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With the recent advances in computation technology researchers around the globe are working to simulate the crack propagation. One of the key issues in predicting crack propagation path is the knowledge of the crack initiation angle. The study of crack initiation angles is also …

This dissertation investigates the history of Western European tonality through the prism of the Phrygian cadence and the Phrygian mode. It takes as its starting point the question of how a note that was expressly a final according to medieval and Renaissance modal theory was ab…

By the beginning of the nineteenth century, harmonization of plainchant melodies had become a trend among church organists. In their harmonizations, many of these organists freely applied the harmonic conventions of what may be characterized today as common-practice tonality, su…