This graduate recital in voice presents a wide scope of the soprano recital repertoire and explores the relationship between music and literature throughout the centuries. Mozart���s ���Bella mia fiamma��� Resta, o cara,��� K. 528 represents the Italian Classical period; the text is based on the Roman myth of the goddess Ceres. Strauss��� Drei Lieder der Ophelia, Op. 67 represents German Lieder from the late-Romantic period; the set presents a German translation of Ophelia���s mad scene from Shakespeare���s Hamlet. Argento���s Six Elizabethan Songs represent 20th-century music, but Argento draws the text from various poets of the Elizabethan era. Selected songs by Franz Liszt are representative of the French m��lodie from the Romantic period; they set the text of the Romantic poet Victor Hugo. Rachmaninoff���s Six Songs, Op. 38 represent the post-Romantic (nearly Impressionist) period and explore Russian Symbolist poetry. / Mary Pappert School of Music / Music Performance / MM; / Recital;

Entitled ���You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman: Pastoral Reflections by Passionate Women,��� this recital seeks to sing the unsung. The program features music of forgotten composers, forgotten cultures, and especially of forgotten women. The recital speaks on behalf of these composers through pastoral themes. The women of these texts express love and loss through communion with nature. They see their hearts��� reflections in the sun and the moon, the flowers, the birds, and the seasons. These women articulate their emotions and explore their identities within a pastoral framework. / Mary Pappert School of Music; / Music Performance / MM; / Recital;

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1973. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-77). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

This qualitative study answers the call to include students’ voices in research on learning by listening to students’ perspectives about their learning experiences. Student voice inquiries into learning typically explore students’ perspectives of their learning experiences in school for enhancing teaching practice. The present study explores students’ perspectives of their learning experiences both in and out of school and elicits students’ voices through written narrative, in combination with more common approaches to student voice inquiry. The purpose of which is to inform teaching practice that better supports and facilitates students’ learning. The two research questions that guide this inquiry are: What do senior high school students’ written narratives, focus group discussion, and related written comments about their most memorable learning experiences reveal about their learning? And what do these students’ voices reveal about what they have in common in their learning? The common themes across the 24 student participants are presented as a supportive framework for classroom discussion about most memorable learning experiences. Practical implications are discussed for teaching practice and research with participant co-researchers.

Call admission control (CAC) extends the capabilities of Quality of service (QoS) tools which protect voice traffic from the negative effects of other voice traffic. It does not allow oversubscription of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network. To achieve better performance for efficient call admission control, various dynamic routings are being proposed. In the dynamic routing mechanism, the condition of the network is learned by observing the network condition via the probe packets and according to the defined threshold, routes are chosen dynamically. In such schemes, various combination of route selection is used such as two routes are used where one is fixed and other is random or two random routes are chosen and after observation one is chosen if it passes the test. Few schemes use a route history table along with the two random routes. But all have some issues like it selects random routes (not considering the number of hops), does not process memorization before admission threshold test, it calculates all selected paths regardless of the fact that they are selected or not, thereby wasting central processing unit (CPU) time and since these uses two routes so obviously the call admission probability is less. In this thesis work, a new dynamic routing scheme is proposed which considers a routing history table with endpoint admission control increasing the call admission probability, makes call establishment time faster and it saves valuable CPU resources. The proposed scheme considers a combination of three routes with routing history table--one is the direct route and the other two are selected randomly from all available routes and the routing history table is used to memorize the rejected calls. CAC tests like Admission Threshold were performed on the selected routes. Various parameters such as delay, packet loss, jitter, latency etc from the probe packets are used to carry out the tests. Performance of the proposed scheme with respect to other dynamic routing schemes is studied using a mathematical / analytical model. Also, effect of arrival rate probe packets on utilization, busy period, waiting period, acceptance probability of calls, probe packets, and the number of successful calls was also studied. / Thesis (M.S.)--Wichita State University, College of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. / "July 2006."

Samuel Barber is one of the most important American composers in the twentieth century. He wrote 103 solo songs. Among these works, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op. 24 is unique because its scale is larger than other vocal works and because it is the only piece Barber wrote for soprano and orchestra. Since the premier in 1948, this masterwork is considered the most ¡§American¡¨ piece of Barber¡¦s works, for that he successfully sketches the atmosphere described in the lyrics, that is, American country life during the 1910s. The main issue of this short thesis is to reveal reasons that make the work well-known for its ¡§most American¡¨ nature. The musical education of the composer, the short biography of the poet, and the compositional background of Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op. 24 are mentioned. Through the analyses of lyrics, tempo and melody, the discussion focuses on how Barber translates the picture of American country life during the 1910s into musical notes.

Three different topics associated with their respective applications are proposed in this thesis. The first topic is the implementation of a transimpedence preamplifier for 16 Mbps infrared transceiver modules. The design of the preamplifier is aimed at the VFIR (very fast infrared) which is supposed to provide a 16 Mbps data transmission rate. The second topic is focused on the implementation of a robust reference clock generator design for DDR synchronous devices. A pulse generator circuit to generate pulses corresponding to the rise edges and fall edges of a given clock is presented. The third topic is to carry out a cost-effective voice dialer. It focuses on the voice feature extraction and the recognition of Chinese numbers 0 to 9. We present a low-cost method to implement such an algorithm by using 8051-ICE.

Workshop Mensch-Computer-Vernetzung Stand und Perspektiven des Einsatzes einer "Voice over IP"-Lösung für die Telefonie am URZ der TU Chemnitz auf Grundlage der VOCAL-Server-Suite

Thesis (D.M.A.)--Conservatory of Music and Dance. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2009. / "Five dances and nineteen musicians are featured in the work"--p. ii. "A dissertation in music composition." Advisor: James Mobberley. Duration: 30:00. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Nov. 25, 2009. Online version of the print edition.

Thesis (M.A.)--Rhodes University, South Africa, 1999. / Word processed copy. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-168).