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Judas And Peter, Jonathan Rayback Feb 2014

Judas And Peter, Jonathan Rayback

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The project for which I received a grant from ORCA consisted of composing a cantata for amplified voices and electronic accompaniment relating the story of the fall of Judas Iscariot. Initially my intention was to produce this piece with the aid of the MAX interactive programming environment as well as a Macintosh Quadra 800 computer, a variety of synthesizer modules, and Performer sequencing software. The text for this work was to be drawn from the following passages of the Bible: Matthew 26:14-16; 27:3-5; Mark 14:10-11; Luke 22:3-6, 47-48; John 6:70-71; 12:4-6; 13:1-2, 18-30; Acts 1:15-20. The expressive goal of this …

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Report Of The Carlos Surinach Project, Lara Lambert, Kyshana Lowe, Sariah Mourik, Emily Barrett Feb 2014

Report Of The Carlos Surinach Project, Lara Lambert, Kyshana Lowe, Sariah Mourik, Emily Barrett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As the Brigham Young University piano and string instrumental quartet, made up of Lara Lambert, Kyshana Lowe, Sariah Mourik, and Emily Barrett, we wish to express sincere gratitude to the BYU Office of Research and Creative Work for the grant received last year.

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Composing For The Orchestra: An Exercise In Decision Making, Benjamin Sabey, Dr. David Sargent Jan 2014

Composing For The Orchestra: An Exercise In Decision Making, Benjamin Sabey, Dr. David Sargent

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As a young, aspiring composer, writing for the orchestra has always been a desirable but intimidating goal. I knew that my first attempt would be fraught with obstacles and challenges. The first of these was one of purely logistical nature: the lack of orchestra that might play my piece. There aren’t many good orchestras lined up at my door waiting for me to write for them (yet). Thankfully, the Office of Research and Creative Activities provided an answer. With the grant that I received from ORCA I planned to hire good student instrumentalists and create my own orchestra. Thus, having …

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Bridging The Gap, Rachelle M. Hulme, Lawrence Vincent Jan 2014

Bridging The Gap, Rachelle M. Hulme, Lawrence Vincent

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Many students of music struggle once they have reached the critical point in their training where they are expected to make their way in the professional world. They find a substantial gap between their opportunities as university students and the seemingly unattainable status of professional musicians. I proposed to study the tools to help students to bridge that gap by attending a six-week opera program called AIMS in Graz, Austria.

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The Development Of Musical Thought, Melissa J. Clayton, Jerry L. Jaccard Jan 2014

The Development Of Musical Thought, Melissa J. Clayton, Jerry L. Jaccard

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The question that drives this research is: What is the process of musical thought development in children? In sorting through possible answers to this question I have studied the work of Piaget (1, 5 and 6) and Moog (4). Moog’s studies of the musical experience of pre-school age children has led him to conclude that the developmental changes in the structure of musical thought appear to coincide with changes from one developmental stage, as in the developmental stages set forth by Piaget, to the next and that the underlying principle of these changes have to do with memory (4).

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Viola Project Report, Tyler Hokanson, Dr. Claudine Bigelow Jan 2014

Viola Project Report, Tyler Hokanson, Dr. Claudine Bigelow

Journal of Undergraduate Research

William Primrose, eminent performer, pedagogue, and proponent of the viola, spent his last few years at Brigham Young University. Mr. Primrose was a colleague and former teacher of David Dalton, who was at that time professor of viola at the university. Because of Primrose’s close connection to Dalton, Primrose bequeathed many of his personal viola-related materials to the university in order to from an archive. This archive, named the Primrose International Viola Archive (or PIVA), is now the largest and most complete of its kind. It contains scores, recordings, memorabilia, and instructional materials relating to the viola.

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Mastering Berio’S Sequenza For Oboe, Melanie Carter, Dr. Geralyn Giovannetti Jan 2014

Mastering Berio’S Sequenza For Oboe, Melanie Carter, Dr. Geralyn Giovannetti

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My principal goals upon starting this project were first, to prepare myself for graduate level studies, future orchestral playing, and teaching; and second, to help me gain an appreciation and understanding of 20th century music.

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Music Cataloging: The Compositions Of Murray Boren, Darrell L. Brown, Dr. Brian Harker Jan 2014

Music Cataloging: The Compositions Of Murray Boren, Darrell L. Brown, Dr. Brian Harker

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Murray Boren is the composer-in-residence at Brigham Young University as well as a professor of musical composition and theory. He studied composition at BYU as an undergraduate and did graduate work at BYU and City University of New York. He is a composer who has generated many works and is respected by his colleges. I have had association with Professor Boren, and because of that association, my peers have often asked why access to Professor Boren’s compositions is non-existent—why recordings of the performances are difficult to find and the scores unobtainable. Premieres of Professor Boren’s compositions are regular on the …

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Communicating Hope Through Music In Ukraine, Alisha Ard, Dr. Daniel Bachelder Jan 2014

Communicating Hope Through Music In Ukraine, Alisha Ard, Dr. Daniel Bachelder

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Recently celebrating the ten-year anniversary of its independence, Ukraine is a country that for those ten years has been plagued with the need for drastic social and economic reform. The people are desperate for the freedoms a word like “independence” promises, but the opportunities just don’t seem to exist for many. Discouragement sets in followed shortly by apathy, and soon they are faced with a close relative of the chicken and the egg conundrum: do people lack ambition because there are no opportunities, or are there no opportunities because the people lack ambition. While I do not offer an answer …

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International Harp Archives Website, Kimberly Isom, David A. Day Jan 2014

International Harp Archives Website, Kimberly Isom, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The International Harp Archives at Brigham Young University has attracted the attention of many harpists from around the world. Recently it has received acknowledgement at conferences held in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Geneva, Switzerland. The Archives have also been introduced to the American Harp Society in their last semiannual journal. The International Harp Archives has one of the largest collections of harp materials. It has photographs, manuscripts, recordings, harp scores, and many more valuable items. One concern the Archives has is how to make it more accessible to harpists throughout the world. This year I have worked on a website …

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Audio Restoration Of Clarinetist Simeon Bellison, Angela Baer, David A. Day Jan 2014

Audio Restoration Of Clarinetist Simeon Bellison, Angela Baer, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

What is happening to the great performances of the past that were recorded on records? Are they doomed to be forgotten forever in this world of CD’s and DVD’s? Well thanks to the technology of today, audio preservation equipment can clean up the poor audio quality of records and tapes and preserve them on CD’s

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Rhetoric And Theology In Bach’S St. John Passion, Rebecca C. Buchert, James L. Siebach Jan 2014

Rhetoric And Theology In Bach’S St. John Passion, Rebecca C. Buchert, James L. Siebach

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Johann Sebastian Bach was completely Lutheran in his world view, and Luther was thoroughly Augustinian both in his theology and theory of rhetoric. St. Augustine’s views on the purpose of rhetoric are exemplified in Bach’s St. John Passion. In On Christian Doctrine,1 St. Augustine outlines three elements of communicating the truth: docere (to teach), delectare (to please) and movere/flectere (to move). Bach employs all of these elements in his compositional practice.

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Preservation And Restoration Of Music Through Digitization, Johnathan A. Scharf, David A. Day Jan 2014

Preservation And Restoration Of Music Through Digitization, Johnathan A. Scharf, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Recorded music has existed for more than a century yet, until recently, the media on which this music is preserved degrades with each passing year. Additionally, the very use of the recording itself adds to its degradation and does irreparable damage. It is a major concern for an institution that archives such media to find a method that permits the enjoyment of early recordings without subjecting them to further damage. Moreover, a means of restoring degraded recordings would permit a long-term solution for circulating such work. Through the use of computer technology, these goals can be achieved. It is now …

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Compositional Techniques Of Toru Takemitsu, Benjamin Sabey, Michael Hicks Jan 2014

Compositional Techniques Of Toru Takemitsu, Benjamin Sabey, Michael Hicks

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My object in researching the music of Japanese composer, Toru Takemitsu with support from the ORCA grant was to distill from it those concrete organizing principles upon which rest a phantasmagoric, spontaneous music that seems to float freely from silence to silence.

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Collaboration In The Arts, Rebeca Dawn Peterson, Murray Boren Jan 2014

Collaboration In The Arts, Rebeca Dawn Peterson, Murray Boren

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Part of being an artist is being misunderstood. Being an artist myself, I have found that it doesn’t matter what form your art manifests itself, there is commonality among all artists if you choose to recognize it. Collaboration in the arts is something that can have positive and/or negative effects, but is something that should be encouraged, especially among students.

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“Voices In The Wind’S Singing”: Three Original Art Songs With Text By T. S. Eliot, Marilyn Nelson Nielson, Murrary Eddington Boren Jan 2014

“Voices In The Wind’S Singing”: Three Original Art Songs With Text By T. S. Eliot, Marilyn Nelson Nielson, Murrary Eddington Boren

Journal of Undergraduate Research

French composer Francis Poulenc said “The setting to music of a poem must be an act of love, never a marriage of convenience.”1 As I searched for a thesis topic, it was ultimately love for T. S. Eliot’s work that led me to create these musical settings of his text. I have loved Eliot since I was in second grade, when my oldest brother Kenneth memorized T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” He recited it for me, and though I did not understand exactly what the poem meant, I was immediately captivated by the mood …

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Giant Steps: Essential Saxophone Recordings On Compact Disc, Bret Pimentel, Ray Smith Jan 2014

Giant Steps: Essential Saxophone Recordings On Compact Disc, Bret Pimentel, Ray Smith

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Because the saxophone is a relatively young instrument (invented in the 1840’s), sound recording technology has been available to document much of its history. The saxophone’s importance in jazz music has promoted extensive recording of hundreds of saxophonists since the 1920’s. Increased interest in the saxophone in conservatories and university music departments in the past several decades has fueled the recording of contemporary concert soloists, as well as renewing interest in recordings of the early virtuosos. The saxophone’s adaptability to popular styles has also produced a windfall of recordings. Many of the finest of these recordings are currently available in …

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Learning To Write A Large-Scale Orchestra Piece, Nathan Bowen, Murray Boren Jan 2014

Learning To Write A Large-Scale Orchestra Piece, Nathan Bowen, Murray Boren

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As a student composer, I have one basic goal in mind: get as much experience writing for as many different instruments as possible. In assessing what would be most beneficial to my growth as a young composer, it became clear that writing a long piece for a large ensemble would be the right project. I proposed to write a ten minute piece for full orchestra.

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African Band Music For Education, Darrel L. Brown, Dr. S Gordon Jessop Jan 2014

African Band Music For Education, Darrel L. Brown, Dr. S Gordon Jessop

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The practice of using folk music in a classical music composition became a norm during the twentieth century. In a century when music of this genre was waining into the avante-guard, this technique was a change of pace in a different direction. Composers ranging from Bela Bartok (1881-1945) and Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) in Hungary to Gustov Holst (1874-1934) and Ralph Van Williams (1872-1945) in England embraced this concept not only as fodder for new compositions, but also as a way to preserve the music of their native lands. Simultaneously, music education began to make advances and composers like the aforementioned …

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The Creation, Myrna J. Layton Jan 2014

The Creation, Myrna J. Layton

Faculty Publications

On the first day, God said "Let there be light. We need the world to have both day and night. Let there be light; let there be light."

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Fusing Traditional Paraguayan Dance With Classical Ballet, Aileen Idalia Villalba, Dr. Jennie Creer-King Oct 2013

Fusing Traditional Paraguayan Dance With Classical Ballet, Aileen Idalia Villalba, Dr. Jennie Creer-King

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In October 2002, the leader of the Latin Section from BYU Living Legends asked me to choreograph a new Paraguayan dance for their upcoming season. After accepting the request I met personally with Living Legends’ former director Janelle Christensen to introduce myself and to find out what expectations she had of me and of the dance.

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Woodwind Doubling In Musical Theater Orchestras: Taking The Insanity Out Of Crazy For You, Bret Pimentel, Ray Smith Oct 2013

Woodwind Doubling In Musical Theater Orchestras: Taking The Insanity Out Of Crazy For You, Bret Pimentel, Ray Smith

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Crazy for You is a Broadway-style stage musical by Ken Ludwig. The show, which premiered in 1992, uses songs written by George and Ira Gershwin for musicals in the 1930’s. In January and February, 2003, the Brigham Young University Department of Theatre and Media Arts and School of Music produced the show.

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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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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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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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Byu Mariachi Music Clinic, Catherine Wernli, Dr. Andrew Dabczynski Sep 2013

Byu Mariachi Music Clinic, Catherine Wernli, Dr. Andrew Dabczynski

Journal of Undergraduate Research

According to the 2000 census report for the state of Utah, the state population included almost 87,883 foreign-born citizens from Latin America. In 1990 there were only 13,825. Compared with Asian-born citizens and other foreign-born citizens, this is the highest increase of an ethnic group of people in Utah. Three-fourths of these Latino foreign-born citizens are entering Utah from Mexico. These numbers don’t even include the native-born Mexicans that have grown up in Utah. All signs and research suggests that this trend will continue. Now, more than ever, it is important to ensure that Mexican immigrants have a place in …

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Christian Hand-Bells In Celtic Lands, Adam Crandell, Dr. E. Harrison Powley Sep 2013

Christian Hand-Bells In Celtic Lands, Adam Crandell, Dr. E. Harrison Powley

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The zealous Christian missionary Patrick arrived in Ireland in 432 A.D., laboring to introduce to the Celtic tribes there the gospel and monasticism. He used bells, among other clerical instruments, for this purpose. Bells were employed to sundry ends, from the mundane gathering of the missionaries to the more miraculous effecting of curses. His followers, both members of the church and fellow missionaries, revered the bells that Patrick used. Accordingly, his bells would become treated as relics, passed down from cleric to cleric as a divine investiture. Other later missionaries like Columba, Columbanus, and Ninian would also adopt the use …

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I Dreamt Of David: An Electronic Music Composition, Jeremy Bowen, Dr. Steven Ricks Sep 2013

I Dreamt Of David: An Electronic Music Composition, Jeremy Bowen, Dr. Steven Ricks

Journal of Undergraduate Research

On November 28, 2006, I was standing backstage in the Dumke Recital Hall at the University of Utah, frazzled and slightly nervous, with a magnetic sensor strapped around my chest, and its output cable dagling out of my shirt. When I received the signal, I walked out to the stage, took a little bow as the audience applauded, and plugged myself into my computer, which was connected to the sound system. I sat down on a chair, centered on the stage, and took a slow breath. The audience sat riveted, as I breathed in and out, slowly and calmly, but …

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“I Had Walked The Damascus Road, Seen The Light, Repented Of Past Transgressions…And Switched To Viola.” An Annotated Index Of The Letters Of William Primrose, Jennifer Call, Dr. Claudine Bigelow Sep 2013

“I Had Walked The Damascus Road, Seen The Light, Repented Of Past Transgressions…And Switched To Viola.” An Annotated Index Of The Letters Of William Primrose, Jennifer Call, Dr. Claudine Bigelow

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This project was designed to create an index to the over 5,000 letters of the violist William Primrose that are held in the Primrose International Viola Archive (PIVA) at Brigham Young University. This index will be an aid to violists or others interested in researching aspects of the life and career of William Primrose through his letter. After my work on the index it is over halfway completed. As it is with many archival projects, this was a great task for one undergraduate. Dr. Claudine Bigelow, my advisor and viola professor, desired that the catalog include the date, author, and …

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Rediscovering The New York Harp Ensemble, Laura Allen, David A. Day Sep 2013

Rediscovering The New York Harp Ensemble, Laura Allen, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Almost forty years ago, a Hungarian immigrant named Aristid von Wurtzler created a quartet of harpists known as the New York Harp Ensemble. Throughout the Ensemble’s career, they played in over 60 countries, performed at the White House on many occasions over the course of four administrations, and even performed for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. From standard works by Beethoven to jazzy Gershwin pieces, from beautiful works of Saint-Saens to familiar tunes such as Yankee Doodle, Wurtzler created over 200 arrangements for this quartet. The year 1997 brought the death of Aristid von Wurtzler, and with his …

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