The purpose of this dissertation is to reintroduce Isaac Mikhnovsky (1914-1978) to a new generation of scholars and musicians. Not only was Mikhnovsky a brilliant pianist who gave the Russian premiere of Rachmaninoff's ...
This dissertation explores John Philip Sousa’s The Last Days of Pompeii and its relationship to two preceding artistic treatments of the same title, a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and a painting by Karl Bryullov. Each ...
Liminal Glyphs, MFA thesis exhibition of Kate Fitzpatrick, was on display at Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University in Fall of 2020. The exhibition provided a space to explore the nature of language, meaning, and ...
The luxury of exploration that was afforded me during my time at George Mason
University and my pursuit of investigating the use of live organisms in conjunction with
symbiotic systems and audience involvement, led me ...
Motherscape, the MFA thesis of Jayne Matricardi, explores the psychological landscape of motherhood through paintings, video, mixed media and poetry. The exhibition shines light on hidden struggles of motherhood, investigates ...
Our identities and gestures are transferred from our cultural memory. Photography, movies, and more recently, virtual reality, are cultural and social markers that juxtapose the "ideal image of self" with the self as ...
This dissertation describes the current state of analysis of film music with the intent of finding connections between ideas on narrative analysis and film music. I posit an approach from Almén that overlays Micznik’s ...
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of music educators’ perceptions of ways in which marching band and college music education curricula connect. By examining the music educators’ perceptions, the ...
This thesis describes parallels between the realm of internet, specifically virtual reality
and the subconscious domain of dreams. The observation of how slowly and steadily
humans become digitalized and migrated into ...
This thesis describes my process and presents the research I have used to create my work.
I will provide an explanation to methods of printmaking I practice and how that relates to
drawing, exploration, and scientific ...
The world of design has evolved, along with technology, from the days of print
advertising to the digital world of websites and mobile apps. The Internet has created a
greenfield environment with new design disciplines ...
This thesis examines the origins and trajectory of the primary line of thought I had developed while creating a body of work over a several year period. I attempted to create a document that would be easily accessible and ...
My thesis work focuses on gender identity, religion, and speculative design. The thesis
exhibition and body of work is simply named REFLECTION for its quality to reflect the
identity of myself and the identities of ...
This thesis investigates and articulates the process of directing a Shakespeare performance to create inclusive, ensemble storytelling. Interpretation and production of a play for public viewing was an integral part of ...
This thesis investigates the trend of dancers losing their ability to access the imagination,
to engage in child-like play, and to connect emotion to dance. In the process of
researching this thesis, the author utilized ...
This thesis describes the artwork created in the exhibited work of Rethinking Lines. The
work is premised on the theoretical findings in the fields of linguistics and semiotics,
alongside philosophies tailored under the ...
“Klezmer” is the term commonly used today to refer to music Jewish music from Eastern Europe and is often associated with the Yiddish language and Ashkenazi Jews. Since the 1970s a renewed interest in klezmer has led ...
“When one reaches the decline of life it is imperative to try and gather together as many as possible of the sensations which have passed through our particular organism.” - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Much has been ...
The purpose of this study is to understand the piano works by American composer ScottWheeler, a student of Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) who claimed to be the first musician in the world to have composed musical portraits ...