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Come As You Are: The Rise And Fall Of The Grunge Movement And Its Implications On The Identity Of Seattle, Colin J. Wood Liberty University

Come As You Are: The Rise And Fall Of The Grunge Movement And Its Implications On The Identity Of Seattle, Colin J. Wood

Montview Journal of Research & Scholarship

This paper evaluates the rise of the Grunge movement through Nirvana’s Nevermind album as a unique burst of culture through the city of Seattle. Culturally, in the late 20th century, Seattle found its identity in the area around it, though other American cities overshadowed its significance. Through music, figures such as Jack Endino and the iconic Kurt Cobain gave Seattle an unfathomable uplift within global culture. This paper argues that grunge culture emerged as a distinct facet of Seattleite identity, with elements like flannel clothing and thrifting playing pivotal roles in shaping the city's recognizable and esteemed cultural landscape. It …

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Chopin’S Piano Sonata No. 3 In B Minor Op. 58: A Structural Analysis, Maverick Harrold University of Nebraska at Omaha

Chopin’S Piano Sonata No. 3 In B Minor Op. 58: A Structural Analysis, Maverick Harrold

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Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in b minor Op. 58 is an incredibly important composition to the world of music. This work will uncover many of the unique facets and features of this piece as well as discover the beautiful intricacies of each of the four movements. By learning about this sonata, the reader will gain an understanding of the importance of musical structure and musical form and will gain insight into the ways of Chopin’s compositional style and of romantic piano music as a whole.

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Melodia : A Comprehensive Course In Sight-Singing (Solfeggio), Samuel W. Cole, Leo R. Lewis San Jose State University

Melodia : A Comprehensive Course In Sight-Singing (Solfeggio), Samuel W. Cole, Leo R. Lewis

Open Educational Resources

Melodia is a 1904 book designed to teach sight-singing. The educational plan is by Samuel W. Cole; the exercises were written and selected by Leo R. Lewis.

Melodia is presented here as a complete edition and has also been divided into its four separate books.

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A Master's Recital In Clarinet, Stacia Kay Fortune University of Northern Iowa

A Master's Recital In Clarinet, Stacia Kay Fortune

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Stacia Kay Fortune performed a graduate clarinet recital at 6 o’clock in the evening on Friday, February 26, 2016 in Davis Hall at the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center. The recital was presented in partial fulfillment of a Master of Music in clarinet performance. The program opened with Mozart’s Parto! Ma tu ben Mio, an aria for soprano and clarinet obbligato from La Clemenza di Tito. The second piece on the first half was Claude Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano. Following intermission, the later part of the twentieth century was explored beginning with Shulamit Ran’s For an Actor: …

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An Underestimated Master: A Critical Analysis Of Carl Czerny's Eleven Piano Sonatas And His Contribution To The Genre, Levi Keith Larson University of Nebraska-Lincoln

An Underestimated Master: A Critical Analysis Of Carl Czerny's Eleven Piano Sonatas And His Contribution To The Genre, Levi Keith Larson

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

Carl Czerny is unquestionably a well-known figure in the history of nineteenth-century pianism. He was a pupil of the great Beethoven, and later taught young Franz Liszt, thereby initiating a pedagogical lineage that continues to this day. Czerny’s pedagogical material is still relevant to contemporary piano education, and many of his treatises are valuable resources for understanding Classical and early Romantic musical culture. Although Czerny is known for being an accomplished piano teacher, he was also a highly prolific composer. His oeuvre totals 861 opus numbers, many of which contain multiple pieces. Czerny also penned a variety of compositions that …

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The History Of The Guitar, Júlio Ribeiro Alves Marshall University

The History Of The Guitar, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

Music Faculty Research

Conceived as instructional material for the guitar students at Marshall University (or anyone interested in the subject), it presents the historical process of the guitar in a clear and attainable fashion. Several topics related to the guitar will be discussed in detail throughout the book: the postulates associated with its origins, its evolution through the centuries, its repertoire, composers, performers, techniques, etc., culminating with the achievement of the privileged status of a respected concert instrument which it currently possesses.

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Remixing Dialogue: A Case Study On Perceptions Of Hip Hop Pedagogy In A Professional Learning Course, Kelly J. Thelen Minnesota State University Moorhead

Remixing Dialogue: A Case Study On Perceptions Of Hip Hop Pedagogy In A Professional Learning Course, Kelly J. Thelen

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

This qualitative case study examines how teachers’ decision-making and professional autonomy shift while participating in a Hip Hop Pedagogy Professional Learning course supported by structured FIXIT (Lo & Wachter, 2023a, 2023b, 2023c, 2023d; Wachter & Lo, 2024) game-facilitated dialogue in a rural, culturally and linguistically diverse Midwest community. Grounded in Freire’s (1970) Critical Pedagogy, Ladson-Billings’ (1995) Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (Paris and Alim, 2017), and Adult Learning Theory (Knowles et al., 2005), the study explores the reclamation of agency by teachers in a time of constrained creativity and educator autonomy shaped by strict policy environments, an emphasis on …

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Integrating Chinese Tradition And Western Techniques In Jiang Zuxin’S Piano Works: A Study Of Temple Fair And Mountain Flower Collection, Qi Zhang University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Integrating Chinese Tradition And Western Techniques In Jiang Zuxin’S Piano Works: A Study Of Temple Fair And Mountain Flower Collection, Qi Zhang

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

This document focuses on Jiang Zuxin’s two piano suites, Temple Fair and Mountain Flower Collection, examining how traditional Chinese musical materials interact with Western compositional techniques. Through close analytical readings of selected excerpts, combined with considerations of performance practice and modal context, the research demonstrates that Jiang systematically employs pentatonic collections and their modal configurations (gong, shang, jue/zhi/yu), along with certain altered tones (such as biangong and qingjue), as foundational pitch material. He also draws on folk songs, dances, and theatrical elements from traditional Chinese culture. At the same time, he simulates the timbres and idiomatic playing techniques of …

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Chinese Aesthetics And Performance Practice In Three Works For Piano By Chen Yi: Tunes From My Home, Northern Scenes, And Four Spirits, Cong Ji CUNY Graduate Center

Chinese Aesthetics And Performance Practice In Three Works For Piano By Chen Yi: Tunes From My Home, Northern Scenes, And Four Spirits, Cong Ji

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This dissertation provides both analyses and performance practice suggestions on the three selected works that include piano by Chinese-American composer Chen Yi (b. 1953): Tunes from My Home, Northern Scenes, and Four Spirits. The author takes a step beyond Chen Yi’s widely identified “fusion style” of Chinese and Western music, to explore her cultural roots and how she blends Chinese music, arts, aesthetics, philosophy, and mythology with her musical language and imagination on a deeper level.

As a performer and pedagogue, I believe that it is important not only to analyze Chen Yi’s music from the perspectives of …

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How Music Shapes Our Identities And Why It Matters: Case Studies Of Professional Musicians, Annabelle C. Linker University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

How Music Shapes Our Identities And Why It Matters: Case Studies Of Professional Musicians, Annabelle C. Linker

Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Communication Disorders Undergraduate Honors Theses

Brain research has demonstrated that music uniquely contributes to neural functioning, but little is known about how losing the ability to produce music, which may be inherent to personal identity for professional singers, impacts quality of life. This study explored identity and music in the lives of five well-known vocal music professionals selected because they have publicly talked about the role of music in their lives via books, televised interviews, and documentaries. The careers of three of the individuals were disrupted by neurogenic disease; one lost the ability to sing after treatment for vocal nodules; and the fifth individual remains …

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Historical Piccolo Concerti And Works By Women Composers, Repertoire Catalogue, And A New Concerto For Piccolo And Orchestra, Mikaela Storm 2026 University of Northern Colorado

Historical Piccolo Concerti And Works By Women Composers, Repertoire Catalogue, And A New Concerto For Piccolo And Orchestra, Mikaela Storm

Doctoral Scholarly Projects & Capstones

The following document is an overview of historical piccolo concerti with an emphasis on works by women, a repertoire catalogue of the piccolo concerti, and an analysis/performance guide for my own Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra: The Dreamer. The primary goal of this document and subsequent score is to provide a resource for future composers, music theorists, conductors, and performers. The piccolo has limited repertoire in comparison to many of the standard instruments in our modern Western musical canon, and the number of piccolo concertos (particularly by women) is even smaller. The concerto that I have written, subtitled “The Dreamer,” …

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Idiosyncratic Serialists: The Guitar After Tonality, Alex Tripp 2026 University of Denver

Idiosyncratic Serialists: The Guitar After Tonality, Alex Tripp

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A review of A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956–1983, by Oliver Chandler.

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2026-2027 Performance Forum - October 23, 2026, Hanting Peng, Zion Pe Montebon, Paola Nava, Rodrigo Rodriguez, Taylor Shorey, AJ Meyer, Karen Trujillo, Ethan Thompson, Joseph Muhl, Nicholas Weathers 2026 Lynn University

2026-2027 Performance Forum - October 23, 2026, Hanting Peng, Zion Pe Montebon, Paola Nava, Rodrigo Rodriguez, Taylor Shorey, Aj Meyer, Karen Trujillo, Ethan Thompson, Joseph Muhl, Nicholas Weathers

Performance Forum

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The Life Of A Showgirl As A Cultural Artifact: What's Hidden By The Lipstick And Lace?, Crystal F. Haryanto 2026 University of California, Berkeley

The Life Of A Showgirl As A Cultural Artifact: What's Hidden By The Lipstick And Lace?, Crystal F. Haryanto

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

This paper develops a collage-based framework to holistically assess Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated first release after the Eras Tour concluded. The Life of a Showgirl, with sparkling promotional materials leading up to its October 2025 drop and polarizing critical reception following it, represents an entertainer’s lifestyle while still concealing what was alluded to behind the Eras Tour curtain. Rather than engage in a direct response to Showgirl, I critically evaluate positive and negative commentary from listeners regarding the album, and I thematically analyze lyrical concepts throughout Swift’s discography to contextualize Showgirl within the arc of her work. I …

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2026-2027 Performance Forum - October 16, 2026, Rishi Gurnani, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Paola Nava, Hyunwoo Jeoung, Juanita Jaimes, Andrew Bures, Michael Shipps, Adam Weekes, Pual Brown 2026 Lynn University

2026-2027 Performance Forum - October 16, 2026, Rishi Gurnani, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Paola Nava, Hyunwoo Jeoung, Juanita Jaimes, Andrew Bures, Michael Shipps, Adam Weekes, Pual Brown

Performance Forum

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The Performer As Stylistic Free Agent: A Historically Inspired Approach To Interpreting Manuel De Falla’S Homenaje, Yiannis Efstathopoulos, Maarten Stragier, Kristin Van Den Buys 2026 Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel

The Performer As Stylistic Free Agent: A Historically Inspired Approach To Interpreting Manuel De Falla’S Homenaje, Yiannis Efstathopoulos, Maarten Stragier, Kristin Van Den Buys

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Manuel de Falla’s Homenaje pour “Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy” presents a complex identity knot that reflects Debussyan Alhambrism back onto its inspiration, drawing from both classical and folk traditions. This is the first research project to approach that knot from the perspective of historically inspired performance. It identifies a fascinating counterpart to its complexity in the stylistically hybrid guitar practices that were common at the time Falla composed his miniature masterpiece. The authors therefore propose that a historically inspired performer of Homenaje can act as a stylistic free agent, traversing the continuum of styles that gave birth to Falla’s …

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2026-2027 Performance Forum - October 9, 2026, Xiomara Ingryd Herrera, Nara Avetisyan, Joseph Gould, Rebeca Sierra, Isabella Swalm, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Omar Mata, Santiago Moreno, Michael Hunt, Jackson Tyler Wolf, Luke Guelcher, Kade Gordon 2026 Lynn University

2026-2027 Performance Forum - October 9, 2026, Xiomara Ingryd Herrera, Nara Avetisyan, Joseph Gould, Rebeca Sierra, Isabella Swalm, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Omar Mata, Santiago Moreno, Michael Hunt, Jackson Tyler Wolf, Luke Guelcher, Kade Gordon

Performance Forum

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The Verney Family And Their Guitars In France And England, 1643–53, Christopher Page 2026 University of Denver

The Verney Family And Their Guitars In France And England, 1643–53, Christopher Page

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The five-course guitar was a fundamental resource for the Verney family from 1643 to 1653 as they sheltered in France, avoiding their creditors and escaping the state of civil war at home in England. Their papers from that period, comprising many thousands of letters and financial accounts, show them hiring a guitar-master, ordering new guitars in Paris and debating the relative benefits of lessons for their eldest son on the guitar as opposed to the lute. This article reproduces the key documents and considers the music that the Verneys may have played. The papers particularly show how an instrument often …

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2026-2027 Performance Forum - October 2, 2026, Christopher Linson, Nara Avetisyan, Emma Joyce, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Zeek McKinley, Rodrigo Rodriguez, Maria Savelyeva, Rebeca Sierra 2026 Lynn University

2026-2027 Performance Forum - October 2, 2026, Christopher Linson, Nara Avetisyan, Emma Joyce, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Zeek Mckinley, Rodrigo Rodriguez, Maria Savelyeva, Rebeca Sierra

Performance Forum

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Approaching Chinese Art Songs: A Mandarin Diction Guide For English-Speaking Singers, Tianming Qi 2026 The University of Northern Colorado

Approaching Chinese Art Songs: A Mandarin Diction Guide For English-Speaking Singers, Tianming Qi

Doctoral Scholarly Projects & Capstones

This article presents a graded Mandarin diction guide for English-speaking singers studying Chinese art song. Responding to the limited availability of Mandarin diction resources organized by level, it examines Qing Zhu’s “The Great River Goes East,” Yuanren Zhao’s “How Can I Not Think of Him?,” and Yong Chen’s “Love of the Sea” as beginning, intermediate, and advanced case studies. The analysis considers initials, finals, lexical tones, tone-sandhi, syllable structure, text density, and their coordination with rhythm, legato, and melodic phrasing. The study shows that diction difficulty arises not from isolated sounds but from the concentration and interaction of these features …

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2026-2027 Performance Forum - September 25, 2026, Aidan Quintana, Ana-Maria Uzunova, Zion Pe Montebon, Joseph Gould, Rebeca Sierra, Mia Cotton, Noah Suarez, Kallen Hanzsek-Brill, Tayor Shorey 2026 Lynn University

2026-2027 Performance Forum - September 25, 2026, Aidan Quintana, Ana-Maria Uzunova, Zion Pe Montebon, Joseph Gould, Rebeca Sierra, Mia Cotton, Noah Suarez, Kallen Hanzsek-Brill, Tayor Shorey

Performance Forum

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2026-2027 Performance Forum - September 18, 2026, Owen Chen, Roberta Rust, Ian Lewis, Rebeca Sierra, Santiago Moreno, Sheng Yuan Kuan 2026 Lynn University

2026-2027 Performance Forum - September 18, 2026, Owen Chen, Roberta Rust, Ian Lewis, Rebeca Sierra, Santiago Moreno, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Performance Forum

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2026-2027 Philharmonia Season Program, Lynn University Conservatory of Music, Lynn Philharmonia, Guillermo Figueroa, Kenneth Amis, Jon H. Robertson, Aidan Quintana 2026 Lynn University

2026-2027 Philharmonia Season Program, Lynn University Conservatory Of Music, Lynn Philharmonia, Guillermo Figueroa, Kenneth Amis, Jon H. Robertson, Aidan Quintana

Philharmonia

Lynn University Wind Ensemble ("The Wind Symphony: Movement 4)

  • Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
  • Kenneth Amis, conductor

Lynn Philharmonia No. 1 ("Mystery and Revelation")

  • Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
  • Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
  • Kenneth Amis, tuba

Lynn Philharmonia No. 2 ("Halloween Spectacular!")

  • Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026 at 3 p.m.
  • Guillermo Figueroa, conductor

Lynn Philharmonia No. 3 - Concerto Competition Winners' Concert

  • Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026 at 3 p.m.
  • Guillermo Figueroa, conductor

Lynn Philharmonia …

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Sunday Music Series: Carla Trynchuk & Elena Braslavsk, Andrews University 2026 Andrews University

Sunday Music Series: Carla Trynchuk & Elena Braslavsk, Andrews University

Concerts and Event Programs 2026-2027

Professor of Music and renowned violinist Carla Trynchuk and the equally renowned international pianist Elena Braslavsk present a joint recital under the Sunday Music Series.

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2026-2027 Performance Forum - September 11, 2026, Xiaoyu Li, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Cheng Wang 2026 Lynn University

2026-2027 Performance Forum - September 11, 2026, Xiaoyu Li, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Cheng Wang

Performance Forum

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Ritual Action Reed Trio: September 4, 2026, Andy Nogal, Andy Hudson, Ben Roidl-Ward 2026 Illinois State University

Ritual Action Reed Trio: September 4, 2026, Andy Nogal, Andy Hudson, Ben Roidl-Ward

School of Music Programs

This is the second program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

September 4, 2026

Thursday Evening

7:30 p.m.

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From Retrieval To Generation: Building And Evaluating An Ai Accompanist For Piano Duets With An Anticipatory Music Transformer, Sai Ruthvik Uppala 2026 Grand Valley State University

From Retrieval To Generation: Building And Evaluating An Ai Accompanist For Piano Duets With An Anticipatory Music Transformer, Sai Ruthvik Uppala

Masters Theses

Systems that accompany a live musician, such as ACCompanion, work by retrieval: they hold a written accompaniment and stretch its timing to follow the soloist, so they can only accompany music whose second part already exists as a score. This thesis asks whether that second part can instead be generated, and specifically whether a machine learning model can write an accompaniment for a piece whose score it has never seen. A player performs the primo, the melody; a model produces the secondo, the accompaniment; and a score follower places the generated notes against the live performance. If this works, a …

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2026-2027 Performance Forum - September 4, 2026, Ziling Wang, Hanting Peng 2026 Lynn University

2026-2027 Performance Forum - September 4, 2026, Ziling Wang, Hanting Peng

Performance Forum

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Creolized Baroque: Early Music In A Brazilian Key, Ellwood P. Colahan 2026 University of Denver

Creolized Baroque: Early Music In A Brazilian Key, Ellwood P. Colahan

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Review of Iberian and Afro-Brazilian Music of the 17th Century, by Ensemble Banza, Rogério Budasz, (Baroque guitar).

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A Two-Winged Murcia: Spanish Dance, Italian Corelli, One Guitar, Ellwood P. Colahan 2026 University of Denver

A Two-Winged Murcia: Spanish Dance, Italian Corelli, One Guitar, Ellwood P. Colahan

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Review of Santiago de Murcia (1673–1739): Entre dos almas, by Stefano Maiorana (Baroque guitar).

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