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Whitney, Annette | Contemporary American art song: John Alden Carpenter, Charles Edward Ives, Aaron Copland and Ned Rorem | Before the songs of these four composers can properly be discussed and their musical ideas understood, there are a few things about the general trends of music composition in America and the American musical culture itself that ought to be understood. Before World War I America imported her art from... | 1966-08 | |
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Russell, Jessica | From the Old testament to the Paris Opera: Saint-Saëns's Samson Et Dalila and nineteenth-century french orientalism | Despite its successful premiere in Weimar in 1877, Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila met resistance as the composer attempted to stage the biblical story in France. When the work finally premiered in Paris in 1890, the opera directors exclaimed, "If we only knew!" In this thesis, I explore the aspec... | Gender; Nineteenth-century opera; Orientalism; Saint-Saëns; Samson et Dalila | 2017 |
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Bickmore, Isaac Lamont | Functions of popular music in the lives of adolescents | This study determines that a specified group of adolescents' favorite songs fulfill Frith's functions of popular music; (a) to create a type of self-definition; (b) to provide a way of managing the relationship between one's private and public emotional lives; (c) to shape popular memory, organiz... | Music and youth; Group identity | 2010-02-10 |
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Witham, Nathan | Generative music | This thesis project is the result of months of research and development into processes to create a generative system of chance based music making via software built using MAX/MSP. The goal of this music is to combine chance based algorithms with specific harmonic number patterns to foster an environ... | Music | 2014-12 |
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Landvatter, Scott Alan | Gustav Holst's Savitri Elucidated by Hindu thought | Gustav Holst, throughout his life manifesting a rather mystic penchant, was, in his early career, quite taken with Hindu writings? it was as a result of his studies in Sanskrit that his chamber opera Savitri , Opus 25, emerged in 1908. Based on a story in the Mahabha - rata, the one act opera tells ... | Opera; Hindu writings; Music | 1984-12 |
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Madsen, Allen Andrew | Hollywood film music in the secondary performing ensemble: Utah music educators' attitudes and teaching practices | The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of Hollywood film music on the secondary instrumental music educator in Utah. Ensemble directors must take many factors into account before selecting the pieces they will perform with their students each year. One genre of music that is increasin... | Motion picture music | 2010 |
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Bidwell, Benjamin Robert | The magician's folly | A music score of a ballet for orchestra based on C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. | Ballet; orchestral music | 2010 |
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Ballinger, Danielle Marie | Student attitudes toward the use of learning centers in the elementary general music classroom | This study investigated the attitudes of elementary-school students toward the use of learning centers as a tool of instruction in the elementary general music classroom. Participants (N=24) were members of two third-grade classes in a small K-12 independent school in Colorado. Participants experie... | Centers; Differentiation; Elementary; General; Learning; Music | 2011-12 |
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Hurtado, Jared Paul | Study of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white music teachers' influence | The purpose of this study was to report: (a) the enrollment of Hispanic and non-Hispanic White music students under the direction of Hispanic and non-Hispanic White music teachers (N=\3), (b) any practically significant differences between the enrollment of Hispanic and non-Hispanic White music st... | Music teachers, United States, Influence; Music students, Hispanic American; musicians, Education | 2008-08 |
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Anderson, Briawna A. | Troubled authenticity amd the romanticized West: reevaluating Charles Wakefield Cadman's 1918 opera Shanewis | In 1918, American composer Charles Wakefield Cadman completed the opera Shanewis or the Robin Woman, which was featured during two consecutive seasons at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. It was the first American opera to receive the honor of a double run and was popular throughout the 1920... | American Music; Cadman; Indianism; Opera; Shanewis; Tsianina | 2013-05 |
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