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Message In The Music: Do Lyrics Influence Well-Being?, Patricia Fox Ransom

Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) Capstone Projects

Music has long been an effective way to communicate to the masses, and lyrics have played a massive role in delivering this communication. Yet the opportunity for research on the role lyrics play in well-being is vastly underutilized. This paper is an exploration of the relationship between lyrics and positive psychology. I will discuss a brief origin of lyrics, examine the body of literature on lyrics as well as its gaps, and finally suggest potential application of lyrics to increasing various aspects of well-being. We are only beginning to have the language to discuss the positive and negative effects of ...

Understanding Music: Past And Present, N. Alan Clark, Thomas Heflin, Jeffrey Kluball, Elizabeth Kramer

Fine Arts Open Textbooks

Understanding Music: Past and Present is an open Music Appreciation textbook co-authored by music faculty across Georgia. The text covers the fundamentals of music and the physics of sound, an exploration of music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and a final chapter on popular music in the United States.

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A Failure Of The Music Industry: The Frustration Of Women Of Color, Christina Estes-Wynne

Backstage Pass

Throughout the history of the music industry, women of color have not received the same recognition as their male counterparts because males have dominated the industry resulting in lack of female representation. Women have been oversexualized reducing their clout in their fields and the lack of acknowledgement of success, which discourages future generations of colored women from attempting to reach their highest potential.

Kundiman Love Songs From The Philippines: Their Development From Folksong To Art Song And An Examination Of Representative Repertoire, Quiliano Niñeza Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

In the Philippines, a type of love song known as the Kundiman had existed since the early 19^th century. But in the early 20^th century Kundiman had developed into art song. The term Kundiman comes from the Tagalog phrase “kung hindi man” or “if it were not so”. Written in the Tagalog language, these folksongs were subtly patriotic but typically disguised as love songs. Filipinos, in their long struggle against an oppressive Spanish regime, saw it as a tool that would ultimately unite Filipino revolutionaries to wage war against the Spaniards in 1896 during the Spanish-American War.

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Gender Inequality In The Music Industry, Issadora Tulalian

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The History Of The Guitar, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

Music Faculty Research

Conceived as instructional material for the guitar students at Marshall University (or anyone interested in the subject), it presents the historical process of the guitar in a clear and attainable fashion. Several topics related to the guitar will be discussed in detail throughout the book: the postulates associated with its origins, its evolution through the centuries, its repertoire, composers, performers, techniques, etc., culminating with the achievement of the privileged status of a respected concert instrument which it currently possesses.

Melodia : A Comprehensive Course In Sight-Singing (Solfeggio), Samuel W. Cole, Leo R. Lewis

Open Educational Resources

Melodia is a 1904 book designed to teach sight-singing. The educational plan is by Samuel W. Cole; the exercises were written and selected by Leo R. Lewis.

Melodia is presented here as a complete edition and has also been divided into its four separate books.

The Affective Properties Of Keys In Instrumental Music From The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries, Maho A. Ishiguro

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

The concept of key characteristics deals with the particular moods which different tonalities are believed to provide to music. Discussions regarding their existence and the validity of the phenomena have always been controversial because of a lack of fundamental reasons and explanations for them. Nevertheless, references to key characteristics have appeared in various fields of study and over many centuries: the Greek doctrine of ethos, writings of Guido d’Arezzo, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Traité de l’harmonie, scribbles in Beethoven’s sketches, and several passages in Hermann von Helmholtz’s On the Sensations of Tones.

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The History Of The Marimba, Daniel Rager

Music Faculty Publications

The author presents an international and historical history of one of the earliest melodic percussion instruments made by man. His research suggests the instrument was widespread throughout Asia and Africa, although many other regions claim it to have originated in their country.

Known by many names and created from an endless array of materials, this paper reflects the marimbas evolution from the fourteenth century to present day. The writer’s research encompasses the marimbas social roles, musical functions, timbres and styles across many countries as well as its evolution into the twenty-first century.

Volume 69, Number 05 (May 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music at the Festival of Britain: Performers and Listeners Will Gather in England this Month for a Gala Once-in-a-Century Celebration

Singing Patrolmen: New York's Finest Sing to Prevent Traffic Accdients, to Welcome Visiting Dignitaries, and Just for the Fun of Singing

There's Music in Your Piano

Singer's Voice and the Sinuses of the Nose

Teaching is Selling Planning a Choral Rehearsal: For Best Results, Each Step Should be Carefully Mapped Out in Advance

Immortal Trifles, of Gilbert & Sullivan

Master Lesson on Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique

Program Note for Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring

How Sweet Adeline Got ...