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Singa Nebah: Adapting a Javanese Gamelan Composition for a Western Percussion Ensemble
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 ... -
Singing the Unsayable: Female Performers and Global Health in The Gambia
Female performers in the Muslim West African context of The Gambia have become an integral part of the public health landscape. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare as well as numerous non-governmental organizations ... -
Situational Interest of Fourth Grade Children in Music at School
(2012-09-13)The role of interest in educational settings has been seen as a significant factor in nurturing an appreciation for learning and influencing the extent to which that learning occurs. Interest can be divided into two ... -
Six Quintets for Flute and Strings Attributed to Luigi Boccherini (G 437-442): A Critical Edition
The Six Quintets for flute, violin, viola, and two cellos, G 437-442, attributed to the Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) have been recorded twice, but, surprisingly, they have never been published. ... -
Songs Young Japanese Children Sing: An Ethnographic Study of Songs and Musical Utterances
(2012-09-13)The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine Japanese child-initiated songs and vocalized musicking practices at two preschool/kindergarten (hoikuen and yochien) settings. One of the focal points of this study was ... -
Spring Music
This piece explores the sonic possibilities of a simple wooden box with springs attached. The electronic component is described in regard to performance specifications and instructions are included which detail how ... -
Staging of Musical Drama in Italy at the Turn of Seventeenth Century A History of Theatrical Production
(2014-02-24)Abstract Seventeenth-century musical drama is a product of the humanist preoccupation with the revival of the cultural ideals of the antiquity. Italian critics of the sixteenth century, after studying the classical texts ... -
The story of the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet
(2000)The Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet has been the wind quintet-in-residence at the University of Washington School of Music since 1968. Officially founded in 1962, when its members were on the faculty of the Conservatory of Music ... -
"Strange Interludes?": Carnivalesque Inversions and the Humorous Music of the Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers are known as iconic comedians, and much of the literature on them focuses on the humorous content of their films. Many scholars describe the Marx Brothers as iconoclasts, aiming negative satire at elite ... -
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 ... -
String Quartet
(2013-04-17)The motivating idea behind this string quartet was to examine the extent to which a given contour—in this quartet, a curve abstracted from a short melodic line—could structure a piece of music at every level of its ... -
String quartet no. 2: by-products of mass media
(2006)As early as 1996, I began envisioning a string quartet in which the ensemble intersected with various dimensions of popular culture in an organic way. I sought to re-imagine the historic ensemble as descendant from 20th ... -
Stripping the Veneer and Exposing a Symbol in Mendes's Cabaret
The 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret, conceived and directed by Sam Mendes, exemplifies the versatility of the American musical. Arguably, the most iconic role in Cabaret is that of the Master of Ceremonies (Emcee), who ... -
A survey of flutists and flute activities in eighteenth-century America
(1991)The purpose of this study is to chronicle the activities of early American flutists and to provide new evidence to establish the flute's important role during America's musical nascence. Records of concert events, teaching ... -
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 ... -
Symphony By Numbers
(2009-11-06)Symphony By Numbers is an intermedia work of art, or perhaps visual music. The composer developed software for sound synthesis and abstract animation that was used to create the work. The artist also developed a XML schema ... -
Task-Based Variability in Children's Singing Accuracy
(2013-07-25)The purpose of this study was to explore task-based variability in children's singing accuracy performance. The research questions were: Does children's singing accuracy vary based on the nature of the singing assessment ... -
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 ...