Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2008

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Universiẗat, Diss., 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1911. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1911. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1873. / Vita.

Zugl.: Wuppertal, Univ., Diss., 2007

abstract: The purpose of this research is to uncover connections between Chinese composer Shande Ding and Western composers, as found in the development of Ding’s compositional style. Ding’s solo piano pieces are representative of his overall stylistic tendencies. As an innovative composer, Ding’s experiments in combining various and bold musical materials with Chinese traditional styles became the model for contemporary Chinese composers and those of the next generation. There is little research, and few recordings of Ding’s work available in the United States. Most of the research remains in China, including his biography, styles, the analyses of specific pieces, etc. To date, Yuefang Liu has contributed the only dissertation on the merging of Eastern and Western Music Cultures that mentions Shande Ding, and it cites only Ding’s early piano works. Some articles have suggested that Ding may have been influenced by western composers, but there is no actual exploration of the proposition. This paper will offer some pedagogical suggestions by dividing Ding’s solo piano works into different levels of difficulty, along with tips on performance and teaching approaches. Both the connection between piano works of Western composers and Shande Ding, and Ding’s resultant compositional style, will be explored. It is hoped that the project will expand further interest in Ding’s solo piano works. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2020

[pt] O lugar que o silêncio ocupa, tanto na prática analítica como na música, é central. Buscamos no presente trabalho interrogar esse silêncio, supondo encontrar nele um ponto de interseção possível entre os campos em questão. Na música, o silêncio aparece, primeiramente, como aquilo que, estruturalmente, a nega, permitindo-lhe, assim, existir. É o vazio que confere ao som, sua forma. Por outro lado, o silêncio, por vezes imposto à própria música, aparece também nisso que esta levanta problemas de ordem ética e política. Em psicanálise, o silêncio, além de também ter uma posição estrutural, remete à pulsão. Invenção freudiana, a pulsão, mito que é, é aquilo de onde pode vir a advir um sujeito, isto é, a condição de possibilidade de uma escolha ética por parte do ser de linguagem. Jacques Lacan retoma o circuito pulsional de Freud e seus quatro termos e nos mostra que esse circuito se dá em torno de algo: o objeto a. Objeto causa de desejo e de angústia, o objeto a aparece sob diversas formas nos níveis do desenvolvimento subjetivo, a saber, oral, anal, fálico, escópico e vocal. Com Lacan, vemos que a voz é o mugido bestial do pai morto, grito de um deus sacrificado que assombra a linguagem. Trata-se de uma voz silenciosa mas presente, com efeitos no real. Sendo uma forma de calar essa voz, de abafá-la, a música, paradoxalmente, também veicula de forma privilegiada esse objeto e cria um vazio ao qual propomos, fechando o circuito, dar outro nome: o silêncio. / [en] In music and in the psychoanalytical practice alike, silence occupies a central place. We sought, in the present work, to interrogate this silence, assuming to find in it, a possible intersection between the two fields. In music, silence appears, first of all, as that which structurally denies it, allowing it, thus, to exist. It is the emptiness that confers to sound, its form. On the other hand, silence, sometimes imposed on music itself, also appears in the fact that music raises problems associated with ethics and politics. In psychoanalysis, silence, also having a structural position, leads to the freudian invention called the drive. The drive, being a myth, is a condition to the appearance of a subject and to the possibility of the language being`s ethical choice. Jacques Lacan revisits the drive circuit of Freud and its four terms indicating that it goes around something: the a object. Object cause of anguish and desire, the a object appears under many forms in the levels of subjective development, namely, verbal, anal, phallic, scopic and vocal. With Lacan, we see that the voice is the beastly roar of the dying father, the scream of a sacrificed god who haunts the language. It`s a quiet but present voice, with effect in the Real. Being a way of silencing this voice, of stifling it, music paradoxly also propagates this object in a privileged way creating thus an emptiness which we propose, closing the circuit, to name in another way: silence.

Zugl.: Wuppertal, Bergische Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.

L’acquisition du phosphate du milieu extracellulaire est un processus biologique primordial pour toute les cellules vivantes. Durant ce travail nous nous sommes intéressé à deux famille de phosphate-binding proteins, les protéines DING et DING-like. Les protéines DING sont des protéines ubiquitaires nommées ainsi en raison de leur extrémité N-terminal très conservée DINGGG-. Bien que largement représentées chez les bactéries, ces protéines ont été identifiées initialement chez l’homme en vertu de leurs propriétés biologiques ou leur implication dans les maladies, y compris dans l’inhibition du VIH. La présence chez l’homme de telles protéines soulève plusieurs questions quant à leur rôle lors de l’infection par ce virus. Nous avons entrepris une étude visant à quantifier ces protéines chez une population d’individus infectés par le VIH. Nos résultats montrent une augmentation surprenante de leur concentration chez ces derniers par rapport aux sujet sains. D’autre part, nos travaux sur les protéines DING nous ont amené à nous intéresser à la famille des DING-like, très proche de la famille des protéines DING. Inversement, les protéines DING-like sont exclusivement bactériennes. En plus de leur capacité à fixer le phosphate, certains membres de cette famille semblent jouir d’une activité phosphatase. Durant ce travail nous avons caractérisé structuralement et enzymatiquement deux représentants de ces protéines isolés à partir de Pseudomonas aeruginosa. L’analyse structurale de ces protéines ainsi de la caractérisation de leurs activités pourraient être d’un grand intérêt afin de comprendre leur rôle dans le schéma d’acquisition du phosphate chez cette bactérie. / Phosphate acquisition from the extracellular environment is a key process for all living cells. In bacteria, its importation is ensured, in part, by high affinity phosphate binding proteins (PBP). During this work, we are interested to two families of PBPs named DING and DING like proteins. DING proteins are ubiquitous proteins, so named due to their highly conserved N-terminal sequence DINGGG-. Although widely represented in bacteria, these proteins were initially identified in human by virtue of their biological properties or their involvement in diseases, including in HIV-inhibition. Currently, the anti-HIV activity has been shown for two human members of the DING family, HPBP and X-DING CD4. The presence in human of such proteins raises numerous questions about their role during HIV-infection. Thus, we undertook a study to evaluate their serum concentration in HIV-infected patients. Our results shows a surprising increase of the concentration of DING proteins in this population, compared to controls. On the other hand, our work on the DING proteins family led us to be interested on the family of DING-like proteins, closely related to the DING family. Unlike DING proteins, DING-like members were identified exclusively in bacteria. In addition to their ability to bind phosphate, some DING-like members appear to have a phosphatase activity. In this work we have characterize structurally and enzymatically two members of this family isolated from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The structural analysis of these proteins combined with activities characterization could be of a great interest in order to understand their role in phosphate acquisition in this bacterium.