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Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and the Freeman Developmental Model
No full textA Doctoral Paper completed for the University of Denver\u27s Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Mignone, Fernandez, Guarnieri: Brazilian Guitar Music after Villa-Lobos
No full textThis article challenges the widespread perception of Heitor Villa-Lobos as an isolated peak in Brazilian musical culture with no natural successors. The author focuses on the composers who followed Villa-Lobos—Francisco Mignone, Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, and Camargo Guarnieri—arguing that their works deserve far more attention in international concert life, not least their contributions to the guitar repertoire.
These twentieth-century Brazilian composers are situated within a broader historical narrative that traces the impact of European colonial models, the delayed and contested formation of musical nationalism in Brazil, and the shifting aesthetic and political conditions of the twentieth century. Analytical discussions of representative guitar works reveal contrasting approaches to nationalism, instrumental craft, and expressive intent. The article concludes with a selective survey of Brazilian guitar music composed since the mid-twentieth century, providing a categorized list of repertoire deserving of wider attention
I Think You Overuse That Word: A Theoretical Examination from Multiple Lenses of Why Relational Beings Have Become Hesitant to Commit.
No full textThis paper serves as a companion to a documentary film that explores the shifting landscape of modern relationships. The film presents personal narratives about dating, connection, and commitment, and the paper offers an experiential exploration of these themes, focusing on dating dynamics, social media, online dating, lack of connection, Coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19), video games, and the effects of overwhelming choice. Drawing from existing literature and insights gained during the filmmaking process, the paper analyzes broader societal and psychological patterns shaping modern relationships. Using a combination of filmed interviews and direct observation, the study examines the lived experiences of individuals navigating contemporary relationships. Each participant was asked 5 questions throughout the film. These questions included: What if I said love isn\u27t fireworks, it isn\u27t boring, but it\u27s meant to be somewhere in the middle.” “What does love mean to you?” “What would it look like for someone to see you for who you are?” Are you afraid to be loved?” And finally, what does it look like to be in a relationship/date today? These questions helped shape not only the film but the paper as well.
Though inspired by real experiences, this work does not constitute a human subjects study but provides cultural and relational context. The project explores challenges such as disconnection, decision fatigue, and self-presentation pressures, while emphasizing the importance of vulnerability and authentic engagement in building meaningful connections
Institutionalizing a Culture of Respect for Teaching and Professional Faculty
No full textThe University of Denver has made great strides in improving faculty work and culture with the creation of full time non-tenure track lines – the Teaching and Professional Faculty. In 2015, DU’s faculty senate and Board of Trustees approved and created professional pathways with promotion, longer term contracts, and defined responsibilities for Teaching and Professional Faculty. Compared to other universities and colleges, our current strengths include multi-year contracts, participation and leadership in university governance, opportunities for advancement and promotion, and collegiality amongst faculty members.
This white paper serves to examine the institutionalization of these lines and the current status of policies, procedures, and norms for faculty at DU with an eye towards continuing to improve our practices, maximizing the benefits of having a diverse group of faculty series, and continuing to learn from the experiences of faculty in these lines. Key findings show that institutionalization varies by unit and greater collaboration is needed to institutionalize a culture of respect and well-being for all faculty
Left-Hand Technique and the Limits of the Possible
No full textThis article conceptualizes classical guitar left-hand technique through a physiomechanical framework that places coordinated movement—particularly shifting—at the center of technical practice. Challenging traditional positional doctrines that privilege static hand forms and digital independence, the author argues that such approaches often disregard the functional anatomy of the limb, resulting in inefficiency, unnecessary tension, and potential injury. Advancing the principle that form must follow function, the study proposes shifting as the fundamental technical category governing all left-hand procedures. A systematic typology—interpositional, intrapositional, and compound shifting—serves as the basis for analyzing arm-wrist-hand coordination across diverse technical contexts, including extensions and contractions, barrés, slurs, vibrato, and complex chordal and scalar textures. Particular emphasis is placed on alignment, rotational freedom, and the timing of preparatory movements as conditions for both ergonomic efficiency and musical continuity. A final section explores the application of this framework to passages demanding exceptional virtuosity, demonstrating how physiomechanically informed coordination can resolve extreme technical challenges while preserving fluidity of motion. By reframing technical security as the product of organized movement rather than fixed positional strategies, the study offers a dynamic model of left-hand technique that aims to help players discover their full potential as virtuoso performers
The Six-Course Guitar in Spain: Some Considerations of Repertoire and Musical Practice
No full textThe six-course guitar is still a little-known instrument. One need only look at books on the history of music to verify that claim: there is hardly any mention of it, nor are its composers or repertoire often cited. In fact, researchers have given far more attention to other plucked-string instruments than to the six-course guitar—whether for reasons of tradition or ideology—leading to a major gap in the literature. The repertoire of the Spanish Golden Age, to take one example, has been thoroughly explored, in the domains of both vocal and instrumental music (as in the vihuela). Similarly, there is quite a lot of research on the five-course Baroque guitar (as exemplified by Gaspar Sanz and Francisco Guerau): witness the several commercial and critical editions available. And there are plenty of studies of composers such as Fernando Sor and Dionisio Aguado—who are, moreover, already known to people outside our specialized field of the history of the guitar.
Perhaps the lack of documents, printed scores, or manuscripts associated with the six-course guitar has hindered research into the instrument. Some documents held in public libraries are available online; others, such as those in the private archive of Navascués, can be accessed only with great difficulty. It is therefore not surprising that today we are familiar with names such as Luis de Narváez or Gaspar Sanz, while composers such as Juan de Arizpacochaga, Isidro Laporta, or José Avellana are completely unknown.
The purpose of this text, therefore, is to present the six-course guitar, its particularities, and its function in a society that could be characterized as bourgeois
“The Only Maker of Spanish Guitars” in England: Panormo and His Contemporaries
No full textThe following work is reviewed:
Guitar Making in Nineteenth-Century London: Louis Panormo and His Contemporaries, by James Westbrook (Halesowen, UK: ASG Music, 2023)
classicalguitar.co.uk/shop/guitar-making-in-nineteenth-century-londo
Toward a British Guitar Canon: Ernest Shand’s Collected Works
No full textA review of Guitar Music from Late Victorian England: Collected Works, by Ernest Shand, edited by Stanley Yates (Classical Guitar Study Editions, 2022), publisher\u27s website
Participant 09 – Spanish, English, and French
Full text linkAn interview with Professor Lina Reznicek-Parrado, a multilingual faculty member at the University of Denver, about the benefits and challenges of multilingualism in education as part of Professor Kamila Kinyon\u27s Multilingual DU study
Workshop on Selecting an EPR Resonator
No full textGuidance is presented to help select a resonator to optimize a measurement. Different resonator types are described with information about resonator Q and microwave power efficiency.
Workshop presented at the 28th International EPR Symposium on July 31, 2005