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The South is a region of mystery, of tradition, of shifting identity. As a cultural region within the United States, the South has always defined (and redefined) itself in such a way that it remains distinctive from, even oppositional to...
Concepts like cultural relativism, tradition, and authenticity warrants a more critical examination in an age where much of the world's population has adopted a digital lifestyle that is always online. As a cultural artifact, the...
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a conductor's analysis of Negro spirituals arranged by H. T. Burleigh for satb choir. The selected works were limited to H. T. Burleigh's works that are extant. In-depth analysis was limited...
With the introduction of various forms of multimedia on concert stages, it is prudent for music conductors to develop a framework of procedures, techniques, and philosophies when incorporating outside audio-visual components into their...
This thesis' focus lies deep within the Filipino immigrant's "home" in the U.S. and offers an investigation of how different Filipino/Filipino-American homes in the texts examined challenge and confront the seeming viability and...
Vally Weigl was an Austrian-American composer who lived from 1894-1982. She and her husband Karl Weigl, also a composer, fled Vienna in 1938 after the Nazi annexation of Austria due to their Jewish heritage. The Weigls were aided as...
Since its inception in 1976, Junior Panorama, Trinidad and Tobago's youth steelband competition, has continued to grow in popularity, solidifying its prominent position within Trinidad's Carnival festivities. While the competition has...
The purpose of this treatise is to survey eight of the Ten Fanfares by Ten Composers for Brass and Percussion commissioned by Maestro Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony for performance use throughout the 1942-43 season. Eighteen...
A comparison of the contributions of two art education leaders in a specific publication of each with special reference to creative painting in the lower elementary school
"The two books, Creative and Mental Growth by Viktor Lowenfeld and The New Art Education by Ralph Pearson, were chosen in order to compare the contributions of two art education leaders in a specific publication of each with special...
This paper is a study of a series of books known as the Winston Adventure Books, published by the John C. Winston Company. Each of these books, recommended by the publishers for children ten years of age or older, is based on little...
Arthur Kopit's plays express what I believe to be the dominant cultural anxiety of the latter half of the 20th century: the conflict between the human need for order and meaning and our existence in a chaotic and fragmented world. The...
This thesis examines Stanley Kubrick's novel-to-film adaptations and uses the auteur's strategies in the creative portion of the thesis: a full length, adapted screenplay. The study analyzes original texts, screenplays, films, and...
"Of the endeavors made each year to select and reprint in an anthology the best magazine stories of the preceding twelve months, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien's Best Short Stories, the first to be initiated, is one of the best known...
This dissertation examines the portrayals of unconventional and "unruly" female characters in two American operas of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries, Clair de Lune (1984) by Libby Larsen and Patricia Hampl, and Amelia...
There are two distinct time periods of the barbershop singing tradition that are often conflated in the scholarly musical community. The first period, generally from the 1860s through the 1930s, is marked by extemporaneous singing in...
This treatise explores selected compositions by the contemporary Russian composers Mikhail Kollontay and Valery Arzoumanov. Each of the two chapters is based on a lecture recital given at Florida State University. The first chapter...
This thesis explores the worshipscape of First Baptist Church Midway (FBC Midway), a Southern Baptist church located in Plant City, Florida. With nearly 125 years of history and worship, FBC Midway has gone through many eras of music and...
Letter from Alfred Noyes to Frederick Charles Owlett
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This letter may have been originally attached to a previous page, but has been separated from it. This letter from Alfred Noyes, most likely to Frederick Charles Owlett on September 17, 1923, continues a conversation about "The Spectator...
"It is the purpose of this paper, therefore, to explore some of those books included in several literary selection tools in order to determine whether they present the needs of children and the satisfaction of those needs in terms of...
In this thesis, I argue that the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee (UUCT) creates and uses music and multimedia to create spaces of acceptance, care, and inclusion for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC members as stated in their goal to be a ...
Swiss composer, educator, and creator of eurhythmics Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) oriented his pedagogical philosophy around the concept of unifying the mind-body split, the ontology that is often attributed to René Descartes and...
Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of his most musical plays, and the monster Caliban is an inherently musical monster. He demonstrates musical skills and affinities, and his speech "Be not affeard" from Act 3, Scene 2, is one of...
This dissertation examines the work of three white, male, liberal singer/songwriters during the Donald J. Trump administration period: Colin Meloy (lead singer and songwriter of The Decemberists), Chris Thile (lead singer and songwriter...
The purpose of this treatise is to catalog the music of Carl Vollrath and further preserve his work with biographical information and accounts of those who have performed and recorded his music. This document centers around a compendium...
"In recent years the writer has noted from time to time the recurrence on best seller lists of titles that could be called, because of the setting, characterization, and problems, religious fiction. The purpose of this paper is to...
Literary contests have been quite popular in recent years among American publishers. Regardless of their merits, such contests have raised two questions for librarians charged with responsibilities for book selection. The first is...
Despite the current general lack of critical acclaim for the works of John O'Keeffe (1747-1833), this study suggests that the stage comedies of the Dublin-born, London-residing playwright merit examination within the context of the...
As one of the most widely printed and read texts in the world, Dante Alighieri's Commedia has firmly established its place in the global literary canon. Written between 1308 and 1320, the Commedia quickly became a widely disseminated and...
"The purpose of this paper is three-fold: to give a brief sketch of the life of James Daugherty and the development of his art; to summarize the contemporary criticism of his work as to his ability as an author-illustrator for children;...
This thesis explores the musical, metaphorical, and metaphysical symbolism of the lyre as a term, as an image, and as a physical instrument in fourteenth through sixteenth centuries Italy, analyzing evidence to argue that it acted as a...
This thesis focuses on women's music education and music-making in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century America through the accounts of female students and educators at female seminaries. The development of women's education and...
"In writing the organized report of the findings an effort will be made, first, to present a historical sketch of the Review with background information explaining some of its whys and wherefores; secondly to introduce its editors, their...
The low flute family–including the alto, bass, contralto, contrabass, subcontrabass, double contrabass, and hyperbass flutes–is experiencing an increase in instrument making, repertoire, and performance opportunities. With growing...
Throughout the course of history, women have often been relegated to the margins of society. The cultural and societal expectations kept them on the sidelines and in the footnotes of history books. Historically, women were not allowed to...
An Approach to Learning Historical Improvisation through the Study of Eighteenth-Century Variation Sets and Cross-Cultural Piano Music Influenced by North Indian, Balinese, and Chinese Classical Traditions
This treatise is in two chapters, each based on a lecture recital I presented during my doctoral studies at Florida State University. While the topics are not specifically related to each other, both explore performance practices and...
This dissertation offers a critical examination of Georg Joseph Vogler's opera Samori, focusing on its portrayal of Indian identities and cultural heritage. Utilizing my newly developed Intercultural Positionality Framework (IPF), the...
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