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"If The Gyil Has Died, Dagara Itself Has Died": On The Relationship Of Dagara Music, Food, And Costume, Gordon Cortney
"If The Gyil Has Died, Dagara Itself Has Died": On The Relationship Of Dagara Music, Food, And Costume, Gordon Cortney
Honors College Undergraduate Theses
The Dagara people, located primarily in the Upper West region of Ghana, take pride in their careful preservation of traditional customs, amidst years of brutal colonization and ethnocide. Previous ethnomusicological research has recognized the gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone, as the focal point of Dagara society, noting how it interacts with and is inherent in all aspects of their culture. Recent developments to the gyil’s design, practice, and performance have created concern for a lost or dying culture among the Dagara. If the gyil is experiencing change, then so too is the rest of Dagara culture. In June and July 2022, …
J.S. Bach As A Religious Storyteller – The Second Brandenburg Concerto, Emma Locarnini
J.S. Bach As A Religious Storyteller – The Second Brandenburg Concerto, Emma Locarnini
Graduate Student Research Symposium
The sacred music of Johann Sebastian Bach, written during the composer’s employments at churches in Weimar (1708-17) and Leipzig (1724-50), clearly demonstrates his strong Lutheran faith. However, until relatively recently, Bach’s instrumental works have been considered devoid of religious inspiration, especially those published during his time at the Calvinist court of Prince Leopold in Cöthen (1717-23). With the discovery of Bach’s personal Bible and other Lutheran theological texts that contained annotations underscoring the role of music in bringing glory and praise to God, some contemporary scholars have pushed against the notion of Bach’s instrumental works being purely secular. For example, …
Theological Perspectives Of The Mass In B Minor, Bwv 232, Maria Jimena Picado Sandi
Theological Perspectives Of The Mass In B Minor, Bwv 232, Maria Jimena Picado Sandi
Graduate Student Research Symposium
In 1733, the great German Lutheran composer Johann Sebastian Bach presented the beginnings of what would become his only Catholic work, the Mass in B minor, to the newly elected King of Poland, August III. This first draft was a compilation of extracts from five different Lutheran Masses that he had already composed, including a Kyrie and a Gloria.
Over the years, musicologists have put forth various theories as to why such a devoted Lutheran such as Bach wrote a Catholic mass (e.g. Wolff 2001). My research clarifies how specific sections of the Mass express both Catholic and …
Inner Song Phenomenological Description Of A Musical Object Of Phantasy, Ellen Moysan
Inner Song Phenomenological Description Of A Musical Object Of Phantasy, Ellen Moysan
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation is the phenomenological description of a musical object of phantasy I call “inner song,” i.e., the music that the musician “sings in his or her head” while practicing his or her instrument. It describes the specific inner song of a single musician playing a melodic instrument, and rehearsing in a solipsistic situation. The description is based on three resources: my personal experience as a cellist; the third person experiences of other musicians I have interviewed on that topic since 2010; and the Husserlian corpus. Each chapter starts with excerpts of interviews focusing on specific aspects the inner song. …
Isocrates's Place In Postmodern Advertising, Christopher Barkley
Isocrates's Place In Postmodern Advertising, Christopher Barkley
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study in communication and rhetoric seeks to ascertain constructive applications for distinct advertising practices by examining Isocrates’s work and place in postmodern advertising. The focus uses 5 principles known to Isocrates which are: 1) commonwealths of households, 2) integration of reputation, elegance, substance and style, 3) education and public discourse, 4) phronesis and praxis, and 5) truth and verisimilitude. These 5 principles can form a constructive and practical advertising approach. This study is important. It examines Isocrates through the lens of advertising and extends the research done about him by leading Isocrates scholars who have looked primarily at his …
Cognitive Insights And Implications Of Singing: Actions, Proprioception, And Perception In Vocal Performance., Juanita Leal
Cognitive Insights And Implications Of Singing: Actions, Proprioception, And Perception In Vocal Performance., Juanita Leal
Graduate Student Research Symposium
Studies in vocal performance have suggested the interdependence of cognitive reactions and performative proprioception. This interdependence indicates an introspective self-evaluation process during the act of musical performance. When affected by singers’ judgment of vocal production, self-evaluation and perceptive processes potentially change due to implicit competitive roles in the music performance environment.
In this project, I delve deeper into the ways the brain recognizes aspects of vocal sounds, how it reacts to the process of singing, and how it can identify them as its own In two different environments: the controlled practice space and the variable performance space. By reflecting on …
Developing A Multimedia Interface For Electrical Biosignal Interpretation, Christopher Cox
Developing A Multimedia Interface For Electrical Biosignal Interpretation, Christopher Cox
Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium
In the last ten years, a great deal of interest has been generated around the practice of using plants’ electrical signals to create sound or music. In order to render biosignals capable of producing sound electronically, some kind of interface is necessary that converts a plant’s natural electrical signals into data that a computer can understand. Existing commercial interfaces cost at minimum $3001,2 . Worse yet, two popular off-the-shelf interfaces conform their output signals to stereotypical human notions of what a plant might “sound like”. In this project we fabricated a simple but high-performance interface for less than $5 in …
Ja Rusyn Byl (I Am Rusyn): Household Folk Music As Resistance To Oppression, Spencer Mcneill
Ja Rusyn Byl (I Am Rusyn): Household Folk Music As Resistance To Oppression, Spencer Mcneill
Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium
The Rusyns are a people indigenous to the Carpathian Mountains and its surrounding areas. Despite attempts by the Ukrainian government and surrounding nations to silently erase Rusyn culture from history, the Rusyn people have a distinct identity independent from that of any bordering nation. This unique identity is best outlined through Rusyn folk songs which depict pastoral images of the Carpathian homeland and patriotic tales of Rusyn ancestry. Much work to date has already been done documenting post Velvet Revolution revival of Rusyn culture. Because of this, I will instead focus on the lesser-known time prior and leading up to …
Songs Of The Sea And The Sailor: Demystifying The Mythology Of British Sailing Culture, Henry Strobel
Songs Of The Sea And The Sailor: Demystifying The Mythology Of British Sailing Culture, Henry Strobel
Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium
Sea shanties have generally been accepted as the main relic of the culture of British sailors: a mythology that permeates the 19th and 20th century describing the harsh, unforgiving and yet in many ways romanticized life at sea. The repertoire of this time was eventually written down and catalogued by folk music collectors such as Cecil J. Sharp, who were hoping to record and preserve the British identity for generations to come. However, in researching the etymology of these songs as well as the first-hand accounts of sailors, there is a significantly greater layer of complexity to this history than …
The Poetic Horn: Rethinking Expressive Intent In Schumann's Adagio Und Allegro, Op. 70, Samantha Duhé
The Poetic Horn: Rethinking Expressive Intent In Schumann's Adagio Und Allegro, Op. 70, Samantha Duhé
Graduate Student Research Symposium
At first glance, Robert Schumann’s Adagio und Allegro for horn and piano, Op. 70 appears to be simply one showpiece out of many the composer wrote in his later years to appeal to a middle class market of amateur musicians. The piece is often dismissed as such, and as a result, scholars tend to exclude it from their discourse on Schumann’s expressive musical techniques. Adagio und Allegro is yet to have been investigated in light of this discourse. One of the composer’s musical devices, recognized by Berthold Hoeckner (1997), is to mimic the sound of a tone fading into the …
From The Dean, Seth Beckman
New Maymester Program “Musica Roma”
City Music Center Offers Summer Music Workshops
Alumna Awarded First Violin Position
Duquesne Graduates’ Band, ‘Starship Mantis’ Releases New Album
Duquesne Graduates’ Band, ‘Starship Mantis’ Releases New Album
TEMPO
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Connecting To The Community With Music: Duquesne Chamber Orchestra Poised For Run-Out Concerts
Connecting To The Community With Music: Duquesne Chamber Orchestra Poised For Run-Out Concerts
TEMPO
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Marguerite Dephillips Dougherty Voice Competition
Trumpet Ensemble Invited To Perform At International Trumpet Guild Conference
Trumpet Ensemble Invited To Perform At International Trumpet Guild Conference
TEMPO
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International Student Success Stories
Pep Band Crowdfunding Campaign Extremely Successful
Visiting Professor, Dr. Paul Miller, Earns Tenure-Track Position
Visiting Professor, Dr. Paul Miller, Earns Tenure-Track Position
TEMPO
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City Music Center, Pittsburgh Honors Joe Negri At Guitar And Bass Workshop
City Music Center, Pittsburgh Honors Joe Negri At Guitar And Bass Workshop
TEMPO
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Bluff Series Continues To Captivate Audiences
About Duquesne University And The Mary Pappert School Of Music
About Duquesne University And The Mary Pappert School Of Music
TEMPO
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Duquesne’S ‘Mic Drop’ A Capella Vocal Ensemble Off To An Impressive Start
Duquesne’S ‘Mic Drop’ A Capella Vocal Ensemble Off To An Impressive Start
TEMPO
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The Inclusive Orchestra: Adapting String Instruments And Instruction For Musicians With Special Needs, Eric Baker
The Inclusive Orchestra: Adapting String Instruments And Instruction For Musicians With Special Needs, Eric Baker
Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium
In recent years, there has been progress in strategies for teaching students to play string instruments in orchestra. However, special education in correlation with the string classroom is still lacking with useful information that can be used to aid our students and teachers. Due to this lack of information, it is difficult for teachers to have all their students feel involved in their class. After a thorough review of string special education literature, I compiled a list of resources that can be used to move this profession forward. These findings range from different teaching strategies to manipulating the instrument to …