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“I WAS PART OF THIS WHOLE NEW MOVEMENT”: A NARRATIVE STUDY OF THE DRAKENSBERG BOYS’ CHOIR AND ITS ROLE IN NATION-BUILDING AT THE END OF APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA
This study investigates whether the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir played a role in nation-building in South Africa towards the end of and post-apartheid. The investigation included consulting the literature on the topic and three ... -
New View of Musical Meaning in Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 110
The interpretation of classical music has primarily focused on structuralist analysis. Previous studies have mainly addressed aspects such as form, major and minor mode, and tonal harmony. However, when an analysis takes ... -
A “Misleading” Opus Number: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
This study evolves as an analysis of the two versions of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1, focusing on aspects such as theme, harmony, structure, rhythm, and texture, based on the two-piano scores. Composed twenty-six ... -
Postcolonial Music Teaching and Learning: Children’s Engagement with Global Pop in an Elementary School Music Program
Global popular music, from a critical postcolonial perspective, acknowledges the ways in which music and artists have been marginalized by the music industry and in the field of Music Education. At the intersection of World ... -
Queer Songtellers: LGBTQIA+ Stories Told Through Covers of Dolly Parton's Music
Dolly Parton is one of America’s most cherished singer-songwriters who has stated multiple times that she would be a drag queen if she had been born a man. Even while making these statements, she has managed to hold a ... -
Laban Movement in Piano: An Introductory Guide to Incorporating Laban Choral Conducting Gestures in Piano Performance and Pedagogy
Rudolf von Laban was a pioneering movement theorist, deeply interested in the expression of human movement. His teachings have been adapted by James Jordan and Giselle Wyers for expressive choral conducting. Pianists, both ... -
Cracking the Code: Teaching Piano Students the Art of Musical Interpretation, with Practical Applications for All Levels
The ability to interpret a musical score and deliver an expressive performance is highly prized, both by teachers and students. However, there are relatively few resources which directly address the teaching of musical ... -
Another Way to Look at the Goldberg Variations
The Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach, published in 1741, has fascinated generations of performers and listeners, especially since Glenn Gould’s recordings in the second half of the twentieth century. This ... -
Bodies on the Border: Testimonios, Sonic Landscapes, and Artistic Sustainability in the Borderlands
My hometown, Douglas, Arizona, is a small community situated on the U.S./Mexico border. It sits directly across from its sister city, Agua Prieta, Sonora. In our current political climate, the discourse surrounding immigration ... -
Winterreise for Three Basses
This project evolved out of transcribing and performing European art songs as part of my DMA recital programming. The purpose of this project is to make an original contribution to the existing double bass repertoire. ... -
Going Beyond: Collegiate Choirs, Critical Pedagogy, and Community
Much has been written on the topic of critical pedagogy since the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire brought his critical approach and theory of knowledge to the world stage in Pedagogy of the Oppressed in 1968. As a ... -
The “Bedrock” of Musical Endeavor: Trust in Ensemble Rehearsals A Multiple Study Dissertation
Introduction: The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to the body of research that has investigated the psycho-social construct of trust present in everyday interactions between leaders and members, whether those ... -
The Renewal of Early Music Performance Practice, Pedagogy, and Organ Building in the United States
Anti-Romantic trends in early twentieth century Europe, spreading to North America by mid-century, drove an organ renewal defined by historical elements reintroduced in a modern paradigm. Fueled by factors including ... -
A Method to His Madness: A Poetic Exploration of Works by Robert Schumann and Romanticism
A cursory examination of the music of German Romantic composer Robert Schumann reveals a bewildering and borderline chaotic array of characters, contrasting fragments, irregular rhythms, and unexpected harmony changes. ... -
The Success and Adaptability of String Projects: A Common Practices Survey
This document is an analysis of the problems facing public school string education and what is actively being done currently to help with the problems. It catalogs the issues of teacher retention, teacher recruitment and ... -
i say 'me' guided by a blind instinct
i say ‘me’ guided by a blind instinct is a complex system of self-reflection that guides performers in making real-time decisions that result in indeterminate sonic and behavioral outcomes. Performers begin isolated from ... -
Analysis of the works by twentieth-century composers Edino Krieger, Igor Stravinsky, and Toru Takemitsu
This thesis consists of three analyses of works by twentieth century composers of various compositional techniques. The first chapter compares Edino Krieger’s Sonatina (1957) with previous works of his neoclassical period ... -
UPPER-STRING INSTRUMENTALISTS AS MICRO-ATHLETES: A FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATING A COGNITIVE AND PHYSICAL STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE REGIMEN IN (AND OUT OF) THE PRACTICE ROOM
Researchers long have acknowledged similarities between sports athletes and musicians. Indeed, musicians are sometimes referred to as musical or instrumental athletes. They begin training at a young age, practice or perform ... -
Historia di Jephte by Giacomo Carissimi: A Conductor’s Guide
The research I present here is a detailed analysis of Historia di Jephte (c. 1648) by Giacomo Carissimi (bap. 1605–1674). The purpose of this analysis is not only to provide a conductor’s guide to performing the work, but ... -
Cultural Syncretism in Filipino Choral Music
The music of the Philippines is a complex tapestry woven from the influences of Spanish andAmerican colonialism on the cultural identity of modern Filipino composers and the choral music they write. More than a hybrid ...