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Bodies of Sound, Agents of Muslim Malayness: Malaysian Identity Politics and the Symbolic Ecology of the Gambus Lute
In this dissertation, I show how Malay-identified performing arts are used to fold in Malay Muslim identity into the urban milieu, not as an alternative to Kuala Lumpur’s contemporary cultural trajectory, but as an integrated ... -
Moving Together: Sameness, Difference, and Ownership in the Seattle-Guinean Drum and Dance Scene
In this dissertation, I use interpretive lenses from ethnomusicology, as well as from tourism and ritual studies, to analyze data derived from two years of ethnographic research in the Pacific Northwest of the United States ... -
"Punk Rock Calvinists Who Hate the Modern Worship Movement": Ritual, Power, and White Masculinity in Mars Hill Church's Worship Music
University of Washington Abstract "Punk Rock Calvinists Who Hate the Modern Worship Movement": Ritual, Power, and White Masculinity in Mars Hill Church's Worship Music Maren Haynes Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dr. ... -
The Education of Musical Thinking Through the Hand according to Marie Jaëll (1846-1925)
Marie Jaëll’s (1846-1925) remarkable career and unique contribution to music deserves far more attention than it currently receives. Jaëll was an acclaimed pianist and a prolific composer, who Liszt rightly described as ... -
“’Cause this is Africa”: Contesting Visual, Sonic, and Performed Representations of Africa in Paris, Montreal, and the 2010 South African World Cup
This dissertation examines ways in which representations of contemporary Africa are created, perpetuated, subverted, and reinforced through African popular music in Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, and the 2010 World Cup ... -
Symmetry, Thematic Transformation, and Quotation in George Crumb's Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik
This dissertation examines George Crumb’s use of symmetry and asymmetry, thematic transformation, and quotation in his 2001 solo piano work, Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik. The paper reviews these compositional hallmarks ... -
The Life and Legacy of Albert McNeil and the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers of Los Angeles
Since the beginning of the twentieth century no single American choral conductor and choir, other than Dr. Albert McNeil and the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers, has dedicated more than fifty years to the preservation of the ... -
‘Come, All My Dear Brethren, and Help Me to Sing’: Dialogue and Participation as Foundations for the Choral Performance of Sacred Harp Music
Mounting interest in folk and world music has led to increased choral performance of Sacred Harp, or shape note, repertoire. Sacred Harp is a communal musical practice that originated in the singing schools of colonial New ... -
Explorations of Just Intonation, Minimalism, and Spectralism in 20th Century Music
This thesis consists of three analyses on works by twentieth century composers who explored the theoretical and practical applications of the harmonic series and just intonation. The first chapter provides a description ... -
Motivation in Private Piano Instruction for Adolescents: A Social-Cognitive Analysis of Piano Pedagogy
Social cognitive training for piano teachers in the United States is limited, forcing teachers to learn as they go. While some teachers develop the skills to become effective motivators, others struggle to learn these ... -
The Homeric Answer: How By-Ear Learning and Improvisation Enhance the Musicianship of Classical Performers
Throughout the history of non-Western music-making, and common to most art music in cultures around the world, musicians have shared the fundamental practice of learning, transmitting, and composing their art by ear. For ... -
lily [bloom in my darkness]: an electroacoustic opera
Lily [bloom in my darkness] is a 35-minute electroacoustic opera for voice, live electronic processing, pulse sensors, two violas, saxophone doubling clarinet, electric harp, piano, and dance with an original libretto by ... -
Expressive Text: From a Spoken Style to Rhythmic Plasticity
This paper will explore the use of natural speech inflections according to linguistic principles in order to guide rhythmic expressivity in choral performance practice. The standard of rhythmic precision in choral elocution ... -
Teaching Transgender Singers
The goal of this paper is to provide an accessible resource for voice teachers teaching transgender singers. In order to best serve the students, teachers must be aware of obstacles facing transgender singers, including ... -
Two Roads Converged in a Wood: The Intersection of Fairy Tales and Western Piano Music
The history of fairy tales is long and complex, extending back to shadowed origins in ancient cultures. The stories have been used for a kaleidoscope of purposes across centuries—for cultural identity and cohesion, for ... -
Consonance A computer generated composition
Consonance is a computer generated composition using Csound not only to construct the instruments but also to explore some of its innumerous possibilities to modeling timbres, dynamics, spacialization and reverberation. ... -
Thoughts from the Groove: A New Approach to Euphonium Chamber Music
The development of the euphonium began as direct result of the technological advances discovered during the industrial revolution. Although a well-known instrument in the wind and brass band repertoire, it remains virtually ... -
Choristers’ Perceptions of Laban-based Conducting Gestures
This study evaluated the perceptual accuracy of choristers with no conducting training when identifying Laban Movement Analysis-based gestural qualities. The larger research imperative addressed identifying the qualities ... -
The Influence of American Organ Building and American Hymnody on William Bolcom’s Gospel Preludes for Organ
This dissertation examines the construction of the American organ and its influence on modern compositions, in particular William Bolcom’s Gospel Preludes. To better understand these compositions, the history of American ... -
BEYOND THE CONCERT HALL: THE CREATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A TEACHING ARTIST TRAINING PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL
This document is part of the dissertation requirement for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance. The major portion of the dissertation consists of the Music Link pilot program created by the author, a Teaching ...
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