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Der Aufsatz untersucht Liszts "Album d'un voyageur" und seine Überarbeitung im ersten Jahr der "Années de pèlerinage" aus einer kulturhistorischen Perspektive. Reise durch die Schweiz musikalische Realisierung wird vor dem Hintergrund seiner Biographie literarischen Vorbilder (Byron, Senancour , Dumas etc.) betrachtet. Die des Pèlerinage. première année. Suisse", in denen Liszt einige Stücke "A...

The parallel study of music in science and creative practice can be traced back to the ancients; and paralleling the emergence of music neuroscience, creative musical practitioners have employed neurobiological phenomena extensively in music composition and performance. Several examples from the author's work in this area, which began in the 1960s, are cited and briefly described. From this per...

This corpus-based research focuses on building a corpus of Indonesian children’s storybooks to find the frequent content words in order to identify Indonesian-core vocabulary for teaching English to Indonesian preschool children. The data was gathered from 131 Indonesian children’s storybooks, which resulted in a corpus of 134,320 words. These data were run through a frequency menu in MonoConc ...

I introduce David Hume’s notion of “imaginative resistance” and offer a brief summary of currently available understandings and explanations of imaginative resistance. I examine these in order to determine how they distinguish, if they do, imagination resistance in fiction from imaginative resistance in games. I find imaginative resistance of the sort found in fiction is relatively rare in game...

This paper examines the relationship between part-of-speech frequencies and text typology in the British National Corpus Sampler. Four pairwise comparisons of part-of-speech frequencies were made: written language vs. spoken language; informative writing vs. imaginative writing; conversational speech vs. ‘task-oriented’ speech; and imaginative writing vs. ‘task-oriented’ speech. The following v...