This dissertation examines the role of speech inflection in the composition of melodies of American musical theatre and investigates how composers approached speech inflection in their work throughout this genre's history. Through analysis of songs and interviews with composers, this dissertation investigates the relevance of speech inflection in the various styles of composition existing on Broadway. The main focus of musical theatre compositions, especially post Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma, is to move the plot along through songs. Therefore, the delivery of the text must be of ultimate consideration in the writing of modern musicals. A well-written speech-melody facilitates the process of a speech-melody-interpretation, which will result in the delivery of lyrics with an understandable, natural sounding quality. This investigation happens through a chronologic evaluation of the relevance of speech inflection during each of the distinct phases on Broadway, as well as an examination of the approach to writing with a speech-melody focus of each individual composer throughout history. This study explores the importance of speech inflection in American musical theatre songwriting focusing on a speech-melody approach to composition. / by Ana Flavia Zuim. / Vita. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

by Leung Hung Cheong, Leung Wai Kwan, Sabrina. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-63). / ABSTRACT --- p.i / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.v / Chapter / Chapter I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.3 / Chapter II --- BACKGROUND - ABOUT THE CYBERSPACE --- p.5 / What is the Internet? --- p.5 / A Brief History of the Internet --- p.6 / The Global Influence of the Internet --- p.7 / Chapter III. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.9 / Facts in the U.S. Newspapers Industry --- p.9 / Evolution of Online Newspapers --- p.12 / Research for German Dailies on WWW --- p.15 / Chapter IV. --- PRACTICAL ISSUES OF ONLINE NEWPAPERS --- p.20 / Elements of an Electronic Newspaper --- p.20 / Free Access versus Subscription --- p.23 / Operation of an Online Newspaper --- p.25 / Chapter V. --- INVESTIGATING ONLINE NEWSPAPERS IN H. K. --- p.28 / The Newspaper Industry in Hong Kong --- p.28 / Objectives of Study --- p.31 / Research Methodology --- p.32 / Chapter VI. --- RESEARCH FINDINGS --- p.35 / Result for the Exploratory Study: Two Online / Newspaper Publishers in Hong Kong --- p.35 / "Result for the Quantitative Study," / Part I - Overall Survey Responses --- p.40 / "Result for the Quantitative Study," / Part II - T-Tests Between / Categories of Respondents --- p.46 / Chapter VII. --- INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS --- p.51 / "For Result of the Quantitative Study," / Part I - Overall Survey Responses --- p.51 / "For Result of the Quantitative Study," / Part II - T-Tests Between / Categories of Respondents --- p.53 / Chapter VIII. --- RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.56 / Chapter IX. --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.59 / Chapter X. --- LIMITATION OF STUDY --- p.61 / Chapter XI. --- APPENDICES --- p.64 / Appendix A - Electronic Newspaper Publishers' Questionnaire / Appendix B - Electronic Newspaper Readers' Survey / Appendix C - Summary for Customer Survey Result / Appendix D - Reference Table for T-Tests Results / Appendix E - Graphical Illustration of Survey Results

This study deals with the four-composer Polish musical association, Young Polish Composers' Publishing Company, which became commonly known as the group Poland in Music. Young Poland in Music is considered by Polish and non-Polish music historians to be the signal inaugurator of modernism in Polish music. However, despite this most important attribution, the past eighty-odd years have witnessed considerable confusion over the perceptions of: 1) exactly who constituted the publishing company, 2) why it was founded, 3) what the intentions of its members were, and 4) the general reception its members' music received. This paper addresses and resolves this multiple confusion. Chapter I presents an introductory survey of the political, socio/cultural, and musical developments of Poland between 1772 and c1900, the period of the Polish Partitions through the beginnings of the "Young Poland" era. Chapter II presents a discussion of the facts surrounding the founding of the publishing company, as well as a discussion of the eighty-odd years of historical misinterpretations that have developed about the composers' company and its relationship to "Young Poland in Music." Chapter III discusses the interpersonal relationships of the composers and other persons directly involved with them and their company, and the impact that these relationships had on the publishing company. Additionally, the chapter brings into focus the specific relationships between the musicologist, Adolf Chybiński, the company, and its individual members. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the actual publishing activities of the company. Chapter IV examines the three concerts sponsored by the company and their critical receptions in Warsaw and Berlin through the surviving reviews and comments of leading contemporary music critics, the concert participants, the composers' close colleagues, and the composers themselves. Finally, Chapter V contains a brief discussion of the music presented on the three concerts, characterizing the works within the context of their initial critical reception.

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Denna rapport beskriver hur dagens tekniska processer ser ut vid tillverkning av applikationer för interaktiva publikationer. En interaktiv publikation är en digitalt skapad tidning med ett extra lager av information som man kan interagera med. Exempel på interaktivitet är bildspel, video och informationsflöden i realtid som visas direkt i tidningen.  Rapporten fokuserar på vad det är som ger ett mervärde till en digital interaktiv publikation och vilka funktioner det är som kan ge upphov till detta. Genom en jämförande analys mellan digitala publikationer och papperstidningar tas fyra designaspekter fram för att användas som grund för hur interaktiva element bör hanteras i framställningen av digitala publikationer.  En prototyp av en interaktiv publikation har tagits fram för att visa hur designaspekterna kan tillämpas och för att visa hur information kan presenteras på ett mer interaktivt sätt. / This report describes how today's technological processes look like in the production of applications for interactive publications. An interactive publication is a digitally created magazine with an extra layer of information that you can interact with. Examples of interactivity is slideshows and video and data streams in real time that are displayed directly in the magazine. The report focuses on what it is that adds value to a digital interactive publication, and what functions which may provide cause to this. Through a comparative analysis of digital publications and the newspapers, four designaspects have been developed as an basis for how the interactive elements should be handled in the production of digital publications.  A prototype of an interactive publication was developed to show how the designaspects can be applied and to show how information can be presented in a more interactive way.

The primacy of the print novel as the main mode for knowledge dissemination and communication is being challenged today by the vast influx and pervasiveness of digital media. Print literature, then, is at potential risk for obsolescence, as digital technology creates new modes of narrative distribution. The novel, therefore, is in the midst of a metamorphosis, having to adapt in order to properly situate itself within the new media ecology. Somewhat paradoxically, the same digital technology that challenges print literature’s primacy is responsible for the novel’s adaption. The changing face of the page creates new novels that reflect the digital in print, through changes in typography, layout, and design. These changes illuminate the need for a material-specific methodology in literary theory, and brings about the death of postmodernism in the new, digital environment. iv / vi, 91 leaves ; 29 cm

This thesis explores the Turkish book publishing industry within the framework of historical development of book publishing since Ottoman practice onwards and current structure of the Turkish book market. The aim of the thesis is to understand recent trends, developments, and problems in the Turkish book market, within its specific historical conditions and in a comparative method to the current structure of book publishing industry in developed countries where book publishing is a global business and highly integrated to other sectors of cultural commodity production. The hypothesis is that although there have been profound changes in the Turkish book publishing sector on the way towards industrialization during recent decade, especially after 2000s / book publishing in Turkey remained an &quot / infant industry&quot / and Turkish book publishing market is still unsaturated as a result of serious problems continuing in different cycles of circulating capital in the Turkish book market and in preconditions of profit-maximization and capital accumulation processes / impediments on the creation of a large mass of readers and new genres / lack of an industrial organization of book production and business, and belated developments in regulative-legal framework in copyright regime.

RTFC is a multichannel publishing tool which has been designed to convert text documents into several accessible formats. You can produce books in common file formats like plain text, HTML and HTML Help as well as large print, Braille, web Braille and DAISY. It implements a standard for e-books which was created at German schools for the blind. This standard makes it possible to get the most out of DAISY even though desktop publishing software often has no capabilities to mark up optional content like annotations or sidebars. Therefore RTFC is especially suitable to convert school books and other non-fiction literature.

Thesis (M. Bus.)--University of Technology, Sydney, 2003. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2005). Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-56).

[pt] Esta dissertação trata da inserção do design(er) na produção editorial do livro didático – que ainda é uma ferramenta bastante utilizada na educação brasileira e, geralmente, fundamenta e delineia as práticas de ensino em sala de aula –, com enfoque no livro de geografia de ensino fundamental. Dentre outras questões que o perpassam, a pergunta que norteia este trabalho pode ser sintetizada da seguinte forma: qual o papel do design(er) no processo de edição de livros didáticos? Diante da construção coletiva por que passa a obra didática, sofrendo intervenções de diversas fontes, torna-se difícil delimitar de antemão as atribuições e limites de atuação do designer; entretanto, é possível afirmar a importância de seu trabalho nessa cadeia produtiva, sendo razoável partir do pressuposto que o designer tem um papel até mesmo social nesse processo. É a partir dessa conjectura que se torna possível delinear o caminho que leva aos motes concernentes a esse grande questionamento. Trata-se, portanto, de uma investigação – mediante estudo de caso com a análise do processo de produção editorial – do papel e da atuação dos agentes envolvidos na cadeia de produção (em especial do designer), destacando suas funções primordiais, contribuições possíveis e seus limites de atuação. Afinal, a partir dessa observação é possível examinar as funções, exercidas e idealizadas, dos principais participantes deste processo – dentre eles, o designer, um dos agentes mediadores da leitura –, levando em consideração as particularidades da cadeia de produção editorial do livro didático, que é orientada por uma política com objetivos precisos e por interesses educacionais e pecuniários. / [en] This dissertation deals with the insertion of the design(er) in the editorial production of the textbook – an instrument which is widely used in education in Brazil and, generally, acts as a foundation outlining the teaching practices applied in the classroom –, with a focus on the use of the geography textbook in elementary education. Among other issues, the question that guides this work can be summarized into the following: what is the role of design(er) in the textbook editing process? The collective construction process which the work goes through suffers interference from many different sources, making it much more difficult to define beforehand the roles and the limits imposed on the designer. However, it is possible to confirm the importance of the role of the designer in the production chain, being reasonable to assume that the designer even has a social role in this process. From this conjecture it is possible to delineate the path that leads to the issues facing this question. It is therefore an investigation – through a case study which examines the editorial production process – considering the role and the involvement of the agents present in the production chain (especially the designer), highlighting their functions, limits, and possible contributions. Finally, this observation allows us to examine the real and the idealized functions of the main participants in this process – such as the designer, one of the mediating reading agents –, taking into account the particularities of the production chain of textbook publishing, which is guided by a policy with precise objectives and educational and pecuniary interests.