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
  • Genre
  • Principle
  • 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).

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    The Machine

    by: Trey Songz

    Oh
    Oh
    Oh
    Ohhh
    Guessin this is the part where I start
    Telling you I wanna tear your body all apart
    Beatin all day like your heart
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    This spots so perfect
    Cut em all off cause you so worth it
    You said you left him cause he made you feel worthless
    And you were scared cause I made you so nervous
    Well let's play it like you never heard the radio
    Or seen the tv
    See me for me
    She smiled touchin my chest
    Trigga you a mess
    Baby I'm for real
    She said you better be
    Baby I'm so for real you can go ask heavy d
    Speakin of heavy d
    Think ya can lift that
    Game in the bag but they forgot to gift wrap
    Blind me for never givin into the rift raft
    Turned into a machine all I'm seein is pitch black
    They ain't never gunna stop me
    Never forget that
    All they can do is watch me like eyelids peeled back
    Everything I'm sayin you should know that I meant that
    Baby girl tell them that I'm fresh as a mint pack
    Tic Tac breath strips
    Where we going breast slip
    Tongue kiss
    Married to the melody
    Sleeping with the drum kick
    Tell the hi hat kick when I say so
    Rearrange beats track got made over
    When the sun rise I just got a day colder
    Beats like food after I pray over
    Turn the prey over
    Got great molars
    Time to wake the world up
    Call me trey foldgers!
    Trey told ya
    Take over
    So cold I can freeze the great lakes over
    Order me a cold beer
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    Talkin well done wild goose stake
    Get a plate
    Ya ain't never heard of that
    Yea that boy murdered that
    She says she my baby tell me where the gerber at
    And don't speak a word of that
    Gerber rap
    Not havin a damn thing to do with any word of that
    (Songz!)
    Baby this songz
    We can get gone
    Like Ideal I'm ireel
    What I feel
    I'm one of the realest
    Don't know what ya dealin
    I can call bluffs and count cards
    Dealin with a sane man
    Jermaine rainman
    Workin out all the potholes out my gameplan
    It's a lot of pressure havin money and fame and
    It started as a dream
    Now it's all about the cream
    You can call me the machine
    Call me the machine
    Gon call me the machine
    Call me the machine
    Yea call me the machine
    Shawty get ya maballine
    Cause we bout to make a scene
    Hop in that machine
    You can roll with the machine
    Moneys in my jeans
    I'm a a money fiend
    I put that on everything
    That I'm chasin every dream
    Call me the machine (chine chine chine chine)
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    Triggered a machine
    Damn right I'm a machine
    I dedicate this to the king
    Moo what up
    Eh
    I dedicate this to my homie in the feds
    He told me I gotta work harder than I ever worked
    before
    Eh
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    Run it back




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