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Flash phenomenon
(Wichita State University, 2017-04-28)Purpose: This project explores color development in unglazed, wood-fired ceramic wares, specifically the phenomenon called "flashing," by testing six materials with differing proportions of silica and alumina. Background: ... -
'Flower of the lily': late-medieval religious and heraldic symbolism in Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, MS francais 146
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-01)Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, MS francais 146 (fr. 146), a manuscript well known for its inclusion of the Roman de Fauvel, also provides an important, albeit understudied, contribution to the history surrounding ... -
Formulating iron rich clay bodies in a recycled electric kiln
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2007-04-27)Clay bodies can be formulated using commonly available processed clays for a wide variety of specific functions. Some of the functions I am interested in include plasticity for throwing on the wheel, temperature range ... -
Gaming utopia : ludic worlds in art, design, and media
(Indiana University Press, 2021-04)In Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media, Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white, heterosexual, male, ... -
Graven images (What's in a brand?)
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2014-04-25)The research topics most relevant to my studio art practice are branding, advertising and semiotics (the study of sign systems and their meanings). My intention is to formulate a critique of capitalist globalization that ... -
Haze for 5-piece Pierrot ensemble
(Wichita State University, 2021-05)Haze revolves around the idea of a steadily unravelling mind. What starts as a focused an organized mindset can slowly degrade over time while sense and chaos fight for control. The chromatic figures that are heard ... -
Ideological diversions: Two sentimental one-act comédies at the Salle Favart, ca. 1790-99
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In tune or out of tune: are different instruments and voice heard differently?
(SAGE Publications, 2015-04)We studied music majors' perception of intonation in accompanied solo performances of trumpet, violin, and voice. We were interested in whether listeners would judge pitch deviations of equal magnitude in the three solo ... -
Instrumental music in the public schools of Wichita, Kansas
(Wichita State University, 1949-06)Whenever a musician assumes the position of supervisor of instrumental music, regardless of the size of the town or location, his greatest problem is organization and administration. Various methods are presented in ... -
Intertwinings for full orchestra: a composition
(2007-05)Intertwinings is written for full orchestra, and is in one continuous movement. It takes as its subject certain aspects from human nature. The human nature is very complex. Sometimes people project extroverted actions, ... -
Iron based earthenware in a forced reduction atmosphere
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2008-04-25)Iron is a strong flux in ceramic glazes when fired in an oxygen-starved atmosphere (reduction), resulting in a CO rich atmosphere. The carbon monoxide (CO) robs the iron (Fe2o3) of two oxygen molecules, thus transforming ... -
Jasmine Flower in three different lights
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Jazz guitar technique handbook: Compendium of scales, arpeggios, & chord voicings
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John Adams' "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky": Examination of an earthquake/romance
(Wichita State University, 2013-05)In 1995, John Adams, Peter Sellars, and June Jordan collaborated on the contemporary opera/musical I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. Based around the 1994 Los Angeles, California earthquake, the work ... -
Juniper: A chamber opera in three parts
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Memory matters: works by Gesine Janzen
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-09-02)Exhibition review: Memory matters: works by Gesine Janzen, Kauffman Museum, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, August 16, 2016-May 28, 2017. Memory Matters: Works by Gesine Janzen at the Kauffman Museum adds depth and ... -
The "mirage" of the composer: a performer's musical decisions
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2012-04-18)Up until recently, the Western art music tradition has privileged the composer as the best authority concerning issues of performance practice. This view was ingrained in the nineteenth century with European composers who ... -
MUS undergraduate program assessment plan
(Wichita State University, 2006) -
MUS undergraduate program review
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Music activities in the small school
(Wichita State University, 1954-05)The purpose of this study is to present a plan of music education especially designed for the small school system; one with approximately thirty pupils in the high school and seventy in the elementary grades.