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HYMNS OF REPENTANCE IN THE WORSHIP PRACTICE OF THE REFORMED CHURCH OF TRANSYLVANIA

HYMNS OF REPENTANCE IN THE WORSHIP PRACTICE OF THE REFORMED CHURCH OF TRANSYLVANIA

Author(s): Éva Péter / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: hymns of repentance; tune versions; exchanging lyrics and tunes; ballads; original function.

Since the end of the 18th century so called hymns of repentance formed an outstanding category of hymns. These are sung during the weeks of preparation before the great religious holidays. The past and present of the hymns of repentance in the worship of the Reformed Church of Transylvania has two main sources: the hymnbooks of various churches and the repertory of hymns passed over as an oral tradition. The paper hereby deals primarily with the tunes of the hymns, it analyzes them, it reveals their sources, their versions represented in the hymnbooks of various centuries and how they were altered while passed over in oral tradition.

Discussion-forum

Diskussionsforum

Author(s): Gerhardt Hochstrasser / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/1998

Gerhardt Hochstrasser - Siebenbürgen – Siweberjen bedeutet Zibinumschließung – Cibinbërgen Paul Philippi - „Sächsische Edelerde“?

A Critical Overtone

Kritikus felhang

Author(s): Katalin Fehér / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 02/2013

Pernye András, Budapest hangversenytermeiben Válogatott zenekritikák 1959–1975 Szerk. Mikusi Balázs Gondolat Kiadó, Budapest, 2012. 411 oldal, 3200 Ft (András Pernye in the Concert Halls of Budapest: Selected music reviews 1959–1975 edited by Balázs Mikusi)

ZOLTÁN GÁRDONYI SERVING ECCLESIASTICAL MUSIC

ZOLTÁN GÁRDONYI SERVING ECCLESIASTICAL MUSIC

Author(s): Éva Péter / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: vocal ecclesiastical music; strophic adaptations; through-composed pieces; homophonic and polyphonic structural techniques.

Zoltán Gárdonyi is an ecclesiastical musician, musicologist, composer and professor, an outstanding personality of the 20th century European music. The paper hereby offers a glimpse into the outstanding ecclesiastical choral pieces Zoltán Gárdonyi composed in his lifetime.

Leibniz a philosopher of principles

Leibniz a philosopher of principles

Author(s): Gabriela Pohoaţă / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2012

Keywords: the principle of reasoning; being; metaphysics; necessary and contingent truths; perfection; God.

Our research aims to highlight the favorite theme of the German thinker. We mainly start from the idea that the unity between knowledge and science under the sign of “principles” acquires a formula of thinking, which exceeds the “classical” restrictive rationalism and the necessities of the modern mechanistic theories, asserting a rigorously methodical spirit and a dynamic, perspectivist conception of the world. Hence, the uniqueness and universality of Leibniz.

The Tragedy of Zoran Djindjic. From the Intellectual to the Politician, from the Winner to the Victim

Die Tragödie Zoran Djindjics. Vom Intellektuellen zum Politiker, vom Sieger zum Opfer

Author(s): Dunja Melčić / Language(s): German / Issue: 01/2004

Keywords: Zoran Djindjic;

Nach der Ermordung des serbischen Ministerpräsidenten, das zeigen die letzten Monate und die letzten Wahlen, kam der Demokratisierungsprozess in Serbien zum Stillstand. In ihrem auch biographischen Essay beschäftigt sich unsere Autorin, die Zoran Djindjic sehr gut kannte, mit dem politischen Weg und den politischen Methoden eines Mannes, der viel wagte und gewann – und schließlich doch immer mehr in Gefahr war. Unterschätzte er die Skrupellosigkeit der unbeschädigten Machtgruppen des alten Regimes, unterschätzte er aber vielleicht auch seine eigenen Möglichkeiten zu einer erneuten demokratischen Offensive?

Whose Heritage?

Kinek az öröksége?

Author(s): Katalin Szlukovényi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2010

Book review on book by Cynthia Ozick

The Age of the Narrator and the Qualities of the Narrative Constructed

The Age of the Narrator and the Qualities of the Narrative Constructed

Author(s): Mehmet Özcan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: narrative; age and narrative; MLU; narrative coherence; evaluative language

This study was designed to investigate the qualitative features of the stories produced by children, adults and older people with a special focus on sentence structures, the emergence of story units, Mean Length of Utterance (henceforward MLU) and evaluative language. Participants are 60 children from 3 to 5-year-olds, 60 adults from 20 to 30-year-olds and 60 older people who are 60 and over. Data were collected by using Mercer Meyer’s (1969) textless picture book, Frog, where are you?, which depicts the events that take place while a boy and a dog are in search of a missing frog in countryside. Results showed that there are significant differences in the qualitative features of the sentence structure produced by children and other two groups in the usage of connectives. Although adults and the older participants show similar features in the emergence and quality of story units as they are defined by Labov and Waletzky (1967), the narratives produced by children render significant differences both quantitatively and qualitatively. Regarding MLU, as they are in other narrative components, children are different from the other two groups. The mean length of sentences in adults’ stories is longer than those of children and olds and the sentences produced by adults are more complex than those of both olds and children. All of the three groups use evaluative language in their narratives. However, the amount and quality of the evaluative language differs according to the age of the participants.

The fiftieth anniversary of the journal Studime filologjike, a milestone in the history of philological sciences

Le cinquantenaire de la revue Studime filologjike, un évènement marquant dans l ’histoire des sciences philologiques

Author(s): Ludmila Buxheli / Language(s): French / Issue: 02/2014

L’année 2014 coïncide avec un évènement marquant de l’histoire des sciences philologiques albanaises, le cinquantenaire de la fondation de la revue scientifique Studime filologjike (« Études philologiques »), dont le premier numéro remonte à 1964. Cette publication a été l’héritière dans le domaine philologique de la revue précédente Buletin i Universitetit Shtetëror të Tiranës - Seria shkencave shoqërore (« Bulletin de l’Université d’État de Tirana - Série des sciences sociales »), publiée dans les années 1957-1963 par l’Institut d’Histoire et de Linguistique. C’est à 1964 que remontent aussi les débuts de la revue Studime historike (« Études historiques »), héritière du volet histoire du bulletin susmentionné.

THE EVIDENCE OF THE AVANT-GARDE FILM

THE EVIDENCE OF THE AVANT-GARDE FILM

Author(s): Károly Kókai / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: Avant-garde; Avant-garde Film; Cold War; Eastern Bloc; Tamás Szentjóby; Kentaur;

The Hungarian neo-avant-garde appeared in such diverse artistic fields as fine art, conceptual and visual literature, happenings, theater performance and film. For the avant-gardists Tibor Hajas, Miklós Erdély and Tamás Szentjóby, film was both a theoretical and a practical issue. There are films documenting avant-garde activities, and there are films that are truly avant-garde. Thus, the field of film seems to provide a considerable amount of material through which scholarship can evaluate the Hungarian neo-avant-garde. This paper discusses how the evidence of film fits the interpretation of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde as belonging to the “second public”, as part of cultural opposition, and as something forbidden.

Creation of the universe according to Leibniz

Stworzenie świata według Leibniza

Author(s): Michał Heller / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 42/2008

Keywords: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; creation of universe; mathematical thinking; calculus; best possible world;

Leibniz's idea of creation is best epitomized by a note written by him on the margin of his work entitled 'Dialogus'. The note reads:'When God thinks things through and calculates, the world is made'. Simple calculations are almost mechanical. The true mathematical thinking begins when one is confronted with a problem that has to be solved, when starting from the known mathematical structure one has to construct a new structure, to comprehend its intricacies, the ways of its functioning, and its connections with other mathematical structures. And when one successfully applies the new mathematical structure to a physical theory, the new world is made. This was Leibniz's experience when he was discovering calculus and tried to apply it to mechanical problems. Leibniz's doctrine that our world is the best of all possible words is often ridiculed, but this attitude is the result of a very superficial reading of Leibniz's texts. In fact, God's calculations to choose the best possible world are similar to solving the variational problem in mathematics. Leibniz claims that in mathematical reasoning if there is neither 'maximum' nor 'minimum' nothing can happen. Similarly, if there were no world better that other possible worlds, God's wisdom would have not been able to create anything. Some consequences of this doctrine, concerning the nature of space, time and causality, are also considered.

Fauna and ecology of carnivorous water beetles (Coleoptera, Hydradephaga) in some rivers of Odessa region

Фауна и экология водных плотоядных жуков (coleoptera, hydradephaga) некоторых рек одесской области

Author(s): V. G. Dyadichko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2/2005

Keywords: fauna; ecology; water beetles; Odessa region;

The main results of research of the aquatic carnivorous beetles of the rivers of Savranka, Dnister, Great Kujalnick and Tiligul within the borders of Odessa region are discussed. Qualitative composition and biotopic distribution of the beetles, contribution of different ecological communities to the fauna of the reservoirs were studied.

Emperor Gallienus (253–268): „by his mode of life [...] brought ruin on the commonwealth”

Cesarz Gallien (253–268): „zniszczył państwo przez swój tryb życia”

Author(s): Agata A. Kluczek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2015

Keywords: Review; Gallienus;

Review of: Agata A. Kluczek - M. Geiger, Gallienus, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ss. 433, ISBN: 978- 3-631-64534-5.

The Concept of Post-Non-Classic al Methodological Strategy by Professor Olexander Oguy

The Concept of Post-Non-Classic al Methodological Strategy by Professor Olexander Oguy

Author(s): Olha Chervinska / Language(s): English / Issue: 96/2017

Keywords: Olexandr Dmytrovych Oguy; Medievalist Studies; post-non-classical methodology; panchrony; genre; “Problems of Literary Criticism”;

The article under discussion is a survey of how a literary concept of a prominent Ukrainian German Studies expert Olexandr Dmytrovych Oguy has been developing on the pages of a scientific journal “Problems of Literary Criticism” from 1993 till 2013. The article traces up the stages of progress of scientist’s methodological strategy concerning the so-called concept of post-non-classicism, beginning with his first article in “The Issues”, where he presented an efficient sample of involving the timeless linguistic universals with the purpose of comparing the typologically similar genre forms. In this way, he managed to prove the authenticity of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” in historical-typological comparison with the medieval epic works (Issue 1, 1993). After a 15-year break, O. Oguy’s articles “A Three-Dimensional Poetic Space of ‘Lanzelet’ by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven” (review, 2010), “The Historical-Social Genres in Post-Non-Classical Methodology: the Principles of Classification” (2012), “The Principles of Formation of the Middle Age German Literature: Overcoming the Crisis Stages through New Genres” (2013) were published in the journal. Each of these works contains a distinct conceptual program. The review was not restricted by a mere critical analysis of the work by a German researcher Kai Lorenz. It also highlighted the difference between methodological fundamentals of European and Ukrainian scientific text analyses – “different paradigms of foreign and Ukrainian Medievalist Studies”. This scientific text is a topical “transplantation” of analytic methodology of K. Lorenz into Ukrainian philological practice. It was introduced into scientific circulation as the so-called “trichotomic model” of functional types of the interacting spatial structures. The article “The Historical-Social Genres in Post-Non-Classical Methodology: the Principles of Classification” (Issue 86, 2012) is a vivid example of a profound present-day academic research. It is worth reading for everyone, who deals with literary genres. The scientist made up his mind to tackle the problem of genres due to the ambiguity of the criteria that existed in Post-Soviet Literary Studies. He activated the notion of “synergic approach”, which enabled him to rethink drastically the whole genre system in the Middle Age literature. O. D. Oguy’s last and largest article “The Principles of Formation of the Middle Age German Literature: Overcoming the Crisis Stages through New Genres” appeared in “Problems of Literary Criticism” in 2013 (Issue 88). It impresses the reader with a broad scope application of diachronic principle in a research space, as well as with the methodology of scientific discourse (the so-called “content analysis”, which presupposes the effect of social factors in investigating the cultural phenomena). The comparison of literary artefacts with the events in European history has enabled O. Oguy to determine and classify eight crisis stages (including the prehistory). The latter had been accompanying the formation of the German nation from the early Christian days and the Great Relocation of Peoples till the end of the Middle Ages, as well as had exercised a direct influence on the changes in the literary process.

On the new culture of time, child-rearing and acceleration civilisation

On the new culture of time, child-rearing and acceleration civilisation

Author(s): Katarzyna Segiet / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: time; child-rearing; acceleration civilisation;

The ‘more, faster, better’ rule accompanies a modern child from the earliest stage of their life. Recently research on child development has become increasingly important and taken on a new dimension. Its significance lies in the capacity to provide important information about core values in child life. It also offers new development opportunities for educational environment for individuals, groups and institutions, working in the field of pedagogy, treating childhood as a common good which needs protection from increasing pressure of time and detrimental effects of acceleration civilisation.

Reception Ancient Motives in Contemporary Art by the Example of Creativity of Artists: Léo Caillard and Ayala Serfaty

Recepcja motywów antycznych we współczesnej sztuce na przykładzie twórczości artystów: Léo Caillarda i Ayali Serfaty

Author(s): Adriana Michalska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2018

Keywords: reception; ancient motives; contemporary art; Léo Caillard; Ayala Serfaty; designer; modern art; classic art; sculptural art; antique tradition

The objective of this article is to define place and role of antique motives in modern art and design. Due to variety of creativness in XX/XXI century, created in different trends and beyond them, considerations were limited to sculptural art and design, based on creativness of French artist Léo Caillard and Israeli designer Ayala Serfaty. Interpretation of information, which was collected based on study of artists’ works of art, lead to conclusion that, despite different approach to antique tradition, both artists strive to similar targets and their intention is not imitation, but concept based on creation of surprising or even shocking links and juxtapositions. Research of contrasts between tradition and modernity is intended to provoke and encourage viewer to deeper and conscious interpretation of works of art and reflection about position of art in modern culture. It is essential to study esthetic contexts, circumstances of creation of works of art and motivation. The most important feature of this art is to induce strong impressions. Relations between viewer and work of art have crucial meaning. Approximation and logic of thinking, which are characteristic for each research orientations in history of classic and modern art, represents theoretical background of this article. In this context, there are references to Joachim Winckelmann, recognized as creator of methodological basics for researchment on ancient art. There are references to Franz Wickhoff, Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky who dealt with iconographical and iconographical-iconological methods.

SONGWRITING AND CHORALE BY MARTIN LUTHER

SONGWRITING AND CHORALE BY MARTIN LUTHER

Author(s): Karol Medňanský / Language(s): English / Issue: 17+18/2019

Keywords: Reformation; music; compositional activity; songs; significance; present time;

The five hundreth anniversary that we commemorated in 2017 is a good opportunity to remind the significance of vocal works by Martin Luther. Creative musical activity of Dr. Martin Luther is somehow in the shadow of his other historically significant activities. It is a well-known fact that he was an outstanding musician who could play lute and could sing. In his household, he constantly played music and sang, while he actively engaged his family in performing music. In performing the reformatory ideas, he was aware of the extremely important role of religious singing, which he started composing since 1523. He is the author of 38 songs – chorales, while at the same time, he is the author of 20 melodies. In most cases, he used the texts of the Psalms. From his chorals the best known is entitled Ein feste Burg is unser Gott – The Fortified Castle is the Lord our God, that became worldwide the anthem of the Protestants. Luther have become an important inspirational source for the next generation of composers, and they culminated in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, including the works of contemporary Slovak composers – Roman Berger, Víťazoslav Kubička. The prevailing majority of Lutheran chorales is also the part of the Protestant Songbook in Slovakia.

Amperometric Nitric Oxide Sensor Based on MWCNT Chromium (III) Oxide Nanocomposite

Amperometric Nitric Oxide Sensor Based on MWCNT Chromium (III) Oxide Nanocomposite

Author(s): Arsim Maloku,Epir Qeriqi,Liridon Berisha,Ilir Mazreku,Tahir Arbneshi,Kurt Kalcher / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Keywords: nitric oxide; electrochemical sensor; nanocomposite; MWCNT; chromium(III) oxide

Multiwalled carbon nanotube and Chromium (III) oxide nanocomposite was used as a mediator in glassy carbon electrodes to improve the performance of electrode for the detection of nitric oxide in comparison with unmodified electrodes. The sensor could be operated as a detector in a flow injection analytical setup under physiological conditions (pH 7.5, 0.1 M phosphate buffer) with an operating potential from 800 mV (vs. Ag/AgCl), a flow rate of the carrier of 0.4 mL/min and an injection volume of 200 μL. The amperometric response of the sensor showed good linearity up to 200 µM with a sensitivity of about 21.6 nA/µM. The relative standard deviation for the repeatability of measurements for 100 µM NO was 3.9% (n = 10 measurements) and the reproducibility was 12% (n = 5 sensors). The effect of all investigated interferences (nitrite, ascorbic acid, dopamine and L-arginine) was not fatal and at 800 mV the signal ratio of NO/NO2- is around 10. The new sensor was successfully applied to the determination of NO in mice liver homogenisate after addition of L-arginine

Review: Documents of organs and organizations of the National Liberation Movement in Slovenia. Books 8 and 9

Recenzija: Dokumenti organov in organizacij narodnoosvobodilnega gibanja v Sloveniji. Knjiga 8 in 9

Author(s): Vida Deželak Barič / Language(s): Slovenian / Issue: 1/2005

Keywords: Documents; archive; National Liberation Movement, Slovenia; organizations; 1943; book review;

The review of: Dokumenti organov in organizacij narodnoosvobodilnega gibanja v Sloveniji. Julij 1943, knjiga 8, Ljubljana 2001, Arhiv Republike Slovenije, 497 strani; Dokumenti organov in organizacij narodnoosvobodilnega gibanja v Sloveniji. Avgust - 8. september 1943, knjiga 9, Ljubljana 2003, Arhiv Republike Slovenije, 556 strani.

Faith-Power-Politics. Controversy, Conflict and attempts of Reconci¬liation between the Church and the „Saxon University” from the Middle of The 16th to the Middle of the 18th Century

Credinţă - putere - politică. Controverse, conflicte și încercări de reconci¬liere în Transilvania între Biserică și "Universitatea Săsească" de la mijlocul sec. al XVI-lea până la mijlocul sec. al XVIII-lea

Author(s): Ulrich Andreas Wien / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 21/2014

Keywords: „Saxon University”; authority; Biertan; canonical visitations; bishopric; Pietism;

The paper is aiming at discussing the preliminary conclusions drawn from editing the documents of the sessions the synods of the bishopric Biertan/Birthälm held from 1618 to 1753. There are three main problems the author discusses, namely: the general canonical visitations, the negotiation from the middle of the 17th century, when the „approbate”, the first constitution, was elaborated and the controversy concerning the reception of pietistic ideas by the Lutheran Saxon priests.