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‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?
History & The Arts

‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?

...Open University’s music courses_.  _ A small number of hymns are so familiar to many Welsh people that it might be tempting to say, for example, that ‘everyone knows ‘Bread of Heaven’’. However, examination of the textual and musical histories of many of the best-known Welsh hymns often reveals complicated stories that can be difficult to untangle. This...
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Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony
History & The Arts

Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony

What led a member of the 19th century ruling class to preserve Welsh language folk music?...Find out more about The Open University’s music courses_.  _ At the 1837 Abergavenny Eisteddfod, a prize was offered for ‘For the best collection of original unpublished Welsh airs, with the words as sung by the peasantry of Wales’. It was won by Maria Jane Williams, with a...
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Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music
History & The Arts

Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music

...open to interpretation, of course. Bond certainly recognises his own theme, commenting in Octopussy that it’s a “charming tune” when a fellow agent, disguised as a snake charmer, plays it to attract his attention. This is a classic example of what academics might refer to as postmodern self-reflexivity—though that’s not to say it shouldn’t also be thought of...
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Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...Open University course L301 Language, literature and childhood...Studying children's literature allows us to learn not just about the books that children are reading, but also about what role reading plays in childhood, and how our ideas about childhood affect the books that they read. In this free course, you will be introduced to some of the key questions that the study...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...source. Organise – work through the co-ordinated actions of everyone. Integrate – SHE management is a multidisciplinary area embracing scientific, engineering, social and political issues. No individual can be expert in all of these disciplines, but the SHE manager should be able to appreciate the different perspectives and to recognise the trade-offs that are...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...Open video hosting platforms on the Internet let anyone in the world “broadcast” to anyone else in the world. Can the AVSM “level the playing field” in the other direction, by making traditional broadcasters give Chewbacca-Mask Mom instant access to millions of viewers, as video hosting platforms have done? Can they give any viewer – like Mom-Mask Chewbacca - an...
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Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...open expression online, free of the mediation of journalists – were at the heart of the wave of attacks in Paris. As events unfolded, witnesses reflexively got out their cellphones and shot live coverage of what was happening before their eyes. These amateur images were then relayed by media both online and on TV. Thus the first images of the Bataclan attack, filmed...
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Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 3: Double-entry accounting: Introduction - As you learned in Week 1, accounting is a process that involves: the systematic recording of all relevant financial transactions and events classifying, interpreting, summarising and reporting such bookkeeping data the production of useful information from that data...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs