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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"zodiac"”.
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Musica universalis : an original composition for chamber ensemble
… and myths associated with stars found in zodiac signs. Each movement of the work is named after a different star, and has a personality reflective of the unique traits associated with its zodiac sign. At the same time, it uses similar musical material throughout the four movements to …
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Dinner For One
… journeys of discovery and distance. The Chinese zodiac stamps used as navigational elements in Dinner for One and the prose poems written as postcards to oneself an others reinforce the notion of travel. The fortunes from Chinese cookies give prophecies and horoscopes, reminding us of our fate, …
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The Unthinkable Botanical Gardens: Poems
… The second and fourth sections are long poems: "Zodiac B," a sequence inspired by obsolete or forgotten constellations, and "Elbow Island," which tells the story of the beluga whales exhibited in Barnum's American Museum.
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Number symbolism in music : the harmony of the spheres and George Crumb's Makrokosmos, Volume I
… Volume I (Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the 'Zodiac for Amplified Piano) is the first in a cycle of four compositions inspired by the stars. Astrological and spiritual numbers-three, four, twelve, seven and five appear to have determined the structural parameters of the pieces.
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Indians on the Line: Everyday Histories of Race, Class and Empire in the Telegraph Service, 1920-1950
… of telegraph company magazines including The Zodiac and Cooper's Hill Magazine. A close study of which isolates architecture, space, language, and memory as powerful functions of omnipresent imperial power whose effects persisted long after independence in 1947.The findings establish several …
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An investigation into the astrological symbols present in two decorative paintings of José de Almada Negreiros (1893 – 1970).
… surrounded by the four elements and the twelve zodiac signs, while the second, the Hours’ Cycle, represents the stages of producing a newspaper in twenty-four hours of a day. Almada is a widely studied artist but these two paintings are less explored and deserve a fuller investigation, …
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A mother of light in the age of Enlightenment: Heterodoxy, interiority, and epistemology in eighteenth-century New Spain
… and those arising locally. Into this Marian Zodiac of New Spain, Madre Santísima de la Luz entered in the early 18th century, and her devotion swiftly proliferated. The cult and image of this Most Holy Mother serve as an excellent case study to examine certain contentions in the age of …
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Designing for the Waterfront - An Estuarine Research Reserve on Jones Point
Due to our love of the waterfront, almost half of the United States population now lives in coastal areas, including shores of estuaries. Unfortunately, this increasing concentration of people upsets the balance of ecosystems. My thesis project, Designing for the Waterfront - An Estuarine Research …
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Algorithmic thinking in Babylonian planetary theory
This paper investigates the parallels between modern algorithmic paradigms and ancient computational methods in Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy (BMA). Through analysis of procedure texts and planetary tables, it demonstrates that Babylonian astronomers employed systematic techniques resembling …