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School Of Rock: The Relationship Between Music Training And Academic Academic Achievement, Clayton Hadlock
School Of Rock: The Relationship Between Music Training And Academic Academic Achievement, Clayton Hadlock
Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology
Music education has been a key part of human culture for thousands of years (Cartwright, 2013). As children often begin to receive musical education during grade school, many researchers have begun to investigate whether musical training may benefit other areas of academics. This literature review evaluates the overall effectiveness of musical training on academic performance for three different age groups: pre- and elementary school children under 12 years old; middle and high school-age adolescents between 12 and 18 years old; and college and university students over 18 years old. Musical training here includes instrumental and vocal training, as well as …
Paris Flute Class At The Ecole Normale De Musique, April Clayton
Paris Flute Class At The Ecole Normale De Musique, April Clayton
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Thank you for funding our grant request, which enabled five flute majors to travel to Paris, France, during the summer of 2016. We were awarded a total of $16,000. Each student’s full tuition of $1600 was covered, as well as full housing costs of $600/student for two weeks. Each student was given help covering her plane ticket to Paris with the remaining grant money.
A Compassionate Listening Guide To Musical Worship, Madison Blonquist, Jeff Sheets
A Compassionate Listening Guide To Musical Worship, Madison Blonquist, Jeff Sheets
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Sacred Sounds was an ORCA funded research project that resulted in an exhibit that ran from November 10, 2017 to January 3, 2018 in the Harold B. Lee Library. The overall goal was to curate an immersive, multimedia, musical experience that focused on the three Abrahamic religions and explored the ways in which music embodies and interacts with the Divine. I hoped to create, through the lens of music, a compelling experience for visitors to cultivate empathy among local Jewish, Christian, and Islamic communities.
String Instrument Maintenance And Repair: Fundamental Skills For The Classroom Teacher, Madison K. Moline, Dr. Samuel Tsugawa
String Instrument Maintenance And Repair: Fundamental Skills For The Classroom Teacher, Madison K. Moline, Dr. Samuel Tsugawa
Journal of Undergraduate Research
My ORCA project was to study, practice, and teach string instrument maintenance and repair. The repairs that I learned were: closing and opening seams;; closing cracks in various parts of the instrument;; bridge and sound post alignment and placement;; neck and fingerboard adjustment;; nut and saddle raising and replacing;; peg alteration and replacement;; cleaning and polishing instruments. Because there is such a need for inexpensive timely repair in an orchestra classroom, it was crucial that I not only learn these basic repairs myself, but assist local orchestra teachers with their repair needs, and teach fellow future teachers.
Engraving The J.D. Morsch Collection At Byu, Nicolas Maruicio Ayala Ceron, Dr. Donald Peterson
Engraving The J.D. Morsch Collection At Byu, Nicolas Maruicio Ayala Ceron, Dr. Donald Peterson
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The Brigham Young University Music Performance Library houses a very special collection of hand-written music unique in the world. This collection, known as the J.D. Marsch Collection, includes the music of renowned wind band composer, arranger, and transcriber J. Durward Marsch who dedicated his life to music education as well as to producing a large body of works, most of which are transcriptions for wind bands. The instrumentation for these ensembles is notable for the exclusion of string instruments found in more well-known orchestral ensembles, with the exception of a single String Bass instrument, a later addition to the wind …
Woodwind Instrument Repair, Emily Brown, Ray Smith
Woodwind Instrument Repair, Emily Brown, Ray Smith
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Over the past year I was given the opportunity to heavily research the repair of woodwind instruments and it was funded by an Orca grant. For 6 weeks I learned from woodwind repair experts at Summerhay’s music store in Murray, Utah. We would work together for about four hours per week and I would observe and receive instruction from them. I then used what I learned during my internship with Summerhay’s at my job in the Instrument Office at BYU by helping repair BYU instruments.
Henriette Renié An Enriched Perspective From Primary Sources, Clarissa Cashmore, David Day
Henriette Renié An Enriched Perspective From Primary Sources, Clarissa Cashmore, David Day
Journal of Undergraduate Research
My ORCA project was a study of the French virtuoso harpist, composer, and pedagogue Henriette Renié. Renié’s archive collection is housed at BYU. There are over 9,000 items in her collection, including but not limited to spiritual diaries, letters from family and colleagues, concert programs, and newspaper clippings. My project was reading through and transcribing portions of hundreds of original letters and spiritual diary entries, translating what I chose to include in my finished product, and writing a roughly 10,000-word article to be submitted for publication.
How It Sounds And What It Means: Understanding Indian Music And Culture Through Study Of The Hindustani Violin, Megumi Terry, Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw
How It Sounds And What It Means: Understanding Indian Music And Culture Through Study Of The Hindustani Violin, Megumi Terry, Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw
Journal of Undergraduate Research
As a classically trained violinist, having studied since the age of four, I have had an unlikely fascination with other world music cultures. In the summer of 2015 I had the opportunity to live in India and explore the culture and come to love the music of the Hindustani tradition. As a violinist, I wanted to expand my training beyond the boundaries of traditional Western classical music and examine one of the richest non- European violin traditions by taking lessons with Anabil Chaudhuri, a Hindustani classical violinist. The goal of the project was to be able to better understand music …
The Relationship Of Music And [Emotion]: An Experiment In Areas Of Brain Activity, Caleb Cuzner, Steve Ricks, Neal Bangerter
The Relationship Of Music And [Emotion]: An Experiment In Areas Of Brain Activity, Caleb Cuzner, Steve Ricks, Neal Bangerter
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In order to study the relationship between music and color in areas of brain activity, I proposed to have participants’ brains scanned by an MRI machine while seeing different colors and listening to contrasting music samples. After learning that aural and visual response use completely different areas of the brain, the study was modified to instead connect emotions to music, since emotional response to music can be mapped in the brain. Based on the resulting data, I wrote a composition to be played by DuoX, a group in Amsterdam. This composition was written in segments, and the performers chose which …
The Gamelan And The Piano: Instruments For Cultural Exchange, Zach Froelich, Jermey Grimshaw
The Gamelan And The Piano: Instruments For Cultural Exchange, Zach Froelich, Jermey Grimshaw
Journal of Undergraduate Research
This project began with a simple idea; what elements are important in representing other culture’s music and do we overlook certain elements because of our cultural biases? I wanted to see what would happen if I merged the quintessentially Western instrument, the piano, with the Balinese gamelan. This had been explored by previous composers who have made transcriptions of Balinese music for piano and have taken Balinese musical forms and composed new pieces for western instruments but they had ignored aspects of Balinese music that the Balinese consider extremely important. Balinese instruments are very carefully tuned using a scale that …
The Prevalence Of Music Related Injury Among College Students In Utah And Potential Preventative/Combative Measures, Kaia Rose, Brittany May, Phd.
The Prevalence Of Music Related Injury Among College Students In Utah And Potential Preventative/Combative Measures, Kaia Rose, Brittany May, Phd.
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Shortly after beginning my music studies at Brigham Young University, I began to struggle with overuse injury that made it difficult to play my instrument. Conversations with fellow BYU music majors over the past few years revealed that music related injuries seem to be relatively common. The informal conversations with fellow music majors as well as my personal experience with music related injury prompted me to investigate the prevalence of music related injury at the University level. I also began to research preventative and combative methods that could be made more available to students who struggle with injury, as it …
Wind Among The Reeds: Analysis Of The Vietnamese Oboe Tradition, Christian Tran, Geralyn Giovannetti
Wind Among The Reeds: Analysis Of The Vietnamese Oboe Tradition, Christian Tran, Geralyn Giovannetti
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Music has always been an important part of Vietnamese culture. The many traditional music styles dotting the coastal country have remained stamps of cultural authenticity and a source of pride to the natives of each region. As the country was occupied by France, and later Russia, Japan, and the United States, Western classical music became common in Vietnam’s large cities. Each country brought its own traditions of pedagogy, interpretation, and repertoire. With this, Western classical music instruction began. My ORCA project was to analyze the state of Western classical music in Vietnam with regards to oboe instruction, performance, and repertoire. …
Essential Brass Repair, Pearce Nitta, David Brown
Essential Brass Repair, Pearce Nitta, David Brown
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In the world of performing arts, instruments often malfunction, preventing the performer from playing the instrument. This malfunction can be a simple fix that the performer may know how to fix, but more often than not, these damages to the instrument can only be fixed by a technician with sufficient training. Over the past year, I have studied the art of instrument repair, focusing most of my time on brass instruments. The techniques and skills I have learned have grown tremendously over this time and I have been able to employ these abilities to many of my pursuits outside of …
Watch Out, Dave! – A New Look At Retro, Dallas Crane, Ray Smith
Watch Out, Dave! – A New Look At Retro, Dallas Crane, Ray Smith
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Johnny Williams (well known in the film world as John Williams) created a masterful record, Rhythm in Motion, in 1961. Though not well received commercially, it is a powerful testament of the creativity that flowed through Hollywood and jazz. I studied two scores from this album, both arrangements of famous tunes: Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) and Surrey with the Fringe on Top. Both of these provided a deep look into the techniques and thought processes of Hollywood orchestrators, something that prepared me to compose my own original songs for Watch Out, Dave!, a cartoon I’m directing through BYU.
The Accompaniment Techniques Of British Organists, Dallin Baldwin, Don Cook
The Accompaniment Techniques Of British Organists, Dallin Baldwin, Don Cook
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of my research was to better understand the choral accompaniment techniques of English organists. Most of the choral music that is performed in the United States today is accompanied by the piano. Yet there are great choral masterpieces that are neglected because there are no organists that have sufficient training and experience to perform them. In Great Britain, however, choirs are often accompanied by organists. Several of the top choirs in the world are located in Great Britain and have resident organists to accompany them. In my research, I studied the techniques of English organists in accompanying choirs.
Music For Ballet West’S Upcoming Children’S Ballet, Emmaline Sanders, Aaron Merril
Music For Ballet West’S Upcoming Children’S Ballet, Emmaline Sanders, Aaron Merril
Journal of Undergraduate Research
While many students apply for an ORCA grant to fund scientific research or, in the case of other Commercial Music majors, technical audio application, I wanted to complete a project that was purely artistic. My emphasis has always been in classical concert composition first and foremost, and when I received the opportunity to write the music for a ballet, I wanted it to showcase my best work. My ORCA grant made that possible by allowing me to hire 6 top quality musicians and a professional recording studio to layer live players in with my software instruments. The finished product is …
Uncovering Hidden Post-War Music Of Stefan Kisielewski, Haley Gammon, Luke Howard
Uncovering Hidden Post-War Music Of Stefan Kisielewski, Haley Gammon, Luke Howard
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Stefan Kisielewski – writer, publicist, politician, and composer – not only lost many of his works as a result of the Second World War, but was controlled under Soviet censorship many years after it. Today there is a current surge of excitement and opportunity to uncover missing information regarding Kisielewski and his contemporaries, but still huge gaps and missing links. In an almost endless supply of information waiting to be discovered in Polish archives, libraries, and personal collections lies the key to knowledge that will help complete the picture of Polish music in the Soviet era. My project contributes a …
Reclaiming The Black Personhood: The Power Of The Hip-Hop Narrative In Mainstream Rap, Morgan Klatskin
Reclaiming The Black Personhood: The Power Of The Hip-Hop Narrative In Mainstream Rap, Morgan Klatskin
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Hip hop, as a cultural phenomenon, leverages rap as a narrative form in periods of acutely visible political unrest in the Black American community to combat pejorative narratives of Black America as revealed in the American criminal justice system’s treatment of Black Americans. Hip-hop themes were prevalent in golden-age rap of the 1980s in response Regan-era war-on-drugs policy, which severely disadvantaged the Black community and devalued the Black personhood. Hip hop used narrative to reclaim the Black personhood while it served to encourage political involvement in the Black community, urging Blacks to participate in rewriting the narrative of Black America. …