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Aspects of form and style in Beethoven's string quartets

  • Authors: Biesheuvel, Barbara
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Quartets -- strings
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MMus
  • Identifier: vital:2678 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007645
  • Description: Many books have been written which deal with the subject of form and style in Beethoven's works. Most writers, however, seem to be satisfied with superficial descriptions - in some cases merely programatic - which do not explain the underlying problems and treatment of form. Furthermore, no book exists, to my knowledge, which delves so deeply and with such detail as to deduce with almost certain accuracy the inner coherency of the form. It is the aim of this analysis to approach the problem in this way. The edition used for this purpose is that one published by Ernst Eulenberg Ltd. London WI, which was edited from the autograph M.S. by Professor Dr. Wilhelm Altman. No comparisons are made with other editions, and possible printer's and other errors are not considered. I chose the works to be studied here, the three quartets Op. 59, for two reasons: 1) the string quartet medium is one of the most suitable types of instrumental music for the study of form, 2) the Op. 59 quartets belong to a period in Beethoven's life when he was particularly intent upon experimentation in form and development of dimension.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Rungano rgwe musikana usika shandi

  • Authors: Bodzwa Fanisa Mulhanga and her 2 daughters , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipinga f-rh
  • Language: Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195148 , vital:45533 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-10
  • Description: The daughters names were Melia and Elena Mahuto. This is the story of a girl who could do no manner of work and had to be looked after by her sisters. Eventually she was married and when she went to her husband's home she took three of her young sisters with her to look after her. One day when they had gone off to collect firewood, her mother-in-law asked her to pund a little grain in the mortar. She told her that this was impossible and that she must never do a stroke of work or she would die. The mother-in-law did not believe her and asked her to do just a few strokes with the pestle so that she could see for herself what would happen. She agreed and immediately fell down dead. When the three sisters returned with the firewood they found their sister was not there. Where was she? No one knew. They guessed what had happened and immediately they sang a magic song which revived her sister and she came alive again. When her husband's relatives saw all this they agreed that she must return to her own home and never come back as she could never make a good wife. Ngano story
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  • Date Issued: 1963

On the physiology of the lantern retractor muscle of Parechinus angulosus

  • Authors: Boltt, R E
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Echinodermata -- Physiology
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:5900 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013513
  • Description: From Resumé: The lantern retractor muscles of regular echinoids act in almost isometric conditions and a study of their control was considered to be of interest. The retractor muscles cannot be indirectly stimulated from the radial nerves, but proved to be very photosensitive. Their responses to light were therefore studied. The muscles show a complex pattern of contraction in response to illumination, which includes both excitatory and inhibitory components. The possible genesis of these patterns is discussed and examined in the light of the responses of the muscles to direct current stimulation and to drugs. It is concluded that many of the features of the response are undoubtedly neurogenic in origin, but that myogenic activity may possibly also be involved.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Eyakho-Eyakho!

Phana 'Bantu

Isizwe Singe Bantu Balutho

Ushenge Wona Ngokuphendula

Usegugile

Indundumela

Eyakho-Eyakho!

Wayimembele Mbangweni

Ikwamaqulu

Chidilo cha mindonga

  • Authors: Chopi men and women , Samuel Kandhlelo (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Canda f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194221 , vital:45431 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR205-06
  • Description: "He is weeping for his palm trees which have been taken by others, although he planted them, it as a punishment for what he has done." An unusual kind of song no doubt overlooked on account of the Timbila music. All the people standing around began to join with the song as it was clearly well known. The player had equipped himself with a couple of sprigs of shrub with about half a dozen long and slender dry seed pods. This he used as a gentle rattle for accompaniment. It was the first of its kind I had seen. Lament with Seed Pod rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Chibongo cha Hosi Chihawahawa wa Yoyane

Msitso wo mbidi

Msitso wo khata

Chibudu

  • Authors: Combined Migodo of Zavaka and Nyakutowo , Katosi (Learder) , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/190156 , vital:44968 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR197-01
  • Description: Here at Zavala the Sange Timbila is also called Sanzhi. The orchestra consisted of 2 Chianzani treble xylophones, 8 Sange Alto xylophones, 3 Debinda bass xylophones, 2 Gulu bouble bass xylophones and 4 Njele rattles. The morning on which this was recorded was very wild and wet, just after a severestorm off the sea. The wind was still high and the rain falling in gusts. In the circumstances it was remarkable that the musicians and dancing that they contuinued in spite of the weather. The combined Timbila orchestras of Zavala and Nyakutowo often performed together at one or other village or at an agreed dance floor halfway between the two, about 2 miles from each other. Movement from Ngodo orchestral dance, with 15 Timbila xylophones.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

The place of geometry in university mathematics : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University

  • Authors: Cruise, S E
  • Date: 1963
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:612 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020681
  • Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1963

The design and construction of a recording spectrometer for the measurement of fluorescence excitation spectra in the vacuum ultra-violet region

  • Authors: Davidson, A T
  • Date: 1963
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:21177 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6761
  • Description: Summary: A recording spectrometer for the measurement of fluorescence excitation spectra in the visible and ultra-violet regions of the spectrum is described. A direct method of modulating the hydrogen light source of the spectrograph is presented, whereby the discharge is driven by an A.C. power oscillator. The use of tuned amplifiers in the detecting unit is investigated as a means of eliminating the D.C. component of the dark current. Aspects of the modulation method are discussed. Fluorescence and energy transfer in aromatic hydrocarbon is discussed with particular regard to anthracene. Some absorption, fluorescence, excitation and reflection spectra of anthracene obtained by previous workers are presented9 together with Tables listing the wavelengths of principal maxima for the above spectra published in the literature. Features of the excitation spectrum of anthracene are discussed and are related to its absorption and fluorescence spectra. The role of surface effects, defects and impurities are discussed in relation to the fluorescence of anthracene. The method of A.C. detection was unable to resolve the excitation spectrum of anthracene due to the high noise level associated with the method. However, peaks in the ultra-violet region of the hydrogen molecular spectrum were recorded at a modulation frequency of 400 Kc/sec. The noise level is explained and ways of improving the signal to noise ratio of the A.C. detection system are suggested. It is concluded that D.C. detection is a simpler and more direct way of measuring excitation spectra. No modulated signals were detected when the hydrogen discharge was excited at 6·5 Mc/sec. Signals were recorded at modulation frequencies of 400 Kc/sec . The degree of modulation at 400 Kc/sec. increased with decrease in the pressure of the hydrogen discharge.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Some properties of a model F1 layer of the ionosphere

  • Authors: De Jager, Gerhard
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Ionosphere , Ionospheric electron density
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:5515 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011046 , Ionosphere , Ionospheric electron density
  • Description: The present work was initially aimed at providing an explanation for some of the phenomena that occur in the ionosphere at sunrise. The approach that was taken was to determine the changes that take place on a theoretical model of the ionosphere and then to compare these with observations. A prerequisite for this approach was a theoretical model that would show, among other things, a bifurcation of the F layer during daytime without making unjustified arbitrary assumptions. The absence of such a model, particularly as far as non-equilibrium conditions are concerned, resulted in the present attempt to provide such a model for the F1 region.
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  • Date Issued: 1963
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