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Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...everyday talk. For instance, many songs consist of a series of alternating verses and choruses. These are distinct in terms of both words and musical material, as indicated in Figure 2 through the use of different colours for verses and choruses. Verses are additionally distinct one from another, since each one has different lyrics, as indicated in the figure through a...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...everyday choices. Organisations are advancing innovation as a way of improving human–environment relationships. There is also an added advantage to learning about organisations in that you will also have direct experience of some kind of organisation in relation to environmental management. However, you don’t need to be a member, such as an employee, of a formal...
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...English Lake District, productivity and sediment input increased in some lakes when vegetation was cleared by Neolithic humans around 5000 years ago, and again when widespread deforestation occurred 2000 years ago. However the greatest increases in productivity, sediment levels and levels of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, have occurred since 1930. Figure 1.11 shows the...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...English Gothic, though less usual in continental Europe, it also occurs in Asian architecture. Deborah Howard has argued that ‘the intention behind the introduction of the ogee arch and its adoption as a trademark by the Venetian merchant class was to allude to a mental image of the Orient’14 – a ‘mental image’ composed out of myriad individual memories of trade...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...English translation 1878) is based largely on artists' ‘Lives’ (though it is thematic rather than biographical in form). In this context, according to Soussloff, it is no wonder that Burckhardt is able to celebrate ‘The Development of the Individual’ as one of his sections. Burckhardt's characterization of the civilization of the Renaissance in Italy relied on...
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...English language, the UK is clearly a model on how not to do it. If you look at the last 20 years or so of UK climate policy, a few things have happened. One thing that has not happened is that emissions have fallen in any measurable or substantive way. But what has happened is that most people got a little bit poorer because energy's more expensive, or a little bit...
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...English word ‘father’. A line over a ‘u’ or over an ‘i’, as in ‘tanpūra’ or ‘sthāyī’, respectively, indicates that the vowel is given a longer duration. A mark over an ‘s’, as in ‘bandiś’, indicates that the letter is to be pronounced as ‘sh’. Note that when this course quotes from an external source, that source’s preferred way...
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...English Dictionary (2023) defines it as: Soundness of moral principle; the character of uncorrupted virtue, especially in relation to truth and fair dealing; uprightness, honesty. It might also be described as always doing the right thing and being honest. Amster (2015) offers the following tips to help you strengthen your integrity in the workplace: Fulfil your promises...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs