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The Influence Of Volga Tatar Folk Music And Soviet Cultural Policies On The Orchestral Composers Of Kazan, Jane Katherine Brown

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

After a brief historical overview of Volga Tatar history and Soviet political and historical contexts, this document begins with a detailed description of Volga-Tatar folk musical characteristics, including probable influences as described, analyzed, and transcribed by twentieth and twenty-first century Volga Tatar scholars. In this description, the author attempts to give the preferential voice to Tatar perspectives, such as the early ethnographers and Tatar ethnomusicologists from Kazan State Conservatory, the officials from the Union of Composers of the Republic of Tatarstan, and of course, the composers themselves. The author’s detailed discussion of folk music elements and genres is then followed …

Twelve Concepts Drawn From Life Experiences Useful For Students Of Management Studies, Cynthia Tse Kimberlin

Management Dynamics

A list is given of twelve observations generated by the author's remarks made in Parts 1 and 2 that might prove useful in management discussions. A list of references and other resources follows.

Chance, Choice, And Opportunity: Effective Tools For Management, Cynthia Tse Kimberlin

Management Dynamics

This account offers students and professionals, thoughts on useful strategies in management situations based on the author's life experiences. Since the majority of the readers of Management Dynamics come from India and Southeast Asia, the remarks are directed with them in mind but they could be applied elsewhere as well. The author's career trajectory was not planned. Although 90 per cent happened by chance, chance was not entirely random but led to choice and opportunity. 10 per cent was devoted to strategic planning and preparation. Her expertise lies not in management studies but in the field of ethnomusicology, that is, …

Twelve Concepts Drawn From Life Experiences Useful For Students, Cynthia Tse Kimberlin

Management Dynamics

A list is given of twelve observations generated by the author's remarks made in Parts 1 and 2 that might prove useful in management discussions.

Events That Shaped My Thinking, Cynthia Tse Kimberlin

Management Dynamics

Issues with which I had to contend are discussed within the context of historical precedent and family influences; discriminatory practices; the politics of political correctness; mentors; gender roles; and the interconnectedness of chance, choice, and opportunity, all of which could serve as catalyst for addressing management issues and new research paradigms.

Chance, Choice, And Opportunity: Effective Tools For Management, Cynthia Tse Kimberlin

Management Dynamics

This account offers students and professionals, thoughts on useful strategies in management situations based on the author's life experiences. Since the majority of the readers of Management Dynamics come from India and Southeast Asia, the remarks are directed with them in mind but they could be applied elsewhere as well. The author's career trajectory was not planned. Although 90 percent happened by chance, chance was not entirely random but led to choice and opportunity. 10 percent was devoted to strategic planning and preparation. Her expertise lies not in management studies but in the field of ethnomusicology, that is, a process …

Choral Collage, April 24, 2022, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

April 24, 2022

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra, April 24, 2022, Glenn Block, Matthew Clarke, Guilherme Rodrigues, Daniel King

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

April 24, 2022

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

Ensemble Concerts: Symphonic Winds And Wind Symphony, April 23, 2022, Anthony C. Marinello, F. Mack Wood, Lauren Bobarsky, John Gonzalez, Samantha Wyland

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

April 23, 2022

Saturday Evening

7:00 p.m.

A Performance Practice Guide For :Only.Just.Almost.Never For Solo Vibraphone By Jay Alan Yim, Dustin Ray Haigler

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Abstract

Currently, there exists little scholarship on Dr. Jay Alan Yim’s percussion music, and none exists for :only.just.almost.never for solo vibraphone. Establishing a performance practice guide will allow future percussionists a glimpse into the compositional process of Yim and allow them to expand their repertoire to include this challenging music. The purpose of this project is to create a comprehensive performance practice guide for :only.just.almost.never for solo vibraphone by Jay Alan Yim.

Resources Required

This project relies mainly on the score of :only.just.almost.never for solo vibraphone. I have also conducted multiple interviews with Yim regarding his compositional process, sketches, and …

Ensemble Concerts: University Band And Symphonic Band, April 20, 2022, F. Mack Wood, Tj Mack, Lauren Bobarsky, John Gonzalez, Seth Marshall

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

April 20, 2022

Wednesday Evening

8:00 p.m.

The Sounds Of Home: A Composition Portfolio, Paul Gabriel L. Cosme

Music Honors Projects

What does home sound like? I have spent most of my recent life outside my homeland, the Philippines, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, and this question of what home is has become a persistent thought, if not, a necessary inquiry. This composition portfolio attempts to answer that question in three varying pieces. The first, The Sounds of Home, is a string quartet in three movements where each one tells a personal story by invoking Filipino folk and indigenous themes. The second, Commuting in Manila, is a wind septet that sonically emulates the commuting experience in Manila from the …

Misticismo Y Arcadismo En El Villancico Novohispano. Manuel De Sumaya Y Sus Contemporáneos, Luciana Kube Tamayo

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

El siglo XVIII trajo consigo una evolución estilística vertiginosa en todas las artes. La plástica, la literatura y la música confluyen y sirven de soporte a un arte nuevo, el Rococó. La floración churrigueresca está intensamente presente, además de en lienzos y biombos, en el vocabulario de la lírica de la Nueva España; a la vez que se afianzan los modelos religiosos, por un lado, se asientan los modelos pastoriles por otro. En cuanto a la espiritualidad, los modelos se encuentran encajados en la miniatura poética y el ingenio dieciochesco, desbordante de naturaleza y fantasía. En el presente trabajo me …

Jesus Woodlą́Ą́Jí Sin: Sounding A Self-Determined Navajo Christian Church, Renata Yazzie

Music ETDs

Jesus Woodlą́ą́jí’ Sin: Navajo Hymns of Faith, the first and only extensive Navajo hymnal, was published in 1979. This hymnal contains 365 hymns for congregational singing, translated into the Navajo language. The Navajo Hymnal Committee, responsible for the seven years of intensive translation work, formed in 1972 under the direction of Reverend Dr. Paul Redhouse (1925-2019), an ordained Navajo minister within the Christian Reformed Church. Redhouse wholeheartedly believed that Navajo people had the right to worship in their own language and argued that pre-issued English hymnals by outside church leaders were not suitable for obvious reasons—a language barrier. Through …

Authentic Low-Stakes Practice To Make Meaning Lasting For Ells: Creating Vocabulary Chants And Songs To Enhance The Word Generation Curriculum, Lori Cohen

Masters Theses/Capstone Projects

This curriculum creation is designed to supplement the Word Generation (WordGen) vocabulary program for middle school students. It adds songs and chants of the weekly focus words for use as a mnemonic device to remember and synthesize word meaning. The WordGen curriculum is heavily based on reading and writing and English Language Learners (ELLs) are at a disadvantage when tasked with learning and understanding academic vocabulary due to the short length of time for mastery (Cummins, 1999; Collier, 1987; Thompson, 2017). This curriculum is inspired by the desire to appeal to ELLs who would respond favorably to music or kinesthetic …

King Behind Colonial Curtains: Kasilag And The Making Of Filipino National Culture, Paul Gabriel L. Cosme

International Studies Honors Projects

Filipino National Artist Lucrecia “King” Kasilag sought to preserve folk cultures and melded these with her Western training to produce works—scholarly, pedagogical, and compositional—that shaped national music and culture. This thesis is a critical biography that combines perspectives from postcolonial studies, political economy, and musicology to highlight forces that shaped Kasilag’s life while illustrating her successes and shortcomings on national culture. Through this biography, I argue, Filipino national culture must originate from intersectional struggles and negotiation among elites and masses; that this culture is about both resistance and acceptance—a national culture that is syncretic and quintessentially dynamic.

Walking With My Ancestors: Elmina Castle, April 8, 2022, Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall

April 8, 2022

7:00 p.m.

Storyteller Of The Shadowland: Marginalized Identity At The Roots Of ‘Americana’, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Ensemble Concerts: Concert Choir And Madrigal Singers, April 3, 2022, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

April 3, 2022

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

The Faculty Notebook, April 2022, Provost's Office

Faculty Notebook

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost.

Keep It Barbershop: Stylistic Preservation And Whiteness In The Barbershop Harmony Society, Clifton Boyd

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines the entanglement of music-theoretical practices and sociopolitical values in the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS), a fraternal singing organization with over 15,000 members and 600 chapters in the U.S. and Canada, as well as several affiliate barbershop societies across Europe. Since its founding in 1938, the BHS has had the explicit aim of preserving the barbershop style, a four-part, a cappella singing tradition popularized in the late nineteenth century and known for its ringing harmonies and camaraderie. Yet this bonhomie had its limits: by the early 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement, the correlation between …

German And Mexican Music In Central Texas: Historical Connections And Present Possibilities, Amy Aline Beckman

Masters Theses

German and Mexican music have a shared musical ancestry due to immigrants interacting since the late 1800s in central Texas. Comparing these genres reveals both commonalities and distinctions regarding style, orchestration, and thematic material. The differences between the genres create cultural boundaries reflecting nationalism that sometimes reinforces racial tension, while the commonalities are opportunities for empathy and open-mindedness through the globalization that occurs from shared musical experiences. While the historical connections between Germans and Mexicans in Central Texas are well-documented, the present-day status and effects of these connections have not been researched thoroughly. This project builds cultural profiles of both …

Redi Report, April 2022, School Of Music

REDI (Representing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Report

Report from the Illinois State University School of Music REDI (Representing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Committee

Aging Voices In The American Church Choir: A Study In Ethnomusicology And Ethnodoxology, Shirley Claudeen Ehler

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Despite American church choirs being a distinct culture across all denominations and independent church entities, this traditional worship community of singers is a minority culture in the United States. Furthermore, existing journal literature frequently features young voices, e.g., children's, middle school, teen, and university choirs and choruses. Aging-voice research literature began to appear in the 1990s for individual voices or voices in community choirs. Aging voices are a unique ethnicity found in every race within the church choir culture. Researched literature on the aging voice in the American church choir is conspicuous by its absence, pushing American church choir aging …

Mixtape Assignment, Apryl Berney

Assignment Prompts

Context: I designed several assignments to accompany the March 1st symposium “Listen Differently: Black Feminism, Music, and Popular Culture.” One assignment is a Mixtape assignment. It encourages students to apply Dr. Tricia Rose’s analysis of sexual politics from her seminal work Black Noise to popular songs from the last 5 to 10 years. The assignment should help students investigate how songs by women of color, especially Black women, changed since the mid-1990s when Dr. Rose’s critique of hip hop was first published.

Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra And String Project Sinfonia, March 27, 2022, Glenn Block, Guilherme Rodrigues, Katherine Lewis

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall

March 27, 2022

Sunday

7:00 p.m.

Ensemble Concerts: Men's Glee, Treble Choir, Belle Voix; March 20, 2022, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

March 20, 2022

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

Pressed Flowers, Jeffrey A. Summit

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

In Their Own Words Music Scholars Share Their Experiences With Open Access, Rachel E. Scott, Anne Shelley

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Although scholars have investigated the intersection of Open Access (OA) and the humanities, the specific obstacles and incentives music researchers encounter in their adoption of OA have not been analyzed. With this project, we have sought to identify and document how music scholars in a variety of disciplines (musicology/ethnomusicology, music theory, music education, and music therapy) perceive the benefits and disadvantages of OA publishing, both in terms of their own research and the resources that they use in their teaching. Issues of textbook affordability and digital access to learning materials have only escalated in the past decade. The need to …

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Annual Meeting, Society Membershipships, Florida History Research in Progress, Prizes and Awards, Florida History Fair, Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, Announcements and Activities, Call for Papers