The existence of extensive written communications between Verdi and his librettists should have prompted scholars to prepare editions of the correspondence and to analyze its meaning and implications. Only rarely can we participate directly in the formative stages of an opera, and available material such as the correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal is invaluable.1 Obeisance, at least, has been done to Verdi's correspondence. Alessandro Luzio calls the letters of Verdi to Antonio Ghislanzoni, "versifier" of Aida , "the (...) most marvelous course in musical aesthetics in action." Yet, for no opera do we have available a complete editions of the surviving letters between Verdi and a librettist. · 1. Willi Schuh, ed., Richard Strauss - Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Briedwechsel, 4th ed. . An English edition, made from an earlier German edition with many omissions, was published as A Working Friendship: The Correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, trans. Hans Hammelmann and Ewald Osers . Philip Gossett is the general editor of the critical edition of the works of Rossini and author of numerous articles on Renaissance music, Italian opera, Beethoven, and musical theory. (shrink)

From 802 to 811, we encounter several diplomatic missions beween Byzantium and the Carolingians with the scope to secure or confirm peace, although in 798 such an agreement had been reached. The real target behind such negotiations was a recognition of the coronation and imperial title of Charlemagne since 800, denied by Byzantium for years. It was only in 810 that Nicephorus I yielded due to military/ political difficulties in Northern Italy with Pepin/pippin, son of Charlemagne, and against the Bulgarians. (...) A treaty defined spheres of interest and Byzantine representatives acclaimed Charlemagne as basileus in 812. The present article tries to clarify the different stages and elements of the whole process. When the power of the Carolingian state diminished in the ongoing 9th century, Byzantium step by step deviated from full recognition of the Western emperor, a process clearly visible during the joint venture against Arab Bari from 869 to 871. An appendix deals with the question, if Empress Eirene had offered a kind of junior-emperorship to Charlemagne in 798/799, as already Paul Speck proposed more than forty years ago, without finding much approval. Now it seems probable that he was right. (shrink)

SummaryHume's arguments pro and eon the is‐ought‐gap, impersonated by Searle and Apel get analysed. The solution, related to the fact that is‐judgments and ought‐judgments appear on different logical levels, is backed by a systematic generation – in an Peircean spirit – of the interplay between pragmatic and semiotic features in any action.Instead of voting for either primacy of description or primacy of communication generalized Wittgensteinian language games provide a unified and relativized account of ‘world and language’.RésuméLes arguments de Hume pour (...) et contre le fossé entre ľêtre et le devoir être sont examinés dans la perspective de la controverse entre Searle et Apel. La solution –à savoir que jugements descriptifs et jugements normatifs appartiennent à différents niveaux de langage – est intégrée dans une esquisse, inspirée de Peirce, de la reconstruction logico‐génétique du jeu des aspects sémiotiques et pragmatiques propre à tout contexte ?on;action.La primauté de la description ou la primauté de la communication sont dépassées dans des jeux langagiers wittgensteiniens généralisés qui décrivent, ľengendrant dans un modèle médiateur, la relation entre le monde et le langage .ZusammenfassungHumes Argumente pro und contra den Sein‐Sollen‐Graben werden in Gestalt der Auseinan‐dersetzung zwischen Searle und Apel untersucht. Die mit der Tatsache, dass Seins‐Urteile und Sollens‐Urteile verschiedenen logischen Sprachstufen angehören, verbundene Auflösung ist in einen, Peirce verpflichteten, Abriss der logisch‐genetischen Rekonstruktion des Zusammenspiels semiotischer und pragmatischer Aspekte jeden Handlungszusammenhangs eingebettet.Statt einen Primat der Beschreibung oder einen Primat der Kommunikation zu verfechten, dienen verallgemeinerte Wittgensteinsche Sprachspiele dazu, den Zusammenhang von ‘Welt und Sprache’, ihn durch Erzeugung im Modell ver‐mittelnd, darzustellen. (shrink)

La acción de los medios de prensa de construir y representar realidades socioculturales genera --en reiteradas ocasiones-- relaciones desiguales, promoviendo e institucionalizando unas identidades en desmedro de otras. La situación se complejiza cuando se trata de países vecinos, con sus respectivas tradiciones socio-histórico-culturales, pasados comunes y límites bisagra. Bajo este escenario se analizaron las producciones noticiosas de cobertura nacional publicadas en los periódicos de mayor tirada de dos países limítrofes: “El Mercurio” de Chile y “El Comercio” de Perú. De este (...) modo, y por medio de una herramienta metodológica ligada al Análisis Crítico y Complejo del Discurso, esta investigación busca comprender los procesos de construcciones noticiosas y representaciones que los medios de prensa chilenos y peruanos hacen en torno a los “discursos de la diferencia” que se institucionalizan en la relación entre ambas naciones. The action of the press media of constructing and representing socio-cultural realities generates --on numerous occasions-- unequal relationships, which promote and institutionalize certain identities in detriment of others. The situation becomes more complex when it deals with neighboring countries and their corresponding socio-historical-cultural traditions, shared pasts, and “hinge-like” borders. Under this scenario, the production of national news by two nationwide press media of the neighboring countries will be analyzed: “El Mercurio” of Chile and “El Comercio” of Perú. In this manner, and using a methodological tool based on the Critical and Complex Analysis of the Discourse, the main objective of this research is to understand processes of construction of news and representations that the Chilean and Peruvian press make linked to the “discourse of the differences” which have been institutionalized in the relationship between them both. (shrink)

El artículo tiene por objeto analizar la construcción del conocimiento mapuche según el discurso de kimches. Sostenemos que en la educación familiar existe un proceso de construcción de conocimientos propios como un sistema de saberes y contenidos educativos para la formación de personas. La metodología empleada es la investigación educativa. Los resultados parciales muestran una descripción acerca de la lógica de los conocimientos educativos propios, para contextualizar la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las ciencias en el medio escolar, desde la (...) educación intercultural en contexto mapuche. The aim of this article is to analyze the construction of Mapuche knowledge based on the kimches speech. We argue that within family education, there exists a process of constructing their own knowledge, as a system of knowledge and educational contents for forming individuals. The research methodology applied corresponds to education research. Preliminary results describe the logic of individual educational knowledge from intercultural education in the Mapuche context, so as to contextualize the teaching and learning of Science in schools. (shrink)