Filters: Collection: "ir_som"
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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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May, Brittany Nixon | A survey of early childhood public school music in the district of columbia: assessing content and teacher preparation | The purpose of this study was to examine early childhood music teaching processes and practices of public school elementary general music teachers in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). The goals were to (1) use the Opportunity-to-Learn Standards for Music Instruction: Grades PreK-12 and... | Early childhood music education; Elementary general music education; Music education; Teacher preparation | 2015-05 |
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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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Kirschner, Aaron J. | Divisions without hierarchy: four-dimensional modeling of submeter and its use in empirical analysis of the musics of the new complexity | Central to virtually all scholarship of meter is a notion of beat hierarchy. However, when beat units and/or tempi are in constant flux, defining a hierarchy becomes nearly impossible. Such impulse structuresâ€"common to music of the New Complexityâ€"resist traditional scholarship of meter/sub... | Empirical Analysis; Ferneyhough; Meter; New Complexity; Rhythm; Submeter; Music | 2017 |
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Wilks, Nathan A. | Verse chorus verse: an analysis of repetition in popular music | Popular music is often criticized by academics for being too repetitive. However, repetition is the mechanism by which music makes sense of itself. It is a conduit for meaning â€" separating music from noise, poetry from ambient chatter. By showing that in most verse-chorus songs, the amount of v... | Analysis; Music; Music psychology; Music repetition; Popular music; Repetition | 2017 |
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Valley: three corners of our room; an interdisciplinary work for chamber choir, solo instruments, and electronics | Valley: Three Corners of Our Room is a three-movement musical work for chamber choir, solo instruments (trumpet and flute), and electronics. The overarching theme of the project incorporates issues of environmentalism, climate change, and sustainability, and each movement ("corner") seeks to bring a... | music composition; interdisciplinary; collaboration; environmentalism; climate change; sustainability; music performance; choir; trumpet; flute; electronics; chamber music; sonification; light pollution; noise pollution; Great Salt Lake | 2023 |