Traditional scholarship has stated that the serpent and ophicleide (as well as their successor, the tuba) were developed and added to the standard orchestra to add a bass voice to the brass, allowing a tonal compass to match a similar downward expansion in the strings and woodwinds. A closer reading of the earliest scores calling for these instruments reveals a more coloristic purpose, related to timbre as much as to compass. Indeed, the fact that composers rarely wrote for serpent and ophicleide makes two points: it proves them to be inadequate choices as a brass bass, and when they were called for, they had an expressive, often descriptive purpose. Despite his conservative musical education supervised by Carl Friedrich Zelter, the seventeen-year-old Mendelssohn, under the influence of A. B. Marx, used the Corno inglese di basso, an upright version of the serpent, in his Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream to give a more rustic flavor to Bottom's ass-braying. Even when the English bass horn functioned as a bass voice, it was playing in contexts that were descriptive, where it often demonstrated its musical inadequacy. Berlioz's descriptive writing for the serpent and ophicleide are well known. A remarkable feature which Symphonie fantastique shares with works by the other composers is the confidence Berlioz showed in the ophicleide's functional independence by occasionally giving it an arpeggiated figure while the rest of the orchestra sustains the chord. Wagner's writing for the serpent and ophicleide in Rienzi follows the less imaginative conventions of French grand opera. In Der fliegende Holländer the ophicleide, while not used as descriptively as Mendelssohn and Berlioz, nevertheless contributes significantly to Wagner's emerging focus on the inner lives of his characters and expressive commentary on the stage action. Tubists should consider the expressive implications and the unique timbre of these instruments when performing works originally written for the forerunners of the tuba.

Die Legende von der unsichtbaren Stadt Kitesch setzt den für Rimskij-Korsakov langwierigen und fruchtbaren Streit mit Wagner fort und schließt ihn ab. Von einem Sieg des einen Künstlers über den anderen kann hier keine Rede sein. Eins ist jedoch unstrittig: gäbe es keinen Parsifal, wäre auch Kitesch anders geschrieben.

A sermon after a crisis or traumatic event requires great pastoral care. How do we put what happened into words? When things are so devastating that words are not enough? How do we speak about hope and despair in the midst of a crisis? This thesis aims to analyze sermons in the Church of Sweden after the attack on Drottninggatan, Stockholm, Sweden in 2017. Nine sermons held in the weeks following the attack have been analyzed. The theoretical background and theme of the analysis has been psychotraumatology and trauma-informed theology. The thesis’ process has been an inductive approach, as it begins in the material and then compares these against the selected aspects. The questions asked in the thesis are: “What qualities can be found in these sermons after the terrorist attack at Drottninggatan?“ As well as two sub-questions about the respective perspectives: “Which psychotraumatological perspectives were found in the sermons?” and “What perspectives of trauma-informed theology were found in the sermons?” The analysis of sermons and the answer to the first question resulted in five common themes: Responsibility and humanity, The terrorist attack and evil, The Bible and God, Despair and Hope. Based on this, both theoretical aspects have been used to analyze the results.

L'objectif de ces travaux est de déterminer les chargements hydrodynamiques agissant lors du tossage de structures navales. La connaissance de ces chargements est par exemple importante pour le dimensionnement de bulbes d'étrave en composites abritant un sonar. Nous nous sommes orientés vers le développement d'un modèle d'impact hydrodynamique tridimensionnel basé sur la théorie de Wagner. Cette approche constitue un compromis intéressant entre précision des résultats, facilité de mise en oeuvre et temps de calcul. Dans le modèle proposé, le problème de Wagner tridimensionnel est formulé en termes de potentiel des déplacements. Une méthode numérique originale est proposée pour déterminer la ligne de contact de façon approchée. La pression est ensuite calculée en utilisant le modèle de Logvinovich modifié. L'ensemble de l'approche proposée a été appliquée à différentes formes tridimensionnelles. Ces résultats ont été comparés à des résultats d'essais d'impacts hydrodynamiques à vitesse constante réalisés à l'aide d'une machine de choc hydraulique. De plus, des résultats issus de simulations par éléments finis d'impacts hydrodynamiques ont été réalisées. L'ensemble des résultats présentés démontre les capacités prédictives de l'approche proposée ainsi que ses avantages pour une utilisation en bureau d'étude.

This is an analysis of the contributions of Richard Wagner's ideas to the development of Adolf Hitler as seen by various historians. This author has consulted the works of many different authors to attempt to find the ideological roots of Adolf Hitler. The ideology of Richard Wagner, as seen by some of the most pre-eminent historians of this period, has been applied to the ideas of Hitler to find any continuity between these two men. All historians consulted thought Wagner was, for some more, others, less, a contributor to the development of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism. This author has concluded that Wagner was a contributor, but that Hitler's personal environment was more important to the development of National Socialism. This thesis explores an area into which no one has really delved in depth. Hopefully, this thesis can be a springboard for further research into this area.

Zugl.: Regensburg, Univ., Diss., 2008 u.d.T.: Maier-Eroms, Verena Eleonore: 'Heldentum' und 'Weiblichkeit' im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit

Zugl.: Regensburg, Univ., Diss., 2008 u.d.T.: Maier-Eroms, Verena Eleonore: 'Heldentum' und 'Weiblichkeit' im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit

Thesis (Ph.D. (English)) - Rhodes University, 2009.

Diss.--Hambourg, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 499-514. Index.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-23T22:02:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o mapeamento temático de duas pequenas propriedades rurais do município de Alfredo Wagner (SC), bem como sua adequação com relação à aptidão agrícola de uso das terras e a legislação ambiental por meio de geotecnologias. Apresentam-se como objetivos específicos: avaliar as ortofotos digitais geradas, a precisão das coordenadas dos pontos de controle e dos vértices das propriedades. Isto, visando o mapeamento temático do uso e da aptidão das terras, que foram confrontados com as recomendações (APP e reserva legal) da legislação ambiental vigente. O município de Alfredo Wagner está localizado na Serra Geral, na região sul do Brasil e situa-se na parte mais alta da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Itajaí, no Alto Vale do Rio Itajaí, na região de transição entre o litoral e o planalto catarinense. Foram utilizados: i) aerofotos (em papel fotográfico e em filme) na escala nominal de 1:25.000; ii) scanner gráfico (scanner de mesa) e scanner fotogramétrico; iii) receptores GPS topográfico (Leica GS20 e ProMark X) e GPS de navegação (eTrex); e, iv) modelos digitais de elevação (SRTM e IBGE). A base cartográfica em meio digital refere-se a escala 1:50.000 e o software SIG utilizado foi o ILWIS 3.2 Academic, ITC, Holanda (2004) que atendeu plenamente aos propósitos desta pesquisa. As ortofotos foram geradas por oito combinações diferentes, a partir das fotografias aéreas métricas (papel e filme), dos receptores GPS (navegação e topográfico) e dos MDEs (SRTM e IBGE). As combinações foram testadas e avaliadas de maneira visual e numérica, esta última considerou a orientação interior, exterior e a raiz do erro quadrático médio. A pesquisa apontou viabilidade de utilização de todas as ortofotos geradas para apoiar a realização do mapeamento temático de pequenas propriedades rurais, inclusive as combinações que utilizaram aerofotos em papel com o emprego de GPS de navegação. O mapeamento pode subsidiar, a baixo custo, profissionais de extensão rural na elaboração do planejamento, orientação dos agricultores quanto à adequação das propriedades rurais à legislação ambiental e na concepção de projetos agrícolas. / The main objective of this work is to analyze the thematic mapping of two small farms, as well as their fitness related to the land use and environmental legislation suitability using geotechnologies, in Alfredo Wagner municipality in the #Alto Vale do Itajaí# region, in Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil. Besides, specific objectives include to evaluate the generated digital orthophotos, the accuracy of the control points and farms corners coordinates, looking at the land use and land suitability thematic mapping, which was compared to the environmental legislation recommendations (APP # permanent preservation areas and legal reserves). Alfredo Wagner is located in #Serra Geral#, in the upper part of Itajaí River Watershed, in the transitional area between the coast and Santa Catarina plateau. It was used the following materials: i) aerial photographs (photographic paper and film) from the 1977-1979 survey period, made by Aerofoto Cruzeiro SA company, in 1:25 000 nominal scale; ii) graphic scanner (table scanner) and photogrametric scanner; iii) topographic GPS (Leica GS 20 and ProMark X) and navigation GPS (eTrex model); and iv) digital elevation models (SRTM and IBGE). The data cartographic base refers to a 1:50 000 scale, in digital format and the GIS program used was ILWIS v3.2 Academic (ITC, The Netherlands, 2004), which was fully appropriated to achieve the research objectives. The aerial photographs were generated by the use of eight different combinations, from two kinds of metric aerial photographs (paper and film), two types of GPS receptors (navigation and topographic) and two digital elevation models sources (SRTM and IBGE). The combinations were tested and evaluated by means of visual and numeric ways, considering the internal and external orientation, and the root mean square error. The research shows the feasibility of the orthophotos and navigation GPS use to support the thematic mapping in small farms. The thematic mapping can help rural extensionists to make planning, to orient the farmers in relation to the farms suitability to the environmental legislation and in the production of agricultural projects.