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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Cathedrals"”.
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Distant cathedrals
… from Missa Primi Toni by Palestrina, Distant Cathedrals is a piece which connects the old with the new. The elegant voice-leading and careful regulation of dissonance in Palestrina’s panconsonant music is emblematic of late Renaissance polyphony. Given Palestrina’s position as one of Europe’s …
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Foundation settlements of English cathedrals
… that contribute to the settlement of English cathedrals are analyzed. The stress at the base of tower and nave piers was found and compared to the allowable bearing capacity. The expected settlement range of each cathedral's tower and nave piers was calculated by analyzing the site's soil …
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Cathedrals and the Church of England, c.1660-1714
Early modern cathedrals have often found themselves falling between the historiographical cracks. While antiquarians and art historians have seen their early modern pasts as nothing more than periods of ‘desecration and pillage’, early modern historians have dismissed cathedrals as medieval …
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Fact and sanctity : authenticating laudianism in the English Monasticon anglicanum's architectural prints (1655)
… of illustrated plates of monastic churches and cathedrals that interleave the first volume of the Monasticon Anglicanun, a monumental Latin antiquarian tome on England's dissolved monastic establishments published in 1655. It was arranged by the antiquaries William Dugdale and Roger Dodsworth …
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The Dean and Chapter of Durham, 1558-1603
… indeed, it is only when these 2 aspects of the Cathedrals work are examined together that meaningful conclusions can be drawn. The involvement of the Cathedral in national and local politics and the contributions which it made to the spiritual and economic life of the diocese are examined in …
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An Edition of the Cathedral Works of Sir John Andrew Stevenson
… of his works in the programmes of various cathedrals throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom. Consideration will also be paid to Stevenson’s place alongside his contemporaries and to the popularity of his works throughout the nineteenth century. Various criticisms of the composer’s works …
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Sunlight and the use of holographic diffraction grating : an environmental perspective
… specific calendar days. Gothic and Renaissance cathedrals employed the transient movement of sunlight to activate the interiors with continually varying qualities of light. Light illuminates surfaces, but it is also a material with specific, perceivable qualities. Holographic materials diffract …
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Música orquestal en las catedrales españolas entre c. 1770 y c. 1840: funciones, géneros y recepción
… and reception of orchestral music in Spanish cathedrals during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century, a period that, more precisely, could be placed between c. 1770 and c. 1840. During this epoch, orchestral music was characterized by its …
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Sacred, Circles of Light:An Examination of Six San Francisco Bay Area rose Windows and Their Relationship to a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition
… of symbolic significance in late medieval cathedrals and churches. They employ geometric precision to embody the Neoplatonic synthesis of the concept of cosmic order and the metaphysics of light with the most exalted themes of Christian theology. By virtue of their archetypal form, found …
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Scripture as Architecture
… Scripture. The cruciform plan of the great cathedrals was the most profound example, depicting the symbol of Christianity. Clerestory windows filled the vaulted heights above the nave with heavenly light. Mosaics, reliefs, icons and stained glass windows illustrated biblical stories. How …
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Cultural expressions of episcopal power 1070- c.1150
… thesis seeks to reposition bishops back in their cathedrals and in this way provide a comparative study of episcopal power.
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The administration of a university with particular reference to the University of Cape Town
… from schools which were attached to the Medieval cathedrals in centres known as stadia. Famous schools of this type were to be found at Salerna, Bologna and Paris in 1050. The early stadia were not created but grew as the natural expression of the spiritual, intellectual and social energies of the …
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Creating sacred space: a Spiritualist church
… apparent. There is the refinement of Gothic cathedrals where the volume and use of material not only reinforced the liturgy but gave breath to a tempo of chant. There also is the small New England chapel steeple and modest gable which provide such a compelling image that it has become an icon …
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Making the martyr: the liturgical persona of Saint Thomas Becket in visual imagery
… depicting his life at Sens and Chartres Cathedrals make use of this image and work in tandem with the liturgy to present an image of Becket as an ideal Christian martyr. However, rather than adopting the ideas present in the liturgy wholesale, the stained glass cycles often choose one or …
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Anglican Chant and Chanting in England and America, 1660-1811
… distinct customs of particular institutions--cathedrals, collegiate chapels and churches, parish churches--became the decisive determinants of liturgical performance style. The various forms of chant trace their historical lineage to Sarum plainsong tones harmonized in four parts in faburden …
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Expansion and contraction: Goethean polarity and architecture
… of Palladian villas, Baroque palaces, Gothic cathedrals, and English manor houses. After developing an understanding of polarized architectural body-limb relations, a procedural polarity machine is developed to apply principles of metamorphosis towards generative studies of architectural …
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User guided reconstruction of architectural buildings
… of these historical buildings, particularly cathedrals, by fitting geometric primitives to the point cloud scan. There are three major components to aid the user in reconstructing the architecture: the user interface, data visualization, and the geometric fitting algorithm. The system …
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The archaeology and conservation of the East Front of York Minster
… repair history. Since the repair histories of cathedrals are generally poorly represented in current scholarship, this thesis therefore makes a substantial contribution to the field of church archaeology and the understanding of the history of the Minster in general. In considering the ways in …
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The Walk of Life: An Examination of Mall-Walking and the Older Woman
… from the research: (1) The shopping malls are "cathedrals of consumerism" whose primary goal is that of economic solvency. Older women have however transformed the mall into a sporting arena that empowers and gives visibility to the older woman; (2) Older women have stylized mall-walking through …
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