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Harp Competitions In The Paris Conservatory, Shelley Lynn Jones, David A. Day Oct 2013

Harp Competitions In The Paris Conservatory, Shelley Lynn Jones, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris has been a center for the world’s best musicians and composers since it was established centuries ago. It is the school’s tradition to hold a competition for each instrument every year. Every year a piece is chosen for the competition and students of that instrument compete. Many of the pieces selected in the past for the harp are now widely played and are part of the harp’s standard repertoire. Gabriel Faure’s Impromptu or Felix Godefroid’s La danse des sylphes are both constantly being played and recycled for other competitions. …

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Or Gadol: Composition For Orchestra, Ryan Thomas Gee, Murray Boren Oct 2013

Or Gadol: Composition For Orchestra, Ryan Thomas Gee, Murray Boren

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Four objectives guided the composition Or Gadol. I will discuss the impact each had on the resulting music.

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The Marvelous American Reality: Making A Case For Carpentier’S Magical Realism In Latin American Music, Erika Edwards, Dr. Arden Hopkin, George Handley Oct 2013

The Marvelous American Reality: Making A Case For Carpentier’S Magical Realism In Latin American Music, Erika Edwards, Dr. Arden Hopkin, George Handley

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In 1949 the Nobel Prize-winning Cuban novelist and musicologist, Alejo Carpentier, published his essay on lo real maravilloso Americano, an aggressively American discussion of the theory now known as magical realism. Carpentier refers to the German art critic Franz Roh (who initially coined the term in reference to post-expressionist painting in 1925), but diverges and defends magical realism as a uniquely Latin American phenomenon. While the world has latched onto Magical Realism as a critical literary theory, it is undeniably the Latin American authors and artists who have embraced, embodied and defined the practice of it. Carpentier asserts that the …

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Algorithmic Composition Using A Computational Model Of Music, Morgan Quigley, Dr. Steve Ricks Oct 2013

Algorithmic Composition Using A Computational Model Of Music, Morgan Quigley, Dr. Steve Ricks

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Algorithmic composition involves the application of systematic mathematical methods to the compositional process. Sequences of pitches, rhythms, or other musical elements are manipulated as if they were abstract mathematical symbols, and the resultant music contains patterns that can either be simple enough to recognize audibly or so complex that they are revealed only through detailed score analysis.

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Finding Aid For The Henriette Renié (1875-1956) And Françoise Des Varennes (1919-) Papers, Steven S. Nordstrom, David A. Day Oct 2013

Finding Aid For The Henriette Renié (1875-1956) And Françoise Des Varennes (1919-) Papers, Steven S. Nordstrom, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Henriette Renié was a world-famous harpist from France who worked to expand the virtuoso repertoire for harp and helped establish the status of the harp as a solo concert instrument. The Henriette Renié and Françoise des Varennes Papers contain personal items originally belonging to Renié, and arranged and used by her goddaughter, des Varennes, for her biography, as well as handwritten and typed documents created by des Varennes in preparing the biography. The items found within the archive range mostly from Renié’s lifetime (1875-1956), although there are many materials collected by des Varennes about Renié that pertaining to her biography …

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A Catalog For The Capitol Records Manuscripts At Byu, Daniel A. Henderson, Dr. Steve Call, David Day Oct 2013

A Catalog For The Capitol Records Manuscripts At Byu, Daniel A. Henderson, Dr. Steve Call, David Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Early one morning in 1966 Billy May stood helpless and devastated on the first floor of the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, California. He watched as a group of men swiftly loaded a semi truck to the brim with boxes of original music scores. Somewhere in those boxes were all the original arrangements he had written for the likes of Frank Sinatra, Nat “King” Cole, Dean Martin and Peggy Lee – music that had won him Grammy Awards, Gold Records and the admiration of every arranger in the business – the entire collection of 10,000 original Capitol Records scores from …

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Sounds Of A People: An Ethnomusicological Study In Rio De Janeiro, Scott Harwood Homer, Dr. Ron Brough Oct 2013

Sounds Of A People: An Ethnomusicological Study In Rio De Janeiro, Scott Harwood Homer, Dr. Ron Brough

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The music of Brazil has a rich heritage and great diversity. Its rhythms, developed by street musicians, are sophisticated and challenging. The people I met know well the songs they hear live and on the radio, and the musicians respond to this by constantly performing creative arrangements of what is formally called “Brazilian Popular Music” (MPB in Portuguese). The result is a culture in which music is a pleasurable part of daily life for most everyone.

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Art And Music: Historical Overview And Analytical Subtext Or Capstone Project Shaping Musical Phrases, Elizabeth Hiatt, Dr. Jon Green, Peter Everett Oct 2013

Art And Music: Historical Overview And Analytical Subtext Or Capstone Project Shaping Musical Phrases, Elizabeth Hiatt, Dr. Jon Green, Peter Everett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Historically, there is a significant correlation between art and music. A study of music from the medieval square neumes of Gregorian Chant to the abstract designs of contemporary Minimalism reveals a significant correlation to the visual arts. Likewise, paintings such as Piet Modrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie and Whistler’s portrait Symphony in Gray and Pink acting not merely as an image, but as a representation of music, actual or imagined.

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Experiments In Real-Time Video Processing And Sonification Using Cellular Automata, Morgan Quigley, Dr. Steven Ricks Oct 2013

Experiments In Real-Time Video Processing And Sonification Using Cellular Automata, Morgan Quigley, Dr. Steven Ricks

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In this project, we sought to create a software system that uses the chaotic output of large cellular automata to create visualizations and sonifications that are aesthetically interesting. Conceptually, a cellular automaton is a group of deterministic cells that are interconnected to form a regular grid. The cells “evolve” in discrete time steps, which occur as the future value of each cell is calculated and then used to replace the current value of each cell. Each automaton and its associated governing functions behave differently: some have a stable state, others have stable oscillations, and others experience chaotic motion at the …

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Getting To The Heart Of Matters: Applying Appropriate Performance Practices To Period Music, Bryson Mortensen, Dr. Ronald Staheli Oct 2013

Getting To The Heart Of Matters: Applying Appropriate Performance Practices To Period Music, Bryson Mortensen, Dr. Ronald Staheli

Journal of Undergraduate Research

There is nothing worse than singing a boring piece. Often, when conductors decide to perform works from periods such as the Renaissance, Baroque, or even Classical periods, they find that it is difficult to make the piece exciting. The choir is quickly frustrated because of the difficulty of a virtuosic Baroque passage or a particularly enigmatic polyphonic Renaissance piece. When the piece is finally coaxed into a performance, the audience quickly loses interest because the choir is so focused on the notes instead of the meaning of the words. As a result of challenging experiences like these, many conductors give …

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Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 159. Family correspondence, greeting cards, handicrafts, and newspaper clippings of Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also items from various family members.

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Integrating Music Into Samoan Primary Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions And Potential Benefits, Jennifer Fortin Oct 2013

Integrating Music Into Samoan Primary Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions And Potential Benefits, Jennifer Fortin

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This study explores the knowledge-base of teachers’ beliefs and practices of music integration in Samoan primary schools, as well as the potential benefits it provides for young developing minds. Current Samoan teachers’ perceptions of the benefits of music are analyzed in light of data proving these benefits in Primary Education. Children gain only as much as teachers incorporate. Social benefits include a more positive learning environment, improved attention and attitude, as well as inspiration and motivation, along with academic benefits of increased verbal memory, abstract reasoning and reading development. Data was collected through a series of interviews, surveying, observation and …

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In Process And Practice: The Development Of An Archive Of Explicit Stylistic Data For Irish Traditional Instrumental Music, Martin Tourish Oct 2013

In Process And Practice: The Development Of An Archive Of Explicit Stylistic Data For Irish Traditional Instrumental Music, Martin Tourish

Doctoral

The study of style in Irish traditional music is very much in its infancy. Although current authors locate its beginnings in the 1980s, valuable information can be found from as far back as the eighteenth century. While style is a much-discussed topic, to date it has not been the subject of a major study. Through what is termed ‘the oral tradition’, much of the genre’s stylistic features are transmitted as implicit knowledge. This type of knowledge is difficult to measure, consciously use and share and while these difficulties have been highlighted in one EU-level report, they are also well known …

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The Music Of Robert Schumann: Correlation With His Mental And Physical Health, Cari Elizabeth O'Neil, Dr. Stephen D. Lindeman Sep 2013

The Music Of Robert Schumann: Correlation With His Mental And Physical Health, Cari Elizabeth O'Neil, Dr. Stephen D. Lindeman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The lives of famous artists in every genre are dissected again and again. What inspires them to create extraordinary works of art such as the Mona Lisa, Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, and the operas of Mozart? Popular psychology commonly links genius with various forms of mental and physical ailments. To what extent, if at all, does an illness help to inspire an artist? I chose to analyze the life and compositions of Robert Schumann to see if physical and mental illness impacted his musical compositions in both number and in style. After a review of literature, biographies, compositions, analysis of composition, …

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Chinese Folk Songs: Unrecorded Voices In History, Karin Mei Li Inouye, Dr. Dana Bourgerie Sep 2013

Chinese Folk Songs: Unrecorded Voices In History, Karin Mei Li Inouye, Dr. Dana Bourgerie

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the village of Taicang, a small dirt road community tucked between a Ming dynasty capitol and a famous silk city, nationally acclaimed composer Gao Xuefeng combs the countryside rich in rice and fish for century old folk tunes around which he weaves a tapestry of music based on simple, yet haunting melodies. Along the Silk Road where Central Asia meets China, professor Zhou Jie leaves his local home in Kashgar to trek into the harsh mountain climes and the vast reaches of shifting desert to record ancient mukamus—folk tunes—found also in Central Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa. …

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Pierrots Fâchés Avec La Lune: Debussy, Fauré And Ravel During World War 1, Arun Rao Sep 2013

Pierrots Fâchés Avec La Lune: Debussy, Fauré And Ravel During World War 1, Arun Rao

Dissertations

This dissertation proposes to consider the music of French composers Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel written during the Great War, under tremendous professional, personal and cultural pressures. These pressures are examined largely through these composers’ correspondence and the writings of contemporary critics, composers and artists in the first two chapters; a selection of their output from the war years, in particular their piano works and their chamber music, is the subject of the third chapter. The aim of the dissertation is to reveal certain aspirations common to all three, aspirations that were motivated, dictated even, by the political …

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Cathedrals, Castles, And Colonies, Music Department Sep 2013

Cathedrals, Castles, And Colonies, Music Department

Concerts

Performed by the EIU Choral Ensembles & Collegium Musicum. Conducted by Richard Robert Rossi and April Lee.

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Discovering A Lost Composer: Vilma Webenau And Her Music, Carolyn Dehdari, Dr. Harrison Powley Sep 2013

Discovering A Lost Composer: Vilma Webenau And Her Music, Carolyn Dehdari, Dr. Harrison Powley

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Walking down the streets of Vienna, my eyes pass over new faces and names, wondering if I will ever find something familiar. I think of all those that would be familiar in a different time: Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Schoenberg. But there is one face I am looking for that few others would recognize; it is a woman’s face, a woman who composed, taught music, and worked with Schoenberg. This woman was Vilma Weber von Webenau, who saw many decades of progress and destruction in her life from 1875 to 1953.

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Composing The Party Line: Music And Politics In Early Cold War Poland And East Germany, David G. Tompkins Sep 2013

Composing The Party Line: Music And Politics In Early Cold War Poland And East Germany, David G. Tompkins

Purdue University Press Books

This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin’s death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid- to late-1950s. The author explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds, and how composers, performers, and audiences cooperated with, resisted, and negotiated these suggestions …

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Discover The Music, Stephanie Haymore, Shani Robison Sep 2013

Discover The Music, Stephanie Haymore, Shani Robison

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I was excited to work on my project and create my choreography. I studied out the music and broke it down into counts. I found the different accents of each phrase. I made choices as to where I would follow the music and where I would go against the music. I had to be careful and watch how the music and movement were relating. It would have been easy to choreograph movement that paralleled the music. It would have been comfortable to use movement that I already knew and had used and performed before. I was challenged and had to …

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Building Bridges Through Music Tamil Nadu, India, Shaunel Watts, Susan Kenney Sep 2013

Building Bridges Through Music Tamil Nadu, India, Shaunel Watts, Susan Kenney

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The southern most Indian state, Tamil Nadu, is home to over 40 colonies of leprosy affected people. To maintain livelihood, these “untouchables” generally resort to a life of begging. The situation has vastly improved in the past decade as charitable groups have helped accommodate the medical and physical needs of the people. Unfortunately, the colony children remain largely disadvantaged because of their social status and poor living conditions. In 2001, the non-profit organization, Rising Star Outreach (RSO), began a boarding school to help the children of the colonies.

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Rave Reviews The History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher, Cynthia Harrison, Sharon Cebula Sep 2013

Rave Reviews The History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher, Cynthia Harrison, Sharon Cebula

University of Akron Press Publications

The Tuesday Musical Club was founded in 1887 by thirteen young Akron women who had an overwhelming desire to share their love of music. With further support of Gertrude Penfield Seiberling, the wife of industrialist Frank Seiberling, the organization grew like many other musical organizations across the country. Unlike similar clubs, the Akron-based entity continued to expand and is one of a very few that have survived. Among the artists who have appeared as a part of the rich history of Akron's Tuesday Musical Organization are Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Yascha Heifetz, Glenn Gould, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, …

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“When You Know Yourselves, You Will Become Known”: A Choral Setting Of Apocryphal Texts, Joseph Sowa, Dr. Michael Hicks Aug 2013

“When You Know Yourselves, You Will Become Known”: A Choral Setting Of Apocryphal Texts, Joseph Sowa, Dr. Michael Hicks

Journal of Undergraduate Research

When I was a child (out of the many dreams I had as a child), I wanted to be a scientist. The idea of discovering new things about the world sounded fascinating. However, as I read about scientists, I noticed a funny thing. Many major scientific discoveries happened by accident: x-rays, penicillin, the smallpox vaccine . . .

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Forgotten Music From The 18th And 19th Centuries: Rediscovering Neglected Works Through The Creation Of A Modern Performance Edition, Fidel Perez, David Day Aug 2013

Forgotten Music From The 18th And 19th Centuries: Rediscovering Neglected Works Through The Creation Of A Modern Performance Edition, Fidel Perez, David Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The written violin repertoire is vast, yet the amount of published material is relatively limited to performers. Available viola repertoire is even narrower. A person can easily find pieces by the most famous composers, such as Beethoven, Mozart and Bach, in a music library. These pieces, however, represent only a mere fraction of actual written material. There are many lesser-known composers whose works have been virtually ignored. The number of pieces available to us in modern day editions is probably only half of what has actually been written; many of those still unpublished pieces have gone totally unknown, with only …

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Restoring Forgotten Talent: A Scholarly Edition Of Luise Greger’S Ganseliesel, J. Briton Anderson, Dr. Michelle James Aug 2013

Restoring Forgotten Talent: A Scholarly Edition Of Luise Greger’S Ganseliesel, J. Briton Anderson, Dr. Michelle James

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Luise Greger, a talented and accomplished composer in Germany during the 20th Century, has largely been overlooked as an important voice in music history. Her impressive opus of art songs, in addition to an operetta, was quite popular during her day, as is evidenced by several contemporary newspaper reviews. The Sophie Project sponsored a well-received performance of Greger’s collected art songs in 2003, which established the value of performing her music. Because of the significance and quality of Greger’s music, my ORCA proposal was to help fill the lack of serious research on Greger’s life and music by preparing a …

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New Music For Byu Gamelan Ensemble, Benjamin Taylor, Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw Aug 2013

New Music For Byu Gamelan Ensemble, Benjamin Taylor, Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This project greatly benefits the School of Music because it provides the Brigham Young University Gamelan Ensemble a new piece of music written specifically for their unique instrumentation. The BYU Gamelan Ensemble was recently formed in Fall 2008 under the direction of Jeremy Grimshaw. The ensemble plays custom made Balinese gamelan instruments imported from Bali, a small island near Indonesia. Traditionally, there were three types of gamelan each with distinct tuning systems. Consequently, each gamelan could only play one tuning system. However, BYU’s gamelan was uniquely constructed to combine all three tuning systems into one gamelan making it possible to …

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Renaissance Humanism And The Motets Of Josquin Des Prez, Jennifer Smith Black, Dr. Joseph Parry, Dr. Harrison Powley Aug 2013

Renaissance Humanism And The Motets Of Josquin Des Prez, Jennifer Smith Black, Dr. Joseph Parry, Dr. Harrison Powley

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Renaissance humanism was the central philosophy and ordering principle of the era. It had a profound influence on all the art and philosophy of the time. It is easy to see humanism translated into painting and architecture, but much more difficult to find it in Renaissance music. Since humanism was such a pervasive influence, however, it must have had as significant an effect on Renaissance music as it did on the other arts. Finding the link between humanism and music in the Renaissance was my goal in this research. To do so, I focused on the life and works of …

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The Organ Reform Movement—A Revitalization Of The 17th Century North German Organ, Benjamin J. Crandall, Dr. Douglas E. Bush Aug 2013

The Organ Reform Movement—A Revitalization Of The 17th Century North German Organ, Benjamin J. Crandall, Dr. Douglas E. Bush

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries comprised the so-called “golden age” of the organ due to the remarkable instruments built then and because of the extraordinary repertoire which spawned from these organs. Reaching a pinnacle of tonal expertise and craftsmanship in the organs of Arp Schnitger (1648-1719) and his North German contemporaries, these organs inspired a 20th- century “organ reform movement” in which American organ builders began to construct organs modeled after the historic organs. This in turn has affected 20th-century compositional practice and has changed many views and concepts of performance.

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From Silver To Bamboo, Nicole Okeson, Dr. Kirt Saville Aug 2013

From Silver To Bamboo, Nicole Okeson, Dr. Kirt Saville

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The flute is one of the oldest musical instruments in history. Flutes can be found in civilizations across the globe throughout time. While basic similarities exist between all flutes, including similar fingerings and embouchure, musical style and notation differ widely. China is one of the oldest continuous civilizations on earth. Much of traditional Chinese music dates back to the time of Confucius and much earlier.

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Understanding William Primrose: The Transcription Of Technique Is Memory, Noelle Rader, Dr. Claudine Bigelow Aug 2013

Understanding William Primrose: The Transcription Of Technique Is Memory, Noelle Rader, Dr. Claudine Bigelow

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I received my ORCA grant to transpose and transcribe for viola the out-of-print violin method book Technique is Memory, written by the famous violist William Primrose. BYU is home to the largest viola music archive in the world, the William Primrose International Viola Archive (PIVA). William Primrose was the first modern viola virtuoso. We only have a few sources that reveal the great mind of this distinguished artist and teacher. Technique is Memory, one of these sources, unfortunately, has been out of print for 50 years. Regrettably, when Primrose wrote Technique is Memory he believed it only needed to be …

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