Lingua e voce di Dio

Linearity in the loudness envelope of the messa di voce

The messa di voce (MDV) is a vocal exercise used by singers, consisting of a crescendo and decrescendo on a single sustained note. In this study we analysed recorded MDVs sung by tertiary singing students to examine the extent to which MDVs have a linear crescendo and linear decrescendo. The MDVs studied were recorded over a 3-year period, as a cohort of classical singing students progressed th...

Lingua Franca @ E-learning: Contours of Contradictions in Multilingualism

The new social media-driven phenomenal communicative modes transform e-learning and e-sharing experience in and beyond different linguistic and cultural spaces; like the Facebook or Twitter, socioeconomic activities at a global scale seem more and more borderless and just-in-time, allowing most forms of communication: one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many. The everincreasingly o...

Linguaggio Segreto di Dante e dei Fedeli d'Amore

Nel panorama degli studi comparati fra la lirica romanza medievale e quella orientale uno degli esempi eclatanti che nella sua storia ormai pluridecennale ha suscitato molte polemiche e discussione è stato senza dubbio il rinomatissimo Linguaggio segreto di Dante e dei Fedeli d'Amoredi Luigi Valli. Il suddetto tomo, come asserisce l’editore della casa editrice Luni, pubblicato per la prima volt...

Lingua Franca

This paper examines a set of three patterns that examine the issues that arise when data are to be shared among several applications in one or more different formats. When an ENGLISH ONLY/STANDARD REPRESENTATION can be used, conversion and translation are moot issues. However, this simplicity is not without its cost. When freely CONVERTIBLE CURRENCIES are available, data are not isolated and tr...

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