Theme

Theme or themes may refer to:

  • Theme (Byzantine district), an administrative girth district in the Byzantine Empire governed by a Strategos
  • Theme (computing), a custom graphical appearance for certain software.
  • Theme (linguistics), topic
  • Theme (magazine)
  • Theme Building, a landmark building in the Los Angeles International Airport
  • Theme vowel or thematic vowel, a vowel placed before the word ending in certain Proto-Indo-European words
  • Art

  • Theme (arts), the unifying subject or idea of the type of visual work
  • Theme (narrative), the unifying subject or idea of a story
  • Theme (music), the initial or principal melody in a musical piece
  • Theme music, signature music which recurs in a film, television program or performance
  • See also

  • All pages beginning with "Theme"
  • All pages with titles containing Theme
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  • Theme (Byzantine district)

    The themes or themata (Greek: θέματα; singular θέμα, thema) were the main administrative divisions of the middle Byzantine Empire. They were established in the mid-7th century in the aftermath of the Slavic invasion of Balkans and Muslim conquests of parts of Byzantine territory, and replaced the earlier provincial system established by Diocletian and Constantine the Great. In their origin, the first themes were created from the areas of encampment of the field armies of the East Roman army, and their names corresponded to the military units that had existed in those areas. The theme system reached its apogee in the 9th and 10th centuries, as older themes were split up and the conquest of territory resulted in the creation of new ones. The original theme system underwent significant changes in the 11th and 12th centuries, but the term remained in use as a provincial and financial circumscription, until the very end of the Empire.

    History

    Background

    During the late 6th and early 7th centuries, the Eastern Roman Empire was under frequent attack from all sides. The Sassanid Empire was pressing from the east on Syria, Egypt, and Anatolia. Slavs and Avars raided Thrace, Macedonia, Illyricum and Greece and settled in the Balkans. The Lombards occupied northern Italy, largely unopposed. In order to face the mounting pressure, in the more distant provinces of the West, recently regained by Justinian I (r. 527–565), Emperor Maurice (r. 582–602) combined supreme civil and military authority in the person of an exarch, forming the exarchates of Ravenna and Africa. These developments overturned the strict division of civil and military offices, which had been one of the cornerstones of the reforms of Diocletian (r. 284–305). In essence however they merely recognized and formalized the greater prominence of the local general, or magister militum, over the respective civilian praetorian prefect as a result of the provinces' precarious security situation.

    Thematic vowel

    In Indo-European studies, a thematic vowel or theme vowel is the vowel *e or *o from ablaut placed before the ending of a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word. Nouns, adjectives, and verbs in the Indo-European languages with this vowel are thematic, and those without it are athematic. Used more generally, a thematic vowel is any vowel found at the end of the stem of a word.

    Proto-Indo-European

    PIE verbs and nominals (nouns and adjectives) consist of three parts:

    
\underbrace{\underbrace{\mathrm{root+suffix}}_{\mathrm{stem}} + \mathrm{ending}}_{\mathrm{word}}

    The thematic vowel, if present, occurs at the end of the suffix (which may include other vowels or consonants) and before the ending:

  • *gʷʰér-mo-s 'heat' > Ancient Greek θέρμος (thérmos)
  • *bʰér-e-ti '(he) carries' > Sanskrit bhárati, Gothic baíriþ
  • Athematic forms, by contrast, have a suffix ending in a consonant, or no suffix at all (or arguably a null suffix):

  • *ph₂-tér-s 'father' > English father
  • *h₁és-mi '(I) am' > English am
  • For several reasons, athematic forms are thought to be older, and the thematic vowel was likely an innovation of late PIE: Athematic paradigms (inflection patterns) are more "irregular", exhibiting ablaut and mobile accent, while the thematic paradigms can be seen as a simplification or regularisation of verbal and nominal grammar. In the Anatolian languages, which were the earliest to split from PIE, thematic verbs are rare or absent. Furthermore, during late PIE and in the older daughter languages, a number of athematic forms were replaced by thematic ones, as in prehistoric Greek *thes- 'god' versus *thes-o- > Classical Greek θεός (theós).

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    Ending Theme

    by: Pain Of Salvation

    And so I find myself here once again - first step down Remedy Lane
    Budapest you tore my world apart - well, here I am
    Worn with rope ends on my mind, torn with blood scarred in my eyes
    But now I'm back to shake that from my life
    Ending Theme, ending theme
    Ripping at the seams, for an opening
    Back again at Deak Ter - I know I could have left her there
    It was the feeling of leaving myself that I could not bear
    The same old hotel room in Pest one night before the Sziget fest
    Hungarian Princess will you share my rest?
    To rest in my...
    ENDING THEME
    ENDING THEME
    Ripping at the seams, for an opening
    to be honest I don't know what I'm looking for - who to be
    sitting here as once before, weeks ago - just waiting for a knock on that door
    and I have left all I thought was me to find out, to make sure if it was you or me
    that made me feel so free and real, but when we kiss I don't know, I just don't know
    'cause it leaves a taste of emptiness, and I think What if I'm simply depressed?
    blind, just finding rest from my mind here in Budapest?
    confusing zest with the joy of being blessed with the bliss of self-escape as we kiss?
    and mixing my being unstressed with your being undressed and the taste of being true
    with the fresh taste of me and you as we touch? I don't know
    but I saw so much of me in you, the me I've missed, the young and free in you
    but still, that doesn't mean a thing, may not mean anything about my needing you
    but I guess we had to meet, to be near; to make sure, and still my dear
    beyond this bed and that door, to be honest, I fear I just don't know
    ENDING THEME
    ENDING THEME
    Fanning flames to dreams of belonging
    ENDING THEME
    ENDING THEME
    Ripping at the seams, for an opening
    Johan Hallgren
    to be honest I don't know what I'm looking for...




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