I detta konstnärliga arbete förklarar jag min instuderingsprocess och går igenom olika tekniska aspekter i ”Five Bagatelles for guitar” av W. Walton. I inledningen försöker jag ge en övergripande bakgrundshistoria till min relation med musik och speciellt gitarr. Jag behandlar också erfarenheter med personer jag har mött som påverkat mig i min musikaliska inriktning. Efter det skriver jag om Sir William Walton och vilken typ av kompositör och människa han var, för att förstå musiken känns det naturligt att veta vem han var. Sedan följer en övergripande formanalys med text och notexempel, där jag med text förklarar de musikaliska motiven samt behandlar diverse tekniska svårigheter jag stött på under instuderingens gång. / In this artistic work I’ll explain my process of rehearsing and going through various technical aspects of the "Five Bagatelles for Guitar" by W. Walton. In the introduction I’ll try to give a comprehensive history of my relationship with music, especially guitar. I will also discuss experiences with people I have met who influenced me in my musical direction. After that I’ll write about Sir William Walton and what kind of composer and man he was, it feels natural to know who he was to understand the way he composed. Then follows an overall shape analysis with text and view sample, where I with the help of text explain the musical motifs and discuss various technical difficulties I encountered during the time of rehearsal. / <p>Bilaga: 1 CD.</p><p>Repertoar:</p><p>Histoire du Tangoav Astor Piazolla-I Bordell 1900-II Cafe 1930</p><p>Five bagatalles for guitarav William Walton-I Allegro-II Lento-III Alla Cubana</p><p>Sonata, Omaggio a Boccheriniav Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco</p><p>-I Allegro con spirito-II Andantino, quasi canzone-III Tempo di minuetto</p><p>Medverkande musiker: </p><p>David Håkansson Gitarr, Alexander Rydberg Violin</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1983. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [408]-413).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1983. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [408]-413).

Thesis--Leipzig. / "Die Übersetzung ... wurde mit direkter Anlehnung an die Übersetzung die Chaucer wenige Jahre vorher gemacht hatte, ausgeführt." Vita. Includes bibliographical references (3d prelim. p. ).

Thesis--Leipzig. / "Die Übersetzung ... wurde mit direkter Anlehnung an die Übersetzung die Chaucer wenige Jahre vorher gemacht hatte, ausgeführt." Vita. Includes bibliographical references (3d prelim. p. ).

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In 1908 Jack Johnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world. His reign would be rife with controversy, leading to widespread racial violence and draconian government intervention. Lester Walton, theater critic for the New York Age, became obsessed with Johnson; his extensive writing on the boxer powerfully reveals not just Walton’s own struggle with issues of race in America, but sheds light on the difficulties the black community at large faced in trying to make sense of a figure who simultaneously represented hope for the positive change Reconstruction failed to produce and, ironically, also threatened to intensify the hardships of Jim Crow era oppression.

This study investigates aspects of Orientalism found within the genre of the English oratorio, specifically William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast (1931). Building on Edward Said’s research on Orientalism, analyses of Orientalist representations in music exploded the field of musicology in the 1980s and 90s. However, the examination of Orientalism in sacred genres remains lacking. Bringing forth cultural, political, and musical conflicts between East and West, Walton’s oratorio encourages further investigation in previously unaddressed genres. I argue that, by combining dramatic operatic elements with sacred text, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast reflects a continuation of Orientalist ideologies through binary opposition aimed at perpetuating the predominantly negative stereotypes of the Middle East and its people while celebrating the superiority of Western culture. Examining political, social, cultural, and musical contexts for Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast in England between the wars, I draw on eighteenth through twentieth-century Western compositions, including opera and symphonic repertory, that appropriate the Orient in similar ways. Close examination of Walton’s oratorio reflects his adherence to standard tonal, harmonic, and orchestral signifiers that differentiate between East and West as established and canonized by Orientalist composers before him. Furthermore, I argue that Walton’s exposure to Orientalist works from an early age, as well as rising nationalistic sentiments in interwar England, shaped his conception of the Orient as a place of violence, savagery, and barbarity while promoting the West, represented by the Israelites in Belshazzar’s Feast, as rational, monotheistic, and civilized.

The co-purposes of this thesis are to demonstrate why angling literature qualifies as a subject worthy of serious study, and to explore the nature of the tradition of angling literature of the nineteenth century. Although the focus is on nineteenth century works, many earlier writings have been discussed. Of the pre-1800 authors discussed, the most important is Izaak Walton—The Father of Anglers. It is believed that the thesis demonstrates that Walton greatly influenced his followers. To identify "The Walton Tradition in the Nineteenth Century," and to trace Walton's impact on nineteenth century writers on angling, extensive reading was required. Of 150-odd books on angling examined, more than 100 belong to the nineteenth century. More than one-half of them have been listed in the bibliography. The titles were gleaned from angling writers themselves, from those who wrote about angling writers, and from bibliographies on angling works. Scarce as it is, most of the important critical material available on the subject has also been listed in a bibliography. As the research progressed, it became quickly apparent that angling literature could be sub-divided into, several broad categories. These divisions are reflected in the chapter headings which follow. It also became apparent that, at bottom, most of the major authors—and many of the minor writers—consciously or unconsciously shared remarkably similar attitudes toward the pursuit of angling. It became evident, for example, that the writers view angling itself as both an art and a virtuous pastime; that they rate personal experience with, and commitment to, angling as being more important than originality of expression about angling; that they concern themselves with both the facts and the philosophy of angling; that they believe the complete angler must be both active and contemplative; that they respect nature; and that they recognize how angling can help man to be re-created. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

"Do high school students read? And do the ones who read have a well-balanced reading program, or is the reading done haphazardly? Sometimes these, and similar questions, result in answers subjective in character being framed in such sweeping generalizations as today's youth does little or no personal reading. Such statements have been the motive for numerous investigative surveys. These studies have revealed the value of a permanent interest in reading as an essential aid to personal development and social culture. They have pointed out the increasing demands made by society for greater proficiency in reading. Also, they have shown the importance of the reading program in the curriculum as a medium for establishing in youth a permanent interest in reading both for information and for recreation. Thus far, however, surveys have not established the fact that reading interests and habits differ between rural and urban pupils. This study, therefore, is an attempt to discover what differences, if any, exist in the reading interests and habits between a group of rural and urban children. The pupils considered are those enrolled during the 1950-51 session in the tenth grade in Walton High School DeFuniak Springs, Florida. In the course of this paper, pupils who ride school busses a distance of two miles or more are to be identified as 'transported' pupils; those who live within a radius of two miles of the school center and who do not ride school busses are to be referred to as 'non-transported' pupils"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1952." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Robert G. Clapp, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-48).