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Showing 1 to 20 of 1054 for “"Aaron."”.
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Folk Influences of Aaron Copland and Britten
… Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roger Quilter, Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten, assisted in creating new national identities in the world of classical music during the twentieth century, especially in the young United States and the long-established England. This was the birth, or in the case …
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EskDale, a religious commune and the Order of Aaron
… and its affiliated religious sect, the Order of Aaron. This study includes field research utilizing participant observation, informal interview and formal interview methods. Historical background information was gathered with a literature review and from newspaper clippings, letters and other …
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Aaron Copland's In the Beginning: context and creative process
Sketches and drafts for In the Beginning (1947), Aaron Copland’s only extended choral work, illuminate relationships between the composer’s creative process and his Jewish heritage and humanist philosophy. Commissioned for Harvard University’s Symposium on Music Criticism, this setting of Genesis …
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The characterization of Aaron : threshold encounters in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers.
… study presents a reader-constructed portrait of Aaron, the high priest of the ancient Israelite people. The portrait was developed according to the literary theory which proposes that a narrative character is an interdividual defined by the other characters with whom he interacts at the moment of …
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Mis/Reading the Hero: a Case For Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
… Shakespearean scholars have interpreted Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus as the play's villain. These scholars have held to the notion that as the villain, Aaron is evil incarnate and embodies all that countermands the order of the Roman patriarchy. I assert that these scholars have …
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Aaron Cassidy’s Second String Quartet: Resilient structures, indeterminate localities, and performance practice
When Aaron Cassidy’s Second String Quartet was premiered in 2010 by the JACK Quartet, the work’s innovative, physical action-based score drew considerable attention in contemporary music circles. Despite the enduring enthusiasm for Cassidy’s multi-colored prescriptive notation, much of the …
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The didactic utilization of the Bible and Midrash in the plays of Zalman Aaron Lison
… became familiar with the Hebrew plays of Zalman Aaron Uson. These plays were published between 1944 and 1951 in "Barkaal', which was the only Hebrew journal that was published in South Africa at that time. Notwithstanding the fact that Barkaals readership was primarily adults, the plays' target …
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The Whole as a Result of Its Parts: Assembly in Aaron Copland's Score for The Red Pony
Aaron Copland's music for The Red Pony (1948-49), based on John Steinbeck's story collection, is probably the best known of his film scores. The effectiveness of The Red Pony score stems from Copland's belief that film music should be subordinate to the film it accompanies. Copland composed The Red …
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A history of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College of the City University of New York
… of this study was to document the history of the Aaron Copland School of Music (ACSM) at Queens College. The ACSM evolved out of the Department of Music at Queens College, established by the Board of Trustees and its first president, Paul Klapper, in 1938, one year after the founding of the …
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Geology of the Meherrin, Virginia area: tracing formations across the staurolite isograd from the Carolina slate belt into the Charlotte belt
… the previously known limits of the Hyco and Aaron Formations from the greenschist metamorphic facies Carolina slate belt northward across a staurolite isograd into the amphibolite metamorphic facies Charlotte belt. The Hyco formation is subdivided into four facies: a crystal tuff facies, a …
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An unconformity in the Carolina slate belt of central North Carolina: new evidence for the areal extent of the ca. 600 Ma Virgilina deformation
… volcanic stratigraphy is composed of the Hyco, Aaron and Uwharrie Formations, all of which have been subjected to greenschist facies metamorphism. The oldest map unit, the Hyco Formation, consists of intermediate(?) lava flows, pyroclastic and volcaniclastic rocks. Deposition of these units was …
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The Burr Family, 1716-1836
… family affected the various Burrs, particularly Aaron Burr (Jr.).
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Graduate Recital, Clarinet
… Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Clarinet Concerto by Aaron Copland.
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The study of African rhythm as a model for understanding rhythm in two representative twentieth-century American works
… represented by two works--the Piano Sonata of Aaron Copland, and the String Quartet #2 of Milton Babbitt.
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To whom the glory
… shared his cell with one of the other raiders, Aaron Stevens. Brown was 59, and Stevens was 28. This play suggests what could have happened in that cell. The theme of the play is that belief in God does not absolve the individual from responsibility for his or her actions, and the central action …
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Bonds away : baseball mythology and the 2007 home run chase
… Bonds hit his 75 6th home run, breaking Hank Aaron's all-time record for most home runs in a Major League career. While it would be expected that such an accomplishment would induce unending praise and adulationfor the new record-holder, Bonds did not receive the treatment typically reserved …
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Florence Price: The Hidden Pioneer of Imposed Simplicity
… imposed simplicity. Imposed simplicity is a term Aaron Copland used to describe many of his own works composed in the 1930s and 1940s. Using the framework created by Dr. Stanley Kleppinger and Lawrence Starr to describe Copland’s aesthetics, iconic works by Copland and Virgil Thomson are analyzed …
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Classical Guitar Instruction for the Pre-College Classroom
… student executes exercises from such sources as Aaron Shearers: Learning the Classic Guitar, the Royal Conservatory of Music graded repertoire series, and works by many of the most celebrated composers for the instrument. This project includes repertoire of all styles and periods and is truly …
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The Incremental Budgetary Theory Revisited: An Empirical Study of Congressional Appropriations
… (2) the incremental theory. Through the work of Aaron Wildavsky and other empirical researchers, the incremental theory has received substantial, though not universal, support in the political science-public administration literature. This study closely examines the basis of the incremental …
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