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Cultural Transmission Modes Of Music Sampling Traditions Remain Stable Despite Delocalization In The Digital Age, Mason Youngblood

Publications and Research

Music sampling is a common practice among hip-hop and electronic producers that has played a critical role in the development of particular subgenres. Artists preferentially sample drum breaks, and previous studies have suggested that these may be culturally transmitted. With the advent of digital sampling technologies and social media the modes of cultural transmission may have shifted, and music communities may have become decoupled from geography. The aim of the current study was to determine whether drum breaks are culturally transmitted through musical collaboration networks, and to identify the factors driving the evolution of these networks. Using network-based diffusion analysis …

Daniel Velasco, Flute And Sean Botkin, Piano, February 4, 2019 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

2018-2019 Master Class - Fine Arts Quartet (Chamber Music), Fine Arts Quartet, Ralph Evans, Efim Boico, Gil Sharon, Niklas Schmidt, Shiyu Liu, Yuhao Zhou, Chang Hyun Paek, Sonya Nanos, Karolina Kukolova, Ricardo Lemus, Hyemin Lee, Devin Lamarr, Dunia Andreu, Daniel Guevara, Meiyu Wu

Master Classes

No abstract provided.

Dr. Scott Carrell Guest Recital, Arkansas State University Department Of Music

Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Richard Becker, Piano, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Serving The Needs Of International Students: A Qualitative Study, Mandi Goodsett, Michael Baumgartner

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

This study attempts to discover the barriers that international music students encounter when using the library and conducting research at North American academic institutions. To these ends we implemented multiple semi-structured interviews. Most studies that have been conducted about international students and information literacy employ a survey, but other qualitative means of study reveal important insights into the needs of this population. In-depth qualitative research that explores the experiences of international music students has the potential to cultivate better understanding of this phenomenon so that music librarians and faculty can more effectively serve this distinct population.

Josh Hickman Sophomore Recital, Arkansas State University Department Of Music

Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Er-Gene Kahng, Violin And Nathan Carterette, Piano, February 2, 2019 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

2018-2019 Fine Arts Quartet With Pianist Roberta Rust, Fine Arts Quartet, Ralph Evans, Efim Boico, Gil Sharon, Niklas Schmidt, Roberta Rust

Guest Recitals

No abstract provided.

Concerto-Aria Finals Competition, February 2, 2019, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
February 2, 2019
Saturday Afternoon
2:00 p.m.

Concordia String Trio: Marcia Henry Liebenow, Violin; Leslie Perna, Viola; Karen Becker, Cello; February 2, 2019, Marcia Henry Liebenow, Leslie Perna, Karen Becker

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
February 2, 2019
Saturday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra, Eroica, February 1, 2019, Lawrence University

Conservatory of Music Concert Programs

Memorial Chapel

2018-2019 Master Of Music Recital - Sonya Nanos (Cello), Sonya Nanos, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

“In The Beginning Was Body Language” Clowning And Krump As Spiritual Healing And Resistance, Sarah S. Ohmer

Publications and Research

In the neighborhood of HollyWatts in Los Angeles, dance allows a shift from existing as bodies presented as sites of threat and extinction to sources of spiritual empowerment. Clowning and Krump dancers—their subjectivity and their dancing bodies—negotiate survival from trauma and socioeconomic marginalization. I argue that the dancers’ performances act as embodied narratives of “re-membering in the flesh.” The performance acts as a spiritual retrieval and re-integration of traumatic memories and afflictions into memory through the body. Choreography and quotes from dancers support the claim that Krump and Clowning is “re-membering in the flesh” that enacts self-worth, self-defined sexuality, and …

Studies Of Musical Borrowing: Borrowing As Compositional Tool In Béla Bartók's Second Piano Concerto And The Influence Of Luciano Berio On The Grateful Dead's Approach To Live Improvisation, Michael J. Crowley

Theses and Dissertations

J. Peter Burkholder’s typology of musical borrowing provides new ways of thinking about and understanding how composers and musicians incorporated influential ideas into their own compositions. This paper explores two cases of musical borrowing in order to gain a deeper understanding of the compositional styles of the chosen subjects. In the first study, I explore Béla Bartók’s use of Paraphrase, Modeling and Stylistic Allusion in his Second Piano Concerto, demonstrating how Bartók used borrowing as a compositional tool to develop his own innovative ideas. In the second study, I investigate how Luciano Berio’s compositional style influenced the Grateful Dead’s approach …

Expanding Experimentalism: Art And Popular Music At The Kitchen In New York City, 1971-1985, Sarah A. Cooper

Theses and Dissertations

This paper explores artists' engagement with popular music at the interdisciplinary alternative space, the Kitchen, from 1971 to 1985. It seeks a critical language to challenge institutional frameworks to account for the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between parallel and hybrid popular music and avant-garde performance practices.

Quinteto Da Paraiba: Baker Guest Artist Residency With The Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble And Samba Laranja, Quinteto Da Paraiba, Thiago Formiga, Ronedilk Dantas, Ulisses Silva, Nilson Galvao, Xisto Medeiros, The Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble, Setnor School Of Music, John Coggiola, Samba Laranja, Setnor School Of Music, Elisa Dekaney, Joshua Dekaney

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis Of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming, Javier Diaz

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation consists of a musical analysis of Afro-Cuban batá drumming. Current scholarship focuses on ethnographic research, descriptive analysis, transcriptions, and studies on the language encoding capabilities of batá. However, this artistically sophisticated tradition demands a more in-depth study of its musical manufacture. Drawing from experience as a ritual batá player and as an oricha priest, I have completed the current study by following three primary analytical modalities: (1) sonic landscape, which encompasses: sound vocabulary, form, individual drum parts, and balance of musical elements; (2) timbral design, how the different batá sounds articulate meaningful and functionally distinguishable structures; (3) the …

The Music In His Words: The Art Of Sound And Folk In Louis Armstrong’S Manuscript For Satchmo: My Life In New Orleans, “The Armstrong Story”, Adriana C. Filstrup

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis dives into the musical journey embedded in the autobiographical writings of America’s jazz ambassador, Louis Armstrong. It examines Armstrong’s typewritten manuscript, The Armstrong Story, which was eventually revised by an editor and published as his second autobiography with the title of Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans in 1954 (originally published in France in 1952.) Armstrong’s manuscript reads like sheet music, where any sound could affect the harmony of the story. He created a voice that had met every art form before it became the manuscript of his autobiography, but along with that voice, references from Black …

Sighs Of The German People: An Emotional History Of Musical Sigh-Compositions During The Thirty Years War (1618–1648), Thomas Marks

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation is the first of its kind to offer a comprehensive account of a genre of German Lutheran sacred works titled Seufftzer or suspiria (sighs) that were published with increasing frequency during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648). Drawing from recent work in the history of emotion, I approach emotion-terms from the mentalities of those who deployed them. In chapter two, I offer a historically nuanced definition of the word Seufftzer, which takes into account the emotional gesture’s largely sacred meanings. For German Lutherans in the early modern era, the sigh was not just an expression of some internal feeling …

The Equal Right To Sing: The American Zeitgeist And Its Implications For Music Education, Youngeun Kim

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

According to music educators and proponents of arts education, music education in U.S. public schools seems to be in jeopardy. This thesis brings attention to several issues in current music education. It is a case study of music education in New York City public elementary schools. First, it shows that music education is not equally distributed to all students in the public-school system and is especially unequal among elementary schools. Next, it investigates possible causes for this inequality, from the current system’s limitations to more fundamental causes including the cultural perception of music among the U.S. public. The consequences of …

Brianna Allen Senior Recital, Arkansas State University Department Of Music

Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, February 2019, School Of Music,

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

Key Notes: The Newsletter Of The Department Of Music, Georgia Southern University

School of Music: News & Publications (2017-2023)

• GEORGIA SOUTHERN CHORALE FUNDRAISER
• FACULTY FEATURES
• STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• UPCOMING EVENTS IN STATESBORO
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Cartegory Theory: Framing Aesthetics Of Mathematics, Maria Mannone

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Mathematics can help investigate hidden patterns and structures in music and visual arts. Also, math in and of itself possesses an intrinsic beauty. We can explore such a specific beauty through the comparison of objects and processes in math with objects and processes in the arts. Recent experimental studies investigate the aesthetics of mathematical proofs compared to those of music. We can contextualize these studies within the framework of category theory applied to the arts (cARTegory theory), thanks to the helpfulness of categories for the analysis of transformations and transformations of transformations. This approach can be effective for the pedagogy …

Recital 5: Sonatas Nos. 16 - 18 & 21: Program, Peter Bloom

A Beethoven Cycle, Jiayan Sun, piano

No abstract provided.

2018-2019 Mostly Music: Tchaikovsky And "Friends" Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, And Mussorgsky, Marshall Turkin, Sergei Skobin, Carlos Diaz, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Isaac Roles, Guillermo Yalanda, Meng Hsin Shih, David Cole, Jay Stuart

Mostly Music Series

No abstract provided.

Girl Groups In The Bronx: Race Gender And The Pursuit Of Respectability, Mark Naison

Occasional Essays

No abstract provided.

Arnold Rawls, Tenor And Korey Barrett, Piano, January 31, 2019 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

2018-2019 Performance Forum - January 31, 2019, Niki Khabbazvahed, Lydia Roth, Jiawei Yuan, Dunia Andreu, Guzal Isametdinova, Nicole Marie P. Cortero

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.