Master of Music / Department of Music / Julie Yu / This report contains an extensive technical and historical analysis of tenor repertoire. It contains modern technical approaches to “Every Valley” and “Thou Shalt Break Them” from Messiah by George Frederic Handel. The report also reviews the history, music theory, and performance techniques of several late Romantic and Neoromantic art songs and arias from Italy, France, and England. The pieces reviewed are the following: “Ouvre tes yeux bleus” by Jules Massenet, “En fermant les yeux” from Manon by Jules Massenet, Three Pastoral Songs by Roger Quilter, Nell by Gabriel Fauré, “Quando ti rivedró” from 36 Arie De Stile Antico by Stefano Donaudy, and “O del mio amato ben” from 36 Arie De Stile Antico by Stefano Donaudy. Finally, this report reviews the popular Spanish art song Granada by Agustin Lara.

published_or_final_version / Chinese / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

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published_or_final_version / Chinese Historical Studies / Master / Master of Arts

本論文共一冊，五章，都九萬言。 第一章：緒論。分述詠花詞之義界、研究動機與研究方法。 第二章：宋代詠花詞之先聲。就宋以前詠花詩、賦、詞作一介紹。 第三章：宋代詠花詞之盛行。就詠花詞盛行之因素作一探究，並概述北宋、南宋，及 宋末元初遺民詠花詞之發展與演變情況；同時選列各期詠花大家數人，舉證以明之。 第四章：宋代詠花詞之研析。就詠花詞之題材、寫物、寄興等表現法，分別闡述之。 第五章：結論。就詠花詞於文學上之價值作一論評。

本文旨在考述兩宋有關孟子著作之初步面貌，期能藉此辨章兩宋各學派研究孟子之流 源本末，並可由各家討論孟子仁義、心性、王霸等問題，得以探尋宋代理學之一端。 全文分序例及總論、現存書目考述、亡佚書目考述、結論四章，約十萬言，各章大旨 如下： 一、總論：總述歷代有關孟子著述之情形，略於漢唐，詳於兩宋，而求其影響元明清 者。兩宋之部，則分列學派以述，並及於其間之關係，俾便探究兩宋孟子學術。 二、現存書目考述：不予分類，惟以作者寺代先後排列，就作者、宗旨、內容、評述 、版本（著錄）分項敘述，期能便於學者尋檢。 三、亡佚書目考述：分可輯佚書目及不可輯佚書目二類。可輯佚者，則於後人著作中 搜羅，以補闕失，並予評述。其不可輯佚者，則查考文（集墓誌銘）、史志、方志等 資料，詳其作者，探其孟子著述旨趣，以見其書之大概。惟里氏生平不可考，又無文 集留存，後人亦未述及者，則列目以存，俾為參考。 四、結語：綜述全文，分述兩宋孟子著述之特點並其影響。

Fonds Français 2245 is a fifteenth-century chansonnier of the Duke of Orleans which is property of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. This thesis describes the document and provides commentary and transcriptions.

Complex behaviors using wings have facilitated the insect evolutionary success and diversification. The Drosophila indirect flight muscles (IFM) have evolved a highly ordered myofilament lattice structure and uses oscillatory contractions by pronounced stretch activation mechanism to drive the wings for high powered flight subject to natural selection. Moreover, the IFM is also utilized during small amplitude wing vibrations for species-specific male courtship song (sine and pulse), an important Drosophila mating behavior subject to sexual selection. Unlike flight, the contractile mechanism and contribution of any muscle gene in courtship song is not known. To gain insight into how separate selection regimes are manifested at the molecular level, we investigated the effect on flight and mating behaviors of mutations in two contractile proteins essential for IFM functions: an IFM-specific protein, flightin (FLN), known to be essential for structural and mechanical integrity of the IFM, and a ubiquitous muscle protein, myosin regulatory light chain (MLC2), known to enhance IFM stretch activation. Comparison of FLN sequences across Drosophila spp., reveal a dual nature with the N-terminal region (63 aa) evolving faster (dN/dS=0.4) than the rest of the protein (dN/dS=0.08). A deletion of the N-terminal region (fln�N62) resulted in reduced IFM fiber stiffness, oscillatory work and power output leading to a decreased flight ability (flight score: 2.8±0.1 vs 4.2±0.4 for fln+ rescued control) despite a normal wing beat frequency. Interestingly, the FLN N-terminal deletion reduced myofilament lattice spacing and order suggesting that this region is required to improve IFM lattice for enhancing power output and flight performance. Moreover, fln�N62 males sing the pulse song abnormally with a longer interpulse interval (IPI, 56±2.5 vs 37±0.7 ms for fln+) and a reduced pulse duty cycle (PDC, 2.6±0.2 vs 7.3±0.2 % for fln+) resulting in a 92% reduction in their courtship success. This suggested that FLN N-terminal region fine-tunes sexually selected song parameters in D. melanogaster, possibly explaining its hypervariability under positive selection. That FLN N-terminal region is not essential but required to optimize IFM functions of both flight and song, indicate that FLN could be an evolutionary innovation for IFM-driven behaviors, possibly through its role in lattice improvement. Mutations of the highly conserved MLC2 [N-terminal 46 aa deletion (Ext), disruption of myosin light chain kinase phosphorylations (Phos), and the two mutations put together (Dual)] are known to impair or abolish flight through severe reductions in acto-myosin contractile kinetics and magnitude of the stretch activation response. Unlike FLN, these MLC2 mutations do not show a pleitropic effect on flight and song. Flight abolished Phos and Dual mutants are capable of singing suggesting that these mutations affect song minimally compared to flight. Moreover, unlike FLN, none of these mutations affect interpulse interval, the most critical sexually selected song parameter in Drosophila. Also, in contrary to the known additive effects of Ext and Phos in the Dual mutant on flight wing beat frequency, a subtractive effect on sine song frequency is found in this study. That mutations in MLC2 are manifested differently for song and flight suggest that stretch activation plays a minimal or no role in song production. The results in this study suggest that the conserved regions of FLN and MLC2 are essential to support underlying IFM contractile structure and function necessary for flight, whereas the fast evolving FLN N-terminal region optimizes IFM's biological performance in flight and species-specific song possibly under positive selection regime.

The song genre constitutes a significant part of J. B. Foertser's work (around 350 songs). In the Czech musical context, Foerster is along with Vítězslav Novák considered a founder of modern Czech song. Despite its unquestionable significance, Foerster's song output remains an unexplored area in musicology. The aim of this diploma thesis is to contribute to the body of scholarship devoted to Foerster by focusing on this area of his work, which has not received adequate critical attention. The main part of the thesis consists of detailed musical-textual analyses of the song cycle Šest písní na básně Puškinovy op. 161 (1937). Through the analyses, the thesis examines the composer's approach to the setting texts to music and points out the qualities of his work. The discussion gives an overview of Foerster's song output and outlines the main critical concerns in this area of his work. The last but one chapter of the thesis compares opus 161 with selected Foerster's song cycles from his previous work periods and an attempt is made to put the opus into the context of the composer's song output as a whole. In the conclusion, opus 161 is discussed in the context of the Czech and, more generally, European song productions.

This diploma thesis disserts on Indian classical music which is generally divided into two main streams called hindustānī and karnāṭak. It starts with a brief introduction of the matter and definition of basic terminology that is associated with Indian music. Next, it introduces, by means of comparison, two main traditions, the principles on which they are build and musical instruments used in them. The theses then focuses on Indian song genres firstly from a theoretical point of view. Secondly, it presents a translation and analysis of several songs chosen from South Indian tradition karnāṭak. Main themes of this vocal tradition are demonstrated on concrete translations and commentaries. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)