The implementation of geographic information systems for the analysis of Late Classic (500-800 C.E.) terraces at Monte Albán, reveals a spatial pattern not visible through prior pedestrian site surveys. The Valley of Oaxaca Settlement Pattern Project concluded that nearly all of the 1,464 Late Classic terraces at Monte Albán were used for residential purposes. Spatial analysis tools reveal a greater human-ecological complexity. The goal of this study was to use ArcGIS to map the 1,273 terraces near Monte Albán's ceremonial center and combine them with individually identifiable data sets. Analysis of each terrace, particularly based upon water availability, ceramic distribution, structural remains, and number of metates, reveals that 55.7% of these 1,273 terraces could have supported agricultural practices. The integration of agricultural space into a dense urban center reveals new spatial relationships between population density and urban agricultural practices, to which measures of resiliency and efficacy within similar modern systems can be applied.

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For his first work composed without Schoenberg's supervision, Berg chose to set five short poems by his friend and intellectual idol, the controversial poet Peter Altenberg. Carrying the title Filnf Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskarten-Texten von Peter Altenberg (1912), the cycle is at once aphoristic (with respect to the songs' duration) and titanic (with respect to their orchestration and motivic density). But the title invites the question: what imagery might the composer have hoped to illustrate with these musical postcards? This thesis investigates text-music relations in Berg's opus 4 with the objective of showing that the music's structure, far from being semantically neutral, participates actively in the création of rich poetic imagery anchored in the socio-cultural context of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Previous studies focus on the work's cyclic motives its interval-cycle substructure. The present study focuses on text-music relations and voice leading - the contrapuntal and harmonie procedures which govern the music's surface and determine its deep structure. It is shown that the voice-leading structures of the individual lieder - in both local detail and at a more broadly conceptual level - give form, meaning, and nuance to the poetic image that emerges in each song, and help define the different facets—physical, emotional, and spiritual — of the protagonist that inhabits them.

Die vorliegende Studie ist die erste werkmonographische Arbeit zu dem deutschen Gegenwartsautor Alban Nikolai Herbst. Im Zentrum stehen das Hauptwerk des Autors – eine lose Pentalogie von Die Verwirrung des Gemüts (1983) über Wolpertinger oder Das Blau (1993) zur Anderswelt-Trilogie, von der Thetis (1998) und Buenos Aires (2001) einbezogen wurden – sowie das von ihm seit 2004 geführte literarische Weblog Die Dschungel. Zum einen dient die Studie als grundlegende Einführung in die komplexen, schwer zugänglichen Romane und Herbsts Poetik im Allgemeinen, zum anderen stehen bei den Textanalysen Fragen der Identität und der Auffassung von Realität bzw. Wirklichkeit im Fokus.

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The Pozzolane Rosse ignimbrite [PR] (457±4 ka) in the Alban Hills Volcanic District, Rome, Italy was exposed ~ 40 ka prior to a subsequent volcanic event which coverd it entirely. XRF, XRD, and clay separation results from PR samples from INGV and CA1 boreholes and Castel di Leva quarry show evidence of paleopedogenesis. All locations display loss of base cations, loss of K is consistent with XRD datat showing dissolution or alteration of leucite to analcime. Accumulation of Al and high L.O.I. support XRD evidence of 1:1 clay species at upper depth. Data suggest alteration extent can be determined by geochemistry. Hydrothermal alteration is assessed from geochemistry showing significant leaching of major and trace elements, primary mineralogy loss and iron sulfide and sulfate mineral development. Deep samples of PR may show groundwater influenced alteration with the presence of expandable 2:1 clays, zeolites, and possible mixing with the underlying Vallerano Lava.

Prolongation in post-tonal music is a topic that music theorists have engaged for several decades now. The problems of applying Schenkerian analytical techniques to post-tonal music are numerous and have invited several adaptations of the method. The bulk of the thesis offers a survey of prolongational analyses of post-tonal music. Analyses of theorists such as Felix Salzer, Allen Forte, Joseph Straus, Edward Laufer, and Olli Väisälä are examined in order to reveal their various underlying theoretical principles. The thesis concludes with an analysis of Alban Berg's Warm die Lüfte from his Op. 2 collection that focuses on the prolongation of a referential sonority that forms the background of the song. The analysis highlights the most significant analytical techniques and theoretical concepts explored in the survey and codifies them in a generally applicable method of post-tonal prolongational analysis.

TITLE: Literature und Music: Woyzeck and Wozzeck. Alban Berg's Musical Adaptation of the Drama by Georg Büchner. SUMMARY: This thesis deals with a musical adaptation of the opera Wozzeck by the composer Alban Berg in the context of its literary model. The theoretical part offers an overview of the most important information and data about the authors and the origin of their works, based on the relevant sources. In the practical part, the principal emphasis is put on the libretto, specifically on formal and language similarities and differences detected in the text and their impact on the content and message of the work. Another focus is on musical language and its essential features, especially on the treatment of the voice, instrumentation and motives in the opera. The attention is also paid to the occurrence of autobiographical elements and critical reviews of the work. KEYWORDS: opera, drama, Woyzeck, Wozzeck, Alban Berg, Karl Emil Franzos, libretto, scenes, elision, alteration, literary model

This study presents pertinent information for singers and teachers of singers about selected vocal works written by three significant composers who were active during the first half of the twentieth century: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg, also referred to as The Second Viennese School. The vocal works of these composers are often neglected due to the assumption that the works will be atonal and, therefore, musically unachievable for performers and unsatisfying for audiences. For each composer, information about his educational background and compositional style is provided, in addition to commentary on representative vocal works supported by musical examples. A significant part of this research includes interviews with renowned singers who supply advice for practice and performance-related suggestions. In order for singers and teachers to obtain essential information regarding these solo vocal works, a complete catalog is provided. / Introduction -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Anton Webern -- Alban Berg -- Vocal and rehearsal techniques -- Conclusions and suggested further research. / School of Music

Pendant l’été 2012, des sondages d’archéologie préventive réalisés à Ciampino, au Sud-Ouest de Rome ont mis en lumière les vestiges d’une luxueuse villa romaine attribuables, dans sa première phase, à l’époque augustéenne et des sculptures en marbre représentant le groupe des Niobides retrouvé dans la natatio de la villa. La découverte déjà ancienne, dans le même lieu de notre fouille, d’un tuyau en plomb au nom de Valerius Messala avait fait justement penser que la villa était une des résidences suburbaines de la puissante famille sénatoriale des Valerii. La zone de la recherche, appelée Mur/s des Français, fait partie des derniers contreforts des Colli Albani, un ensemble de reliefs qui descend vers la Campagne Romaine au Sud Ouest de Rome. Du point de vue géomorphologique, il s'agit d'une plaine traversée par de nombreux fossés naturels et par un petit relief qui formait un lien naturel entre les Colli Albani et la vallée du Tibre. Il est donc l’un des secteurs les plus importants pour l’implantation de villas à la fois agricoles et résidentielles de l’aristocratie romaine. Les statues des Niobides appartiennent à une version semblable à celle conservée au Musée des Uffizi de Florence, dont elle diffère légèrement en raison de la présence de quelques types nouveaux et du rendement iconographiques de certains détails. Cet aspect à offert justement des éléments novateurs sur le plan de la connaissance et de l’interprétation, puisqu’il s’agit du seul groupe à être été découvert dans un site archéologique méthodiquement étudié. La recherche a été développée à travers deux moments principaux : la récolte et l'analyse critique des données d'archives et, en ce qui concerne la recherche sur le terrain, l'analyse des stratigraphies des maçonneries et de leurs relevés, en vue d’acquérir des informations sur les structures. L’analyse et l’examen archéométrique de certains matériaux provenant de la fouille nous ont permis de déterminer la chronologie du site. / In summer 2012 a luxuriosus roman villa, dated to augustean age, is been discovered during an archeological escavation in Ciampino (Rome). A group of marble statues, showing the Niobids, is finded into the natatio pool. During the XIX century, in the same place, a lead pipe mentioning Valerius Messalla was discovered; this finding suggested that the villa was owned by this powerful senatorial gens. The research area, called Muro/Muri dei Francesi, is located beyond the last slope of Alban Hills in their congiuction point with Campagna Romana plan, in Rome's South-East suburbium. The plan, from the geo-morphological point of view, is crossed by a several natural ditches and a low straight ridge who link the Alban Hills to Tiber river valley: therefore – also tanks to the development of ancient roads network – this area well be one of most populated by roman aristocracy villas. The Ciampino's Niobids are similars to Florence Uffizi Museum Group, but different for the presence of some unknown characters and for iconographic rendering of details. This offer new possibilities for the knowledge and interpetation of the first Niobides group of which we dispose of an archaeological data set. The two research approaches are been: the collection and critical analysis of archives documents dated at XIX century and, as regards fieldwork research, the stratigraphic analysis of the available masonry structures (excavated for less than 40%), with the complementary realisation of detailed relief and graphic documentation. At last, the study and documentation of the archaeological materials coming from the excavation, which allowed, with sufficient tolerance, the chronology of the site to be determined.