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A Performer's Analysis of Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Wedding Night
No full textDominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Wedding Night is the least explored of his artistic output. A monodrama in one act for soprano, Miss Havisham's Wedding Night contains some of Argento's most beautiful and challenging music of his compositional output. The purpose of a detailed analysis of the structure and content of Argento's Miss Havisham's Wedding Night is to facilitate the solo vocal performer's interpretation. Argento's setting of Miss Havisham's Wedding Night is unique in that he musically translates the manic psychological state of the literary character. Argento structured the one act opera in such a manner that the music would illuminate the text and the audience might connect with the unstable psychological episodes and outbursts demonstrated by Miss Havisham. To that end, each section and phrase has its own psychological motivation, which in turn demands a varied musical and dramatic interpretation. Utilizing selected scenes from Miss Havisham's Wedding Night, the researcher will analyze Argento's musical manifestation of Dickens's literary work. This research will include an investigation into the manner in which Argento uses the shape of melody and the musical phrase along with the harmonic materials to enhance the text and dramatic content. The author will explore the musical nuances Argento incorporates in an effort to develop and portray Miss Havisham's psychological state. Through an analysis of the orchestral writing the author will show how Argento's aesthetic balance between the music and text represents the emotional and psychological implications of the monodrama
Dominick LaCapra's Postsecular Reflection: A Critical Reading
No full textThis article analyses the first traces of postsecular turn in historical theory, arguing that they first emerged in Dominick LaCapra’s book History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence (2009) and in Allan Megill’s subsequent polemic with that work. The author claims that what prevails in LaCapra’s narrative is the rhetoric of “resisting apocalypse”, thus demonstrating how he inscribes postsecular themes with the issue of trauma, together with its religious connotations. The discussion between LaCapra and Megill is treated here as a point of departure for considering the forms that the postsecular can take in historical theory
Linda Shaw, Doctor of Musical Arts recital, voice, November 21, 1977
No full textWeichet nur, betrübte Schatten (Bach, J. S.); Und dieses ist das Glücke (Bach, J. S.); Sich üben im Lieben, in Scherzen sich herzen (Bach, J. S.); Während des Regens (Brahms, Johannes); Es steht ein Lind (Brahms, Johannes); Das Mädchen (Brahms, Johannes); Schwesterlein (Brahms, Johannes); Och Moder, ich well en Ding han (Brahms, Johannes); C'est l'extase (Debussy, Claude); Green (Debussy, Claude); Il pleure dans mon coeur (Debussy, Claude); Spleen (Debussy, Claude); To Be Sung Upon the Water (Argento, Dominick). Instrumentation: oboe; clarinet; bass clarinet; piano; sopran
Divergent Voices: Contemporary American Songs; Reel 1
No full textSix Elizabethan Songs (Argento, Dominick); Eleven Songs (Rochberg, George); Women's Voices (Rorem, Ned); Brigid's Songs (Diamond, David); Unquiet Heart (Persichetti, Vincent); Nuvoletta (Barber, Samuel). Instrumentation: piano; sopran
Liaisons et déliaisons
No full textThe phenomenon of 'transfer cannot be cut down to the analytical treatment. This text studies the possible exchanges between history and psychoanalysis within the frame of a non-linear perception of temporal processes. The author wishes to set the links between the two domains within the realm of connections and disconnections, included into the social and cultural activities analyzed here within the context of the modern era.Le phénomène du transfert n'est pas réductible à la cure analytique. L'article étudie les échanges possibles entre histoire et psychanalyse dans le cadre d'une conception non-linéaire des processus temporels. Son auteur préconise de situer les rapports entre les deux disciplines sur le registre des liaisons et des déliaisons immanentes aux manifestations socio-culturelles analysées ici en prenant l'exemple de ce qu'elles furent à l'époque moderne.LaCapra Dominick. Liaisons et déliaisons. In: Espaces Temps, 80-81, 2002. Michel de Certeau, histoire/psychanalyse. Mises à l'épreuve, sous la direction de Christian Delacroix, François Dosse et Patrick Garcia. pp. 38-54
A cross-sectional study of patterns of airway dysfunction, symptoms and morbidity in primary care asthma
No full textBackground: Most patients with asthma are managed exclusively in primary care. Little is known about the patterns of airway dysfunction in these patients and how these relate to other aspects of the disease.Aims: We set out to assess this in a cross-sectional study of 262 patients.Methods: Symptoms, spirometry, airway responsiveness, reversibility, and airway inflammation were all assessed. Exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroids in the preceding year were enumerated.Results: Patients had heterogeneous patterns of airway dysfunction. Those with a post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 sec/forced vital capacity ratio of <0.7 had more exacerbations in the previous year (2.2 vs. 0.8; mean difference 1.4; 95% CI 0.4 to 2.4;p=0.007). Patients with normal results had less inflammation (proportion with a sputum eosinophil count of >1.9%, 20% vs. 48%,?2=14.8, df=3; p<0.001) and fewer exacerbations (0.5 vs. 1.4; mean difference –0.9; 95% CI –1.4 to –0.4; p=0.001) but similar symptom scores (6.2 vs. 6.9; p=0.2) compared with patients with any abnormality.Conclusions: Patients with a diagnosis of asthma have mixed patterns of physiological impairment; many have no airflow obstruction or airway hyper-responsiveness. The physiological characterisation of asthma is not related to symptoms and is of little value in predicting exacerbations or eosinophilic airway inflammation
An Analytical Overview of Dominick Argento's Evensong: Of Love and Angels
No full textabstract: Many of the works of Dominick Argento have been researched and analyzed, but his choral work Evensong: Of Love and Angels s has received limited attention thus far. Written in memoriam for his wife Carolyn Bailey Argento, Evensong draws its musical material from her initials C.B.A. These letters, translated into note names, form a conspicuous head motive that is present in each movement of the work, and it serves multiple functions: as a melodic feature, as the foundation for a twelve-tone row, and as a harmonic base. This paper provides an overview of the work's conception with specific relation to Argento's biographical details, compositional style, and work habits; a brief review of the critical reception of the work; and a succinct analysis of the form and cyclical materials found in each movement.Dissertation/ThesisD.M.A. Music 201
Non-invasive markers of airway inflammation in the clinical assessment and management of asthma
No full textAsthma is a condition characterised by airway inflammation, variable airflow obstruction and bronchial hyperresponsiveness. Traditionally asthma is assessed by measurements of symptoms and airway function. Recently there has been interest in assessing airway inflammation using non-invasive tests as it has been shown that controlling eosinophilic airway inflammation, as measured in induced sputum in a population of patients with moderate to severe asthma, can lead to a reduction in asthma exacerbations, when compared to current guidelines. Most patients have mild to moderate asthma and are treated solely in primary care, in a setting not suitable for induced sputum measurements; there exists a need for an easy, safe and inexpensive mecha~ism for monitoring airway inflammation. Previous work has demonstrated that the fraction of nitric oxide in the exhaled breath (FENO) is elevated in asthma and that levels decrease after steroid use. These papers led to an explosion of interest in using FENO as a marker for eosinophilic airway inflammation in asthma. However, few studies have evaluated FENO in a clinical setting and compared its use to management protocols. This thesis explores the relationship between airway inflammation and asthma, and focuses on induced sputum and FENO. I explore the relationship between sputum eosinophil counts and FENO in an observational study, and use these findings to calculate levels for FENO which best identify the presence and absence of a sputum eosinophilia. These levels are then used in a randomised clinical trial, assessing whether FENO measurements can help predict and prevent asthma exacerbations when compared to current clinical guidelines. Lastly, a large cross sectional study explores the relationship between pre- and postbronchodilator FEV1 and measures of airway inflammation, allowing for the effect of confounding fadors, using a multivariate analysis.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
University Chorale, February 3, 1992
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, February 3, 1992, the 267th concert of the School of Music’s 1991-1992 season.University Chorale ; Craig S. Arnold, conductor ; brass ensemble (in the 3rd work): Michael Molloy, Stacey Leva, trumpets ; Andy Schwallier, Brian Campbell, horns ; Christian Parker, David Garry, trombones ; various additional instrumentalists and vocal soloists.Sacred and secular vocal music for mixed chorus (SSAATTBarB) with piano and instrumental ensemble, or unaccompanied.Information from performance program.Exultate Deo / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Ave verum corpus / William Byrd -- Jubilate Deo / Giovanni Gabrieli ; instrumental arrangement by Christian Parker -- ""Gloria"" from the opera, The masque of angels / Dominick Argento -- Serenade to music / Ralph Vaughan Williams ; text: William Shakespeare from The merchant of Venice (Greg Jasperse, piano ; vocal soloists: Holly Shaw, Kathy Seppamaki, Andy Schwallier, David Bright, Christopher Card, Lynne Rothrock, Margaret Lanning, Michael Wheaton, Brian Clissold, Alan Whaley, Adam Wurst, Michael Fallon, Joan Bricker, Carrie Taghon, Regina Hartwig, Sandra Haman, Amy Statz) -- ""Gloria"" from Mass in G minor / Ralph Vaughan Williams (vocal soloists: Andy Schwallier, Michael Wheaton, Regina Hartwig, David Bright, Carrie Taghon) -- In the beginning / Aaron Copland -- Laura Lee ; Oh! Susanna ; Gentle Annie / Stephen Foster (Greg Jasperse, piano ; vocal soloists, Christopher Card, Michael Wheaton) -- Let me fly / Spiritual ; arranged by Robert DeCormier (vocal soloist: Sandra Haman ; Michael Molloy, tambourine)
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