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The Seven Last Words of Christ is a sacred cantata for SATB chorus with soloists accompanied by a woodwind quintet, brass quintet and three percussionists. The text employed in this work is based on the Gospel accounts of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the King James Version of the of the Holy Bible. The cantata consists of seven movements with an instrumental introduction and postlude, and has a duration of approximately twenty-seven minutes. The majority of the movements are slow in tempo, reflecting the somber mood of the text. The major goal of this work is to musically represent the drama and prevailing mood present at an event of extreme magnitude and importance in the lives of Christians around the world, and to provide additional literature for special church services through the use of individual movements.

ELATIO: Praises and Prophecies is an allegorical composition based upon a collection of carols, poetry and prose in selected verses, phrases and fragments from medieval Christian liturgy, the canonical Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and New Testament, and portions of various non-canonical Dead Sea Scroll texts. The languages used in the selections presented here are English, Medieval Latin, and transliterated Biblical Hebrew.

I have been cast as "Bobby" in A Chorus Line at Orlando Broadway Dinner Theatre in Orlando. I will use this opportunity as my thesis role. As part of my thesis defense, I will combine an analysis of the character of "Bobby" in A Chorus Line with an assessment of Actors' Equity Association's audition policies from 1970 to the present, and investigate whether the audition held in the show abides by the policies established by AEA for Broadway calls. "Bobby" has an interesting arc of development as he actually gives the director what he (the director) does not want, yet is still cast in the fictitious Broadway show. Why he would choose to stray from the director's instructions is an interesting question and demanding study. To facilitate my research on the character (aside from script and score analysis), I will interview Thommie Walsh (about for whom the role was written and the original "Bobby" on Broadway) as well as other men who have played the role to get insights into the character that will enhance my performance. Mr. Walsh will also elaborate on his real-life relationship with Michael Bennett and how that compares and contrasts with the relationship between "Bobby" and "Zach." I also will interview as many of the original cast members as possible (namely Baayork Lee) to get contributing memories and anecdotal evidence from the original production. A Chorus Line captures the one element all performers experience – the audition. The audition process has changed over the years, and I will focus on the development of protocol from the early 1970's (when A Chorus Line takes place) to the present. I will explore the manner in which the process has evolved and what A Chorus Line's contribution was (if any) to that process. This show has become so much a part of the musical theatre vernacular that historical exploration of procedures would also clarify how this work was structured. Were actors subjected to that intense style of audition on a huge stage in the early 1970s? Are they still today? My research will trace the history and rules governing auditions, performers and staff as delineated by Actors' Equity Association. I will also include a comparison of Equity to the variety of non-Equity auditions. Other sources will include rulebooks from AEA and interviews with dancers (past and present), AEA staff and Patrick Quinn, President of AEA.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第24618号 / 工博第5124号 / 新制||工||1979(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科電気工学専攻 / (主査)教授 大村 善治, 教授 松尾 哲司, 教授 小嶋 浩嗣 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), the first major African-American woman science fiction writer and the only science-fiction author to win the MacArthur "genius" grant, died from an accidental fall in February 2006. She is remembered for her work, which clearly fits into the science-fiction tradition, with imagined near- and far-future technologies, telepathy, aliens, space travel, and time travel. Yet Butler's stories are not clichéd space operas featuring white men in spaceship battles. Whatever the near- or far-future setting, the challenging themes that form the substance of Butler's writing are always power, dominance, slavery, and the complexity of human relationships. Butler's best-known works include the Parable novels (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents), in which the main character Lauren Olamina writes a series of verses that become a new religion in an imagined near-future dystopian version of the United States. This dissertation is a composition for SATB chorus, orchestra, and speaker based on these verses and on quotations from Butler herself describing how she became a writer and the genesis of the Parable series. The musical setting of these quotations highlights parallels between Butler's novels and her own life. In the accompanying paper I analyze my process of extrapolating selected themes from Butler's life and work. My intent is to demonstrate how these themes are interwoven into the musical setting at many levels, and to show how the particular quotations and themes I chose to set musically reveal Butler's insights about present-day human experience on a larger scale. / text

É objetivo analisar a Missa Caiçara e reconhecer os processos composicionais utilizados por Kilza Setti em sua elaboração, demonstrando como procedimentos musicais tradicionais europeus foram mesclado com procedimentos musicais caiçara, criando material de referência sobre características composicionais da compositora. Por meio do trabalho do Prof. Dr. Marco Antonio da Silva Ramos em seu Referencial de Análise de Obras Corais, foram observados diferentes aspectos musicais, relativos à duração, frequência, timbre, forma e intensidade, assim como foi realizada uma análise referente aos usos do silêncio dentro da obra. A tese de doutorado em antropologia social da compositora, sobre a música Caiçara do litoral norte de São Paulo, serviu de guia para o reconhecimento dos procedimentos musicais contidos naquela música. Entrevistas com a própria compositora forneceram subsídios sobre suas posições estéticas, ainda não publicadas. Como resultado deste trabalho é oferecido ao final da pesquisa uma nova edição revisada para performance da partitura da Missa Caiçara, possibilitando melhor divulgação da obra. / The purpose is to analyze the Caiçaras mass and to recognize the compositional processes used by Kilza Setti in this composition, by demonstrating how traditional European musical procedures were blended with caiçaras musical procedures, creating reference material on the composer\'s compositional characteristics. Through the benchmark analysis of choral works composed by Professor. Dr. Marco Antonio da Silva Ramos, different musical aspects were observed, as those related to duration, frequency, timbre, form and intensity, as well as an analysis was done regarding the uses of silence within the mass. The doctoral thesis in social anthropology written by Kilza Setti about caiçaras musical procedures from the northern coast of São Paulo, guided the recognition of these musical procedures. Interviews with the composer herself gave subsidy on her aesthetic positions, not published yet. As a result of this work, by the end of the research, a new revised edition for performance of the score of the Caiçaras mass is offered, allowing the dissemination of the work.

The dissertation is trying to form basic rules for interpretational possibilities of an ancient chorus in the process of the Czech theatre based on the detailed analysis of chosen productions in Sophocles tragedy Oidipus Tyrannus from the end of 19th century to the present day. The analysis follows the transformations of the chorus from the original vision of the old men that prevailed in the first half of the 20th century over the image of ancient people common in the fifties of the last century to metaphorical transformation of the chorus brought up by some stage conceptions in the beginning of 21st century.

É objetivo analisar a Missa Caiçara e reconhecer os processos composicionais utilizados por Kilza Setti em sua elaboração, demonstrando como procedimentos musicais tradicionais europeus foram mesclado com procedimentos musicais caiçara, criando material de referência sobre características composicionais da compositora. Por meio do trabalho do Prof. Dr. Marco Antonio da Silva Ramos em seu Referencial de Análise de Obras Corais, foram observados diferentes aspectos musicais, relativos à duração, frequência, timbre, forma e intensidade, assim como foi realizada uma análise referente aos usos do silêncio dentro da obra. A tese de doutorado em antropologia social da compositora, sobre a música Caiçara do litoral norte de São Paulo, serviu de guia para o reconhecimento dos procedimentos musicais contidos naquela música. Entrevistas com a própria compositora forneceram subsídios sobre suas posições estéticas, ainda não publicadas. Como resultado deste trabalho é oferecido ao final da pesquisa uma nova edição revisada para performance da partitura da Missa Caiçara, possibilitando melhor divulgação da obra. / The purpose is to analyze the Caiçaras mass and to recognize the compositional processes used by Kilza Setti in this composition, by demonstrating how traditional European musical procedures were blended with caiçaras musical procedures, creating reference material on the composer\'s compositional characteristics. Through the benchmark analysis of choral works composed by Professor. Dr. Marco Antonio da Silva Ramos, different musical aspects were observed, as those related to duration, frequency, timbre, form and intensity, as well as an analysis was done regarding the uses of silence within the mass. The doctoral thesis in social anthropology written by Kilza Setti about caiçaras musical procedures from the northern coast of São Paulo, guided the recognition of these musical procedures. Interviews with the composer herself gave subsidy on her aesthetic positions, not published yet. As a result of this work, by the end of the research, a new revised edition for performance of the score of the Caiçaras mass is offered, allowing the dissemination of the work.