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A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century American Clarinetists is designed as a resource to provide information on the lives and careers of American clarinetists and pedagogues of note, active primarily between the years 1900 and...
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of pre-service music education majors regarding participation in competitive concert and marching band events. Participants (N = 168) were undergraduate pre-service music education...
The purpose of this treatise will be to explore Verdi's development of the title role of his opera Rigoletto. The historical timeline will be followed from Verdi's first documented interest in Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse as a libretto...
The Effect of Music Therapy Interventions to Increase the Psychosocial Well-Being of Older Adults Living in Independent and Assisted Living Communities
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of group music therapy sessions on the psychosocial well-being of older adults living in assisted and independent living communities. Pre-and posttest was used in two different...
Thirty-six students, twenty-six females and ten male subjects, volunteered from The Florida State University College Of Music to participate in a study to determine the effect of music volume on simulated driving skills. All subjects met...
This thesis is about musicians in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, and how they pursue professional careers through the performance of a diverse range of musics in a wide range of settings. The subjects of this research are mostly...
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of music assisted systematic desensitization (MASD) on guitar competency, observed anxiety, and self-perception of anxiety during guitar performance with music therapy and...
This treatise seeks to examine the integration and application of electronics in both the outdoor and indoor marching arts activities. Additionally, this document will provide a primer for students and teachers interested in becoming...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of singing paired with signing on second language acquisition of university music students under active and passive learning conditions. In addition, emotional states of the subjects...
BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURAL SUBDOMINANT IN SELECTED SONATA-FORM MOVEMENTS
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Within the last several decades, the concept of tonic-dominant polarity as the essence of the Classical style has emerged as an intriguing topic for studies by musical theorists and musicologists alike. The potential of the subdominant... Beethoven and Schubert, although contemporaries and both inhabitants of Vienna, differed greatly in their structural use of the subdominant. Comparative analysis shows that, with respect to the use of subdominant regions as secondary...
This treatise seeks to examine the history and performance trends of the percussion section of The U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own." As no formal research has been done about the percussion section as a whole and the band is approaching...
This creative report aims to present a snapshot of the songwriting approach used by RE (stage name), otherwise known as Rachel Espendez. The singer-songwriter shares her frame of mind regarding her original EP titled The Songwriter's...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of choral singing on the blood pressure and oxygen saturation of individuals with Parkinson's disease. The study followed a pre-post test ABA1B reversal design across 4 days, in which...
This dissertation investigates Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström's Five Pictures from the Bible, set for six-part unaccompanied chorus and baritone solo, by examining the historical antecedents of the work's creation, and analyzing...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the use of music therapy interventions on selected social skills of young adults with Asperger's Syndrome (AS). Six dyads were formed with one young adult with AS (mean age ...
The following treatise is based on information that relates to the bow construction and its influence on the bowing technique of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This period is especially important because major changes happened...
L'Écoulement (Flow) is a one-movement work for orchestra based upon a three-note idée fixe which expands, grows, and develops over the course of the piece. As the title suggests, this work presents a continuous flow of motivic...
The first appearance of the term "bagatelle" is in the beginning of the eighteenth-century, with most of the early works traced back to simple dances. Later, Ludwig Van Beethoven elevated his bagatelles, expanding them in many ways, ...
This treatise examines the importance of the Manual de Vioara, written by Romanian violinists and professors Ionel Geanta and George Manoliu, and its influence for the Romanian violins school during Communist rule. A particular challenge...
The wind band music of Hindemith, Krenek, Pepping, Toch and others from the 1926 Donaueschingen Music Festival: An analysis of historical and artisticsignificance (Germany, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Ernst Pepping, Ernst Toch, Austria)
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Recently, much interest has been focused on the development of band repertoire. An important event in the development of that repertoire, but one that has been largely overlooked, was the 1926 Donaueschingen Music Festival. During that... Although reviews were mixed, three of the works, compositions by Krenek, Toch, and Hindemith, are currently regarded as important works for wind band. The composition by Pepping has only recently been rediscovered, edited, and published. This study explores the historical background of the Donaueschingen Festival, the composers, the circumstances around the event, and the impact it had on the development of the wind band repertoire. Other areas examined include... Conclusions indicate that the event helped to produce some important wind music, and provided a model for the production of art music for band. The social and political climate in Germany during that time tended to suppress both music...
Zymancer is an approximately 13 minute work for what is essentially a chamber orchestra, but with just one player to a part. Though it is written and performed as a single movement, there are three main formal sections of the piece that...
The choral accompanist: Perceptions of competencies and attributes
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The purpose of this study was (a) to assemble a list of competencies and attributes considered important in college choral accompanying, (b) to investigate opinions concerning these competencies among college choral conductors and their... The sample included 400 randomly selected college choral conductors who are members of the American Choral Directors Association. Conductors who participated were asked to give the accompanists' survey instrument to their accompanists.... A list of competencies and attributes was derived through a review of literature related to accompanying and through a pilot study. Survey instruments were designed to solicit opinions concerning the "desirability" and the "frequency of... Results of the survey indicated that the skill considered "most desirable" and "most frequently used" was "alertness during rehearsal." The skill considered "least desirable" and "least frequently used" was "ability to read music written... Participants generally agreed that all of the skills listed in the questionnaire were desirable, with few respondents calling any of the skills "not desirable." In both groups of respondents most competencies listed seemed to fall into one of two extreme categories of "seldom used" or "frequently used", suggesting that some skills which are seldom used are still desirable.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of music on non-responsive patients in a hospice setting. Non-responsive was defined as those patients who were comatose or whose terminal illness had progressed to the point that the...
The purpose of this collective case study was to examine the different musical, social, and pedagogical factors that affected how piano repertoire is selected and programmed for the undergraduate degree recital. Additionally, this study...
This treatise examines how John Barrows helped contribute to the expansion of the horn repertoire. Barrows accomplished this in several ways. First, he had a very close relationship with composer Alec Wilder. Wilder wrote several pieces...
This treatise demonstrates how scholarship can inform performance by exploring various analytical techniques, including a Schenkerian perspective, of Ballade in D major, Op. 10 No. 2, by Johannes Brahms. The application of music analyses...
This thesis is based upon information from a variety of sources dealing with the soundtrack for the film Liquid Sky. One of these sources is the movie itself, which can be aurally and visually confusing without peripheral sources of...
The purpose of this study is to investigate stressors among soon-to-be graduating instrumental, vocal, and theatre performance majors. Seventy-two possible performance stressors were compiled into 8 categories: Creative, Intellectual, ...
This piece is composed for the Florida State University Electric Chamber Orchestra (EChO). Being an entirely electronic ensemble, it is an area very few composers are accustomed to. EChO is comprised of entirely electric instruments with...
The Oregon Bach Festival completed its thirty-fifth season of performances in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday, July 11, 2004. Beginning as a summer school program organized by Royce Saltzman in 1970 at the University of Oregon, the Festival's...
The music of Argentinian tango composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) is currently enjoying greater worldwide popularity than ever before among musicians and audiences alike. Yet for much of his lifetime Piazzolla had to struggle for...
Over the course of his career Theodore Thomas became one of the most influential figures in the development of nineteenth-century American musical culture. He is best known today for his role in the foundation of the Chicago Symphony...
A Preliminary Investigation into the Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Induction on Perceptions of Attention, Aesthetic Response, and Flow during Music Listening
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a brief mindfulness induction technique on subjective reports of attention, aesthetic response, and flow during music listening as measured by Continuous Response Digital...
One of the heritages of Romanticism is the concept of song as Lied, a song in which voice and piano have equal responsibility in conveying the deepest meaning of a poem. Brazilian classical composers have a particular attraction for this...
The aim of this study is to determine whether there is a significant difference between self-reported scores of anxiety, mood state, and pain levels and the physiological comparison of vital signs when patients are allowed to listen to...
Felix Mendelssohn's works for solo piano and orchestra: Sources and composition
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Felix Mendelssohn's works for solo piano and orchestra are the A-Minor Concerto (1822), the Capriccio brillant, op. 22 (1831-32), the Piano Concerto in G Minor, op. 25 (1831), the Rondo brillant, op. 29 (1833-34), the Piano Concerto in D...
This dissertation engages with scholarship in musical semiotics and hermeneutics to offer insight into the aesthetics of hard bop (c. 1954–65), a jazz genre often characterized as a return to jazz’s roots. By synthesizing the semiotic...
An Annotated Survey of Douze Chants d'Anatolie of Cemal Reùit Rey: A Practical Performance Companion to Understanding the Origin and Context of Turkish Art Song in the Twentieth Century
This dissertation examines Douze chants d'Anatolie (Twelve Anatolian Songs), a complete art song set and one of the first mature works of Turkish composer Cemal Reşit Rey. The songs of Douze chants d'Anatolie are some of the first...
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