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This thesis presents an analysis of Cantico delle Creature, a composition for mezzo-soprano solo, chamber choir, chamber orchestra, and computer-generated sounds. The choir and orchestra are divided into two spatially separated groups, with the soloist one percussionist (who plays the tam-tams, at the same time triggering the playback of the pre-synthesized sounds) providing a central link between the two ensembles. This work, which lasts approximately twenty-three minutes, sets a text of the same title by Saint Francis of Assisi. The analytical paper which accompanies the composition examines the text, the relation of the text to the form of the piece, the formal structure and textural organization of the music, the use of spatialization, along with the pitch organization and details regarding the creation and playback of the synthesized sounds. In addition, there is a discussion of the use of the computer as a compositional tool, in particular the utilization of CHAOTICS, compositional software based on nonlinear or "chaotic" functions.

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This thesis has explored the relationship, in terms of parallels and allusions, of the four complete and one unfinished novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald to his own life experiences. The novels used in this study area This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gat 9 Tender Is the Night, and The Last Tycoon, of which only five and one-half chapters were completed at the time of Fitzgerald's death in December, 1940. This study traced the personal exploitation and the transformation of Fitzgerald's own life experiences, relatives, and acquaintances into his fictional subject matter, characters, and settings.In addition, the thesis has discussed Fitzgerald's friendship with several of his contemporary critics and authors such as: Maxwell Perkins, his publisher; Edmund "Bunny" Wilson, and John Peale Bishop, his Princeton classmates and literary colleagues; and Ernest Hemingway, whom Fitzgerald admired greatly. The influence that these and others had on Fitzgerald's works was also revealed in this study.

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Thesis (M.Mus.)--University of Melbourne, 2003. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references( (leaves 62-67).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Wendy Venet, committee chair; Glenn Eskew, Charles Steffen , committee members. Description based on contents viewed October 9, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-284).

Thèse complém̀entaire--Université de Paris. / "Bibliographie": p. [103]-109.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Wendy Venet, committee chair; Glenn Eskew, Charles Steffen , committee members. Electronic text ( 284 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed October 9, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-284).