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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Classical tradition"”.
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Jamaican Composers in the Classical Tradition: Three Vocal Works by Dexter, Ashbourne, and Marshall
Classical music has been present in the Jamaica since the 18 century. The country conquered by Britain in 1655, still bears its European influence in its current culture. With a history of many cultures sharing common ground on the island, Jamaicans have adopted a love for hybridization - the …
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A Study of the Development of Monetary Theory of English Economists in the Classical Tradition, 1776-1848
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The drawing books of Henry Peacham and Jan de Bisschop and the place of drawing in the education of a Renaissance gentleman
… persuade their countrymen of the validity of the classical tradition in art.
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Theodicy
… with the culture we have inherited from classical tradition.</p>
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The Progymnasmata: New/Old Ways to Teach Reading, Writing, and Thinking in Secondary Schools
… theorists have begun to look back to the classical rhetorical past for answers to modern dilemmas in composition teaching. Several textbooks have been published that focus their teaching of college composition on the classical tradition. While the movement to revitalize classical rhetoric …
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The Virtual Guru and Beyond: the Changing Role of Teacher in North Indian Classical Music
… aspects, is an exploration of the North Indian classical music tradition as it is taught in twenty-first century California, and a de-exoticization of a musical style that most Americans are unacquainted with. A brief overview of the basic theory, history, and practice of North Indian classical …
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(E)merging idioms: integrating jazz and classical ensembles.
… that calls for the combination of one or two classical chamber groups with a small jazz ensemble. The scores incorporate a musical aesthetic that retains what will be shown to be jazz sensibilities, but which is accessible to performers schooled in the classical tradition. The exegesis briefly …
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' Jupiter and Thetis
… so far been exposed. Ingres worked within the classical tradition, choosing his subject from Homer’s Iliad. The scene he chose to depict, however, was not one commonly represented and was inspired by an illustration by John Flaxman. His truly innovative achievement was in style, where he …
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine
St, Augustine was firmly grounded In classical tradition yet the powerful Influence of rhetoric on literature resulted in his use of vivid and picturesque modes of expression. |In the "De Beata Vita" this picturesqueness is attained partly by the use of diminutives, which suggest familiar things; …
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The 'Last Philosophy' Enquiring into the 'First': The Influence of Classical Thought on Theodor W. Adorno
Adorno discerned a modern quality in the classical tradition, and by incorporating this tradition into his writings he implied that there is still contemporary relevance in the classical works of the past. Classical philosophy and literature not only provided source material for his theories, but …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
My thesis is titled ‘The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to …
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A rhetorical analysis of first inaugural addresses of Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, Sam Nujoma and Nelson Mandela
… inaugural addresses, which confirm the ancient classical tradition that a skilful rhetorician must possess the faculties of canons of rhetoric in order to persuade an intended audience.
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Rhetorical analysis of Spiro T. Agnew.
… the Vice President's speaking according to the classical tradition: invention, arrangement, style, delivery, and memory. Factors are noted in Agnew's rhetoric in respect to his following strategical dictates of his messages through a style developed to move the populace ethically, emotionally, …
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Synthesis of Style in Gabriel Faure's Preludes for Piano
… which link Faure to a long line of French classical tradition. His stature in this respect is indis putable. His importance as a transitional figure in the overall course of music history is less commonly recognized. Bridging the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he synthesized a …
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The aesthetics of solo bagpipe music at the Glengarry Highland Games.
… contests at these games. Piobaireachd is the classical tradition of the Great Highland bagpipe, and ceol beag is the "light" music which consists of dance songs or marches. The first chapter explores the "arrangements" of power in this community. By "arrangements" of power, I refer to the …
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Orientalist representations of Persia in the works of Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Moore and Morier
… set of motifs and topoi, mainly derived from classical tradition and contemporary travel writing, circulate in the works of the three Renaissance authors included (Spenser, Marlowe, Milton), they are differently inflected and serve different thematic and ideological purposes. It is also …
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Closure: a mind/brain perspective
… given much weight in the discussion of Western Classical music. However, this discussion enters uncertain territory when dealing with works which eschew the tonal-syntactic structure of the common practice period; a challenge common to music of the Twentieth Century. This dissertation concerns …
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How popular musicians teach
… asks how musicians who have learned outside the classical tradition teach others to play. A group of eight instrumental teachers were studied, all of whom grew up playing ‘popular’, vernacular styles of music. While most of them had at least some experience of being taught classical music, they …
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Occult poetics and the production of English verse, 1558-1603
This thesis examines how the occult tradition is an inherent part of the production of vernacular literature during the Elizabethan period. I argue that occult discourses about language are drawn upon by writers of the period who seek to establish an English literature to rival that of the …
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Musiplectics: Computational Assessment of the Complexity of Music Scores
In the Western classical tradition, musicians play music from notated sheet music, called a score. When playing music from a score, a musician translates its visual symbols into sequences of instrument-specific physical motions. Hence, a music score's overall complexity represents a sum of the …
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