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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"late works"”.
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Remystifying Scriabin: Scalar Quality in the Late Works
This thesis offers close analyses of several late compositions (1907-1915) by Alexander Scriabin. All the pieces considered have, for one reason or another, proven difficult for scholarship to grasp from a technical perspective. Published works considered range from the Fifth Piano Sonata, Op. 53 …
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The baroque in the late works of Alejo Carpentier
… this instability is unconscious in the early works, it is argued that there is a conscious effort in the late works to exploit and revel in discursive instability."
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Through the Lens of Freemasonry: The Influence of Ancient Esoteric Thought on Beethoven's Late Works
… that reflect such thought and attitudes. Three works are examined from this point of view: the Bagatelle, op. 119, No. 7, the Piano Sonata in C minor, op. 111, and the String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131.
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Through the lens of freemasonry: the influence of ancient esoteric thought on Beethoven's late works
… attempt to shed new light on his biography and works. Though Beethoven’s official membership remains unconfirmed, an examination of current scholarship and primary sources indicates a more ubiquitous Masonic presence in the composer’s life than is usually acknowledged. Whereas Mozart’s and …
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Time has turned into space and there will be no more time: The scenic late works of Morton Feldman
This dissertation studies the long, late works of Morton Feldman. Tackling this confusing body of work from an aural and experiential perspective, the dissertation develops a preliminary method for analysis and reflects on the unusual temporal experiences engendered by the music, including …
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A Theory of Orthography and the Fundamental Bass for the Late Oeuvre of Scriabin
The late œuvre of Alexander N. Scriabin (Op. 60–Op. 74, 1910–1914) constitutes one of the most intriguing and perplexing bodies of early twentieth-century music, with analytic and theoretic approaches toward this body of work ranging from the extendedly tonal to set-theoretic approaches that place …
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Beyond the "Year of Song": Text and Music in the Song Cycles of Robert Schumann after 1848
… years scholars have begun to re-evaluate the works, writings, and life of Robert Schumann (1810-1856). One of the primary issues in this ongoing re-evaluation is a reassessment of the composer's late works (roughly defined as those written after 1845). Until recently, the last eight years of …
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The Sonata/fugue in Haydn's Sacred Choral Music
… divided into two groups. Chapter II discusses works written before the 1780s: the Cacelienmesse ""Gratias"", the Stabat Mater ""Virgo virginum praeclara"" and ""Paradisi gloria"", and the Grosse Orgelmesse Kyrie and ""Dona nobis pacem"". Chapter III covers examples in the late works: the …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel’s Post-academy Operas, 1738-1744
… dissertation explores the ways in which Handel’s late operas intersect with other forms of theater in mid-eighteenth-century London. It seeks to explain how certain comic features of these late works—from the lighter subject matter of the libretti to Handel’s unconventional musical settings—can be …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel's Post-Academy Operas, 1738-1744
… dissertation explores the ways in which Handel's late operas intersect with other forms of theater in mid-eighteenth-century London. It seeks to explain how certain comic features of these late works--from the lighter subject matter of the libretti to Handel's unconventional musical settings--can …
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Shakespeare’s late syntax: a comparative analysis of which relativisation in the dramatic works
… observations about the language of Shakespeare’s late plays. It finds substantial evidence of increased syntactic complexity, and identifies significant linguistic differences between members of the wider group of later plays. Chapter One outlines the critical history of the late works, including …
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Stylistic Influences and Application of Gebrauchsmusik in the Late Choral Cantatas of Daniel Pinkham
Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006) composed numerous works for chorus, orchestra, organ, and combinations of these forces. This body of repertoire comprises a broad and eclectic collection of styles and levels of complexity. Pinkham’s compositional career was driven by the commissions he received, and the …
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Synthesis of Style in Gabriel Faure's Preludes for Piano
… Preludes for Piano are relatively late works which pro vide a clear view of his stylistic synthesis— a synthesis which is characterized by a remarkable conciseness of construction. An exami nation of his use of harmony, melody, texture, rhythm and form in the Preludes reveals …
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Yeats and water imagery
… the poet's philosophical system, water and its related imagery. This thesis intends to remedy this neglect. The centrality of water imagery stems from the fact that Yeats had identified both himself and the Irish people (his subject, as he was trying to build a national body of symbols) with …
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"The allure of Beethoven's ""Terzen-Ketten"": third-chains in studies by Nottebohm and music by Brahms"
… and harmonic technique. Some of his earlier works, such as the Piano Sonata in C major, op. 1, and the Piano Concerto in D minor, op. 15, already show the use of such chains of thirds as a prominent feature. However, Brahms’s treatment of such “Terzen-Ketten” in his later works shows an …
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A Study of Franz Liszt's Concepts of Changing Tonality as Exemplified in Selected "Mephisto" Works
The purpose of this study is to analyze four late solo piano works of Franz Liszt that all bear the name "Mephisto" in their titles, in order to examine, identify and trace the development in the use of harmonic and melodic idioms that produced non-tonal or "omnitonic" effects, on the one hand, and …
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Self-deception at the intersection of Friedrich Nietzsche and the Apostle Paul
… Nietzsche’s treatment of ressentiment are his late works. Analysis of Nietzschean ressentiment is conducted through them, first by means of a genealogical study of the castes of ressentiment, then in terms of an examination of the mechanism of ressentiment. This supplies a knowledge of the …
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Tactility and modernity: the sense of touch in D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… of four distinct but thematically interrelated chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the discourse of touch in D. H. Lawrence’s late works on art composed between 1925 and 1930, with a particular focus on his travel writing on the Etruscan civilization and his essays on Cézanne. Chapter 2 examines …
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Wagner's Meistersinger and the tradition of comic opera
… of this marks a unique departure from the other works composed at this stage of his career and evinces his debt to the traditions of comic opera. The vocality of his protagonists owe much to the traditions of comic opera and the music is far more diatonic than in his other late works. Conventions …
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The language of dissent : the defense of eighteenth-century English dissent in the works and sermons of James Peirce.
… to the sullying emendations of human invention. Late in his life, however, Peirce was convinced that this same hermeneutic of history was applicable to Scripture, which he previously considered inviolate. Despite the assertions of friends and antagonists, Peirce did not 'convert', but rather he …
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