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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Orpheus"”.
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The entry of Orpheus into archaic Greek society.
… early Archaic sources by the sixth century BCE Orpheus the poet had become synonymous with poetry and inspiration. This work will examine the emergence of the myths of Orpheus in Archaic Greece with a view to understanding his place in society. This will entail the exploration of the …
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Plato's Orpheus: The Philosophical Appropriation of Orphic Formulae
In this project I explore Platos deployment and transposition of Orphic eschatological ideas through his incorporation of Orphic formulae, based on the Olbian Tablets and Orphic Gold Tablets, into his philosophical settings throughout his dialogues. I show how Plato deploys Orphic formulae …
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The Orpheus Figure: The Voice in Writing, Music and Media
… trajectory of the voice as it encounters the Orpheus figure in writing, music, and other media. Following a critical discussion of Auerbach’s literary figuration, the author questions certain aspects of phonocentrism in relation to opera and texts using the voice for authoritative or …
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"Atmen, du unsichtbares Gedicht" - Rilkes Behandlung in den "Sonetten an Orpheus".
… Rilke fer með það í ljóðabálknum „Sonette an Orpheus“. Ritgerðinni er skipt í tvo hluta sem hvorir tveggja skiptast í fjóra undirkafla. Í fyrri hluta ritgerðarinnar verður fjallað með almennum hætti um sonnettuna. Í fyrsta undirkaflanum verður sonnettan skilgreind og farið verður yfir einkenni …
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Towards a culture-free model of the Big Five - a cross-cultural investigation of the Orpheus in four different language families
… operationalised through adapting and translating Orpheus, a work-based Big Five personality questionnaire, into English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin) and Spanish. The first phase, 'Quality Control', used a mixed method technique in two studies. Study 1 (Translation and Monitoring) was qualitative …
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Growth patterns along environmental gradients of tropical pomacentrid fishes
… (Bleeker 1855) between Lizard Island, Orpheus Island, and One Tree Island along the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (14° 41' S, 18° 37' S, and 23° 30' S). P. moluccensis displayed no clear latitudinal maximum age (7-10 years) or asymptotic size (57.3 mmSL +/-3.0) difference, between …
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Practical performance considerations for the Andante con moto of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in G Major, Op. 58
… musical implications of the application of the Orpheus program as proposed by Owen Jander. The formal and theoretical analysis refers to significant scholarly works and includes a variety of interpretive options, detailing possibilities for phrasing, formal musical structure, and the overall …
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Antický hudební mýtus a jeho responze ve středoškolské hudební výchově
… with the classical myths of Apollo, Dionysus, Orpheus, Pan and Sirens. The chapter presents particular versions of the myths and conducts their interpretation. The third chapter focuses on the selected mythological motifs as inspiration for the musical work in the historical perspective. The …
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Toorlelies (Portfeulje) & Mythopoeia in Marina Tsvetaeva's after Russia (Essay)
… Russia. The study will focus on the myth of Orpheus, the archetypal poet, as well as the metamorphoses of the Greek bard as presented by Tsvetaeva in her poetry. Tsvetaeva's appropriation of the mythic personae of Eurydice and the Cumaean Sibyl will also be explored in relation to the Orphic …
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Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro
… between the two arts.</p> <p>The ‘Orphans of Orpheus’ from my title are the poets who express a yearning for the music that was once believed to be inseparable from poetry, and who, as I argue, search for different mechanisms to bring it back. In the sixteenth century, when it is possible to …
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Dancing on the Threshold of Time: An Orphic Journey into the Second Half of Life.
… life, using the archetypal mythical framework of Orpheus and Eurydice, a story of love, loss and transformation. This work produces an alternative knowledge about this stage of adult development, in attending to the process of loss, mourning and letting go. Drawing on the conceptual framework of …
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Magic, astrology and music: the background to Marsilio Ficino's astrological music therapy and his role as a Renaissance magus
… Instrurnentalis - Ficino's role as the 'second Orpheus'. Contemporary anecdotes, the importance of Orpheus as a model and the rediscovery of the Orphic hymns precede a more historical discussion of Ficino as a music theorist and improvisor within the context of 15th century Italian musical …
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Black School Leader Truth: How Black School Leader Epistemology Influences Liberatory Mindset Development in Their Staff
<p>Black students in the United States have consistently been denied access to empowering, culturally affirming, and responsive learning experiences in the traditional public system. The epistemological and pedagogical beliefs embedded in a liberatory mindset can subvert this pattern of …
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Mythology in the poetry of Maksimilian Volosin: The metaphor of consciousness
… its stages are personified chronologically by Orpheus, Laocoon, Oedipus, Odysseus, Icarus, and Zeus. These references to Greek mythology allow us to trace the path of Volosin's poetic persona: acceptance of the limitations of the human predicament, quest for self-knowledge, departure from the …
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The Secret Language of the Desert: Poetry, Loss, and Awakening
… his pain and loss, his love, his passions, as Orpheus did his songs. He seeks to pierce through the veil of death in order to reconcile the loss of his loved ones; he seeks to go beyond the human created world into the mystic experience of the desert through the power of utterance and by …
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"Zeus the Head, Zeus the Middle": Studies in the History and Interpretation of the Orphic Theogonies
… of four theogonies that were attributed to Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems as if they were similar to Hesiod’s Theogony – lengthy chronological accounts of the births of the gods from the beginning of time …
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Ombra music in the eighteenth century : context, style and signification
… Italy and France. Operas based on the legends of Orpheus, lphigenia and Alcestis provide numerous examples, extending well into the eighteenth century, including works by Jommelli and Gluck. Hermann Abert applied the term to certain accompanied recitatives by Hasse and Jommelli. Ombra scenes …
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Two selected works for solo trumpet commissioned by the International Trumpet Guild: A structural and performance analysis with a history of the commission project, with three recitals of selected works by Arutunian, Haydn, Fasch, Chaynes and others
… Quintet by Jerzy Sapieyevsky, Invocation of Orpheus by Robert X. Rodriguez, Triptych by David Sampson, and Sonata for Trumpet and Piano by Eric Ewazen. The importance of these works and their impact on the trumpet repertoire is assessed. Possible reasons for the acceptance of some of these …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… head. Chapter 2 argues that Wilde’s use of the Orpheus story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses is revealing about not only Dorian Gray’s but also his author’s troubled relations with both sexes. Chapter 3 shows how Wilde uses Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in his fairy tales and plays to represent unhappy …
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