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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Miniatures"”.
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Travelling Miniatures: Kerry and Co’s Postcards of the Pacific, 1893-1917
This thesis examines postcards of Pacific peoples that were produced in Sydney by the photographic firm Kerry & Co. during the first decade of the twentieth century. Like other visual images and technologies of that period, postcards have played an important role in shaping contemporary …
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The descriptive miniatures of Alphonse Hasselmans and Henriette Renié: an examination of the pedagogical and artistic significance of salon pieces for harp
Characterized by the ascendance of the double-action pedal harp and a resulting evolution in harp literature and performance practice, the modern French school of harp developed at the fin de siècle. Belgian harp virtuoso and composer Alphonse Hasselmans (1845-1912) founded this new method after …
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Art in Scale: Barbara Marshall and the Fine-Scale Miniature Movement
Throughout time, humans have engaged with miniatures as a means of making sense of their world. For each generation and each culture, this phenomenon manifests in a way that meets the needs of its participants. This thesis explores one particular miniature development: a fine-scale art movement …
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Containing Meaning: Miniature Pottery on Bronze Age Crete
… Aegean and Greek archaeology. Understandings of miniatures outside of the ancient Mediterranean are also examined as particularly useful case studies which bring new perspectives to the phenomenon of scale manipulation. Contextualization and data analysis reveal two distinct categories within the …
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Toys, Consumption, and Middle Class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871--1918
… form and use. Many wanted technologically exact miniatures of real things such as trains and doll houses designed to prepare boys and girls for future callings. Others just as passionately called for more generic, simpler miniatures that forced children to use their imagination. They believed it …
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The Story of a Sexually Abused Child's Sandplay: A Single Case Study
… play. He went from primarily using nonliving miniatures to using primarily living miniatures in his sand worlds. Specifically, the use of people and animals increased in his third phase sandplays. The categories of miniatures the child used also increased from one predominant category in the …
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Portfolio of compositions containing Symphony No. 104, From The Eumenides, Lost Words, String Quartet No. 2, String Quartet No. 3, 12 Miniatures, Non-Stable Equilibrium and a commentary on the compositions
… String Quartet No. 3 - for string quartet 12 Miniatures - for amplified classical guitar Non-Stable Equilibrium - for violin and piano Commentary The portfolio of compositions contains seven pieces for a variety of vocal and instrumental and forces. Symphony No. 104, From The Eumenides, Lost …
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Practice-Led Research into Music: a Synergetic Trifecta of Glissandi, Microtonality, and Isorhythms
… arranged on two compact discs: CD1 ‘Experimental Miniatures’ and CD2 ‘After Twelve’.
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The Roman de la rose : textual, codicological and iconographical aspects of MS. Grey 4c12
… text and to describe the unique features of its miniatures and marginalia, as well as including a codicological description of the manuscript.
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A study of the hours of Charles Boddam
… section discusses general features of the miniatures, including the framework within which each scene is presented, the two main types of background (landscape or domestic interior), and characterization of the figures portrayed. The miniatures are then discussed in detail, and some …
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The history of the viola and an analysis of its literature
… of monuments, bas reliefs, wood carvings, miniatures, etc., and occasional allusions to them in contemporary literature.
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Visual Constructions of Corporate Identity for the University of Paris, 1200--1500
… survive in a range of media, including painted miniatures, seals, and sculpture. The majority of these works have not been previously studied from an art historical perspective and are commonly interpreted as mere scenes of everyday university life when, in fact, they are highly constructed …
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"Now, Then, Then:" An Original Composition and Examination of the Influence of Blues, Bluegrass, and Rock in Western Concert Music
… Trapani, <em>Bog Bodies and other Macabre Miniatures</em> by Nicolas Lell Benavides, and “Three Dots and a Dash” by Punch Brothers. Each of these works uses distinct instrumentations, but every ensemble includes guitar in some fashion. This examination informs the original composition …
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The Lady Showroom: Optical Representations in the Works of Joanna Baillie and Louisa Stuart Costello
… between visual culture and text through mirrors, miniatures, and portraits. This thesis demonstrates how these works reflect larger shifts in the optical unconscious of the eighteenth century. I focus on works by Joanna Baillie and Louisa Stuart Costello, who theorize the viewing process in their …
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Unmeasured, detached, and isolated: The legitimation of a domesticated identity
… societal expectations. Through video, sculpture, miniatures, and installation, I reconstruct a visual language that resists simplification and reclaims complexity. Engaging with the symbolic weight of tropical imagery, domestic spaces, and hybrid aesthetics, my work challenges Eurocentric …
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Becoming Jerome Kern: The Early Songs and Shows, 1903--1915
… I examine his songs individually, as dramatic miniatures, looking at the structural and stylistic means Kern employs to compose dramatically effective songs. I show continuities between Kern's early and later work, both in the musical means he uses to convey drama and in his musical grammar: …
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The Medieval Tournament: Chivalry, Heraldry and Reality. An Edition and Analysis of Three Fifteenth-Century Tournament Manuscripts
… of the palaeography, provenance, and miniatures of the three manuscripts. The second is a discussion of the origin of the production of the codex. It will be postulated that it was produced by heralds for heralds. In the third section explanatory notes are given to the fourteen items …
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The Role of Texture in French Spectral Music
… Grisey's Modulations and Philippe Hurel's Six miniatures en trompe-l'oeil analyzed from the standpoint of texture, show how transformations from texture type to texture type contribute to formal evolution in spectral music.
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The Piano Works of Stefans Grové (1922-2014): A Study of Stylistic Influences, Technical Elements and Canon Formation in South African Art Music
… written large-scale cycles as well as several miniatures for the instrument. This thesis engages with his more widely-performed oeuvre, as well as earlier works that are forgotten or not currently in the public domain. A number of his piano works composed towards the end of his life are …
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