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Junior Recital, Ronald Holmes, Halsey Harkins, Nick Schmitt, Austin Pooley

Junior Recitals

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Master's Recital, Amanda Mura, Kanako Yamazaki, Valerie Reives

Graduate Student Recitals

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Convocation, Casey Gardner, Lindsay Testai, Debra Yavitz, Arthur Chivis, Timothy Harpster

Convocations

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Are All Things Equal In The Back Row?: Issues Of Bias And The Female Percussionist, Pamela Rae Riggles

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

In observing bands or orchestras at all levels of performance proficiency, very often it becomes apparent to the onlooker that certain sections of instruments tend to be made up of a greater number of either male or female performers. For instance, the percussion and trumpet sections of ensembles often tend to be predominately male (Steinberg, 2001). This begs the question as to what implications there may be for those who have chosen an instrument that is not considered a “typical” instrument for their gender to play? What challenges might these musicians face, and what biases, if any, might they have …

Towards An Understanding Of Pop Music: New Rhetorical Tools Employed In The Analysis Of Four Paul Simon Songs, Dan Haag

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Over the last quarter of a century, scholars from many disciplines have explored the realm of popular trends, music being no exception, including the music of Paul Simon. Simon has distinguished himself as an accomplished songwriter, performer, and he has chosen a path of perpetual self-improvement in these areas. Since his arrival on the music scene in the late 1950's, much has been written about Simon. Most of the literature is purely biographical, recounting his life's details and career accomplishments. The more analytical literature has been largely devoted to the study of his lyrics, which are rich in symbolism and …

2012 Music And Worship Convocation

Senior Recognition Ceremony

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Junior Recital, Bronson Purdy

Junior Recitals

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Doctoral Recital, Matthew Thomas Guschl, Albina Asryan, Tallyn Wesner, Brian Marsh, Rebecca Gray

Graduate Student Recitals

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Student Teaching Band Arrangement, Whitney Mensink

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

As a future music educator, I have learned how to teach students through various courses and instruction. During the last semester of my undergraduate, I am required to student teach. This gives me an opportunity to apply everything I’ve learned to see if it really works, and what my particular teaching style and philosophy is. At Sky View High School, I had the opportunity to teach the Sophomore Concert Band. For my thesis project, I decided to arrange a piece just for them – to rehearse with them and to score it to the strengths of the ensemble. Since I …

The Form Of The Preludes To Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Daniel E. Prindle

Daniel E. Prindle

This thesis proposes a methodology for understanding the form of a Baroque prelude, particularly the preludes to the Six Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Four musical dimensions, tonal structure, motive, texture, and the potential implications of a piece’s genre, parse the preludes in different ways. As the features of these musical dimensions undergo either an evolution or a dramatic change over the course of each prelude, they each suggest a different form. Points of change in each dimension delineate segments in the music. When aligned, these changes create significant formal junctures and suggest an overall form …

Junior Recital, Nick Schmitt, Jacob Mann, Mark Corbin

Junior Recitals

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Convocation, Brandon Durham, Anthony Rodriguez, Ronna Humphries, Ben Serna-Grey, Dimitri Carabas, Matthew Calvillo

Convocations

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2011-2012 Performance Forum - May 2, 2012, Ming I Tsai, Jared Cooper, Kelley Barnett, Michael Kaiser-Cross, John Patton, Teng Kuan Wang, Marcoantonio Real-D'Arbelles, Stephen Seto, Dotan Nitzberg, Essilevi Nadal, Tao Lin, Miranda Scoma, Vijeta Sathyaraj, Cassidy Moore, Jill Way, Elis Regina Ramos, Carlos Ortega, Svetlana Kosakovskaya, Delcho Tenev, Matthew Davies, Aziz Sapaev

Performance Forum

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Using Songwriting To Assist The Healing Process Of Victims Of Domestic Violence, Rebecca Marie Tanner

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Utah State University’s Music Therapy Program has a close association with the Community Abuse Prevention Services Agency (CAPSA) located in Logan, UT. CAPSA provides a variety of services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault including a fourteen-week women’s support group designed to help victims work through the therapeutic process of naming, accepting, and moving forward from the abuse. Fourteen modules have currently been written and compiled into a manual for these sessions. Once finished, the manual will be published and distributed to other abuse prevention agencies throughout the nation for use in leading women support groups similar to …

The Chameleon Clarinet Cultural And Historical Perspectives In America Through The 20th Century, Julie Ann Vangyzen

Honors Projects

The clarinet is unique in that depending on what setting it is performed in determines the character it can assume. Generally, these styles all sound completely different from one another despite the fact that the clarinet physically remains the same. However, is any one of these types of music so different from the other, or are they all related in some way? This paper determines how the genres of Dixieland and Swing Jazz, Jewish Klezmer, Avant-Garde, and Western European Classical Music are connected to each other through the use of the clarinet. Using twentieth century America as a backdrop, the …

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, May 2012, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

Advanced Conducting Project, Edward H. Vaughen

Conducting Student Scholarship

Contents include:

1. "Glenbury Grove" by Julie Giroux
2. "Air for Band" by Frank Erickson
3. "All Creatures of our God and King: St. Francis" arranged by William Gordon
4. "Ghost Fleet" by Robert Sheldon
5. "Prelude, Sicilano and Rondo" by Malcomb Arnold, arranged by John Paynter

The Impact Of Vowels On Pitch Finding And Intonation In The Movable-Do Solmization System, Thomas Neuerburg

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance

The modern movable-Do solmization system based on syllables devised by Guido d'Arezzo was modified and pieced together over centuries by various scholars and pedagogues, each with their own rationale. To date, considerations of the movable-Do system have not sufficiently examined the effects of the vowels contained within its solfège syllables. While vowels have been thoroughly analyzed among vocal pedagogues, that information has not been adequately transferred to the realm of aural theory. Individual vowels contain perceptual qualities and intonational tendencies, due to their physiological articulation and acoustic properties. This document relates vowel characteristics with the solfège syllables used in the …

The Retention Value Of Different Song Acquisition Methods: Rote, Immersion, And Blended, Erin Rose Baker

Honors Theses

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Senior Recital, Mycah Krason, Daniel Alameda, Tyler Mckusick, Stephen Shapiro

Senior Recitals

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