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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Polyphony"”.
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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony
… Mikhail Bakhtin, especially Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony. This thesis traces the presence of the polyphonic approach in Williams’ work to three main issues: the debate around the nature and future of the Anglican Communion, the debate around the place of Christianity in the increasingly secular …
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Sacred Polyphony in Renaissance Verona: A Liturgical and Stylistic Study
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A polyphony of the mind: intertextuality in the music of Salvatore Sciarrino
"This dissertation examines the work of the Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947), attempting to find a pathway for analysis that can address both its apparent structural simplicity, and its equally apparent intertextual nature. The first chapter demonstrates that typical methods of …
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A Musico-Pneumatology for Christian Formation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Polyphony of Life in the Spirit
… an analysis of Bonhoeffer’s musical metaphor of polyphony as he applies it to the Chalcedonian definition, I am able to demonstrate how his account of Christian formation which is so intimately connected to this Christology, and which polyphony helps to articulate, also contains a latent …
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Shakespearean Polyphony. An exploration of female voices in seven selected plays using a dialogical framework.
… of a nascent dialogism in Shakespearean drama. 'Polyphony', in particular, assumes a separation between the author's and the characters' points of view. Thus, this project considers Shakespeare's texts as dialogic and his plays as a dialogue of voices, in which the characters have the capacity to …
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Exploring theatrical conventions and the application of palimpsest, polyphony, hauntology, and site-specific, through a scenographic lens
… visual and audible techniques of palimpsest and polyphony, aid in the scenographic construction of sitespecific intervention. Palimpsest, originally located in literature as a way to reuse books and paper, ink would stain the pages which would create a ghostly effect and signify the presence of …
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Achieving a historically informed performance of Renaissance polyphony: A qualitative study of the use of modernized partbooks
… historically informed performance of Renaissance polyphony? Additionally, this project queries participants’ rehearsal techniques, interpreting which are most valuable for successfully integrating partbook singing into a choir. The responses highlight four main benefits: improved listening skills, …
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Bible Noise: Hearing Hidden and Silenced Voices through Sound Art Practice in the Reading Aloud of the Bible
… multiple voices which leads to an exploration of polyphony, the simultaneous sounding of multiple voices. Polyphony, in its varied dimensions, is engaged with as a way to hear beyond the hegemonic and to pay attention to the many voices present in scripture. The group, Bible Noise, practices …
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What We Understand to Be Ghosts
… "Art as Technique” and Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of polyphony as defined in his book Problems in Dostoevsky's Poetics through the practice of writing short fiction. The stories collected in the thesis explore these ideas by taking advantage of different approaches to narrative form and content and …
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Musicians and Commoners in Late Medieval London
… music towards monophony and extemporized polyphony which, unnotated, was realized in performance. These kinds of music more than any others were those made by medieval musicians and heard by commoners; through a study of archival documents and their printed editions, including account …
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Distant cathedrals
… music is emblematic of late Renaissance polyphony. Given Palestrina’s position as one of Europe’s leading composers, late Renaissance counterpoint is often labeled Palestrina-style polyphony. This piece infuses the pureness of Palestrina with extended tertian and mixed-interval harmonies …
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Deranged doctors and panicked patients: the doctor-patient relationship in fin de siécle literature
… Hyde to reveal fragmented protagonists and polyphony as a strategy to mark this conflict. I draw on this research to examine medical narratives in German and Scandinavian literary texts. I focus on the following three areas: 1) the doctor-patient relationship around 1900, 2) the social …
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Compositional Techniques Found in Three Orchestral Works of Gyorgy Ligeti
… Concerto for Flute and Oboe and San Francisco Polyphony. The analyses presented give special emphasis to the compositional techniques shared by the three works. Despite important stylistic developments which appeared during this period of Ligeti's career, certain techniques and tendencies …
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Analysis of the work of The South Wind and Flowers
… and Flowers, analyzed it from the perspective of polyphony, the structure, characteristics of melody, rhythm, meter, harmony, imitation and so on. By analyzing my doctoral work at the University of Minnesota, I hope that I can further understand my own composing methods and make continuous …
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Musical Ambiguity in Analysis and Composition: Problems of Pattern, Value, Form, and Structure
… Gestalt Theory and Kubik's "internal rhythms" to polyphony and variations from the mbira tradition of Zimbabwe. Chapter Three combines integral serialism's techniques of parametric structuring and Saussurean linguistics to develop a theory of internal musical "meaning" which is then used to …
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Creating Clausulae at Notre-Dame-de-Paris: A Study of Compositional Processes and Techniques
… oral practices, the making of this polyphony was, in many ways, reliant upon techniques of memory and ex tempore singing. But in medieval Paris, new attitudes towards the creation and transmission of this liturgical polyphony can be seen to emerge. Opportunities to experiment with …
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"Neither Believer nor Infidel" Dialogic Portraits of Agnostic and Pragmatic Methodologies in Moby-Dick and Clarel
… uses the Bakhtinian concepts of dialogism and polyphony to show that Melville’s poetic techniques create open texts, allowing readers to freely engage with multiple religious views that are equally valid, though not equally beneficial. Anticipating the methodologies of agnosticism and …
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"Remergence".
… and to achieve all this with a good deal of polyphony and craft. Remergence is perhaps the clearest and most successful manifestation thus far.
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"Palimpsests on German Reunification: Functions of Theodor Fontane's Novels and Poetry in Guenter Grass' ""Too Far Afield"""
… Intertextuality in Too Far Afield recreates the polyphony and the subtly ironical atmosphere of Fontane's texts and can perhaps be understood as a tribute, albeit one that includes a critical gaze.
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