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George Dyson (1883-1964) was a highly influential composer, educator and administrator, whose work touched the lives of millions. Yet today, apart from his Canterbury Pilgrims and two sets of canticles for Choral Evensong, his music is little known. In this comprehensive and detailed study, based not only on Dyson's own writings but on unpublished papers, personal correspondence, and interviews with his family and friends, Paul Spicer brings this remarkable man and his lyrical, passionate and engaging music to life once more. Born into a working class family in Halifax, West Yorkshire, he rose from humble beginnings to become the voice of public school music in Britain and Director of the RCM. As a scholarship student, he met and studied with some of the leading musicians of the day, including Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Sir Hubert Parry. He went on to work in some of the country's greatest schools, where he established his reputation as a composer, particularly of choral and orchestral works, of which Quo Vadis was his most ambitious. A member of the BBC Brains Trust panel, Dyson was also the 'voice of music' on the radio for a number of years and helped to educate the nation through his regular broadcasts. A fascinating, controversial man, George Dyson touched almost every sphere of musical life in Britain and helped to change the face of music performance and education in this country. This seminal book, examining every aspect of his long, colourful career, re-establishes him as the towering figure he undoubtedly was in his time. PAUL SPICER was a composition student of Herbert Howells, whose biography he wrote in 1998. He is well-known as a choral conductor especially of British Music of the twentieth century onwards, a writer, composer, teacher, and producer.
Music teachers --- Music educators --- Music pedagogues --- Teachers --- Dyson, George, --- BBC Brains Trust. --- British Music. --- Choral and Orchestral Works. --- Composer. --- Director of RCM. --- George Dyson. --- Music Education. --- Music Performance. --- Public School Music.
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Located between the great Victorian museums of South Kensington and the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, founded in 1883, has been a central influence on British musical life ever since. This wide-ranging account places the College within its musical and educational environments. It argues that the RCM's significance lies not only in its famous performers and composers, but also the generations of its more anonymous former students who have done so much to improve the musical life of the localities in which they have worked as teachers and animateurs. As a cultural history, this account also captures how significantly society's consumption of music - from new technologies to the altered perspectives of historical and world musics - has changed since the College was founded, and how very different our points of musical reference now are. This study traces the effects of such developments on the College's work.
Conservatories of music --- Music --- Music conservatories --- Music schools --- Schools --- Music school administrators --- History. --- Conservatories --- Instruction and study --- Royal College of Music (Great Britain) --- Royal College of Music (London, England) --- London. --- Royal College of Music (England and Wales) --- RCM
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A guide to the art of conducting in the twenty-first century, by the founder of the RCM's Twentieth Century Ensemble. Conducting for a New Era fills in a lacuna by offering guidance and practical advice for conducting twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire. The book begins with a look at the development of the art of conducting during the first half of the twentieth century. Distinctions are made between conductors who pursued populist careers and those who established the foundations for the new art form of the twenty-first century. The book goes on to discuss the technical resources required to negotiate the rhythmic complexity of so much music composed since 1950. Beginning with the rhythmic revolution created by Stravinsky in Le Sacre du Printemps (in which conducting unequal units within single bars was introduced), ten different categories of music are featured in an analysis of the technical and aesthetic characteristics involved. The substance of interviews with distinguished soloists,orchestral musicians, conductors and composers is examined in assessing the changing role of the conductor in the twenty-first century. In a final section the technique and artistry of the progressive repertoire is discussed through detailed analysis of specific scores. Conducting for a New Era will be of interest not only to advanced students of conducting, in particular conducting of contemporary music, but also to the music enthusiast who might wish to know 'how it is done'. The book includes a DVD with conducting examples. EDWIN ROXBURGH is a composer, conductor and oboist and visiting tutor and researcher at the BCU Birmingham Conservatoire. Recordings of hismusic are on NMC, Naxos, Warehouse, Oboe Classics and Metier labels, and his music is published by United Music Publishing, Ricordi and Maecenas. As a conductor he has premiered a vast number of works, originally with the Twentieth Century Ensemble of London, which he founded, and later with several of the principle orchestras of the UK.
Conducting. --- Printing --- History. --- Band conducting --- Conducting (Music) --- Music conducting --- Orchestra conducting --- Music --- Performance --- Edwin Roxburgh. --- RCM's Twentieth Century Ensemble. --- Stravinsky. --- art of conducting. --- conducting examples. --- conducting. --- contemporary music. --- music enthusiast. --- rhythmic complexity. --- twentieth-century repertoire. --- Score reading and playing.
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Hydroclimatic extremes, such as floods and droughts, affect aspects of our lives and the environment including energy, hydropower, agriculture, transportation, urban life, and human health and safety. Climate studies indicate that the risk of increased flooding and/or more severe droughts will be higher in the future than today, causing increased fatalities, environmental degradation, and economic losses. Using a suite of innovative approaches this book quantifies the changes in projected hydroclimatic extremes and illustrates their impacts in several locations in North America, Asia, and Europe.
downscaling --- floods --- flood risk --- Boise River Watershed --- flooding frequency --- CMIP5 --- flood frequency analysis --- streamflow regulation rules --- droughts --- downscaled projections --- flood inundation maps --- RCM uncertainty --- climate change and variability --- RCP4.5 --- climate change --- RCP8.5 --- frequency estimates --- water resource systems --- climate change impacts --- extreme rainfall --- catchment based macroscale floodplain model --- consecutive dry days --- Canada --- water quality --- Copula function --- return period --- drought-flood abrupt alternation --- ensembles --- continuous simulations --- extreme hydrologic events --- hydrological risk assessment --- uncertainty --- climate projections --- Southeast U.S. --- extreme precipitation --- EURO-CORDEX projections --- temporal and spatial evolution --- HSPF --- changing of exceedance --- Northeastern US --- climate --- flash flood --- spatial analog --- future projections --- flood hazard --- future precipitation at urban scale
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Changes in sea surface roughness are usually associated with a change in the sea surface wind field. This interaction has been exploited to measure sea surface wind speed by scatterometry. A number of features on the sea surface associated with changes in roughness can be observed by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) because of the change in Bragg backscatter of the radar signal by damping of the resonant ocean capillary waves. With various radar frequencies, resolutions, and modes of polarization, sea surface features have been analyzed in numerous campaigns, bringing various datasets together, thus allowing for new insights into small-scale processes at a larger areal coverage. This Special Issue aims at investigating sea surface features detected by high spatial resolution radar systems, such as SAR.
dispersion curve filtering --- n/a --- Synthetic Aperture Radar --- RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) --- marine X-band radar --- compact polarization (CP) --- cross-polarization --- proper orthogonal decomposition --- rain --- right circular horizontal polarization model --- support vector machines --- Sentinel-1 --- wind speed --- wave height --- hurricane --- ocean surface waves --- SMAP --- Copernicus --- synthetic aperture radar --- co-polarized phase difference --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- oceans --- fetch- and duration-limited wave growth relationships --- Wake detection --- air-sea interaction --- phase-resolved wave fields --- wind --- SAR --- CoVe-Pol and CoHo-Pol models --- Baltic Sea --- wind retrieval --- ocean surface wind speed retrieval --- CMEMS --- detectability model --- right circular vertical polarization model --- hurricane internal dynamical process --- ocean winds --- polarimetry --- sea surface roughness --- eyewall replacement cycles --- GF-3 --- dual-polarization --- quad-polarized SAR --- typhoon/hurricane-generated wind waves --- coast and ocean observation --- radar --- geophysical model function (GMF) --- Doppler radar
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- Water resources management should be assessed under climate change conditions, as historic data cannot replicate future climatic conditions. - Climate change impacts on water resources are bound to affect all water uses, i.e., irrigated agriculture, domestic and industrial water supply, hydropower generation, and environmental flow (of streams and rivers) and water level (of lakes). - Bottom-up approaches, i.e., the forcing of hydrologic simulation models with climate change models’ outputs, are the most common engineering practices and considered as climate-resilient water management approaches. - Hydrologic simulations forced by climate change scenarios derived from regional climate models (RCMs) can provide accurate assessments of the future water regime at basin scales. - Irrigated agriculture requires special attention as it is the principal water consumer and alterations of both precipitation and temperature patterns will directly affect agriculture yields and incomes. - Integrated water resources management (IWRM) requires multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, with climate change to be an emerging cornerstone in the IWRM concept.
Research & information: general --- California --- hydrologic regions --- warming --- drought --- regional climate modeling --- hydrological modeling --- bias correction --- multivariate --- pseudo reality --- rainfall --- trend analysis --- Mann–Kendall --- kriging interpolation --- multiple climate models --- standardized precipitation index (SPI) --- droughts --- weights --- Vu Gia-Thu Bon --- climate change --- optimal control --- geoengineering --- climate manipulation --- GCM --- RCM --- CMIP5 --- CORDEX --- climate model selection --- upper Indus basin --- NDVI --- ENSO --- wavelet --- time series analysis --- Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park --- Google Earth Engine --- Mediterranean climate --- cluster analysis --- objective classification --- ERA5 --- mega-fires --- Bayesian-model averaging --- model uncertainty --- climate-fire models --- Mono River watershed --- climate --- temperature --- heat wave --- excess heat factor --- acclimatization --- Greece --- precipitations --- Hurst exponent --- persistence --- spatial correlation --- Caucasian region --- Regional Climate Model --- climate classification --- bias correction methods --- precipitation --- terrestrial ecosystems --- GPP --- LAI --- CO2 fertilization effect --- feedback --- sassandra watershed --- Côte d’Ivoire --- boreal region --- extreme wind speed --- wind climate --- soil frost --- wind damage risk management --- wind multiplier --- downscaling --- topography --- surface roughness --- VIIRS --- MODIS --- OLCI --- RSB --- SNPP --- Terra --- Aqua --- Sentinel-3A --- reflective solar bands --- intersensor comparison --- intercalibration --- SNO --- climate indices --- climate change and Conakry
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- Water resources management should be assessed under climate change conditions, as historic data cannot replicate future climatic conditions. - Climate change impacts on water resources are bound to affect all water uses, i.e., irrigated agriculture, domestic and industrial water supply, hydropower generation, and environmental flow (of streams and rivers) and water level (of lakes). - Bottom-up approaches, i.e., the forcing of hydrologic simulation models with climate change models’ outputs, are the most common engineering practices and considered as climate-resilient water management approaches. - Hydrologic simulations forced by climate change scenarios derived from regional climate models (RCMs) can provide accurate assessments of the future water regime at basin scales. - Irrigated agriculture requires special attention as it is the principal water consumer and alterations of both precipitation and temperature patterns will directly affect agriculture yields and incomes. - Integrated water resources management (IWRM) requires multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, with climate change to be an emerging cornerstone in the IWRM concept.
California --- hydrologic regions --- warming --- drought --- regional climate modeling --- hydrological modeling --- bias correction --- multivariate --- pseudo reality --- rainfall --- trend analysis --- Mann–Kendall --- kriging interpolation --- multiple climate models --- standardized precipitation index (SPI) --- droughts --- weights --- Vu Gia-Thu Bon --- climate change --- optimal control --- geoengineering --- climate manipulation --- GCM --- RCM --- CMIP5 --- CORDEX --- climate model selection --- upper Indus basin --- NDVI --- ENSO --- wavelet --- time series analysis --- Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park --- Google Earth Engine --- Mediterranean climate --- cluster analysis --- objective classification --- ERA5 --- mega-fires --- Bayesian-model averaging --- model uncertainty --- climate-fire models --- Mono River watershed --- climate --- temperature --- heat wave --- excess heat factor --- acclimatization --- Greece --- precipitations --- Hurst exponent --- persistence --- spatial correlation --- Caucasian region --- Regional Climate Model --- climate classification --- bias correction methods --- precipitation --- terrestrial ecosystems --- GPP --- LAI --- CO2 fertilization effect --- feedback --- sassandra watershed --- Côte d’Ivoire --- boreal region --- extreme wind speed --- wind climate --- soil frost --- wind damage risk management --- wind multiplier --- downscaling --- topography --- surface roughness --- VIIRS --- MODIS --- OLCI --- RSB --- SNPP --- Terra --- Aqua --- Sentinel-3A --- reflective solar bands --- intersensor comparison --- intercalibration --- SNO --- climate indices --- climate change and Conakry
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- Water resources management should be assessed under climate change conditions, as historic data cannot replicate future climatic conditions. - Climate change impacts on water resources are bound to affect all water uses, i.e., irrigated agriculture, domestic and industrial water supply, hydropower generation, and environmental flow (of streams and rivers) and water level (of lakes). - Bottom-up approaches, i.e., the forcing of hydrologic simulation models with climate change models’ outputs, are the most common engineering practices and considered as climate-resilient water management approaches. - Hydrologic simulations forced by climate change scenarios derived from regional climate models (RCMs) can provide accurate assessments of the future water regime at basin scales. - Irrigated agriculture requires special attention as it is the principal water consumer and alterations of both precipitation and temperature patterns will directly affect agriculture yields and incomes. - Integrated water resources management (IWRM) requires multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, with climate change to be an emerging cornerstone in the IWRM concept.
Research & information: general --- California --- hydrologic regions --- warming --- drought --- regional climate modeling --- hydrological modeling --- bias correction --- multivariate --- pseudo reality --- rainfall --- trend analysis --- Mann–Kendall --- kriging interpolation --- multiple climate models --- standardized precipitation index (SPI) --- droughts --- weights --- Vu Gia-Thu Bon --- climate change --- optimal control --- geoengineering --- climate manipulation --- GCM --- RCM --- CMIP5 --- CORDEX --- climate model selection --- upper Indus basin --- NDVI --- ENSO --- wavelet --- time series analysis --- Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park --- Google Earth Engine --- Mediterranean climate --- cluster analysis --- objective classification --- ERA5 --- mega-fires --- Bayesian-model averaging --- model uncertainty --- climate-fire models --- Mono River watershed --- climate --- temperature --- heat wave --- excess heat factor --- acclimatization --- Greece --- precipitations --- Hurst exponent --- persistence --- spatial correlation --- Caucasian region --- Regional Climate Model --- climate classification --- bias correction methods --- precipitation --- terrestrial ecosystems --- GPP --- LAI --- CO2 fertilization effect --- feedback --- sassandra watershed --- Côte d’Ivoire --- boreal region --- extreme wind speed --- wind climate --- soil frost --- wind damage risk management --- wind multiplier --- downscaling --- topography --- surface roughness --- VIIRS --- MODIS --- OLCI --- RSB --- SNPP --- Terra --- Aqua --- Sentinel-3A --- reflective solar bands --- intersensor comparison --- intercalibration --- SNO --- climate indices --- climate change and Conakry
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