Written in 1999, Concerto Piccolino is a part of the Composer's Guild of New Jersey Vibraphone Commission, which contains a collection of twelve soli written exclusively for vibraphone. Concerto Piccolino presents vibrant opportunities for both performer and listener to experience the compositional world of Milton Babbitt. With its limited register, ability to control duration and create extreme dynamics, the vibraphone serves as an appropriate vehicle for Babbitt's multi-dimensional style. The intent of this study is to first situate this work into Babbitt's compositional output as well as referencing Babbitt's other works for solo percussion. Next, an investigation into the background structure will provide a recommended analytical framework. Included is a performance guide for how these structures should be realized via surface materials throughout the interpretive and internalization stages of the work. Examining a recommended progression from analysis through performance will demonstrate Concerto Piccolino's significance and proper place in the standard repertoire of percussion. The study concludes with discussing connections to pedagogy and how the importance of Babbitt's work, as well as other composers of serious music, is vital to the forward progress of music performance.

English composer Frank Bridge (1879-1941) is well known as Benjamin Britten's teacher and to a lesser degree for his chamber music. Because his mature creative period occurred between the First and Second World War, his works were not well studied or performed until the 1970s, well after his death. This dissertation discusses Bridge's life and his music, how World War I affected in this work, and specifically the work Oration Concerto Elagiaco. Oration is considered historically in terms of its meaning and delayed premiere. Additionally, the work's fantasy arch form, Bridge's signature compositional style, and the character of each section is discussed. Finally, this dissertation provides a practical guide to the work, providing practice and performance suggestions for the numerous complex and technically challenging portions of the concerto.

Stravinsky seldom explained the intended theme of his works; however, he chose to do so with his Symphony in Three Movements. Stravinsky describes the first movement as a reflection on war films documenting scorched-earth tactics in China. He also states that the third movement is a reflection on the newsreels of goose-stepping soldiers, depicting the plot of the war in its entirety. In his descriptions, Stravinsky left out the second movement of the work. However, the movement already had a life of its own. The second movement expands a theme Stravinsky originally wrote for the movie The Song of Bernadette. The author, Franz Werfel, asked Stravinsky to compose music for the film when the two discussed the work and its central ideas. Although it did not appear in the film, Stravinsky recycled the music for the Symphony in Three Movements. In my opinion, the ideas of hope depicted in Werfel's novel are used by Stravinsky to evoke ideas of the importance of faith in the fallen world. My analysis aims to show the musical means used by Stravinsky to allow the central ideas from The Song of Bernadette to pervade the entirety of the Symphony in Three Movements.

The early trumpet arias by Giovanni Legrenzi and Carlo Pallavicino are important works in the trumpet repertoire that have remained relatively unpublished and unstudied. This dissertation will look at the history of the trumpet in opera, discuss the development of the trumpet aria, and provide examples of how to approach the performance of the trumpet aria. Through study and performance of the early trumpet arias by Legrenzi and Pallavicino, trumpet soloists will be able to learn the necessary techniques to collaborate with singers and perform all trumpet arias.

The dwindling supply of castrati created a crisis in the opera world in the early 19th century. Castrati had dominated opera seria throughout the 18th century, but by the early 1800s their numbers were in decline. Impresarios and composers explored two voice types as substitutes for the castrato in male leading roles in serious operas: the contralto and the tenor. The study includes data from 242 serious operas that premiered in Italy between 1800 and 1840, noting the casting of the male leading role for each opera. At least 67 roles were created for contraltos as male heroes between 1800 and 1834. More roles were created for tenors in that period (at least 105), but until 1825 there is no clear preference for tenors over contraltos except in Naples. The Neapolitan preference for tenors is most likely due to the influence of Bourbon Kings who sought to bring Enlightenment values to Naples. After the last castrato retired in 1830 and the casting of contraltos as male heroic leads falls out of favor by the mid-1830s, the tenor, aided by a new chest-voice dominant style of singing, becomes the inheritor of the castrato's former role as leading man in serious Italian opera.

The struggle of the Kurdish nation in Iran entered a new phase of modern nationalist movement since World War II, especially since the establishment of the Society for the Revival of Kurdistan (J.K.) in 1942. The J.K. was then transformed into the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which later changed its name to the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in 1945. This dissertation addresses a major gap in the existing research about the study of Iranian Kurdish nationalism spearheaded by the PDKI. Offering a historical sociology, the dissertation argues that this movement should be understood within the context of the state-building process in Iran and nationalist and national liberation movements in the world. It offers, for the first time and in any language, the most extensively researched and detailed history of the PDKI, its struggles for Kurdish national rights, its programs, organizational structure, political strategies, achievements, internal conflicts, numerous splits and unifications, women’s status within it, and its relations with other parties. It critically analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the PDKI. The methodological components include: literature review, discourse analysis, content analysis, snowball sampling, in-depth, open-ended interviews with 29 high-ranking activists, archival research, fieldwork conducted in the Iraqi Kurdistan and in Europe, Internet research, and statistical data. Sources used were in English, Persian, Kurdish, and Turkish. While the PDKI has championed a democratic Kurdish nationalist movement, it has heavily undermined the democratic principles within and outside the party and underestimated women’s potential within the movement. In order for the PDKI to re-emerge as a party in sync with our times, it needs to undergo a radical reform and democratize its internal and external relations. / Graduate / 2023-08-22

Existing scholarship suggests terrorism is an ineffective method of political contestation; groups rarely achieve their political objectives and are often disrupted by the security services. These findings invite us to look again at the dominant rational choice paradigm, which suggests that terrorism is selected as the best strategy to achieve predetermined goals. Unpicking the assumptions underpinning this model using historical case studies, comparative analysis and typology development, this thesis broadens our interpretation of what those who use terrorism seek to achieve. It does so via a tripartite framework. First, employing a new reading of American pragmatist thought, interpreting militant group goals as culturally and socially mediated problems opens up a new vista of outcomes, in particular examining the way terrorism seeks to change relations between people. Second, using Social Movement Theory as its organising framework, an empirically derived typology of militant groups sets out the background political conditions and organisational characteristics of 28 dormant groups. Using existing models of interpreting outcomes to assess these historical cases demonstrates the unmet challenges of providing robust explanations for why terrorism ends and what it achieves. Third, the thesis explores the promise of a mechanism and process-led approach to explaining outcomes. It does so through in-depth examination of two historical case studies: Kach and the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army. Despite being classified as failures, using largely neglected primary sources, the case studies reveal a range of fascinating and important outcomes that still resonate in Israel and Yemen today. Most of these methodological and conceptual tools are being applied to the question of terrorism's outcomes for only the first or second time. In doing so, this thesis offers greater depth than existing scholarship on how terrorism ends, by looking beyond measures such as success and failure in interpreting outcomes, whilst affording greater breadth through its ability to make comparative assessments at the level of mechanisms and processes. The result is a more detailed and robust set of explanations as to how terrorism ends and what it achieves, illustrated through detailed historical case studies of two interesting, yet often neglected, groups.

Korea and Japan stand out in the group of OECD countries for their rapid increase in, and high levels of, non-standard employment. The empirical evidence leads us to a two-part puzzle: Why are there so many precarious workers in Korea and Japan? And what are the institutional determinants of such labour market risks? This thesis commences by introducing the concept of 'risk shift', and the fuzzy-set ideal type approach is employed to conduct a comparative study of 18 countries. The labour market risks in Korea and Japan are then compared in an international context with 16 selected OECD countries. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis is employed to investigate the institutional determinants of labour market risks. It then focuses on the increase in non-standard employement in Korea and Japan. Taiwan is also included as a contrasting case, the study taking an institutional approach employing Comparative Historical Analysis. Chapters employing CHA examine how the different welfare production regimes evolved and how they matter in explaining the high rate of non-standard employment in East Asia. The new risk discussion, the argument on the definition and impact of deindustrialization and lastly theories on East Asian welfare states are revisited in the conclusion of this thesis. Finally, I critically discuss the notion of precarious workers and highlight the centrality of social policy that their organizational configuration affects political culture, the formation of the production system, the structure of the labour market and the kind of risk a country could experience.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:17:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Albregard Cassas.pdf: 984002 bytes, checksum: 787a62ba52704b0b87c54e523fbb452a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-05 / The work presented here is motivated by a clinical intervention that began to be practiced by behavior analysts in Brazil in the early 1990s. This form prioritizes the work in the natural environment and, therefore, more likely to act directly on controlling contingencies of client behavior. This type of control seems to have established in the literature, a polarization between Therapeutic Accompaniment (TA) and the clinical based on the greater or lesser ability to control to be undertaken on the client behavior. The research presented here aims to resume and analyze the therapeutic practices of radical behaviorist base in order to establish a comparison between them and the TA, thus define whether it is possible to assert the existence of this polarization. Four sets of papers were analyzed: bases of behavior therapy: publications Skinner and Ferster about therapy, the Behavior Modification; literature on the following therapeutic approaches: Functional Analytic Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavioral Activation, the literature on the brasilian therapeutic proposals: Analytical Behavioral Therapy, Therapy of Contingencies of Reinforcement, Pragmatic Behavioral Psychotherapy and Molar and Self Therapy, beyond literature about the TA. To compose this analysis, four analytical categories were developed: core concepts for the diagnosis, intervention strategies, effectiveness and generality. The analysis of the studies cited showed that the polarization in the terms formulated above, is not true because all proposed schedule forms to ensure the generalizability of the results. Could be defined, however, the existence of a "minimum repertoire client". This concerns the modeling repertoire of verbal behavior that will allow the client to modify alone, the environment itself. And that is the reason for this study in a natural environment where the client does not have the repertoire to modify their own environment independently, the therapist operates the changing client environment in order to build a better learning condition for that client. From this, suggestions for future research are made at the end of the work / A tese aqui apresentada é motivada por um trabalho de intervenção clínica que começou a ser praticado por analistas do comportamento brasileiros no início da década de 1990. Essa forma prioriza o trabalho em ambiente natural e, com isso, maior chance de atuar diretamente nas contingências controladoras do comportamento do cliente. Esse tipo de controle parece ter estabelecido, na literatura da área, uma polarização entre o Acompanhamento Terapêutico (AT) e o consultório com base na maior ou menor possibilidade de controle a ser assumido sobre o comportamento do cliente. A pesquisa aqui apresentada se propõe a resgatar e analisar as práticas terapêuticas de base behaviorista radical com vistas a estabelecer uma comparação entre elas e o AT para, assim, definir se é possível afirmar a existência dessa polarização. Para isso, quatro conjuntos de trabalhos foram analisados: bases da terapia comportamental: publicações de Skinner e de Ferster respeito da terapia, e sobre a Modificação de Comportamento; a literatura sobre as seguintes propostas terapêuticas: Functional Analytic Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavioral Activation; a literatura sobre as propostas terapêuticas nacionais: Terapia Analítico‐ comportamental, Terapia por Contingências de Reforçamento, Psicoterapia Comportamental Pragmática e Terapia Molar e de Autoconhecimento, além da literatura acerca do Acompanhamento Terapêutico. Para compor essa análise, foram desenvolvidas quatro categorias analíticas: conceitos centrais para o diagnóstico, estratégias de intervenção, efetividade e generalidade. A análise dos trabalhos citados apontou que a polarização, nos termos formulados acima, não acontece, pois todas as propostas programam formas garantir a generalização dos resultados. Foi possível definir, no entanto, a existência de um repertório mínimo de cliente . Esse repertório diz respeito a modelagem de comportamento verbal que permitirá ao cliente modificar, sozinho, o próprio ambiente. E essa é a justificativa do trabalho em ambiente natural, quando o cliente não tem repertório para modificar o seu próprio ambiente de forma independente, o terapeuta opera mudando o ambiente do cliente de maneira a construir uma condição de aprendizagem melhor para esse cliente. A partir disso, sugestões para pesquisas futuras são feitas ao final do trabalho

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