Do you know any NOISEMAKERS in ANCIENT GREECE and ROME?

The current Metropolitan Opera production (Feb. 2017) is Antonin Dvorak's Rusalka.  This opera contains what may be viewed as current events references. 

The Grove Dictionary of Music entry on rhetoric and music states that after the Baroque period, the rhetorical underpinnings of music were no longer studied.  But in the 20th C., such highlighted rhetoric in art music is causing a revival of interest.

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What still remains to be fully explained is how these critical interrelationships often controlled the craft of composition. These developments are unclear partly because modern musicians and scholars are untrained in the rhetorical disciplines, which since the beginning of the 19th century have largely disappeared from most educational and philosophical system. It was only in the early 20th century that music historians rediscovered the importance of rhetoric as the basis of aesthetic and theoretical concepts in earlier music. An entire discipline that had once been the common property of every educated man has had to be rediscovered and reconstructed during the intervening decades, and only now is it beginning to be understood how much Western art music has depended on rhetorical concepts. ("Rhetoric and Music." Grove Dictionary of Music. Blake Wilson et al.)

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Does anyone know of research that specifically analyzes the rhetorical aspects of modern era opera since Wagner to now?

Given that directors have much leeway in creating subtexts in classic and contemporary works, this is a topic that is open for more study.

My research focuses on the Alexander von Humboldt atlas pittoresque du voyage: "Vues des Cordillères". I am interested in the history and uses of "atlas", and how the concept "atlas" plus "pittoresque" set up a new way of travelling in an artistic manner in the nineteenth-century, encouraging the connection between artists and scientists.

Curiosities as well as commodities shaped the emerging strategies for the empirical study of Nature. But what is your opinion?

There are some better maps than others, to give some examples: Linschoten (1595), Pedro Barreto de Resende (1635), Plan de Goa (1750), Lopes Mendes (1863), Direcção das Obras Públicas (1910), etc

If one could should at least 5 in order of relevance what would they be and why.

Since this paper is in Spanish at this time, I am unable to give you any assistance please send me a copy of your La reconsruccion de siniestros ... paper in English

Cultural and critical studies 

'Paradise Now' is a avant-garde theatre was Performed in Living Theatre in America in 1960.

I am working on interpretation of combat images from Roman pottery, to this end I am looking for any newly discovered images of fighting men on Roman pottery, I am particularly anxious to know of any new discoveries on Arretine ware.

should it be:

- The Western Canon?

- Ethnic art?

- New Art History and the Ethnographic turn?

- Gender art studies?

- Global art studies?

 - or which alternative ?

Art school meaning : art college training