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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Rossini"”.
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The development and implementation of coloratura technique in selected Rossini arias for mezzo-soprano
The mezzo-soprano arias in Rossini operas have captivated audiences for the last two centuries with their impressive and extensive vocal gymnastics, or coloratura. A strong coloratura technique is necessary for the successful performance of Rossini arias by mezzo sopranos. This dissertation seeks …
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Instituting Opera in Fernando VII's Madrid: Acculturation and Critical reception in the Age of Rossini (1813-1824)
… period represented here coincides with Spain’s Rossini phenomenon, from the tentative early introduction of his and his contemporaries’ works, through their apex in popularity and the ensuing cultural phenomenon of local and national fanatical opera reception. During this period, which precedes …
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Tom Stirzaker's Ph.D. Recital
… W. A. Mozart; Igor Stravinsky; Gioacchino Rossini
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Doctoral thesis recital (clarinet)
… Introduction, theme, and variations / Gioachino Rossini -- Capriccio for solo clarinet / Heinrich Sutermeister -- Tema con variazioni / Jean Françaix -- Sonatina / Joseph Horovitz
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The Barber of Seville by Giovanni Paisillo and Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais English Adaption
… born when I undertook a comparative study of the Rossini and Paisiello versions of The Barber of Seville for a research seminar three years ago. Although I was quite familiar with the Rossini setting, I had neither seen nor heard the Paisiello work. Fortunately, there was an Italian recording …
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Reconstructing Convention: Ensemble Forms in the Operas of Jules Massenet
… aria and duet form begun by Bellini, codified by Rossini, modified by Verdi, and dissolved by Puccini. A similar trajectory can be seen in French opera in the works of Meyerbeer, Gounod, and Massenet; however, only Meyerbeer and Gounod have received significant critical attention. This is in part …
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Formal convention in Verdi's Falstaff
… arias is followed by a pertinent example from Rossini’s Semiramide. Three passages from Falstaff are then shown to have strong grounding in the solita forma. These passages include Falstaff’s “Honor” monologue in act I, part 1; the scene for Mrs. Quickly, Alice, Meg and Nannetta at the …
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Object Relations in Children's Projective Testing: Applying the Mutuality of Autonomy Scale to the Thematic Apperception Test
… systematic approaches to interpreting TAT data (Rossini & Moretti, 1997; Cramer, 2004). The findings showed several expected, significant relationships between level of defense and object relations that confirmed the study’s hypotheses. Children who used the most mature defense of identification …
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Lanthanide luminescence in Pybox functionalized metallopolymers
Lanthanide luminescence is woven into the fabric of modern day existence. Due to their narrow emission and useful red and green emission Eu(III) and Tb(III) have been extensively studied and applied as phosphors in a number of devices. It is in the pursuit of ever improving these devices' emission …
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Élite, coleccionismo y prácticas musicales en La Coruña de La Restauración (ca. 1815-1848): el fondo musical Adalid
… Baillot, entre otros, pero también de Gioachino Rossini. El proceso de catalogación y el estudio pormenorizado de las piezas que componen el fondo, así como el hallazgo de nuevos datos sobre la vida de los miembros de estas familias, y la constatación de la existencia de numerosos estudios en …
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Caracterização da distribuição de intensidade da radiação solar difusa
A proposta deste trabalho é caracterizar a distribuição de intensidade da radiação solar difusa. sob diferentes condições de nebulosidade, através da análise de imagens monocromáticas do hemisfério celeste e das correspondentes medidas da irradiância solar difusa. O sistema experimental tem como …
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The Dissociation Constant of Acetic Acid at 25°c
The dissociation constants of weak acids can be determined from thermodynamic data obtained from cells without liquid junction. The method was developed by Harned and his students.
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Metodologia para processamento distribuído com aplicação em representação polinomial de superfícies
Pesquisas em diversas áreas do conhecimento estão envolvendo cada vez mais informações a serem processadas e demandam mais poder computacional para processar tais informações. Por esta razão, a área de Processamento Distribuído é uma área fundamental por possibilitar que grandes demandas de poder …
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Labyrinthum capellae. Le "Annotationes in Marcianum" di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena e la fortuna del neoplatonismo cristiano
The labyrinthum Capella quoted in the title (from a Prudentius of Troyes epistle) represents the allegory of the studium of the liberal arts and the looking for knowledge in the early middle age. This is a capital problem in the early Christianity and, in general, for all the western world, …
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Effects of Calfhood Respiratory and Digestive Disease on Calfhood Morbidity and First Lactation Production and Survival Rates
Calf health data and first lactation records for 2556 cows born in a commercial dairy herd between June 1998 and June 2001 were studied to determine the effects of calfhood disease on survival and performance. Operator-treated respiratory disease occurrences within the first year of life and …
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Administrators' Perceptions of Using Social Media as a Tool for Learning
The purpose of this study was to investigate administrators' perceptions of using social media as a tool for learning. A review of literature revealed a disconnect between the technology students rely on outside of school versus what they use and have access to during school and leads to us to …
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Strongly correlated quantum fluids and effective thermalization in non-Markovian driven-dissipative photonic systems
… 2016. - A. Biella, F. Storme, J. Lebreuilly, D. Rossini, R. Fazio, I. Carusotto and C. Ciuti, ``Phase diagram of incoherently driven strongly correlated photonic lattice'', Phys. Rev. A, 96, 023839, 2017. [Chapter 3.] In view of improving the performance of the scheme introduced in last chapter, …
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Shifting Slides: The Effect of John Cage's "Solo for Sliding Trombone" (1957-58) On Modern Trombone Literature and Pedagogy
<p>The trombone has a limited history concerning literature and technique development. A turning point for the literature of the trombone was with John Cage's Solo for Sliding Trombone. This composition brought about new techniques that would permeate throughout subsequent literature. These new …
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Beyond Italian Opera. Manuel García in postcolonial Mexico City (1826-1828)
The thesis 'Beyond Italian opera. Manuel García in postcolonial Mexico City (1826-1828)' examines the operatic activities of the tenor and composer Manuel García in Mexico City between 1826 and 1828, and how they intersected with the Mexican nation-building project in the aftermath of independence …
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