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Contemporary linguistic theory and stylistic analysis
A Dissertation submitted to the department of English Language and Medieval Literature, University of Durham in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of M.A. in applied Linguistics(with special reference to teaching English as a foreign language)
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THE PERSONALITY CORRELATES OF MUSICAL-STYLISTIC PREFERENCE.
Dept. of Psychology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1978 .A449. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 39-09, Section: B, page: 4642. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1978.
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Stylistic Characteristics of Randall Thompson's Choral Music
Randall Thompson's choral music, widely performed by professional groups, colleges, and choirs from public schools, establishes this composer as one of the foremost in contemporary music. In view of such popularity, it would seem that choral directors should more fully acquaint themselves with some …
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John Dunstable and Leonel Power : a stylistic comparison.
This thesis is an attempt to define and compare the styles of two English composers active early in the fifteenth century - John Dunstable and Leonel Power. The two are commonly confused in the surviving manuscript sources of their music and to date there has been no reliable method for the …
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A corpus-based stylistic study of newspaper English
This study is based on a corpus of 2400 clauses taken from British national newspapers in 1986 and stored in a computer database with each clause coded for a number of grammatical (and some semantic) features. These features relate to the verb phrase (e.g. finiteness), the clause (e.g. …
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Spherical Angles: The Practical Pursuit of Stylistic Freedom
Journalism, screenplay, and professional writing.
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Stylistic Means and Devices in Contemporary Irish Short Stories /
… is contemporary Irish short stories and the stylistics of this genre. The aim of the paper is to analyze the genre peculiarity and stylistic features of modern Irish stories. The investigation sets up the following objectives: 1. To introduce the concept and classification of stylistic means …
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Stylistic transformation in the chansons of Antoine Busnois (France)
The transmission of the majority of Antoine Busnois's chansons into Italian sources suggests the composer may have visited the country and may have assimiliated musically Italiante characteristics into his compositional style. An analysis of the chansons shows that although a slight style change …
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Radiohead and the Uses of Genre – A Stylistic Evaluation
… of genre terminologies and addressed issues of stylistic diversity and categorisation. By studying instances of genre in Radiohead´s musical oeuvre as well as the accompanying genre discourse the study seeks to show how a theory of popular music genres can benefit from the application of the …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
This research presents the role and characteristics of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
This research presents the role and characteristics of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. …
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The piano sonatas by Harold Shapero: a stylistic synthesis
… project offers an investigation into the stylistic language of the piano sonatas of Harold Shapero (1920-2013)—a twentieth-century American composer who is recognized as a member of the “Stravinsky School,” particularly for his emulation of Stravinsky’s Neoclassical style. Within its …
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Jazz Recordings by Ed Bickert and Problems of Stylistic Analysis
… of challenging music. After a lengthy review of stylistic and musical analysis concepts, the categories in Jan LaRue’s Guidelines for Style Analysis provided an heuristic framework that enabled an exploratory examination of Bickert’s style. The problems of stylistic and musical analysis are many …
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The Solo Piano Works of Henri Dutilleux: A Stylistic Analysis
… of particular interest in this study is the stylistic development of Dutilleux's works in the solo piano genre. As evidenced throughout his compositional oeuvre, Dutilleux wrote and published solo piano works in each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s. However, no critical studies exist that …
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Content and Stylistic Models for Authorship, Stance, and Hyperpartisan Detection
This dissertation presents content and stylistic solutions for three opinion-oriented text classification problems. It explores user-generated text data to find how individuals write through authorship identification, express their opinion via stance detection, and articulate news while belonging …
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Stylistic Dialogue Generation Based on Character Personality in Narrative Films.
… In this thesis, we propose a new approach for stylistic dialogue generation and demonstrate its effectiveness. We believe the observations and discoveries could be a start and a tryout to apply deep learning technique and big data to boost narrative dialogue generation. And we also believe that …
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Sacred Polyphony in Renaissance Verona: A Liturgical and Stylistic Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T19:40:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7000954.pdf: 15774621 bytes, checksum: 36f0c8d35d6398685a8ee63eb465e750 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Stylistic characteristics of Gabriel Fauré's piano quartets and piano quintets
Gabriel Fauré has been neglected as composer in terms of international recognition. It is indeed true that the art of his music is not revealed at first sight: one must take time to discover the beauty and authentic meaning concealed in the depths thereof. While it is relatively true that musicians …
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