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The purpose of this study was to identify strategies, or pedagogical methods used for teaching basic music skills to urban secondary public school choirs by investigating three successful choral master teachers who routinely adapt...
This treatise was written to support the composition of an original arrangement of Tosca for violin and piano. There are currently no published transcriptions or arrangements of the opera for this instrument pairing. Tosca, for Violin...
Almost from its inception, music has accompanied film. Initially, music helped move the storyline forward since films were originally silent. However, even with the advent of "talkies, or films recorded with actors' voices, music played...
Using Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Head Over Heels, and The Knife as a starting point, this thesis explores the representation of transgender characters in musical theatre. While other forms of queer representation have found a home on the...
In this research I explore the use of electric plucked chordophones in South Indian classical (Carnatic) music through a case study of the renowned Carnatic electric guitarist Prasanna Ramaswamy. Electric instruments are commonly...
This treatise proposes a narrative approach for analyzing Missy Mazzoli’s solo piano works based on the theory of Byron Almén. The first part of Chapter 1 is devoted to explaining narrative approaches, based on gestures, semiotics, ...
Sight-Singing Systems in Collegiate Choral Curricula: An Examination of Conductors' Best Practices at Degree-Granting Institutions of the National Association of Schools of Music
The purpose of this study was to describe the current state of sight-singing pedagogy in choral ensembles at degree-granting institutions in the United States accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. A survey of...
The purpose of this study is twofold. The first goal is to bring more awareness to the Cuban guitarist and professor Isaac Nicola and his legacy, particularly his work as a pedagogue. The second goal is to provide insight into different...
This study provides an analysis of the Tenth Piano Sonata, Op. 67 (1955) of the American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) through an analysis of thematic development, motivic development, melody, and harmony. The evolution of...
This study shows stylistic traits of Stephen Paulus's choral writing by providing an analysis of six of the composer's fifty-eight multi-movement works. The context in which each work was written (with regard to the commissioning...
Music therapy is the evidence-based and clinical use of music interventions to accomplish the specific goals of an individual within a therapeutic relationship with a certified music therapist that has completed an approved music therapy...
The purpose of this study was to explore how asking for general music preferences compares to asking for music preferences that relate to the intended objective (in this case, relaxation), and to determine if one of these types of...
The Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time is a five movement work of approximately fifteen minutes in length for a mixed chamber ensemble: vocal quartet, saxophone quartet, organ, and bass drum. As this work is a culmination of my education in...
Ben Van Dijk is an active performer in The Netherlands in several professional ensembles, and is also on faculty at the Amsterdam Conservatory as one of seven classical trombone professors. The list of works composed for Ben has grown to...
This dissertation focuses on the sounded activities and public protest rituals of political witchcrafting in the United States from 1848 through 2021. I define political witchcrafting as a practice that combines political activism with...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences in digital audio and video quality impact collegiate music majors' ratings of a solo vocalist's performance. With this purpose in mind, I developed the following research...
Benjamin Britten wrote five pieces for the viola, the most well-known being the Lachrymae, Op. 48: Reflections on a song of Dowland written in 1950 for the Scottish violist William Primrose. Britten's other viola works were composed in...
Rolf de Maré’s Ballets Suédois was at the forefront of the Parisian avant-garde between 1920 and 1925. The company produced twenty-four distinctive, innovative works that challenged conventions of ballet and explored diverse modes of...
When teaching music, selecting the right instructional materials for each student is tremendously important. This project is a bibliography of pedagogical materials currently available to harp instructors in the United States. The focus...
Families are the building blocks of society and the first system that children are a part of. Varying in both structure and function, families serve to develop their members and create a collective identity. When the family system...
Spanish composers María Rodrigo Bellido (1888-1967) and Emiliana Zubeldía e Inda (1888-1987) exhibit remarkable personal and professional parallels. Both were born the same year during the Bourbon Restoration in Spain, received world...
This dissertation investigates the origins and development of a novel communal art form called pasacalle that is associated with the district of Villa El Salvador on the outskirts of Peru's coastal capital city, Lima. The main performers...
Blanche Wetherill Walton played a significant role in the development of America’s modernist music culture throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Her legacy has largely been preserved through her roles as a patron and salonnière during this...
There has been much research conducted to determine the effects of gender bias in healthcare fields such as nursing. However, there has been very little research on this subject done in the field of music therapy. This study attempts to...
Quiet Sounds originally drew its inspiration from what the title suggests, the quiet sounds of these five string instruments. These sounds take on a different character as they are amplified to “normal” volume, providing an exciting...
In this treatise, I study four of Kenneth Frazelle’s piano works, Elixir, Appearances, Inventions to Marden and Wildflowers. In composing these works, Frazelle took inspiration from extramusical sources including Paul Cezanne’s artistic...
The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) has recently gained traction as a music-theoretic and music analyticaltool, providing a mathematically robust way of modeling various musical phenomena. I examine both local and large-scale harmonic...
Domenico Gabrielli’s Seven Ricercari not only represent the first exploration of the technical and musical possibilities of the cello but are also assets to modern cello pedagogy. This treatise examines the pedagogical value of these...
(im)Balanced is a twenty-minute work for piano, winds and percussion. Though the ensemble is larger than a chamber work, the sparse texture of one instrument on a part creates the intimacy of chamber music while still allowing for large...
The purpose of this thesis is to research and compile the five major religions in the United States in order to provide hospice music therapists with informative material on how the philosophies of those religions may affect a patient...
The vocal jazz ensemble singing movement that began at Mt. Hood Community College (Gresham, Oregon) in 1967 reached the public schools of the Boise Valley, in Southwestern Idaho sometime in the early 1970’s. The first generation of vocal...
E-sports is one of the fastest growing entertainment genres in the world, with millions of viewers and ever-increasing revenue streams flowing into bigger and more impressive tournament displays. One of the ways that this revenue is...
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...
The purpose of this research is to gain insight on different aspects of orchestral performance and ensemble skills from the perspective of the second clarinetist. Most of the existing literature related to orchestral clarinet performance...
The purposes of this study were as follows: to investigate the types of goals music therapists address for their clients with ADHD throughout the lifespan, and the types of interventions used to address those goals. Participants (N = 170...
This treatise focuses on John Luther Adams's piece Inuksuit, a percussion composition for nine to ninety-nine percussionists to be performed outdoors. A biographical overview of Adams's life and inspiration of Inuksuit will be presented, ...
The notion of this piece came about through the fusion of a wide number of influences. First and foremost is my love for, and practical experience with, music that makes use of the electric guitar. I wanted to transform the guitar's role...
This dissertation centers on the stories and perspectives of young refugees from Syria and Afghanistan enrolled in Sweden’s municipal music-and-arts school, or kulturskola, programs. Kulturskolor are voluntary music and arts programs...
The country of Serbia, located in Central/Southeastern Europe, offers a rich trumpet tradition worth examining due to the depth and diversity of art and knowledge tied to its unique socio-political history and cultural traditions....
The purpose of this study was to explore choral music educators' perceptions of teaching in urban secondary schools as compared to teaching in rural and suburban public and charter schools to provide greater clarity to help prepare...
The purpose of this study is to analyze Dragons in the Sky for horn, percussion and computer-generated tape (1989) by American composer, Mark Schultz (1957-2015). Dragons in the Sky won the 1990 International Horn Society Composition...
ADr. Augustus J. Pearson is widely known as choral music educator who made significant contributions to choral music education and influenced many of his students. Moreover, his far-reaching influence as a choral conductor in various...
This study aims to reveal the challenges faced by a qualified English-to-Chinese interpreter, and to provide a practical guide for English-to-Chinese interpreters in piano master classes. Piano master classes at the third Sichuan...
ABSTRACT Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited blood disorders in which the hemoglobin of the red blood cells is abnormal, cause the shape of the cell to be sickle, and cause severe pain. The purposes of this study were to discover...
Duende has long been a fixture of the gitano lifescape in Andalusia, Spain, and is often invoked in relation to flamenco performance with such variance in meaning that it is difficult to attain an understanding of what duende really is, ...
The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis of interviews with African American music therapists effectively serving African American clients. The primary topics that were discussed in this study were (a) cultural...
Do Sul (2019) is a work written for chamber orchestra based around the baião rhythm originating from the northeast of Brazil. This rhythm forms the basis for many genres of music originating from this region of Brazil such as forró or...
Sing with Me: A Survey to Guide Development of an In-Home Developmental Curriculum for Premature Infants Post-Discharge from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
According to 2017 CDC statistics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 1 in 10 infants in the United States are born prematurely. Preterm infants may demonstrate a delay in reaching developmental milestones due to extended...
Wil Offermans is a flutist-composer with a holistic approach to contemporary flute pedagogy. At present day, there are very few English-language publications on Offermans; thus, in comparison to his contemporaries, the broader English...
The history of women composers has been defined by overt prejudice. However, in the 20th century that narrative began to change. By the 1950s women composers began to thrive, having their works performed worldwide and in virtually all...
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