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In Silent Homage to Amaterasu: Kagura Secret Songs at Ise Jingū and the Imperial Palace Shrine in Modern and Pre-modern Japan
This dissertation explores the essence and resilience of the most sacred and secret ritual music of the Japanese imperial court—kagura taikyoku and kagura hikyoku—by examining ways in which these two songs have survived ... -
A Comparative Evaluation of Group and Private Piano Instruction on the Musical Achievements of Young Beginners
This study compares the relative influence of group and individual piano instruction on the musical achievements of young beginning piano students between the ages of 5 to 7. It also investigates the potential influence ... -
Compositional Techniques in the Saxophone Works of Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef (1920-2013) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the saxophone. After garnering acclaim from his hundreds of improvisatory recordings on a wide array of instruments, Lateef also inspired ... -
String Quartet
The motivating idea behind this string quartet is to explore the ways and methods of multi-layered musical material development, starting from the four independent instrumental parts and coming to a complete diffusion of ... -
Formless being for flute, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, percussion, piano and string quartet
Formless being can be thought of as a piece with a circular structure whose segments are cut short, just as the idea reaches its full development. An idea is presented and developed, pressing forward through the movement, ... -
Modern Horn Playing in Beethoven: An Exploration of Period Appropriate Techniques for the Orchestral Music of Beethoven for the Modern Horn Player
I. Abstract The historically informed movement has made it increasingly apparent that orchestras can no longer interpret Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, and Bach in exactly the same manner. It is now incumbent upon each member ... -
Saraswati Sings: The Slide-Guitar in India
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of slide-guitar traditions in the classical and popular music of India. Drawing from data gathered between 2014 and 2016 in Jaipur and Kolkata, India, the history, social life, and ... -
One Hundred Years of the Concert Marimba: American and Japanese Innovation and Convergence, 1915 to 2014
The United States and Japan are the two main contributors to the development of the concert marimba and its repertoire. There is an account in each country about how the concert marimba developed, but each is missing the ... -
Through a Literary Lens: The Effect of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Writing Styles on the Compositional Techniques of Robert Schumann
The son of a writer, lexicographer, and publisher, Robert Schumann was born on June 8th, 1810 in Zwickau, Saxony. His father, August Schumann, surrounded his son with a multitude of literary works during his youth. ... -
Mental Preparation for Piano Performance Using Principles of Aikido
University of Washington ABSTRACT Mental Preparation for Piano Performance Using Principles of Aikido Harumi Makiyama Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Craig Sheppard School of Music Although much has been ... -
A Way of Doing Things: Exploring and Applying the Alexander Technique for Choral Conductors
The human body is a machine of extraordinary design and intricacy, and musicians widely recognize the role the mind and body play in making music. Despite the problems that affect performing artists, there is a surprising ... -
Mahler's Third Symphony and the Languages of Transcendence
A work reaching beyond any of his previous compositional efforts, Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony embodies cultural, political, and philosophical ideals of the Viennese fin-de-siècle generation. Comprising six enormous ... -
Evocations of Nature in the Piano Music of Franz Liszt and the Seeds of Impressionism
Liszt scholarship of recent decades has produced research along many lines of inquiry in an endeavor to increase recognition of the composer as one of the most important and influential musical figures of the nineteenth ... -
THE ECONOMIC, AESTHETIC, AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION OF PROFESSIONAL VOCAL ENSEMBLES: TOWARD A THEORY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
Professional vocal ensembles have few published resources to assist their managers in navigating the economic and societal currents of the performing arts. Yet, professional choral performance is growing across America. ... -
Armenian Orchestral Music
The goal of this dissertation is to make available all relevant information about orchestral music by Armenian composers—including composers of Armenian descent—as well as the history pertaining to these composers and their ... -
Discovering the Parameters of Sound Creation: Physics Informed String Pedagogy
For more than a century physicists have worked to understand how the bowed string functions. In the past decade studies have become increasingly detailed through computer modeling and mechanical bowing machines. The goal ... -
Apparitions in Alfred Schnittke’s Sonata No. 2 (quasi una Sonata)
This dissertation explores the apparitions present in Alfred Schnittke’s (1934-1998) Sonata No. 2 (quasi una Sonata) (1968). These apparitions, in the form of quotation, allusion and musical monograms, will be examined and ... -
PNW: A musical composition for Narrator, Tenor Saxophone, and Live Computer Electronics
Concatenative Sound Synthesis (CSS) has undergone software tool development for composition in non-realtime use in the MATLAB (Sturm, 2006) and Max/MSP (Schwarz, 2003) programming environments. Live Concatenative Sound ... -
Mirum Terra
Translating to Strange Earth, Mirum Terra is a sequence of three musical pieces (The Taos Hum, Dune, and Blip) that explore some of the naturally occurring aural phenomena throughout the world. My primary goal in creating ... -
A Theological Interpretation of Four Pièces Terminales from Charles Tournemire's L'Orgue Mystique
Tournemire wrote in his memoirs, “I offer commentary on Gregorian chant in the modal system which did not know how to exclude chromaticism" (Mémoires, 39). There have been several recent studies of the modal and chromatic ...
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