Harmonic, Tonal, and Formal Asynchrony in Robert Schumann\u27s \u3ci\u3eFrauenliebe und Leben\u3c/i\u3e

This thesis explores the asynchrony among form, harmony, and tonality in Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42. Using several theoretical lenses, this study identifies and analyzes a selection of songs from this work that distort tonal, harmonic, and formal relationships and how the text setting may inform these distortions. This is shown through detailed analyses of several songs from the cycle that highlight areas of asynchrony. The first section of this document explores the background of Frauenliebe und Leben and draws upon other musical examples in order to establish working definitions of asynchronous elements. The following sections are divided by song, each section containing an analysis detailing which aspects of the composition contain asynchronous elements, as well as how those elements affect or are affected by one another within the context of tonality, harmony, form, and text. The final section presents an overview of asynchrony within the work based on the detailed analyses provided for each song and suggests opportunities for further exploration of asynchrony. Advisor: Stanley V. Kleppinge

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Endangered Species Responses to Natural Habitat Declines: Nebraska’s Interior Least Terns (\u3ci\u3eSternula antillarum athalassos\u3c/i\u3e) and Piping Plovers (\u3ci\u3eCharadrius melodus\u3c/i\u3e) Nesting in a Human-Created Habitat

Formerly, state and federally endangered Interior Least Terns (Sternula antillarum athalassos) and state and federally threatened Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) nested on sandbars in rivers as well as on other sandy beach habitat (Hardy 1957; Haig 1992; Kirsch 1992; Ziewitz et al. 1992; Thompson et al. 1997). In Nebraska, the birds primarily used sandbars in the Platte, Loup, Elkhorn, Niobrara, and Missouri rivers (Sharpe et al. 2001). These sandbars were created and maintained by river flow and regular flooding events. Despite the frequent scouring, reshaping, and relocation of the sandbars, nesting habitat was consistently available to the birds in these river systems. With recent human-caused modifications to annual river flow, river bed and bank structure, and emergent vegetation, the number of river sandbars that are suitable for nesting has been greatly reduced (Haig 1992; Ziewitz et al. 1992; Wilson et al. 1993; Thompson et al. 1997; NRC 2005). In recent decades, Least Terns and Piping Plovers have used human-created habitats for nesting, although they still use river sandbars when they are available (Haig 1992; Thompson et al. 1997). During the last several decades, the birds have nested on human-created sites such as sand spill piles at sand and gravel mines, fly-ash piles at electrical power-generating plants, gravel and tar rooftops, and lakeshore-sandy beach housing developments (Ducey 1982; Haig 1992; Kirsch 1992; Ziewitz et al. 1992; Wilson et al.1993; Thompson et al. 1997; Forys and Borboen-Abrams 2006). In eastern Nebraska, economic growth near human population centers has increased the attractiveness of lakeshore housing developments to investors. In the past, retired sand and gravel mines were converted into lakeshore housing developments. Recently, however, developers have bypassed the mine stage and are excavating the lakes directly for housing developments. As terns and plovers use human-created and human-dominated habitats with increasing frequency, the importance of these areas to conservation and management becomes more critical. Threats to nests, chicks, and adults may be quite different at these sites than at river nesting sites or sand and gravel mines because of different human uses. Reliable nesting data are essential for the development of effective protocols to secure and recover the populations of these two protected species. Here we report the results of one nesting season at a human-created site along the lower Platte River

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