Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Great style'

Excerpt: In an interview published in the February 1992 issue of The Banjo Newsletter and conducted by bluegrass historian Neil Rosenberg and banjo player and instruction book author Tony Trischka, Carroll Best conveyed the depth of his connections to the instrument he had mastered: “When I was old enough to pick up a banjo I wanted to play.”

Since the 1980s, British-style brass bands - community ensembles modeled after the all-brass and percussion bands of Great Britain - have enjoyed a modest regeneration in the United States. During this same period, as many as 23 colleges and universities in the U.S. have founded their own curricular or extra-curricular brass band. The purpose of this research study was: to discover which schools sponsor a brass band currently; to discover which schools formerly sponsored a brass band but have since discontinued it; to describe the operational practices of collegiate brass bands in the U.S.; and to determine what collegiate brass band conductors perceive to be the challenges and benefits of brass band in the curriculum. Data for the study were collected between February, 2015 and February, 2016 using four custom survey instruments distributed to conductors of college and university brass bands. The results showed that 11 American collegiate institutions were sponsoring a brass band during the period of data collection. Additional findings included descriptions of the operations of collegiate brass bands, such as availability of credit, rehearsal time, and instrumentation. Results also included the conductors' reported perceptions that both challenges and benefits are inherent in student brass band participation, and that brass band is a positive experience for students. An additional 3 community-based brass bands, not sponsored by but located near a college or university, were found to include collegiate students among their player personnel. A total of 9 schools formerly sponsoring brass bands were found to have discontinued their program. A repertoire analysis of 733 titles of compositions performed by both active and formerly active brass bands revealed that bands performed original works for brass band nearly as often as transcribed or arranged works.

David Baker (b. 1931) is an educator, composer, and jazz legend. He has composed at least fifteen works that include the clarinet. Baker’s Clarinet Sonata (1989) has become a standard of clarinet repertoire and a popular recital inclusion. His chamber work Heritage: A Tribute to Great Clarinetists (1996) interweaves solo transcriptions of five jazz clarinetists. The compositional style of Baker’s clarinet works frequently links jazz and classical idioms. The two works discussed in this document are excellent examples for classically trained musicians who would like to increase their ability and experience in interpreting jazz styles. The purpose of this document is: (1) to provide background, style, and performance considerations for Baker’s Clarinet Sonata and Heritage: A Tribute for Great Clarinetists, for Clarinet, Violin, Piano and Double Bass; (2) based on these style elements, to provide suggestions for interpreting jazz-style works for classically trained clarinetists; and (3) to archive Baker’s published and unpublished clarinet compositions. Appendices include transcripts of interviews with David Baker and other experts in this field (James Campbell, Rosana Eckert, Mike Steinel and Steven Harlos).

This study presents findings on the financial management practices and degrees of conflict of couples in great marriages. Qualitative data from a national sample of couples in great marriages were collected using a 31-page questionnaire. Of the 81 couples who responded, 40 fit the criteria for this study in that they discussed their level of agreement about financial issues in marriage. Their responses were coded to discover which financial topics are pervasive and whether or not couples agreed over these topics. Responses about conflict were also analyzed to determine the degree of agreement between spouses in different categories. Findings from this research suggest that even couples in great marriages disagree over different financial topics to varying degrees of agreement. Implications of the research are also discussed.

Les conquêtes et les hauts faits d’Alexandre le Grand ont fait l’objet d’une tradition romanesque à laquelle est donné le titre générique de Roman d’Alexandre ;elle est connue par le biais de nombreuses versions, traductions et adaptations. L’objectif de la thèse est d’évaluer les prétentions littéraires des Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis de Julius Valerius, première version latine connue de ce Roman. Le texte – envisagé comme objet littéraire autonome, en raison, notamment, de la perte de l’original grec dont il constitue la traduction – a été analysé au travers de trois séries d’études, portant sur le lexique, la syntaxe verbale et les figures de style. Effectués sur la base de la dernière édition de référence (ROSELLINI 2004²), ces dépouillements offrent la première vision approfondie des ambitions qui caractérisent la démarche de l’auteur ;ils ont permis en outre d’envisager, à titre d’hypothèse, l’objectif de ce dernier :dans un monde en voie de christianisation, donner à l’élite politique et culturelle un nouvel accès à texte consacré à l’une des figures les plus célèbres de la culture païenne.
Doctorat en Langues et lettres
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This thesis focuses on the British music scene in the 1960s. Popular music was one of the main manifestations of consumerism and influenced the behavior of most young people. The aim of the thesis is to explain the extent in which popular music played a role in the establishment of a consumer society and, above all, the impact caused by interpreters and music groups on the lifestyle of their listeners and audiences.The thesis also examines how the British music developed in the Sixties and how it was characterized.The thesis is based on the assumption that the 1960s' is a key decade in the postwar history of modern society, a time when fundamental changes occurred in the value systems of most Western societies, notably the British. New generations of young people associated with economic prosperity surfaced at that time, fostering the development of the phenomenon of consumer society, thus changing people's lifestyles.The first part of the thesis is dedicated to economic and social assumptions of the development of the consumer society. The second part of the thesis addresses the social structure of the British society, focusing on the youth - arguably, the social extract that was most appealed by popular music. The core part of the thesis analyses the British music scene in the 1960s, with focus on the music groups and also the music industry and its impal on the lifestyle of youth.

During the 1920s and 1930s dire economic conditions in the Greater Caribbean facilitated the rise of political regimes led by peculiar strongmen. This dissertation offers a comparative analysis on the leadership styles of senator Huey Long from Louisiana and president Gerardo Machado of Cuba, who rose and fell during the interwar period in the broad space of the Greater Caribbean. Long and Machado found similar solutions to analogous problems their respective societies were experiencing. They both favored the development of expensive public works programs and created political discourses aimed at empowering poor farmers. At the same time, and thanks to these policies they were able to accumulate unprecedented power. This comparison enables a better understanding of the shape that politics took in this complicated period in history, and suggests a reassessment of simplistic culturally biased explanations influenced by the idea of American exceptionalism by transcending politically determined frontiers.
En los años veinte y treinta del siglo XX condiciones económicas adversas que ocurrieron en el Gran Caribe catalizaron la emergencia de regímenes políticos liderados por peculiares strongmen. Esta tesis ofrece un análisis comparativo del estilo de liderazgo del senador Huey Long de Luisiana y el presidente Gerardo Machado de Cuba, dos políticos que gobernaron en los años de entreguerras en el amplio espacio del llamado Gran Caribe. Long y Machado aplicaron soluciones similares a problemas análogos en sus respectivas sociedades, como fue el desarrollo de extravagantes programas de obras públicas y la creación de discursos políticos destinados a dar voz a granjeros pobres, mientras que acumulaban un poder sin precedentes. Esta comparación permite una mayor comprensión de las formas políticas que se desarrollaron en este complicado periodo y, trascendiendo fronteras políticamente determinadas, sugiere un replanteamiento de explicaciones simplistas y culturalmente predeterminadas, influenciadas por la idea del excepcionalismo norteamericano.

This thesis explores the influence of French royal image-making on English monarchies at the turn of the eighteenth century. It investigates the relevance of Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) to English royal iconography during the reigns of William III (r. 1689-1702) and Queen Anne (r. 1702-1714) across a wide range of source material - from panegyric and portraiture, to medals, sculpture, and architecture. In doing so, it foregrounds the intricate interplay between political communication and different forms of artistic imagination in the early modern period. The thesis conceptualises the relation between post-revolutionary English monarchical image-making and its French counterpart as one of contest with and emancipation from French influence. The specific political circumstances add a particular poignancy to the investigation of this narrative, as the almost continual crises which the English monarchy suffered at the time stand in sharp contrast with the (dynastic) stability of the French monarchy and its highly influential court culture. Despite these elements of rupture and contrast, however, the story of seventeenth-century English monarchical image-making is one of continuity in respect of its gradual disengagement from the French model. In contrast to his immediate predecessors, I contend, William's image-making presents him as Louis's competitor, rather than his imitator. In the course of William's reign, Louis's monarchical model thus turns from model to foil. This development evolves further in Queen Anne's reign, culminating in Louis's mort avant la lettre, as Anne's image-making dispenses with the Ludovican model both as model and as foil. English post-revolutionary image-making, I argue, not only mirrored, but actively contributed to the decline of the Ludovican model, whilst maintaining the figure of the monarch as central to public political discourse. Through the lens of monarchical image-making, therefore, this thesis offers a critical outlook onto late seventeenth-century Anglo-French political and artistic relations.

碩士
高苑科技大學
經營管理研究所
106
As the Learning Effectiveness of students in rural areas will be gradually decline annually and Education-reform with the rapid pace, the educational resources differences of Urban and Rural stutents accepted are increasingly serious trend. This study maimly aims to explore the impact of Educational Resources, School Leadership Style and Teaching Attitude on Learning Achievement for Urban and Rural students in Great Kaohsiung City. The sampling of 334 teachers (including Principals, Directors, tutors, Specialist teachers, Part-time tutors, Candidates for full-time teachers and Part-time teachers etc) and the sampling of 340 students (including in the first grade to the sixth grade) in each town in Great Kaohsiung City are surveyed by Purposive Sampling respectively. Besides, the research methods of this study include Descriptive statistic analysis, Independent sample t-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, Multi-regression etc. These results show that the urban and rural teachers and students in the Great Kaohsiung City are as follows: (1) School Education Resources of both urban and rural teachers and students on Learning Achievement has a significantly positive impact; (2) School (Principals) Leadership Style has a significantly positive impact on Learning Achievement in the students which is different that School Leadership Style has a positive influence on Learning Achievement, but few significantly ; and (3) Teaching Attitude on Learning Achievement has a significantly positive impact. These findings could be provided for the policy-maker of Schools in Great Kaohsiung City as a reference.

碩士
國立交通大學
經營管理研究所
92
The demands of Delivering data on broadband network are in the trend, there are no one can outside these broadband storms. Under the Internet spread like rising winds and surging, the desire to understand what kind of characteristics those ADSL Internet user group have, their anticipations、imaginations and life style upon the virtual society. This study could be helpful for the fixed-network operators in developing their marketing strategies. The study targets are the ADSL subscribers in the Great Taipei area, and research makes use of the EBM consumer behaviors model, this model includes five stages of the purchasing decision making process-Motivation and Needs Recognition、Search for Information、Alternative Evaluation、Purchase and consume Outcomes. And takes the life style variables as criteria of the cluster divided, the results of divided cluster is then examined with the demographics variables、information Searching variables、purchasing motivation variables 、product attribute variables and consuming reality variables. According to this, making the description and analyzing the consumer characteristics of each segmentation.The major results are as following：First,Chunghwa Telecom is the biggest broadband access provider,occupy above ninety percentages market shares,most of the customers have no loyalty.Second, consumers can be segmented effectively by the life style variables.Third,the consumers of each market segment were examined significantly different in demographics variables.Fouth, the consumers of each market segment were examined significantly different in information Searching variables、purchasing motivation variables 、product attribute variables and consuming reality variables.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
翻譯碩士學位學程
106
The present research proposes a corpus-based study of translator’s style, comparing George Kao (Kao Ke-Yi) and Miranda Peng Wang’s Chinese translations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby has been translated into more than 17 Chinese versions in Taiwan and some of them show profound differences in terms of “style”. The majority of previous studies lay more emphasis on the strategies translators use when translating rather than investigate translation itself as an independent creation. The author of this research hopes to delve into translator’s style through several quantitative measurements. In the past, when corpus techniques and tools have not yet been widely adopted by researchers, qualitative methods are employed. Nowadays, quantitative approaches are available thanks to corpus tools. This study compares Kao’s and Wang’s translations using corpus techniques by compiling a parallel corpus and employing corpus processing and corpus analysis tools. A series of tools, Anymalign, LF Aligner, ICTCLAS 2016, AntConc, Microsoft Excel, Chinese Readability Index Explorer, and CUC_ParaConc, are utilized to measure lexical density, type-token ratio, and average sentence length of each translation. Furthermore, two translations are used as reference corpus for each other to generate keyword lists, which demonstrate the two translators’ styles. This study provides a comprehensive and objective approach to analyze translated texts. It introduces corpus-based methods to address the issue of translator’s style in a way that is otherwise difficult to obtain.

Lo studio analizza criticamente l’ambiziosa opera "Pisa. Ein Versuch", composta da Borchardt negli anni dell’esilio italiano e pubblicata nel 1938. La ricerca ha indagato la peculiare ricezione del Medioevo e della sua cultura nell’opera borchardtiana, restituendo importanza al vasto panorama di studi filologici e storici sottesi al testo e, attraverso una solida contestualizzazione, ha evidenziato al contempo l’isolamento intellettuale dell’autore. Colloqui con esperti e docenti delle università di Firenze, Bonn, Parigi e Pisa hanno permesso di definire lo spessore delle competenze linguistiche, filologiche, storiche, letterarie e di storia dell’arte che Borchardt dispiega nel testo e che non erano state debitamente considerate. Grazie alle indagini archivistiche è stato possibile enucleare il peso della lettura filologica delle liriche dei trovatori provenzali che l’autore affianca a una notevole riflessione sull'opera di Giovanni Pisano. La ricerca ha colto così il respiro europeo nel quale si inserisce l’opera borchardtiana. La dissertazione, suddivisa in sei capitoli, esordisce con l’analisi di un testo sulle città italiane in cui l’autore prende posizione a favore di un’immagine dell’Italia la cui intrinseca natura può essere colta soltanto ai margini del processo di modernizzazione. La ricerca ha inoltre sottolineato quanto rilevante sia stata l’ascendenza humboldtiana nella definizione del rapporto fra ambiente naturale e civiltà umana, così cruciale in Borchardt. Lo studio esamina quindi la connessione fra stile architettonico, stile di vita, arte figurativa e poesia mettendo in luce come l’autore comprenda questi aspetti quali diretta emanazione della civiltà imperiale romana. A questo assunto la ricerca collega l’imponente impresa traduttiva affrontata da Borchardt nel trasporre la Commedia dantesca in un tedesco arcaico che dovrebbe restituire l’alterità di Dante rispetto alla cultura moderna. Quindi la dissertazione ricostruisce la genesi di "Pisa, Ein Versuch" a partire dai saggi e dagli interventi pubblicistici della seconda metà degli anni Venti, che convergono nel progetto di fondazione di una nuova “Mittelalterliche Altertumswissenschaft”. Nel circoscrivere i lineamenti di questa nuova disciplina viene opportunamente esaminato il decisivo influsso esercitato da Stefan George sul pensiero e sulla sensibilità poetica di Borchardt. Nella sezione centrale della tesi prende forma la visione borchardtiana di Pisa città imperiale che l’autore oppone al campanilismo comunale inserendola così in una prospettiva sovranazionale tutta proiettata verso il futuro e l'Europa. Al centro di questa analisi troviamo le figure di Arnaut Daniel, Giovanni Pisano e Federico II imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero. Un suggestivo spunto di lettura ha permesso di contrapporre la visione della romanità imperiale, quale ereditata da Pisa, alla coeva visione fascista della romanità, alla quale mai si piegherà il filologo e lo studioso. Nell’ultima sezione viene ricostruita l’immagine del Medioevo proposta da Borchardt che se risente fortemente della lezione di Stefan George e delle sollecitazioni del George- Kreis, si riallaccia tuttavia alla lettura novalisiana dell’Europa medievale. Al contempo lo studio evidenzia in che modo l’analisi che Borchardt propone della Pisa medievale sospinta ai margini del percorso storico, assume tratti fortemente personali: Pisa e la sua “Causa victa” costituiscono di fatto una proiezione autobiografica dell’autore che mette in risalto la vicenda dell’uomo e dell’intellettuale Borchardt nella sua sempre più dolorosa solitudine, fino alla morte che lo coglierà durante la deportazione. This study investigates the ambitious work "Pisa. Ein Versuch" that Rudolf Borchardt composed during the years of the Italian exile and published in 1938. The research aims at returning the significance this writing deserves providing a critical analysis of the peculiar reception of the Middle age and its contemporary culture in Borchardt’s work, focusing on the large philological and historical background underlying the text. The study presents an unavoidable and solid contextualization highlighting the intellectual isolation of the author. Conversations with experts and Professors of the Universities of Florence, Paris Sorbonne, and Bonn enabled establishing the depth of the linguistic, philological, historical and literary knowledge the author deploys in this text, which had not been brought into focus so far. Thanks to a precise archival survey the study has shown the importance of the extraordinary reflection on the Provencal Troubadours that Borchardt carries out by linking their poems to the masterpiece by Giovanni Pisano, hosted in the Duomo of Pisa. The study has thus demonstrated the European profile of Borchardt’s work. The research is divided in six chapters, the first chapter provides both a textual and contextual analysis of a writing Borchardt dedicates to Italian towns, where he strongly identifies the possibility of discovering the true nature of the Italian landscape only at the edge of the incessant modernisation process. The inquiry has highlighted how crucial was for Borchardt the influence of Humboldt’s vision with relation to the definition of natural habitat and human civilization. Furthermore, the research examines all the references Borchardt develops in a network where he associates the Italian architectural style with the Italian life-style, figurative art with poetry and shows to what degree all these aspects of the Italian culture and life are derived from the Imperial Roman society. The connection with the Latin culture conducts the research to examine the impressive work of translating the “Divina Commedia” into a medieval archaic German, language that Borchardt himself created, in order to highlight the alterity of Dante in relation to modern culture. The study reconstructs the genesis of the text “Pisa. Ein Versuch” starting from the essays and the public speeches Borchardt held during the second half of the Twenties, all of which converge on the project of the constitution of a new “Mittelalterliche Altertumswissenschaft”. In specifying the features of this new discipline, the study provides an extensive examination of the influence exercised by Stefan George on the thought and on the poetic sensitivity of Borchardt. The central section of the research outlines and discusses Borchardt vision of Pisa as imperial town, opposing the communal parochialism to a multinational or extranational vision that projects Pisa into the future and towards Europe. At the centre of this idea are the characters of Arnaut Daniel, Giovanni Pisano and the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. A suggestive reading made possible a confrontation aimed at opposing the conceptual framework of the imperial Romanitas as inherited by Pisa, to the contemporary fascist vision of the Romanitas whose historical ideal the philologist and cultivated author would never accept. The last section of the study discusses the image of the Middle age that Borchardt proposes in his book, showing that if the influence of George and the George-Kreis is clearly evident, Borchardt’s ideal is much more connected to the notion of medieval Europe as evoked by Novalis. At the same time, however, he marks a break with the external influences, proposing a personal interpretation of the story of Pisa, a town that political events has driven to the margins of history and now takes on personal aspects of the author: Pisa and its “Causa victa” embody the biographical condition of the author, evidencing the human drama of Borchardt both as an intellectual and as a man in his more and more sorrowful loneliness, until death took him during the deportation towards Germany.

碩士
中國文化大學
藝術研究所
95
The so-called Four Great Master - Huang Kung-wang, Ni Tsan, Wang Meng and Wu Chen - are the representative artists of the Chinese literati painting of Yuan Dynasty. Huang Kung-wang’s ashy and bushy landscapes appear to be boundless, indistinct yet beautiful and in leisure, with free and easy pen and ink. His works had achieved a state of noble and refined appreciation of nature. The essence of Wu Chen's landscape is simplicity. His brush stroke is vigorous in round motions, with facile ink and water spreading, producing a rich and thick ambience. Ni Tsan’s brush work is sketchily and spontaneous, with expansive and elegant composition. His masterpieces exhibit a world of simplicity, leisure and desolation. Wang Meng prefers to use solid, dense brush strokes and dots. His composition is rich yet ordered with room and figures. His style demonstrated a sense of profoundness, concentration in fullness. Their works followed the traditional line of Chinese culture in history, developed under Mongols rule. The four masters' styles exhibit unique personal flavors due to different background, teaching and understanding of the art.

In the face of globalisation, one of the challenges for Christians ministering to asylum seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom is the question of integrating Christian asylum seekers and refugees into the Christian community. British churches and para-church organisations that are involved in refugee ministry have to decide whether they want to support the formation of independent refugee churches or the integration of refugees and asylum seekers into local indigenous churches. This thesis examines these options from a missiological perspective. Two social research projects form the heart of this study. One compares the life and ministry of two mature minority ethnic churches, the other investigates the integration process at a British church that has been involved in refugee ministry for almost a decade. Contrary to the widespread view that the establishment of homogeneous churches is crucial for the mission of the church in postmodern British society, the findings of this research suggest that the integration of asylum seekers and refugees into indigenous British churches is the better option. They further demonstrate that it is not the mono-ethnic refugee church but the multi-ethnic church which makes the greater contribution to the integration of Christian asylum seekers and refugees and to the missio Dei in Britain. In a multi-ethnic church, asylum seekers and refugees serve as role models to British Christians and especially as effective agents of mission. These research findings also show that the integration of asylum seekers and refugees is promoted through the congregation within the congregation model and an incarnational approach to mission. However, they equally indicate that various stumbling blocks can hinder the integration process. These include a low ecclesiology, a conversionist approach to mission, a lack of awareness of globalisation, and a reactive leadership style and church culture.
Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
D. Th ((Missiology)Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology)

The thesis is thematically aimed at the issue of impacts of selected respondents' membership in an informal group, it is oriented on the organization of children and youth leisure time, in particular; mostly in the form of long-term holiday stays in the wild. The work is focused mainly on questions, which role in selected members of the group is played by factors, such as family background, personality development, mental status, great experiences, personality of a group leader, interpersonal relationships in the group, environment in which the group forms, etc. The theoretical part shall seek to describe the issues of children and youth leisure time with an emphasis on sociological and psychological point of view. The practical part consists of monographic research and qualitative research. The aim of the monographic research is to describe by means of historical methods the development of group in time, based on social changes which during the existence of this group in the society happened. The aim of the qualitative research is to identify not only the effects of membership in the group to selected respondents, even also causes of these effects. The result of the qualitative research is to establish hypotheses; however, these hypotheses due to the nature of the research cannot be relevant to...