Music Commons^™

One Library, Many Music Departments: Developing And Integrated Library Instruction Program For All, Rachel Fox Von Swearingen

Librarian Publications

The undergraduate music curriculum at Syracuse University spans multiple academic departments and colleges, comprising liberal arts, conservatory, and professional degree programs. This diversity has been a challenge to providing adequate and appropriately timed library instruction, resulting in some students receiving the same one-shot session multiple times and others receiving none at all. Faculty across music departments expressed that music students were lacking both basic and music-specific information literacy skills.

As the new music librarian, I sought to bridge the various departments and develop an integrated library instruction plan for all music undergraduate programs. In cooperation with faculty, I established library …

Uncommon Action: An Interdisciplinary Arts Performance On Ally Involvement, Rachel Dentinger

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This instrumental and dance performance, titled “Uncommon Action: An Interdisciplinary Arts Performance on Ally Involvement”, was designed to raise awareness about bullying and becoming an active ally in the event of bullying. Sixteen student musicians and a team of production assistants were enlisted to produce this interdisciplinary program that was over a year and a half in the making. This production is a unique artistic effort where the classical musicians will also perform as dancers while playing, similar to what is seen in performances by marching bands, drum corps, Stomp, Barrage, Blue Man Group, etc.

The musical piece, commissioned from …

A Comparative Analysis Of Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium And H. Robert Reynolds' Setting For Wind Band, Brent Paris

Setnor School of Music - Theses

Morten Lauridsen is one of the most prominent choral composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. O Magnum Mysterium, a sacred motet, is one of his most popular compositions. In collaboration with Lauridsen, H. Robert Reynolds created a transcription for wind band. Premiered in 2004, Reynold's transcription quickly joined the ranks of other respected transcribed choral works in the wind band repertoire. While there is only one major difference between the two versions, there are many minuet differences found in the phrasing, texture and tessitura.

The Effects Of Totalitarian Regimes And The Individual On Russian And Soviet Music, Tyler Christian Mills

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This paper addresses the development of Russian and Soviet music from the 1860’s through Stalin’s terror in the late 1930’s. It focuses on the constraints placed on the composers by the totalitarian regime and how these individual composers were able to not only survive, but leave a greater impact on the development and style of music than the state that was constraining them. The paper focuses on how individual composers were able to use their innovation and talent to create unique material that captivated audiences both at home and abroad.

Mouth's Cradle Presents: Wisdom Teeth, Kevin Hegedus

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Late Night Television And Its Impact On The Music Industry Via Album Sales And Social Media, Matthew Robin

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Experiential learning has been a large part of my college experience. My work experiences have allowed me to understand the music industry in a very unique way. One experience was my semester in Los Angeles, where I worked at Jimmy Kimmel Live! It was there that I was able to see the influence that these shows could have on musical guests and vice versa. The late-night landscape is as booming as it ever has been, with many different outlets for talent. I wanted to demonstrate that the process of getting an artist on a late-night show is a very …

University Union: Becoming Syracuse University’S Official Programming Board And A College Programming Paradigm, Robert John Dekker

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This Capstone project completed per the requirements of the Renee Crown University Honors Program in form is part research paper, part personal narrative, part topical history, part business plan, part guide and resource, and part portfolio. It is structured in four critical parts. The first will be a history of programming at Syracuse University as it relates to the history of University Union, the university’s official programming board. This overview covers fifty years, beginning in 1962 with the founding of the board. Following this will be an assessment of the capacity of college programming to further the goals of unifying, …

The Count's Dilemma, Or, Harmony And Dissonance In Legal Language, Ian Gallacher

College of Law - Faculty Scholarship

Lawyers have had a long, but ambivalent, relationship with metaphor. Viewed by some as a mere literary device, a trick of language that "adds little of substance to an argument," metaphor is seen by others as an essential component of legal language, a rhetorical device inseparable from thought. On one thing, though, all can agree: lawyers only have words to express their thoughts, so they have an obligation to use words, whether used metaphorically or not, as exactly as possible.

This article offers a critique of the way lawyers meet this obligation when they use metaphors based in musical language. …

Su People, Yuhan Xu, Paula Meseroll, Kathleen Haley, Jay Cox, Jim Reilly, Carol L. Boll

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Care And Handling Of Historic Sound Recordings, Robert J. Hodge, James Meade

Treatment Manuals

Manual on the care and handling, and cleaning of historic sound recordings as practiced at the Belfer Audio Archive. Covers cylinders and discs (78s, LPs, ...). Document contains links to videos demonstrating these techniques.

Reinventing The Classical Recital: Examining The Connections Between Performer And Audience, Kimberly R. Dinicola

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Reinventing the Classical Recital: Examining the Connections Between Performer and Audience was a project intended to create a dialogue between the performer and audience about the kind of experience a classical recital typically is versus what it can be. Recitals given at Syracuse University, and in the classical music community in general, generally have strict guidelines for the amount, type, and quality of music to be performed. Certain composers or types of song are considered more appropriate than others, depending on the instrument and length of the recital. In creating a recital to evaluate in what ways the performer can …

New Horizons: A Folk Song Cycle, Chris Cresswell

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The purpose of the project was to create a piece of music that transcended musical genres and told the story of my coming of age in the first decade of the 21st century. The work featured both original text and original music and culminates in a live performance of the work.

I wanted to tell a story. More specifically, I wanted to tell my story. The story of coming of age in the 21st century. I was 11 in the year 2000, I was 21 in 2010. My formative years correlate directly with the formative years of the 21st century. …

Living In Spring, Danielle Peck

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Music is universally recognized as a tool for transcending the natural and cultural boundaries that separate one individual from the next. Living in Spring, a short film built upon Beethoven’s Sonata No.5 in F Major, Op. 24, 1^st Movement (informally referred to as the “Spring” Sonata), introduces this idea as a violin teacher’s advice to his student: “Each of us, we are only inside ourselves, you can only move your own fingers… music is different,” Sasha explains. Eve, the violinist, faces a challenge for her final performance—one that cannot be found in the practice room, no matter how …

Mash-Up Culture: Reconciling Art, Commerce And The Law, Trevor Kiviat

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The proliferation of “sampling” in recorded music and live performances has amplified the level of appropriation and cultural borrowing that exists in the music industry. Artists, music companies and stakeholders on every level from independent to mainstream have been affected by this trend. In addition to catalyzing innovation and inspiring new forms of expression, these creative works, broadly referred to as “mash-ups”, have also been the subject of heated legal debates related to claims of copyright infringement in the last 20 years. This study discusses the essential issues surrounding the musical practice of “sampling” audio recordings, including the issues of …

Tokoyo: A Story Of Cultural Movement, Melissa Jessel

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Tokoyo: A Story of Cultural Movement is an exploration of Japanese culture through performance. The piece incorporates stylized, ritualistic, and contemporary movement. The device used to portray our research was a folk tale told solely through physical expression. Music by Japanese composers and projections of the country supported the movement and helped to tell the story of the culture.

We were deep into our research when we embarked on our trip to Japan to observe the specificity of the culture in everyday life and performance. Everything that we read, watched, and took part in manifested itself in the final presentation. …

When You Got It, Bump It: A Lost Showgirl’S Cabaret, Mary Claire King

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

For my Capstone project, I developed an original cabaret entitled “When You Got It, Bump It: A Lost Showgirl’s Cabaret.” The story follows Mazeppa, the lost showgirl, as she travels the vaudeville “circuit” in an attempt to regain her fame. I portray this leading character, while two other women portray her friends and co-stars. All three characters are based on perhaps some of the most famous showgirls on Broadway, Mazeppa, Tessie Tura and Electra of the 1959 musical, Gypsy.

I performed the cabaret twice, on the evenings of April 2^nd and 3^rd, at the First Unitarian …

Stephen Buzard Winner Of The 2010 Arthur Poister Competition In Organ Playing, Syracuse Chapter, American Guild Of Organists

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Guest Artist: Gloria Cheng, Piano, Gloria Cheng

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Contemporary Directions Ensemble, James O. Welsch, Director, James O. Welsch

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Jane, The Quene, Kathleen Wrinn

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

I wrote and performed a one-woman show entitled Jane, the Quene, about the life, reign, and death of Lady Jane Grey, the 9-day Queen of England in 1553. With the help of my advisor, Lauren Unbekant, I created my piece in a physical storytelling style in which I played all of the characters, adopting different voices, physicalities, and slight costume modifications to distinguish between them. I collaborated with film, costume, set, lighting, and sound designers to create my final product, and the whole project took about a year to complete. I had begun my research in London the previous …

Crossing Borders In Leonard Bernstein’S Mass, Theresa Hubbard

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

On September 8, 1971, Mass by Leonard Bernstein premiered at the inauguration performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. Subtitled “A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers,” Mass possess examples of several different types of music, making the piece very eclectic in nature. It is a huge work which requires close to 200 performers who are well-versed in several musical genres.

Bernstein composed Mass using the form of the Roman Catholic Mass celebration, as many composers have done in the past. Bernstein was a bit more daring, however, and instead of composing music …

Natural Horn Performance In The 19th Century, Paula Kinev

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The natural horn developed from an instrument of the hunt into an orchestral instrument in the 18^th century. The switch from outdoors to concert hall was helped along by the development of hand horn technique, which allowed for all chromatic notes to be played on the instrument. This led to an extremely fruitful time of virtuoso hand horn soloists through outEurope. The instrument evoked a very particular aesthetic: light, nimble, virtuosic, “natural”, voice-like, etc. Then when the invention of the valves was applied to the natural horn it was met with a fair amount of resistance. The natural horn …

Tradition And Innovation: The Lives And Music Of Women Composers, Shannon K. Kane

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

My Capstone Project, entitled “Tradition and Innovation: The Lives and Music of Women Composers,” is a combination of a creative project and written thesis that explores the struggles that women faced as members of society and composers throughout history. The written portion details the expectations set for women by society and how these expectations had a role in their personal lives and their music. I explore stereotypes and societal values that women lived regularly, including the expectation of women to never perform for a public audience, to obey their fathers and husbands and therefore only receive training with their permission, …

A Cappella Afterhours, Setnor School Of Music, Syracuse University

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Syracuse University Bands: Symphony Band, Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, Setnor School Of Music, Wind Ensemble, Setnor School Of Music, Bradley P. Ethington, Justin J. Mertz, John M. Laverty

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Faculty Recital, Ronald L. Caravan, Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Assisted By Sar Shalom Strong, Piano, Ronald L. Caravan, Sar Shalom Strong

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Open End: New Works And Improvisations, Open End

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Senior Recital, Marshall Henry, Double Bass, Judy Hung, Piano, Marshall Henry, Judy Hung

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Thursday Afternoon At Crouse, Setnor School Of Music, Syracuse University

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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The Allegro Youth Wind Ensemble, Allegro Youth Wind Ensemble, Setnor School Of Music

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.