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Primitive Art As It Relates To Contemporary Design, Sandra Miller
Primitive Art As It Relates To Contemporary Design, Sandra Miller
Senior Scholar Papers
For the most part, my project has been of an individually rewarding nature due to an extensive amount of reading and studio work. My paper functions as the major means of communication of my own experiences and findings. It is an attempt to share with others the ideas which I have found particularly stimulating and worthwhile during the course of the year. In other words, the written portion does not intend to summarize all of the phases of primitive art which I have studied during the past year; rather, it is indicative of the type of pursuit with which I …
The Perception Of Musical Intervals: The Theory Of Property Arrays, Aikin Orange Connor
The Perception Of Musical Intervals: The Theory Of Property Arrays, Aikin Orange Connor
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of the study was to develop a theory of the aural perception of simultaneous musical bitones, called vertical or harmonic intervals. The study was specifically concerned with: (1) formulating a theory of vertical interval perception, (2) documenting the psychological premises of the theory, ( 3) implementing the theory by developing a model, (4) testing the theory by utilizing the model to analyze empirical data of interval recognition errors, and (5) delineating implications of the new theory for pedagogy and research.
The theory developed in the study is called the Theory of Property Arrays because it identifies the structure …