• Effect of Voice Matching on Individual Vocal Characteristics of Singers Performing in Duet 

  Osinski, Ryan Douglas

  The purpose of this study was to examine interactions of voices performing in duet to determine the relationship of individual vocal characteristics to perceived blend. Male (N = 8) and female (N = 6) vocalists from the ...
• A Practical Method of Rhythmic Reading to Improve Comprehension and Performance 

  Oliver, Jensina Victoria

  The inspiration to create this method of rhythmic reading came from working with students in class and private instruction settings for nearly two decades and noticing a common trend: students of varying levels of advancement ...
• Visual and Aural Modes of Perception in Choral Performance Evaluations 

  Selvey, Jeremiah David

  A live musical performance is influenced by both the visual and aural information associated with that performance. A growing body of literature has demonstrated that the experience of a live musical performance is largely ...
• Princess Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso: Her Passion for Music and Politics 

  Yoon, Monica Chiyoung

  For centuries, famous musicians have been linked with prominent noblemen and patrons. This dissertation describes one such noble: Princess Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso (1808-1871). Princess Cristina lived a technicolor ...
• The Unpublished Songs of Ivor Gurney 

  Neuville, Eric Timothy

  During his lifetime, English composer Ivor Gurney wrote nearly 300 art songs. To date, only 100 of these songs have been published. This dissertation surveys the remaining unpublished manuscripts and identifies five as ...
• Hugo Distler (1908-1942): Recontextualizing Distler's Music for Performance in the Twenty-First Century 

  Pierson, Brad

  Hugo Distler has been recognized as a forerunner of the New German Church Music, an important musical movement which developed in the 1930s. Beyond his role in developing music for the worship service, Distler wrote many ...
• Hugo Distler (1908-1942): Recontextualizing Distler's Music for Performance in the Twenty-First Century 

  Pierson, Brad

  Hugo Distler has been recognized as a forerunner of the New German Church Music, an important musical movement which developed in the 1930s. Beyond his role in developing music for the worship service, Distler wrote many ...
• P'ungmul Kut (Percussion Music Rituals): Integrating Korean Traditions with Modern Identities 

  Park, Peter Joon

  While exploring the relationships between tradition, modernity, and identity, I focus on <italic>p'ungmul kut</italic>, which are Korean rituals featuring percussion music and dance. Although <italic>p'ungmul kut</italic> ...
• Connections Across Oceans: Debussy, Impressionism, and "The Floating World (Ukiyo-e)" of Japanese Art 

  Maki, Tomoko

  Debussy lived in Paris in the late nineteenth century and Paris at that time was very much a "happening" place; The Paris Exposition, Japonisme, and Impressionism were all blossoming. Japonisme was the most influencial ...
• Singa Nebah: Adapting a Javanese Gamelan Composition for a Western Percussion Ensemble 

  Pfeifer, Brian Chauncey Walter

  It has become increasingly common for Western musicians to arrange and adapt music of other cultures for their ensembles. This is especially true for the percussion ensemble where Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Indian, and other ...
• Marion Bauer's "Completely Musical Life" (1882-1955): An American Composer's Essential Creative Works and Contributions to Twentieth-Century Music 

  Shewbert, Sarah Grace

  Marion Bauer was a major creative force in early-twentieth-century American music--a vital composer, influential educator, erudite writer, and tireless advocate. Her contributions to American music are legendary. Bauer ...
• The Relationship Between Musicians' Internal Pulse and Rhythmic Sight-Reading 

  Farley, Alison Lauren Pogemiller

  Playing music at first sight involves coordination of auditory, visual, spatial and kinesthetic systems to produce an accurate and musical performance (Hayward, 2009). Accurately performing pitch and rhythm in tandem has ...
• Hugo Distler (1908-1942): Recontextualizing Distler's Music for Performance in the Twenty-First Century 

  Pierson, Brad

  Hugo Distler has been recognized as a forerunner of the New German Church Music, an important musical movement which developed in the 1930s. Beyond his role in developing music for the worship service, Distler wrote many ...
• Messiahs and Pariahs: Suffering and Social Conscience in the Passion Genre from J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (1727) to David Lang's the little match girl passion (2007) 

  Van Niekerk, Johann Jacob

  The themes of suffering and social conscience permeate the history of the sung passion genre: composers have strived for centuries to depict Christ's suffering and the injustice of his final days. During the past eighty ...
• Inside the Hyper-Instrument: Unsuk Chin's Double Concerto 

  Lee, Jong Eun

  The Korean Unsuk Chin (b. 1961) has received numerous prestigious awards and accolades for works that explore new sonic worlds and attempt, in her words, to "blur the differences, the boundaries, between the `natural' and ...
• From Oldham to Oxford: The Formative Years of Sir William Walton 

  Cannon, Gary

  The formative years of William Walton (1902-1983) are rarely considered when studying the composer's life and works. However, careful study of that period indicates many of the directions that the adult Walton would take. ...
• Coplandia, or the Ideological American Sound 

  Cweibel, Rebecca

  This thesis defines and explores Coplandia, a body of commercial music derivative of Aaron Copland's populist compositions. Coplandia occurs in film, television, advertisements, and at public events, inspiring feelings of ...
• Trumpet Mouthpiece Backbores: An Investigation of Interior Volume and Timbre 

  Frost, Matthew Russell (2014-04-30)

  In the trumpet playing community, the total interior volume of the trumpet mouthpiece backbore is generally thought to be a major component in the timbre a trumpet produces. Generally, a backbore with a larger interior ...
• Kamba time - for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello 

  Stachurska, Anna (2014-04-30)

  Kamba Time is a composition for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello. This piece is inspired by conceptions of time of an ethnic group form Kenya - Kamba people. The idea of an absolute, potential and absent time is ...
• The Life and Music of Isang Yun 

  Park, Edward (2014-04-30)

  The Life and Music of Isang Yun Edward Park Isang Yun (1917-1995), born in Duksan in Korea, is considered by many Korean and European musicians to be one of the most important of all twentieth-century composers. He spent ...

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