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Alan Bold: An Enduring Friendship, Trevor Royle Jan 2007

Alan Bold: An Enduring Friendship, Trevor Royle

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


"Hab Nab At A Venture": Scott On The Creative Process, David Hewitt Jan 2007

"Hab Nab At A Venture": Scott On The Creative Process, David Hewitt

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Reconsidering Dunbar's Sir Thomas Norny And Chaucer's Tale Of Sir Thopas, Deanna Delmar Evans Jan 2007

Reconsidering Dunbar's Sir Thomas Norny And Chaucer's Tale Of Sir Thopas, Deanna Delmar Evans

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


"Tongues Turn'd Inside Out": The Reception Of "Tam O'Shanter", Gerard Carruthers Jan 2007

"Tongues Turn'd Inside Out": The Reception Of "Tam O'Shanter", Gerard Carruthers

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


"That Cursed Tax Of Postage": Robert Burns And The Postal Service, James Mackay Jan 2007

"That Cursed Tax Of Postage": Robert Burns And The Postal Service, James Mackay

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


"Tell It Slant": Duncan Glen And Akros, Tom Hubbard Jan 2007

"Tell It Slant": Duncan Glen And Akros, Tom Hubbard

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Sorley Maclean's "An Cuilithionn": A Critical Assessment, Chrtistopher Whyte Jan 2007

Sorley Maclean's "An Cuilithionn": A Critical Assessment, Chrtistopher Whyte

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Robert Burns, John Moore, And The Limits Of Writing Letters, Henry L. Fulton Jan 2007

Robert Burns, John Moore, And The Limits Of Writing Letters, Henry L. Fulton

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


The New String Quartet : The Evolution Of The Hyperquartet, Rachael Dease Jan 2007

The New String Quartet : The Evolution Of The Hyperquartet, Rachael Dease

Theses : Honours

This article explores the phenomenon of the rejuvenation of the string quartet in contemporary musical culture through the use of electronics. I will discuss how recent works; including my own works Spiral (1999) and Seven Ballads til Dawn (2007) have adopted some features of popular music and new technology, while still maintaining the integrity and flavour of their classical heritage. I will use several different examples to show the ways in which a quartet can become a "hyperquartet" through the use of amplification, effects processors and playback.


Electronic Music Compositional Techniques In Instrumental Music: A Study Of Effect In Helmut Lachenmann's 'Pression', Lisa James Jan 2007

Electronic Music Compositional Techniques In Instrumental Music: A Study Of Effect In Helmut Lachenmann's 'Pression', Lisa James

Theses : Honours

The ability of new technologies of the early twentieth century to record, copy and manipulate music has permanently changed many of the basic conceptions of musical structure that have held true for centuries. With the development of musique concrete in France (1948) and elektronische musik in Germany (1951), traditional compositional elements of classical music such as melody, harmony and rhythm, which had survived even the drastic revolutions of the serial composers, began to take a secondary role to new structural and developmental techniques. Although there have been many technological and musical advances in the field of electronic music since these …


Terrorism, Millenarianism, And Death: A Study Of Hezbollah And Aum Shinrikyo, Steven Nicholls Jan 2007

Terrorism, Millenarianism, And Death: A Study Of Hezbollah And Aum Shinrikyo, Steven Nicholls

Theses : Honours

The relationship ·between death and the millennium is not an area of scholarship that has received adequate attention. Millenarian groups desire the creation of a paradise in the temporal world. The world is seen as corrupt and evil without hope of reform. This viewpoint leads millenarians to conclude that the temporal world must be completely destroyed and created a new, eliminating the corrupt and providing a utopia where the faithful can exist in peace. Hezbollah and Aum Shinrikyo are two terrorist groups which share this worldview, and believe that they can hasten the millennium by eliminating their enemies. This thesis …


M/Others : One Lens, Multiple Maternities, Toni Wilkinson Jan 2007

M/Others : One Lens, Multiple Maternities, Toni Wilkinson

Theses : Honours

This body of photographic portraits re/presents the maternal relationship as a significant one in a cultural economy than 'downgrades motherhood', and fails to adequately recognise the contribution of mothers to society, as they struggle to uphold self and family in contemporary life. Throughout this work, which fuses religious visual art principles and photographic documentary, a more complex, powerful maternal figure emerges than the singular, passive and restrictive example of motherhood, commonly portrayed in art history. I undertake a comparative analysis between traditional Madonna and child icons and contemporary female photographers involved with maternal themes, to highlight that certain photographs facilitate …


In The Game : An Exploration Of The Concept Of Immersion In Video-Games And Its Usage In Game Design, Cesar Manuel Saez Ojeda Jan 2007

In The Game : An Exploration Of The Concept Of Immersion In Video-Games And Its Usage In Game Design, Cesar Manuel Saez Ojeda

Theses : Honours

This thesis outlines a research project whose aim was to develop a design taxonomy for the creation of immersion in video-games. These guidelines can then be used in-sync with different stages in video-game design and development to ensure an immersive experience. Integral to this is the 'suspension of disbelief' the end user experiences when fully immersed in a video-game (Holland, 2002; Mediacollage.com, 2006). A review of the literature has identified the major contributing theory to the concept of immersion as flow (Csikszentmihalyi, 1991). Flow embodies cognitive elements of involvement such as concentration on a task, completing a challenge, having control …


Rehearsal And Performance Practices Of Minimalist Music, Specifically Related To Music For Eighteen Musicians By Steve Reich, Callum Moncrieff Jan 2007

Rehearsal And Performance Practices Of Minimalist Music, Specifically Related To Music For Eighteen Musicians By Steve Reich, Callum Moncrieff

Theses : Honours

This dissertation serves to give an exposition of the origins, rehearsal and performance practices for minimalist music with particular attention paid to Music for Eighteen Musicians by Steve Reich. It contains interviews with performers of this work and attempts to define the underlying principles of minimalist music with particular reference to concentration and tempo. Rehearsal procedures are discussed as well as issues such as stamina and acoustics. The final section is dedicated to common mistakes and a reflection on the work from those who have performed it.


God's Lonely Men : Bernard Herrmann's Musical Voice For The Lonely And Tortured Men Of Cinema, Clare Nina Norelli Jan 2007

God's Lonely Men : Bernard Herrmann's Musical Voice For The Lonely And Tortured Men Of Cinema, Clare Nina Norelli

Theses : Honours

Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) has long been regarded as one of the most important composers of film music. Emerging during a time when the majority of film scores worked primarily with the physical action onscreen or what was immediately obvious in the dramatic narrative, Herrmann's innovative compositional style instead focused on the unconscious and the psychological states at work. The following thesis is a discussion of the key elements of Herrmann's unique film score style and, via case studies of the three lonely male protagonists in the films Citizen Kane (Welles, USA, 1941), Vertigo (Hitchcock, USA, 1958) and Taxi Driver (Scorsese, …


Nebraska Summary: S664 Case-Ih Maxxum 155 Value, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab Jan 2007

Nebraska Summary: S664 Case-Ih Maxxum 155 Value, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …


Nebraska Summary: S693 Agco Rt110 A, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab Jan 2007

Nebraska Summary: S693 Agco Rt110 A, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …


Dead Roses And Blooming Deserts: The Medical History Of A New Deal Icon, Michelle F. Turk Jan 2007

Dead Roses And Blooming Deserts: The Medical History Of A New Deal Icon, Michelle F. Turk

Psi Sigma Siren

Although a memorial plaque at the Hoover Dam sets the number of workers killed during its construction at ninety-six, the real figure was nearly double. In fact, the figure would have been much higher had it not been for the precedent-setting effort by the federal government, contactors, and workers to save as many lives as possible on the project. Aside from its long unrecognized value as a jobs program, much needed stimulus to the fledging Las Vegas economy, and status as one of the “man-made wonders of the world,” Hoover Dam represented a major step forward for the American occupational …


Roots Of Modern Arabic Script: From Musnad To Jazm, Saad D. Abulhab Jan 2007

Roots Of Modern Arabic Script: From Musnad To Jazm, Saad D. Abulhab

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Concert Recording 2007-01-18, Benjamin Pierce, Benjamin Pierce, Lyndon Meyer Jan 2007

Concert Recording 2007-01-18, Benjamin Pierce, Benjamin Pierce, Lyndon Meyer

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concert piece / Joseph Turrin -- By gaslight /Tadeusz Kassatti -- Two insects. Dance of the dragonfly ; Moth in love / Torstein Aagaard-Nilson -- Cyberspace / Peter Graham -- Three Lyric Pieces / Arthur Butterworth -- Fnugg / Øystein Baadsvik -- Concert Variations / Jan Bach


Concert Recording 2007-04-03, Rossitza Jekova-Goza, Nicholas Dieugenio Jan 2007

Concert Recording 2007-04-03, Rossitza Jekova-Goza, Nicholas Dieugenio

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata for violin solo, op. 115 (1947) / Sergei Prokofiev -- Partita no. 1 in b minor for solo violin, BWV 1002 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Recitativo and scherzo, op. 6 / Fritz Kriesler -- Selections from 44 duets for two violins / Bela Bartok -- Sonata for two violins , op. 56 / Sergei Prokofiev


Concert Recording 2007-03-29a, Maja Sevo, S. Michael Shuman Jan 2007

Concert Recording 2007-03-29a, Maja Sevo, S. Michael Shuman

Concert Recordings & Programs

Samson. Let the bright seraphim / George Friedrich Handel -- La buona figliuola. Furie di donna irata / Niccolo Piccinni -- Il mistero ; Ad una stella ; Brindisi / Guiseppe Verdi -- Verschwiegene Liebe / Hugo Wolf -- Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten ; Ich trage meine Minne ; Cacilie / Richard Strauss -- Die Tote Stadt. Gluck, das mir verblieb / Erich Wolfgang Kornhold -- Seguidille / Manuel de Falla -- Le colibri / Ernest Chausson -- Chansons du clair tamis / Francis Poulenc -- Harmonie du soir / Claude Debussy -- El pano moruno ; Seguidilla …


A Multiple Belonging: New Representations Of National Identity In Contemporary International And Irish Art Practice, Ciara Healy Jan 2007

A Multiple Belonging: New Representations Of National Identity In Contemporary International And Irish Art Practice, Ciara Healy

Masters

In the late 1980’s, flying somewhere over the ocean on one of my many journeys to visit family in Ireland, I wrote this Haiku. Some years later, I re-read it while sitting in my studio surrounded by scraps of old travel tickets, letters and other ephemera. Looking at the poem once again, I began to wonder about home and to which, if any, I belonged. Late one evening, listening to the voices on BBC Radio 4 crackle over the air waves into my damp Dublin studio, I looked out at the construction sites for the city’s new steel and granite …


From Sonata And Fantasy To Sonata-Fantasy: Charting A Musical Evolution, Mami Hayashida Jan 2007

From Sonata And Fantasy To Sonata-Fantasy: Charting A Musical Evolution, Mami Hayashida

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Part One of this project examines a group of piano pieces that bear the title sonata-fantasy or fantasy-sonata. While much has been written about quasi-sonata fantasies and quasi-fantasies of the Romantic period, the sonata/fantasy hybrid works of the following era have largely been a neglected area in music research. The purpose of this document is to fill this void and provide an introductory study of these works. The introductory chapter includes a list of sonata-fantasies and fantasy-sonatas I have found in U.S. libraries. The next two chapters outline the history of the fantasy as a genre and its relationship to …


Gaurav's Troubles, Geoffrey Kain Jan 2007

Gaurav's Troubles, Geoffrey Kain

Publications

“Gaurav’s troubles began when he was very young, actually before he had learned to walk. While removing a pot of hot oil from the stove, his mother had stumbled, sloshing some of the oil over the edge of the pot and splashing little Gaurav on his lower left leg and foot, and across the back of his left hand and arm…”


Quintet For Two Violins, Viola, Cello And Piano, And String Quartet No. 1 By Lazar Nikolov, Alexandra Dotcheva Jan 2007

Quintet For Two Violins, Viola, Cello And Piano, And String Quartet No. 1 By Lazar Nikolov, Alexandra Dotcheva

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Lazar Nikolov (1922-2005) was a representative of the so-called third generation of Bulgarian composers. Together with his closest friend, composer and conductor Konstantin Iliev, Nikolov founded the postwar avant garde in Bulgaria. He was among the first composers in Eastern Europe to abandon the influence of musical folklore and employ non-tonal techniques. Shortly before graduating from the State Academy of Music in 1946, Nikolov felt that the masters from the previous two generations had already used all the successful means to incorporate neo-Romantic features and Bulgarian folk material into art music. He was perceptive enough to recognize the danger of …


The Formation Of A Style: Selected Early Works By Hugo Wolf, Jure Rozman Jan 2007

The Formation Of A Style: Selected Early Works By Hugo Wolf, Jure Rozman

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Hugo Wolf’s (1860–1903) most pronounced talent was in marrying music and poetry in novel ways, which is clearly demonstrated by his more than 240 art songs. In his early years Wolf composed a series of works for piano solo, published for the first time in 1974 by the Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag in Vienna. This paper explores these and other formative works in detail, focusing on music-theoretical issues, but also placing them in historical context by means of a brief biography which includes recent discoveries regarding Wolf’s Slovene lineage.


Narratives In Music: Schelmo, Hebraic Rhapsody For Cello And Orchestra, Asu Perihan Karadut Jan 2007

Narratives In Music: Schelmo, Hebraic Rhapsody For Cello And Orchestra, Asu Perihan Karadut

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Born in July 1880, in Geneva, Switzerland, Ernest Bloch became one of the leading composers of the 20th century. He wrote series of works, which he called “The Jewish Cycle.” They represented a new, distinctive musical language, in which Bloch combined eastern and western music traits. Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra (1915-16) was the last composition from the cycle. It showed mastery of a style Bloch had been developing since his earlier compositions. This project will show Schelomo’s place in “The Jewish Cycle” and its importance on Bloch’s departure from the popular trends of the early 20th century. …


A Conductor's Theoretical And Performance Analysis Of Nicholas Maw's "American Games" For Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Adam Corey Spurlin Jan 2007

A Conductor's Theoretical And Performance Analysis Of Nicholas Maw's "American Games" For Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Adam Corey Spurlin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this document is to provide information pertaining to the instrumental music of the living British composer Nicholas Maw and a detailed analysis of American Games, his only work for symphonic wind ensemble. The document is divided into four chapters, the first of which contains introductory, biographical, and repertoire information. Chapter Two explores Maw’s primary influences and provides a description of his late instrumental style, including references to three orchestral works completed in the last twenty years (Odyssey, Violin Concerto, and Dance Scenes). The third chapter includes pertinent historical information on American Games paired with a detailed theoretical …


African Art Music For Flute: A Study Of Selected Works By African Composers, Wendy Kristin Hymes Onovwerosuoke Jan 2007

African Art Music For Flute: A Study Of Selected Works By African Composers, Wendy Kristin Hymes Onovwerosuoke

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Recent years have witnessed an increase in the number of Western classical music performers actively programming works employing multi-cultural musical idioms. Though there exist many compositions by African composers, African art music is not often programmed by Western performers because of the lack of exposure these compositions have received, lack of commercially-available recordings, and the difficulties of obtaining information about African musical styles. The information presented in this research aims to aid performers in their preparation and approach to performing African art music compositions, specifically those for the western flute. This research includes biographical information and compositional philosophies of five …