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The Short Song Project, Jayla Kai Smith Jan 2023

The Short Song Project, Jayla Kai Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2023

The Short Song Project is a collection of short songs about play and reveling in the freedom afforded by curiosity.


Songs For Strings, Jayla Kai Smith Jan 2023

Songs For Strings, Jayla Kai Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Songs for Strings is a series of songs by Jayla Kai arranged for string quartet and performed with quartet and vocals.


Musical Perspective: An Analysis Of How Musicals Reflect Cultural Discourse, Amosi Morgan May 2021

Musical Perspective: An Analysis Of How Musicals Reflect Cultural Discourse, Amosi Morgan

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

In this paper, I will be analyzing the role musical theatre productions play in reflecting cultural discourse. I will also discuss the impact musicals have on societal discussions regarding topics like race, capitalism, and social justice. The way I seek to do this is by first explaining the origin of musicals as musical comedies. I will also discuss other musical innovations such as the opera that influenced the shift. I will discuss the rise of musical dramas as musicals started incorporating serious themes. The emotional impact of musicals and their use of pathos will be analyzed. I will research the …


01 Traditional Songs Introduction, William Donner Jan 2021

01 Traditional Songs Introduction, William Donner

Sikaiana Traditional Songs

This is an introduction to Sikaiana songs. It includes a discussion of the social cultural context of song composition and singing. There is a discussion of the different features of song production and a list of different song genres. Most of the discussion is concerned with traditional song expression that are part of derived form changes associated with colonialism and modernization.


Vilma Weber Von Webenau : Die Marienlieder, Sommerlieder Für Streichquartett Und Eine Sprechstimme, Carolyn Dehdari Apr 2006

Vilma Weber Von Webenau : Die Marienlieder, Sommerlieder Für Streichquartett Und Eine Sprechstimme, Carolyn Dehdari

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Vilma von Webenau (1875-1953) is not only worthy of study because of her connection with teacher Arnold Schoenberg. Her music is unique in the era of fin-de-siecle Vienna, but it also holds interest today because of its atmoshpheric and durational complexity, self-composed texts, and harmonic ambiguities. This critical edition seeks not only to present two of WEbenau's seventy works, but also to place Webenau in her historical and musical context. Exploring the aspects of Viennese modernism and the world that created it, I wish to give background to Webenau's life, of which so little is known. In trying to understand …


Poetry: Toward Speaking For, Charles Hartman Apr 1988

Poetry: Toward Speaking For, Charles Hartman

English Faculty Publications

The article presents an essay that finds the relation among jazz, song and poetry. In 1985 Larry Coryell and Emily Remler released an album of guitar duets. Coryell pioneered the "fusion" of jazz and rock styles in the mid-sixties, and has developed that border area ever since. Remler, a more recently risen star, has more closely followed a jazz line of development. The differentiation of the voice of the poem, its discovery of its own potential multiplicity, is a point arrived at, not begun from.


Tani Various, Sikaiana People Jan 1982

Tani Various, Sikaiana People

Sikaiana Traditional Songs

These are transcriptions of several tani or funeral dirges. Tani are composed after a person dies. I do not have a record of who gave me the transcriptions, most likely John Kilatu and/or Reuben Tenai. I do not have recordings for these songs.


Mako Hatu Composed Songs, Reuben Tenai, John Kilatu Dr Jan 1981

Mako Hatu Composed Songs, Reuben Tenai, John Kilatu Dr

Sikaiana Traditional Songs

Two traditional composed songs (mako hatu) that I found in my notes, most likely from John Kilatu and/or Reuben Tenai.