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Showing 1 to 20 of 1401 for “"song"”.
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Gone song
Gone Song is a collection of poems divided into two primary sections. With its major themes of loss and grief, the book explores different means of survival, looking both toward the outside world—landscape, other people, other writers—and toward the self/body and interior consciousness and the …
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The alabados song
The Alabados Song is a work for solo marimba and full orchestra and is approximately thirteen minutes in duration. This dissertation consists of two major sections; the first, a discussion of the musical elements of which the work consists, including the planning and processes involved, and second, …
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Song, Songwriting and the Songwriter in the English Folk Song Revival
This study focuses on Song. I intend to establish the aesthetic criteria by which song can be judged, to analyse the power of song to influence people's perceptions, and to examine and illustrate the compositional process.<br/><br/>I suggest that the context in which song is written and performed …
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Song learning in the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia): ecological and social factors
During song learning, songbirds are exposed to many more songs then they keep for their final song repertoire and little is known about how or why a bird selects the particular songs he sings as an adult. These studies examine the social and ecological factors that influence song learning and …
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The Gospel Song Movement
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1916
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The Nenets Song Tradition
Conclusion draws attention to the survival value of the musical expression among the Nenets whose performance skills and inspirations have continuously contributed to the series of the people's adaptations to the challenges of the ecological and socio-cultural environments.
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The Nenets Song Tradition
The thesis explores the oral, basically, epic song tradition of the Nenets people, one of the northern minorities of the Russian Arctic. It is based on the fieldwork conducted in the springs of 1975 and 1976 in the two Nenets settlements, Nel'min Nos and Indiga, both located in the European part of …
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From Protest Song to Social Song: Music and Politics in Colombia, 1966-2016
… of <em>canción protesta </em>(protest song) in Colombia in the 1960s, and tracks its evolution in subsequent decades. At the turn of the 1970s, songwriters affiliated with a grassroots <em>canción protesta </em>movement in Bogotá used music as a vehicle for disseminating leftist …
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Digital Approaches to Troubadour Song
… Their lyric poems survive in chansonniers (songbooks) which usually contain only the texts. A fraction of the melodies that accompanied these poems were written down; fewer than 350 melodies survive for a lyric corpus of over 2,600 songs which appear over 13,000 times in all extant sources. …
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Braids of Song Gwead y Gân
… America is the starting point for Braids of Song. Its overarching concerns trace the interrelation between immigration, identity and creativity within a Welsh Trans-Atlantic context. Braids of Song is a mixed-genre collection of stories that acknowledges the preciousness of culture; in …
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Paydazed and a Song for Shenandoah
<p>My dissertation consists of poetry and two non-fiction essays written during my enrollment in the Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts program at the University of New Mexico. The manuscript begins with an essay detailing the moment in my life when I started to write again, after a writer\u201fs …
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Ambiguity in the Song of Songs
… thesis will explore the ambiguous nature of the Song of Songs, as it manifests itself in the narrative, the structure, the imagery, and the language of the Song. It will also propose the new interpretative possibilites that this ambiguity leads to, when it is approached asking the question "What …
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Song patterns: elementary book for violin
… objective. With the exception of "America" every song used is a folksong, The songs used are all very melodic, a majority of them familiar and all of a type within a young pupils range of appeal and interest. They have been placed in the text, and in a few instances altered for use with a …
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The Song Cycles of Louis Aubert
Six Poemes Arabes is Louis Aubert's largest and most orchestral work for voice and piano. The poetry, taken from Franz Toussaint's Jardin des caresses is highly evocative, and frequently borders on the erotic. A young man has a dream that he is seeking his beloved, and throughout the cycle is …
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Tennyson and the Revision of Song
… from a ‘nucleus’, ‘a brief melodious phrase’ or ‘song’, which, if not transcribed immediately, ‘fled from him irrecoverably’. It has long been the case with poets of ‘lyrics’ and ‘songs’ that their skills have been depicted as improvisatory, fleeting, or inspired. Their skills have been …
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Holocaust Song Literature: Expressing the Human Experiences and Emotions of the Holocaust through Song Literature, Focusing on Song Literature of Hirsh Glick, Mordechai Gebirtig, and Simon Sargon
During the years of the Holocaust, song literature was needed to fulfill the unique needs of people caught in an unimaginable nightmare. The twelve years between 1933 and 1945 were filled with a brutal display of man's inhumanity to man. Despite the horrific conditions or perhaps because of them, …
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Beyond the "Year of Song": Text and Music in the Song Cycles of Robert Schumann after 1848
… contributions, specifically to the genre of the song cycle from 1849 to 1852, are among his late compositional works that still await full reconsideration. A topical study, focusing on three themes of selections from his twenty-three late cycles, will provide a critical evaluation of Schumann's …
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