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From The Conductor: A Compilation Of Wind Band Repertoire With Rehearsal And Performance Notes, Jennifer Leanne Whyte

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to present a compilation of wind repertoire with detailed rehearsal and performance notes as it relates to conducting and rehearsing on a variety of different levels. The examined pieces will be A Festival Prelude by Alfred Reed, Spitfire! by Gary P. Gilroy, Chorale and Alleluia by Howard Hanson, Beyond the Summit by Brian Balmages, Sanctuary by Frank Ticheli, and Serenade No.1 for Ten Wind Instruments by Vincent Persichetti. Rehearsal notes will include teaching and conducting techniques used in the learning process while performance notes will include composer biographies and history pertaining to the pieces.

Graduate Violin Recital, Yixuan Huang

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

This thesis consists of a violin recital and the accompanying program notes. The graduate violin recital includes the following repertoire: Johann Sebastian Bach, First Violin Sonata in G minor; Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Chaconne; Samuel Barber, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 14. These works display a variety of styles in different period, ranging from baroque to the twentieth century. The program notes for each piece contains biographical sketch, analysis of the work, and performance concerns.

Graduate Piano Recital, Nan Sun

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

This thesis contains information pertaining to my Graduate Piano Recital. The recital consists of the following works: Piano Sonata Op. 26 by Ludwig Van Beethoven; French Suite No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach; Keyboard Concerto in D major, Hob. XVIII: 11 by Franz Joseph Haydn; Scherzo Op. 4 by Johannes Brahms. The thesis includes biographical information on each composer, introductions of each different genre and character; an analysis of each piece, and performance suggestions.

Graduate Piano Recital, Junle Li

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

This thesis contains information pertaining to my Graduate Piano Recital. This recital consists of the following works: Piano Sonata No. 31, Op. 110 by Ludwig van Beethoven; Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31 by Frédéric Chopin and Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 by Sergei Rachmaninoff. This thesis contains biographical information of each composer. The thesis also includes an analysis of each composition and suggestions regarding the performance of each piece.

The Impact And Creation Of Level Music For Video Games, Randolph Kestner

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis explores the creation of music for a video game level utilizing industry tools for music compositions as well as level design. Music as an element of game design and its resulting impact is also examined.

Applied Anatomy In Music: Body Mapping For Trumpeters, Micah Holt

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Musicians must move in order to produce sound. The body is the vehicle for movement, therefore, understanding the body structure can provide more effortless and efficient music making. The conceptual creators of Body Mapping, Barbara and William Conable, define a body map as, “One’s self-representation in one’s own brain.” Body Mapping provides a relatively new somatic approach to musical pedagogy. A number of existing dissertations and articles discuss the specific application of Body Mapping to keyboard, voice and woodwind instruments. Currently, however, very few resources have integrated Body Mapping into brass pedagogy. With this document I intend to provide a …

Yiddish Diction In Singing, Carrie Suzanne Schuster-Wachsberger

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The standard for classical singers in the United States to be trained in the singing diction of the German, Italian, and English languages. This sung diction varies from the spoken diction for those languages and is therefore important for singers to study in classes dedicated to singing language pronunciation. Literature is also available for the instruction in the singing diction of numerous other languages including Latin, Spanish, Czech, Russian, and Hebrew. While there is a vast scope of languages represented by vocal diction guides, there is no available singing diction guide for Yiddish songs, despite the spectrum of classical vocal …

Five Principles To Empower The Worship Leader, Stacey Brown

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The role of the worship leader exists in most churches. These leaders serve in roles from volunteer choir directors to the directors of large worship staffs. They are the standard-bearers of worship for their teams and their congregations. To successfully serve, they must possess knowledge of worship practices and leadership skills. While students of worship may have a firm foundation of biblical, historical, and philosophical principles, many current leaders do not have strong leadership backgrounds and, therefore, lack basic foundational skills for leadership. Through a study of current literature and a survey of leaders of worship in churches of various …

Movements, Music, And Meaning: A Comparative Analysis Of Cultural Narratives In Vietnam Era And Post-9/11 Anti-War Music, Jonathan Nathaniel Redman

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the presence of widely circulating cultural narratives in the lyrics of approximately eighty anti-war songs from the Vietnam and post-9/11 eras. Unlike prior movements and music research, this thesis privileges culture over movements and views movements as cultural antennae both picking up on trends and cultural narratives, and broadcasting their own altered cultural meanings back into the “cultural airways.” It sees music as a cultural medium which acquires cultural meanings from its surroundings, alters those meanings, synthesizes new ones, and perpetuates old ones. Drawing on comparative and narrative analysis approaches informed by grounded theory techniques, this thesis …

Journey, Darren Alan Rainey

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Journey is not about a particular journey, it is more about images or moments from within a journey. The interpretation for what this means is left up to the performers and listeners; however, I view this as one person not particularly achieving what they set out to achieve. It all began with a rough start, moments of happiness, playfulness, contempt and contemplation, but in the end it wasn't the expected outcome of the journey. The work plays between moments of vigor, aggitation, playfulness, light-heartedness, comfort and relaxation. Expression markings are described above each area of the work. These descriptions help …

Music-Play And Communication In Children With Autism And Their Families: An Ethnographic Study, Melanie Makovsky

Masters Theses

This is an ethnographic research study regarding the nature of commun-, ication, musical behavior, emotional expression, and social relationships in children with autism. Four children completed the study by participating in at least three private music-play sessions attended by the child, his or her mother, and the researcher. All music-play sessions were person-centered and child-led. A local public elementary school hosted the music-play sessions in the music classroom after school hours. In addition, the school supplied all the musical instruments used in the study. The researcher utilized the SCERTS Model assessment tool to examine each child’s abilities in socio-musical communication …

The Development Of Western Classical Piano Culture In Postwar Asia, Yejin Cho

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to explore the past, present and future of the development of Western piano culture in Northeast Asia and the musical, social, political and economic facets thereof. Western piano was first introduced to general public as part of the Westernization process during and after World War II in Asia. During the second half of the twentieth century, Asian piano culture has experienced a period of rapid development and mass popularization along with dramatic cultural, economic and technical developments. Quantifiable evidences for this are given in the number of competition winners and graduates of prestigious institutions …

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, May 2016, 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.

How Musical Oddballs Warp Psychological Time, Rhimmon Simchy-Gross

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Oddballs—low-probability, attention-capturing expectancy violations—are judged as longer than non-oddballs, but are temporal intervals that contain oddballs judged as longer than those that do not? In 2 experiments, we tested competing model predictions using a novel and covert measure of subjective duration—musical imagery reproduction. Participants verbally estimated and reproduced with musical imagery repeated, coherent, or incoherent familiar or unfamiliar chord sequences (3.5 s, 7 s, or 12 s) that either did or did not contain dynamic auditory oddballs. Participants verbally estimated repeated chord sequences that contained oddballs as shorter than those that did not, but reproduced with musical imagery incoherent chord …

An Exploration Of Music Therapists' Perspectives On Preventing And Treating Postpartum Depression, Chengcheng Du

Theses & Dissertations

Music therapy has been proposed by many researchers and healthcare professionals (Beck, 2002; Simavli et al., 2014; Tseng et al., 2010) as an effective solution to treat Postpartum Depression (PPD). In this study, the causes of PPD, treatment and prevention of PPD, and the use and results of music therapy with pregnant women and/or mothers with PPD were examined to understand the effectiveness of music therapy and potential treatments for mothers with PPD. This qualitative study employed individual and semi-structured interviews of therapists working with women with PPD. All interviews were recorded and transcribed, then the data were summarized into …

An Annotated Bibliography And Performance Commentary Of The Works For Concert Band And Wind Orchestra By Composers Awarded The Pulitzer Prize In Music 1993-2015, And A List Of Their Works For Chamber Wind Ensemble, Stephen Andrew Hunter

Dissertations

The purpose of this document is to assemble into one resource the concert band, wind orchestra, and chamber wind ensemble compositions of the 23 composers who were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music between 1993 and 2015. The Pulitzer Prize in Music is given annually to an American composer in recognition of distinguished achievement in composition of a work that received its premiere during the previous year. Timothy Mahr completed this study on composers who received the Prize from 1943 to 1992. This is a continuation and replication of that study, following Mahr’s procedures.

A brief biographical sketch will be …

Student Perspectives On The Music-Learning Culture In A Competitive High School Music Program In The United States, Jeremy Scott Kellett

Dissertations

“Interactions between the musical lives of adolescents’ and school music-learning culture may be enhanced by acknowledging students’ musical engagement outside of school, accepting their personal musical knowledge and tastes, and allowing them to help develop music-learning models based on their personal relationships with music” (Snead, 2010). Further understanding of the music-learning culture within high school programs may aid researchers in better determining the factors that persuade or alienate student populations from in-school musicking (Small, 1998).

The purpose of this case study was to determine possible factors that may have contributed to student perceptions of the music-learning culture within a musically …

A Quantitative Analysis Of The Relationship Between K–12 Music Educators And Collegiate Music Education Researchers And Instructors: Is There A Disconnect?, Meghan Kilpatrick Sheehy

Dissertations

Many researchers in a variety of fields have reported on disconnect between researcher and practitioner (Barry, Taylor, & Hair, 2001; Buysse, Sparkman, & Wesley, 2003; Fox, 1992; Fuchs et. al., 1996; Graham et. al., 2006; Hattie & Marsh, 1996; Lang, Wyer, & Haynes, 2007; Rynes, Bartunek, & Daft, 2001). In music education, this topic is frequently discussed (Brand, 1984, 2006; Byo, 1991; Flowers, Gallant, & Single, 1995; Hedden, 1979; Nelson, 2011; Paney, 2004; Radocy, 1983) but evidence is still primarily anecdotal (Nelson, 2011). The purpose of this quantitative study was to measure the relationship between K–12 music educators and collegiate …

Playing A New Tune: Breathing Life Into Winthrop University’S Academy Of Music, Megan Fleagle

Graduate Theses

Since the Academy of Music was founded in 1975, the organization has provided music lessons to pre-college students in the York County, SC area. It is the objective of the Academy of Music to rebuild its music program, and eventually expand to once again include instruction in the other artistic areas lost since 2008. To help achieve this goal, the Academy of Music will need a strategic plan to act as a compass to help guide the organization as it navigates the challenges it will face along the way. By following the method outlined in this thesis, organizations similar to …

Stories Of Otherness, Lee Ann Harrison

Graduate Theses

The thesis exhibition Stories of Otherness is an interactive installation created using dance, music, photography, video, ceramic figurative sculptures, and armatures of found objects to create a voyeuristic and physically participatory experience of situational art. Many artists from various art and literary genres influence my research and art, including Petah Coyne, Mona Hatoum, Pina Bausch, Mia Michaels, and Jeanette Winterson. The multi-faceted combination of art mediums and artists inspires me to create a mixed media, multi-dimensional installation for an immersive participant’s experience as a source for awareness, empathy, reflection, and ultimately as a “call to action” evoking change.

This thesis …

Brian Savage, 'Cello: Student Recital, Brian Savage

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Senior Recital - Allysa Packard, Allysa Packard, Dallas Heaton

All Music Department Programs

This recital is in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music in Music Performance.

Senior Recital & Junior Recital, Samantha Dominguez, Paul Floyd, Cole Castorina

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Senior Recital, Dongwhi Baek, Paul Floyd

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Senior Recital, Jeremiah Lussier, Paul Floyd

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Senior Recital, Spencer Lawrence Boyd, Paul Floyd

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Ruogu Wang, Piano: Student Recital, Ruogu Wang

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

There's No Place Like Home: Syracuse University Singers; John Warren, Conductor, Syracuse University Singers, Setnor School Of Music, John Warren

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Concert Recording 2016-04-30b, Helena Aung

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sonata no. 13 in B-flat major KV. 333. Allegro ; Andante cantabile ; Allegretto grazioso / W.A. Mozart -- [16:56]. Ballade no. 1 in G minor, op. 23 / F. Chopin -- [26:28]. Ballade no. 2 in F major, op. 38 / F. Chopin -- [34:41]. Sonata no. 1, op. 22. Allegro Marcato ; Presto misterioso ; Adagio molto appassionato ; Ruvido ed ostinato / Alberto Ginastera.

Student Recital: India Dale, Soprano, India Dale, Bobbie Kesler-Corleto

Student Recitals

No abstract provided.