Search for dissertations about: "stylistic influences"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words stylistic influences.

2. 1. Höggotisk träskulptur i gamla Linköpings stift : [High gothic wooden sculptures in the medieval diocese of Linköping]

   Author : Carina Jacobsson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Diocese of Linköping; Gothic; High Gothic; wooden sculptures; medieval workshop; style; influences; pattern of distribution;

   Abstract : With emphasis on the stylistic development, this thesis deals with dating and the pattern of distribution, of some 215 wooden sculptures from the period c. 1300-1375 in the medieval Diocese of Linköping. READ MORE

4. 2. Free Ensemble Improvisation

   Author : Harald Stenström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; aleatorics; artistic research; attractor state; central tone; chaotic systems; collective understanding; comprovisation; conceptual model; directed motion; ensemble size; feedback and feedforward; free ensemble improvisation; gesture; importance of rhythm; indeterminacy; interactional skill; listening skill; musical evaluation; musical interaction; musical maturity; musical chemistry; musical interpretation; musical composition; non-idiomatic improvisation; rhythmic flow; sound properties; stylistic influences;

   Abstract : The aim of this doctoral project has been to study so-called non-idiomatic improvisation in ensembles consisting of two or three musicians who play together without any restrictions regarding style or genre and without having predetermined what is to be played or how they should play. The background to this thesis has been the author’s own free improvising, which he has pursued since 1974, and the questions that have arisen whilst music-making. READ MORE

5. 3. The office of Saint Olav : A study of chant transmission

   Author : Eyolf Østrem; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Musicology; Oral and written transmission; St Olav; Passio Olavi; Plainchant; liturgy; Scandinavian church history; vellum fragments; Leo Treitler; memory; Musikvetenskap; Music; Musikvetenskap; Musicology; Musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a study of various aspects of transmission of liturgy in the Medieval churches of the Nordic countries, taking its point of departure in an edition and close study of the office of St. Olav, the patron saint of Norway.The first part is historically orientated. READ MORE

6. 4. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

   Author : Signe Leth Gammelgaard; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; New Economic Criticism; debt; Balzac; Trollope; Zola; Huysmans; Wilde; Mirbeau; money; nineteenth-century novel; economy and literature; materialism; Marxist literary theory; semiotics; Saussure; the human body in literature.;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. READ MORE

7. 5. Scripta Imagine : Buildings, Transformations, and Rhetorical Ekphrasis in Statius’ Silvae

   Author : Samuel Douglas; Christer Henriksén; Carole Newlands; Bruce Gibson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Statius; Ekphrasis; Rhetoric; Latin; Latin; Latin;

   Abstract : Statius’ Silvae, his collected epideictic poems in five volumes, have long been recognised as a descriptive tour-de-force, with its extensive depictions of buildings, people, and art. Modern critical responses to these have been varied, identifying a wide variety of influences and stylistic tendencies in these works. READ MORE