Bøger af Thomas Christensen

Sygdomslære for ikke-klinikere giver et indgående kendskab til de hyppigste og væsentligste sygdomme i den vestlige befolkning. Bogens opbygning I beskrivelserne af de enkelte sygdomme er der lagt vægt på en grundig beskrivelse af sygdommenes patogenese og ætiologi, mens det for diagnostikkens og behandlingens vedkommende kun er de overordnede principper, der bliver gennemgået. Bogen giver samtidig læseren et indblik i hyppigheden af de enkelte sygdomme og deres konsekvenser for patienter, sundhedsvæsen og samfund, ligesom forebyggende tiltag beskrives. Bogen er systematisk opbygget, og den indeholder mange oversigter, figurer, kliniske billeder og tabeller. Alle medicinske betegnelser er samlet i en ordliste bagerst i bogen med forklaringer af ordene, så bogen kan læses uden brug af klinisk ordbog. Målgruppe Målgruppen er studerende, som ikke selv skal tilse eller behandle patienter, men som skal kunne agere i tværfaglig sammenhæng med læger, sygeplejersker og andet sundhedspersonale. Det kan fx være studerende inden for folkesundhedsvidenskab, medicoteknik, sundhedsteknologi og -informatik samt andre sundheds- og naturvidenskabelige uddannelser.

Towards Tonality is a collection of essays based on lectures presented at the International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory on "Historical Theory, Performance, and Meaning in Baroque Music". The often complex connections and intersections between, e.g., modal and tonal idioms, contrapuntal and harmonic organisation, were considered from various perspectives as to the transition (towards tonality) from the Renaissance to the Baroque era. Contents: Thomas Christensen Genres of Music Theory, 1650-1750 Penelope Gouk Science and Music, or the Science of Music: Some Little-known Examples of "Music Theory" between 1650 and 1750 Gérard Geay L'édition de la polyphonie française du 17e siècle Susan McClary Towards a History of Harmonic Tonality Markus Jans Towards a History of the Origin and Development of the Rule of the Octave Joel Lester Thoroughbass as a Path to Composition in the Early Eighteenth Century Marc Vanscheeuwijck Giovanni Paolo Colonna and Petronio Franceschini: Building Acoustics and Compositional Style in Late Seventeenth-Century Bologna

This thesis provides a comprehensive introduction to two active research directions within the field of plasmonics: (i) nonclassical, or quantum, aspects of the plasmonic response;

With its title harkening back to the sack of Baghdad in 1258when the Tigris ran black with the ink of books flung into the water by Mongol invadersRiver of Ink is a collection of essays that range widely across time and cultures to illuminate the role of literature and art throughout history. Christensen draws from a panoply of subjects, from the writings of prehistoric Chinese cultures known only through archaeology to the heroic efforts of contemporary Afghanis to keep the legacy of their ancient culture alive under the barrage of endless war.Christensens encyclopedic knowledge of world art and vast understanding of literature allows him to move easily from a discussion of the invention of moveable type in Korea, to Johannes Keplers search for the harmony of the spheres, to the strange journey of an iron sculpture from Benin to the Louvre. Other essays cover the Popol Vuh of the Maya as exemplum of translation, the pioneering explorations of the early American naturalist John Bartram, and the balletic works of Louis-Ferdinand Cline.It is Christensens gift to see the world whole, to offer a wealth of connections vital for us as citizens of a rapidly globalizing world.

Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist François-Joseph Fétis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the term in the nineteenth century. Thomas Christensen weaves a rich story in which tonality emerges as a theoretical construct born of anxiety and alterity for Europeans during this time as they learned more about "other" musics and alternative tonal systems. Tonality became a central vortex in which French musicians thought--and argued--about a variety of musical repertoires, be they contemporary European musics of the stage, concert hall, or church, folk songs from the provinces, microtonal scale systems of Arabic and Indian music, or the medieval and Renaissance music whose notational traces were just beginning to be deciphered by scholars. Fétis's influential writings offer insight into how tonality ingrained itself within nineteenth-century music discourse, and why it has continued to resonate with uncanny prescience throughout the musical upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years.

Bach and Mozart stand as towering representatives of European music of the 18th century, composers whose works reflect intellectual, religious, and aesthetic trends of the period. This collection of essays by leading authorities offers new perspectives on the two composers, as well as some of their important contemporaries, Haydn in particular.