Beghin, Tom and Sander M. Goldberg, eds. Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Beghin, Tom and Sander M. Goldberg, eds. Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo5485736.htm

Eighteenth-Century Music in a Twenty-First Century Conservatory of Music or Using Haydn to Make the Familiar Exciting

Teaching eighteenth-century music effectively, particularly at a conservatory where the students are quite familiar with the music of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, can prove challenging when you introduce less familiar material—the early works of Haydn and Mozart, for example, or the works of just about any other composer active during the century. I have found that recalibrating the students’ ears to recognize and appreciate the small things—the play of texture, the turns of phrase, the delays of cadence, the unexpected chromatic slips—help them appreciate its charm. Haydn’s music in particular lends itself to such listening, and his life story provides opportunities to discuss the role that music played in society, the changes in musical infrastructure over the course of the century, and how a musical trajectory of the late eighteenth-century could be constructed without reference to the traditional “Haydn leads to Mozart leads to Beethoven-as-teleological-goal.

Haydn and the Analysis Wars: A View from the Sidelines

Anyone who has spent any serious analytical time with eighteenth-century music knows that standard formal models often do not seem to fit, let alone explain, the music and formal structures of the eighteenth century. Nowhere is this disconnect between theory and practice more evident than in the music of Joseph Haydn, especially his instrumental music. This article examines and compares two analytical systems of particular applicability to eighteenth-century music: Jan LaRue’s Guidelines for style Analysis, and James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late Eighteenth-Century. If we combine elements of both systems, rather than insisting on the superiority of one or the other, we can enhance our understanding and appreciation of the delightful ambiguities and formal quirks of Haydn’s music

In Search of Common Values Amongst Competing Universals: An Argument for the Return to Value's Original Meaning

This article presents an argument for the return to the original meaning of the concept value. This is achieved by revisiting the genealogy of the concept and by placing in perspective and questioning the common parlance thereof in contemporary legal discourse. The approach is decidedly against the often casual way in which courts and commentators treat the concept, seemingly as concretisation, validation, exegesis or reinforcement of fundamental norms, but without paying attention to its original meaning and use. It is submitted that we confine our talk of values to the products of valuation, that is, the taste, the will, the esteem and/or perspective of some individual or group. Yet, it is not suggested that we completely discard the use of values discourse in law, the goal is rather to restate the inherent relativity of values language in legal discourse. This will bring necessary order to the current conceptual disarray and will foster mutual understanding and alliance

A Core Outcome Measurement Set for Pediatric Critical Care

OBJECTIVES To identify a PICU Core Outcome Measurement Set (PICU COMS), a set of measures that can be used to evaluate the PICU Core Outcome Set (PICU COS) domains in PICU patients and their families. DESIGN A modified Delphi consensus process. SETTING Four webinars attended by PICU physicians and nurses, pediatric surgeons, rehabilitation physicians, and scientists with expertise in PICU clinical care or research ( n = 35). Attendees were from eight countries and convened from the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators Pediatric Outcomes STudies after PICU Investigators and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network PICU COS Investigators. SUBJECTS Measures to assess outcome domains of the PICU COS are as follows: cognitive, emotional, overall (including health-related quality of life), physical, and family health. Measures evaluating social health were also considered. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Measures were classified as general or additional based on generalizability across PICU populations, feasibility, and relevance to specific COS domains. Measures with high consensus, defined as 80% agreement for inclusion, were selected for the PICU COMS. Among 140 candidate measures, 24 were delineated as general (broadly applicable) and, of these, 10 achieved consensus for inclusion in the COMS (7 patient-oriented and 3 family-oriented). Six of the seven patient measures were applicable to the broadest range of patients, diagnoses, and developmental abilities. All were validated in pediatric populations and have normative pediatric data. Twenty additional measures focusing on specific populations or in-depth evaluation of a COS subdomain also met consensus for inclusion as COMS additional measures. CONCLUSIONS The PICU COMS delineates measures to evaluate domains in the PICU COS and facilitates comparability across future research studies to characterize PICU survivorship and enable interventional studies to target long-term outcomes after critical illness