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Physical Metaphor for Streaming Media Retargeting
2014
We here introduce an image/video retargeting method that operates arbitrary aspect ratios resizing achieved in real-time performances. Most of the literature retargeting approaches sacrifice real-time performances in behalf of quality. On the other hand, existing fast methods provide arguable results. We can obtain a valuable trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency. The method named Spring Simulation Retargeting (SSR) is mainly based on a physical springs-based simulation. The media are assumed as flexible objects composed of particles and springs with different local stiffness properties, related to the visual importance of the content. The variation of the object size generates ela…
Le "Choral-Variationen" Bach-Stravinsky per la basilica di San Marco: simbologia e Quadrato magico
2020
Eseguite per la prima volta nella basilica di San Marco il 13 settembre 1956, le Choral-Variationen uber das Weinachtslied “Vom Himmel hoch...” (1955-56) di Stravinsky sono una reinvenzione originale e creativa delle Canonische Veränderungen BWV 796 di J.S. Bach, che presenta una profonda relazione con la struttura architettonica e i simboli della basilica, ma anche - in maniera più segreta - con il quadrato magico SATOR / AREPO / TENET / OPERA / ROTAS and e con la musica di Anton Webern. First performed in the Basilica of St. Mark on 13th September 1956, Stravinky’s Choral Variations on the Christmas Carol “Vom Himmel hoch...” (1955-56) are an original and creative reinvention of the Canon…
Metamorfosi di un corale: Lutero, Bach, Stravinsky
2021
Nel 1535 Martin Lutero scrive il corale natalizio "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her", basandosi sulla melodia di un'antico canto popolare tedesco. Questo brano ricorre varie volte nell'opera compositiva di J.S. Bach e costituisce il presupposto delle "Canonische veraenderungen" per organo BWV 796 e 796a (1748 ca.). Nel 1955 Igor Stravinsky realizza una versione per coro e orchestra dell'opera bachiana che costituisce un esempio emblematico di "musica al quadrato" e di ripensamento creativo di un'opera del passato.
Introduzione
2015
Saggio introduttivo del numero monografico 2/2015 della Rivista InVerbis, su lingua, canzone, identità con breve excursus critico-bibliografico sullo stato dell'arte degli studi sulla lingua della canzone italiana contemporanea
Place Identity e marcatezza diatopica nella canzone dialettale siciliana
2015
Il ritorno alla “località”, anche mediante il dialetto, quale simbolo di microspazialità fisica e culturale, con lo scopo di creare il necessario contrappunto al senso di straniamento e alienazione determinato dal modello globale, sembra particolarmente vero per la canzone dialettale contemporanea. Non sarà un caso, dunque, che molti autori neodialettali, già impegnati nella espressione di un’identità di luogo mediante il ricorso al dialetto che, in quanto tale, si configura come codice diatopicamente marcato e quindi intimamente legato a uno specifico spazio, non sanno fare a meno di richiamare nei propri testi, a puntello della “località” linguistica, contesti fisici del loro vissuto. Pot…
La canzone popolare italiana fra implicazioni diastratiche e riusi colti
2015
This paper studies the linguistic variability in Italian music songs from a sociola point of view, a new research approach with only few studis in the current bibliography. The social factors of linguistic variation will be called into question to discuss the meaning of "folk song", a rather complex notion. First of all, we shall remark that many recent studies on songs use the term 'opular' with a quite different meaning rather than the meaning used in Italian linguistics. The variationist approach allows us to define the meaning of "folk song", because it shoes the close relationship between linguistic features and the social world represented in folk songs. In this perspective, we shall …
Speaker variables and their relation to language change
2018
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the relationship between variation processes and linguistic change and the speaker variables identified by Romance sociolinguistic studies. In particular, Romance sociolinguistics focuses on three different points of view: the socio-biographical characteristics of the speaker; the varieties related to social differences, and the relation between social groups and linguistic repertoire. In our work, we will study the socio-biographical characteristics, that Anglo-American linguistics defines as “speaker variables”, analyzing those variables more closely related in Romance studies to the diastratic vari-ation (age, sex/gender, social class). In certain ca…
Gerunds become prepositional infinitives in Romance Small Clauses: the effects of later Merge to the syntactic spine
2019
This article offers a comparative analysis of ‘predicative’ gerunds (‘PGs’) and prepositional infinitives (‘PIs’), focussing on perception constructions in Spanish (PGs) and European Portuguese (PIs). I demonstrate that these two constructions are diachronically related and that they still have a similar syntax. The evidence discussed suggests that both constructions are Small Clauses headed by a preposition of central coincidence. In PGs, this preposition is merged in a low aspectual projection and incorporates into the verb. In PIs, an evolution of PGs, it is merged later in the structure. This leads to a layering process, i.e. the splitting of a single head into a series of heads and tra…
Problems with variation in teaching/learning Geometry: an example of Chinese Cultural Transposition
2022
This paper discusses some theoretical/methodological observation and some qualitative results coming from a Cultural Transposition experience, implemented in the Italian school context (grade 8), according to the methodology of variation, as one of the most significant problem solving approach in Chinese schools. The framework of the Cultural Transposition and the methodology of variation are presented as an important condition for “decentralizing” the didactic practice from a specific social and cultural context. We argue that looking at different teaching/learning mathematics strategies coming from East-Asia cultures can favor some cultural contaminations at school and allow students to a…
AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF CULTURAL TRANSPOSITION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL: PROBLEMS WITH VARIATION
2016
Since several years, politicians, researchers and educators from different countries are debating on possible reasons for the success of Confucian area students in interactional assessment projects (such as PISA). Starting from the study of teaching practices developed in this East area, in Italy we developed an educational research based on the process of cultural transposition (Mellone & Ramploud, 2015). With this term we mean the process of change that develops considering two or more cultural-educational backgrounds with the aim to maintain their differences without “translating” them from one culture to another, but rather highlighting these in order to review their meaning process…