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Edifying Tones: Using Music To Teach Asian History And Culture, E. Taylor Atkins Jan 2003

Edifying Tones: Using Music To Teach Asian History And Culture, E. Taylor Atkins

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Discusses the ways that music and musical aesthetics can be used to illustrate cultural characteristics and philosophies in Asian history curriculum.


The Symphony In America: Maurice Abravanel, And The Utah Symphony Orchestra: The Battle For Classical Music, Alex D. Smith Jan 2002

The Symphony In America: Maurice Abravanel, And The Utah Symphony Orchestra: The Battle For Classical Music, Alex D. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Between 1947 and 1979 the Utah Symphony Orchestra was transformed from an obscure, part-time, amateur orchestra into one of the major symphony orchestras in America. By 1947 the orchestra, which had begun as a Works Progress Administration organization, was barely hanging on. The symphony struggled to remain financially solvent, performing only a few concerts per year. Thirty-two years later the Utah Symphony Orchestra was one of the most prestigious musical ensembles in the country— receiving rave reviews from critics around the world, touring extensively, and with more than a hundred albums to its credit. The remarkable growth of the Utah …


Vol. 17 No. 4 (1994): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Dec 1994

Vol. 17 No. 4 (1994): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Vol. 17 No. 4 (1994): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Dec 1994

Vol. 17 No. 4 (1994): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Vol. 17 No. 4 (1994): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Dec 1994

Vol. 17 No. 4 (1994): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Vol. 17 No. 4 (1994): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Dec 1994

Vol. 17 No. 4 (1994): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Yo!, New College Of Florida Nov 1993

Yo!, New College Of Florida

Student Publications

Six page issue of the student produced newspaper.


Nimbus (Fall 1993), New College Alumnae/I Association Oct 1993

Nimbus (Fall 1993), New College Alumnae/I Association

Alumnae/i Association Collection

No abstract provided.


Spectrum, Volume 9, Number 16, Sacred Heart University Feb 1993

Spectrum, Volume 9, Number 16, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Four student athletes arrested for fighting --Because athletes are involved there's more interest --SHU’s Prof. Rebecca Abbott will be showing two of her films in the Media Studies round room. The films titled Watching The Watchman '92 and Magnet Schools in New Haven are half hour films written, produced, directed, and filmed by Abbott, a professor of Media Studies --Black History Month: A look back --The Robinson File ... Senior guard Darrin Robinson glides around an opponent at a recent game.


Spectrum, Volume 9, Number 3, Sacred Heart University Sep 1992

Spectrum, Volume 9, Number 3, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights Include: A new appointment of Alison Flaum as director of Campus Security and Public Safety inspires positive changes to campus safety and include implementation of programs like a nighttime escort service, crime prevention, and risk assessment. A new law enacted by President Bush would mean that Sacred Heart must release college crime statistics in the years to come. Memberships for the health and wellness center at the Jewish Community Center will be given to Sacred Heart Students at a discounted price. Students have a chance to offer their opinions about segregated areas for smokers, the current political climate, and …


New College Class Of 1988 Commencement Program, New College Of Florida Jan 1988

New College Class Of 1988 Commencement Program, New College Of Florida

Office of the Registrar Collection

Six page program detailing the order of events for commencement at the New College of the University of South Florida, including location and dates of events, speakers' names and subjects.


Pacific Review December 1974, Pacific Alumni Association Dec 1974

Pacific Review December 1974, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.


The Pacifican March 12, 1971, University Of The Pacific Mar 1971

The Pacifican March 12, 1971, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.


The Technical Development Of The Oboe As Shown Through The Literature Of The Instrument From The Eighteenth Century To The Present, Janet A. Degroote Jan 1947

The Technical Development Of The Oboe As Shown Through The Literature Of The Instrument From The Eighteenth Century To The Present, Janet A. Degroote

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In a brief survey of this history of the oboe, it is necessary to return to primitive instruments. It is impossible to give a definite date at which the oboe may have originated, but Schwartz, in this Story of Musical Instruments, accepts the periond of the Fourth Dynasty in Egypt, or about 3700 B.C., as the date of the oldest specimens of the early forms.1 We also know of their existence in the Mesopotamian culture of 2800 B.C. A shrill, double-reed instructment with some finger-holes is known to have exited in Greece about 1500 B.C., when that civilization was …