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Drastic Criticism, Gnostic Criticism, And Brahms's Fourth Symphony, Sean Wood

West Chester University Master’s Theses

In her 2004 Critical Inquiry article “Music: Drastic or Gnostic?,” Carolyn Abbate argues that much writing about music avoids music’s “exceptional phenomenal presence,” its “drastic” effects (a term borrowed from philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch). Such writing, she argues is “gnostic”; that is, interested in uncovering social, cultural, or philosophical truths beneath that “exceptional phenomenal presence.” Gnostic criticism is where music can become prey to nefarious philosophies; shorn from the context of performance, it can become whatever the critic wishes it to be. This indictment trains much of its focus on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, whom she regards as one …

Bonny And Read: A Musical Of Love And Pirates, Jared Scheetz

West Chester University Master’s Theses

A musical based on the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, two women that grew up in the early 18th century. Anne was born in Ireland to a father that dressed her as a boy in an attempt to provide her with more opportunities in life. Mary was born in England to a mother that passed her off as her dead son to receive inheritance money from her deceased husband’s mother. This musical begins when the two girls come of age and continue to use their ability to pass as men in order to better their position in the …

Sovereign, Christian Johnson

West Chester University Master’s Theses

Sovereign is a musical retelling of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the last book of the Bible. This Scripture describes the end times, the temptations of Satan and his followers, the destruction of the world, the pouring out of God’s wrath on unbelievers and the presence of God’s grace within this wrath, the second coming of Jesus Christ, the battle of Armageddon, and the eternal kingdom to come. The musical work is directly inspired by the text and attempts to represent the events that are foretold.

The first movement, “Whoever Has Ears,” depicts chapters 1-4 of the book of Revelation, …

Music Identity And Listening Preferences Of Students In High School Performing Ensembles, Caitlin Harris

Masters Theses

The purpose of this qualitative action research study was to examine and identify the listening preferences and musical identity of high school members of performing ensembles. Participants were involved in five stages of data collection; the initial questionnaire, the first listening journal, a feedback questionnaire, the second listening journal, and individual interviews. Data was collected during the 2017-2018 school year, and participants completed all phases during their personal time. Three research questions framed this study:

1) How do the listening preferences of students help shape their musical identities?

2) Do students’ listening preferences outside of school conflict with their in …

Jazz, Improvisation & The Importance Of Collaboration, Laurie Marcotte

Theses and Dissertations

Project Statement

As one of the least popular, yet highly influential and pervasive, musical genres of modern times, jazz will help inspire impressionable high school aged students in cultivating individual expression and collaboration through an environment of musical and social interaction. The project is designed to be a safe haven for these students where the ambiance intends to promote a sense of self-worth, security, and curiosity through the engagement of jazz music.

Concept Statement

The project celebrates harmony and individual expression through the improvisational and collaborative efforts of jazz music.

Motivation

It is commonly accepted that music education has a …

V.1 Winter 2020, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Winter 2020 issue contains articles on cultural touchstones, family memories, reality tv in paradise, and cultural artifacts in Italy, along with student creative writing.

Claude V. Palisca As Music Educator: The Yale Seminar On Music Education And The Norton Anthology Of Western Music, Jelena Dj. Simonović Schiff, Jere T. Humphreys

School of Music + Theater Faculty Publications and Presentations

Claude V. Palisca (1921–2001) was a prominent American musicologist and music educator. He authored books and articles about Renaissance and Baroque music theory and developments in musicology, but is most widely known as the founder and first editor of the Norton Anthology of Western Music (NAWM) and coauthor of A History of Western Music, the two music history textbooks that are still in use in classrooms worldwide. In this article, we trace Palisca’s first idea of the NAWM’s structure, content, and purpose through his writings and activities between the 1950s and late 1970s. The central part …

Teaching For Musical Understanding Through The Core Music Standards: Creating, Performing, And Responding In The Elementary Music Classroom, Amanda Lynn Ijames

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates the implementation, assessment, and instructional needs of elementary music educators of the First District of the Kentucky Music Educators Association in teaching for musical understanding through the artistic processes of creating, performing, and responding of the Core Music Standards. The overarching goals of music education are to teach students to become musically literate and independent makers of music. The researcher conducted an online survey and interviews of members to determine their current instructional and assessment practices and their challenges so that an action plan could be created to assist elementary music educators. Through this study, the researcher …

Guide To The Bo Diddley Track Program At American Society On Aging & The Gerontological Society Of America Annual Conferences Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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The Bo Diddley Track Program at American Society on Aging & the Gerontological Society of America Annual Conferences Collection consist of sound and video recordings, meeting materials, photographs and posters for a program track at the two major gerontological societies annual conferences in the United States, honoring elderly blues musicians: the American Society on Aging and the Gerontological Society of America. The event was conceived and created by Michael Marcus and John Migliaccio.

Guide To The William A. Brown Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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William A. Brown was a founding member of the Center for Black Music Repertory Ensemble and a Distinguished Professor of Voice at the University of North Florida. He was a tenor and a recitalist and his collection includes concert programs, promotional materials, photographs, correspondence, and media chronicling his career.

Guide To The Lee V. Cloud Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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Lee V. Cloud was a composer, educator and choral clinician who taught at several institutions, before serving as coordinator of Education for the Center for Black Music Research. His collection contains his scores and sketches as well as personal papers and programs.

Guide To The Sue Cassidy Clark Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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Sue Cassidy Clark is a music journalist and photographer who specialized in soul, gospel, and rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the collection contains her recorded interviews, interview transcripts, and other research materials for her interviews of the musical pioneers she interviewed.

Guide To The Cyril Felix William Creque Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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Cyril Creque was a poet, composer, and Health Department officer, born on St. Thomas and was one of the forerunners of the Virgin Islands poetic tradition. The collection contains a few of his music manuscripts, sheet music for one published song, and one book of poetry.

Guide To The Eddie "Memphis" Curtis Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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Eddie Curtis (Memphis E. Curtis) was a composer, arranger, and singer. The collection consists primarily of manuscript lead sheets for his original compositions, manuscript scores and parts, and other materials relating to his musical career.

Guide To The Collection Of Lillian Evans Tibbs Materials, Columbia College Chicago

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Lillian Evans Tibbs was professionally know as Madame Lillian Evanti and this collection of materials consists of photographs of her in costume for various opera productions and a six-page manuscript of her autobiography prologue given as a speech in Chicago at the Century of Negro Progress Exposition in 1963.

Guide To The R. Nathaniel Dett Club Records, Columbia College Chicago

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The R. Nathaniel Dett Club Records contain the administrative records of this Chicago branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) including bylaws, constitutions, minutes and agendas and also, programs from concerts and other events.

Guide To The Dena J. Epstein Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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The Dena J. Epstein Collection consists of correspondence, reference notes and materials, articles and presentations, illustration photographs, biographical information, and an oral history transcript which span her nearly 60 year career as music librarian and historian.

Guide To The Paul Freeman Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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Paul Freeman was a conductor, composer, and founder of the Chicago Sinfonietta. The collection contains conductor scores, recordings, and other materials related to his conducting performances with the Chicago Sinfonietta and other orchestras.

Guide To The James Furman Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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The James Furman Collection contains materials relating to several genres of music, writings, including his unpublished book on gospel music, personal papers, and original and copies of musical compositions; most was collected while he taught at Western Connecticut State University in Connecticut.

Guide To The Charles E. Hamm Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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Charles E. Hamm was a musicologist, composer, author, and educator, The collection centers around his research trips to South Africa in the early 1980s to study and collect materials for is unfinished book on the history of jive. Present in the collection are notes, clippings and other research materials on South African popular music and South African radio, including a manuscript of a book on township jive.