Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'George Ritzer'

The thesis investigated the social and symbolic significance of acquiring a 'music education' through the taking of piano tuition and external public music examinations. It aimed to discover why the learning of the piano and the certification of musical attainment are so prevalent and revered among Malaysian music students. Its purpose was to unravel the socio-cultural raison d'etre of this approach to music education through the creation of a metatheoretical schema, which is premised upon the theories of symbolic interactionist, George Herbert Mead, music analyst, Heinrich Schenker and social theorist, George Ritzer. Central to the argument in this instance is the symbolic significance associated with the act of playing the piano. The investigation attempted to determine if this 'act' conveyed a symbolic meaning that is peculiar to a specific cultural vista. It further examined the degree to which this practice represented both a validation and a sense of conformity to social norms in the continuity and stability of an expanding middle class society in Malaysia. The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) is the largest of the five main external public music examination boards that operate in Malaysia. Since 1948, over one million candidates have enrolled for ABRSM examinations in Malaysia and a team of approximately thirty ABRSM examiners visit Malaysia for three months every year. The majority of the candidates are pianists. Given such large numbers of piano candidates, one might expect a healthy development of musical talent in the country with aspiring pianists eager to demonstrate their musical prowess. However, this does not seem to be the case. On the contrary, there appears to be a curious lacuna between the growing number of students who enrol for external public music examinations and the seemingly lack of interest in public music making and the honing of general musicianship skills. The thesis hence examined the symbolic meaning of this socio-rausicological phenomena.

The thesis investigated the social and symbolic significance of acquiring a 'music education' through the taking of piano tuition and external public music examinations. It aimed to discover why the learning of the piano and the certification of musical attainment are so prevalent and revered among Malaysian music students. Its purpose was to unravel the socio-cultural raison d'etre of this approach to music education through the creation of a metatheoretical schema, which is premised upon the theories of symbolic interactionist, George Herbert Mead, music analyst, Heinrich Schenker and social theorist, George Ritzer. Central to the argument in this instance is the symbolic significance associated with the act of playing the piano. The investigation attempted to determine if this 'act' conveyed a symbolic meaning that is peculiar to a specific cultural vista. It further examined the degree to which this practice represented both a validation and a sense of conformity to social norms in the continuity and stability of an expanding middle class society in Malaysia. The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) is the largest of the five main external public music examination boards that operate in Malaysia. Since 1948, over one million candidates have enrolled for ABRSM examinations in Malaysia and a team of approximately thirty ABRSM examiners visit Malaysia for three months every year. The majority of the candidates are pianists. Given such large numbers of piano candidates, one might expect a healthy development of musical talent in the country with aspiring pianists eager to demonstrate their musical prowess. However, this does not seem to be the case. On the contrary, there appears to be a curious lacuna between the growing number of students who enrol for external public music examinations and the seemingly lack of interest in public music making and the honing of general musicianship skills. The thesis hence examined the symbolic meaning of this socio-musicological phenomena.

Georg Wenzel Ritter (1748-1808) was one of the greatest bassoon players from the past. He was an indispensable part of the Mannheim orchestra, arguably the finest musical ensemble in Europe at that time. He was known all over Europe as a bassoonist with tremendous ability and frequently traveled abroad as a soloist. He also taught many students throughout his lifetime, including Etienne Ozi and Georg Brandt. The bassoon on which Ritter performed was a six-keyed bassoon. This instrument precedes the earliest known documented evidence of the six-keyed bassoon's existence by nearly fifteen years. Ritter also left us a fingering chart which lists an extreme range, going all the way up to eb2 Ritter composed several works which have been out of print for over 200 years or are only available in manuscript. These works include a set of quartets for bassoon, violin, viola, and bass instrument and a duet for two bassoons. These compositions give us an excellent indication of the high level of Ritter's playing ability through the many technically demanding passages. Moreover, other composers, including W. A. Mozart, knew Ritter's playing well and composed some of their own works with Ritter in mind for the bassoon parts. Some of Mozart's works for Ritter include the bassoon parts to the opera Idomeneo K366 and the Sinfonia Concertante for Winds K297b. Ritter is certainly an important figure in the history and development of bassoon playing and deserves more recognition as a prominent bassoon performer, teacher, and composer from the 18th century.

An examination of the musical style, compositional techniques and performance practice issues of American composer Thom Ritter George with special attention paid to his Quintet No. 4 written in 1986. The document also includes a short history of brass instruments in chamber music, history of the brass quintet in America, discussion of the role of the trumpet in the quintet, overview of the composers contributions to music and brass quintet in America, discussion of the role of the trumpet in the quintet, overview of the composers contributions to music and brass quintet, and background information on the composer.

Saint Georges : “Un Saint “Partagé” en Méditerranée ? Approche historique et anthropologique du pèlerinage (Turquie et Liban)Résumé Les peuples du bassin méditerranéen partagent depuis multimillénaires des manières de vivre et de pratiquer leur foi, qui résistent aux divisions religieuses et aux manipulations politiques Le paysage religieux de la Méditerranée orientale est plus complexe et marqué par un foisonnement de formes de convergence interconfessionnelle moins éclatantes. Certains sanctuaires ambigus convoquent parfois les fidèles des trois religions monothéistes. Cette thèse souligne les transformations récentes du religieux et la conversion du regard anthropologique vers une lecture plus sensible aux changements économiques, politiques et culturels qui affectent rites et sanctuaires Bien que cette thèse porte sur deux études de cas particuliers, à savoir Aya Yorgi en Turquie et Mar Jirjes al Batiyeh au Liban, elle s’appuie sur une recherche multidisciplinaire pour définir un contexte plus large. Ces lieux sont explorés en profondeur grâce à une analyse qualitative, tout en prenant en compte des travaux parallèles concernant d’autres sites tels que Lod (Israël), Edirne (Turquie) et Athènes (Grèce). Partant de la recherche de la spiritualité autour des sites dédiés à saint Georges, mes découvertes révèlent des aspirations spirituelles et séculières et suggèrent une déconstruction de pôles de sens tels que sacré et profane, mouvement et lieu, religion et laïcité, communauté et individu. En s’appuyant sur diverses approches méthodologiques, cette étude arrive à la conclusion que, contrairement à la perception commune, les formes traditionnelles de rituels religieux ne sont pas nécessairement incompatibles avec la culture de consommation moderne. A travers celle-ci, les traditions religieuses sont en train de se revitaliser. La popularité renouvelée du pèlerinage aujourd'hui montre comment certains paysages et espaces religieux comme ceux d'Aya Yorgi et d'Al Batiye sont restés importants grâce aux mouvements politiques et religieux, à la littérature, aux médias, aux marchés touristiques spécialisés et à l'entreprise privée. Enfin, cette étude révèle une image d'une grande diversité de groupes et d'individus qui les visitent.Dans le monde universitaire occidental moderne, le sujet des saints et des pèlerinages « partagés » semble avoir été le plus clairement mis en évidence par un archéologue britannique vivant au début du siècle dernier et poursuivant des recherches à la British School d'Athènes, où il s'est concentré sur des sanctuaires ambigus dans les anciennes possessions ottomanes, principalement dans les Balkans et en Anatolie, avec un intérêt supplémentaire pour la Syrie et la Palestine. FW Hasluck (1878-1920) a étudié ces sites avec un regard particulier sur la religion populaire turque et le transfert de sanctuaires de tradition religieuse à une autre, en plus des cas de parrainage multi-religieux continu et fluide sur un même sanctuaire, comme c’est aussi le cas dans cette étude. Son œuvre, portant sur le christianisme et l'islam sous les sultans, est la plus complète de ce genre
Saint Georges: "A Shared Saint" in the Mediterranean ? An Historical and Anthropological Approach to Pilgrimage (Turkey and Lebanon)Abstract The people of the Mediterranean basin share ways of living and practicing their faith, which resist religious divisions and political manipulations. The religious landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean is more complex and is marked by forms of inter-confessional convergence. This thesis is an anthropological gaze towards a reading of political and cultural changes that affect sanctuaries and recent transformations of rites around two ambiguous shrines. Although this thesis pays attention to two case studies in particular, namely Aya Yorgi in Turkey and Mar Jirjes al Batiyeh in Lebanon, it draws on multi–disciplinary research in order to set a broader context. These places are explored deeply through qualitative analysis, while at the same time taking note of parallel work concerned with other sites such as Lod, Edirne and Athens. Ranging from the search for spirituality around the sites dedicated to St George, my findings that include spiritual as well as secular aspirations suggest a deconstruction of poles of meaning such as sacred and profane, movement and place, religion and secularity, community and individual. This methodologically diverse study argues that, contrary to perception, traditional forms of religious rituals are not necessarily incompatible with late–modern consumer culture. Through consumer culture, religious traditions are being revitalized. Despite the “deep rooted kinship” of the territorial resemblances of modern Turkey and Lebanon, for almost one hundred years, they have been evolving in their own separate lines and pace. Turkey has almost managed to become a nation state after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, less heterogeneous in terms of religious confessions and growing prevalence of Sunni Islam in public and private sphere along with ambivalent secularism. However Lebanon on the other hand is a small country in the region with sectarian political structural system where the confessions sometimes act like different ethnical entities and creating a nation is still a goal matter. Therefore via this study I aim to clarify if the difference between two countries’ demographic, linguistic, and socio political constructions have impact on the attribution of meaning to recently popular anthropological research area: “shared sacred sites” The shared sacred sites that I am scrutinizing throughout this study are both dedicated to Saint George - an outstanding saintly figure all around Middle East, Europe and Balkans: Aya Yorgi is the Turco-Greek name for Saint George and Mar Jirjes (Jiryes, Gerges) is the name given to the same saint in Lebanese Arabic

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.
Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed June 24, 2010) Kathryn McClymond, committee chair; Timothy Renick, Gary Laderman, committee members. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-76).