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Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...centred and narrative-focused; choruses tend to be music-centred and expression-focused. It is no accident that the chorus of ‘Be My Baby’ features considerable repetition of words, and that by the end of it, the words have been replaced by vocables (sung, meaningless syllables): the music has established priority over the text. Related to this is that choruses also...
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...centres of royal influence and were supervised by an officer (chamberlain) in the King’s household, and were presided over by provosts. At the time monarchs were beginning to realise and acknowledge the role that trade could play in enhancing taxes and revenues and therefore their income and power. However, as trade developed and merchants began to gain economic...
Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...children (1999): ‘Research has overwhelmingly concluded that bilingualism per se does not have any negative effects on cognition. In fact the opposite increasingly appears to be the case: that high levels of bilingualism have accelerating effects on children’s cognitive development.’...Cànan nan Gàidheal: 4.1.2 Ag ionnsachadh chànanan eile - Tha daoine a bha...
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...centre of the keyboard in Figure 3 represents middle C, a note near the middle of most keyboard instruments. Observe that it has been notated twice in staff notation, once in the upper staff and once in the lower one. It has been written in both staves using a ledger line, a short line that allows you to incorporate notes that are placed higher or lower than the staff....
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...children’s story Goldilocks and the Three Bears, where Goldilocks finds the temperature for Baby Bear’s porridge to be ‘just right’. The good news (there sometimes is some) is that theoretical calculations suggest that we will not be able to pump enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to cause a runaway greenhouse effect like that on Venus. This is backed up by...
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...children. For example, when they are doing homework they will regularly search for information on the internet, rather than using textbooks as I did when I was at school. It means they can get what they need quickly, although I am sometimes concerned that what they find may not be the most accurate or authoritative source on a topic. For myself the internet has been very...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...centre of The Duchess of Malfi stands a heroine rather than a hero, which is fairly unusual in Renaissance tragedy. The play also contains an extremely enigmatic and sinister villain. This course will examine how Webster represents his heroine’s marriage for love, which goes against the wishes of her aristocratic family with disastrous consequences. [Described image]...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...children to associate words with the characters which represent them; and it teaches those brought up speaking other Chinese languages how to pronounce Mandarin. ZHOU YOUGUANG: That's the Chinese pronunciation of "yīng guó." SPEAKER: The work of his team has helped to slash the illiteracy rate in China from 80% to just 10%, but his change in career also proved a...