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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Art and music."”.
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An Annotated Bibliography on Music and Painting
… consider the common characteristics of art and music, and to analyze their content for relationships of music to visual art.
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Impressionism: a parallel view of the painting and the music of the period
… has been given of the Impressionist movement in art and music, and an attempt has been made to illustrate the close relationship that existed between the two, and to show how closely the ideals, ideas, aims and desires of the two areas coincided and overlapped.
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Postwar Culture Beneath the Pines: The Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, 1946-1962
<p>The Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (ISOMATA) was founded in 1946 by faculty of the University of Southern California. Located in Southern California's San Jacinto Mountain region, the school's leaders sought to create a therapeutic refuge for arts education which blended outdoor …
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Ars Audax: The Myth of the Flight of Icarus and Its Reception Since Antiquity
… stemming from the versions in Ovids Ars Amatoria and Metamorphoses and in Horace's Odes. I demonstrate that the manner in which each author employs Icarus — whether he is the object of focalization or the subject of focalization — and the manner in which each author employs the concept of audacia …
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Saint-Saens' "Other": Orientalism in Samson et Dalila
Subtleties in art and music have always been a factor in swaying people's ideas and opinions. Some pieces of music make a direct attempt to communicate and influence how one should view a certain group of people or a culture, often creating a great social divide and a tense atmosphere. Ralph Locke …
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The Amplified Experience
… through the use of co-operating sound and video in the form of large-scale multi-projection installations, and individual sound and video works. The Amplified Experience focuses on the characteristics, structures, phenomena and processing of sound, and on video imagery. Within the field …
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LA FUNZIONE TERAPEUTICA DELLE ARTI PER L'ESPRESSIONE DELL'IDENTITÀ INDIVIDUALE NEL GIAPPONE ODIERNO
… research examines the use of visual art and music to express individual identity in contemporary Japan, and their potential to promote psychophysical well-being. The work is developed based on the case studies of two famous contemporary Japanese artists: Kusama Yayoi (b. 1929) for …
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Forms of luminosity
Forms of Luminosity is an experimental music-based performance that brings private listening experiences into the public sphere for examination. My research focuses on the relationship between a person, his or her iPod, and the private listening experience thus created. This public-private …
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Historical and musical context of the characters in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah
… explores the characters in Carlisle Floyd’s musical drama Susannah within a historical and musical perspective. 1950s culture affected Floyd’s musical drama and this dissertation connects the cultural phenomena to musical phenomena. Each character undergoes dynamic changes that are influenced …
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Leonide Massine: Choreographic genius with a collaborative spirit
… in the twentieth century, Leonide Massine was an artist who foresaw and created an idiom of dance that transcend stylistic boundaries. The ballets which Massine produced had a profound effect upon choreographic approaches to dance movement. Massine's ballets also reflect the strong association of …
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Red Lake / Black Mine: Affective Bodies and Material Complicity in Sound Art Practice
… of field recording, electroacoustic composition and sound art. It investigates how material—often considered inert—possesses agency, drawing the body of the artist to other affective bodies (sounds, objects, and actions) that exert influence on the creative process. The key methods include …
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The gallant six hundred: performing the Light Brigade into a heroic icon
… what actually happened as how we have received and disseminated what happened. This reception and dissemination take place through a variety of media, many of which are not the purview of the traditional historian. It is in the trifles of daily life that we find the patterns of cultural norms – …
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Using Real-Time Data Flux In Art – The Mediation Of A Situation As It Unfolds: RoadMusic – An Experimental Case Study
The practice driving this research is called RoadMusic. The project uses a small computer based system installed in a car that composes music from the flux of information it captures about the journey as it unfolds. It uses a technique known as sonification that consists of mapping data to sound. …
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The Celtic Twilight as Reflected in the Two-Piano Works of Joan Trimble (1915-2000)
… by W.B. Yeats, a work that was inspired by Ireland’s native folklore and contained themes of twilight, nature, and the supernatural, mainly that of the “fairy faith” from old Pagan Ireland. The movement, which was created by the Anglo-Irish ruling classes as a method of maintaining their elite …
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Eclecticism, postmodernism, subversion: new perspectives on English experimental music
This thesis investigates the use of reference and quotation in English experimental music. Observing that these phenomena are also common in other areas of music, it attempts to make firm distinctions between various manifestations and offer reasons why eclectic compositions emanating from the …
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Egyptian Hip Hop and the January 25th Revolution
… popular uprisings rippled through North Africa and the Middle East. These “revolutions,” as they came to be known, were aimed at overthrowing the region’s dictatorial rulers and sought to address the growing social issues of police brutality, government corruption, and unemployment. During this …
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Work content and attitudes toward work in eighth grade literature anthologies
… anthologies approved by the state of Virginia and used throughout the nation contained sufficient selections of appropriate content and attitude to facilitate the integration of career education and literature study in the eighth grade English program. The eighth grade level was selected as …
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Seeking the other shore : myth and history in the films of Terrence Malick
… director in contemporary film, an enigmatic and resolutely independent filmmaker who operates successfully within the studio system of Hollywood. His unusual career - which includes a twenty-year 'sabbatical' during which he appeared to have dropped out of the industry altogether - has …
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Creating non-representational art by students who are severely intellectually disabled through a pictorial and musical program
… the worth of a recently developed Pictorial and Musical art program for severely intellectually disabled students, and to compare the non-representational art work produced by lower primary students in a special education school to similar art work being produced by lower primary students in …