Matching Items (17)
Filtering by
- All Subjects: Piano music
- Creators: Meir, Baruch
Description
Yannis Constantinidis was the last of the handful of composers referred to collectively as the Greek National School. The members of this group strove to create a distinctive national style for Greece, founded upon a synthesis of Western compositional idioms with melodic, rhyhmic, and modal features of their local folk traditions. Constantinidis particularly looked to the folk melodies of his native Asia Minor and the nearby Dodecanese Islands. His musical output includes operettas, musical comedies, orchestral works, chamber and vocal music, and much piano music, all of which draws upon folk repertories for thematic material. The present essay examines how he incorporates this thematic material in his piano compositions, written between 1943 and 1971, with a special focus on the 22 Songs and Dances from the Dodecanese. In general, Constantinidis's pianistic style is expressed through miniature pieces in which the folk tunes are presented mostly intact, but embedded in accompaniment based in early twentieth-century modal harmony. Following the dictates of the founding members of the Greek National School, Manolis Kalomiris and Georgios Lambelet, the modal basis of his harmonic vocabulary is firmly rooted in the characteristics of the most common modes of Greek folk music. A close study of his 22 Songs and Dances from the Dodecanese not only offers a valuable insight into his harmonic imagination, but also demonstrates how he subtly adapts his source melodies. This work also reveals his care in creating a musical expression of the words of the original folk songs, even in purely instrumental compositon.
ContributorsSavvidou, Dina (Author) / Hamilton, Robert (Thesis advisor) / Little, Bliss (Committee member) / Meir, Baruch (Committee member) / Thompson, Janice M (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2011
Description
Transmission expansion planning (TEP) is a complex decision making process that requires comprehensive analysis to determine the time, location, and number of electric power transmission facilities that are needed in the future power grid. This dissertation investigates the topic of solving TEP problems for large power systems. The dissertation can be divided into two parts. The first part of this dissertation focuses on developing a more accurate network model for TEP study. First, a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) based TEP model is proposed for solving multi-stage TEP problems. Compared with previous work, the proposed approach reduces the number of variables and constraints needed and improves the computational efficiency significantly. Second, the AC power flow model is applied to TEP models. Relaxations and reformulations are proposed to make the AC model based TEP problem solvable. Third, a convexified AC network model is proposed for TEP studies with reactive power and off-nominal bus voltage magnitudes included in the model. A MILP-based loss model and its relaxations are also investigated. The second part of this dissertation investigates the uncertainty modeling issues in the TEP problem. A two-stage stochastic TEP model is proposed and decomposition algorithms based on the L-shaped method and progressive hedging (PH) are developed to solve the stochastic model. Results indicate that the stochastic TEP model can give a more accurate estimation of the annual operating cost as compared to the deterministic TEP model which focuses only on the peak load.
ContributorsZhang, Hui (Author) / Vittal, Vijay (Thesis advisor) / Heydt, Gerald T (Thesis advisor) / Mittelmann, Hans D (Committee member) / Hedman, Kory W (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2013
ContributorsYang, Miao (Performer) / Kim, Chung Man (Performer) / Kong, Qi (Performer) / Chun, Yung Hoon (Performer) / Tetzloff, Reed (Performer) / Levkovich, Dmitri (Performer) / Falzone, Christopher (Performer) / Chu, Yue (Performer) / Yessimkhanov, Daniyar (Performer) / Khristenko, Stanislav (Performer) / Marshall, Kimberly (Speaker) / Meir, Baruch (Speaker) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2009-01-10
ContributorsMeir, Baruch (Performer) / Barefield, Robert (Performer) / Buck, Nancy (Performer) / Jiang, Danwen (Performer) / Swartz, Jonathan (Performer) / Tescarollo, Hamilton (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2004-02-15
ContributorsDobos, John Octavian (Performer) / Jing, Helen (Performer) / Markina, Anastasia (Performer) / Ulianitsky, Ilia (Performer) / Meir, Baruch (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2007-01-28
ContributorsMeir, Baruch (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2010-02-22
ContributorsFennig, Andria (Performer) / Hanaoka, Katsunori (Performer) / Lee, Suzie (Performer) / Meir, Baruch (Performer) / Novak, Christina (Performer) / Tescarollo, Hamilton (Performer) / Williamson, Madeline J. (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1997-04-29
ContributorsWilliamson, Madeline J. (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Mclin, Katie (Performer) / Meir, Baruch (Performer) / Schuring, Martin (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1999-12-02
ContributorsBryan, Karen (Speaker) / Meir, Baruch (Performer) / Campbell, Andrew (Pianist) (Performer) / Cosand, Walter, 1950- (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2006-03-29
ContributorsMeir, Baruch (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2001-10-19