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    Zack Browning and the compositional process in blockhouse, double shot, and sole injection

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    This is the first study to focus exclusively on three compositions that include the violin by American composer, Zack Browning. The three compositions examined in this study are Blockhouse (2006), Double Shot (2000) and Sole Injection (1996). Browning has been continued an important figure in the development of contemporary music. The objective of this study is to familiarize performers and audiences with the three compositions by Browning. This study is divided into five chapters. Chapter One includes a brief biographical sketch and a personal profile, as well as an overview of Browning’s compositional career. Chapters Two, Three, and Four present and in-depth analysis of the three compositions by Browning that feature the violin: Blockhouse (2006) for violin, cello, and piano (Chapter Two); Double Shot (2000) for violin and piano (Chapter Three); and Sole Injection (1996) for violin and computer- generated sounds (Chapter Four). Each of these chapters is divided into three parts. The first part presents background information for each composition and provides a brief explanation of the magic square that is used in each composition. In Part Two, Browning’s unique musical language based on his use of magic squares as a compositional determinant, is examined. Part Three focuses on the musical ideas used in the compositions and the assignment of these ideas to instrumental groupings and the use of pattern structures in each piece. In addition, the third part explores Browning’s progressive layering techniques and how they interact with his musical ideas and structural patterns. Chapter Five serves as a conclusion and summarizes the analytical findings.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2011-03-21T13:38:47Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 SUNJIN_KIM.pdf.pdf: 16180538 bytes, checksum: 2eb5aff9dea6773ecc8f3496123417c8 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-25T15:03:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 SUNJIN_KIM.pdf: 16198348 bytes, checksum: 7a3c8242a9a073fe7194c88e708b27fa (MD5) license.txt: 4059 bytes, checksum: a695e6d1bb9d77ab6573ca35628b2ad3 (MD5

    Zack, Thomas

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    Zack Spratt\u27s Butcher\u27s Cookbook - Accession 678 - M301 (352)

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    The Butcher’s Cookbook consists of a leather bound notebook containing instructions on preserving and curing meat, and recipes for various meat dishes from around the 1910s. The name A.D. Payne is on the front cover and is the author of the book. Zack Spratt collected cookbooks, many of which are housed in the Winthrop Library, and speculated that “these notes were taken by someone [A. D. Payne] working in a packing plant.” Zack Spratt is most likely Zaccheus Spratt (1884-1978) and was a relative of the Fort Mill, SC Spratt Family.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1652/thumbnail.jp

    Thomas Dryden Spratt\u27s Recollections of His Family - Accession 715 no. 69

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    Thomas Dryden Spratt\u27s Recollections of His Family is a typescript account of the Spratt Family of York County, South Carolina from the settlement of Thomas Spratt to Mecklenburg County in 1730 from County Down, Ireland through 1875. There are addenda added to the recollections by Zack Spratt that include lineage, Spratt Cemetery list, transcriptions of legal documents, a drawing of puncheons, and a recipe for Johnny (Journey) Cake. The volume also includes Descendants of Thomas Kanawha Spratt compiled by A. W. Cockrell, Jr. in 1908 and History of the Old Indian Fort at Fort Mill, S.C. written by Zack Spratt originally published in 1920 and reprinted in 1962.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2605/thumbnail.jp

    Provenance of detrital rutiles from the Jurassic sandstones in the Central Sakarya Zone, NW Turkey: U-Pb ages and trace element geochemistry

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    This provenance study focuses on detrital rutile grains from Jurassic sandstones of the Bayırköy Formation in the central Sakarya Zone. Cr and Nb concentrations of detrital rutile grains in the Jurassic sandstones vary from 18 to 6855 μg/g and 70–13440 μg/g, respectively. Source area discrimination based on the Cr-Nb concentrations shows that 79 % of the detrital rutile grains originated from metapelitic and 21 % from metamafic rocks. The calculated rutile formation temperatures vary from 471 to 798 ℃ with an average temperature of 635 ℃ at P=10 kbar. Zr-in-rutile thermometer gives overlapping temperatures for all detrital rutile grains from both the metapelitic and metamafic sources. This demonstrates that most of the detrital rutiles sourced from metapelitic and metamafic rocks underwent similar metamorphic conditions and have similar metamorphic history. The U-Pb rutile dating yielded ages for the detrital rutiles in the time range of 346 to 319 Ma, which gives the age of metamorphism for the potential source rocks. Trace element compositions, Zr-in-rutile thermometer and U-Pb rutile geochronology show that detrital rutile grains were predominantly derived from early Carboniferous rocks that underwent metamorphism in amphibolite-facies conditions. Amphibolite-facies rocks of the Sarıcakaya Massif in the central Sakarya Zone seem to be the primary source lithologies for the detrital rutiles in the Jurassic Bayırköy Formation as it comprises previously-mentioned source lithologies and has a close geographic position to the area studied. Carboniferous Variscan metamorphism was followed by emplacement of numerous post-collisional granitoids in the central Sakarya Zone. © 2020 Elsevier Gmb

    Temperature dependence of Zr in rutile: empirical calibration of a rutile thermometer

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    Rutile is an important carrier of high field strength elements (HFSE; Zr, Nb, Mo, Sn, Sb, Hf, Ta, W). Its Zr content is buffered in systems with quartz and zircon as coexisting phases. The effects of temperature ( T) and pressure ( P) on the Zr content in rutile have been empirically calibrated in this study by analysing rutile - quartz - zircon assemblages of 31 metamorphic rocks spanning a T range from 430 to 1,100 degreesC. Electron microprobe measurements show that Zr concentrations in rutile vary from 30 to 8,400 ppm across this temperature interval, correlating closely with metamorphic grade. The following thermometer has been formulated based on the maximum Zr contents of rutile included in garnet and pyroxene: T (in degreesC) = 127.8 x ln (Zr in ppm) - 10 No pressure dependence was observed. An uncertainty in absolute T of +/- 50 degreesC is inherited from T estimates of the natural samples used. A close approach to equilibrium of Zr distribution between zircon and rutile is suggested based on the high degree of reproducability of Zr contents in rutiles from different rock types from the same locality. At a given locality, the calculated range in T is mostly +/- 10 degreesC, indicating the geological and analytical precision of the rutile thermometer. Possible applications of this new geothermometer are discussed covering the fields of ultrahigh temperature (UHT) granulites, sedimentary provenance studies and metamorphic field gradients

    Rutile geochemistry and its potential use in quantitative provenance studies

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    Rutile is among the most stable detrital minerals in sedimentary systems. Information contained in rutile is therefore of prime importance, especially in the study of mature sediments, where most diagnostic minerals are no longer stable. In contrast to zircon, rutile provides information about the last metamorphic cycle as rutile is not stable at greenschist facies conditions. Several known geochemical characteristics of rutile can be used to retrace provenance. The lithology of source rocks can be determined using Nb and Cr contents in rutile, because the most important source rocks for rutile, metapelites and metabasites, imprint a distinct Nb and Cr signature in rutiles. Since Zr in rutile, coexisting with zircon and quartz, is extremely temperature dependent, this relationship can be used as a geothermometer. Metapelites always contain zircon and quartz, thus the Nb and Cr signatures of metapelites indicate rutiles that can be used for thermometry. The result is effectively a single-mineral geothermometer, which is to our knowledge the first of its kind in provenance studies. Several other trace elements are variably enriched in rutile, but the processes creating these variations are so far not understood. In a case study, Al, Si, V, Cr, Fe, Zr, Nb and W contents in rutiles were obtained by electron microprobe from three sediment samples from Upstate New York. A Pleistocene glacial sand, whose source was granulite-facies rocks of the southern Adirondacks, has detrital rutile geochemical signatures which are consistent with the local Geology; a predominantly metapelitic source with a minor metabasitic contribution. Calculated temperatures for the metapelitic rutiles from the glacial sand are consistent with a predominantly granulite-facies source. The two other samples are from Paleozoic elastic wedges deposited in the foreland of the Taconian and Acadian orogenies. Here several geochemical patterns of detrital rutiles are comparable to rutiles derived from the Adirondacks, implying that rutiles eroded from the Taconian and Acadian orogens were originally derived from similar high grade gneiss terranes, like those found in the Adirondacks. The preferred tectonic scenario calls for an accretionary wedge where eroded Grenville province sediments accumulated, which were later recycled during the Taconian and Acadian orogenies. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved

    A recipe for the use of rutile in sedimentary provenance analysis

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    Rutile has received considerable attention in the last decade as a valuable petrogenetic indicator mineral. Based on both new and previously published data, we carve out advantages and pitfalls regarding TiO2-minerals in sedimentary provenance analysis. This results in a recipe for the use of rutile in provenance studies. The main points are: Rutile geochemistry from different grain size fractions does not differ systematically, and hence rutiles should be extracted from the fraction containing the most rutile grains (usually 63-200 mu m). Similarly, different magnetic susceptibility of rutile does not systematically imply different trace element composition. Before interpretation of TiO2-mineral data, it is important to determine the polymorph type. Rutile, anatase and brookite appear to differ systematically in trace element composition. As an alternative to Raman spectroscopy, chemical classification according to Nb, Cr, Sn, Fe, V, and Zr concentrations can be applied. For rutile, a new host lithology discrimination scheme based on Cr-Nb systematics is introduced (x = 5( ) (Nb [ppm] - 500) - Cr [ppm]), which leads to better classification results than previously published discrimination methods. According to this equation, metamafic rutiles have negative values of x, while metapelitic rutiles have positive values. Evaluation of the growth temperature calculations of metamorphic rutile after different authors shows that the equations given by Tomkins et al. (2007) should be applied to both metamafic and metapelitic rutiles. Although there is a pressure effect on the Zr incorporation in rutile, the pressure range for most rutiles of 5-15 kbar introduces an uncertainty in calculated temperature of no more than +/- 35 degrees C. The distribution of calculated temperatures from detrital rutiles is crucial; only well-defined temperature populations should be used for thermometry interpretation. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [EY 23/10-2, ZA 285/4-2

    Cs-Rb-Ba systematics in phengite and amphibole: an assessment of fluid mobility at 2.0 GPa in eclogites from Trescolmen, Central Alps

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    Eclogites from Trescolmen that contain abundant hydrous minerals (phengite, amphibole, paragonite, zoisite, talc, apatite) show petrographic evidence for fluid infiltration under conditions of 2.0 to 1.8 GPa, 650 degreesC. Large ion lithophile elements (LILE, e.g. Cs, Rb, Ba and Sr) were analysed by in-situ techniques in all eclogite mineral phases in order to characterize the behaviour of fluid-mobile elements at high pressure. In-situ analysis of carefully-chosen metamorphic assemblages circumvents the problem of partial late-stage alteration, which can severely influence the calculated element budgets of whole-rock samples. Phengite is the dominant host for Cs, Rb, and Ba in both eclogite and adjacent garnet mica schist samples, and incorporates > 90% of the budgets of these elements in whole rocks. LILE contents of phengites in phengite-rich rocks are likely to record the Cs/Rb and Ba/Rb ratios of their host rock protoliths. The LILE patterns of eclogite are consistent with protoliths derived from basalt that underwent seafloor alteration, whereas those of mica schist are almost identical to average upper continental crust. In contrast, LILE patterns of eclogite samples that lack phengite, but do contain amphibole, are unlike any plausible protolith, but are identical to those of amphibole in phengite-bearing samples. This observation points to homogenization of the LILE in different lithologies, which we correlate with petrographic evidence for fluid infiltration. Because phengite in garnet mica schist has a strong capacity to buffer the fluid with respect to Cs, Rb, and Ba, homogenization of amphiboles is best explained by fluid infiltration from the surrounding metapelites into eclogite bodies, implying at least metre-scale fluid mobility. The amphibole homogenization can be most easily modelled by a pervasive open-system fluid flux through the eclogites, possibly facilitated by ductile deformation during the early stages of uplift. Simple calculations give minimum fluid-rock ratios of similar to0.001 to 0.004. Demonstration of the mobility of very small volumes of fluid through eclogite is an important prerequisite of many subduction zone models that try to explain across-are variations in trace element geochemistry. The low fluid-rock ratios from this study are not in contrast with oxygen isotope heterogeneities reported from other eclogite localities. Fluid mobile elements such as Cs, Rb and Ba are more sensitive indicators of small volume, fluid-rock interaction and are therefore potentially valuable for understanding fluid infiltration processes in systems where oxygen isotope shifts are not large enough to be detectable
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