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The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century (2020)
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Baragwanath, N. (2020). The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514085.001.0001

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition,... Read More about The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (2020)
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Dauncey, S. (2020). Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture. Cambridge University Press

Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese sources, from film and documentary to literature and lif... Read More about Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture.

Relative Change (2020)
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A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Relative change is puzzling because the following three propositions each seem true but ca... Read More about Relative Change.