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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Dedications"”.
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A catalogue of twentieth-century cello ensemble music
… sound recordings, record locator numbers, dedications, and other notes by the composer. The document also contains the following appendices: list of the publishers and music centers holding said entries, and an alphabetical list of the composers.
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The search for San Ffraid.
… poem by Iorwerth Fynglwyd; numerous geographical dedications, including nearly two dozen churches; and references in the arts, literature, and histories. This dissertation for the first time gathers together in one place the Welsh traditions related to San Ffraid, integrating the separate pieces …
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The concept of territory in the late Anglo-Saxon and early Medieval cult of Saints in England
… lists, hagiographical material and church dedications. Historians’ approaches to the subject are analysed, with special regard to previous attempts at describing areas of influence. The concept of ‘territory’ is introduced and defined, and proposed as a standard terminology which can be …
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A catalogue of twentieth-century Spanish music for cello and piano
… as number of movements, approximate duration, dedications, references to specific sources, location of manuscript... will be displayed within a space devoted to observations. Besides a listing of the multiple sources consulted (books, catalogues, internet sources, sheet music, recordings and …
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A Performance Guide for Thomas Pasatieri's Bel Canto Songs for Voice and Piano
… Canto Songs, including its compositional style, dedications, and details regarding the work’s premiere. Chapter Three also includes analysis of the poetry and music for Bel Canto Songs and musical examples to illustrate significant motives, text-painting, and other important compositional …
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Controlling Miasma: The Evidence for Cults of Greek Craftspeople from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period (6th - 2nd c. BCE)
… production processes. Chapter four examines the dedications by craftspeople, which were set up as prayers for future endeavors, or as thank-offerings for past successes. The conclusion discusses the threat of miasma, or pollution, which was a dominating concern for the ancient Greeks. Literary …
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La Conciencia Política Y Social De Luis Palés Matos: Otra Lectura De Su Poesía
… the Island's independence. Palés Matos dedications have made him one of Puerto Rico most significant poets. His is the first poet in the Spanish language to dedicate part of his work to the black society. The following pages will question the purpose of his black poetry, "poesía …
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Devotion to St John the Baptist in England in the Middle Ages.
… evidence available, including guild and church dedications, prayers to the Baptist and representations in art, is examined. The study concludes with an account of the Midsummer feast of the Nativity of the Baptist and the ways in which a popular festival associated with pagan custom was combined …
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Advertising America: The Printing, Publication, and Promotion of English New World Books, 1553-1600
… apparatus, not just prefaces, proems and dedications. It is simultaneously a counterbalance to the narrow focus on Richard Hakluyt’s anthological _Principal Navigations_ (1598-1600). The thesis begins the much-needed recovery of the conceptual and publication histories of both the …
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Not Just a Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian as Collaborator, Composer and Creator
… seventeen different composers and received the dedications of several more. Composers connected to her include: John Cage, Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Sylvano Bussotti, Henri Pousseur, Bruno Maderna, Bernard Rands, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and of course, Berio. Berberian's creative …
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Playwrights on the Threshold Between Stage and Study: paratexts and polemical texts in seventeenth century French theater
… directly with their public. Based on prefaces, dedications, and related materials from over 210 plays by 70 authors from 1630 to1680, the analysis begins by re-reading the famous Quarrel of the Cid. In Chapter 1, I demonstrate that Corneille departed in his management of the Cid's publication …
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Language contact in South Oscan epigraphy
… by genre or inscription type: this includes dedications, curse tablets, legal texts, official texts (including coin legends) and funerary texts. While some types of text, such as curse tablets, show pronounced influence and borrowing from Greek, other genres such as legal or official texts …
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Konstruktionen av det heliga. Altarna i det medeltida Lunds stift
… holy space. The placement and names (dedications) of many side-altars can imply that they were “private” in one sense but also were seen as and can have functioned as proxy-altars in what can be described as the cathedrals “official” liturgy. Chapter 5 deals with the altars in the …
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Catalog of the Music of Nick Strimple (B. 1946)
… information is also given. Text sources, dedications, and commissioning information are also included in most cases. The result is a document which provides a rich source of information about Dr. Nick Strimple’s compositional output, often in the composer’s own words.</p>
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Literary Activity and Ecclesiastical Authority in Medieval Iceland: The Old Norse Reception of St Ambrose of Milan and his Exemplary Role in Bishops’ Sagas
… by previous scholars, evidence from church dedications and ecclesiastical documents demonstrates that devotion to the saint did not falter, and that mentions of Ambrose in secular sagas and historical records suggest that the Icelanders were not unfamiliar with his figure and his importance …
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The Material of Polytheism in Archaic Greece: Understanding Greek Religion Through Patterns of Dedicatory Practice and Thought, ca.750–480 BCE
This thesis is an investigation of gift-giving in religious contexts in archaic Greece, in which I determine patterns of dedicatory practice across Greece, and then use these patterns as a window onto the mindset of ancient worshippers in relation to their many gods. I use new materialist …