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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"personal expression"”.
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Imagine Yourself: Explorations in Fostering Personal Expression with Generative AI
… technology to support young people creating personal representations and stories. Imagine Yourself combines OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 image generation technology with Scratch, a rich environment for young people to imagine and create interactive multimedia stories, animations, and more. Guided by a …
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A Seal of Living Reality: The Role of Personal Expression in Latter-day Saint Discourse
<p>A personal mode of discourse is central to Latter-day Saint culture. This mode is both pervasive throughout the culture and significant within it. Two specific genres-the personal experience narrative and the personal testimony-illustrate the importance of this discourse mode in LDS culture. …
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Social Comment as a Phase in the Development of a More Personal Expression in Oil Painting
… and (4) to develop through this means a more personal expression in painting.</p>
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Search for the self: redefining the jazz language : a personal perspective.
… that served to enhance his own creative and personal expression. This expanded creativity and expressivity became the basis for two recitals, which were spontaneous musical responses to the tale of ’A rake’s progress’.
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"An act of making form"
… is my commitment to this medium of social and personal expression. lt is also, the development of a foundation from which my search for truth, understanding and architecture can continue through time. The study vehicle is the design of an addition to Cowgill Hall, the College of Architecture at …
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"Marvelous Accidents": The Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra of John Cage
… incrementally abandoning subjective taste and personal expression through the course of the work. Drawing from the philosophical framework provided by Cages "Lecture on Nothing" (1950) and "Lecture on Something" (c. 1951-52), this thesis explores the aesthetic foundations of the concerto and …
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Text Painting In Significant Verses of Selected Settings of Psalm 116 Taken From Angst Der Hellen Und Friede Der Seelen, A Collection of Sixteen Motets On Psalm 116 Compiled by Burckhard Grossmann (Jena, 1623)
… this juncture of music history. It served as a personal expression of Grossmann's faith and displayed the conservative motet style of the Renaissance alongside the progressive compositional practices of the early Baroque. This document examines stylistic influences and instances of text painting …
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Digital dialogues : a qualitative single-case study exploring adult patrons’ experiences in online English language classes at a public library.
… communication for real-world application; and 3) personal expression—underscoring the role of expression of ideas and thoughts and interpersonal connections in fostering engagement and authentic language use. I developed these themes through descriptive coding and thematic analysis, using the …
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CONFESSIONS OF A HIP-HOP HIPPIE
… of connecting words and music for purposes of personal expression and potentially the betterment of his community. This statement also discusses my aesthetic beliefs and preferences as a sound poet with a background in performance and music.</p>
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The revival and revitalization of musical bow practice in South Africa
… past three years, and which generated in me a personal commitment to the practice of African cultural music, which I 'discovered' through studies with Dizu Plaatjies and other African music specialists, who also speak through this study. My growing interest drew me to musical bows, which have …
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The use of personal songwriting as a form of journaling in a music therapy internship: An arts-based autoethnographic exploration
… therapy intern in a hospital setting as I used personal songwriting as a form of journaling. The study addressed the following questions: What is my experience of using personal songwriting as a form of journaling during my music therapy internship? What are the themes of my personal songs? The …
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Performance Guide of the two-piano version of Zhang Zhao Piano Concerto No. II “The Might”
… how his integration of ethnic musical elements, personal expression, and modern techniques contributes to the originality and cultural significance of his compositions. By providing practical guidance on interpretation and performance strategies, this study not only supports pianists in conveying …
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An artist-educator's role in community arts : integrating people of diverse backgrounds and ages
… my teaching method focusing on creativity of personal expression through collaborative work. The documentary video of the project shows the active process of the participants' personal creations. The participants were children and adults, some with and some without disabilities. Three …
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A Sociotechnical Network Analysis of Bluegrass Practitioners and Instruments: Competing Definitions, Motivating Authenticities, and Tradition-Respecting Innovations
… shows how authenticity, conceptualized either as personal expression or as adherence to tradition, motivates actors toward these definitional emphases and connects to larger philosophical and cultural themes beyond bluegrass. The project also applies this network analysis to the instruments of …
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The young nostalgics: contemporary constructions of "pastness" on Tumblr microblogs
… culturally complex, if ambivalent, forms of personal expression. In the specific case of my participants, young people articulating their vision of themselves and of the world through publically available (yet also privately informed and interpersonally mediated), digitally synesthetic …
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The Modernist Quoting Poem
… it means for a poem to be original and to be personal expression. Quotations are a way to avoid personal responsibility for rhetoric while at the same time maintaining the quoting poet's control over the poem. The dissertation uses Wolfgang Iser's hermeneutic criticism to articulate the …
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SoundBlocks and SoundScratch : tangible and virtual digital sound programming and manipulation for children
… sound manipulation is a powerful means of personal expression. However, it remains explored by only a small number of engineers, mathematicians, and avant-garde musicians and composers. Others find the interfaces both obtuse and focused more on how the sounds are manipulated than what …
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Disembodied performance : abstraction of representation in live theater
… must compellingly assume the behavior and expression of the absent Simon. This thesis presents a new approach called Disembodied Performance that adapts ideas from affective psychology, cognitive science, and the theatrical tradition to create a framework for thinking about the translation …
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Reading Reality Television: Publicizing, Promoting, and Commodifying the Self
… support of surveillance by connecting compulsive personal expression and publicizing private labor in domestic spaces to success. Pairing a close reading methodological approach with analysis of audience responses on fan blog pages, this dissertation considers the themes of celebrity, labor, …
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Gottlieb Muffat's clavier suites.
… Huffat's idiom, technique, and drive toward personal expression, with a foretaste of empfindsankeit and a hint of strum und drang, are exercised within the framework of established baroque forms. Combining both progressive and retrospective features, his work spans the time from the late …
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