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This thesis comprises a portfolio of compositions with supporting commentary in addition to a general commentary on past and contemporary models of performance practice. The compositions all use elements of improvisation and are documented in recorded and score formats. Recordings and discussion of the rehearsal process of these works are also included. The thesis is divided into four parts. The first, entitled ‘Context’, examines issues of performance practice through reference to both historical and contemporary models. In this regard, particular attention is given to the work of Miles Davis and Peter Wiegold. Parts 2, 3 and 4 consist of the portfolio of original compositions with sub-headings as follows: ‘Beginnings’, ‘Transition’ and ‘Current Projects’. As a part of the commentary on the portfolio, the role of the performer as creative artist will also be examined.

Thesis advisor: Michael Barry / This paper will study the effects of airline alliances on the economic welfare of passengers and airlines by studying how membership in an airline alliance affects ticket price, revenue passenger miles, and available seat utilization. This paper will analyze three sets of data from the US Department of Transportation, including the DB1BTicket Report, the T-100 International Segment Report, and the T1: US Air Carrier Traffic and Capacity Summary by Service Class. The purpose of this paper is to determine how airline alliances effect consumer welfare. The results show that airline alliances lead to higher fares on domestic routes as well as greater passenger revenue miles and available seat utilization. This paper shows that more anti-trust investigation should be taking place regarding airline alliances. / Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: Finance.

Wong Kun Chun, Eric. / Bibliography: leaves 70-88 / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong

My recital will feature jazz music from different decades in the 20th century. The program will feature well known jazz standard tunes from influential artists such as John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Miles Davis, Steve Swallow, and others. The program will include both solo jazz arrangements for piano such as ���Alone Together���, ���Quiet Now���, and ���Falling Grace��� as well as jazz combo arrangements featuring drums, bass, and trumpet. The jazz music will include different styles of jazz such as ���swing���, ���modal���, and ���bebop���. In doing so, this will allow me to demonstrate a variety of ways to play and improvise over the various songs adding to the listener experience of the recital. The recital will also include improvisational solos by other combo members including drum solos, trumpet solos, and bass solos. / Mary Pappert School of Music; / Music Performance / MM; / Recital;

<p>Miles Davis, never one for self-effacing humility, took his boasting to new heights when he proclaimed in a <i>Rolling Stone</i> interview from December 1969, "I could put together the greatest rock and roll band you ever heard." Most critics agree that <i>A Tribute to Jack Johnson</i>, recorded between February and April of 1970, was his attempt to do just that. The album featured an ensemble that was closer to a rock power trio than a jazz quintet, musicians who were as schooled in rock and R&B as in jazz, and a prominent use of emerging instrument and studio technologies previously unheard in Davis's music. In highlighting these stylistic markers, <i>A Tribute to Jack Johnson</i> made definitive the musical transition that Davis's immediately preceding works had set in motion. </p><p> Though few fans of the era would have been surprised by Davis's invocation of the value-laden vocabulary of "greatness" in describing his music, many were taken aback by his desire to associate with rock and roll. For a musician trained in the jazz tradition and revered as a master of the genre, the intentional incorporation of influences from popular music was viewed by many jazz listeners as nothing short of heretical. What did it mean, then, for Davis to make such a claim - and such an album - at the particular time that he did? </p><p> To address these two questions, I investigate in my dissertation the production, circulation, and reception of both the stand-alone album <i>A Tribute to Jack Johnson</i> and the documentary film for which parts of the album were initially the soundtrack. Combining my training in music with scholarly perspectives on identity politics, technology studies, film studies, and African American social and political history, I demonstrate how this recording comprises both a signal incursion into accepted jazz practice, and a unique window onto vital debates around jazz, popular culture, and identity constructions in the U.S. in the early 1970s. This dissertation thereby offers one approach for continuing the critical re-evaluation of fusion jazz that has prominently been in progress since the late 1990s.</p> / Dissertation

Current scholarship on Miles Franklin emphasises the gaps and contradictions of a secretive and mysterious author. The eagerly awaited release of her private papers was marked by Paul Brunton's 2004 publication of her diaries, an edition that has been conceived and understood as a revelation of "the real Miles Franklin" (Lecture Title, State Library). This thesis disrupts the concept of a "real" Franklin by arguing that these diaries, in their manuscript form, give us more delay. Foregrounding the performative guises of the private diary subject, this thesis establishes that we are, and will always be, waiting for the real Miles Franklin to arrive. The insights of diary and textual theories illuminate Franklin, I will argue, as one who seeks the proliferative creativity of the anonymous author, and who would use her diary writing to escape definition within public discourse. Yet the tension between creativity and the daily enables us to see how potential is distorted into waiting in the surrogate space of these diaries, as Franklin seeks protection within the nostalgia of a national past and an Edenic vision of the future. This vantage point directs us to identify, as will be seen, the vulnerabilities and instabilities of this space for Franklin, as it implicates her in the dilemma of her times. In this way, we can ascertain how she holds the line as a "spotless virgin" (3 May 1942) in her resistance to the gender performances of new women, her refusal to be defined as one thing or another. This resistance to imitation will also be analysed as it plays out via the curse of Franklin's self-repetition in an Australia that waits, disrupting her attempts to achieve anonymity as the embodiment of a national literary tradition. In her avoidance of being a private text to be read, Franklin promotes herself, I will contend, as a "world classic" (Franklin Furphy 3) author of and in these diaries, resisting the transition from the readerly to the modernist writerly text at a time of artistic revolution (Barthes S/Z 4). In illuminating Franklin's exposure to these very vulnerabilities as a subject-in-process, in a document intended for posthumous publication, this thesis will establish that she has made a courageous contribution to the complexities of a particular moment within Australian modernity

Thesis (M.A.)--Liberty University Honors Program, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, 1981. / Typescript. Vita. Vol. 2 contains musical transcriptions. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-210).

Submitted by Isaac Francisco de Souza Dias (isaac.souzadias@ufpe.br) on 2016-04-15T17:03:15Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) TESE Eduardo José Oenning Soares.pdf: 3277476 bytes, checksum: f1780895f42c77c8bd752b7ed386ea18 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-15T17:03:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) TESE Eduardo José Oenning Soares.pdf: 3277476 bytes, checksum: f1780895f42c77c8bd752b7ed386ea18 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-30 / Muitas críticas são apresentadas na literatura a respeito da implementação do Sistema de Gestão da Qualidade da norma ISO 9001, que focam principalmente no fato de que nem sempre as empresas que buscaram a certificação observaram grandes benefícios após a sua obtenção. Tal fenômeno pode ocorrer pela dificuldade encontrada pelas empresas durante o processo de implementação. Neste contexto, esta pesquisa se propõe a avaliar o grau de dificuldade encontrado pelas empresas, que já implementaram um Sistema de Gestão da Qualidade conforme proposto pela norma ISO 9001:2008, e relacionar esta dificuldade com a tipologia estratégica de Miles e Snow. Fizeram parte da amostra 62 empresas atuantes no Brasil do setor de construção civil para obter dados sobre o perfil estratégico e o grau de dificuldade que essas empresas observaram no processo de implementação da norma. Hipóteses foram formuladas para testar se há uma diferença significativa entre o grau de dificuldade na implementação dos itens dos requisitos da norma e a tipologia estratégica dessas organizações. Como resultado foi possível observar que empresas com diferentes tipos estratégicos apresentaram diferentes níveis de dificuldade no processo de implementação da norma. A partir destes resultados, este estudo propôs uma abordagem para avaliar e auxiliar na implementação dos requisitos da norma ISO 9001:2008, assim, empresas com tipologias estratégicas específicas podem identificar os itens dos requisitos que teriam mais dificuldade em implementar, facilitando as decisões sobre a alocação de recursos, a atribuição de pessoal adequado ou diagnosticar as necessidades de formação e qualificação de pessoal, contribuindo para o planejamento de recursos humanos. Ao final, a aplicabilidade da abordagem proposta foi avaliada em um estudo de caso, no qual foi possível observar que a empresa estudada não possuía condições suficientes de implementar os requisitos da norma por conta própria. Assim, foi proposta, por meio de um método multicritério, a seleção de alternativas da qual incluía a contratação de consultores. Esta alternativa foi bem aceita pela empresa alvo do estudo de caso. / Many criticisms are presented in the literature regarding the implementation of standard ISO 9001. These criticisms focus primarily on the fact that companies that have sought certification have not always encountered benefits after obtaining certification. This phenomenon may occur due to the difficulties encountered by companies during the implementation process. Within this context, this research aims to evaluate the degree of difficulty encountered by companies, which have implemented a Quality Management System as proposed by the ISO 9001: 2008, and relate this difficulty with strategic typology of Miles and Snow. The sample included 62 Brazilian companies in the construction industry to obtain data on the strategic profile and the degree of difficulty these companies have noted in the implementation process of the standard. Hypotheses were formulated to test whether there is a significant difference between the degree of difficulty in the implementation of the items of the standard requirements and the strategic typology of these organizations. As a result it was observed that companies with different strategic types presented different levels of difficulty in the implementation process of the standard. From these results, this study has proposed an approach to measure and assist the implementation of ISO 9001: 2008 requirements so that companies with specific strategic types may identify the requirement items which are the most difficult to implement, thus facilitating decisions regarding allocating resources, assigning appropriate staff or diagnosing the need to train and qualify personnel, contributing to human resource planning. At the end of the study, the applicability of the proposed approach was evaluated in a case study, in which we observed that the company studied did not have sufficient conditions to implement the requirements of the standard on their own. Thus, it was proposed, through a multi-criteria method, selecting alternatives which included the hiring of consultants. This alternative was well accepted by the target company in the case study.