Keyboard Skills for Music Educators: Score Reading is the first textbook equip future educators with the ability to play from an open score at the keyboard. Score reading can be a daunting prospect for even the most accomplished pianist, but it is a skill required of all choral and instrumental music instructors. Although most music education curricula include requirements to achieve a certain level of proficiency in open score reading, standard textbooks contain very little material devoted to developing this skill. This textbook provides a gradual and graded approach, progressing from two-part reading to four or more parts in a variety of clefs. Each chapter focuses on one grouping of voices and provides many musical examples from a broad sampling of choral and instrumental repertoire ranging from Renaissance to contemporary works.
An authoritative, up-to-date graduate textbook on machine learning that highlights its historical context and societal impacts Patterns, Predictions, and Actions introduces graduate students to the essentials of machine learning while offering invaluable perspective on its history and social implications. Beginning with the foundations of decision making, Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht explain how representation, optimization, and generalization are the constituents of supervised learning. They go on to provide self-contained discussions of causality, the practice of causal inference, sequential decision making, and reinforcement learning, equipping readers with the concepts and tools they need to assess the consequences that may arise from acting on statistical decisions. Provides a modern introduction to machine learning, showing how data patterns support predictions and consequential actionsPays special attention to societal impacts and fairness in decision makingTraces the development of machine learning from its origins to todayFeatures a novel chapter on machine learning benchmarks and datasetsInvites readers from all backgrounds, requiring some experience with probability, calculus, and linear algebraAn essential textbook for students and a guide for researchers
Dal 1927 al 1933, Walter Benjamin ha scritto e presentato circa ottanta testi radiofonici. Dalla loro lettura emerge l’idea di una radio non solo come strumento di comunicazione, ma soprattutto come istituzione sociale che deve mirare a formare il pubblico, rendendolo protagonista attivo e consapevole dei temi affrontati. In accordo con l’approccio dell’autore, che alternava la riflessione sulla teoria della radio alla progettazione di radiodrammi, Radio Benjamin affianca alle considerazioni sul significato storico e culturale dell’apparecchio due programmi andati in onda dalle stazioni di Berlino e Francoforte. Sono testi ironici, divertenti e profondi, perché secondo l’intellettuale tedesco lo speaker non deve indottrinare né mortificare l’autostima dell’ascoltatore, ma coinvolgerlo attraverso la discussione, che si parli di personaggi storici o di situazioni tratte dalla vita reale. Dal vivo della sua esperienza radiofonica, Walter Benjamin riesce così a cogliere la complessità, i pericoli e le opportunità del nuovo mezzo di comunicazione di massa.
Amour et le Choléra Love & Cholera is symbolical of the Giant forces that had been building up deep in the bowels of Haiti for over 100 Years. The earthquake was the result of the sliding of a portion of the Earth's crust. Which released such a destructive force, that the Earth stood still. Haiti formerly the richest Caribbean Island. With exports of seventy two million pounds of raw sugar and fifty one million pounds of refined sugar, one million pounds of indigo, and two million pounds of cotton. Produced forty percent of all the sugar and coffee consumed in the world. Haiti was considered the Pearl of the Caribbean. Haiti 2010 - Now the poorest country in the world, deals with the aftermath of the Earthquake in Amour et le Choléra. Throughout the story, pride and prejudice becomes threatening when it reaches its most extreme form, but love overcomes obstacles, faith gives freedom and light overcomes darkness. The fight of One Nation of One People to regain their dignity. Love & Cholera shows us a nation dealing with catastrophic events. It sheds a light and separates fact from fiction. Love & Cholera exposes the stereotypes we have built within our society. Love & Cholera is a powerful symbolism of Hope. And in the aftermath of this jungle for survival, one woman's faith and love for her country. A love that transcends all barriers. A powerful epic, historical journey ... LOVE & CHOLERA Amour et le Choléra Love & Cholera: An epic story set in modern day Haiti. Based on true events, a story that will forever change the way the world views the contemporary US-Haitian relationship and the fight of its people to stay alive. An unbelievable, plot only History could have written. Love & Cholera is awe inspiring story based on true events. Love & Cholera shows the inner workings of the Haitian government and vividly exposes the lives of the Haitian people. Amour et le Choléra puts a human face to a tragedy that affected millions of people. An unprecedented Journey into the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
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