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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"middleground"”.
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Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem: dialectic and the chromatic middleground
Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem (1868) has been the focus of much scholarly research. The present study focuses specifically on the work’s dialectic: the presentation and resolution of a conflict between mortal suffering and eternal joy. It takes an Schenkerian approach to the tonal content of the …
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Searching for a middleground in children’s rights: the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Ghana
The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, is the world’s most widely and rapidly ratified international convention. Although it was hoped that the Convention would have an enormously positive impact on all children, this has not …
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Grammatical feature data-oriented parsing
… corpus have shown this model to be a valuable middleground between the two alternative models. GF-DOP has been shown to outperform the Tree-DOP model, as a result of its ability to identify and make use of grammatical features, while maintaining the integrity of the probability model.
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Talent and Technique: George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and John Paul II's Mayday 1984 Address to New York Gay and Lesbian Socialists' League at Cooper Union's Great Hall (Transcribed into Verse from Unauthorized French and Italian Versions of the Official Soviet Translation of the Polish Original by Norman MacAfee) for Tenor Solo, Chorus (SATB), and Eight Players
… treatment of motives in the foreground and middleground, and, in the background, the unfolding of a tritone as the boundary of a tonic that is <em>both</em> B-flat major-minor and a whole-tone collection. Since Gershwin was mostly untrained at the time and the <em>Rhapsody</em> was his first …
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"I've a Voice, I've a Voice": Determining Stephen Sondheim's Compositional Style Through a Music-theoretic Analysis of His Theater Works
… harmonies in most of his musicals. He obtains middleground harmonic cohesion through the use of chromaticism and pedal points. Background cohesion comes by remaining in a single key, despite the monotonal excursions he takes that bring the characters and the music to places perceived as far …
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Liminal identity in contemporary American television science fiction
… alive and dead whilst occupying an indistinct middleground. I examine how the liminal nature of these protagonists has been used as a means of exploring various aspects of personal identity during the early years of the twenty-first century. Developing anthropologist Victor Witter Turner’s …
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The hedonic valuation of South African wine brands
… scores, no brands appear to occupy the middleground. Each zone is located approximately one standard deviation left and right of the grand-sample mean intrinsic score. This functional-to-symbolic typology confirms and extends the literature on brands in general (Bhat and Reddy, 1998), …
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Music Notation-to-Color Synesthesia and Early Stages of Music Education: A Grounded Theory Study
… participants, however, have also mentioned a middleground location that does not fit only one of these categories. Finally, this study analyzed themes relating to the implications of this form of synesthesia for music education, with attention to awareness on the part of educators, …