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The King And The Chariot, Krista Antenucci

West Chester University Master’s Theses

The King and The Chariot is at its heart, a compilation of all that inspires me in music. From hymn tunes, declamatory fanfares, gentle chorales, and somber laments. For this reason, I chose to write this piece for wind ensemble, since much of the music I’m inspired by is written for that idiom. Most of the piece is based around the hymn, A Mighty Fortress is our God. The hymn itself is primarily presented in a minor mode and in fragments, somewhat reflecting my own personal struggles with Christian spirituality and faith. While most arrangements of A Mighty Fortress are …

Characteristics Of Music Intervention For Perinatal Depression: A Scoping Review, Cholticha Yosapol

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Various transitions occur in one’s lifetime, shifting life from one phase to another. Pregnancy and childbirth stand out as significant milestones for women. These periods bring forth demands across various dimensions: physical, mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual, which need ample support for a smooth transition into motherhood. However, pregnant women and new mothers often face heightened risks of stress, anxiety, and perinatal depression. Music intervention has emerged as a promising avenue for alleviating depressive symptoms in this demographic, with numerous studies highlighting its efficacy. In this scoping review, the aim was to delve into existing literature and identify the characteristics …

The Use Of Music As A Legacy Intervention In Palliative Care: A Scoping Review, Phuwadej Vorasowharid

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This scoping review explores the integration of music and legacy interventions within palliative care settings. Legacy interventions, defined as methods focusing on creating personal memorabilia such as books, recordings, or storytelling, allow patients to express emotions and leave a legacy, thereby strengthening bonds with their loved ones. The review aimed to identify the types of music interventions used for conducting legacy work and to understand the experiences and perspectives of patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare providers. A systematic search of electronic databases yielded 14 studies meeting the inclusion criteria. The findings indicate the utilization of various music-based legacy interventions in …

การแสดงเดี่ยวขับร้องโดย ปฏิทัศน์ จันทนากร : วรรณกรรมเพลงคลาสสิกและละครเพลง, ปฏิทัศน์ จันทนากร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การแสดงเดี่ยวขับร้องโดย ปฏิทัศน์ จันทนากร : วรรณกรรมเพลงคลาสสิกและ ละครเพลง มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อนำเสนอความแตกต่างเชิงเทคนิคการขับร้องของทั้งสองลีลา (Style) โดยแบ่งออกเป็น 2 ช่วง ประกอบไปด้วย ช่วงขับร้องบทเพลงคลาสสิกซึ่งเป็นบทเพลงร้องศิลป์ (Art song) ทั้งหมด 5 บทเพลง และช่วงขับร้องบทเพลงจากละครเพลง (Musical Theatre) 7 บทเพลง เป็นจำนวนบทเพลงทั้งสิ้น 12 บทเพลง โดยมีแนวทางการจัดแสดงอย่างสร้างสรรค์เป็นแบบแผน พร้อมทั้งศึกษาประวัติความเป็นมาทั้งผู้ประพันธ์และตัวบทเพลง ไปจนวิเคราะห์ บทประพันธ์และเทคนิคเฉพาะ รวมไปถึงวิธีการออกเสียงให้ถูกต้อง ซึ่งเป็นส่วนสำคัญ ตามวัตถุประสงค์ที่วางไว้ เพื่อหาข้อสรุปเชิงเปรียบเทียบถึงข้อแตกต่างของทั้งสองลีลาที่ผู้วิจัยพบ และการนำไปใช้ในวิชาชีพของตนให้เกิดประโยชน์ผ่านการวิจัยในครั้งนี้

Subito 2023, Portland State University. School Of Music & Theater

Subito: Student Voices from Portland State University School of Music & Theater

Issue 6, Spring 2023

Multiple articles from the new History of Hip-Hop course, faculty spotlight with School of Music & Theater Choir Directors Ethan Sperry and Coty Raven-Morris, analysis and commentary on multiple musical scores, tips for conductors avoiding injury, and so much more.

V.1 Winter 2023, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

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 2023 issue has a theme of text, images, and communication. It contains written pieces that experiment with text and language, student visual art, and other work.

Guide To The Robert Leigh Morris Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Robert Leigh Morris (b. 1941) is an American composer and music instructor. The Robert Leigh Morris Collection contains his personal music scores, from published works to drafts, and programs from his performances, as well as scores by other composers. Professional correspondences, documents, and some of Morris’s writings are also included.

Aural Training And Sight Singing Supplement For Comprehensive Musicianship: A Practical Resource [2023], Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Schwabe, Daniel Swilley

Faculty Book Gallery

This supplement was designed to help students build a strong foundation in aural training and sight singing by progressing through the core rhythmic and melodic patterns that are found in music. Through the progression of content, students will build skills in pattern recognition and an understanding of how music functions. Rhythms for each section include single and two-part examples as well as pitched examples for use in aural training. Melodies for each section include single line melodies, canons, duets, and chorales. Melodies were designed to be easily accessible for students with basic keyboard skills, and were written without articulation and …

Music As Art: A Study Of Expressing Emotion Through Music And Art, Cadence Helleson

Schultz-Werth Award Papers

People have been expressing emotion with different art forms throughout history. Emotion has always been something that is hard for us to explain with words, so we have turned to painting, drawing, dancing, and music to add a visual or auditory explanation to what we feel. Depending on the chords or colors that are used, music and art can evoke specific emotions. There are many similarities between art and music, especially in the terms used to describe it. Both artists and musicians refer to their work as “compositions” and “pieces.” The musical term “timbre” means tone color and refers to …

Seamus Jennings Solo Transcription Project, Seamus Jennings

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

No abstract provided.

Discussions And Creations: Experiences Of Black Music Therapy Graduate Students Building Community And Belonging, Rebekah Irene Spann

Theses and Dissertations--Music

There is currently a lack of racial diversity within the music therapy field and a lack of research on the experiences of Black music therapy graduate students wanting to build community and belonging. The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of three Black graduate music therapy students at the University of Kentucky seeking to build community and belonging with their Black peers. To further understand the experiences of these Black graduate music therapy students, this study followed participatory action research (PAR) methodology. Throughout the research process, I worked with participants to shape the project in a way …

A History Of Educational Concerts Of The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Sean Radermacher

Theses and Dissertations--Music

This project illuminates the history of educational concerts of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and reveals a legacy of performances for young audiences, today’s educational innovations, and the orchestra’s evolving mission to serve young people. Concerts for young people are an important facet of the history of American orchestras. Today, these concerts and other educational programs are essential to increase the accessibility of orchestral music.

The PSO’s history highlights the close relationship of American orchestras with an educational mission from their early years to the present. After an overview of the origins of permanent orchestras and the national context of …

Walking Carefully Towards Bridging The Gap: Exploring Australian Music Educator Voices About Teaching Indigenous Music, Dawn Joseph, Bradley Merrick

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Facilitating an inclusive pedagogy to close the gap that exists within the teaching of Indigenous Knowledge in Australia is a tall order for many teachers. This paper draws on responses to a national study and explores how music educators include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and culture into their practice. An online survey (December 2022-February 2023, N=109) informed the findings. Using thematic analysis, two themes (teaching challenges and opportunities, and bridging the gap) are discussed and key recommendations offered. Findings suggest that walking carefully towards bridging the gap is an opportunity for educational change in contemporary Australian classrooms.

Hidden Treasures From The Classical Era: Three Idiomatic And Accessible Settings Of The Mass, Paul Von Kampen

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

How fortunate we are to live in an age where the world of choral literature seemingly continues to expand at an exponential rate. Since the advent of the Internet, it has never been easier to deliver compositions, performances, and research to a global audience. Opportunities to program new, undiscovered, or underperformed pieces are so vast that conductors could easily feel the effects of information overload. In his 2004 book The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less, Barry Schwartz details the dilemma of having an abundance of choice in situations that originally had very few. Attempting to buy jeans, the …

A Graduate Recital In Piano, Heather Gillis

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Heather Gillis presented a full graduate piano recital on Friday, March 10, 2023. The recital was performed at 8:00 p.m. in Davis Hall in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa. This recital was given in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. The program consisted of works by Sergei Prokofiev, Robert Schumann, and Joseph Haydn. This abstract contains further discussion of performed works.

An Exploration And Performance Of Underrepresented Composers For Cello, Anna M. Watrous

Libraries Award for Undergraduate Scholarship

As I was preparing for my senior degree cello recital (the performance component of this thesis) last summer, I realized that all the composers I planned on programming were famous composers that were white men. As a woman cellist, teacher, and arts advocate, I knew this was not the story that I wanted to tell through my recital. I realized that there was no reason to wait until after graduation when I was “finished learning” to be an advocate for those underrepresented in the arts, I could start with this recital. Through the process of programming, preparing, and performing this …

Revolutionary Songs From Myanmar: Reconsidering Scholarly Perspectives On Protest Music, Heather Maclachlan

Department of Music Faculty Publications

Since the February 1, 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Burmese musicians have been creating and circulating anti- coup songs. This article describes a representative sample of these songs, explaining how the lyrics reference important tropes in Burmese life and history. Further, the article argues that these anti-coup songs, while they can be understood as protest music, do not fit precisely into categories previously delineated for protest songs. Nor do these songs provide a neat answer to the question that scholars so often pose of protest music, to wit: do these songs work to persuade listeners to take an anti-authoritarian position? …

Music Reviews, Volume 79, No. 3, Kathleen Roland-Silverstein

Voice - All Scholarship

Contains reviews of Leah Lax, librettist. Arias from Uncovered; Aria Collection/Volume 1: Arias for Soprano, Mezzo-soprano; Alto and Aria Collection/Volume 2: Arias for Tenor, Baritone, & Bass; Anna Russell Sings!!! Eight Parodies of Opera and Art Song: A Tribute to the Great Concert Comedienne Anna Claudia Russell-Brown 1911–2006.

A Study Of Jacob Druckman’S Reflections On The Nature Of Water, Paul Lansky’S Three Moves For Marimba, Emmanuel Séjourné, Concerto Pour Vibraphone Solo Et Orchestre À Cordes, Joseph Tompkins, March, And Kevin Volans, She Who Sleeps With A Small Blanket, Ethan Martin

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Ethan Martin presented a full graduate percussion recital on Friday, April 28, 2023. The recital was performed at 8:00 p.m. in Davis Hall in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa. Mr. Martin was accompanied by Hanna Stolper, piano. This recital was given in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance. The program consisted of works by Jacob Druckman, Paul Lansky, Emmanuel Séjourné, Joseph Tompkins, and Kevin Volans. This abstract contains further discussion of performed works.

Performing Grrrlhood: A Lyrical Analysis Of Riot Grrrl Music, Vida Hasson

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis examines the lyrics of the three founding Riot Grrrl bands: Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Heavens to Betsy. I explore how Riot Grrrl bands politicize girlhood to undermine patriarchal authority and empower girls to redefine feminism for themselves. I provide the historical context for Riot Grrrl as a political movement and its cultural impact in the 1990s. In my analysis I connect the lyrics to feminist discourse to demonstrate how Riot Grrrl provided women and girls a platform to discuss feminism and patriarchal oppression. Music has the power to send messages to the masses and Riot Grrrl's legacy proves …

Applications Of Video Game Music Theory For The Highschool/College Theory Curriculum, Daniel L. Thompson

Honors Theses and Capstones

This paper covers the origins of video game audio and the technical limitations that effected what composers could write. Several audio excerpts have been transcribed with roman numeral analysis. The goal of this project was to determine if musical excerpts from video games could supplement an existing highschool/college theory curriculum. Theory techniques ranging from simple cadences to secondary function chords are present throughout the pieces. The pieces are from a variety of games and composers from 1983 - 2014. Overall, many of the compositions contain excellent examples of theory techniques. These excerpts would best be utilized alongside existing theory material. …

Concert Recording 2023-03-30, Pavel Polanco-Safadit

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. And Sammy walked in / Michel Camilo --[08:18]. Caravan / Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington, arramged by Pavel Polanco-Safadit -- Rumbon / Pavel Polanco-Safadit -- [15:35]. Aranjuez Groove / Joaquin Rodrigo, arranged by Pavel Polanco-Safadit ; -- [23:35]. Chan-Chan / Compay-Segundo, arranged by Pavel Polanco-Safadit -- [27:47]. D.C. intro / Pavel Polanco-Safadit -- [34:35]. Bromley mambo / Pavel Polanco-Safadit -- [45:07]. I will survive / Freddy Perren and Dino Fekaris, arranged by Pavel Polanco-Safadit -- Rush hour / Pavel Polanco-Safadit.

Music For Visual Media Of The 21st Century What Role Does Music Have In Visual Media, Sigrid Heugen

Doctoral

This research consists of a composition portfolio which examines new perspectives on musical experiences in virtual environments, through the exploration and development of immersive adaptive music for a visual medium. The research addresses the usage, adaptation, and creation of music in visual media such as Virtual Reality (VR) and other Extended Realities (XR).

The Effect Of Different Warm-Up Durations On Subjective And Objective Measures Of Singing In Choral Singers Over The Age Of 55, Jeremy A. Chesman

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

Choral singing is a popular activity in the United States. Choral singers are often encouraged to warm up vocally before they sing. Considering voice conditions, like presbyphonia, that can develop shortly after retirement, more research about vocal warm-ups is needed for those over the age of 55. This study assesses the effects of various durations of vocal warm-ups on subjective and objective measures of the singing voice using a within-groups design with randomized condition order. Nine participants performed vocal warm-ups for 0, 5, 10, and 15 minutes. A song sample was then recorded and sent to two expert raters who …

Student Perspectives Of Music Courses In A Southwest Missouri School District: An Exploratory Case Study, Mary Elisa Wren

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate student personal perspectives (grades 8-12) of music courses, their value, and what music courses they might choose or recommend. Numerous researchers and educators have debated and researched how music course offerings and instructional approaches used are central to the relevance, inclusiveness, accessibility, and equity in music education (Abramo, 2011; Clauhs & Cremata, 2020; Cooper, 2013; Green, 2006; Kelly & Heath, 2015). However, few researchers have investigated how students think about the motivations and barriers to different types of music courses. A semi-structured interview was used to explore secondary music students’ (a) perceptions, …

A Graduate Recital In Piano, Christine Compton

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Christine Compton presented a full graduate piano recital on Monday, November 6th, 2023. The recital was presented at 6:00 p.m. in Davis Hall in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. This recital was given in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. It consisted of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, and Claude Debussy. This abstract contains further discussion of performed works.

Masters In Tuba Performance Recital Abstract, Daniel Sanchez

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Daniel Sanchez, a student from the studio of Dr. Stephanie Ycaza, presented a solo recital on March 6, 2023 at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center. Sanchez was accompanied by Ms. Natia Shioshvili and a chamber orchestra composed of members of the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra and Northern Iowa Youth Symphony conducted by Dr. Stephanie Ycaza. The recital showcased a diverse range of composers and contrasting music, including Igor Martinez’s Romanza for Solo Instrument (a premiere in the United States), a beautiful lyrical piece that showcases the tone quality of the instrument; Arild Plau’s Concerto for Tuba and String Orchestra, composed …

Concert Recording 2023-03-06, Dylan Matheny, Sonya Faulknor, Mickel Gordon, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Élégie / Jules Massenet -- [10:29]. To my little son / Florence B. Prices ; arranged by Dylan Matheny -- [12:14]. 2nd sonata for alto saxophone and piano. I. Citadel ; II. Siege / Max Morrow -- [19:54]. Soprano saxophone concerto. II. Aria: injurious graffito ; I. The old line / Carter Pann --[28:29]. Bison circles / Forest Pierce.

Concert Recording 2023-03-06b, Lorenz Gamma, Dayton Strick, Chloe Harder, Er-Gene Kahng

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Passacaglia for violin solo / Heinrich Biber -- [08:25]. "On the Other Hand" for violin solo / Chrysanthe Tan --[16:19]. Fantasia X for violin solo / Georg Philipp Teleman -- [21:28]. "La magia de tus ojos" for violin solo / Yalil Guerra -- [27:44]. Fantasia VII for violin solo / Georg Philipp Teleman -- [36:36].Quartet for four violins. I. Allegretto - Allegro giocoso ; II. Andante tranquillo ; III. Molto allegro / Grazyna Bacewicz -- [48:37]. Sonata no. 2 in A Major for two violins. I. Allegro ; II. Sarabande: Largo ; III. Allegro / Jean-Marie Leclair -- [57:22]. …

A Survey Of Current School Orchestra Directors' Incorporation Of Alternative Styles In The 6-12 String Curriculum, Haley Fye

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

This study collected a representative sample of current grade 6-12 school orchestra directors' incorporation of alternative styles in the curriculum. It examined directors' repertoire selection process and their potential influence on student engagement, motivation, and retention, with a specific interest in alternative styles. Alternative styles in string education that are included in this study are contemporary pop, folk, bluegrass, rock, Irish fiddle, jazz, and world music. Participants were recruited in the study through two private Facebook groups for school orchestra directors (School Orchestra and String Teachers, and Orchestra Teachers) and two communities on Reddit pertaining to music teaching (r/MusicEd and …