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Songs For Strings, Jayla Kai Smith Jan 2023

Songs For Strings, Jayla Kai Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Songs for Strings is a series of songs by Jayla Kai arranged for string quartet and performed with quartet and vocals.


An Analysis Of Western Art Music Arrangements For Steel Pan Chamber Ensemble, Ian Meiman Dec 2019

An Analysis Of Western Art Music Arrangements For Steel Pan Chamber Ensemble, Ian Meiman

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This dissertation is an analysis of western art music arrangements for steel pan chamber ensembles. Specifically, this dissertation will analyze how certain arrangers have adapted western art music for steel pan chamber ensemble while discussing the possible methods the arranger used to create this adaptation. The analysis will observe the melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and other significant alterations made in the steel pan chamber arrangement, and discuss any changes made, whether due to the adaptation of the instruments or otherwise, from the original works. The dissertation will also include a brief historical discussion on western art music’s influence of early steel …