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Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...Du liebes Kind’, in the right hand of the piano, Schubert leaves out the first of each group of three notes, and has the bass playing a short note on each beat, as if the horse has settled into a comfortable rhythm. At the Erl-king's next entry, ‘Willst, feiner Knabe’, the right hand of the piano stops its hammering altogether, and plays easy-going arpeggios, up and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...du corps animal [Treatises on the Sensitive and Irritable Nature of Parts of the Animal Body], 1756–60, in which he discussed the results of his investigations on the physiology of nerves and muscles. Vivisection on animals, as is shown taking place here, was a staple procedure of the research. Note also the collection of foetuses preserved in jars and the hanging...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...du Cameroun’, Journal of the International Library of African Music, 6(1), pp. 52–58. Palisca, C. V. and Pesce, D. (2009) ‘Guido of Arezzo’, Grove Music Online. Available at: https://www-oxfordmusiconline-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000011968 (Accessed: 23 July 2024). Prame, E. (1997) ‘Vibrato...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...Du C., trans. (1996) Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, with an introduction and note by David Ekserdjian, 2 vols. London: Everyman’s Library. Demus, O. (1948) Byzantine Mosaic Decoration. Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium. London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. Derbes, A. and Sandona, M. (2014) The Cambridge Companion to Giotto....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...4.0 Licence Course image: Alpha du centaure in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...du C. de Vere, intro. and notes D. Eskerdjian, 2 vols, Everyman’s Library, London David Campbell (this edn first published 1927 by Dent). Vespasiano da Bisticci (1963) Renaissance Princes, Popes and Prelates: The Vespasiano Memoirs, New York, Harper and Row (originally composed c.1480–98). Vickers, M. (1978) ‘Some preparatory drawings for Pisanello’s medallion of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...Du Cane Medical Imagine Ltd / Science Photo Library 227677: Figure 2: Copyright Holder Unknown 227680: Figure 4: Copyright Holder Unknown 227683: Figure 5: cylonphoto / 123RF 227690: Figure 7: Copyright Holder Unknown 227707: Figure 10: Copyright Holder Unknown 227713: Figure 13: Royal Society of Chemistry 227715: Figure 14: El Saghir, N. S. et al. (2005)
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Describing language

...du pain sur la planche, "you have bread on the board." Take a moment to try and work out what these phrases might mean. We might use Ladrando a la luna to tell somebody that they are wasting their breath, but there's not necessarily any literal barking going on, nor does the person involved have to be looking at the moon. For Avoir du pain sur la planche, this refers to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs