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Kirby, Kaltin | Finding a character | My thesis revolves around the idea of creating a character. There have been countless theatre practitioners and theorists Stanislvasky to Meisner who have tried to develop the "best way" to create a character. This project centers around my personal process to create a character based on my traini... | Acting | 2014-05 |
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Jensen, Megan | Faustus, Marlowe, and Bosch: Intersections of medieval fantasy imagery | This thesis is a theoretical costume design project for Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History o f the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus that uses The Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych painting famous for its outlandish imagery by the Dutch Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch, as its s... | Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. Doctor Faustus; Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516. Garden of delights; Costume design | 2015-04 |
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Butler, Alexia Li Adair | Italy: My catalyst | During the summer of 2012, I spent five weeks in Italy studying opera. That experience changed my life, but it also started me on a path of discovery and growth. When I returned I was filled with a desire to continue the trajectory of learning that had been set during those weeks. Through the Honors... | Singing - Instruction and study - Italy; Americans - Italy | 2013-05 |
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Kim, Jon | Mathematical Foundations of Atonal Music Theory | Atonal music theory borrows much of its conceptual framework from the mathematical disclipline of set theory. Several music theoretical concepts, however, exceed the scope of set theory and are ill-defined as such. This document aims to help complete the mathematical foundation of atonal music theor... | | 2018 |
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Elison, Tony | Keyframe: Six Images for Jazz Sextet and String Quartet | Memory defines reality. The mind's interpretation of the present relies entirely upon its experience. Before you pick up a rock, you have an idea of what it will feel like in your hand. You can discern information about someone through social cues instead of having that information explicitly explai... | | 2020 |
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Bergquist, John | Popular music and public education: Culturally responsive to the past and present alike | Popular music is included to varying degrees in American public school curricula despite the fact that experts in the field have called for its inclusion since the Tanglewood Symposium in 1968 (Choate et. al, 1967). Green (2008) found that some educators might be uncomfortable with popular music pr... | Music - Instruction and study | 2016-04 |
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Heiner, Catherine | SHOTS FIRED | Recent national headline have drawn attention to the use of "trigger warnings" on college campuses. These warnings, initially used to help survivors of traumatic events, have been described as a way to infantilize college students and a precursor to censorship. This project will examine the circumst... | | 2017 |
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Kerr, Lindsay Tarbet | Notes and a narrative to accompany a piano recital | I wrote this thesis in connection with my hour-long senior recital, held April 19, 2015 as the culmination of my work as an undergraduate student in the piano performance program. The thesis includes extended and short program notes for each of the compositions included in my recital: Frederic Chopi... | Piano - Performance | 2015-05 |
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Humphrey, Dianna | Oh the Humanities! Using the Clemente Program to Educate Underserved Students in Art History | As funding for the arts perpetually decreases, the importance of art historical education becomes more evident in society and providing a sustainable model for this education is of vital importance. The Clemente Program for the Humanities at East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah advocates for in... | Clemente Program for the Humanities - Utah - Salt Lake City; Art and history - United States; Education | 2016-08 |
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Smith, Toni | Love, and 1,138 other reasons to marry | As the lesbian daughter of a lesbian mother growing up in the rural American west in the 1980s I was acutely aware that the law did not exist to protect my family. We were "those people." The definition of "those people" has changed over time in our country. We have been (among others) slaves, imm... | Same-sex marriage - Law and legislation - United States | 2016-04 |
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Endow, Danielle Miyako | Modern representation of female protagonists in media: An exploration of identity | Coming from the perspective of a woman living in Utah, I have explored what it means to be an ambitious, yet lost individual in today's media. Over the course of one year I wrote a full-length screenplay that follows the journey of a woman who loses her sense of self and must find her way back by te... | Screenplay writing | 2014-12 |
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Davidson, Peter C. | Making Diego's Dream | Diego's Dream is a short documentary film about a young man named Diego Catalan who was brought from Mexico to the United States when he was only eight years old. In the film, Diego recounts his vivid memory of the experience of crossing the border as a child, and reflects on current issues of immig... | | 2017 |
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Veenema, Arthur | The original: A process of producing a short film | The thematic goal of my short film The Original was to explore the blurred nature between reality and artificiality that arises from emerging technology. The Original questions an individual's place amongst the simulated realities that have come to compose our world. The concepts behind my script we... | Motion pictures -- Production and direction | 2014-12 |
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Smithee, Katrina | Seeing into A doll's house through windows of feminism and mounting an epic production thereof : a dramaturgical production file | The development and performance of a theatrical work is a complex process which involves myriad decisions and many participants. One of the most essential contributors is the Dramaturg, the individual responsible for guiding the production and ensuring that the final product is cohesive and true to ... | Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Dukkehjem; Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 - Dramatic production | 2013-05 |
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Clark, Tehya | The Production Process of a Traditional Animated Short Film | This Thesis will detail the process of the production of a short film. The film is produced using traditional animation with some supplementary digital technology, for editing, shooting, and pre production. I will go over the process which starts with pitching, script writing, audio recording, story... | | 2020 |
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Franklin, Jacob | Running forward | Founded in 2009 by Jacob Franklin and John Asher, Running Forward, is a non-profit organization that encourages healthy lifestyle choices in elementary school aged boys and girls by emphasizing nutrition, physical fitness, and personal growth through a mentality of empowerment. Running is the primar... | Running for children; Success - Psychological aspects | 2012-12 |
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Russell, Curtis | The Zion curtain: A documentary play | The Zion Curtain is a documentary play about the collision of ideology and civil rights, using the words of real people to trace the roots and show the effects of reactionary, homophobic doctrines in the Mormon Church. Every "um," "uh," and pause is performed as spoken in original interviews by the ... | Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Latter Day Saint churches; Mormon gays | 2014-04 |
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Rathbun, Lauren Elizabeth | Beyond classical: mixing in the belt. An exploration of musical theatre singing | Belt, mix and classical are three terms for distinguishing the different sounds used in musical theatre vocal repertoire. Each requires different techniques regarding resonance space, vowels, laryngeal position, and breath management. For years, there has been a debate among vocal pedagogues questio... | Voice type (Singing) | 2015-08 |
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Hammock, Chris | Anthropology, Ethnography, and Documentary Film: Reflecting on a Documentary Journey | A comparative analysis of underlying ethical dilemmas in anthropology and documentary work, founded on the production of a short student documentary highlighting an ethnographic anthropology research project. The documentary studies academic field, classic ethnographic documentaries, and personal ac... | | 2018 |
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Atencio, Mitchell M. | Back to Bagatelles: Realizing the Remainder of Ligett's Musica Ricercata | György Ligeti completed Musica Ricercata in 1953, and shortly thereafter transcribed six of the movements into the 6 Bagatelles for wind quintet. Much of the scholarship surrounding Ligeti's transitional period discusses Musical Ricercata, a pivotal work for Ligeti marking divergence in composition... | | 2019 |
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Keller, Jackson | Designing for Interactivity: the Camera in 3D Video Games | This paper analyzes the effect that camera control has on art, design, and player experience in 3D video games. It will specifically explore the implications of various methods of camera control that have emerged during the brief history of 3D games: the first and third-person perspectives, fixed an... | | 2019 |
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Williams, Sydney Porter | Education, art and Activism: Collecting the Stories of World-Changers | This thesis explores the idea of civically-engaged artwork that sparks conversation, specifically artwork created by young people, and often fostered by educators and community collaborators. For the purpose of this thesis, I define civically-engaged and activist art as art that is created with the ... | Activism; youth; art; civic-dialogue; community | 2020 |
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Scott, Kali | You Do You: A Theoretical Exploration of Audience Agency in Theatre | This thesis explores the relationship between audiences and performers in theatre. Contemporary companies which consciously tamper with this relationship are analyzed. Particular focus is on companies that explore the extent to which the audience can directly affect a performance. The reasoning of c... | | 2017 |
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Azuma, Mariko | Yin Yu Tang and the effects of re-contextualization on vernacular architecture | My paper on the cultural and architectural re-contextualization of Yin Yu Tang, or Hall of Abundant Shelter, at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, has two main goals: 1) to consider the connections between architecture, space, and the family in a traditional Chinese house; and 2) to exami... | Peabody Essex Museum - Exhibitions, Hall of Abundant Shelter; Architecture, Chinese - Exhibitions | 2016-04 |
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Fuller, Adam | Wynton Marsalis and Nicholas Payton: a compartative discourse | Jazz music has achieved the support of elite institutions, such as higher education and government arts initiatives, relatively recently. There is now a growing body of scholarly research on jazz history, performance practice, recordings, and music theory. However, there are widely differing concept... | | 2018 |