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Chapman University Singers In Concert, Chapman University Singers

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"Kurt Weill After Dark": A Cabaret-Style Review, Opera Chapman

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A Collaborative Recital: "Break The Coconut": Songs By The Brazilian Nationalist Composer, M. Camargo Guarnieri, Sarah Tyrell, Rebecca Sherburn, Louise Thomas, Madeleine Adranga, Melina Adranga, Varsénik Aslanyan, Rachel Danielson, Claudia Doucette, Mikayla Feldman, Evangelina Jodjana, Esther Kim, Jason Liebson, Melissa Montaño, Cayton Park-Coburn, Kristen Reynolds, Yijiao Tian, Anna Turkisher

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Season Premiere Concert, Chapman Orchestra, Chapman University Wind Symphony

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Faculty Recital, Mary Palchak, Clara Cheng, Rebecca Rivera, David Black, Nick Terry

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The Rhythm And Blues (R&B) Protest Songs Of The Civil Rights Movement: Outlining The Natural Alignment Between The Foundational R&B Recordings Artists And The African-American Church During The Movement, Michelee Jones

Masters Theses

This study examines the R&B protest songs performed during the Civil Rights Movement and outlines their stories and musical characteristics for the purposes of highlighting a natural alignment that existed between several of the R&B recording artists that laid the foundations of R&B music and the agendas of the African-American church during the Civil Rights Movement. This study includes lyric and music analyses of some of the more popular R&B songs released during the Civil Rights Movement between 1960-1968 in which these analyses are compared with one another to form some general themes as to how these songs outlined the …

Recital And Masterclass, Charles Fierro

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Keyboard Conversations: The Golden Age Of The Piano, Jeffrey Siegel

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Marimba Four Hands, Daniel Desimone, Ayami Okamura, Tyler Tsunekawa, Christina Cheon

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Choral Music Camp Finale Concert, Choral Music Camp Choir, Janet Kao

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The Future Of Music: Reconfiguring Public Performance Rights, Gary Myers, George Howard

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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Searching For Sounds: Instrumental Agency And Modularity In Electroacoustic Improvisation, Stephen (Red) Wierenga

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In their radical departure from conventional instrumental technique and standardized instruments themselves, the practices of electroacoustic improvisation present a particular challenge to prevalent Western concepts of musical instruments. These concepts—which generally treat instruments as fixed objects—are ill-equipped to account for the ways in which electroacoustic improvisers foreground the agency of their instruments and abandon the quest for “mastery” typical especially of classical attitudes. Additionally, electroacoustic improvisers often approach instruments not as singular, self-contained, and static in their materiality, but rather as modular instrumentaria capable of myriad states and ever in flux, similarly problematizing conventional conceptions that view the physical constitutions …

Music And Language Development: Traits Of Nursery Rhymes And Their Impact On Children's Language Development, Ashley Lauren Gonzalez

Music

From birth--possibly even before birth--the amount and array of external stimuli profoundly affect a child’s cognitive and linguistic development. In addition to verbal communication from parent to child, singing proves to be an integral aid to a child’s development of speech and language, allegedly due to repetitions of words and rhythms. Nursery rhymes are, from infancy, among the most commonly presented forms of musical stimulus for children. The repetitive nature of the nursery rhymes undoubtedly supports language and speech development, but various characteristics of nursery rhymes, specifically pitch interval, meter, phrase length, contour, and harmony, also contribute substantially to the …

A Comparative History And The Importance Of Chamber Music, Aaron M. Sacks

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This capstone presentation focuses on the role of chamber music in both social and academic contexts. Using examples from the past five centuries and including local examples, parallels and divergences are drawn to points of most import. The spotlight is upon three areas: a) what the role of chamber music was in the past, compared to today; b) why it is an important genre, to both musicians, as well as non-musicians, and c) in what ways more exposure to the form can be built. Much of the focus is on composers and their influence, but the impact of and upon …

Student Pianists In Recital, Niki Black, Tyler Johnson, Josh Warren, Cole Castorina, Aidan Jones, Mai Phuong Duong, Tony Vallejo, Will Parker, Andrew Siles, Brian Clemens, Ariel Flach, Angie Jodjana, Levi Johnston, David Karbo, Sophia Bui, Ariel Chien, Dahee Jung, Michael Fleming, Michael Seaman, Ashley Shahbazi

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Keyboard Collaborative Arts Recital, Varsénik Aslanyan, Rachel Danielson, Evangeline Jodjana, Esther Kim, Jacob Liebson, Yi-Jiao Tian, Elliott Wulff, Sukyi Choi, Lucy Franco, Hannah Kidwell, Andrew Schmitt, Chloé Tardif, Erin Theodorakis, Connie Tu

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Piano Majors Showcase, Brittany Buendia, Gina Kouyoumdjian, Christiane Moon, Mia Barinaga, Connie Tu, Stella Monshaw, Heather Moore

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Senior Recital, Julia Dwyer, Janet Kao

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Senior Recital, Elliott Wulff, Paul Floyd

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Senior Recital, Cynthia Ley, Christopher Brennan

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Instrumental Chamber Music: Woodwinds And Brass, Olivia Gerns, Alvin Ly, Varsénik Aslanyan, Sara Petty, Emilia Lopez-Yañez, Mia Barinaga, Allison Demuelle, Gina Kouyoumdjian, Carlos Hernandez, Christian Mininsohn, Matthew Mattila, Gary Matsuura, Matt Labelle, Christopher Traynor, Nolan Delmer, Nick Huelster, Cynthia Navarette, Rebekah Dennis, Alex Cowen, Ariel Flach, David Scott, Emily Prather, Grecia Rodas, Michael Kolinsky, Connie Tu

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Instrumental Chamber Music: Strings And Piano, Alicia Correa, Emy Eddow, Priscilla Peraza, Hannah Ceriani, Bella Pepke, Will Parker, Safieh Moshar-Fatemi, Ariel Chien, Lorianne Frelly, Ethan Reed, Ariel Flach, Kate Huntley, Esther Kim, Michael Fleming, Arturo Balmaceda, Lisa Yoshida, Leehyeon Kim, Haley Hedegard, Suzanne Haitz, Julianne Lussier, Christine Anderson, Chloé Tardif, Sam Ek, Stella Monshaw, Kimberly Levin, Eileen Kim, Stephanie Calascione, Christopher Defazio

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Senior Recital, Anzhela Kushnirenko, Hye-Young Kim, Sam Ek

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Senior Recital, Storm Marquis

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In Concert: University Women's Choir, Chapman University Women's Choir

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The Creation Of A Skills-Based Grading System For Solo Trumpet Repertoire, Charles R. Ahlhorn

Dissertations, 2014-2019

This research organizes a sample of solo trumpet literature, selected from state music educators associations’ repertoire lists, into a bi-level, skills-based grading system. At the first level of classification, each work is assigned an overall difficulty rating of 1, 2, or 3, with the latter being the most demanding category. The second level of classification evaluates the requirements of each work in six particular skill areas: range, rhythm and meter, articulation, flexibility, endurance, and phrasing. The rating scale for these parameters ascends from 1 to 5, where 1 represents beginner-level skills and 5 connotes virtuoso-caliber challenges.

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New Music Ensemble, Chapman New Music Ensemble

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Senior Recital, Suzanne Haitz, Clara Cheng

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Early Music Ensemble: Artusi's Nightmare, Chapman Early Music Ensemble

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Chapman Guitar Ensemble, Chapman Guitar Ensetnble

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