by Wong Yat Sze, Yates. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, leaves 90-98). / VOLUME 1 / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.ii / CHAPTER / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SERGEI PROKOFIEV --- p.5 / Chapter III. --- THE CRITERIA FOR THE USE OF SONATA FORM IN --- p.12 / TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND ITS EXPANDED USE IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY / Chapter IV. --- ANALYSIS OF SELECTED FIRST MOVEMENTS IN PROKOFIEV'S WORKS --- p.14 / Chapter 1. --- "Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 1 (1909)" --- p.15 / Chapter 2. --- "Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, Op. 10 (1911-12)" --- p.18 / Chapter 3. --- "Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 14 (1912)" --- p.19 / Chapter 4. --- "Classical Symphony in D Major, Op. 25 (1916-17)" --- p.22 / Chapter 5. --- "Piano Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 28 (1917)" --- p.26 / Chapter 6. --- "Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 40 (1924-25)" --- p.30 / Chapter 7. --- "Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 44 (1928)" --- p.34 / Chapter 8. --- "String Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 50 (1930)" --- p.39 / Chapter 9. --- "Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 (1935)" --- p.42 / Chapter 10. --- "Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83 (1939-42)" --- p.45 / Chapter 11. --- "Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major, Op. 84 (1939-44)" --- p.48 / Chapter 12. --- "String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92 (1941)" --- p.50 / Chapter 13. --- "Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 94 (1943)" --- p.54 / Chapter 14. --- "Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100 (1944)" --- p.58 / Chapter 15. --- "Piano Sonata No. 9 in C Major, Op. 103 (1947)" --- p.62 / Chapter 16. --- "Symphony No. 6 in E-flat Minor, Op. 111 (1945-47)" --- p.65 / Chapter V. --- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION --- p.70 / Chapter VI. --- BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.90 / VOLUME 2 / APPENDICES --- p.1 / LIST OF APPENDICES / Appendix / Chapter 1. --- Musical Examples --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Prokofiev's Works divided by Periods --- p.145 / Chapter 3. --- Prokofiev's Works divided by Genres --- p.154 / Chapter 4. --- Proportion and Developmental Techniques --- p.155 / Chapter 5. --- "Proportions of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies, First Movements" --- p.157 / Chapter 6. --- Key Relationship between the First and Second Themes of the Exposition --- p.158 / Chapter 7. --- Themes and Tonal Schemes --- p.159 / Chapter 8. --- Map of Soviet Union --- p.164

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-97). / This study compares the military effectiveness of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps during the first 10 months of the Korean War. Representative battles selected from the Pusan Perimeter, the Liberation of Seoul, and the Retreat from the Yalu are analyzed using a process-tracing methodology to identify variations in performance between the two services and to determine the source of these differences when they exist. Predictions drawn from functional and cultural theories are employed to determine which theory provides the best explanation for variations in battlefield performance. Based on this historical analysis, there is little evidence to support general claims of superior Marine Corps effectiveness. When operating under similar conditions, the military effectiveness of both organizations was roughly the same. Those variations in battlefield performance that did exist were largely the result of idiosyncratic geographic conditions combined with physical advantages gained through superior weaponry and organic close air support. Differences in organizational culture had marginal impact. Popular perceptions of Marine Corps achievements based on combat during this period resulted from an organizational strategy that emphasized battlefield exploits as part of a conscious effort to maintain a positive public image. / by Michael Richard Eastman. / S.M.

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The disparity of style and quality between O'Neill's early (1920-1932) and later (1932-1940) plays is explored in this study with emphasis upon O'Neill's use of auto symbolic motifs in the later plays, A Touch of the Poet, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day's Journey Into Night: O'Neill's ability to fuse these auto symbolic motifs into coherent plots creates an emotional intensity in these plays which was absent from his early plays. Beginning with the composition of Ah Wilderness! (1932) O'Neill's plays diverge conspicuously from the earlier compositions, in terms of plot simplicity, character population, reenactment 3f experience in the style of realism, and unity of action and idea. These are the characteristics of his style during the later period which allowed him to make powerful symbols from common objects (autosymbols), such as a uniform and a thoroughbred mare in A Touch of the Poet, a drunkard who despises illusions in The Iceman Cometh, and a wedding dress, a note, and a bank of fog in Long Day's Journey Into Night.Chapter One of this study reviews those characteristics of O'Neill early plays which Eric Bentley has called O'Neill's "notorious faults." According to Bentley and others, O'Neill's early plays are too idea oriented, that is, the themes and symbols of such plays as Mourning Becomes Electra, Strange Interlude, and The Great God Brown do not arise from the action of the story but appear to be grafted onto the story.Chapter One demonstrates that O'Neill's early plays are dramatically ineffective compared to the later ones because of the pretentiousness of his ideas, themes and symbols, and that the incoherent stories and grafted symbolism of the early plays are the result of this pretentiousness.Ronald Peacock's definition of dramatic art is cited in order to demonstrate O'Neill's faulty approach to the drama during the early period and in order to provide a way of talking about the superior quality of the later plays. Before 1932, O'Neill wrote plays in order to demonstrate philosophic ideas; for example, in Dynamo he confronted the idea of the death of the old gods and the failure of science to replace the old gods, but his effort failed because he created an experience (plot) in order to discuss his idea. According to Peacock, this method is backwards; the great play is an experience reenacted as idea, not an idea reenacted as experience. Chapter One suggests that O'Neill's tendency to create a story which demonstrates an idea led him into the grafted symbolism and incoherent plots of the early period, and that this tendency is responsible for the poor characterization of the early plays in which characters such as Nina Leeds, Lavinia Mannon, and Lazarus of Bethany seem too concerned with superpersonal ideas to exist as individuals. After the composition of Ah Wilderness! O'Neill reversed his aesthetic and reenacted experience as ideas.Chapter Two shows how, beginning with his planned cycle, A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, O'Neill placed a growing emphasis upon simplicity of action and individualized characterization, In A Touch of the Poet, for example, the simplicity of action allows O'Neill to create Con Melody, a vibrant and totally believable character. Although the themes of love-hate relations between family members, excessive pride, and escapism are not new to the O'Neill canon, they now arise from the action and character instead of being grafted onto the work. Furthermore, the principal agent for the transmission of these themes is O'Neill's use of the auto symbolic mare and uniform. Also, the symbolic are not merely associated with an individual, but cluster around each of the major characters of the play. In this way these symbols are auto symbolic because they are both symbol of the idea and simultaneously objects of action-in the plot.These same qualities are characteristic of the symbol of Hickey in The Iceman Cometh. He is both a character in the play and a symbolic figure. In Chapter Three Hickey's dual role associates him symbolically with the lie of the pipe dream and the difficulty and necessity of moral reform. In the play, it becomes obvious that Hickey is a symbol of hopelessness when it is revealed that his reform is also an illusion. Because he is a three-dimensional figure as well as a symbolic figure he is auto symbolic.Chapter Four suggests that Mary's wedding dress, Tyrone's note from Booth, and the fog which encases the Tyrone household are O'Neill's most poignant and emotional auto symbols. O'Neill perfected his symbolic technique in this masterpiece, Long Day's Journey Into Night, in the final scene when Mary carries her wedding dress, which is symbolic of the past and at the same time literally an object of action.In concluding remarks, it is shown that we may account for some of the disparity of style and quality between the early and later plays by an examination of the simplicity of action and unity of symbol and action in A Touch of the Poet, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day's Journey Into Night, and that the beginning of O'Neill's rejuvenated vision of the drama occurs when he first sketched the cycle, A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed.

The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive study guide, addressing pedagogical elements to accompany Serge Prokofiev’s Musiques d’Enfants: Twelve Easy Pieces, Op. 65 for solo piano. This study focused on how Prokofiev’s Music for Children, Op.65 prepares students for the composer’s more advanced repertoire using his self-described five compositional “lines” in his autobiography. The study also explored the pedagogical importance of each piece and the best way to prepare students for learning them. Various melodic, rhythmic, and technical exercises were suggested to offer teachers ways to teach fundamental performing principles and to offer students creative exercises and activities to achieve technical fluency. Dynamics, tempo, character, and other stylistic aspects were covered. Chapter one explores the need for the study, definitions of terms, the three time periods of Prokofiev’s compositional output, and the characteristics of his compositional style. Chapter two contains a review of related literature and Prokofiev’s editions. Chapter three includes the method of investigation and discusses Prokofiev’s Music for Children, Op. 65, with teaching and learning suggestions for technical and musical concerns. Chapter four offers a conclusion, implementation of the study, and recommendations for further study. By providing detailed insights into the musical, technical, and interpretive challenges found in Music for Children, Op. 65, the author hopes to provide students and teachers with the background knowledge and practice suggestions needed to understand Prokofiev’s unique musical language and to prepare them for further piano study. / School of Music

Sémiologue, critique et écrivain, Roland Barthes fut l'instigateur d'une nouvelle forme de critique qui s'appuie sur une logique propre au texte. Avec Le Plaisir du texte en 1973, Fragments d'un discours amoureux en 1977 et La chambre claire en 1979 entre autres, Barthes transforme les liens entre le romanesque et la théorie. Dans La chambre claire, le penseur tente de comprendre comment une simple image peut créer et nourrir des sentiments. Ces sentiments, que Georges Didi-Huberman attribue il ce qu'il nomme la scission du regard, troublent la vision du spectateur jusqu'à le questionner et à l'interroger sur sa propre mort. Le seuil investi entre le visible et l'invisible par exemple, ou plutôt le constant franchissement de ce seuil, constitue la brèche d'où le regard se scinde et inquiète. Nous nous servirons des fondements théoriques de cette approche afin de voir comment L'hôtel, Les dormeurs, Suite vénitienne et La filature de Sophie Calle parviennent à mettre en scène l'oscillation, la confrontation et le mélange entre ce qui est visible et ce qui est invisible, produisant un effet captivant et questionnant. Deux figures qui cristallisent ce vacillement seront étudiées afin de cerner deux variations relevant de la dynamique visible/invisible, à savoir la présence et l'absence, et l'apparition et la disparition. La première figure, l'empreinte, possède la capacité de montrer à la fois la présence et l'absence des individus de passage dans les chambres de L'hôtel et des Dormeurs. La deuxième figure, la trace, permet de comprendre les deux actants des jeux d'espionnage, à l'œuvre dans Suite vénitienne et dans La filature, comme des êtres qui apparaissent et disparaissent tout à la fois. Cette étude tente ainsi de comprendre comment la scission du regard opère à travers les phototextes calliens et cherche à montrer comment chacun de nous peut être happé devant une image dialectique. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : visible, invisible, scission du regard, seuil, empreinte, trace

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