Albéniz, Malats, Iberia and the ultimate "españolismo"

Iberia, a collection of twelve piano pieces arranged in four books of three pieces each, is by far Isaac Albéniz’s most famous composition. Responding to a letter from Albéniz to the pianist Joaquín Malats, in which the composer confessed that with the third book of Iberia he carried the “españolismo [Spanishness] to its ultimate extreme,” I will argue that there are subtle stylistic differences between books one and two on the one hand, and books three and four on the other. As Paul Mast has observed, Albéniz’s use of the whole-tone scale decreased in books three and four, “after their ‘French’ aspect had undoubtedly been pointed out to the composer” (Mast, 1974). I will not only unveil Albéniz’s specific use of the whole-tone scale, but also point out an alternative compositional strategy that fulfills the same function in books three and four. Moreover, this renewed “Spanishness” entailed not only an emphasis on folkloristic elements on the foreground level, but also a more sophisticated use of the Phrygian (flamenco) mode in Albéniz’s recapitulations on the dominant. In other words, Albéniz’s conception of “Spanishness” entailed the structural translation of one of the “quintessential” features of flamenco music

Onimia empresarial asturiana: el sector del vinu y de la sidra

N’Asturies, la sidra ye ún de los sectores más importantes de la industria agroalimentaria. El vinu asturiano, per so parte, tenta d’algamar un güecu nel mercáu dempués de cuasi un sieglu d’abandonu de la so producción industrial. Nesti trabayu abórdase l’estudiu onomásticu de los nomes de fabricantes asturianos actuales de sidra y vinu, asina como de los productos que comercialicen, partiendo del presupuestu de que les marques comerciales espeyen non solo’l funcionamientu del mercáu sinón tamién la mentalidá de la sociedá na que surden. Apréciense diferencies importantes ente la onimia sidrera y la vinatera, dalgunes d’elles en rellación direuta con circunstancies que dixebren dambos sectores industrialesCider is one of the most important sectors in Asturian food industry. On the other hand, Asturian wine tries to get a foothold in the market after nearly a century of neglect of its industrial production. This paper focuses on the onomastic study of current cider and wine brand names, assuming that trademarks reflect not only the behaviour of markets but also the mentality of the society in which they arise. Important differences are appreciated in comparing cider and wine brand names, some of them directly related to differential features of the two industrial sector

Reflexones sobre la marcación preposicional del OD n'asturianu. Dellos datos medievales

La función d’oxetu directu (OD)n’asturianu pue ser preposicional o non (traxi a la mio amiga / traxi la mio filoxa). Alternancies asemeyaes danse n’otres munches variedaes romániques, la mayoría d’elles na Península ibérica y nel centru-sur de la Península italiana. Nesti trabayu faise un repasu de les principales cuestiones que cinquen la marcación selectiva del od na romania (orixe históricu, estensión xeográfica, marques formales, factores qu’influyen nella) pa entrar dempués na mecánica del fenómenu nel casu concretu asturianu, tema que ta bien poco estudiáu non solamente a nivel sincrónicu sinón tamién diacrónicu. Como contribución a la perspeutiva histórica, faise una comparanza ente la situación moderna y la de los sieglos xiiixv, al tenor de lo qu’amuesa un centenar aproximáu de documentos notariales del centru-occidente asturianuThe function of the Direct Object (DO) in Asturian can be prepositional or not (traxi a la mio amiga / traxi la mio filoxa). Alternations like these also appear in many other varieties of Romance languages, most of them in the Iberian Peninsula and also in the South-Central area of the Italian Peninsula. This paper gives an overview of the main themes related to the selective marking of the DO in the Romance languages (its historical origin, geographical extension, formal marks and factors that may influence them) and it also deals with the case of the Asturian Language in concrete, which has not been enough studied sufficiently neither in the synchronic aspect nor in the diachronic one. As a kind of contribution to the historical point of view, a comparison between the current situation and the situation in the 13th-15th Century is made according to what about a hundred of legal documents from the central-west area of Asturies sho

Capturing complexity: developing an integrated approach to analysing HRM in SMEs

This article presents a framework to evaluate HRM in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), using an open systems theoretical perspective. In presenting an open systems perspective the objective is to overcome the limitations of existing theorising in HRM, in particular to facilitate a move away from the ‘small is beautiful’ versus ‘bleak house’ stereotypes evident in much of the literature concerned with HRM in SMEs. The evidence is drawn from six SMEs operating in the Republic of Ireland, using a case study method. The findings show that a complex interplay of external structural factors and internal dynamics shaped HRM in each of the companies. HRM was not the coherent set of practices typically identified in the literature but rather was often informal and emergent. It is argued that the open systems theoretical framework enables a move beyond mere recognition of the complexity and heterogeneity of HRM in SMEs, towards an understanding, accommodation and explanation of particularistic factors

Tendencias en los campos del derecho y la estética, y nuevas manifestaciones de la violencia.

This article explores tendencies in the fields of law and aesthetics in order to contribute to an understanding of new manifestations of violence: in particular, the brutalization of social relations. The article examines the transformations that bear witness to the deflation of the symbolic and discusses these transformations following Jean Baudrillard’s notions of hegemonic power and integrist violence.En este artículo se exploran algunas tendencias en los campos del derecho y la estética con el objetivo de aportar a una comprensión en torno a las nuevas manifestaciones de la violencia; en particular, la brutalización de las relaciones sociales. A partir de las consideraciones sobre poder hegemónico y violencia integrista elaboradas por Jean Baudrillard, se examinan y se discuten las transformaciones que atestiguan un proceso de desinflamiento de lo simbólico

Supply-side Antecedents of dropout rates in MBA programs

This work was supported by Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness: [Grant Number ECO2016-76783R]

Program characteristics and price in MBAs: the interactive effects of external quality signals and co-creation processes

This research was funded by Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España , grant number ECO2016-76783-R

In termino unde primiter dixi : Los Relativos de Lugar en el Latín Ibérico de Los Siglos IX–X

In this paper we study the evolution of locative relative adverbs from Classical to Late Latin and Early Romance Languages. The focus is posed on a corpus of Iberian chartae from the 9th–10th centuries

Modelling user satisfaction for power-usage optimisation of computer fleets

This work has been partially funded by the project RTI2018-094849-B-I00 of the Spanish National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation