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    UMSL Bulletin 2023-2024

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    The 2023-2024 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1088/thumbnail.jp

    Graduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Designs of Blackness

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    Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings—each literary-critical and comparative while at the same time offering cultural and historical context. This carefully re-edited version of the 1998 publication opens with an estimation of earliest African American voice in the names of Phillis Wheatley and her contemporaries. It then takes up the huge span of autobiography from Frederick Douglass through to Maya Angelou. "Harlem on My Mind," which follows, sets out the literary contours of America’s premier black city. Womanism, Alice Walker’s presiding term, is given full due in an analysis of fiction from Harriet E. Wilson to Toni Morrison. Richard Wright is approached not as some regulation "realist" but as a more inward, at times near-surreal, author. Decadology has its risks but the 1940s has rarely been approached as a unique era of war and peace and especially in African American texts. Beat Generation work usually adheres to Ginsberg and Kerouac, but black Beat writing invites its own chapter in the names of Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. The 1960s has long become a mythic change-decade, and in few greater respects than as a black theatre both of the stage and politics. In Leon Forrest African America had a figure of the postmodern turn: his work is explored in its own right and for how it takes its place in the context of other reflexive black fiction. "African American Fictions of Passing" unpacks the whole deceptive trope of "race" in writing from Williams Wells Brown through to Charles Johnson. The two newly added chapters pursue African American literary achievement into the Obama-Trump century, fiction from Octavia Butler to Darryl Pinkney, poetry from Rita Dove to Kevin Young

    The Perception of K-12 Instrumental Directors in Low-Income Areas on Virtual Learning with Skill Development and Retention

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    Due to the extreme measures taken to protect students from COVID-19 during the pandemic, schools closed their doors, and educators struggled to continue teaching through virtual learning platforms. Performance-based classrooms were encouraged to discover new methods and strategies to motivate students to thrive even though face-to-face rehearsals were restricted. This study examined the experiences secondary music education instrumentalists faced while attempting to utilize synchronous and asynchronous instruction in a 100 percent virtual performance-based environment. This study aimed to understand the negative and positive effects placed on secondary instrumentalists’ performance abilities, fundamental development, and participation/retention since the introduction of virtual learning in low-income areas. The focus of this study also examined the possible benefits of enhancing pedagogical skills through the addition of technological advances to push instrumental instruction and performances on the secondary level. This study followed a qualitative hermeneutic phenomenology design. Music educators in low-income DeKalb County communities were interviewed for this study. Participants were requested to share their perspectives and experiences of performance-based virtual learning and results. The study raised the need for future discussions to create and implement a state and national virtual music education guideline that would assist music educators in turning a devastating situation into a blessing for all art programs and their stakeholders

    Determination of the strong coupling αs from transverse energy-energy correlations in multi-jet events at √ s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Tesis Doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Física Teórica. Fecha de Lectura: 24-02-202

    Graduate Council Minutes - February 16, 2023

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    A Framework for Site-Specific Spatial Audio Applications

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    As audio recording and reproduction technology has advanced over the past five decades, increasing attention has been paid to recreating the highly spatialised listening experience we understand from our physical environment. This is the logical next step in the quest for increasing audio clarity, particularly as virtual reality gaming and augmented reality experiences become more widespread. This study sought to develop and demonstrate a technical framework for the production of site-specific audio-based works that is user-friendly and cost effective. The system was intended to be used by existing content producers and audio programmers to work collaboratively with a range of site-based organisations such as museums and galleries to produce an audio augmentation of the physicality of the space. This research was guided by four key aims: 1. Demonstrate a compositional method for immersive spatial audio that references the novel physical environment and the listener’s movement within it. 2. Describe a framework for the development and deployment of a spatial audio visitor technology system. 3. Prototype a naturalistic method for the delivery and navigation of contextual information via audio. 4. Deploy, demonstrate, and evaluate a spatial audio experience within a representative environment. The resulting system makes use of a range of existing technologies to provide a development experience and output that meets a clearly defined set of criteria. Furthermore, a case study application has been developed that demonstrates the use of the system to augment a selection of six paintings in a gallery space. For each of these paintings, a creative spatial composition was produced that demonstrates the principles of spatial composition discussed in this thesis. A spoken informational layer sits on top of this acting as a museum audio guide, featuring navigation using head gestures for a hands-free experience. This thesis presents a detailed discussion of the artistic intentions and techniques employed in the production of the six soundscapes, as well as an evaluation of the resulting application in use in a public gallery space

    A Process for the Restoration of Performances from Musical Errors on Live Progressive Rock Albums

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    In the course of my practice of producing live progressive rock albums, a significant challenge has emerged: how to repair performance errors while retaining the intended expressive performance. Using a practice as research methodology, I develop a novel process, Error Analysis and Performance Restoration (EAPR), to restore a performer’s intention where an error was assessed to have been made. In developing this process, within the context of my practice, I investigate: the nature of live albums and the groups to which I am accountable, a definition of performance errors, an examination of their causes, and the existing literature on these topics. In presenting EAPR, I demonstrate, drawing from existing research, a mechanism by which originally intended performances can be extracted from recorded errors. The EAPR process exists as a conceptual model; each album has a specific implementation to address the needs of that album, and the currently available technology. Restoration techniques are developed as part of this implementation. EAPR is developed and demonstrated through my work restoring performances on a front-line commercial live release, the Creative Submission Album. The specific EAPR implementation I design for it is laid out, and detailed examples of its techniques demonstrated

    Magic Lantern Tales: A Music/Text Analysis of the Vocal Works of Cheryl-Frances-Hoad

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    This document explores Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s song cycle Magic Lantern Tales, as a highlight of her oeuvre as well as of contemporary art song. Each song in the cycle, and a select few of Frances-Hoad’s other vocal works, will be studied from a performer’s perspective to identify Frances-Hoad’s compositional approach to song, as well as her individual style in Magic Lantern Tales. The document examines stylistic features and unifying elements of Frances-Hoad’s vocal repertoire, with particular emphasis on music/text relationships. This document is motivated by a desire to raise awareness of Frances-Hoad’s vocal literature. Serving as an introduction to Frances-Hoad and her vocal music, this document offers a biography of the composer and a music/text analysis of some of her vocal works, specifically Magic Lantern Tales. For each of her songs examined, background, compositional style, and text setting will be considered. A study of each of these elements, combined and in conjunction with the context of the poetry, will reveal Frances-Hoad’s approach to portraying a story, especially through text painting. It will also explore the role this particular cycle plays as a historical commemoration of World War I. As the proverbial saying goes, “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Music not only involves, but has the power to move and change us. The commemorative nature of this song cycle in accordance with compositional and performance devices that carry the power of the words, and ultimately the stories, to the hearts of the listener, can create an experience of remembrance that ensures historical preservation through music. Ultimately my intention is to demonstrate the significance of Magic Lantern Tales to the genre of modern art song, and perhaps more importantly, to demonstrate Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s merit as a living song composer. In addition, this study of Frances-Hoad’s compositional style and approach to storytelling will hopefully bring a wider awareness of her vocal music as a whole, and will promote more frequent performances of this music among students and professionals alike
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