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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Versification."”.
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The Appeal and Reception of the Legend of Saint Eustace in Early Medieval England and Medieval Scandinavia
… English translation, a putatively English Latin versification, a Norse skaldic versification and four Norse prose translations. A second, less popular Eustace tradition (represented by BHL 2761 and its versification) will also be examined to provide further context. This analysis will utilise a …
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Edición modernizada y anotada de la comedia No hay burlas con las mujeres, o, Casarse y vengarse, del doctor Antonio Mira de Amescua.
… about the text of the play, its structure and versification, staging, and the editorial criteria used. The main body of the thesis consists of the text of the play itself whose spelling and punctuation have been modernized, according to the standard practice. The critical apparatus consists of …
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Jules Massenet's Musical Prosody Focusing on His Eight Song Cycles And A Collection, Expressions Lyriques: A Lecture Recital, Together with Recitals of Selected Works of W. A. Mozart, F. Schubert, C. Debussy, R. Strauss, D. Argento, V. Bellini, J. Marx, W. Walton, C. Gounod, A. Scarlatti, G. Fauré, J. Rodrigo, H. Wolf, and Others
… this study, each melodic style related to French versification is examined in detail. The musical analysis regarding the other musical idioms on selected examples presents the semantic feature of prosody idea. The brief review of French versification and opinions regarding the performance are …
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"Los motz e.l so": words melody, and their interaction in the songs of Folquet de Marseille
… I first examine the poetic parameters: the versification, division of the words into sense units, and proverbs. Next, I analyze the pitch organization of the melodies and the division of the stanza into musical units based on repetition. Finally, I locate the interactions between the …
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The Invention of Rhythm
… brought to bear on studies of their respective versification, in fact producing, and perpetuating the mythological narrative, with negligable study of the linguistic and rhythmical patterns of their poems themselves.</p><p> It reconsiders their writing, in context of their manuscripts and the …
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The fifteen-syllable verse of Kostis Palamas's The King's Flute
This thesis studies the versification of the poem, the King’s Flute by Kostis Palamas and specifically examines the fifteen-syllable verse of this poem, leaving aside its content and its interpretation. The study focuses on the various rhythmical and metrical devices which Palamas used in order to …
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Countless Cross-Fertilizations: Gary Snyder as a Post-Romantic Poet
… in the exact structure of his peculiar versification,” and I examine how Snyder’s “peculiar versification” follows and yet innovates upon the tradition of experimental and unconventional form set forth by his Romantic predecessors in such seminal works as Lyrical Ballads. In my final two …
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Images of hope : the pursuit of wholeness in Byron's Corsair.
… elements of character, structure, setting, and versification that suggest the protagonist's search for wholeness. In order to create a more comprehensive understanding of the poem, this thesis builds upon previous criticism and explores these image patterns and compositional elements to reveal …
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The Bardic Style In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, And Dylan Thomas
… made use of the principles of bardic prosody and versification. Third, the poet's reasons for re-animating a bardic stance in a modern world, and some of the interesting incongruities of that endeavour, are explored.;What the study discovers is that a better understanding of how the bardic style …
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Artsong : a brief survey of artsong literature, composers and musico-poetic structure accompanied by a performance-based interpretation workbook
… transcription and the characteristics of versification unique to each language covered.The unique contribution of this work, however, is the workbook of sixty-five artsongs.In the workbook, the student is guided through a systematic approach to the interpretive process. The student is …
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‘And eall worulde gesceaft’: Re-Reading the Natural World in Old English Biblical Poetry
… a closer connection between the Old Testament versifications, and demonstrate the ways in which the translation context of Genesis A, Exodus and Daniel leads to a closely related version of the natural world. Through this examination this study reveals that biblical source material contributes …
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Bottom of the Pyramid : profit versus welfare – metrics that matter
The research project investigated the trade-off between profit and social welfare objectives and whether metrics existed to measure the social welfare objectives set and the impact made. The study was conducted with leading brands within their respective categories and that are currently active in …
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Kentering wending knik. Dynamiek in modern dichterschap
… of free verse, but later on chose a more strict versification, which can be read as a negation of the paradigmatic modern form of free verse. This leads to the conclusion that the more free verse becomes an indication of modernity, the more the semantic potential of poetic form is being …
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Shakespeare's verse and the training actor
A focus on the clarity of the verse in the preparation and performance of Shakespeare's plays has been seen by some modem directors and teachers as an impediment to effective storytelling. Contemporary directors and actors in both film and theatre are focussing more on making the text sound …
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Formal convention in Verdi's Falstaff
Falstaff (premiered in 1893) draws more explicitly on primo ottocento formal conventions for duets, arias, and central finales than scholars have previously argued. A description of those conventions (generally referred to as the solita forma) is followed by the analytical application of those …
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Prose Rhythm and Queer Desire
This dissertation examines the mutual involvement of prose and verse in the work of four gay writers of the Victorian period, to assert a connection between queer object choice and generic hybridity. It contextualises the works in question as being on the cusp of both a liberalisation of …