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The aim of this study is to introduce the contemporary German composer, Xaver Paul Thoma, and his composition, Ich bin in Sehnsucht Eingehüllt on the poems of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger. This study explores the possible reasons behind Thoma's decision to set the poems, as well as the circumstances and significance of the poets' life and poetry, made known through Thoma's composition. An analysis of each song is included, emphasizing especially the relationship between text and music.

Sergei Mikhailovich Liapunov (1859-1924) was a distinguished Russian composer, pianist and teacher of the late 19th and early 20th century whose works are relatively unknown. His piano pieces were highly regarded and performed by pianists such as Konstantin Igumnov, Josef Hofmann, Josef Lhévinne, Ferruccio Busoni, and Vladimir Horowitz. However, they are rarely included in modern pianists' repertoire both in Russia and abroad, and are often viewed merely for their historic significance. Works of Liapunov are characterized by a life-affirming character and monumental beauty largely inspired by the images of nature as well as the sounds of his native Russian folk songs and dances. His music rarely conveys the urgency or profound melancholy which is often seen in the music composed during the same period by Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Liapunov continued and enriched the great traditions of Russian music started by Glinka and The Mighty Five. He did not discover bold new ways of composing, and at the same time did not succumb to the temptation of following contemporary musical trends. The Twelve Transcendental Etudes, op. 11, dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt, are masterpieces of immense value both from a technical and artistic standpoint. Just like Liszt's études, they were not designed merely to display virtuosity, but to demonstrate that the piano is capable of achieving orchestral sounds and tone painting. There is no doubt that the virtuosic style of Franz Liszt as well as the Russian Romantic tradition and folklore had the greatest influence on Liapunov's Transcendental Etudes. It is also clear that Chopin's works must have occupied a large part of his repertoire. This paper will examine both Russian and Western European influences on Liapunov's style as demonstrated in this étude cycle.

This study examines what Busoni meant by "formal deficiencies" when he described his 1884 version of Chopin Variations, and reveals that changes made to the 1884 version during its process of revision in 1922 correct the "formal deficiencies" and show a fundamental change in Busoni's compositional style and perception of musical motion. Including a detailed analysis of the modifications, omissions, and additions made to the 1922 version (including an examination of the Chopin Prelude in C minor, op. 28, No. 20 as a theme to reveal aspects of its construction used in the variation process), which shows how these changes affect the work's compositional structure.

It is the intent of this thesis to shed a new investigative light upon a musician whose importance as a creative personality and aesthetician has been sorely underestimated or at least unappreciated by fellow musicians and audiences of his own and succeeding generations, a musician who formulated a new musical aesthetic which involved the utilization of compositional techniques diametrically opposed to those which had held dominant influence over the musical world for more than half a century, a musician who attempted to fuse the Italian sense of form and clarity with Teutonic profundity, complexity, and symbolism. This musician was Ferruccio Busoni. This thesis will concentrate on the history of the Faust legend and Busoni's final work, his opera Doktor Faust (c. 1924), the creative problems opera imposed upon Busoni, and his attempt to solve them vis-a-vis his own personal aesthetic.

This study presents an alternative approach to the novels of Franz Kafka through demonstrating that the Kafkan protagonist may be conceptualized in terms of mythic archetypes: the knight errant and the pharmakos. These complementary yet contending personalities animate the Kafkan victim-hero and account for his paradoxical nature. The widely varying fates of Karl Rossmann, Joseph K., and K. are foreshadowed and partially explained by their simultaneous kinship and uniqueness. The Kafka protagonist, like the hero of quest-romance, is engaged in a quest which symbolizes man's yearning to transcend sterile human existence.

J.D. Salinger's "Hapworth 16, 1924," his last published work, is notorious for the initial critical silence it received, as well as the subsequent general consensus that it was a text to revile if not avoid. This thesis proposes that while "Hapworth" is a difficult and perplexing piece, there is a good deal about it that deserves if not outright praise, then a close critical re-examination. Assuming the "author" of the story is not the seven-year-old version of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" suicide Seymour Glass, as the story purports, but his grieving younger brother Buddy, who has spent the years since his brother's death trying to come to terms with it. "Hapworth" is Buddy's final--and perhaps finally successful--attempt to do so.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 S55 / Master of Arts / History

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Historia / Seminario de grado: Sujetos, textos y discursos: una reflexión sobre la construcción de identidad histórica en perspectiva cultural, siglos XVIII-XX / Sebastián Sampieri mediante la confrontación entre la novela “El obsceno pájaro de la noche” de José Donoso y cierta historiografía chilena tradicional, se harán preguntas, disquisiciones e hipótesis referentes al tópico que se desprende de tal relación, es decir, la noche. El comienzo de este trabajo parte de una de las alegorías de la carta de Diego Portales a Tocornal: “El orden social se mantiene en Chile por el peso de la noche”. Se trata de mostrar, por lo tanto, como se ha realizado un “campo textual agrupado” a partir de la diseminación de esta frase. En otro sentido, se quiere señalar como en el texto de José Donoso se produce una especie de ritornelo respecto a toda la tradición interpretativa hecha, a partir, de la alegoría escrita en la carta de Portales. Se intenta, por lo tanto, demostrar los cortes que se dejan expuestos en el quehacer historiográfico, y cómo estas supresiones pasan a formar parte de otro archivo, consignado a su vez en el corpus literario chileno. La necesidad de retro-traer tales contenidos hacia el campo historiográfico, estará dada por la puesta en escena de otro tipo de registro (esquirla) representante verosímil de aquellas instancias suprimidas que se creen presentes en la obra de Donoso.

Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades / Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Ciencias Históricas / En este trabajo de investigación nuestro propósito es el estudio del ideario de las Fuerzas Armadas y las reformas realizadas en el aparato estatal a partir de la insurrección militar de septiembre de 1924, y considerando especialmente el primer gobierno de Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1927-1931). En este sentido, nos gustaría precisar que la década del veinte en la historia nacional constituye una época particularmente importante para el Estado, debido principalmente a la aparición en el ámbito público de una mesocracia presente tanto en las Fuerzas Armadas como en una incipiente tecnocracia. Este sector social, al ingresar al aparato estatal, habría contribuido a diseñar, y a instaurar, una orientación primordialmente técnica por sobre la concepción constitucional-parlamentaria, predominante en la administraciones de comienzos de siglo.