Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-82).

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-82).

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-82).

abstract: This is a solo guitar transcription of the first five movements, known as the "Joyous Mysteries," of the Mystery Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, accompanied by a history of the sonata collection, an analysis of the process of translating a Baroque solo sonata to the guitar, and a guide for performance. The work was chosen because of its significance and popularity within violin repertoire, and the suitability of the solo sonata genre for performance on a guitar. The first section of this project addresses the history and appeal of Biber and the Mystery Sonatas. It is supplemented by a brief survey of guitar transcriptions of Biber's compositions, and the value of the present edition in modern guitar literature. The second section explores the process and challenges of arranging the Mystery Sonatas for solo guitar, followed by a summation of the general allowances and limitations the genre offers to arrangers. The third section focuses on performance practice issues encountered in adapting this series and other Baroque solo sonatas to the guitar. The project concludes with the arrangement, complemented with the original violin and continuo parts for comparison. Although instrumentations may force an arranger to impose speculative harmonies and countermelodies on a thin texture or sacrifice inner voices in a denser texture, the solo sonata's instrumentation of melody and continuo provides an effective balance. This style allows an arranger three important details: a clear and paramount melody, a flexible bass line, and harmonies with unspecified voicings. Similarly, the compositional freedom that Baroque composers allowed to performers also facilitates the arranging process and enables a variety of creative solutions. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2014

Rogier van der Weyden's Miraflores Altarpiece (c. 1440) was installed in the Carthusian Monastery of Miraflores, Castile, during a period when early rosary meditation cycles were gaining popularity, particularly amongst Carthusians. This previously unexplored historical context offers a rationale for the innovative iconographic content and structure of the work, as well as for the ways in which it had meaning for its viewers. Like early rosary meditations, the Miraflores Altarpiece combines diverse meditational cycles including life of Christ and the Virgin narratives with the tripartite division of the Marian Psalter. The altarpiece has much in common with the later standardized form of the rosary, which indicates that this format had much earlier roots than had been thought previously. The Miraflores Altarpiece contributes to our understanding of the way visual media participated in the rosary tradition, and of the ways that tradition developed and changed over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. / Art History

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Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 75).

A gestÃo dos recursos hÃdricos passa por uma anÃlise dos meios biÃticos, abiÃticos e antrÃpicos, integrantes da unidade bÃsica de gestÃo que à a Ãrea da bacia hidrogrÃfica, à por isso faz-se necessÃrio o seu monitoramento. O presente estudo visou verificar o atual uso e ocupaÃÃo do solo da agrovila da barragem RosÃrio / CE e do seu entorno, e os seus impactos na gestÃo da prevenÃÃo da quantidade e da qualidade da Ãgua do reservatÃrio, por situar-se em Ãrea adjacente ao reservatÃrio, à ter uma visÃo, econÃmica, social e ambiental do atual nÃvel de desenvolvimento, bem estar e sustentabilidade da populaÃÃo ai inserida. O estudo consta de levantamento junto aos ÃrgÃos pÃblicos estaduais e municipais para a obtenÃÃo de documentos e dados sobre a legislaÃÃo vigente, estudos realizados na Ãrea e outras informaÃÃes pertinentes a barragem RosÃrio, no CearÃ, e sua agrovila. Foi aplicado questionÃrio a todas as famÃlias residentes na agrovila, num total de 26, e mais 13 famÃlias residentes no seu entorno, num raio de 2,0 Km. Ao todo foram entrevistadas 39 famÃlias, para conhecimento das atuais condiÃÃes sociais, econÃmicas, ambientais e institucionais. O trabalho tambÃm apresenta dados quantitativos e qualitativos da Ãgua do reservatÃrio RosÃrio. / The management of water resources requires an analysis of biotic, abiotic and anthropogenic means, part of the basic management unit which is the catchment area, which is why it is necessary to your monitoring. This study aimed to verify the actual use and occupation of the dam agrovila Rosary / EC and its surroundings, and its impact on the prevention management of the quantity and quality of water from the reservoir, to situate themselves in the area adjacent to reservoir is to have a vision, economic, social and environmental sustainability of the current level of development, wellness and sustainability inserted therein population. The study includes survey with state and local for obtaining documents and data on the current legislation , studies in the area and other relevant information to Rosario dam , Cearà , and his agrovila public agencies, Questionnaire over 13 families residing in their surroundings, all within a radius of 2.0 Km Ao was applied to all households in the agricultural community , a total of 26 , and 39 families were interviewed for knowledge of current social, economic , environmental and institutional . The paper also presents quantitative and qualitative data reservoir water Rosario.

The thesis is focused on Marian devotion with great emphasis on Rosary. In regard on this matter papers presents Olomouc as an important catholic town of Central Europe. Result of this development are unique monuments, concretely rare mural paintings. Presented thesis includes five chapters that deals with political and social history of the town, just as global development of Marian devotion and Rosary in Europe, together with acceptance of these ideas and establishment of Rosary Confraternity in Olomouc. The most important aims of thesis are: to particularize knowledge of confraternities in town, of their activity and operations and to conduct a complex iconographic analyse of wall paintings with pinpoint of their donators. And last but not least to discuss the still unreflected inscriptions on the wall of the Chapel of St John the Baptist of St Wenceslas Cathedral in Olomouc.

Rosary devotion has long been considered a "female-centered" religious practice. Despite this correlation, no scholars have investigated the relationship between women and the rosary. In this thesis I attempt to fill that void by examining a range of meanings the rosary held for laywomen in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Northern Europe, c. 1470 to c. 1530. Using a theoretical framework informed by materialism, gender theory, and Marian theory, my thesis argues that beyond its usual associations with indulgences, the rosary also signified prayers for conception and safe childbirth. In reciting prayers to the Madonna, laywomen spiritually and mystically projected themselves into the narrative of the Virgin's pregnancy, desiring to bear a child as Mary bore Christ.To explicate the relationship between women and the rosary, my thesis considers a variety of rosary images: female donors with their prayer beads, Andachtsbilder portraying the Christ Child holding and playing with a string of beads, images of the Holy Kinship, instructive prints from rosary manuals, and early family portrait scenes. As a whole, these images suggest that the rosary symbolized a budding womb, a wife's ideal piety, the desire for children, the maternal qualities of the Virgin, and an amulet to assuage the rigor of childbirth. Lastly, my thesis considers the rosary as religious jewelry. By looking to several examples of women depicted with ornate rosaries, my thesis argues that laywomen wore beads to elevate their status and to emulate the aristocracy. Moreover, wearing rosaries and/or being painted with one's rosary allowed for a public pronouncement of one's private piety. For women, then, wearing a rosary was another way in which they could enter into the public devotional realm. In arguing that the rosary was perceived by women as a blossoming vine, as a piece of religious jewelry, and as an aid in childbirth, I hope to have contributed new ways of understanding this multivalent devotional tool, and to have opened new avenues for others to consider the rosary beyond its usual associations with prayer counting and indulgences.