore based on the matching phonetic transcription of each poem. We also develop an application for the visualization of this quantified RhymeScore as a scatter plot in 2 or 3 dimensions. For diction analysis, we investigate the methods used to classify poems based on diction. First the linguistic quantitative and semantic features that constitute diction are enumerated. Then we investigate the methodology used to compute these features from our poetry dataset. We also build a word embeddings model on our poetry dataset with 1.5 million words in 100 dimensions and do a comparative analysis with GloVe embeddings. Metaphor is a part of diction, but as it is a very complex topic in its own right, we address it as a stand-alone issue and develop several methods for it. Previous work on metaphor detection relies on either rule-based or statistical models, none of them applied to poetry. Our methods focus on metaphor detection in a poetry corpus, but we test on non-poetry data as well. We combine rule-based and statistical models (word embeddings) to develop a new classification system. Our first metaphor detection method achieves a precision of 0.759 and a recall of 0.804 in identifying one type of metaphor in poetry, by using a Support Vector Machine classifier with various types of features. Furthermore, our deep learning model based on a Convolutional Neural Network achieves a precision of 0.831 and a recall of 0.836 for the same task. We also develop an application for generic metaphor detection in any type of natural text.

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