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Thelonious Monk's Prototypical Style: Close And Distant Readings Of Jazz Stylings, Connor Davis Jul 2019

Thelonious Monk's Prototypical Style: Close And Distant Readings Of Jazz Stylings, Connor Davis

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Thelonious Monk’s style has been considered non-conformist, modernist, technically stilted, intentionally unconventional, even incompetent. His performing is idiosyncratic, to say the least. However, by what metric is his performing idiosyncratic, or, framed another way, in what ways do Thelonious Monk’s performances deviate from the prototypical performance? Situated within family resemblance theories of prototypicality, I utilize supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches to categorize jazz solos based on their melodic usage of standard jazz language (novel corpus of 530 jazz solo improvisations). Using these distant readings to determine which solos are prototypical, I perform a close reading of these prototypical solos …


Stability Turned Into Motion Erasmus Darwin's Recourse To Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sonja Fielitz Jan 2016

Stability Turned Into Motion Erasmus Darwin's Recourse To Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sonja Fielitz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Turning Round Or Standing Still Movement And Stasis In Defoe, Pope, And Sterne, Allan Ingram, Hélène Dachez Jan 2016

Turning Round Or Standing Still Movement And Stasis In Defoe, Pope, And Sterne, Allan Ingram, Hélène Dachez

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Arabian Nights And The Oriental Tale Sustainable Enlightenment Texts, Malcolm Jack Jan 2015

The Arabian Nights And The Oriental Tale Sustainable Enlightenment Texts, Malcolm Jack

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Three Bibliopoles, J. T. Scanlan Jan 2015

Three Bibliopoles, J. T. Scanlan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Empirical Testing And Novelistic Becoming Joseph Glanvill's Evidence Concerning Witches And Their Familiars, Dawn Morgan Jan 2014

Empirical Testing And Novelistic Becoming Joseph Glanvill's Evidence Concerning Witches And Their Familiars, Dawn Morgan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Philipp Otto Runge And The Semiotic Language Of Nature And Patriotism, Sharon Worley Jan 2012

Philipp Otto Runge And The Semiotic Language Of Nature And Patriotism, Sharon Worley

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"The Story Told Well": Thought, Feeling, And Speech In Jane Austen's Proposal Scenes, Francesca Saggini Jan 2012

"The Story Told Well": Thought, Feeling, And Speech In Jane Austen's Proposal Scenes, Francesca Saggini

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"An Answer From Horace" Ambiguity And Paradox In Pope's Imitation Of Satire 2.1, Laura Thomason Wood Jan 2011

"An Answer From Horace" Ambiguity And Paradox In Pope's Imitation Of Satire 2.1, Laura Thomason Wood

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Attended By A Whole Nation" The Americas In The Female American, Julia Kark Callander Jan 2011

"Attended By A Whole Nation" The Americas In The Female American, Julia Kark Callander

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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On The Road With Digital Humanities, David Hill Radcliffe Jan 2011

On The Road With Digital Humanities, David Hill Radcliffe

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Patriotism And Its Discontents The Poetry Of Sir John Malcolm, Brijraj Singh Jan 2011

Patriotism And Its Discontents The Poetry Of Sir John Malcolm, Brijraj Singh

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Le France De Pompignan Discovers Muscularity, Theodore E.D. Braun Jan 2010

Le France De Pompignan Discovers Muscularity, Theodore E.D. Braun

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Olaudah Equiano African Or American?, Brycchan Carey Jan 2010

Olaudah Equiano African Or American?, Brycchan Carey

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Olaudah Equiano, Autobiography, And Ideas Of Culture, Sarah Brophy Jan 2010

Olaudah Equiano, Autobiography, And Ideas Of Culture, Sarah Brophy

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Catalyst For Change Chinese Sharawadgi And English Horticultural Naturalism, Yu Liu Jan 2009

The Catalyst For Change Chinese Sharawadgi And English Horticultural Naturalism, Yu Liu

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"The Filigree Game" Imitation And Mock-Form In Pope's Pastorals, Roger D. Lund Jan 2009

"The Filigree Game" Imitation And Mock-Form In Pope's Pastorals, Roger D. Lund

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Burke's Reflections On The Revolution In France Cross-Channel Representations, Norbert Col Jan 2009

Burke's Reflections On The Revolution In France Cross-Channel Representations, Norbert Col

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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A Voyage Of Un-Discovery Deciphering Horace Walpole's Hieroglyphic Tales, Laura Baudot Jan 2009

A Voyage Of Un-Discovery Deciphering Horace Walpole's Hieroglyphic Tales, Laura Baudot

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Book Reviews Jan 2009

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Unnatural Conjugation In Tristram Shandy, Book Vii, Arnd Bohm Jan 2008

Unnatural Conjugation In Tristram Shandy, Book Vii, Arnd Bohm

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Almost Impossible In Praise" Dedicatory Criticism In English Dramatic Texts Of The Seventeenth Century, David Roberts Jan 2008

"Almost Impossible In Praise" Dedicatory Criticism In English Dramatic Texts Of The Seventeenth Century, David Roberts

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Joseph Warton's Enthusiasms, Adam Rounce Jan 2008

Joseph Warton's Enthusiasms, Adam Rounce

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Spirituality Of Trees In Later Seventeenth-Century Horticulture, Sandra Sherman Jan 2007

The Spirituality Of Trees In Later Seventeenth-Century Horticulture, Sandra Sherman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Montesquieu's Persian Chain Letters A New Solution To The Riddle, Randolph Runyon Jan 2007

Montesquieu's Persian Chain Letters A New Solution To The Riddle, Randolph Runyon

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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A Celebration, J. T. Scanlan Jan 2006

A Celebration, J. T. Scanlan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Thinking Outside The Box The Non-English Speaking World In The First Decade Of 1650-1850, Theodore E. D. Braun Jan 2006

Thinking Outside The Box The Non-English Speaking World In The First Decade Of 1650-1850, Theodore E. D. Braun

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Audience And The Layered Art Of Method In John Bunyan's The Life And Death Of Mr. Badman And The Pilgrim's Progress, H. C. Maddux Jan 2006

Audience And The Layered Art Of Method In John Bunyan's The Life And Death Of Mr. Badman And The Pilgrim's Progress, H. C. Maddux

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Of That Rank That Is Meanest And Most Despised Of All" Victorian Romany Studies And The Recovery Of John Bunyan's "Gypsy' Origins, Mary Burke Jan 2006

"Of That Rank That Is Meanest And Most Despised Of All" Victorian Romany Studies And The Recovery Of John Bunyan's "Gypsy' Origins, Mary Burke

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Anne Bracegirlde's Breaches, Diana Solomon Jan 2005

Anne Bracegirlde's Breaches, Diana Solomon

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.