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Senior Recital: Chris Marks, Chris Marks, Lorin Green, Brandon Boone, Cameron Wilson, Kristin Houston

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Senior Recital: Chris Marks

Senior Recital: Rodrigo Suarez, Rodrigo Suarez

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Senior Recital: Rodrigo Suarez, guitar

Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Benefit To Climate-Displaced And Host Communities, Gül Aktürk, Martha B. Lerski

Publications and Research

Climate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for some societies while erasing settlements and shelters of some others. Due to floods, sea level rise, destructive storms, drought, and slow-onset factors such as salinization of water and soil, people lose their lands, homes, and natural resources. Catastrophic events force people to move voluntarily or involuntarily. The relocation of communities is a debatable climate adaptation measure which requires utmost care with human rights, ethics, and psychological well-being of individuals upon the issues …

Junior Recital: Matt Pate, Matt Pate

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A Junior Recital featuring Matt Pate.

The Understanding Of The Other In Orientalist And Primitivst Art, Jasmine Groves, Jasmine A. Groves

Honors College Theses

In 1978, Edward Said published Orientalism, a seminal book that shed light on one of the “leftovers” of European colonialism. In it, he describes the West’s attempts to exotify and romanticize the non-Western world. While the Near East, the Far East, and East/Southeast Asia are geographic terms that correspond to specific countries and cultures, the “Orient” is a Euro-American fantasy that only exists to contradict the West. The term is intentionally vague in order to satisfy any and all exotic desires that a consumer may have.

A great deal of European and American artists found inspiration in the exotic …

Junior Recital: “Out Of The Loop, The Music Of The Brecker Brothers”, Raphael De Jesus, James Snyder, Tyrone Jackson, Bill Pritchard, Josh Baffour

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Junior Recital: “Out of the Loop, The Music of The Brecker Brothers"

Senior Recital: Diego Fonseca, Diego Fonseca, Marc Miller, Carlos Diaz

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Senior Recital featuring Diego Fonseca, Marc Miller, and Carlos Diaz.

Junior Recital: Alex Sotka, Alex Sotka

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Junior Recital: Alex Sotka

Markov Model Composition Of Balinese Reyong Norot Improvisations, Taylor Flanagan, Robert Rovetti

Honors Thesis

Markov models are mathematical structures that model the transition between possible states based on the probability of moving from one state to any other. Thus, given a distribution of starting points, the model produces a chain of states that are visited in sequence. Such models have been used extensively to generate music based on probabilities, as sequences of states can represent sequences of notes and rhythms. While music generation is a common application of Markov models, most existing work attempts to reconstruct the musical style of classical Western composers. In this thesis, we produce a series of Markov chains that …

Video Game Sound As Educational Space, Leonard Grasso

Masters Theses, 2020-current

Synergizing fields such as music theory, computing, musicology, cognition, and psychology, scholars and practitioners have approached game music from many directions. However, research on pedagogical usages of game music is still emerging. While many education scholars have researched game-based-learning (Bourgonjon et al, 2013; Simões, Redondo, & Vilas, 2013; Beavis, Muspratt, & Thompson, 2015; Hamari et al, 2016), music education authors have largely remained distant from ludomusicology (the study of music as it relates to play). I intend to bridge that gap by examining the intersections of game music and sound, player interaction, and learning. My research synthesizes the work of …

Senior Recital: Laurel Buchanan, Laurel Buchanan

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Senior Recital: Laurel Buchanan, harp

Graduate Piano Recital, Young Eun Jeong

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

My thesis consists of a master’s piano recital and the written document of extended program notes. The recital program features the Prelude and Fugue in B major, BWV 868 from the Well-Tempered Clavier I by Johann Sebastian Bach; Piano Sonata in C Major, Hob.XVI:50 by Franz Joseph Haydn; Fantasy in F Minor, Op.49 by Frédéric François Chopin, Arirang by Yook Gi Sul, and Piano Sonata, Sz.80 by Béla Viktor János Bartók. This thesis will provide discussions on the respective composers, their music styles, and an in-depth analysis of each composition.

Senior Recital: Kevin Worley, Kevin Worley

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Senior Recital: Kevin Worley, Jazz Saxophone

Junior Recital: Daniel Barket, Daniel Barket, Judith Cole

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A Junior Recital featuring Daniel Barket with Judith Cole.

Senior Recital: Cierra Weldin, Cierra Weldin, Jimmy Snyder, Bill Pritchard, Judy Cole, Carlos Diaz

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A Senior recital featuring: Cierra Weldin, Jimmy Snyder, Bill Pritchard, Judy Cole, and Carlos Diaz.

Ksu Percussion Ensemble Spring Concert, John Lawless, Michael Stubbart

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A performance by the KSU Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of John Lawless.You may attend the live performance, or live stream it from the comfort of your home.

Senior Recital: Jesse Cook, Jesse Cook, Charles Page

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A Senior Recital featuring Jesse Cook and Charles Page.

Senior Recital: Sadie Llop, Sadie Llop, Brian Reid

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Senior Recital featuring Sadie Llop and Brian Reid.

Yellow River Piano Concerto: A Synthesis Of Western And Chinese Characteristics, Jiahe Liu

Dissertations

The Yellow River Piano Concerto is a valuable addition to the piano concerto repertoire for both historical and theoretical reasons. It has been performed frequently by Chinese pianists on many important occasions, such as National Day Concerts, New Year Concerts, and Spring Festival Galas. The Concerto is not only standard repertoire on Chinese stages, but it is also performed and recorded by leading international orchestras, such as the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. One of the possible reasons that made this Concerto successful is that it combines characteristics of Chinese and Western cultures. The …

Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra Strings, Nathaniel F. Parker

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Enjoy a performance by the KSU Symphony Orchestra Strings led by Nathaniel F. Parker, featuring works by Vivaldi, Mozart, Elgar, Sibelius, and Holst.

The Arranging Techniques Of Leon “Smooth” Edwards And Their Application To Calypso-Styled Classical Music Arrangements For Steel Orchestra, Michelle A. Rudder

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The steelpan was invented in the 1930s in Trinidad and Tobago. It has evolved over the past eighty years. Although steelbands are now found across the globe and at all levels of music education, academic research regarding the music of the steelpan and its composers and arrangers is scarce. This paper examines six works for steelband by Leon “Smooth” Edwards, a prominent arranger of indigenous steelband music for the Panorama competition in Trinidad and Tobago. Music scores for four of the works have been notated for the first time. The paper documents Edwards’ variation development techniques, voicing, and orchestration. The …

Senior Recital: Jessica Shaw, Jessica Shaw

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A senior recital featuring Jessica Shaw and Dr. Eric Jenkins.

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, May 2021, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

Senior Recital: Bethany Johnston, Bethany Johnston, Grace Johnston

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A Senior Recital featuring Bethany and Grace Johnston.

Senior Capstone Lecture Recital: Matthias Kosse, Matthias Kosse

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Senior Capstone Lecture Recital featuring Matthias Kosse.

Senior Recital: Jade Weldy, Jade Weldy, Dr. Eric Jenkins

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A Senior Recital featuring Jade Weldy and Dr. Eric Jenkins.

Senior Recital: Mary Catherine Davis, Mary Catherine Davis, Dan Marcacci

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A Senior Recital featuring Mary Catherine Davis and Dan Marcacci.

Junior Recital: Javier Schirmer, Javier Schirmer, Erika Tazawa

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A Junior Recital featuring Javier Schirmer and Erika Tazawa.

The High School Choral Classroom As A Platform For Cross-Cultural Education: A Content Evaluation Of The 2020 Tnmea Satb All-State Repertoire., Michael Ian Colavita

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the United States, there is a push toward culturally responsive music education in response to a rapidly changing student demographic. However, teaching music from unfamiliar traditions presents a unique set of challenges for the music educator. The 2020 Tennessee SATB All-State repertoire provides one example of music selected with the goal of teaching a wide array of cultural traditions. This thesis analyzes these seven pieces from a musical and pedagogical perspective to demonstrate this collection’s utility for culturally responsive music education. Evaluation of the pieces demonstrated that while most of these works come from distinct cultural traditions, few present …

Projecting Ecuadorian Cultures In Andean Dream: A Compositional Exploration Of Psycho-Ethnomusicology For Electronics And Chamber Ensemble, Daniela Paez

Master's Theses

The musical culture of Ecuador, despite being quite unknown to the world and to a great part of the Ecuadorian people, holds an unimaginable richness and diversity rooted in thousands of years of musical traditions. Mestizaje, the process of racial mixture that followed the European conquest, has encouraged homogeneity and uniformity. I am a part of this mestizo culture, that, in reality, does not hold the same worldviews as the diverse Indigenous Ecuadorian communities. The Kichwa community of Cotacachi, presented through musical materials in this thesis, experiences an undeniable connection between the rituals relevant to agricultural life, dance and music …