Prometheus in sound : one hundred years of musical adaptations of the myth of Prometheus: Beethoven, Shubert, Liszt, Wolf, Parry, Fauré and Scriabin

The Promethean characteristics of contemporary young iconoclasts as they have expressed disapproval of the society which they have inherited and in which they feel entrapped prompted this study. Our interest here lies with the nature of the dissatisfaction rather than with ways of expressing it. If follows that out concern is primarily with the gift of Prometheus - the fire rather than with the rebellion and defiance associated with the demigod who took action against the tyranny of Zeus

Sandspur, Vol. 44 No. 15, February 1, 1939

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1541/thumbnail.jp

The initial years (ca. 1528-1565) of Claude le Jeune : Huguent and musical humanist

Claude Le Jeune (born at Valenciennes , ca. 1528; died at Paris, 1600) was a towering figure in French Renaissance music. In spite of this, few biographical details have survived the turmoils of his time , which was marked primarily by the Wars of Religion, the last years of the reign of the Valois, and the struggle of Henry IV for the crown of France. In order, therefore, to attain a more complete picture of Le Jeune's life and work, the general historical and spiritual background, circumstantial evidence, is considered more implicating much intensely than usual. The two dominating beacons in Le Jeune's life are his allegiance to the Reformed Faith , involving close connections to leading Huguenot figures, and his inclination towards Humanism, confirmed by his association, from 1570 onwards, with the Academie de Poesie et de Musique of Jean-Antoine De Baïf. The present study is concerned with the initial years of Claude Le Jeune, covering the thirty- seven years of his life from 1528 (the assumed year of birth) intil 1565. In terms of publications, this period includes his "youthful" works : four early chansons from 1552, the Dix Pseaumes with a dialogue for seven voices , Mais qui es-tu,of 1564, and a single motet à 3, Nigra sum sed formosa, published in 1565. The background of his northern homeland is screened with particular attention to the involvement of the members of the Le Jeune family in the religious affairs of the time. Also the general cultural and musical milieu of the Netherlands is investigated within this and Le Jeune's first published works are considered biographical framework. These works still bear the stodginess and gaucheness of an apprentice. The probability of a sojourn in Italy is explored with positive findings. This visit most likely brought Le Jeune within the circle of the ageing Willaert at Venice, Major focus is placed upon the Dix Pseaumes, the first comprehensive collection to appear entirely under Le Jeunes ' s own name and dominating the initial period of his creative life. Detailed analyses reveal the hand of a now asserted composer. well-versed in technical matters and in possession of a fine perception for both the tenets of Calvinism and the aspirations of musical Humanism . As far as the latter is concerned. pertinent attention is given to its roots in the rhetorical and philosophical traditions. and how Le Jeune accommodated issues which sprouted from these and occupied the theorists of his time. Musical text expression holds. since the Dix Pseaumes. a central place in Le Jeune's works in which he maintains a fresh and subtle approach steering clear of the dogmatism of some contemporary theorists. Using various musical devices (modes, chiavette, melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, and even structure) to serve text expression. Le Jeune' s parlance gradually develops a currency in its own right. often expressing the meaning or implication of a text more comprehensively than can be attained by means of a linguistic medium. Appropriate to this particular trait of development in language. recognition is given Le Jeune's musical language. Included into the discussion are concordances of works by other composers where these exist as well as references to the relevant musical topography. A concluding summary of the moulding forces in the initial years of Claude Le Jeune's life as well as the gradual formulation of his distinct musical language concludes this study which can be regarded as an introduction to a more comprehensive programme of research on the life, times and works of Claude Le Jeune, Huguenot and Musical Humanist. A general bibliography is included while the folling appendices are included. 1 . A Bibliography of the works of Claude Le Jeune (all printed editions from 1552-1775). complete with descriptions . text incipits. sources. and class nubers; 2 . some relevant documents; 3. the literary texts of the works discussed; and 4. the "youthful" works. all of these (except the chanson spirituelle. Mais qui es- tu,as yet not republished . Various portraits. maps and other relevant illustrations are intended to enhance the presentation

Additional studies in Rio Grande Valley history

Border birding, a poem / Chip Dameron -- The curse, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- River boundaries of Texas : the Louisiana-Texas borderland and Lower Rio Grande Valley in comparative perspective 1700-1850 / Francis X. Galan -- Testamentos de Reynosa 1770-1820 / Pedro Antonio Campos Rodriguez -- La Guerra de 1847 y la inevitibilidad ‘retorica’ de la derrota / Arturo Zarate Ruiz -- The dead man’s bride, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- Emmanuel Domenech in the Rio Grande Valley, 1851-1853 / Santiago Escobedo -- Don Juan Jose de Solis, Albert Champion, the border cattle raids, and the birth of the cattle kingdom / Frank Champion Murphy -- Two shots in the dark : the murder of Michael Schodts / Bill Young -- The life and times of Robert Kane : miner, soldier, fireman, barber and family man / Don Clifford -- The ghost car, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- Jose Esparza : a worthy son of a worthy father / Milo Kearney & Tony Pineda -- The R.B. Creager and Carlos G. Watson papers come to the Hunter Room / John Hawthorne -- Henry Gordon : a life devoted to law enforcement in Brownsville / Elizandro Munoz Jr. -- An interview with Antonio M. Ramirez / Rolando L. Garza -- Rolando Hinojosa : Tejano writer / Manuel Medrano -- A brief look at the political career of Ygnacio ‘Nacho’ Garza / James W. Mills -- The lady and her daughter in white, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- Living with Brownsville’s Resacas / Mimosa Stephenson -- Personajes e instituciones en la salud publica de Matamoros / Rosaura Davila de Cuella -- Reptile stories and myths along the Lower Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) / Norman L. Richard -- Morality and gender in Reynosa in the 1920s and 1930s / Sonia Hernandez -- Short stories and sound bites from the UTB Hunter Room’s Brownsville Chamber of Commerce files / Robin Robinson -- Sand, sun, set, and match: the story of beach volleyball on South Padre Island / Helmut Langerbein -- A history of the Texas Tropical Trail Heritage Tourism program in the Rio Grande Valley / Kimberlee D. Garza -- The medic, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- The Protestant presence in Cameron Country, Texas: 1850-1870: an examination of census data / J. Steven Rice -- Benedictine education and monasticism in the Rio Grande Valley / Cipriano A. Cardenas -- How reconstruction changed the meaning of red and blue in Brownsville / Lyon Rathbun -- El gobierno municipal de la Heroica Matamoros, Tamaulipas, en 1897 / Andres F. Cuellar -- The Brownsville Historical Association’s first sixty years / Anthony Knopp -- Los dos niños, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- Remembering the Tandy’s / James W. Mills -- Tell them who you are : honoring pioneer families of el Rio Brave del Norte / Anthony Noe Zavaleta -- Hurricane season, a poem / Chip Dameron.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/regionalhist/1007/thumbnail.jp

John Knox: reformation rhetoric and the traditions of Scots prose

Knox has seldom been taken seriously as a literary figure; in fact it is often assumed that he was hostile to `art' of any kind. Most British literary critics who have examined his work have done so superficially and have concluded that his prose was plain or unadorned and that its most important feature was a drift towards anglicisation. In the introductory section, `The Myths, the Writer and the Canon', it is argued that, on the contrary, the latter assessment cannot be made definitively for textual reasons and is, in any case, irrelevant to literary criticism. Moreover, the study suggests that Knox was one of the most highly rhetorical of all the sixteenth-century prose writers, although his rhetoric was never decorative. Chapter one traces the beginnings of Scottish literary prose from 1490 onwards, examining such texts as John Ireland's The Meroure of Wyssdome, John Gau's The Richt Vay to the Kingdom of Hevin, The Complaynt of Scotland and so forth, and establishes that works before Knox reflect religious belief even at the levels of lexis and syntactic structure, but generally speaking, do not consistently and convincingly reveal the personalities of their authors (with the possible exception of the Complayner). Chapter two illustrates that Knox's prose is always double-edged; its rhetorical aims are both offensive and defensive, it is often psychologically self-expressive and simultaneously revealing of his fundamental religious beliefs. The remaining chapters attempt to identify the range of rhetorical devices through which Knox manifests his own character and his religion, to assess how they may have affected his audience, to establish his sources, and whenever possible, to set them within pre-existing literary traditions, Scottish or otherwise. Chapters one and five are concentrated especially on the historiographical milieu in mid-sixteenth century Scotland and beyond, in order to set The Historie of the Reformatioun, the first great work of Scots prose, in its proper context. Chapter five itself consists of a number of generic divisions which are isolated to facilitate detailed analysis of disparate literary strands in Knox's magnum opus. Thus, according to the author, as far as prose is concerned, Knox's rhetoric and literary works represent the culmination of homiletic and historiographical traditions, the maturation of incipient religious forces in the sixteenth century, and the earliest establishment in Scotland of a fully-rounded literary personality

Misas policorales de Alfonso Vaz de Acosta y Carlos Patiño: contexto, estudio e interpretación

Este trabajo estudia las trece misas policorales de Alfonso Vaz de Acosta y Carlos Patiño conservadas en la Catedral de Valladolid y en el Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial escrita surante las decadas centrales del Seiscientos. Para evaluar el grado de implantación del lenguaje policoral, se aporta un inventario de las misas de este periodo conservadas en la Catedral de Valladolid, en El Escorial y en el resto de catedrales de Castilla y León. Se analizan los rasgos estilísticos más significativos y característicos del lenguaje policoral presentes en estas obras. Partiendo del importante fondo documental de la Catedral de Valladolid, y otras fuentes de la época, se ofrece una propuesta interpretativa, relativa sobre todo al ámbito de la plantilla y la orgánica, que pretende servir de orientación a los intérpretes interesados en la ejecución de las ediciones críticas de las trece misas que se incluyen.Departamento de Didáctica de la Expresión Musical, Plástica y CorporalDoctorado en Musicologí