A Practical Approach to the Renaissance Counterpoint Based on Zarlino’s Pedagogical Principle

This paper presents distinctive features of diverse contrapuntal issues discussed in Zarlino’s Liber de arte contrapuncti, thus illuminating his extensive knowledge of teaching counterpoint and suggesting a supplement point with respect to a logical order of his discussion. In accordance with useful instructions based on his empirical analysis of counter-point, this paper provides his valuable teaching strategies and practical applications to the Renaissance counterpoint class. Especially in the fourth chapter, this paper summarizes his five pedagogical assumptions and applies those to a real situation. This process could support teachers to more realistically acquaint students with sixteenth-century contrapuntal idiom and with actual writing skills of the contrapuntal discipline

Chasing the moon

In a small city, there were several murders of politicians. The Detective Diana and a werewolf hunter Orson suspected Scott, a politician, as the prime suspect. “Chasing The Moon” is a narrative animation created mainly in the 3D software: Maya. The following thesis report is about the technical and artistic process of making the film

Dreaming klimt

The purpose of this project was to make a dress that was inspired by the shiny and brilliant gold color of Klimt\u27s KISS painting, especially by the man\u27s garment in the painting. This dress can be for elegant formal wear or for eveningwear

A criterion for the nature of the superconducting transition in strongly interacting field theories : Holographic approach

It is beyond the present techniques based on perturbation theory to reveal the nature of phase transitions in strongly interacting field theories. Recently, the holographic approach has provided us with an effective dual description, mapping strongly coupled conformal field theories to classical gravity theories. Resorting to the holographic superconductor model, we propose a general criterion for the nature of the superconducting phase transition based on effective interactions between vortices. We find "tricritical" points in terms of the chemical potential for U(1) charges and an effective Ginzburg-Landau parameter, where vortices do not interact to separate the second order (repulsive) from the first order (attractive) transitions. We interpret the first order transition as the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism, arguing that it is relevant to superconducting instabilities around quantum criticality.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure

The Family of Man in Japan: A Photographic Exhibition for World Peace and Atomic Culture in the 1950s

The ambitious exhibition The Family of Man, which made the popular culture of press photography an American modern art, is well known for touring around fifty countries during the Cold War and attracting nine million people. As a path-breaking case of the globalization of art exhibitions, historical studies on its reception in each country are ongoing. This paper reconsidered the Japan tour of The Family of Man between 1956 and 1957. It is noteworthy that it attracted one million visitors in a country and that the immediate removal of some photographs of the atomic bombing on Nagasaki, which were specially added to the installation, caused controversy. This paper investigated the press and criticisms on the removal and characterized the reception of The Family of Man in Japan: it was in cultural tensions between the aspirations for nuclear energy and the fears of nuclear disaster in the 1950s