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Big bass viol.
(New York : Ted Snyder Co., 1910, 1910)
On Mathematics, Music and Film
(1968)
An early attempt by the author to comprehend the nature, scope and limits of the constraints on the possibilities of 'colour music'. (Thesis submitted in the Spring of 1968 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for ...
Inspiration to fruition: four compositions for jazz quintet
This thesis examines four of my recent compositions for jazz quintet. The compositions were conceived to comprise a collection or suite, with each piece inspired by the work of a master of a particular creative discipline. ...
Musicals at the Stratford Festival of Canada: The Economics, Aesthetics and Entertainment Value of Musicals Produced at a Classical Theatre Festival
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation explores the place of musicals at the Stratford Festival of Canada—with specific attention focused on the function, and the value of an American art form in a classical theatre company devoted to the works ...
Music of the Martial Arts: Rhythm, Movement, and Meaning in a Chinese Canadian Kung Fu Club
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation is an investigation of the percussion used to accompany Chinese martial arts and lion dancing at Toronto, Canada’s Hong Luck Kung Fu Club. It is based on six years of participant-observation and performance ...
Russian Folk Traditions in Contemporary Musical Literature for Winds
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation performs analyses of and compositions in three musical traditions that have received little attention in the English-speaking literature: Russian vocal folk polyphony (as described by theorist Aleksandr ...
Thematic Interconnectivity as an Innate Musical Quality: An Investigation of Jandek's "European Jewel" Guitar Riffs
(2015-01-26)
This dissertation is divided into two main areas. The first of these explores Jandek-related discourse and contextualizes the project. Also discussed is the interconnectivity that runs through the project through the ...
Non-Isochronous Meter: A Study of Cross cultural practice, analytic technique, and implications for jazz pedagogy
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation examines the use of non-isochronous (NI) meters in jazz compositional and performative practices (meters as comprised of cycles of a prime number [e.g., 5, 7, 11] or uneven divisions of non-prime cycles ...
Pat Metheny: Techniques in Improvisation
(2015-08-28)
This thesis illustrates Pat Metheny’s formulaic system within a unique three-tier approach that divides formulaic information into a connected system of categories, species, and components. Using four transcribed ...
The Homonculus Cycle: A Compositional Examination of Poetic, Narrative, and Musical Meaning
(2015-08-28)
This compositional thesis is a song cycle for baritone voice and small ensemble of upright bass, violin, and steel-string guitar, based on the poem “Homonculus” by MacKenzie Regier. In Part 1, I explore several sources ...
David and Goliath: An Oratorio
(2015-08-28)
This thesis involves composing a dramatic work, David and Goliath: An Oratorio, for chorus and orchestra, with an emphasis on emulating eighteenth-century English oratorio style. A framework for writing compositions based ...
Chamber Jazz Concepts and Techniques as Applied to Six Original Compositions
(2015-08-28)
Chamber jazz was introduced in the 1950s with artists like Ahmad Jamal and the Modern Jazz Quartet leading the way in this new genre. It is a fusion of elements from both Western Art Music and Jazz, combining to form a ...
POP-ing the Strings: A Fresh Sound from a Classical Source
(2015-08-28)
Internationally trained artist Nicole Marques breaks free from the conventions of Classical Violin with her refreshing POP Strings compositions.
As an educator, Nicole Marques understands the importance of student ...
Making the Scene: Vancouver's Cellar Club and Other Co-operative Jazz Clubs in Canada 1955–1964
(2015-08-28)
Between 1955 and 1964, co-operative jazz clubs were formed in several Canadian cities. Operated by the artists themselves, these co-operative ventures —the Cellar in Vancouver, the Yardbird Suite in Edmonton, the Foggy ...
Ensemble Stuff: The Grateful Dead's Development of Rock-based Improvisational Practice and its Religious Implications
(2014-07-09)
This dissertation examines the Grateful Dead’s creation of a distinctively rock-oriented approach to open improvisation in the mid to late 1960s. In the first section of the dissertation, I draw on live recordings, presented ...
Shinichi Suzuki and Musical Talent: An Analysis of His Claims
(2015-08-28)
The Suzuki Method is a popular and influential method of music education for strings.
Central to this study is the Method’s premise that musical talent is not inborn, but rather cultivated through one’s environment. A ...
"And Then There Was Light": A Group of Compositions Inspired by the Universe's Creation, Its Present State, and Its Possible Fates.
(2015-12-16)
The work herein contained strives to express (vocally and musically) the creation of the cosmos; whilst adhering to the most prevalent artistic (philosophical and scientific) notions of the past, present, and future. Due ...
The Portuguese Guitar: History and Transformation of an Instrument Associated with Fado
(2014-07-09)
Since the mid-nineteenth century the Portuguese guitar has been connected to the fado genre. Both the instrument and the song genre have experienced significant transformations, at times related to aesthetic changes, at ...
Considering Schubert and Nature: A Romantic Ecology
(2014-07-09)
Franz Schubert’s preoccupation with the nature-centric poetry of his day yielded a large body of musical landscapes and depictions of the human experience of nature. And while his songs are often associated with the ...
Escaping the Ideological Framework of Tradition: Brazilian Choro Music for Piano
(2015-01-26)
Historical and analytical studies on the development of choro music frequently focus on the development of this musical genre in a context of its popular contemporaneity. In this research, the genre is examined stylistically ...