Musichttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/56772024-03-29T05:28:33Z2024-03-29T05:28:33ZRealization of the scenic and lighting design for the play Plaza Suite by Neil SimonRunge, Dennis Arthurhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2023882020-04-20T23:09:34Z1972-01-01T00:00:00ZRealization of the scenic and lighting design for the play Plaza Suite by Neil Simon
Runge, Dennis Arthur
The purpose of a design production thesis is to allow the designer, through the production, to show himself an accomplished artist, and through the thesis, to show himself a scholar. He must develop and present certain artistic choices for an actual production, and he must explain and justify these in a written statement. For this particular thesis program, the writer was assigned the responsibility of designing the scenery and the lighting for an arena production of Plaza Suite by Neil Simon. Neil Simon is a very prolific, successful, and contemporary playwright whose plays are centered largely in New York City. Plaza Suite, only one of his many successful plays, is a valid choice for this study in that it involves an investigation and understanding of the playwright, the location the play was written for, and the influence both of these aspects have on the action within the script. An added significance of this study is the fact that this play was originally written for the proscenium stage, and placing it in an arena situation required considerable thought in adapting the design of the set to that particular form of staging.
1972-01-01T00:00:00ZBeginning string books and materials: a study of string method books used in Fresno (California) city elementary schools and suggested supplementary materialMartin, John Dhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1887362020-04-20T23:09:34Z1969-01-01T00:00:00ZBeginning string books and materials: a study of string method books used in Fresno (California) city elementary schools and suggested supplementary material
Martin, John D
The purpose of the following study is to examine the method books used at the present time as basic texts for beginning stringed instrument classes in the elementary schools of the Fresno City Unified School District. A further purpose of this study is to suggest supplementary materials that could be used for implementing these basic texts. The Tangle wood Symposium1 Committee on Implications for the Educational Process and for Evaluation maintains that "many group-teaching methods are not in keeping with current trends to humanize instruction." This committee recommends that music teachers should seek effective resources and inaugurate techniques that will render group instruct ion more relevant and valuable. This reevaluation of present practices is of utmost importance. One indication of its importance is the relatively small number of students that continue the study of string instruments in junior and senior high schools.
1969-01-01T00:00:00ZSSAB arrangements and compositions: to help solve choral music problems in the seventh and eighth grade junior high schoolClifton, H. Vernehttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1886512020-04-20T23:09:34Z1969-01-01T00:00:00ZSSAB arrangements and compositions: to help solve choral music problems in the seventh and eighth grade junior high school
Clifton, H. Verne
The main purpose of this thesis is to provide some solutions for the problem. The original compositions and arrangements are presented as examples of a new type of voice distribution. The use of these SSAB arrangements would aid the junior high school teacher in solving the problem of balancing his mixed chorus.
1969-01-01T00:00:00ZFranz Berwald: study and critical analysis of five selected instrumental worksMakely, Ronald Ahttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1831432020-04-20T23:09:34Z1968-01-01T00:00:00ZFranz Berwald: study and critical analysis of five selected instrumental works
Makely, Ronald A
The purposes in undertaking the thesis topic were (1) to do research into the life and works of a relatively-unknown nineteenth century Scandinavian composer, Franz Berwald, and (2) to acquire evidence, if possible, in support of the belief that the composer's compositions are worthy of performance.
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