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A comparison of two sets of variations on Chopin’s Prelude op. 28, no. 20 in C minor: Ferruccio Busoni’s Ten Variations on a Theme by Chopin, BV 213a and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin, op. 22
… dissertation explores and compares two sets of variations that use Frédéric Chopin’s Prelude, op. 28, no. 20 as a theme: Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Chopin, op. 22 (1902-1903) and Ferruccio Busoni’s Ten Variations on a Prelude by Chopin, BV 213a (1922). The first primary goal …
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‘Dynamic Structure’ in the Performance of Symphonic Music: An Examination of Wilhelm Furtwängler’s Recordings
… inferred individually by analysts, performers and listeners through the media of scores and performances. Contrary to conventional definitions, it has also been shown that musicians themselves – and conductors in particular – tend to conceptualise large-scale structure dynamically, that …
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Deciphering the Arabesque: Genre Mixture and Formal Digression in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto
… of the arabesque to analyze genre mixture and formal digression in the early Romantic piano concerto. Drawing on both John Daverio’s adaptation of the arabesque for nineteenth-century music (1987;1993) and contemporary theories of musical form (Caplin, 1998; Hepokoski and Darcy, 2006; Vande …
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Variations on a theme by John Herschel
… John Herschel as well as the Theme and Variation form in music in which a single musical theme, often written by a different composer, is followed by a series of developments of this theme through the employment of a range of compositional techniques (Lindsay, n.d.). The body of work …
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A 3D Geometric Morphometric Investigation of Relatedness in the Modern Human, Chimpanzee, and Homo naledi Postcranial Skeleton
<p>Studies of skeletal variation form the basis of our understanding of our species’ history and diversity. This most commonly takes the form of comparative, between- species studies aimed at reconstructing phylogenetic relationships. However, studies of within-species variation can provide …
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Immersed Interface Method for Elasticity Problems with Interfaces
An immersed interface method and an immersed finite element method for solving linear elasticity problems with two phases separated by an interface have been developed in this thesis. For the problem of interest, the underlying elasticity modulus is a constant in each phase but vary from phase to …