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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"music and art"”.
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Do music and art influence one another? Measuring cross-modal similarities in music and art
<p>The visual arts and music are known to interact with one another on both an individual scale (such as music-inspired synesthetes and artist-musician duos) and on a grand scale (such as the art movement Baroque, wherein abstract qualities such as "ornamentation" permeate both media). The aim of …
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Music and art school for Virginia Polytechnic Institute
… academic buildings. How to connect the two parts - music and art schools. How to use walls as more than just "structural parts” How to create space rather than “divide space” How to receive light rather than "control light”"The right thing badly done is always greater than the wrong thing …
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Computational Approaches to Facilitate Automated Interchange between Music and Art
… has been a tremendous increase in generating and synthesizing music and art using various computational techniques. An area that is still under-researched, however, is how one medium can be converted into the other, while maintaining the overall aesthetics. Over the last few centuries, …
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The Use of Music and Art as Directorial Tools in a Production of Kevin O'Morrison's Ladyhouse Blues
… are based upon need, desire, impulse, mood, and knowledge. As we grow older, we learn skills in decision-making primarily through trial-and-error. The theatre artist, likewise, is constantly searching for new skills and techniques to aid this process. In life and in art, however, …
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The Impact of the Arts for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities
… to severe disabilities are often left out of arts programs, especially in rural areas where resources are limited and drama, music and art classes are often not available. This action research study focused on a small group of students in a self-contained classroom in a high school. The …
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ScratchR : a platform for sharing user-generated programmable media
This thesis presents the design and analysis of the Scratch Online Community. Scratch is a new programming language that enables kids to create programmable media such as games, interactive stories, animations, music and art. The Scratch Online Community was designed to be a source of inspirational …
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An Analytical Study and Performance Practice Guide for Percussion Works Opus 35 and Opus 37 by Nebojša Jovan Živković
This document provides an analysis and performance practice guide for two percussion works by Serbian composer Nebojša Jovan Živković (b. 1962). A renowned figure in the percussion world known for the aggressive style of his compositions, Živković presents recitals across the globe in addition to …
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Enjoyment, Interest, and Achievement Levels of Third Grade Students in Separate Subject and Interrelated Subject Units in Science and Social Studies
… in the enjoyment, interest, perceived learning, and achievement levels of third grade students when social studies and science units were presented as interrelated subject units versus separate subject units. Eight units in social studies and science were chosen. Four of these units were selected …
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Queer-Diva Collaboration in 20th Century Pop Music
… collaboration” as it pertains to the work of pop music icons Grace Jones and Annie Lennox. Queer-Diva collaborations are a surprisingly common yet undertheorized artistic phenomena wherein female pop singers co-create music and art with members of the LGBTQ community. My study argues that through …
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Re/presentation Of Hip-Hop: An Exploration Of White Hip-Hop Fans, Consumers And Practitioners
… make up the majority of hip-hop consumers and participants. However, scholars have created a clear link between hip-hop, the African American community, and African Diaspora. Through ethnographic fieldwork and autoethnography, I explore the intersection of race and hip-hop. With the data …
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Conversations with Shakespeare: three contemporary adaptations for the stage
The study of adaptation, the practice of creating and producing literature, performance, music, and art that maintains a sustained engagement with an informing sourcetext or ‘original’ piece of literature, is a way of analyzing cultural, theoretical, and performance trends. This study takes up …
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Winter Bird
… poems that delve into themes of loss, longing, and trauma present in Native American communities. Issues including suicide, alcoholism, and rape cover the historical landscape of these poems which use imagery of birds and motifs of winter, cold, and music to render the topics. Contemporary …
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The Acadians of Southwest Louisiana
… weaker neighbors, exiling them from their homes and firesides, and forcing them to begin life anew in a foreign land among strange and sometimes hostile people. Two centuries ago a gentle and courageous people of French descent, the Acadians, were forcibly driven from the rich and fertile lands …
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Art and Sabbath: A Christian Response to Arthur Schopenhauer's Palliative Aesthetic
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine and evaluate Arthur Schopenhauer’s aesthetic as it relates to the concept of Sabbath in order to see how and to what extent this aspect of his thought might correspond to a Christian view of Sabbath and thereby inform a Christian aesthetic. Chapter 1 …
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Queens Speak - A Youth Participatory Action Research Project: Exploring Critical Post-Traumatic Growth among Black Girls within the School to Prison Pipeline
<p><strong>A gap exists in both research and practice when it comes to issues related to girls within the school-to-prison pipeline. Girls are also often ignored in the educational literature about trauma. Educators tend to take a deficit approach toward youth experiencing trauma and often …
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Heinrich Schutz and Rembrandt van Rijn: biblical illustrators
<p>The history of the musical arts is filled with the names of composers, like Mozart and Haydn, who shared a common artistic style and temperament. Such musical colleagues derived a certain amount of mutual influence and inspiration through their friendship. In the same spirit, several art …
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The effect of classical music on painting quality, attitude and behaviour for students with severe intellectual disabilities
… investigate the effectiveness of a new Pictorial and Musical Visual Arts Program for students with severe intellectual disabilities. In particular, to learn whether the addition of classical music as background helped students improve the quality of their abstract paintings, attitudes and …
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"Roll over Beethoven" : the reaction of classical music recording divisions to the continuing emergence of a consumer culture in America between 1956 and 1982.
As the musical world looks at decreasing sales of classical music recorded on solid media, alarm bells sound. Why is there such a disparity between sales of classical recordings and those of popular music? This study seeks to understand if the situation in today's record market is a result of …