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Jonathan Harvey's string quartets
… and spiritual background through his four string quartets—No. 1 (1977), No. 2 (1988), No. 3 (1995), and No. 4 (2003). The paper surveys Harvey’s eclectic background in religion and musical education, and several trends with which he is associated—serialism, spectralism, electronic music, and …
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The string quartets of Bela Bartok : an analysis
<p>What is generally referred to by the public-at-large as “modernism” is thought (by it) to be based upon the denial and contradiction of the fundamental principles of musical art. But it would be a grave error to assume from this that the present age differs in the attitude toward modernism very …
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Stylistic characteristics of Gabriel Fauré's piano quartets and piano quintets
Gabriel Fauré has been neglected as composer in terms of international recognition. It is indeed true that the art of his music is not revealed at first sight: one must take time to discover the beauty and authentic meaning concealed in the depths thereof. While it is relatively true that musicians …
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Accent and Grouping Structures in the String Quartets of Béla Bartók
… vitality and inventiveness, and his string quartets offer a glimpse into a consistency of technique evident throughout his compositional career. Bartók's rhythmic environments are primarily metrical, but many of his rhythmic configurations are placed in such a way as to potentially override …
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An Annotated Bibliography of Original Trombone Quartets Published Between 1992 and 2002
A comprehensive examination of trombone quartet literature has not been done since 1992. During the past ten years, many pieces of significant value have been composed, but not studied or recorded. This document is an in-depth examination of all original compositions for trombone quartet that were …
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The Problem of Bowing in The Joachim-Moser Edition of Beethoven's String Quartets
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String Quartets by Revueltas: In Search of a Critical Edition in "Musica de Feria"
… Música de Feria, along with the other quartets, remains largely unknown outside of the reduced, but enthusiastic, circle of Revueltas followers around the world, with the expected exception of his home country Mexico and some Latin American countries. In order to help us understand this …
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THE MORAL ARGUMENT OF T. S. ELIOT'S "FOUR QUARTETS" (BRADLEY, ETHICS, NEO-HEGELIANISM, ROYCE).
… Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," culminating in Four Quartets, and finding a new mode of expression in the dramas. By tracing Eliot's moral thought to the nineteenth century anti-utilitarian moral controversies out of which Bradley's Ethical Studies grew, this study clarifies Eliot's position in the …
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'A New Type of Part Writing': Notation and Performance in Beethoven's Late String Quartets
Beethoven’s late string quartets are among his most extraordinary and elusive works. A source of fascination to performers, audiences and scholars alike for nearly two centuries, they are defined by an aesthetic of ‘difficulty’. This thesis argues that one crucial source of difficulty lies in …
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Agricultural approaches to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets.
… views in Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets. Drawing on Jeremy Diaper's book T. S. Eliot and Organicism, I explore how Eliot performs and communicates his agrarian politics through these works and how his agrarianism intersects with a Christian understanding of time, martyrdom, and …
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The Affirmation of Life in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
… "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, defining the term affirmation by the expansive embrace of suffering demonstrated by Alyosha Karamazov in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I maintain that, similar to Alyosha, Stevens affirms life by acknowledging the …
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Toward the still point : T. S. Eliot's Four quartets and Thoreau's Walden
… wrote his most autobiographical poetic work Four Quartets, might have been influenced by Thoreau’s famously autobiographical prose work Walden, written nearly a century earlier. Much evidence suggests that Eliot knew of the earlier writer and his work. Not only did Eliot assign Walden as suggested …
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"The Pattern is Movement": Images of Timelessness and Patterns of Response in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is full of beautiful and resounding imagery, yet the art of unfolding these images, discovering the movement and drama taking place in and between them, often remains elusive. In this thesis, I approach this problem by offering a detailed reading of Eliot's four poems, …
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Words without End: The Development of T. S. Eliot's Poetics from "The Waste Land" to "Four Quartets"
… voice of the Thunder. By contrast, <italic>Four Quartets</italic> not only admits but actively perpetrates linguistic slippage and non-reference. It thereby progresses by way of a poetics of renunciation that resists competing modes of knowledge, including rationality, experience, and the …
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The history and development of Western chamber music—specifically string quartets—in Japan from 1989 to 2014
… of a chamber music movement, identifying string quartets from the early 1900s to 1989; and (2) presents the findings of detailed research into seven string quartets from 1989 to 2014, highlighting one string quartet, the Quartet Excelsior. (This research involves study of their performance …
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Through the Prism of the Wellspring: From National, to Societal, to Individual in Marin Goleminov's String Quartets
This thesis examines three works for string quartet by Bulgarian composer Marin Goleminov written between 1943 and1968, a pivotal period in his creative process that bore witness to the crystallization of his unique artistic voice and compositional style. During this time, he confronted the …
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T.S. Eliot's Paradiso
<p>The Four Quartets of Mr. Eliot have been the subject of many critical studies since their publication in 1943. Among other aspects of them which have been analyzed is their relationship to the Divine Comedy of Dante. In particular the influence of the Inferno and Purgatorio has been pointed out …
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T. S. Eliot's aesthetics of immediacy: Language and perception in Knowledge and Experience, The Waste Land and Four Quartets
… and those of the unifying function found in Four Quartets. Chapter 6 reads Four Quartets as a quintessential poetic performance of the Eliotic aesthetic unity. This poem plays out the perceptual-and-signifying process of interpretative activity in which the world appears as a meaningful totality, …
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