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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"The Nightingale"”.
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The Nightingale in Poetry and Music
This thesis surveys a variety of songs and arias for high soprano which feature the nightingale; examines the musical elements that symbolize, refer to, or imitate the nightingale; and compares these musical elements with transcriptions of the nightingale's song. The first chapter reviews the …
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Old French borrowings in "The Owl and the Nightingale"
Old French Borrowings in "The Owl and the Nightingale" ascertains the quantity and nature of Old French words present in this thirteenth-century Middle English poem. Patterns of borrowing, whether source-based or subject-based, are identified and problematic words, such as cognates, are …
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The Nightingale's Flight from Opera to Symphonic Poem: A Comparative Study of The Nightingale and The Song of the Nightingale by Igor Stravinsky
An analysis of the transformation from Stravinsky's opera The Nightingale to The Song of the Nightingale, a symphonic poem by the same composer. The text includes a brief history of Stravinsky's life and the genesis of The Nightingale and The Song of the Nightingale. The bulk of the dissertation …
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The nightingale sings anew: The appropriation of antiquity in Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"
This thesis considers the impact of classical antiquity on the literary aesthetic of Virginia Woolf by focusing on the educational and theoretical assumptions that allowed Woolf to create her most experimental work, The Waves. Inspired by her brother Thoby Stephen and her tutor Janet Case, Woolf …
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Oscar Wilde's Fiction: Views on Life and Art
… Wilde depicts different views on life and art. The stories selected have common themes of wealth (monetary/non-monatary), love, devotion, self-destruction and death:: <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>, "The Happy Prince," "The Devoted Friend," "The Selfish Giant," and "The Rose and the …
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A mobilidade social na enfermagem: a questão das lutas simbólicas
Quanti-qualitative study which deals with the symbolic struggle of a group of nurses seeking professional and social mobility on their career. The nursing carrier hierarchy and the preparation at different educational levels lead the nursing workers to aspire getting professional mobility at the …
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Unravelling the Musical in Art: Matisse, his music and his textiles
… and lavishly embroidered wall hangings. All of these textiles and more comprised what he called ‘ma bibliothèque de travail’, a working library of inspiration that he maintained throughout his career. ‘I am made up of everything I have seen,’ he remarked, to which he might have added, ‘and …
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“Þe Inglis in seruage”: Textual Englishness, 1175 – 1330
… scholars who study English identity formation in the literature produced between the Norman Conquest and the Hundred Years War have addressed the manifold ways English writers imagined and reconstructed the Anglo-Saxon past as a golden era free of the taint of foreign domination. I find the …
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Studies in the dialect materials of medieval Herefordshire
This thesis is an investigation into the medieval dialect of the pre-1974 county of Herefordshire. The main source materials consist of a group of literary texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, localised in the Herefordshire area by linguistic means. The study builds on the methodology …
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The Rape-Revenge Genre in the Digital Age of Heightened Visibility: The Rise of Female Storytellers and Fourth-Wave Feminism
<p>The rape-revenge cinema genre has continued to evolve since its initial emergence in the 1970s. Many of the most popular films belonging to the genre produced in the 1970s, like Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave (1978) or Wes Craven’s directorial debut The Last House on the Left (1972), have …
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A Comparison of the Health Beliefs of Florence Nightingale and Ellen G. White and the Incorporation of Them into Their Respective Schools of Nursing
<p>This study explored the similarities and differences of the health beliefs of Ellen G. White and Florence Nightingale and how these beliefs were incorporated into each of their respective schools of nursing, the Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital and the Medical …
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Enterprise performance measurement system : metric design framework and tools
… good checklists and tools to evaluate and design their enterprise performance measurement systems (EPMS) and metrics. However, these methodologies and frameworks do not delve deep enough into the operational aspects of EPMS and metrics. This work addresses this research gap by proposing a …
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Sound, Gender, Individual Will, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… 19th century British literature and culture, and the way that it reveals expectations and assumptions regarding gender roles and behavior. Through this study of accounts of musical performance, in sources such as fictional representations, performance reviews in periodicals, as well as diaries and …
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Improvising Otherwise: Sound, Nature, and Coloniality in Early Modern England
Improvisation can be a mode of imagining otherwise: a practice that allows us to re-consider and question ways of writing, sounding, and being in the world. In this thesis I use improvisation as a lens through which we can listen to alternative stories of early modern English music history, …
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An examination of works for soprano: "Lascia ch’io pianga" from Rinaldo, by G.F. Handel; Nur wer die Sehnsucht Kennt, Heiss’ mich nicht reden, So lasst mich scheinen, by Franz Schubert; Auf dem Strom, by Franz Schubert; Si mes vers avaient des ailes, L'enamouree, A chloris, by Reynaldo Hahn; "Adieu, notre petite table" from Manon, by Jules Massenet; He's gone away, The nightingale, Black is the color of my true love's hair, adapted and arranged by Clifford Shaw; "In quelle trine morbide" from Manon Lescaut, by Giacomo Puccini
… 22, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in All Faith's Chapel on the Kansas State University campus. Included on the recital were works by George Frideric Handel, Franz Schubert, Reynaldo Hahn, Jules Massenet, Clifford Shaw, and Giacomo Puccini. The program notes include biographical information about the …
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Wallace Stevens' parodies of the order of paradise
… images that defy translation to rational terms. The author intends to foster some confusion, and not to present poetic theorems. But part of the surface ambiguity resolves itself on recognition that Stevens’ critical attitude toward his immediate predecessors shapes his own work. Many of the …
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UNVEIL THE CONNECTION BETWEEN METABOLIC AND INFLAMMATORY CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FOSTERED BY NUTRIENT INTAKES.
Background: Therapeutic strategies targeting the residual inflammatory risk (increased levels of inflammatory markers) effectively further reduced ACVD incidence. On the other hand, therapeutic strategies to contain the residual metabolic risk (increased TGRL) provided discordant results. Recent …
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Understanding Thermal Conditions, Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Behaviours in Naturally Ventilated Multi-patient Wards in Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
How can the limited cooling capacity of natural ventilation in multi-patient wards in hot-humid settings with limited resources be extended by a better understanding of the links between thermal conditions, thermal comfort, and occupant adaptive behaviours? Natural ventilation remains the primary …