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100 Chants: A Resource for Choral Practice and Performance
(2013-07-25)The purpose of this document is to create and present a varied collection of one hundred transcribed plainchants that may be used as a robust tool by contemporary choral musicians in the practice and performance of chant. ... -
A BROTHERHOOD WITH ONE SISTER: A COLLECTIVE CASE STUDY OF WOMEN CONDUCTORS OF COLLEGIATE MEN’S CHOIRS
Despite efforts to create gender equitable work places, there is evidence that gender typecasting and stereotyping is still a large issue in the modern work force. In choral music, there is a multitude of female elementary, ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Debussy’s Ondine and Ravel’s Ondine
In his formative years, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) experienced the influence of the artistic movement of Impressionism and the literary movement of Symbolism. Both of these movements profoundly influenced Debussy and ... -
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 ... -
A Comparative Study of Four American Professional Wind Bands
This study compares the repertoire, business models, and philosophies of four American professional wind bands; Dallas Winds, Lone Star Wind Orchestra, San Diego Winds, and the Royal Hawaiian Band. For the purposes of this ... -
A Comprehensive Guide for Learning Cello Vibrato
Vibrato has become such a critical technique in today’s instrumental performance that it is surprising to find it only lightly recorded in pedagogical literature, especially with respects to systematic teaching. The learning ... -
A Heritage of Songs: The Folk Song Collections of Carrie Grover
Carrie Grover, a homemaker and folk singer from Gorham, Maine via Nova Scotia, Canada, preserved, in her head, over 200 folk songs that she learned from her parents and other family members, passed down through the ... -
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. ... -
A Path to Song: The Incorporation of Aboriginal and Environmental Influences in 20th and 21st Century Australian Choral Music
Australian composers have made efforts to create choral music that is distinctively Australian. In order to compose choral music that represents Australia’s people, landscape, history, and culture, Australian composers ... -
A Rich Musical Legacy from Québec: Baroque Motets of the Ursuline and Hôtel-Dieu Monasteries of New France
Carefully preserved in the archives of the Ursuline and Hôtel-Dieu Monasteries of Quebec are several manuscripts containing Canada’s first sacred works for female voices. The manuscripts contain dozens of intricate motets ... -
A source study of two ballets and a divertissement by Marius Petipa
The ballets of Marius Petipa (1818–1910) account for most of the nineteenth-century ballets that constitute the current global classical repertory. In this dissertation, I use a selection of sources to provide detailed ... -
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 ... -
A Visit to the Sky-mother Mountain
University of Washington Abstract A Visit to the Sky-mother Mountain Lu Yin Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Joël-François Durand School of Music “Would you have me bow my head before mighty prices, forgetting all the ... -
A Voice in the Choir: Modernizing the Language and Practice of Voice Pedagogy in the Choral Culture
Advancement and language in contemporary voice pedagogy have shifted significantly in the twenty-first century, and practitioners have raised concerns about updated understanding and application in the choral setting. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Alexander Technique and Organ Performance
The organist has an intensely physical relationship with her instrument. Over time, routines of practice and performance of music almost invariably lead to the build-up of stress, fatigue, and muscular tension that can ... -
An Analysis Of The Mikrokosmos Of Béla Bartók
(1946)Much contemporary music in melodically and harmonically chaotic to the unprepared listening ear and represents a type of expression which fails to possess the remotest apparent connection with previous experience. Nothing ... -
An analysis of the Violin concerto of Johannes Brahms
(2001)The violin concerto by Johannes Brahms is a part of the major repertoire of violin literature. It was written for a Hungarian virtuoso violinist, Joseph Joachim. Joachim's input on this violin concerto is tremendous and ... -
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 ...