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"Unfair" Interactive Multimedia Cd-Rom, Adam Justin Creighton
"Unfair" Interactive Multimedia Cd-Rom, Adam Justin Creighton
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
My honors thesis project involved turning one of my short stories, "Unfair," into an interactive multimedia CD-ROM. In adapting the story to this new medium, I struggled with what could be included in the project (both original text and new, multimedia elements); what had to omitted; how the story was to be organized and other implications resulting from the shift in medium. My original goal for this project was to modify a traditional text story, creating a version that was enhanced; that is, better than the original. After dealing with the technical and conceptual issues inherent with a project like …
Distant Trails: A Multimedia Biography Of E. Dee Miller, Marty Ewer
Distant Trails: A Multimedia Biography Of E. Dee Miller, Marty Ewer
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
My project is to author a multimedia presentation of my grandfather's biography. To undertake such a project as this requires a certain awareness of the task. Even as I sat down the first time to contemplate what I was trying to accomplish, I began to realize the implications of the overall project. I'm not just speaking of the research and labor required to put it all together but something that must precede that.
Notes On Flute Music Of Boehm, Muczynski, Telemann, And Feld, Anna Lisa Davidson
Notes On Flute Music Of Boehm, Muczynski, Telemann, And Feld, Anna Lisa Davidson
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Theobald Boehm is most well known for his contribution to the structure of today's standard flute key system. He was born in 1794 to a goldsmith, who intended him to follow the trade. Boehm became skilled at gold smithing while also pursuing musical studies, using a flute to improve his weak lungs. He learned to play the flageolet and one-keyed flute in childhood. He grew unhappy with the construction of these and made himself a copy of a four-keyed flute by Grenser of Dresden. In 1812, he became principal flautist at the Isartor Theater. He was able to continue both …
Music And War Throughout The Ages, Brent Thomas Yorgason
Music And War Throughout The Ages, Brent Thomas Yorgason
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
War has always had a powerful influence on music. At times it has the ability to motivate composers even more than love, religious belief, or money. Throughout the ages, both war and music about war have changed dramatically. The destructive power of war has reached its ultimate capabilities -- the potential to eliminate all life. As war has become more and more horrible, and has caused unprecedented amounts of needless deaths, the world's view of war has changed completely. This change in attitude toward war is evident also in the development of war music.
Interpretive Implications Of Architecture In Musical Performance, Shane Fellows
Interpretive Implications Of Architecture In Musical Performance, Shane Fellows
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
The purpose of the present essay is to attempt the formulation of a plausible approach to the interpretive performance of music. Such, if successful, would be of special import in the effective and thoughtful rendition of all music; but especially in those numerous cases where application of performance practice is conjectural. This does not constitute an attempt at the definition of "authentic performance". Rather it is an effort in the direction of the establishment of defensible and especially of objective interpretive guidelines. By no means do I submit that this approach is the only plausible one; but the one which …
Artistic Truth, Jennifer Jones
Artistic Truth, Jennifer Jones
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Since I began writing personal essays I have looked at others' writings differently. I analyze writing techniques and look for hidden how-to instructions from which I can learn more about the craft from the masters. One technique that has continually fascinated and challenged me as a writer is the weaving of fact and fiction into meaningful and colorful works of art. As I grew more serious about writing creative non-fiction my senior year, my interest in the shaping of truth in writing intensified and the idea for this study was born. Part One of the following is a compilation of …