Senior composition recital : April 19, 2019

On April 19th, 2019, I conducted my Senior Composition Recital as a joint fulfillment of the Honors Thesis and my BM in Music Composition with a Concentration in Sonic Arts. Featured in the attached CD are ten pieces of original music, recorded live in Sursa Hall by Central Recording Services. Their premiere dates span all four years of my degree, sampling my work in fixed audio, instrumental and electroacoustic music. Included is a copy of the program and program notes, for enhanced understanding of the pieces on the CD. Please note: no video recording is is available of the performance, but Experiments with Max and Proteus was composed with the help of volunteers playing a video game on the projector screen – inadvertently modifying musical parameters with controller input.Honors CollegeThesis (B.?

Developing a framework for the analysis of program notes written for contemporary classical music concerts

At classical music concerts, a program note is the usual medium for communicating information about the music to be heard and performed. Although there may be crossover of information, the program note is distinct from the CD cover note, from notes contained within a musical score note, and from a composer’s directions for performers. With a focus on contemporary classical works in the Australian context, the researchers’ aim in this study was to develop and test an analytical frame of informational categories with which to examine program note content. Three extant studies – one scientific, one phenomenological and one semiotic – informed the development of an initial theoretical framework for program note analysis. This was tested through the analysis of program notes (n = 30) from each of three writer cohorts: composers, professional writers, and higher education students. The analytical frame revealed different emphases of information categories among the three program note writer groups, with a more sophisticated combination of categories used by the professional writers and composers. This has implications for the teaching of program note writing in tertiary performance institutions, encouraging diversity of student content without extinguishing personal insights

The Classic, Spring 1996

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The Classic, Spring 2007

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How do students in enabling programs cope when the paper study materials are no longer readily available?

Students studying enabling programs are now expected to learn from the electronic medium rather than from paper study materials. Most universities have budgeting constraints that impact on the production and provision of the traditional paper study materials. As a result of the Bradley Report, universities are increasing the participation rates in their enabling programs (Bradley, et al., 2008) by accepting new students who have low academic skills and often lack confidence to succeed in higher education. Together with increased student numbers in enabling courses and tighter budgeting constraints, electronic resources are seen by universities as being more cost effective. Many students may be computer literate but do they manage to learn effectively or as well as students who studied using traditional methods

Helping to keep history relevant : mulitmedia and authentic learning

The subject based curriculum attracts lively debate in many countries being accused of fragmenting teaching and learning, erecting artificial barriers and failing to teach the skills required in the twenty first century (Hazlewood 2005). Cross-curricular rich tasks are increasingly seen as the means to develop relevant knowledge, understanding and skills. Over the past fourteen years we have developed and evaluated a series of interactive multi-media resources for primary and secondary schools on themes within Scottish History. The generally positive evaluation given to these resources by pupils and teachers points to some ways in which subjects such as history can remain challenging and relevant. The relevance has largely stemmed, in the case of the multi-media resources, from combining the historian's traditional role of problemising the past, with a wide range of primary and secondary sources, new technologies and learning tasks encompassing critical skills/authentic learning. Consequently, we argue that subjects must in future embrace new technologies and authentic learning to maintain their place in the school curriculum

The Fund's Capacity Development Strategy: Better Policies Through Stronger Institutions

This paper outlines reforms to increase the effectiveness of the Fund's capacity development (CD) program. It builds on the 2008 and 2011 reviews of technical assistance (TA) and the 2008 review of training, which set in motion important changes to make CD more valuable to member countries

A Preliminary Look at Early Educational Results of the Opportunity NYC - Family Rewards Program: A Research Note for Funders

Targeted toward very low-income families in six high-poverty New York City communities, Family Rewards offers cash payments tied to efforts and achievements in children's education, family preventive health care practices, and parents' employment. This paper reviews data on participants' receipt of rewards and offers preliminary estimates of the program's impacts on selected educational outcomes during the first year

From the classroom to the computer screen: delivering a traditional University course in a non-traditional way

The present Technical Reports contains two complementary papers describing our experience with a system for delivering traditional lectures through computers and computer networks