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Annotated Bibliography, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

An Annotated Bibliography discussing how the music education forum could further diversify.

Exploring Maximalism In Music, Comparing The Selected Works Of Richard Strauss And Kanye West: Annotated Bibliography, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

In the realm of music theory, many terms are used to simplify characteristics of musical compositions. Many of these terms become “ism’s” as a way to easily group many characteristics or techniques that composers implement. A well known ‘ism’ that is taught often in American music theory/history courses is minimalism, where composers made music with techniques like repetition, simplification, etc. This paper seeks to define another emerging ‘ism’ in music theory, Maximalism. This term broadly refers to the over exaggeration of compositional techniques in music, and their effects. I propose that in many ways the composers Richard Strauss and Kanye …

Annotated Bibliography, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

This is a twelve source annotated bibliography with sources regarding the clarinet pedagogy of professors Yehuda Gilad and Howard Klug. It features dictionary articles, dissertations, journal articles, musical scores, and video and audio sources.

Fear And Death In Schubert’S Lieder: Annotated Bibliography, Michaela Hertrich

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

The themes of death are common throughout the genre of German Lied. However, fear is a much more subjective emotion that is often overlooked in textual and musical analysis of death. Schubert’s works “Erlkönig” and “Der Tod und das Mӓdchen” both illustrate situations of death, but they also include a deep permeation of fear. However, fear is dealt with differently between these two works, both in terms of historical context and importance as well as in general harmonic setting. This annotated bibliography includes sources that describe in detail Schubert’s compositional style, his approach to both the text and musical setting …

Einstein On The Beat: Transcribing Electronic Dance Music Using Methods Of Minimalist Analysis, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

This paper focuses on the transcription and methods of analysis for the modern musical genre of EDM, or electronic dance music. It takes a historical look at the origins of EDM in the early 1970s and explores how the compositional techniques of 21st century EDM producers are in fact similar to those of minimalist composers from the 1960s and 70s. By first establishing a common vocabulary to discuss the two genres, the paper will then examine compositions from both genres and attempt to provide a useful framework that can be used to analyze future catalogues of EDM.

How Have Classical Composers Written For And Adjusted Their View Of Viola Over Time? Annotated Bibliography, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

An annotated bibliography of a future research paper for MUAC 4000.

An Annotated Bibliography For Debating The ‘Authentic’ Use Of Vibrato In Early Bowed String Performance Practice, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

Musicians debate daily the authentic execution of pretty much any music, especially historical styles, even among non-specialist performers. To be considered authentic, there is little consensus among musicians deciding upon a unified vision of accuracy. Maybe the idea of a strict authenticity threatens a musician’s fundamental understanding of musical expression. That discussion, alone, can become very personal in nature. For decades, semantic and philosophical discourses have driven the impetus to debate of what ‘authentic’ music is, and the answer is (mostly) clarified when you start to investigate minute and critical musical details.

Especially among period performance specialists, there tends to …

Same Old Song: An Analysis Of Adaptation And The Orpheus Myth In Musical Theatre, Aaron J. Wulf

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

This bibliography is a brief examination of various adaptations of the myth of Orpheus and Euridice throughout the history of musical theatre and opera, specifically through comparative textual analysis of the scripts and libretti. In this examination, additions to or retractions from the original story, whether common to several adaptations or unique to a single source, will be analyzed. From these findings it will be possible to speculate on historical and contextual reasons for the unique shape taken by each adaptation, and to add to the conversation about the nature and purpose of adaptation in general as well as the …

Golan V Holder’S Impact On Orchestra Performance Programming: Annotated Bibliography, Craig M. Winston

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

This project will examine how changes in copyright law enacted with the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision on Golan v Holder affect the performance programming of American symphony orchestras. The court’s decision brought many previously public-domain, foreign works under copyright protections in accordance with the Uruguay Rounds Agreement Act; among the musical works were frequently performed pieces by composers such as Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and Stravinsky. The result is that previously free or low-cost works would now have to be licensed or rented for performance at great expense to the performing group. I will seek to test a hypothesis proposed by legal …

Modelling Acoustics In Ancient Maya Cities: Moving Towards A Synesthetic Experience Using Gis & 3d Simulation, Graham Goodwin, Heather Richards-Rissetto

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Archaeological analyses have successfully employed 2D and 3D tools to measure vision and movement within cityscapes; however, built environments are often designed to invoke synesthetic experiences. GIS and Virtual Reality (VR) now enable archaeologists to also measure the acoustics of ancient spaces. To move toward an understanding of synesthetic experience in ancient Maya cities, we employ GIS and 3D modelling to measure sound propagation and reverberation using the main civic-ceremonial complex in ancient Copán as a case study. For the ancient Maya, sight and sound worked in concert to create ritually-charged atmospheres and architecture served to shape these experiences. Together …

Entropy In Music: An Analysis Of Shape Note Music In Terms Of Information Entropy, Kyle Major

Honors Program Theses

This paper will be centered on a case study designed to probe a possible objective method for analyzing music that has already proven itself in the analysis computational systems: information theory. More specifically, this study has been conducted through the collection of data on information entropy in the genre of shape note music. The genre of shape note music has been chosen for its relative simplicity compared to other genres such as the classical symphony, which will render it significantly easier to analyze objectively. Information entropy as proposed by Claude Shannon, makes an excellent method for objective analysis because it …

Counterpoint: Music And Art Education, Eileen Kosasih

MA Projects

Music education programming is generally not as accessible or available as museum education programming. General music illiteracy and the elitism of music education perpetuate a cycle of inaccessibility and lack of understanding of the value of music education. Meanwhile, the auditory art form is a fundamental component of culture, society, and history. Music’s language and history should be understood and appreciated widely. Art museum education programmers can work with music educators, music historians, and classical music programmers to incorporate music education into museum education programming. This project consists of three parts. The first section advocates the inclusion of music education …

Enneasongs, Colton Whitted

West Chester University Master’s Theses

“Enneasongs” is a collection of nine original songs composed, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by myself, based off of the nine personality types within the psychological personality structure known as the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a nine-sided symbol that expresses the full range of basic human core fears, desires, weaknesses, and longings. Each of the nine personality ego structures (named, accordingly, “One,” “Two,” Three,” etc.) functions primarily from either the head, the heart, or the body. The nine songs each accompany a different personality type through the journey from living out of disintegrated coping mechanisms to living wholeheartedly and authentically, …

Exodus, Klaudellsh Larieux

West Chester University Master’s Theses

Exodus is a piece that highlights different events from the Book of Exodus to the Book of Joshua. The first movement, “The Great Escape,” characterizes the moment where Pharoah decides to listen to Moses, in letting the Israelites go. God uses Moses to perform the miracle of splitting the Red Sea, which secures the safety of the Israelites. This is displayed by the harmonic tension within the brass and the energetic rhythms of the percussion and strings. It all comes to a halt, signified by the timpani, in a reassuring yet anxious manner.

In the second movement, “Wilderness of Despair,” …

Something Old, Something New: Forecasting Willing Buyer/Willing Seller’S Impact On Songwriter Royalties, Daniel Abowd

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Mechanical royalties payable to songwriters for digital reproductions of their works on services such as Spotify and Apple Music are determined through a convoluted quasi-trial in front of an administrative body called the Copyright Royalty Board (“CRB”). The CRB is itself governed by statutory rate standards that constrain the types of evidence and analyses it may consider when setting royalty rates.

In 2018, Congress passed a much-heralded, consensus piece of music legislation called the Music Modernization Act (“MMA”). The MMA attacked a broad swath of issues across the music industry, including, most visibly, establishing a blanket license for digital mechanical …

Convolutional Audio Source Separation Applied To Drum Signal Separation, Marius Orehovschi

Honors Theses

This study examined the task of drum signal separation from full music mixes via both classical methods (Independent Component Analysis) and a combination of Time-Frequency Binary Masking and Convolutional Neural Networks. The results indicate that classical methods relying on predefined computations do not achieve any meaningful results, while convolutional neural networks can achieve imperfect but musically useful results. Furthermore, neural network performance can be improved by data augmentation via transposition – a technique that can only be applied in the context of drum signal separation.

“Beychella:” Beyoncé’S Homecoming To A Futuristic Queer Utopian, Jolie V. Brownell

sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies

Beyoncé’s 2018 Coachella performance and 2019 Homecoming film set the stage for a radical Black queer reimagining. Yet, how can Beyoncé—who is straight—be located within a queer critique? In this paper, I argue that through a radical and political expansion of queer, the creative deployment of dis/identification, and the unapologetic expression of the erotic, Beyoncé performs an embodiment of queer of color critique. These creative gestures within “Beychella” invite viewers into a queer futuristic utopian and provide new creative modes to politically inhabit, resist, and reimagine interlocking systems of oppression.

Keywords: Beyoncé, queer, dis/identification, erotic, QoCC, …

Bass Is My Religion: Syncretic Spirituality And Navigating The Potential For Misappropriation Among Participants In Electronic Dance Music Culture, Daniel Backfish-White

Graduate Thesis Collection

At electronic dance music events in the United States, artists and attendees tend to appropriate religious and spiritual sounds, images, and dress, especially from India but also from elsewhere, to varying degrees. This project explicates the effects of adopting religious symbology, ethos, and atmosphere in the music and culture of EDM, specifically in bass music culture. It argues that although individual participants may adopt aspects of religious traditions in ways they perceive as authentic, the potential for misappropriation still exists. In other words, EDM culture creates opportunities for misappropriation that individual participants navigate in order to construct their own individual …

Concert Recording 2021-11-13, Christopher Adkins, Jonathan Tsay

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Pastorale, BWV 590 / J.S. Bach -- [05:03]. Suite no. 3 in C major for cello solo, BWV 1009. Prelude ; Allemande ; Courante ; Sarabande ; Boureé I & II ; Gigue / Bach -- [24:31]. Pezzo capriccioso, op. 62 / Pyotr Tchaikovsky -- [31:45]. When you wish upon a star -- [34:03]. Mother goose suite. Pavane de la belle au bois dormant / Maurice Ravel -- Songs my mother taught me / Antonin Dvorák/Kreisler -- [42:24]. Hansel and Gretel. Evening prayer / Engelbert Humperdinck -- [45:18]. Cendrillon. Cinderella’s stepsisters / Jules Massenet -- [55:40]. A frog he …

Concert Recording 2021-11-10b, Emily Sink, Sophie Lopez, Carla Summers

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Se pietà di me non senti, giusto ciel / George Frideric Handel -- [07:26]. Saper vorreste / Guiseppe Verdi -- [09:19]. 8 Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blätter, op. 10. No. 1. Zueignung ; [11:12]. No. 3. Die Nacht / Richard Strauss -- [14:02]. Der Hölle Rache / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [16:57]. Deux poèmes. C ; Fêtes galantes / Francis Poulenc -- [20:25]. Les chemins del'amour / Poulenc.

Concert Recording 2021-04-29, Austin Mcfarland

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Phoenix rising. I. Dying in embers ; II. Reborn in flames / Stacy Garrop -- [11:08]. Quatour pour la fin du temps. III. Abîme des oiseaux / Olivier Messiaen -- [17:05]. As small birds play / Corrina Bonshek -- [23:26]. Monólogo en Tiempo de Joropo. I. La vaqueria ; II. Registro ; III. Pajarillo / Carlos Gonzalo Guzman-Muñoz.

Creating The Role Of Crissy In Hair, Yu Miao

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This document is a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre. It is a detailed account of author Yu Miao’s artistic process in creating the role of Crissy in the Minnesota State University, Mankato’s production of Hair in the Fall of 2020. The thesis follows the actor’s process beginning with the early production analysis in chapter one. The actor then researched its historical background followed by a detailed journal of the rehearsal process in chapters two and three. Chapter four is the post-production analysis, and the fifth chapter gives an overall review …

What Is Jazz?: Exploring The Question, Dominick Tancredi

Open Educational Resources

This writing assignment begins a semester-long exploration addressing the question “What Is Jazz?” Being introduced by film to two New Orleans jazz musicians, George “Kid Sheik” Colar (1908-1996) and Emanuel “Manny” Sayles (1907-1986), students will get a firsthand perspective of the various levels of commitment to the music these two individuals maintained as working musicians. They dedicated themselves professionally, personally, emotionally, and spiritually. They took inspiration from their life experiences. The films convey the message that jazz goes beyond the notes we hear.

Alceste: Tragédia-Opéra En Trois Actes, A Revisitation, Randall Snyder

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

The history of opera constantly swings from emphasis on drama to that of music. In developing opera based on their interpretation of Greek drama, the Florentine Camarata stressed the dramatic element. The idea that words must have dramatic purpose and clearly understood were impulses moving music away from the polyphony of the late Renaissance to the monodic writing of the early Baroque. During the subsequent century the theatrical and virtuosic elements were emphasized at the expense of their dramatic relevance. . With Gluck’s reform operas the focus once more shifts to the dramatic.

The opera Alceste, with music by …

กลวิธีและลีลาการขับร้องเพลงกระบวนทัพในละครพันทางเรื่องราชาธิราชของครูสมชาย ทับพร, นิติพงษ์ ใคร่รู้

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เรื่อง กลวิธีและลีลาการขับร้องเพลงกระบวนทัพในละครพันทางเรื่องราชาธิราชของครูสมชาย ทับพร มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษามูลบทที่เกี่ยวข้องพร้อมทั้งกลวิธีและลีลาในการขับร้องเพลงกระบวนทัพในละครพันทางเรื่องราชาธิราช โดยใช้วิธีการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ในการสัมภาษณ์ข้อมูลจาก ครูสมชาย ทับพร รวมทั้งบุคคลอื่นที่เกี่ยวข้อง แล้วนำข้อมูลที่ได้มาเรียบเรียงในรูปแบบการพรรณาวิเคราะห์ ผู้วิจัยเลือกศึกษาเพลงขับร้องช่วงกระบวนทัพ 3 ตอน จำนวน 42 เพลง ซึ่งผลการศึกษาสามารถสรุปได้ดังนี้ ละครพันทางสามารถจำแนกได้เป็น 3 ยุค ได้แก่ 1. ละครพันทางยุคเจ้าพระยามหินทรศักดิ์ธำรง (เพ็ง เพ็ญกุล) 2. ละครพันทางยุคพระเจ้าบรมวงศ์เธอ กรมพระนราธิปประพันธ์พงศ์ 3. ละครพันทางยุคกรมศิลปากร จากการศึกษาการขับร้องพบว่า ครูสมชาย ทับพร ให้ความสำคัญในการตีความทางด้านอารมณ์ของการขับร้องให้มีความสอดคล้องกับอารมณ์ของตัวละคร ผ่านการใช้กลวิธีพิเศษในการขับร้อง 9 กลวิธี โดยจำแนกออกเป็น 2 กลุ่ม ได้แก่ 1. กลุ่มกลวิธีพิเศษเพื่อตกแต่งคำร้อง ได้แก่ การลักจังหวะ การปั้นคำ การม้วนเสียง-ม้วนคำ การผันเสียง และการเน้นเสียง-เน้นคำ 2. กลุ่มกลวิธีพิเศษเพื่อตกแต่งทำนองเอื้อน ได้แก่ การกระทบเสียง การสะบัดเสียง การโปรยเสียง และการโหนเสียง โดยกลวิธีพิเศษที่พบบ่อยที่สุด ได้แก่ การลักจังหวะ การสะบัดเสียง และการม้วนเสียง-ม้วนคำ กลวิธีพิเศษที่สร้างความโดดเด่นในการขับร้อง ได้แก่ การโปรยเสียง การโหนเสียง และการเน้นเสียง-เน้นคำ ในส่วนของลีลาการขับร้อง สามารถจำแนกออกได้เป็นเป็น 3 ประเด็น คือ 1. ลีลาการขับร้องในบทละครช่วงที่แสดงอารมณ์ของตัวละคร ประกอบด้วยลีลาการ ขับร้องที่สอดคล้องกับการใช้กลวิธี และลีลาการขับร้องที่เกิดจากอัตลักษณ์เฉพาะตัวของครูสมชาย ทับพร 2. ลีลาการขับร้องที่เกิดจากการแบ่งผู้ขับร้องตามบทละคร มี 3 ลักษณะ ได้แก่ การขับร้องเดี่ยว การขับร้องหมู่ และการขับร้องต้นบท-ลูกคู่ 3. ลีลาการขับร้องที่เกิดจากความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างการรับร้อง ส่งร้อง

Historical Performance Practices In Organ Works Before 1750 In Liège, Tyler Andre Zimmerman

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The organ solo works from Liège before 1750 are neglected today, but such works are fascinating from a historical performances perspective, especially given their fusion of Dutch, French, and Italian styles. This thesis uncovers historical evidence that supports performance practice decisions in these works. Four collections of Liégeois organ solo pieces are analyzed, including the Liber Fratrum Cruciferorum Leodiensium by Gerardus Scronx (1617), the Pièces d’orgue by Lambert Chaumont (1695), the Livre d’orgue by Thomas Babou (1710), and the Pièces de clavesin (harpsichord and organ pieces) by Hubert Renotte (1749).

Novel applications of historical evidences include understanding how to register …

"Jesus Is Not A Foreign God":Christian Music-Making In Burma/Myanmar, Heather Maclachlan

Department of Music Faculty Publications

Christians in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, also known as Myanmar, make up approximately five percent of the national population. The Christian community of Burma includes both Catholics and Protestants, and the Protestants are divided into many denominations. Baptist Christians are predominant among this group, and they provided most of the ethnographic information upon which this article is based. In the article I argue that twenty-first century Baptists in Burma fulfill both aspects of a “twofold legacy” bequeathed to them by Adoniram Judson, the first Baptist missionary to Burma, and that their fulfillment of this legacy is manifest in …

Concert Recording 2021-11-21, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. World Music Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00] Dialogue -- [06:23] Morenika -- [10:37] Cachua a voz y bajo -- [12:54] Tomada el diamante -- [15:31] Summer afternoon raga -- [21:11] Jovano jovanke -- [24:31] Trance, music -- [32:18] Desert blues, music -- [41:31] El cascabel.

Concert Recording 2021-12-09, Valeri Rymer, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sonate Es-dur, BWV 1031. I. Allegro moderato ; III. Siciliana ; IV. Allegro / Johann Sebastian Bach -- [09:30]. Romance in D-flat major, op. 37 / Camille Saint-Saëns -- [15:42]. Schrezina, op. 55, no. 6 / Joachim Andersen -- [17:58]. Allegro and Menuett / Ludwig van Beethoven -- [23:54]. Nocturne for alto flute / Kevin Leomo.

Concert Recording 2021-04-23, Matthew Swerts, Miroslava Panayotova, Lisa Auten

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Allegro from Concerto / J.B.G. Neruda -- [04:55]. Concerto / Alexander Arutunian -- [20:20]. Fantasy for trumpet / Malcolm Arnold -- [24:33]. Centennial Horizon. I. Aspen grove ; Interlude, Alpenglow ; II. Roaring gunnison / Kevin McKee.