After examining Harmony Korine's feature films, shorts, art installations, music videos, paintings, and novel, a clear pattern of stereotyping and misappropriating African American aesthetics emerges. This thesis addresses the mass appropriation of hip-hop aesthetics by whites, and Korine's complicity in this cultural phenomenon. Additionally, it explores the notion of hipster racism, Carmen Van Kerckhove’s term for respected artists who feel enlightened enough to stereotype in an ironic or comedic manner. Looking closely at cultural appropriation in Spring Breakers, this thesis considers hipster racism and the notion of modern-day minstrelsy. / text

This dissertation analyzes the first movements of three chamber works -- the Piano trio (1914), the Duo for violin and cello (1920-22), and the Sonata for violin and piano (1923-27) -- and situates their harmonic procedures in relation to important developments within Parisian musical culture. Chapter 1 explores Ravel's early harmonic style, in particular, how he blends nontonal harmonic procedures and tonality within the framework of the sonata as seen in the first movements of his String quartet and Sonatine. Chapter 2 analyzes the Piano trio, which culminates the early phase of Ravel's career with a sophisticated amalgamation of pre-war musical trends, such as extended harmonies and formal inventiveness, with an early wartime emphasis on reduced textures and melodic primacy. In the post-war years, Ravel was forced to adjust to a new role, in which he was no longer at the forefront of musical developments, but rather the follower of a group of young, avant-garde composers. His two post-war compositions, the Duo for violin and cello and the Violin sonata, articulate the struggles he faced with composition in the 1920s. Criticized for having an out-moded aesthetic, he modified his compositional style by incorporating and adapting new harmonic techniques. Drawing on Peter Kaminsky's theory of monotonality and dual pitch organization, chapter 3 examines Ravel's harmonic language in the Duo through linear analysis. Ravel's attempt to incorporate contemporary harmonic procedures however was not sufficient to compete with the more progressive works of Les Six or Stravinsky's burgeoning neoclassicism. As a result, Ravel re-evaluated his craft by rethinking his engagements with the musical avant-garde. The analysis of the Violin sonata in chapter 4 reveals that harmonically, deeper levels of dissonance require pitch prioritization intimately bound to formal function. Unlike the Duo, Ravel presents a more innovative formal design in the Violin sonata, where boundaries are blurred and formal functions are juxtaposed. Chapter 5 concludes with a comparative analysis of the first movements of Ravel's Piano trio, Duo and Violin sonata and their evolving harmonic practices. / text

Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία παρουσιάζεται η δημιουργία ενός προγράμματος σε γλώσσα προγραμματισμού C++ το οποίο εναρμονίζει αυτόματα ένα μουσικό κομ- μάτι. To πρόγραμμα αυτό παίρνει στην είσοδό του μία μελωδία απλών φθογγόσημων και δίνει στην έξοδό του την ίδια μελωδία αλλά με τις συγχορδίες των φθογγόσημων. Η επιλογή των κατάλληλων συγχορδιών γίνεται με τη χρήση προεπιλεγμένων κανόνων της αρμονίας, για τους οποίους υλοποιείται πηγαίος κώδικας. Το τελικό πρόγραμμα είναι ένας συνδυασμός κατασκευασμένων προγραμματιστικά κανόνων, συγχορδιών, κλιμάκων με έξοδο την αρχική μελωδία προσαρμοσμένη σε συγχορδίες και όχι φθογγόσημα. Το πρόγραμμα αυτόματης εναρμόνισης μελωδίας, αποτυπώνει τις γνώσεις της αρμονίας σε ένα αλγοριθμικό πρόγραμμα και αναμένεται να δώσει ακριβή και σωστά αποτελέσματα στην έξοδο για την εναρμόνιση οποιασδήποτε μελωδίας και κλίμακας. / This diploma dissertation is presenting the creation of a program in C++ programming language which harmonizes automatically a piece of music. This program takes in its input a melody consisted of simple pitches and gives as an output the same melody but with 3 pitches for each entering pitch. The selection of the suitable group of the 3 pitches is being achieved with the use of preselected rules of harmony for which spontaneous code is realized. The final program is a combination of programmatically manufactured rules, groups of 3 pitches and scales with the initial melody adapted in groups of 3 pitches ,and not simple pitches, as output. The automatic harmonization program impresses the harmony’s knowledge in an algorithmic program and it is expected to give precise and correct results in the exit for the harmonization of any melody and in any scale the musical piece is written.

The aim of this dissertation is to explain the meaning of concordia surveying the historical context in which it emerged. The thesis concentrates on the period 63--43 B.C. because it is in this crucial period that the concept achieves its most articulate and influential defence by the Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher, Marcus Tullius Cicero. My intention is to review the important writings and speeches of Cicero and to situate them in the political struggles in which he was implicated. / By placing the concept of concordia in this political context, a clearer picture emerges than is available in the current literature about how Cicero promoted, defended, and skillfully redefined the concept of concordia in order to achieve his political aims. What emerges are three identifiable meanings of the concept of concordia . The first is the longstanding conventional Roman republican idea of concordia as unity, friendship, and agreement. The second is what Cicero called the concordia ordinum, an innovative idea of concordia as a harmony or coalition of the two Roman orders of the senate and equites. The third is the idea of concordia as a consensus omnium bonorum---what Cicero called concordia civium or concordia civitatis . This idea represents an important shift in the thinking of the Roman orator who began to see the survival of the republic as depending on a consensus that went beyond the coalition of the senate and equites.

Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, Op.10, completed in 1908, is the last of his works in which a key signature is used, and is generally regarded as a transitional work leading towards his 'atonal' period. Each of the first three movements has a key signature, whereas the last movement has no key signature--a characteristic of his later atonal works. / This study traces how the harmonic language evolves over the four movements of the quartet. The present analysis of each movement shows the structural procedures, the nature of the polyphony and the compositional techniques employed, including those which result in the dissolution of tonality. These changes contribute to the significance of the quartet as a critical work within the transition from the tonal to atonal medium.

Rousseau's articles on music for Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie , and to a lesser extent his Dictionnaire de musique, have rarely attracted the scholarly attention they deserve. As a result, the pivotal role that Rousseau played in the early French reception of Rameau's theory of harmony has never been fully appreciated. Far from being a quarrel over musical aesthetics, Rousseau's dispute with Rameau raised fundamental questions about the composer's theory of harmony. Rousseau interrogated the empirical adequacy of Rameau's theory, the soundness of its foundations, the logic of its derivation, and its pretension to universality. Over the course of his criticism, Rousseau came to regard tonal harmony as a historically-induced particularity of Western music to be explained through historical inquiry. In this respect, he anticipates a range of ideas that historians of music theory have associated far more readily with Francois-Joseph Fetis.

Summary Mental health – it is mental and social wealth of person, that ensures proper physical, intellectual and emotional communication which doesn’t prevent the development of other people (Dictionary of Sport Terms, 2002). Mental health is defined by three fundamental components: sense of harmony, self-control, and stress level. Problem in question: Whether instruments of psychological influence are efficient to the development of students’ mental health while exercising? Hypothesis: we presume that instruments of psychological influence positively affect the students’, who play basketball, mental health. Object: Peculiarities of thirteen-year-old students’ who play basketball, mental health training using instruments of psychological influence. Goal of research: Identify the peculiarities of thirteen-year-old students’ who play basketball, mental health training using instruments of psychological influence. Tasks: Disclose the mental health of thirteen-year-old students, who play basketball, before the experiment and after its completion; evaluate the students’ sense of harmony before the experiment and after its completion; evaluate the level of students’ self-control before the experiment and after its completion; define the level of students’ stress before the experiment and after its completion. Results and findings: Results of mental health in control and experimental students’ groups statistically didn’t differ significantly (p>0.05) before experiment. Level of... [to full text]

Darbo tikslas. Įvertinti moksleivių vidinės darnos, psichosocialinės aplinkos ir sveikatos nusiskundimų sąsajas. Tyrimo metodika. Tyrime dalyvavo 291 Kauno X vidurinės mokyklos 5 – 12 klasių moksleiviai (atsako dažnis 67,8 proc.). Tyrimas atliktas 2007 m. lapkričio – 2008 m. kovo mėnesiais. Duomenys surinkti anoniminės anketinės apklausos būdu. Statistinė duomenų analizė atlikta naudojant kompiuterinį SPSS 13.0 statistinį paketą ir MS Excel. Rezultatai. Mūsų rezultatai parodė, kad 59,2 proc. apklaustų moksleivių pasižymėjo aukšta vidine darna, žema vidine darna pasižymėjo 7,0 proc. 5-9 klasių moksleivių, ir 4,1 proc. 10 - 12 klasių moksleivių. Žema vidine darna pasižymintys moksleiviai patikimai dažniau skundėsi liūdesiu (p<0,0001), nemiga (p=0,004), silpnumu (p<0,001), jautė stresą (p<0,0001), jautėsi nelaimingi (p<0,0001), palyginus su aukšta vidine darna pasižyminčiais moksleiviais. Dažną priekabiavimą (kartą per savaitę ir dažniau) patyrė 16,6 proc. moksleivių, atsitiktinį 36,9 proc. moksleivių. Žemos vidinės darnos grupėje net 43,8 proc. moksleivių patyrė dažną priekabiavimą mokykloje (p=0,003), palyginus su priekabiavimo nepatyrusiais) ir 18,8 proc. moksleivių priekabiavimą patyrė metus ir daugiau. Net 22,4 proc. moksleivių rūko arba kažkada rūkė. Kas savaitę ir dažniau alkoholį vartoja 5,9 proc. moksleivių. Didžiausia dalis moksleivių jautėsi pavargę ryte (51,7 proc.), skundėsi irzlumu (40,3 proc.) ir įtampa (31,4 proc.). Rezultatai patvirtino statistiškai reikšmingas... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Objective of the study. To evaluate the associations between sense of coherence, psychosocial environment and health complaints among students. Methods. The survey was conducted among Kaunas X secondary school 5 – 12 grade students from November, 2007 until March, 2008. Totally 291 students participated in the study (response rate 67.8 percent). Data collection was performed by means of anonymous questionnaire. The statistical softwares SPSS 13.0 and MS Excel. were used in the statistical analysis. Results. Our results indicated that 59.2 per cent of students had high sense of coherence, 7 percent of 5-9 grade students and 4.1 percent of 10 and 12 grade students had low sense of coherence. Sadness (p<0.0001), insomnia (p=0,004), weakness (p<0,001), stress (p<0.0001), unhappiness (p<0.0001) were more prevalent in the subgroup of low sense of coherence as compared to the high one. 16.6 percent of students experienced frequent harassment (once per week and more often), and 36.9 percent of students experienced occasional harassment. The prevalence of frequent harassment was 43.8 percent in the subgroup of low sense of coherence (p=0,003 compared to non-experienced the harassment and 18.8 per cent of students experienced harassment for one year and longer. Even 22.4 percent of students were recent or former smokers, 5.9 percent were weekly and more often alcohol users. The most prevalent health complaints were tiredness in the morning (51.7 percent), irritability (40.3 percent)... [to full text]

Living in harmony with nature is a pervasive ideology, or cultural blueprint, of how a "sustainable future,” a "good society,” and a "fulfilled life" would look like. However, this notion of harmony with nature is highly paradoxical, as consumers often want and even must dominate and control nature. The current thesis explores consumers’ desires of living in harmony with nature through a post-human analysis of how backcountry hikers negotiate tensions between utilitarian and romantic discourses of nature vis-à-vis their experience of material forces of nature. Through conceptualizing nature as an active actor in a symmetric assemblage of material and cultural entities (i.e., nature agency), this thesis contributes to our understanding of the human/nature relationship, materialism, and sustainable consumption. Findings are presenting through three interrelated themes. The first theme highlights how hikers appropriate romantic discourses by seeking harmony in a nature that is perceived as external to civilization. Noting the contradiction that hikers’ quest for being in harmony with a “romantic nature” oftentimes exposes them to higher physical dangers in material nature, the subsequent themes explore how harmony can arise when hikers have to struggle with physical dangers of nature. Focusing on physical dangers that are experienced in material nature, theme 2 finds that hikers’ relationship with nature is highly ambivalent: They strive to experience “more nature and less civilization”, but also “more civilization and less nature.” The third theme explores how meanings of nature and technology emerge from fluidly shifting assemblages, finding that the same technological resources can both distract from and enable feelings of harmony with nature. These findings contribute to consumer research by broadening our understanding of the human/nature relationship and by challenging previous notions (Canniford and Shankar 2013) that technology and civilization must always betray consumers’ experiences of “romantic nature.” Furthermore, the notions of nature agency and that no single actor can unilaterally shape the assemblage of heterogeneous entities contribute to the emerging material turn in consumer research. Finally, this post-human analysis of consumers’ relationships with nature offers theoretical and practical implications for sustainable consumption and sustainable marketing. / Thesis (Ph.D, Management) -- Queen's University, 2014-01-31 14:58:31.326

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