Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 430-138).

Meredith Monk's multi-modal work incorporates theatre, dance, film and music. Her claim is that music and specifically the voice lie at the heart of all her work. At this core, she uses auditory gesture in wordless vocal lines to express her meaning, usually the hidden narrative of emotion, to enable universal intelligibility. This thesis uses the concept of gestus in the sense of Brecht and Weill as an instrument to examine vocal gesture in three scenes in Monk's opera ATLAS, and then relates it to her compositional process. It also studies gestus in connection with Monk's biography and the influences on her especially Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and Antonin Artaud.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-95). Also available on microfiche.

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Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references and discography.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2003. / Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded Apr. 23, 2001, Nov. 19, 2001, Apr. 15, 2002, and Apr. 24, 2003. Includes bibliographical references and discography (p. 89-99).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references. / v. 1. Energetics and adaptation -- v. 2. The average daily metabolic rate and associated energy substrate utilization as determined by the doubly labeled water technique. / Microfiche. / 2 v. bound ill. (some col.) 29 cm

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Hanshan Deqing 憨山德清 (1546-1623), est l’un des « Quatre moines bouddhistes éminents » de la fin de dynastie Ming, en Chine qui avaient pris conscience de l’importance et de la nécessité d’une conciliation entre les trois enseignements chinois que sont le bouddhisme, le confucianisme et le taoïsme. Ses annotations du Zhuangzi, du Daode jing, de l’Invariable Milieu et de La Grande Étude demeurent très importantes pour l’étude des tentatives de syncrétisme des trois enseignements. Il fut en effet le premier moine à avoir rédigé autant de commentaires des classiques taoïstes et confucéens afin de montrer que de nombreuses idées de ces deux enseignements d’origine chinoise sont similaires à celles de la pensée bouddhiste. Il est aussi l’auteur d’une dissertation qui démontre la possibilité du rapprochement entre les trois enseignements, tout en maintenant la précellence du bouddhisme. En étudiant de près tous ses commentaires non-bouddhistes et sa dissertation à propos des trois enseignements, nous avons constaté que le moine avait transformé la pensée taoïste et la pensée confucéenne en des doctrines quasi bouddhistes, proches tantôt du Grand Véhicule, tantôt du Petit Véhicule, en fonction des passages examinés. Certains concepts bouddhistes sont très récurrents dans ses commentaires non-bouddhistes. Hanshan Deqing montre que les auteurs des classiques taoïstes et confucéens qu’il annote avaient déjà pressenti l’importance des concepts qui sont au cœur de la pensée bouddhiste et permettent d’atteindre l’illumination ou de conduire des pratiques sotériologiques. À travers ces commentaires, on décèle l’intention de Hanshan Deqing : porter à la connaissance des lettrés, des taoïstes, voire des adeptes bouddhistes eux-mêmes, les procédures permettant d’accéder à l’Éveil, pour ensuite aider d’autres êtres à sortir de leur égarement et de leur attachement au monde. / Hanshan Deqing 憨山德清 (1546-1623) is one of the “Four Eminent Buddhist monks” of the late Ming dynasty in China who realized the importance and the necessity of the reconciliation between the three Chinese philosophies: Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. His annotations of the Zhuangzi, of the Daode jing, of the Doctrine of the Mean, of the Great Learning are of seminal importance in the attempt to fusion the three philosophies. He was indeed the first monk to have written so many commentaries of the Taoist and the Confucian classics in order to show that numerous thoughts of these two philosophies originating from China are similar to the ones of Buddhism. He is also the writer of a dissertation that demonstrates the possibility of establishing bridges between the three philosophies, even if he considers Buddhism as superior. Studying closely all his non-Buddhist commentaries and his dissertation about the three philosophies, we noticed that the monk had transformed the Taoist thought and the Confucian thought nearly into Buddhist doctrines, sometimes close to the Mahāyāna, sometimes close to the Hīnayāna, depending on the examined passages. Some Buddhist concepts are very recurrent in his non-Buddhist commentaries. Hanshan Deaing points out that the writers of the Taoist and Confucian classics that he annotates had already sensed the importance of the concepts which are at the heart of the Buddhist mind and enable to reach the enlightenment or the realization of the soteriological practices.Through these commentaries, we can discover Hanshan Deqing’s intention: to make the lettered persons, the Taoists or even the Buddhist disciples themselves aware of the procedures allowing them to reach the Awakening and then to help others beings to be released from their blindness and their attachment to the world.

The dissertation focuses on Joe Lovano's utilization of thematic material in relation to "Misterioso" by Thelonius Monk. Thematicism is defined more broadly in this study to include reference to the form, phrase structure, and harmony of "Misterioso". Methodological models provided by Gary Potter, Henry Martin, and Paul Hindemith serve as points of departure for this study which focuses on four areas: 1) phrasing, 2) step progression, 3) motives and formulas, and 4) harmonic implications. Thematic relationships are discovered through the analysis of the transcription of Lovano's improvisation; the four levels of the analysis work together and also independent of one another to produce a kind of thematic counterpoint. This study also examines how Lovano creates an effective solo. The study will be of benefit to students, professional musicians, pedagogues, theorists, musicologists, and jazz aficionados.