Summer Seminar in Cossack Folk Music at Moscow State Conservatory

Robinson Summer Seminar 1

Anthropological Study of Folk Music in Gilan Province in Iran (Instrumental Music)

Ethno-musicology is an academic field encompassing various approaches to the study of music that emphasize its cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts instead of its isolated ‘sound’ component or any particular repertoire. The term ‘Ethno-musicology’ became common in1950, although the emergence of the field can be traced back to the late nineteenth ce...

Summer 2016 Homotopy Theory Seminar

1. Simplicial Localizations and Homotopy Theory: 5/24/16 1 2. Simplicial Sets: 5/31/16 3 3. Model Categories: 6/7/16 8 4. Localization: Classical and Bous eld: 6/17/16 12 5. Simplicial Localizations of Categories: 6/21/16 16 6. The Hammock Localization: 6/28/16 20 7. The Indexing Category II: 7/8/16 21 8. Homotopy Calculi of Fractions and You!: 7/19/16 24 9. The Grothendieck Construction: 7/26/...

Summer 2016 Algebraic Geometry Seminar

1. Separability, Varieties and Rational Maps: 5/16/16 1 2. Proper Morphisms: 5/19/16 6 3. Dimension: 5/23/16 10 4. Codimension One: 5/26/16 12 5. Regularity: 5/30/16 14 6. An Algebraic Interlude: 6/1/16 15 7. More Regularity and Smoothness: 6/2/16 17 8. Quasicoherent Sheaves: 6/6/16 20 9. Coherent Sheaves: 6/9/16 23 10. Line Bundles: 6/13/16 24 11. Effective Cartier Divisors and Closed Subschem...

The Bbc Folk Music Collection

In a sense I write under false pretences because the BBC possesses no special archives devoted to folk music. For the purposes of broadcasting, the BBC began to make recordings a t the end of 1931 and over the las t thirty years has built up a general Sound Archives of some 30,000 accession numbers: recordings mainly selected from its own broadcast programmes, ranging from variety to grand oper...