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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"classical form"”.
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Mykola Lysenko's sonata in A minor, op.16: a discussion of musical elements and companion recording
… is recognized as a founding figure of Ukrainian classical music. In 1875, he wrote the Sonata in A minor, Op. 16. This study, complements and expands the author’s recording of the Sonata in A minor by providing a theoretical analysis of the piece. Its findings argue that Lysenko used Classical …
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Paul Hindmith's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano: A Lecture Recital
… This thesis will begin with biographical information, highlighting important events in his life. Then, in an effort to understand his compositional style and his philosophy of Gebrauchsmusik, his mastery of classical form, the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano is chosen for a detailed stylistic …
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Songs of sand and grit : a collection of narrative literary journalism
… edifice. This body of work experiments with the classical form of narrative literary journalism. The Soul Searcher tells the story of the ethnomusicologist John Turest-Swartz who wants to promote the little known rural musician Louisa Steenkamp. It traces the development of an indigenous South …
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Effective Strategies and Necessary Resources for Mainstreaming Autistic Students into High School
… to a broad definition of Autism, including the classical form of the disorder. Autism is viewed as a spectrum disorder, and people diagnosed with Autism are impaired to a variety of degrees in the following areas: social, communication, and behaviors/interests.</p> <p>In the past decade, the …
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PIANO SUITES FROM 1900 TO THE PRESENT
… suite has played an important role in both performance and pedagogy. Certain suites, those by Bach for example, have become some of the most cherished works in classical music. Unsurprisingly, these seminal works and their broader style inspired many composers after Bach, most notably in the …
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The CFA Franc Zone: a modern reincarnation of a colonial relic
… for the attainment of independence by these former colonies. They had to sign the colonial pact made up of economic, political and military arrangements, all of which give France the upper hand and huge advantages in the union. These include the fact that the African CFA Franc zone countries …
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Passé recomposé: Neoclassical Sonata Form in Interwar France
This dissertation offers a theory of neoclassical sonata form in interwar France. My theory is based on analysis of fifteen representative sonata-form chamber movements written during the 1920s and 30s by Ravel, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Milhaud, Honegger, Tailleferre, Auric, Durey, and Ibert. My …
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An evangelical assessment and reconstruction of Phillips Brooks's definition of preaching
… Chapter 2 provides the contextual information necessary for evaluating Brooks's thought, with attention given to the way that he responded to the influences of romanticism in the late nineteenth century. Chapter 3 unveils Christ's incarnation as the foundation for Brooks's preaching …
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Apoptosis induced by cancer chemotherapeutic drugs and its genetic suppression
Apoptosis can be distinguished from necrosis, the classical form of cell death, by several morphological and biochemical criteria. Apoptotic cells, but not necrotic cells, show early condensation of chromatin as well as endonuclease activation resulting in cleavage of the nuclear DNA into …
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Computational aspects of communication amid uncertainty
… methods to overcome uncertainty. A classical form of uncertainty arises from errors introduced by the communication channel but uncertainty can arise in many other ways if the communicating players do not completely know (or understand) each other. For example, it can occur as …
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Potential output and sources of economic growth: Korea 1962-1968
… sculpture may be characterized by its blocky forms and its monumentality, despite the fact that much of his sculpture is less than three feet in height. Arnolfo combines a sense of classical form, derived from Nicola, with traditional Cosmatesque decoration to reflect the autocratic character …
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Arnolfo di Cambio: sculpture
… sculpture may be characterized by its blocky forms and its monumentality, despite the fact that much of his sculpture is less than three feet in height. Arnolfo combines a sense of classical form, derived from Nicola, with traditional Cosmatesque decoration to reflect the autocratic character …
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Dramatic Impulse: Diegetic Music in the Operas of Giacomo Puccini
… fictional entity to compose in an old-fashioned Classical style that is distinct from his usual late Romantic idiom. I also propose and employ a tripartite analytical methodology for identifying and assessing diegetic music in opera, complete with a new definition for diegetic music that is …
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A Comparative Analysis of Islamist Movements in the Neoliberalization Process: Jama’at-e- Islami in Pakistan and the Fethullah Gulen Movement in Turkey — Reactions to Capitalism, Modernity and Secularism
… departure from tradition and God. Economic transformations of this period restructured the concept of social and politics. The politics of God have been replaced by the politics of economy. On the other side, neoliberal economic policies have instigated a desecularization process within …
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Distributed thinking across mind and media: creative design in traditional tools and generative design
… decisions fundamentally shape downstream performance and cost of products. Visual thinking, the iterative reasoning across internal and external visual representations, is the engine for creative design across engineering, architecture, and art. This highlights the distributed nature of …
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Analysis and measurement of anti-reciprocal systems
… evokes the mobility method, an ideal transformer alternative to a gyrator followed by the dual of the mechanical circuit. The mobility approach greatly complicates the analysis. The present study proposes a novel, simplified, and rigorous receiver model. Hunt’s two-port parameters as well …
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Effect of incremental equal channel angular pressing (I-ECAP) on the microstructural characteristics and mechanical behaviour of commercially pure titanium
… and to improve the mechanical strength and performance of CP-Ti by nano-structuring or grain refinement.;Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is an established method for introducing extreme grain refinement in metals. The technique imparts high plastic strain to the material without significantly …
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Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra
… used in the piece and it will discuss the form of the piece; both movement-to-movement and on a smaller scale within each of the three movements. I was fascinated with the bassoon's potential since scoring for it in my first chamber opera, Devkino Road. The idea for this piece came to …