Computer music; Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques; Music and technology; Computer sound processing
This thesis proposes a concept called low-time-resolution (LTR) structure in music, and investigates its potential significance and application in music-related computing tasks.
The contributions of the thesis are manifold. First, it proposes a...
Educational leadership; School improvement programs; School management and organization
This study examines how two schools utilized elements of distributed leadership to implement strategies from a reform intervention for whole school and classroom improvement planning from data. The notion of distributed leadership was refined in a...
Wit and humor--Therapeutic use; Behavior therapy; Wit and humor--Psychological aspects
Objective: To evaluate the influence of positive affect inductions on daily and weekly Positive and Negative Affect Scales (PANAS) in a community setting. Methods: Humor messages were distributed to participants four times per day during a...
To gain a true appreciation of the works of any author, we must first be familiar with his race, his environment, and the period in which and of which he wrote. The Paris of the early seventeenth century was far different from the modern metropolis...
Portrait of actor George W. Wilson in blackface. He wears the collar of his shirt up, and rests his chin on his left hand. This image depicts African Americans in a stereotyped fashion that may be offensive to many viewers; the University of...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Entertainers; Men
Three-quarter length portrait of minstrel performer George Wilson. He wears a topcoat and holds his right hand behind his back. George Wilson's Ideal Refined Minstrelsy performed at Macauley's Theatre on September 3-5, 1888; he returned with George...
Portrait of actor George Wilson wearing a tuxedo with white tie. George Wilson's Ideal Refined Minstrelsy performed at Macauley's Theatre on September 3-5, 1888; he returned with George Wilson's Reorganized Minstrels on December 24-26, 1888; and...
a. Cryptoporticus (A), b. Bedroom B, c. Triclinium (C), d. Bedroom D, e. Bedroom E, f. Corridor F, g. Corridor G, i. Fauces, m. Vestibule; "The Villa Farnesina, which some scholars think was built by Agrippa in 21 B.C. to celebrate his...
"The Villa Farnesina, which some scholars think was built by Agrippa in 21 B.C. to celebrate his marriage to Julia, daughter of the emperor Augustus, displayed one of the most refined examples of Roman domestic decoration. It is dated to the...
“Moving from the atrium to the exedra, one passes through a tablinum or open living room (2), decorated with Egyptian motifs. They were executed with a miniaturist’s precision on a black wall polished to a mirrorlike shine. It is one of the...
"The Villa Farnesina, which some scholars think was built by Agrippa in 21 B.C. to celebrate his marriage to Julia, daughter of the emperor Augustus, displayed one of the most refined examples of Roman domestic decoration. It is dated to the...
"The Villa Farnesina, which some scholars think was built by Agrippa in 21 B.C. to celebrate his marriage to Julia, daughter of the emperor Augustus, displayed one of the most refined examples of Roman domestic decoration. It is dated to the...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
"A basket [glass bowl?] of fruit rests on the trabeation of the imaginary architecture." (caption, p.77); "The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first...
Lithographs; Prints; Planographic prints; Illustrations; Book illustrations; Literature; Books; Men; Saints; People associated with religion; Heads (Anatomy); Faces; Devil; Supernatural beings; Temptation
Plate 18 from Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony, third series; lithograph [illustration], printed in black. "Redon's own predilection for fantasy and the macabre drew him naturally into the orbit of Delacroix, Baudelaire, and...
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Paintings; Portrait paintings; Murals; Portraits; Men; Dramatists; Authors; Comedians; People associated with entertainment & sports; Sitting; Clothing & dress; Wreaths;...
"In a niche at the back of the peristyle in the refined Pompeii domus that takes its name from this fresco, this portrait of the Athenian comedian Menander (end of the fourth century B.C.) was painted during the late Julio-Claudian era. The...
