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Louis Vierne and the Evolution of His Modal Consciousness
University of Washington Abstract Louis Vierne and the Evolution of His Modal Consciousness Jonathan Bezdegian Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dr. Carole Terry Music During my years of organ study I have always been ... -
“The History of the Ladies Musical Club is Like the Biography of a Great Man”: Women, Place, Repertory, Race, and the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle, 1891-1950
The Ladies Musical Club of Seattle (LMC) was formed in 1891 by an all-female group of classically-trained musicians with two stated aims: to provide music of a high standard to the still-burgeoning town of Seattle, and to ... -
Chanting up Zion: Reggae as Productive Mechanism for Repatriated Rastafari in Ethiopia
Since the 1960s, Rastafari from Jamaica and other countries have been “returning” to Ethiopia in the belief that it is their Promised Land, Zion. Based on extensive ethnographic research in Ethiopia between 2015 and 2017, ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ...
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