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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Performance history"”.
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A performance history of Sir Thomas More
This thesis examines the history of Sir Thomas More in performance through an engagement, by correspondence and personal interview, with those theatrical practitioners most closely involved with the production of the play text as a theatrical event. This is allied to a close examination of those …
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A risk-adjusted performance history of public and private market real estate investment, 1978-1997
Since the inception of the Real Estate Investment Trust ("REIT"), the relative efficiency of the public and private real estate markets has been the subject of debate. Consequently, a determination of the more efficient real estate investment vehicle will probably have a significant effect on the …
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"""The ineffable moments will be harder won"": the genesis, compositional process, and early performance history of Michael Tippett's The Heart's Assurance"
… for the inexpressible. Complicating the cycle’s history thereafter is Pears’s pronouncement on it in his contribution to Michael Tippett: A Symposium on His Sixtieth Birthday (1965) fourteen years after its première. Pears’s essay is a partial response to Tippett’s earlier manifesto on composers …
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Kunstdiva versus Stimmediva Callas and Sutherland in Bellini’s Norma
… bel canto, Bellini’s contribution to it and the performance history of his opera Norma. Furthermore, it investigates the German differentiation between Kunstdiva and Stimmediva as exemplified by two major sopranos of the twentieth century, Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland. Callas’s performance of …
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An Historical Study of the Solo Concerto Cadenza
… cadenza is one that encompasses the areas of performance, history and theory. Even though the cadenza occupies a small place in the total music literature, it is a sort of microcosm of music. It would be impossible to make a study of the cadenza without completely understanding the concerto …
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An Examination of the Clarinet Music of Luigi Bassi
… and composer. Biographical information and performance history for Luigi Bassi are included. Bassi wrote 27 works for clarinet, including 15 opera fantasies or transcriptions. Most of his works are housed in the Milan Conservatory library. This document provides analysis of all but two of …
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A Performance Guide to Tomas Svoboda's Duo Concerto for Trumpet and Organ, Op. 152
… Symphony and trumpeter at the premiere, the performance guide illuminates the piece with a discussion of five different topics. Chapter 2 of the guide reveals the circumstances of the commission and the initial compositional process. Chapter 3 discusses the performance history of the …
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A Historical and Analytical Examination of the Stravinsky Octet for Wind Instruments, with a Guide to Performance Preparation of the Two Trumpet Parts
… background of the composer. It also reveals the history surrounding the origin of the Octet and its role in neoclassicism. Chapter 3 discusses the role of the Octet in the wind ensemble and orchestral repertoire, and includes a representative performance history, including the premiere. Chapter 4 …
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Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op.61 program notes for Movement 1 and companion works by Edward Elgar and Fritz Kreisler
… This chapter also considers the concerto’s performance history, and technical-pedagogical considerations. Chapters Two and Three focus on Elgar’s Romance in E minor, Op. 1, and Salut d’amour, Op. 12, respectively, examining their historical backgrounds, theoretical analyses, and stylistic …
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A streamline model application for the waterflood performance of NZ-OF-HRL carbonate reservoir
… water is analyzed in this study. The reservoir performance history was simulated using the streamline model. Three prediction cases were made for different water injection schemes. Each of these predictions were studied in order to design the optimum oil recovery program for future operations. …
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The mezzo-soprano onstage and offstage: a cultural history of the voice-type, singers and roles in the French Third Republic (1870–1918)
… dissertation reconstructs the mezzo-soprano’s history in a pivotal time and geographical location, when mezzo-soprano-led works such as Bizet’s Carmen (1875), Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila (1877), and Massenet’s Werther (1892) were enshrined in the operatic repertoire. Focusing primarily on …
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Recovering ancient ritual and the theatre of the Apache: a journey through the false consciousness of Western theatre history
… ancient Greek and contemporary Native American performance. It suggests that through a recognition of these influences, which have long tempered the Western narrative of theatre, ancient and Indigenous performance can be reviewed as similar forms of a lived exchange. The study tracks the …
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Staging Geographies and the Geographies of Staging: Space and Place in Shakespeare’s Richard II: Text and Production
… of the geographies of staging across the play’s performance history, and a close reading of the workings of space and place in a selection of contemporary productions. By combining theoretical perspectives and conceptualizations of space and place from cultural geography with existing ideas on …
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Gagging for it: irony, innuendo and the politics of subversion in women’s comic performance on the post-1880 London music-hall stage and its resonance in contemporary practice
… as comedy has been neglected in theatre and performance histories, and their influence on the evolution of popular forms and the development of twentieth and twenty-first century comic traditions has received little scholarly attention. I argue that performing comic material offered them …
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New firm emergence: the significance of social embeddedness and resource bootstrapping to the process of nascent firm emergence
… because, as new creations, they lack evaluative performance history. One of the consequences of this liability of newness is that new firms are faced with institutional barriers to the human, social, and financial capital resources necessary to progress to emergence. This study proposed that in …
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Three case studies in twentieth-century performance practice
… middle of the twentieth century, the study of performance practice has increasingly drawn the interest of musicologists; however, despite the extensive documentation pertaining to matters of performance, the twentieth century has largely been neglected. Twentieth-century composers often …
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Making Spaces for Ourselves: Queer Asian American Bodies in Contemporary American Musical Theatre
… of Asian representation in musical theatre history show Asian lands, cultures, and people as exoticized, Orientalized figures, positioned on the margins and wings of the stage. This project considers queer Asian Americans as the main protagonists—examining how their embodiments reveal …
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Bygone Modernity: Re-imagining Italian opera in Milan, New York and Buenos Aires, 1887-1914
… Pagliacci (1892), examining their pairing and performance history in Buenos Aires and New York in the light of mass Italian immigration as well as in terms of contemporary constructions of the “popular”. Chapter Three turns to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (1904), examining the opera in relation …
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The Interpreter as Co-Author: Pianists and the Practice of Interactive Re-Working
… musicological scholarship in the field of WAM performance studies has recognised the creative role of the interpreter, notions that equate work-interpretation with Werktreue have remained almost entirely uncontested, resulting in an apparent presupposition that the composer’s role in …
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Viability of concept mapping for assessing cultural competence in children's mental health systems of care: a comparison of theoretical and community conceptualizations
… in the United States have an unsatisfactory performance history in serving children and families with diverse backgrounds. Moreover, a lack of empirical research delineating the models and impact of culturally responsive practice on mental health inhibits knowledge-based progress. Cultural …
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