36 research outputs found
Guest Artist Recital: Julia Larson Mattern, Flute; October 29, 2003
No full textKemp Recital HallWednesday EveningOctober 29, 20038:00 p.m
Twentieth century flute music by women composers : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
No full textTwentieth Century Flute Music by Women Composers is meant to be a small representation of the many musical compositions written by women in the past one hundred years. The outcome of the project is a recital recorded on compact disc along with detailed program notes and a full bibliography. The composers and pieces chosen were selected to provide a variety of contrasting music that has influences from all musical time periods and genres. Although the music is all written for flute, the instrumentation varies from flute alone to flute and harpsichord to a full flute choir. Along with the focus of performing, there is a focus on displaying and discussing women composers and works that are not well known, even to the musically literate. This is done in hopes of exposing others to these composers and influencing other musicians to find and perform more musical selections by these women.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
Title of accompanying sound disc: Senior honors recital
No full textThis project focuses on twentieth-century American flute music by examining the following four works: Poem for Flute and Orchestra (1918) by Charles Griffes, Serenade No. 10 for Flute and Harp, Op. 79 (1957) by Vincent Persichetti, Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 14 (1961) by Robert Muczynski, and Piccolo Sonata (1995, rev. 2000) by Robert Baksa. The project consists of three different parts, or methods of exploration: 1) a senior flute recital of the repertoire above, 2) an analytical paper of twentieth-century American compositional style as demonstrated by this repertoire, and 3) lesson plans for various music classes to teach students about twentieth-century American music. It is my hope that these works will continue to be studied and performed by musicians around the world for years to come.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
An exploration of flute repertoire from Baroque through contemporary music : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
No full textRecitals and CDs are essential parts of a professional flutist's career. Six complete works of various genres have been performed. In addition to having been performed in front of a live audience, a CD has been included for the record. Accompanying the CD is a set of program notes. As most CDs have liner notes that elaborate on the chosen repertoire, additional research was done to enlighten the performer and the listener. Changes to the flute have also been included in regards to performance practice and the instrument itself from early music to the present.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
Flute tone in the Romantic era : a historical perspective on instrument construction and timbre preference in the nineteenth century with special consideration to Boehm's innovations and Albert Franz Doppler's Fantaisie pastorale hongroise, op. 26
No full textThere is no abstract available for this creative project.Thesis (M.M.)School of Musi
Evaluation of systems for measuring employee exposure to ultrasonic sound at Company XYZ
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Autobiographical Theologies: Subjectivity and Religious Language in Spiritual Narratives, Poetry, and Hymnody by African-American Women, 1830-1900.
No full textThis dissertation examines the spiritual writings of four freeborn nineteenth-century African-American women—Zilpha Elaw, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Julia A. J. Foote, and Frances E. W. Harper—establishing connections across genres (autobiography, poetry, and hymnody), time periods (antebellum, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction), and approaches to religious language (prophetic, mystical, devotional, poetic, etc.). Exploring why holiness was attractive to these women, this project examines race and gender as issues that make Protestant Christianity more immediate, urgent, and necessary in their lives and writings.
In order to highlight the function of divinity in these texts and theology-making as self-constitutive, Chapter One (the introduction) proposes the term auto/theo/graphy, or self/God/writing. Instead of attending to the act of narration as self-authorizing, autotheography deemphasizes the individual; the author understands herself in relation to and actualized through God, becoming a spiritual and textual agent by means of the divine. In such works, the self is incorporative, organizing heterogeneous sites of religious belief, avowal, and theology—such as sermons, hymns, poetry, dreams and visions, theological treatises—in a multifaceted conception of theos (God). Putting pressure on accepted critical categories such as spiritual autobiography and the slave narrative, autotheography is a textual process emphasizing the relationship between the divine, the believer/writer, and the believer-to-be (reader).
Each of the following chapters analyzes the author’s use of systematic theology and scriptural interpretation to craft the self in relation to her spiritual and material worlds. Chapter Two argues that, for Foote, the Methodist doctrine of sanctification is a textual metaphoric system that also has the potential to overturn social injustice. Chapter Three explains how Jackson’s unique construction of sanctification led her to a theology of celibacy, away from her family and the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and to embrace the Shaker religion. Chapter Four contends that, as exemplified in Moses: A Story of the Nile, Harper deploys Unitarian theology in first-person and dramatic poems, emphasizing biblical leadership models to inspire holy living. Finally, Chapter Five asserts that Elaw’s use of a Pauline-based theological trope, the “spirit of adoption,” reveals her ecumenical vision of the church for all Christians.PhDEnglish and Women's StudiesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78821/1/jfmcfarl_2.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78821/2/jfmcfarl_1.pd
Rhesus macaques build new social connections after a natural disaster
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No full textWomen's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
