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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"ballad"”.
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The ballad poetry of Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1930.
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The ballad as a literary genre: studies toward a redefinition
… over a satisfactory definition for the literary ballad and over the degree of its indebtedness to similar forms such as the Bunkelsang or bench ballad, the popular ballad and the chanson. The problem is compounded when discussion turns to contemporary ballads believed either to have developed …
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Memory, time and place in The Ballad of Rosalind Ballingall
The Ballad ofRosalind Ballingall is a recollection of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the twenty-year-old University of Cape Town drama student into the Knysna forests in 1969. In search of answers to this unsolved case, the film follows Rosalind's footsteps, from the bohemian city …
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Service station : straying the Australian landscape : a modern Aussie ballad opera
… and going. It was on this premise that this ballad opera was based.
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Message in a ballad: personality judgements [sic] based on music preferences
This dissertation examines the role music plays in interpersonal perception. Drawing from research indicating that music preferences and personality are linked, this work focuses on the impressions elicited from such information. Four independent studies were conducted to determine whether people …
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National identity construction and the popular ballad in nineteenth century Ireland
This dissertation sets out to analyse the discourses surrounding the construction of a nationalist sense of Irish identity through the medium of popular culture specifically song lyrics throughout the nineteenth century. The English language songtexts that this work is based on provide evidence of …
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German Translations and Criticism of the Danish Medieval Ballad to 1853
… translations and criticism of Danish medieval ballads published between 1766, the year in which the first German version appeared, and 1853, the year in which the first fascicle of the critical edition of the Danish ballads, Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, was published. For this investigation a …
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The development of a traditional folk ballad as a dance-drama for television
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Speech, 1955
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Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland
… with particular attention given to its classical ballads. From the correlation of their people's life style and moral orientations (the pragmatic context), the views and values carried across genres (the symbolic context) and those expressed within the ballads (their poetic context), one claims to …
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The ballad of banded killifish: Examining the invasion of a native transplant fish in the Great Lakes region
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Creative thesis : The ballad of Yellow Wednesday; critical thesis: Light grows from the ground: An ecocritical study of the poetry of David Morley
This thesis comprises a creative component, a critical component and a bridging statement.<br/><br/>The creative thesis is a book-length collection of poems arising from my experiences as an environmental campaigner during the 1990s. It concerns my involvement in the campaign to try to prevent an …
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Folklorinė baladė lietuviškojoje tradicijoje /
The dissertation is devoted to Lithuanian folk ballads. Besides general questions, it examines selected texts of Lithuanian folk ballads and balladic motifs in songs, with a focus on the problematics of ballads’ plots, migration of their motifs and the meaning of these motifs. It is claimed that …
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Master's thesis recital (horn)
… -- 3 character pieces / Brett Kroening -- Ballad from Graham's Crackers / Dana Wilson -- Nocturne / John Williams -- Time and space / Richard Bissill
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'The Devil to Pay' and its influence on eighteenth-century German Singspiel
… to Pay, or the Wives metamorphosed, an English ballad-opera, and Michel Jean Sedaine's Le diable a quatre, written in the form of a French opera comique. The purpose of this study is to examine Coffey's ballad-opera together with those adaptations that enabled Weisse to develop the Singspiel …
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The Ballades of Frederic Chopin
<p>The four Ballades of Chopin occupy a unique position within his output and in the repertory of keyboard music. Although Chopin was not the only composer to utilize the form, he is credited as being the first to adapt the ballade to the piano. His efforts resulted in the creation of a unique type …
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Ballads for Remembering
Ballads for Re-Membering is an examination of themes of consciousness such as time, space and emergence, set against the precarity of the climate crisis. Using an arts-and-Zen-practice-based methodology of research-creation, and a theoretical framework of New Materialism and Post-Humanism (“K(now)n …
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"MENDELSSOHN'S ""die ERSTE WALPURGISNACHT"""
… soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra, with a ballad text by Goethe. Although not well known or often performed today, it warrants this full study of its intrinsic merit, former popularity, and central place in the development of nineteenth-century cantata repertory.
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