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<p> For this MFA exhibition, I created an illustrated book, which I had professionally printed and bound. I made thirty-five illustrations for the book, and twenty-five were exhibited in the gallery in addition to a printed book. The book is eight inches by eight inches. My original illustrations are larger, ranging from twelve by twelve inches to twelve by twenty-four inches, which sit across one entire spread in the book.</p><p> Banciao is a district in Taipei, Taiwan where I lived for four years during my undergraduate studies. The narrative is based on my experiences living away from home for the first time in an unfamiliar city. After having lived in different areas, I became interested in how people react and adapt to new environments. Our viewpoints change when we experience different cultures. For me, it is one of the most profound things that I have done in my life. </p>

This thesis attempts to illuminate some aspects of the most obscure period of Mahler's life by setting the known biographical facts into a broader social and musical framework. It concentrates not on Mahler himself, but on the environment in which he lived and worked as a child and youth. The opening chapter is a brief study of Mahler's background and childhood: the position of Jews in Austria during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the unusual ethnomusicological features of Mahler's early environment and musical life in Iglau during the 187Os. The remaining five chapters are concerned with Mahler's three years of study at the Vienna Conservatoire and the works he composed before and during his years as a student there. Previously neither the courses he attended at the Conservatoire nor the musicians he encountered have been the subject of serious scholarly attention and much new information about the nature of the composer's early studies and the music his contemporaries were writing has been assembled. In particular, the influence of one student, Hans Rott, on Mahler's mature compositions is examined in detail. This wide-ranging approach provides the basis for a fruitful re-examination of Mahler's early output, both lost and extant works. It leads to the identification of what may be a previously unrecognised orchestral work by Mahler, and to a re-assessment of the currently accepted dating of some of his early compositions. The appendices include lists of works by Franz Krenn, Mathilde von Kralik and Richard von Kralik, and a catalogue of works by Hans Rott, together with biographical notes on the non-musicians among Mahler's Viennese friends, and transcriptions and reproductions of unpublished compositions by Franz Krenn, Rudolf Krzyzanowski and Anton Krisper.

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Recent musicological discourse, while frequently considering issues of historiography and canonicity, has seldom critically engaged with biography as a genre of documentary significance to reception history for its attempts to shape public opinion of its subjects. In consequence, modern musicology has often taken for granted many tendencies and preoccupations that accumulated in musical biography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This thesis presents a historiographical examination of the precedents for and accretions of these assumptions, in terms of the role played by biography both in the establishment and maintenance of ideological canons and in the resultant ‘top-down' conception of music history as dominated by an elite handful of exalted composers. Exploration of the ways in which biographies constructed their subjects as ‘great' and ‘exemplary' – insofar as these concepts were idealized within the communities of readers for whom they were originally written – is conducted through two major studies of the published texts to c.1950 on canonical composers including J. S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. The first investigates the elaboration and distortion of a set of some twenty-five of the most famous myths of musical biography, from their origins in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Continental European texts to their fullest development (and, in many cases, their refutation) in English-language biographies up to the mid-twentieth century. In contrast, the second critically analyzes the twelve volumes of the original ‘Master Musicians' series (1899-1906) as exemplars of the biographical and musical paradigms of composer life-writing, and as late Victorian period pieces of significance to canon formation for their conception as a closed set of monographs of historically-important subjects appropriated to English ends. The conclusion provides a preliminary assessment of the implications to modern musicology of the findings of this thesis through re-evaluation of elements of recent biographical and hermeneutical scholarship, and proposes that the discipline might usefully adopt a more inclusive, self-reflexive approach to the study of musical biography in the future.

La tesis trata el desarrollo de la figura de Lope de Aguirre desde sus origenes en las cronicas historicas del siglo XVI hasta e inclusive su contexto literario en la literatura espanola del siglo XX. La tesis ha limitado su area de estudio a las primeras tres obras que desarrollan el tema de Lope de Aguirre, sin incursionar en la trayectoria que siguio esta figura en la literatura hispanoamericana. La tesis consta de dos partes. La primera se intitula "Lope de Aguirre en la historia". Esta pretende distinguir cuales eran las principales caracteristicas y cualidades que constituian la personalidad de este conquistador espanol mediante el estudio de los datos y descripciones que brindan las cronicas y fuentes historicas de su epoca. El analisis de los comentarios, cartas y acciones de Lope de Aguirre permite conocer, en lo posible, al hombre de carne y hueso al mismo tiempo que llegar a conocer el proceso que sufrio para devenir en una leyenda. / La segunda parte, "Lope de Aguirre en la literatura", analiza su personalidad desde la perspectiva literaria siguiendo su desarrollo en varias de las obras mas conocidas de la literatura espanola del siglo XX. Las obras literarias han sido estudiadas cronologicamente con el proposito de conocer paso a paso el desenvolvimiento de la figura de Lope de Aguirre en la literatura. De primera instancia se considera Las inquietudes de Shanti Andia (1910) de Pio Baroja por ser la primera novela escrita sobre Lope de Aguirre. Luego se incluye la obra Los maranones (1913) de Ciro Bayo debido a que fue la primera novela historica que utiliza a Lope de Aguirre como tema. Ademas se estudia la obra Tirano Banderas (1926) de Ramon del Valle Inclan, la cual da inicio al prototipo del caudillo en la literatura espanola. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-12, Section: A, page: 3705. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.

This dissertation is a collection of the editorials and editorial materials published in the Daily South Carolinian and the Tri-Weekly South Carolinian between January 14, 1864, and February 17, 1865, as a contribution to scholarship concerned with Southern history, journalism, literature, and thought during the Civil War. / Henry Timrod, poet laureate of the Confederacy, was editor of the newspaper during the time period indicated above. The primary motivation for this dissertation was an attempt to gather and make available to serious students Timrod's editorial prose writings. It was assumed in the dissertation that Henry Timrod wrote most, if not all, of the editorials appearing in the Daily South Carolinian, called the Tri-Weekly South Carolinian in its rural edition. However, it is impossible to say with certainty which editorials are Timrod's. / It is enlightening, both as to the man and his time, to look at some of the concerns which recur in the pages of these editorials. / Of primary concern was the fact of the war itself and the events that transpired. Corollary to this was the absorption with the problems of everyday war-time living. / The financial problems of the Confederacy and the 1864 presidential election in the North were two major concerns encountered in the editorials. / The editor also wrote often about the desire of the Confederacy for recognition by England; he also discussed world events which were of interest to Confederate readers of 1864. / Sherman's campaign for Atlanta and Grant's siege of Richmond figured prominently in the editorials of the latter months of 1864. / All in all, the editorials provide a fascinating insight into Southern thought and attitudes of the time and a fresh revelation of the mind and skill of the editor, Henry Timrod. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-02, Section: A, page: 0522. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.

This dissertation is a venture in microhistory. Based on detailed diaries and extensive correspondence, it treats the life of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, an upper class evangelical Christian from Norfolk, Virginia, who lived from 1788 to 1843. On one level it is cultural history broadly defined, a minute study of various cultural and intellectual topics. / On another level this study is an inquiry into the relationship between ideas and the practice of life. Its ground is the history of ideas; its purpose is to suggest the connection between antecedent thought and consequent action in the intelligible relations of an ante-bellum Southern woman's life. / This study attempts a final level of investigation, an examination into manners and feelings. With one Virginia family as a recurrent setting, it seeks to sort out and assess the complex of relationships within an ante-bellum home. Children, guests, slaves--all seen against the background of an unhappy marriage--were the sad context of Louisa Cocke's daily duty and constant sorrow. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, Section: A, page: 1189. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.