Dissertations / Theses: 'Opera – Italy – History and criticism'

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Di, Lillo Ivano. "Opera and nationalism in Fascist Italy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283883.

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Tse, Hue-ying, and 謝曉瑩. "The inheritance of modern Cantonese opera from traditional Chinese opera." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43085878.

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De, Montigny Michelle C. (Michelle Chantal). "Pleasure, popularity and the soap opera." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56928.

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This thesis uses the concept of pleasure as it has been applied to cultural artefacts in order to give a description of various characteristics of the soap opera genre. The concept of pleasure is applied to soap opera narrative, characters, visual style and viewing attitudes. Three soap operas, The Young and the Restless, General Hospital, and Another World, are described in detail according to these various types of pleasures. The Young and the Restless is a soap that relies largely on visual pleasures and melodrama. General Hospital's strongest pleasures are related to its character development and use of humour. Another World, the most traditional of the three soaps, is best at stimulating the pleasures associated with talk. Through analysis of viewer commentary supplied by letters sent to Soap Opera Weekly and Soap Opera Update and Nielsen ratings, it can be concluded that the pleasures that most soap opera viewers seem to value the most are related to visual style, romance and a delicate balance between realistic characters and fantasy in narrative.

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Mark, Amanda. "Soap opera subculture : emotional realism and empathic identification." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56790.

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Popular feminine narratives, domestic, emotion-based texts through which communities of women have traditionally practiced feminine discourse, have been marginalised by dominant masculine cultures throughout their long history. This continues in the postmodern era, in which the culturally dominant postmodern aesthetic has declared the death of the social, narrative and affect, all intrinsic to the popular feminine narrative. Nevertheless, these narratives persevere in such forms as the daytime television soap opera. Using a reader-oriented model, American soap operas are discussed as a site for the generation of women's pleasure, and as a forum for the raising, sharing and addressing of problems which affect women's lives. Soap opera fan magazines further extend the already social soap opera experience, which celebrates emotion and empathy in a culture which often negates them.

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Montanari, Anna Maria. "'A heart in Egypt' : Cleopatra on the Renaissance stage in Italy and England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709112.

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Lenar, Richard E. "The Figure of Mary in Italian Opera: Theological Foundations and Technical Analysis." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1557504767565933.

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Law, Ho-chak, and 羅浩澤. "Kun opera: a study of its notations and instrumental sonority." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46427740.

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Stanek, Mark C. "Guitar in the opera literature : a study of the instrument's use in opera during the 19th and 20th centuries." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1285408.

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This dissertation is a study of the use of guitar in opera. Ten operas were chosen from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century as a representative cross section of operas that use the guitar. The operas studied are: The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber, Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti, Beatrice and Benedict by Hector Berlioz, Otello and Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi, La vida breve by Manuel de Falla, The Nightingale by Igor Stravinsky, Wozzeck by Alban Berg, and Paul Bunyan by Benjamin Britten. The study examines the technical aspects of each guitar part and how the guitar relates to the libretto and to the other instruments of the orchestra.The study finds that, with some exceptions, the guitar parts are idiomatic and not difficult to execute. There is some need on the part of the guitarist to edit the parts for technical and historical reasons and editorial suggestions are made by the author. The guitar is often related to the libretto and often appears onstage, yet it is almost always used as a prop and the performing guitarist is placed offstage or in the orchestra pit. There are significant problems found concerning the guitar's lack of volume. Composers tend to limit the number of instruments in use with the guitar. They do not, however, tend to give the guitar louder dynamics when other instruments are used at the same time. The guitar is generally used in outdoor scenes, to evoke a folk idiom, or when specifically referred to in the libretto. The use of the guitar is found to be mostly limited to simple accompaniments which do not utilize the full resources of the instrument.
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Bedon, Elettra. "Il filo di Arianna : letteratura in lingua veneta nel XX secolo." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ29888.pdf.

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Rushing-Raynes, Laura. "A history of the Venetian sacred solo motet (c. 1610--1720)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185473.

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In 17th century Italy, the trend toward small sacred concertato forms precipitated the publication of a number of volumes devoted exclusively to sacred solo vocal music. Several of these, including the Ghirlanda sacra (Gardano, 1625) and Motetti a voce sola (Gardano, 1645) contain sacred solo motets by some of the best Italian composers of the period. Venetian composers were at the forefront of the move toward the smaller concertato forms and, to fulfill various needs of church musicians, wrote in an increasingly virtuoso style intended to highlight the solo voice. This study traces the development of the solo motet in the sacred works of Venetian composers from the time of Monteverdi to Vivaldi. It revolves around sacred solo motets composed at Saint Marks and the Venetian ospedali (orphanages). It includes works of Alessandro Grandi, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and Antonio Vivaldi. It also deals with solo motets of lesser composers whose works are available in modern critical and performing editions or in recently published facsimiles. In addition to providing a more detailed survey of the genre than has been previously available, this study provides an overview of highly performable (but largely neglected) repertoire.

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El-Mouelhy, Mossino Lauretta. "Tra magia, incantesimo e immaginario : (an tra masche, mascheugn e mistà) : la figura della masca dall'antichità celtica alla letteratura piemontese odierna." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85159.

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Questa dissertazione e imperniata sulla parola masca, che denota un personaggio popolare e antichissimo di genere femminile, riscontrabile esclusivamente nel folclore e nella letterature della regione italiana del Piemonte. Si attribuisce a questo personaggio la facolta rarissima di esercitare tanto il bene che il mate, a seconda de¡ casi.
La tesi si basa su ricerche storiche e linguistiche che traggono i loro dati dai recessi piu remoti della civilta celtica in territorio piemontese, dove essa e prosperata dall'inizio del 4° secolo a.C. fino al 1° secolo della nostra era, epoca alta quale questa regione fu inglobata dall'impero romano.
Basandosi su dati storici e archeologici, la ricerca prende atto di un substrato celtico persistente e profondo nella cultura e nella tradizione piu antiche del Piemonte. In modo particolare si concentra l'attenzione sulla derivazione dei personaggio della masca da una figura religiosa dei Druidi, venerata fervidamente dai Celti, i quali attribuivano a questa divinita il dualismo tipico (bene-male) che si riscontra nel personaggio oggetto di questo studio.
In seguito si traccia il discrimine tra la masca e le streghe demoniache con cui la prima e spesso e del tutto erroneamente confusa ed associata. Una volta tracciata questa distinzione si possono riallacciare i legami tra la masca e il suo sacrale pristino ove ('equilibrio sotteso tra bene e mate e permanente e inestricabile dagli attributi fondamentali della dea celtica centrale, la Grande Madre.
Le ricerche etimologiche per appurare l'origine della parola masca non fanno che confermare la dualita e l'equilibrio tra il bene e il mate inevitabilmente compresente in questa parola e nel personaggio ch'essa denota.
Si passa in rassegna la tradizione orale e la letteratura del Piemonte (tanto in lingua piemontese che in lingua italiana) per, inventariare i diversi significati che possono assumere questa parola e questo personaggio. Si perviene a dimostrare che la dicotomia di valori e di poteri contrastanti insiti nella religione dei druidi rimane ad un dipresso la stessa nel personaggio delta masca. Ci si puo imbattere in questo dualismo di valori opposti e antitetici anche in altri personaggi del folclore piemontese, strettamente connessi alta masca, quali il mascon, i1 setmin o anche in personaggi mitologici, come la faja, il faunet e il servan.
La somma di queste prove letterarie, folcloriche, archeologiche e filologiche avalla l'attribuzione di un carattere unico, non demoniaco, al personaggio della masca, che riannoda strettamente la letteratura e la tradizione orale del Piemonte alta religione dei druidi e al passato celtico, fornendo altresi scorci preziosi su uno dei capitoli piu oscuri del passato delle etnie europee.

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Schachter, Tammy. "As her world turns : women and soap opera." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21264.

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Mass produced narratives that have been designed and targeted for predominantly female audiences have been marginalized by dominant culture. Throughout the history of art and English literature, women have been both objectified and misrepresented. All that has been deemed domestic, emotional and of the personal sphere has been declared valueless by patriarchy. The soap opera genre reverses this negative valorization. It is one that perpetuates the feminine tradition of creating communities through words---talk, gossip, testimony. In this work, the American soap opera is discussed as a venue for the exploration of issues that concern women's lives, as a site for the generation of female pleasure, and as the mother of subcultural networks that inform a female community. While the narratives address women's concerns, the soap opera fan magazines and fan clubs celebrate a form that highlights orality, emotion and empathy in a culture that often depreciates them.

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Lee, Elsa. "The changing role and status of the drummer in Chuanju (Sichuan opera) /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phl4772.pdf.

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Yoshioka, Masataka. "Singing the Republic: Polychoral Culture at San Marco in Venice (1550-1615)." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33220/.

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During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Venetian society and politics could be considered as a "polychoral culture." The imagination of the republic rested upon a shared set of social attitudes and beliefs. The political structure included several social groups that functioned as identifiable entities; republican ideologies construed them together as parts of a single harmonious whole. Venice furthermore employed notions of the republic to bolster political and religious independence, in particular from Rome. As is well known, music often contributes to the production and transmission of ideology, and polychoral music in Venice was no exception. Multi-choir music often accompanied religious and civic celebrations in the basilica of San Marco and elsewhere that emphasized the so-called "myth of Venice," the city's complex of religious beliefs and historical heritage. These myths were shared among Venetians and transformed through annual rituals into communal knowledge of the republic. Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and other Venetian composers wrote polychoral pieces that were structurally homologous with the imagination of the republic. Through its internal structures, polychoral music projected the local ideology of group harmony. Pieces used interaction among hierarchical choirs - their alternation in dialogue and repetition - as rhetorical means, first to create the impression of collaboration or competition, and then to bring them together at the end, as if resolving discord into concord. Furthermore, Giovanni Gabrieli experimented with the integration of instrumental choirs and recitative within predominantly vocal multi-choir textures, elevating music to the category of a theatrical religious spectacle. He also adopted and developed richer tonal procedures belonging to the so-called "hexachordal tonality" to underscore rhetorical text delivery. If multi-choir music remained the central religious repertory of the city, contemporary single-choir pieces favored typical polychoral procedures that involve dialogue and repetition among vocal subgroups. Both repertories adopted clear rhetorical means of emphasizing religious notions of particular political significance at the surface level. Venetian music performed in religious and civic rituals worked in conjunction with the myth of the city to project and reinforce the imagination of the republic, promoting a glorious image of greatness for La Serenissima.

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Hurley, Therese. "Jeanne d'Arc on the 1870s Musical Stage: Jules Barbier and Charles Gounod's Melodrama and Auguste Mermet's Opera." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12991.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the presentation of Joan of Arc's life in two lyric works, Jules Barbier and Charles Gounod's Jeanne d'Arc (1873) and Auguste Mermet's Jeanne d'Arc (1876), that premiered in Paris following the upheaval of the Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune. Relying on Parisian journals of the day, I follow two trends: some critics called for a historically-informed presentation of Joan's life and others appealed to retain certain supernatural elements, specifically the Fairy Tree and the Voices, of Joan's story. In addition to these trends, I consider an article printed shortly before the premiere of Mermet's opera and discuss the political and religious implications of the final scene (Charles VII Coronation in Reims or Joan's execution in Rouen) in these two stage works. After an introductory chapter and a chapter tracing the geneses of the melodrama and the opera, the remaining chapters each deal specifically with one of the three above-mentioned lines of inquiry as they relate to Joan of Arc's story. Chapter III discusses historical characters (Charles, duc d'Orléans, King René, and Agnès Sorel), historical music (minuet and Vexilla regis), and music believed to have been sung in the presence of Joan of Arc (Veni Creator Spiritus and Orate pro ea). Chapter IV addresses the continuing presence of legendary, supernatural elements--specifically the Fairy Tree and the Voices--and how these elements have changed in nineteenth-century stage works about Joan. In Chapter V, the difficulty of adapting Joan's life on the stage is examined. A closer look reveals that differing views existed during the 1870s as to exactly what her mission entailed. The two works reflect the changing attitudes on this topic. As a whole, this dissertation offers an examination of two rarely discussed stage works that reveal the political, religious, and musical climate surrounding the figure of Joan of Arc in the 1870s.

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林鳳珊 and Fung-shan Lam. "A study of Cantonese opera scripts of the 1920s and1930s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31215452.

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Wang, Hsiao-Mei 1959. "The Characterization of Sheng and Dan Roles in Chinese Opera." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500885/.

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This study sought to discover the principles of characterization governing the Sheng and the Dan roles in the Chinese opera. Seven Dan role divisions and three Sheng role divisions were studied. It was discovered that throughout its long history the Chinese opera had adhered to its original singing and dancing styles; that the creative activities involved in the opera's staging were subordinated to singing and dancing styles; that the actors in the Chinese opera perform only one role category in their career; that years of rigid training were required before the actors were allowed to perform on stage; that each role division had its peculiar method of characterization that was shown through their performances, their costumes, and their acting techniques.

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Balletti-Thomas, Joanne. "Women's writing and the "anxiety of authorship" in nineteenth-century Italy : Bruno Sperani and others." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26718.

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As women's literature emerged in late nineteenth-century Italy, female authors encountered many obstacles. Foremost among them was the near-total absence of Italian female literary role models. Female writers often expressed ambivalence towards the writing of other women, which was considered inferior to male writing. However, their reverence for male writers revealed how conflictive their identities as writers were, and it was an impediment to the establishment of a serious women's literary tradition. In addition to such personal conflicts, these writers also faced the challenge of gaining acceptance by the male-dominated literary community and by their readers. These two groups expected that women's writing conform to a moral code which did not apply to men's writing. This thesis is an analysis of the specific problems that female novelist Bruno Sperani and others faced as they strove to establish themselves in Italian literature.

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Thrasher, Michael 1972. "The Use of the Clarinet in Selected Viennese Operas, 1786-1791, With Three Recitals of Selected Works by Brahms, Muczynski, Benjamin, Widor, Hindemith, and Others." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278193/.

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In an appendix section, three notable arias have been transcribed for two clarinets, voice, and piano. A further evaluation of Classical period opera orchestration will aid modern performers and musicologists in their understanding of what clarinets and clarinetists were able and expected to do.

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Braun, Lindsay Taylor. "The Mystery of the Chalumeau and Its Historical Significance as Revealed Through Selected Works for Chalumeau or Early Clarinet by Antonio Vivaldi: A Lecture." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849668/.

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Factual evidence concerning the ancestry of the clarinet has been a perpetual topic of debate among musicologists and organologists. Scholars have widely agreed that the clarinet, first documented in 1710, emerged from the baroque invention of the chalumeau (invented circa 1690), which in itself was an improvement upon the recorder. Considering the chalumeau's short lifespan as the predominant single reed instrument in the early eighteenth century, the chalumeau inspired a monumental amount of literature that includes vocal and instrumental genres written by distinguished composers. Vivaldi is considered to be the most significant composer that wrote for both clarinet and chalumeau; he wrote for both instruments simultaneously throughout his life whereas his contemporaries seemingly replaced the chalumeau with the clarinet. This project will discuss Vivaldi's proximity to the chalumeau and the clarinet and will provide an in-depth analysis of relevant works by the composer to determine how he, unlike his contemporaries, treated the chalumeau and the clarinet as separate and equally viable instruments. Following a brief history of the chalumeau and clarinet in Italy and a relevant biography of Vivaldi (Ch. 2), this document will discuss the integral Vivaldi compositions that include clarinet and chalumeau and the role of the clarinet or chalumeau in each work (Ch. 3). Chapter 4 solves the mystery of why Vivaldi continued to compose for the chalumeau while his contemporaries replaced the chalumeau with the clarinet.

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Bedon, Elettra. "La poesia in lingua veneta dalla fine della Prima Guerra Mondiale a oggi." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26252.

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Writers and poets who wrote in the "language of Venice" are far more numerous than is commonly reported in the history of Italian literature. It is the purpose of this dissertation to present and highlight their works.
Since here we mainly deal with writers and poets of the second half of the twentieth century, for which there is no roll call, we deemed it appropriate to research and introduce them, supplying for each of them detailed biobibliographical data.
In the course of our work we tried to sketch a subdivision of the matter which keeps in mind what has been previously done, but which is also new if one takes into account the whole scope and breadth of this literature.

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Corry, Maya. "Masculinity and spirituality in Renaissance Milan : the role of the beautiful body in the art of Leonardo da Vinci and Leonardeschi." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669816.

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Chung, Kyung-Young. "Reconsidering the Lament: Form, Content, and Genre in Italian Chamber Recitative Laments: 1600-1640." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4668/.

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Scholars have considered Italian chamber recitative laments only a transitional phenomenon between madrigal laments and laments organized on the descending tetrachord bass. However, the recitative lament is distinguished from them by its characteristic attitude toward the relationship between music and text. Composer of Italian chamber recitative laments attempted to express more subtle, refined and sometimes complicated emotion in their music. For that purpose, they intentionally created discrepancies between text and music. Sometimes they even destroy the original structure of text in order to clearly deliver the composer's own voice. The basic syntactic structure is deconstructed and reconstructed along with their reading and according to their intention. The discrepancy between text and music is, however, expectable and natural phenomena since text cannot be completely translated or transformed to music and vice versa. The composers of Italian chamber recitative laments utilized their innate heterogeneity between two materials (music and text) as a metaphor that represents the semantic essence of the genre, the conflict. In this context, Italian chamber recitative laments were a real embodiment of the so-called seconda prattica and through the study of them, finally, we more fully able to understand how the spirit of late Renaissance flourished in Italy in the first four decade of the seventeenth century.

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Trani, Maria. "La poesia di E.A. Mario /." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68141.

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The present work examines the poetry in neapolitan language and particularly the works of E. A. Mario, fin de siecle poet and melody writer, who contributed considerably to the song history.
The first part introduces us to the neapolitan regional poetry as well as to its language to finally conclude with the poetry set to music: the song. The ideal atmosphere is the cafe-chantant. The poets of the time including Salvatore Di Giacomo and the generation after are surveyed.
The second part deals with the author. It describes his life, his art and his works, rich of popular and especially classical elements, which crowned him with success.

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Swanson, Barbara Dianne. "Speaking in Tones: Plainchant, Monody, and the Evocation of Antiquity in Early Modern Italy." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1365170679.

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Martino, Nicola. "Albino Pierro." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26743.

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Dialects have always had a negative reputation, and have been considered beneath the national language. Even the literature composed in the various regional languages has been considered inferior to the Italian one until only a few years ago, because it was thought that this literature had as an exclusive theme the peasant-popular world.
This thesis will not only demonstrate that dialects are languages deserving of respect, but also that Lucano dialect literature is not bogged down to the peasant-popular world. In fact, it is capable of expressing any concept that any national language is capable of, even if that concept does not originate in the peasant-popular world.

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Garfinkle, Elisa Shari. "The Barberini and the new Christian Empire : a study of the history of Constantine tapestries by Pietro Da Cortona." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30168.

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This study traces the genesis and development of the History of Constantine tapestries designed by Pietro da Cortona and woven on the looms established by Francesco Barberini shortly after his return from France in December 1625. The circumstances surrounding the creation of the series provide a foundation and a framework for exploring its meaning and purpose. Though inspired by an earlier Constantine suite of tapestries designed by Rubens, the "Cortona" panels should be read as an independent entity, the significance of which can only be fully appreciated within the context of the gran salone of the Palazzo Barberini, which I propose was their intended destination. This conclusion is supported by the many links between the tapestries and Barberini ideology, papal politics, the palace and the ceiling fresco in the Salone. Like the Divine Providence fresco, the "Cortona" series is a summa of the virtues and religious, political, intellectual and social initiatives of the family. The series emerges finally as a promotionally Italian endeavour, a showcase of Italian art and culture.

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Ng, Stephanie Yuet Wah. "Modes of production in post-war cantonese cinema : bricolage and sing-song comedy." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1532.

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Teoli, Maria-Luisa. "La ballata romantica in Italia /." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56622.

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This work deals with the existence of a wide body of ballads in Italy during the romantic era. It disproves Giovanni Berchet's contention in his "Lettera semiseria", the manifesto of Italian Romanticism. He argued that Italy did not have popular literature and, being unaware of an existing tradition, he translated and proposed two of Burger's ballads as examples to be followed.
The first two chapters of this thesis concentrate on the origins of the popular ballad and its first occurrence in Italy.
The third chapter examines the major ballad writers in Italy. Particular attention is given to Luigi Carrer and Giovanni Prati.
The final chapters are a discussion of Italy's minor ballad writers, followed by a conclusion.

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Mainente, Renato Aurélio [UNESP]. "Música e civilização: a atividade musical no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista (1808-1863)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93236.

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No decorrer do século XIX, a música e o teatro lírico ocuparam lugar de destaque no cenário musical do Rio de Janeiro. Após o desembarque da corte portuguesa, em 1808, a cidade assistiu a inauguração de novos teatros e passou a receber a presença de músicos e companhias líricas estrangeiras, possibilitando um contato com óperas e peças musicais de sucesso na Europa. Embora apresentando um leve declínio entre as décadas de 30 e 40 do oitocentos, a atividade musical continuou ocupando um espaço privilegiado na sociedade fluminense, figurando também nas páginas de diversos periódicos do período. Em tais textos, os escritores e colunistas abordavam os mais variados relacionados à música, desde a programação teatral até a descrição do ambiente dos teatros e comportamento dos espectadores. Entre as principais tópicas, estava a preocupação com o desenvolvimento de uma música de inspiração nacionalista, ideal que culminou com a fundação da Imperial Academia de Música e Ópera Nacional em 1857. No âmbito dessa instituição, um número significativo de óperas nacionais foi levada aos palcos da cidade. É objetivo desse trabalho, portanto, analisar os artigos e crônicas acerca da música publicados em jornais e revistas oitocentistas, juntamente com os libretos de óperas nacionais produzidas no período, buscando identificar os principais tópicos presentes nestes textos; isto é, identificar os principais critérios de análise e expectativas dos homens de cultura do período em relação à atividade musica, e, principalmente, à produção de uma música de inspiração nacionalista
During the nineteenth century, music and lyric theater occupied a prominent place in the music scene in Rio de Janeiro. After the landing of the Portuguese court in 1808, the city saw the opening of new theaters and went on to receive the presence of foreign musicians and opera companies, providing a contact with opera and musical theater success in Europe. Although showing a slight decline between 30 and 40 decades of the eighteenth hundred, musical activity continued to occupy a privileged place in fluminense society, also appearing in the pages of several journals of the period. In such texts, the writers and columnists addressed various aspects related to music, since programming of theaters even description of the theatrical environment and viewing behavior. Among the main topics was the concern with the development of a music-inspired nationalist ideal, that culminated in the founding of the Imperial Academy of Music and National Opera in 1857. Within this institution, a significant number of national opera was set up to the stage of the city. It is the aim of this work, therefore, to examine the articles and chronicles about the music published in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines, along with the librettos of national operas produced in the period, seeking to identify the main topics contained in these texts; that is, identify the mains rules for analysis and expectations of intellectual of the period in relation to musical activities, and especially the production of a nationalistic music

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Kim, Hae-Jeong. "Liturgy, Music, and Patronage at the Cappella di Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, 1550-1609." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278255/.

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This dissertation describes the musical and religious support of the Medici family to the Medici Chapel in Florence and the historical role of the church of San Lorenzo in the liturgical development of the period. During the later Middle Ages polyphony was allowed in the Office services only at Matins and Lauds during the Tenebrae service, the last three days of Holy Week, and at Vespers anytime. This practice continued until the end of the sixteenth century when more polyphonic motets based on the Antiphon and Responsory began to be included in the various Office hours during feast days. This practice is documented by the increased number of pieces that appear in the manuscripts. Two of the transcriptions from the church of San Lorenzo included in the appendix are selected from this later repertoire.

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Siddiqui, Tashmeen Monique. "Jews against Wagner : the 1929 Krolloper production of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669985.

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Getz, Christine Suzanne 1957. "Music and Patronage in Milan 1535-1550 and Vincenzo Ruffo's First Motet Book." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332652/.

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The present study reconstructs the musical milieu in which Vincenzo Ruffo's 1542 motet collection was conceived through an examination of the archival materials surviving from each of the major musical establishments known to be active in Milan 1535-1550. The relationship of the 1542 collection to Milanese musical activity. Its publication problems and its current position in source studies are then explored in light of the archival information that is currently available.

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王朝蟬. "澳門粵劇初探 = A preliminary study of Cantonses Opera in Macao." Thesis, University of Macau, 2007. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636964.

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Kranias, Alison. "Verovio's keyboard intabulations and domestic music making in the late Renaissance." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98544.

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At the end of the sixteenth century, Simone Verovio printed a series of canzonetta anthologies in Rome. These collections were unique, in that they contained keyboard and lute intabulations alongside their vocal parts. The keyboard intabulations seem primarily intended as accompanimental parts. As such, they inform us about the use of keyboard instruments in ensembles of mixed voices and instruments. This thesis examines how the printing format of Verovio's keyboard intabulations arose from a larger context. In particular, it asks what were the skills and training of amateur keyboard players (often women), when or when not to transpose pieces with chiavette (or high clefs), and how instrumental embellishments relate to the canzonetta's text as well as musical texture. This examination contributes to a better understanding of Italian sixteenth-century performance practice, especially of the ways in which instruments were used along with voices in domestic music making.

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Applauso, Nicolino. "Curses and laughter: The ethics of political invective in the comic poetry of high and late medieval Italy." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10874.

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xiv, 479 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
My dissertation examines the ethical engagement of political invective poetry in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. Modern criticism tends to treat medieval invective as a playfully subversive but marginal poetic game with minimal ethical weight. Instead, I aim to restore these poetic productions to their original context: the history, law, and custom of Tuscan cities. This contexts allows me to explore how humor and fury, in the denunciation of political enemies, interact to establish not a game but an ethics of invective. I treat ethics as both theoretical and practical, referring to Aristotle, Cicero, and Brunetto Latini, and define ethics as the pursuit of the common good in a defined community. Chapter I introduces the corpus, its historical and cultural background, its critical reception, and my approach. Chapter II discusses medieval invective in Tuscany and surveys the cultural practice of invective writing. Chapter III approaches invectives written by Rustico Filippi during the Guelph and Ghibelline wars. Chapter IV explores invectives by Cecco Angiolieri set in Siena, which polemicize with the Sienese government and citizenry. Chapter V examines invectives in Dante's Commedia (Inf. 19, Purg. 6, and Par. 27), focusing on his unexpected humor and his critique of the papacy, the empire, and Italian city governments. My conclusion examines the ethical function of slanderous wit in wartime invective. These poems balance verbal aggression with humor, claiming a role for laughter in creating dialogue within conflict. Far from a stylistic or ludic exercise, each invective shows the poet's activism and ethical engagement. This dissertation includes previously published material.
Committee in Charge: Regina Psaki, Chairperson, Romance Languages; Massimo Lollini, Member, Romance Languages; David Wacks, Member, Romance Languages; Steven Shankman, Outside Member, English

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Bakker-King, Margaret R. "The cantatas of Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb1686.pdf.

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Fonsato, Vanna Marisa. "Giudizi letterari di Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi nel carteggio inedito della Raccolta Piancastelli." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61287.

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The present work examines the literary criticism expressed by Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi in several of her unpublished letters.
The first part outlines the cultural and historical tradition of Venice during the Eighteenth Century. Particular attention is subsequently given to the intellectual role of women, their contribution to the literary salons of the time, and the neoclassical tradition. This first part is essential in that it supplies a valuable context to Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi's writings.
In the second part, I examine Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi's literary criticism of major European authors and works. Through these criticisms she exposes her misvision of the literary world to which she aspired, and reveals that although she was influenced by the subtle preromantic tendencies, she remained faithful to the neoclassical school.

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Mainente, Renato Aurélio. "Música e civilização : a atividade musical no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista (1808-1863) /." Franca : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93236.

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Orientador: Jean Marcel Carvalho França
Banca: Paulo Knauss
Banca: José Adriano Fenerick
Resumo: No decorrer do século XIX, a música e o teatro lírico ocuparam lugar de destaque no cenário musical do Rio de Janeiro. Após o desembarque da corte portuguesa, em 1808, a cidade assistiu a inauguração de novos teatros e passou a receber a presença de músicos e companhias líricas estrangeiras, possibilitando um contato com óperas e peças musicais de sucesso na Europa. Embora apresentando um leve declínio entre as décadas de 30 e 40 do oitocentos, a atividade musical continuou ocupando um espaço privilegiado na sociedade fluminense, figurando também nas páginas de diversos periódicos do período. Em tais textos, os escritores e colunistas abordavam os mais variados relacionados à música, desde a programação teatral até a descrição do ambiente dos teatros e comportamento dos espectadores. Entre as principais tópicas, estava a preocupação com o desenvolvimento de uma música de inspiração nacionalista, ideal que culminou com a fundação da Imperial Academia de Música e Ópera Nacional em 1857. No âmbito dessa instituição, um número significativo de óperas nacionais foi levada aos palcos da cidade. É objetivo desse trabalho, portanto, analisar os artigos e crônicas acerca da música publicados em jornais e revistas oitocentistas, juntamente com os libretos de óperas nacionais produzidas no período, buscando identificar os principais tópicos presentes nestes textos; isto é, identificar os principais critérios de análise e expectativas dos homens de cultura do período em relação à atividade musica, e, principalmente, à produção de uma música de inspiração nacionalista
Abstract: During the nineteenth century, music and lyric theater occupied a prominent place in the music scene in Rio de Janeiro. After the landing of the Portuguese court in 1808, the city saw the opening of new theaters and went on to receive the presence of foreign musicians and opera companies, providing a contact with opera and musical theater success in Europe. Although showing a slight decline between 30 and 40 decades of the eighteenth hundred, musical activity continued to occupy a privileged place in fluminense society, also appearing in the pages of several journals of the period. In such texts, the writers and columnists addressed various aspects related to music, since programming of theaters even description of the theatrical environment and viewing behavior. Among the main topics was the concern with the development of a music-inspired nationalist ideal, that culminated in the founding of the Imperial Academy of Music and National Opera in 1857. Within this institution, a significant number of national opera was set up to the stage of the city. It is the aim of this work, therefore, to examine the articles and chronicles about the music published in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines, along with the librettos of national operas produced in the period, seeking to identify the main topics contained in these texts; that is, identify the mains rules for analysis and expectations of intellectual of the period in relation to musical activities, and especially the production of a nationalistic music
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Barreca, Francesca. "Le belle infedeli : l'Iliade in versi e in prosa dell'abate Melchiorre Cesarotti." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68070.

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The following work consists of a careful analysis of the translation of the Iliad by Homer prepared by Melchiorre Cesarotti. Caught amidst the dilemma of loyalty to the original and the beauty of translation, Cesarotti decided to compose two versions: one in blank verses and the other in prose. This work is therefore none other than a comparison between Cesarotti's version in poetry and the version in prose.
The first part deals briefly with a few details on the criticism that Cesarotti's work raised.
The second part consists of the comparison work, which is subdivided in "Canti" (as Cesarotti's version in poetry) because the work proposes to compare the version in poetry to the version in prose and not vice-versa.
The last part examines the artistic value of Cesarotti's translations and the place they occupy in Europe in the eighteenth century.

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Gavito, Cory Michael. "Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto scherzo and the climate of Venetian popular music in the 1620s." Thesis, view full-text document, 2001. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20012/gavito%5Fcory/index.htm.

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Carvalho, Danielle Crepaldi 1982. "Arte em tempos de "chirinola" : a proposta de renovação teatral de Coelho Netto (1897-1898)." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270221.

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Orientador: Orna Messer Levin
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Resumo: Neste trabalho, analiso a produção teatral com que o literato Henrique Maximiniano Coelho Netto (1864-1934) - autor importante na virada do século XIX para o XX - inaugurou sua intervenção nos palcos cariocas, em especial o "poema dramático" Pelo Amor! (1897), o "episódio lírico" Ártemis e a "balada em prosa rítmica" Hóstia (1898). Através de tais obras, o literato almejava combater a crise que, segundo seu julgamento, o teatro enfrentava. Sua crítica era dirigida tanto às peças teatrais representadas nas casas de espetáculos comerciais do Rio de Janeiro quanto aos artistas que nelas atuavam. O repertório das companhias que estavam em cartaz na capital era composto, em sua maioria, pelos melodramas lacrimosos e especialmente pelas comédias musicadas - estas recebiam a contribuição dos gêneros musicais populares (a exemplo do lundu e do maxixe). As comédias musicadas exploravam as situações cômicas, algumas vezes fantasiosas, por meio de diálogos construídos, muitas vezes, sobre o duplo sentido das palavras. Além da ausência de qualidades artísticas, Netto considerava essas comédias musicadas licenciosas, já que invariavelmente assumiam uma conotação sexual, devido aos ditos ambíguos que utilizavam e às danças sensuais. Sendo assim, o literato propunha-se a conduzir uma regeneração nos palcos, apoiando-se, para isso, na tradição literária ocidental, da qual retirou os assuntos para a escrita desses dramas. E por acreditar que o elenco profissional não tinha condições intelectuais para levar à cena peças literárias, estimulou que fossem encenadas por um elenco amador composto pela elite econômica do Rio de Janeiro. Pelo Amor! trata da desolação de uma condessa escocesa frente à perda do esposo e o amor que nutre por ele, o qual engendrará o desfecho trágico de ambos. A atmosfera lúgubre que perdura no drama se reflete na música criada por Leopoldo Miguez, que, tendo sofrido visível influência do músico alemão Richard Wagner, criou temas musicais para as personagens principais e esboçou uma interação entre elas no plano musical. A iniciativa conquistou adeptos mas também recebeu críticas. O mesmo deu-se, no ano seguinte, quando da encenação de Ártemis (música de Alberto Nepomuceno) e Hóstia (música de Delgado de Carvalho), no ano seguinte. Na verdade, muitas foram as críticas, ora às peças, ora à relação entre o texto e a música, reação que, em grande medida, tangia o aspecto político. Ora, a imposição de um novo modelo artístico intentava gerar a reordenação do cenário artístico carioca e a exclusão de obras consagradas pelo público e também parte da crítica, como as óperas italianas, as comédias musicadas e os melodramas. Proponho-me, na presente dissertação, a analisar as três peças de Coelho Netto à luz da produção teatral e crítica da época e sobre a época, e daquilo que os literatos do Rio de Janeiro publicaram a respeito da movimentação cultural da cidade. Ocasionalmente, tal trabalho também irá se estender à partitura das obras, para que a relação entre texto e música seja melhor compreendida.
Abstract: In this work, I analyze the theater plays with which Henrique Maximiniano Coelho Netto (1864- 1934) - important Brazilian writer in the turn of the nineteenth century to the twentieth - started his interference in the stage of Rio de Janeiro, specially the "dramatic poem" Pelo Amor! (1897), the "lyric episode" Ártemis and the "ballad in rhythmic prose" Hóstia (1898). Through these plays, the writer claimed to defeat the crisis he believed the theatre was facing. His criticism aimed the plays presented in the commercial theaters of Rio de Janeiro and the actors and actresses that played them. Thecompanies' repertoire was restricted to almost only teary melodramas and specially musical comedies - the comedies had the contribution of popular music (for example, lundu and maxixe) and presented usually funny and sometimes fantastic situations, with dialogues that eventually leaned upon double senses. Beyond the lack of artistic qualities, Netto considered the musical comedies vicious, because of the sexual insinuation they implied through dialogues and music. Therefore, the writer intended to conduct a regeneration of the stage, using for that the occidental literary tradition, from where the subjects of these plays were chosen. And because he believed the professional artists lacked intellectual conditions to present literary plays, he gave his work to be put on stage by amateur groups that had the economic elite as members. Pelo Amor! presents the desolation of a Scottish countess because of the loss of her husband and the love that she devotes to his, which is responsible for the tragic ending of both. The grim atmosphere that remains in the drama reflects in the music created by Leopoldo Miguez, that had suffered visible influence of the German musician Richard Wagner, for Miguez creates musical themes for the leading characters and paints an interaction between them in the musical field. But the idea didn't have only adepts. The same happened with Ártemis (music by Alberto Nepomuceno) and Hóstia (music by Delgado de Carvalho), in the following year. In fact, many were the detractors of the texts and music of these plays, reaction that is largely related to political aspects, once the imposition of a new artistic model intended to cause the reorganization of Rio's artistic scenery and the exclusion of work of arts that were successful among the public and also part of the critic, like the Italian opera, the musical comedies and the melodramas. I intend to analyze these plays taking in consideration the theatrical and critical production of that time and of nowadays and what Rio's writers published related to the cultural activities of the capital. This work will also occasionally refer to the printed lyrics of the plays in order to understand the relation between text and music.
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Robb, Stuart James. "To begin, continue and complete : music in the wider context of artistic patronage by Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) and the hymn cycle of CS 15." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:122374.

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This thesis takes as its area of exploration the papal chapel choir and its repertory, alongside the papacy and its patronage of the arts at the end of the fifteenth century. It draws on previous research concerning the singers, polyphonic manuscripts and artistic culture of the Vatican, but places Pope Alexander VI as the central figure of the thesis, showing schemes of patronage that shaped his reign. The research presents a transcription and analysis of the hymn cycle contained within the manuscript Cappella Sistina 15, alongside an assessment of the polyphonic music collection and places these against accounts of music making and evidence of music copying at the papal chapel during Alexander’s reign. The thesis also considers the environment of secular music making at Alexander’s court. In order to provide a context in which to understand this information, the life of Alexander VI is examined, tracing his artistic patronage and involvement with music both prior to his election and afterwards. Of particular note is the engagement of the artist Pintoricchio to decorate the papal apartments. Here, the artist’s representation of music as part of the seven liberal arts is analysed, providing a unique, contemporary and important insight into music practices in Alexander’s court. Three classifications of patronage are identified for Alexander’s reign, while also showing that these were strategies that he had used before he became pope. The music culture at the papal chapel is shown to be part of this strategy, through the consolidation of old music and the introduction of new music into the repertory, ending a task that had taken approximately 60 years. It shows that Alexander’s reign was an important period musically, that instituted new musical traditions and created an environment that prepared the way for the golden ages of patronage of Julius II and Leo X.

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Jancaus, Kathryn Beatrice. "Documenting Divas: Adelina Patti and Clara Louise Kellogg in the Chicago Tribune, 1860-1876." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1598021939025324.

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Brooks, Scott A. "To move, to please, and to teach : the new poetry and the new music, and the works of Edmund Spenser and John Milton, 1579-1674." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5034.

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By examining Renaissance criticism both literary and musical, framed in the context of the contemporaneous obsession with the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Horace, among others, this thesis identifies the parallels in poetic and musical practices of the time that coalesce to form a unified idea about the poet-as-singer, and his role in society. Edmund Spenser and John Milton, who both, in various ways, lived in periods of upheaval, identified themselves as the poet-singer, and comprehending their poetry in the context of this idea is essential to a fuller appreciation thereof. The first chapter addresses the role that the study of rhetoric and the power of oratory played in shaping attitudes about poetry, and how the importance of sound, of an innate musicality to poetry, was pivotal in the turn from quantitative to accentual-syllabic verse. In addition, the philosophical idea of music, inherited from antiquity, is explained in order elucidate the significance of “artifice” and “proportion”. With this as a backdrop, the chapters following examine first the work of Spenser, and then of Milton, demonstrating the central role that music played in the composition of their verse. Also significant, in the case of Milton, is the revolution undertaken by the Florentine Camerata around the turn of the seventeenth century, which culminated in the birth of opera. The sources employed by this group of scholars and artists are identical to those which shaped the idea of the poet-as-singer, and analysing their works in tandem yields new insights into those poems which are considered among the finest achievements in English literature.

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Taylor, Chloë. "The aesthetics of sadism and masochism in Italian renaissance painting /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79810.

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This thesis analyses selected paintings and aspects of life of the Italian Renaissance in terms of the aesthetic properties of sadistic and masochistic symptomatologies and creative production, as these have been explored by philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Marcel Henaff, and Gilles Deleuze. One question which arises from this analysis, and is considered in this thesis, is of the relation between sexual perversion and history, and in particular between experiences of violence, (dis)pleasure and desire, and historically specific forms of discourse and power, such as legislation on rape; myths and practices concerning marriage alliance; the depiction of such myths and practices in art; religion; and family structures. A second question which this thesis explores is the manners in which sadistic and masochistic artistic production function politically, to bolster pre-existing gender ideologies or to subvert them. Finally, this thesis considers the relation between sadism and masochism and visuality, both by bringing literary models of perversion to an interpretation of paintings, and by exploring the amenability of different genres of visual art to sadism and masochism respectively.

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Gérard, Fabien. "La certitude et de doute: recherche du mystère et quête identitaire dans le cinéma de Bernardo Bertolucci." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211352.

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Buehner, Katie R. "Accessibility and authenticity in Julia Smith's Cynthia Parker." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5197.

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Comberiati, Daniele. "Ecrire dans la langue de l'autre: la littérature des immigrés en Italie, 1989-2007." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210477.

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Dans ce travail on essaye de donner une définition et une historicisation de ce qu’on appelle « littérature italienne de la migration ». Il y a tout de suite une distinction à faire entre les écrivains étrangers qui écrivaient en italien avant le grand flux migratoire des années ’80 et ceux qui sont issus de cette vague, dont la thèse s’occupe dans une manière plus spécifique (années 1989-2007). Les changements sociaux et culturels que les nouveaux immigrés ont apporté, ont transformé l’Italie de pays d’émigration en pays d’immigration. Au niveau littéraire ces écrivains ont d’abord utilisé un langage standard, pour se faire comprendre du public et pour témoigner les difficultés du voyage migratoire et de l’intégration ;les dernières œuvres, pourtant, analysées dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, ont été écrites par des écrivains qui manipulent plus facilement la langue italienne, utilisant un plurilinguisme témoin d’un lien très stricte entre oralité et écriture, et entre langue d’origine et langue d’accueil. Enfin, les oeuvres des écrivains italophones postcoloniaux et de ceux issus de la deuxième génération peuvent rapporter la littérature italienne contemporaine avec des autres situation (France, Allemagne, Angleterre, Etats Unis) qui semblent très similaires.

ENGLISH: On this work we want to give a definition about “Italian Migrant Literature”. There is a difference between writers came in Italy before or after the migration’s fluxes on the 80’s. With this social and cultural changes, Italy became immigration country. First, migrant writers used a standard language, to have a big public and to talk about migration. Last works are more interesting because they use a plurilingualism that can show the relationship between oral and write. Finally, Postcolonial Italian writers and Second Generation writers make a connection with the literary situation in the other countries (France, Germany, Britain, United States).

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Grappe, Yann D. "La culture du vin dans la littérature italienne du Moyen Âge tardif au début des Temps Modernes: critères de qualité, systèmes de représentation et identités." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210252.

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Cette étude entend rechercher les traces d'une culture gastronomique du vin dans la littérature italienne sur la période à cheval entre l'époque médiévale et les Temps modernes. La littérature, lorsqu'on lui applique une critique appropriée, est en mesure de fournir à l'historien des informations ponctuelles sur la culture du vin. Elle permet également de mettre en lumière le regard porté par les hommes sur cet objet chargé de significations. Dans le cadre de cette étude, la gastronomie ne sera pas considérée comme une notion vague, voire anecdotique mais comme un phénomène culturel qui place l'homme en relation avec les différentes réalités alimentaires, sensorielles et hédoniques.

À quoi tient la qualité d'un vin ?Cette question simple présente l'avantage d'ouvrir une large perspective de recherche historique et anthropologique. Pister les critères de qualité d'un vin pour les hommes d'une autre culture et d'un autre temps c'est aussi comprendre la manière dont ils ont cherché à représenter cet objet. Ce système de représentation révèle la pensée et l'imaginaire des hommes, en même temps qu'il dévoile les valeurs, les identités et les structures socio-économiques d'une société.

Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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