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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Leitmotif"”.
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The leitmotif technique in Puccini's La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly
The leitmotif technique has been used extensively in operas. The leitmotif normally represents a person, an emotion, an idea or a dramatic situation. The early form of leitmotif, known as reminiscence motif, occurred notably in Gretry's opera, Richard Coeur de Lion (1784). Later, Mozart and Mehul …
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTION: USE OF LEITMOTIF IN THE FIRST ACTS OF LES MISÉRABLES AND HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL
<p>Leitmotif, a recurring musical theme that represents a character, idea, or situation, is a device used in operas, film scores, and musical theater. Accredited to Richard Wagner, leitmotifs enhance storytelling and provide a sense of cohesion to a production. The popular musicals Les Misérables …
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Towards a theology of relationship: Emil Brunner’s Truth as Encounter in light of relationship science
… proposed that relationship must be the prime leitmotif for the whole of theology. By re-introducing Brunner as a relational theologian that should be preferred over so-called relational theologies, trinitarian theologies and Karl Barth, he is suggested as a solid foundation that should be …
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Penthesilea
… writing, elaborate harmonic language and Leitmotif technique. The performance time is approximately 40 minutes.
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Aesthetics in Ruins: Parisian Writing, Photography and Art, 1851-1892
… a turning point in the evolution of the ruin leitmotif beyond Romanticism in its transfer into a new context: modern Paris. The analysis demonstrates the correlation between this leitmotif and urban environment in transformation, and their influence on aesthetics, leading to the renewal of …
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“The Indians gaping before us”: Anxieties of Consumption in Mary White Rowlandson’s Sovereignty and Goodness of God
… modern readers alike, consumption becomes the leitmotif of the text. A closer analysis elucidates that the fear of consumption truly belies a fear of colonialism and the cultural exchanges taking place at the frontier.</p>
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The Sword of Truth, Tribute Synthesizer Suite
… in the text are set to music similar to the "leitmotif" technique used by operatic and film composers such as Wagner and John Williams. Blind since birth, Jay Pellis used advanced computer software to create this work on a Windows PC. The thesis details the processes used to develop and …
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"La Revelation m'est venue de l'Orient" Henri Matisse
… that the reference to the Orient became a leitmotif through out the painter's career and manifested itself both esthetically and thematically. This thesis will fill in a gap in our understanding of Matisse's unique relation to the Orient.
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Tra l’umano e il divino: la divinazione in Giamblico. Un commentario al terzo libro del De mysteriis.
Divination is the leitmotif of this essay. I tried to analyze this subjet that the main thinkers and philosophers point out as the key-subject of the neoplatonic sage Giambilico's Treatise On the Mysteries of Egyptians. It is a ten books work and the third one was totally focused on Divination by …
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Bradley Ellingboe’s Requiem: Influences and Analysis for Performance
… and a recurring cello solo that serves as a Leitmotif throughout Requiem. Through motivic analysis the influence of Norwegian folk music and the music of Edvard Grieg are further revealed. The discussion of the architecture, text choices, and the emotional progression in Requiem reveal the …
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Designing "learning organizations" : a critical evaluation of the strategies and policies proposed in the literature
… with enhanced learning capability is a leitmotif of current approaches to organizational design and has implications for the way organizations are managed with respect to education, training, and development. The aim of this work is the identification of the factors and processes that …
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Through the Mangrove Tunnels, for String Quartet, Piano, and Drum Set, and “Musical Signification in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest”
… with the most associative specificity, are four leitmotifs that are responsible for creating dramatic meaning in the music: Prospero’s Revenge, Miranda’s Defiance, Nature, and Reconciliation. As these leitmotifs combine and develop, they generate a narrative in which Prospero’s grand plans for …
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Optimal choices: mean field games with controlled jumps and optimality in a stochastic volatility model
… continuous time under random influences is the leitmotif of this work. In the first part a family of mean field games with a state variable evolving as a jump-diffusion process is studied. Under fairly general conditions, the existence of a solution in a relaxed version of these games is …
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Stephen Sondheim's Gesamtkunstwerk: The Concept Musical As Wagnerian Total Theatre
… as well, involving structural parallels such as leitmotif, minor chord development, and intricate lyricism. Congruently, many of Sondheim's choices describing communication with audiences on the emotional and intellectual levels also recall those utilized by Wagner over a century earlier. These …
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Holy Blood, Holy Cross: Architecture and Devotion in the Parochial Complex of Rothenburg ob der Tauber
… unfolded an intricate thematic program whose leitmotif was a miracle-working blood relic. Scholars are beginning to reassess the role of architecture in structuring and creating meaning among the seemingly disparate elements of medieval multi-media church programs. This meaning was not only …
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Network Anomaly Detection with Incomplete Audit Data
… of anomaly detection. From this perspective, the leitmotif of the research effort described in this dissertation is the design of a novel intrusion detection system that has the capability to detect intrusions with high accuracy even when complete audit data is not available. In this dissertation, …
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The Heroes of Main Melody: Textual analysis of the Protagonists’ Masculine Traits in Chinese Main Melody Films.
… ja käytöksen representaatioita. Main melody tai leitmotif elokuvat on tarkoitettu palvelemaan Kiinan valtion ideologista koneistoa ja ylläpitämään johtavan puolueen legitiimiä. 2000-luvun aikana main melody elokuvat ovat kaupallistuneet, keräten suurempia lipputuloja kuin varhaisemmat kyseisen …
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'Woman's mission': the temperance and women's suffrage movements in Scotland, c.1870-1914
… women. The ideology of ‘separate spheres’ is a leitmotif of much of women’s history, and discussions of the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres are often linked to social class. My discussion of a ‘feminine public sphere’ is designed to reveal the ways in which women negotiated Victorian gender roles …
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Haima in Hebrews
… true humanity of Christ. Blood constitutes a <em>Leitmotif</em> in the Epistle to encompass the atoning work of Christ, who as High Priest shed His blood vicariously to eradicate sin, cleanse the conscience, and save humankind.</p>
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My Blood of the (New) Covenant: An Assessment of René Girard's Soteriology in Light of the Covenantal Milieu of the Last Supper Sayings
… After establishing restoration theology as the leitmotif of the Synoptics, specific attention is devoted to the Last Supper sayings along with other passages that, when read in light of restoration theology, indicate Jesus' death reconstitutes God's covenant relationship with his people by …
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