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Meditation for Electronic Valve Instrument and Chamber Jazz Ensemble
(2019-07-02)This composition for a jazz chamber group, is presented in partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. The chamber group consists of flute, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, trumpet, trombone, ... -
Compositions for Guitar Quartet: Suite For 24 Strings The Canadian Landmarks Suite
(2019-07-02)This thesis combines the score of an original work by Daron McColl for Guitar Quartet entitled The Canadian Landmarks Suite, for guitar quartet, plus a written analysis including process, intent, and methodology behind the ... -
"Harp of Wild and Dream Like Strain": Original Compositions for the Lever Harp
(2019-07-02)This thesis focuses on a collection of original pieces written for the solo lever harp, contextualized by a short history of the harp and its development. Brief biographical information on influential contemporary harpists ... -
Zen in the Art of Drumming: Jim Blackley and His Influence on the Jazz Drummers of Canada
(2019-07-02)The objective of this thesis is to examine how the pedagogy of Jim Blackley (1927- 2017) the late Scottish-Canadian jazz drummer and educator influenced several generations of Canadian jazz drummers. Blackleys seminal ... -
Didgeridoo Notation
(2019-05-17)The didgeridoo is a unique musical instrument considered to be one of the worlds oldest instruments. It plays an integral part in Australian Aboriginal history, spirituality, rituals and ceremonies. Didgeridoo playing ... -
Suspiciously Significant Nonsense: A (Queer) Analysis of John Weinzweig's Private Collection Through Lip-Synced Performance
(2019-03-05)This thesis presents two different analyses of John Weinzweigs Private Collection, a group of nine songs for soprano and piano that was completed in 1975. The first analysis is text-based and draws on the existing literature, ... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: Musical Subtext in Drama
(2019-03-05)This dissertation explores the manner in which music (songs, instrumental underscoring, and sound cues) support, reflect, and advance dramatic action. The dramaturgical analysis, employing Freytags model, is applied to ... -
Works for Caribbean Orchestra: Compositions Reflecting the Music of Grenada and the African Caribbean Diaspora
(2018-11-21)In this thesis, the music and history of Grenada and the African Caribbean diaspora provided inspiration for compositions featuring a seventeen piece orchestra with an emphasis on form, structure, harmony, rhythm, melody ... -
The Improvising Musician's Mask: Using Musical Instruments to Build Self-Confidence and Social Skills in Collective Free Improvisation
(2018-11-21)This study explores the idea that musical instruments can function as masks, allowing for greater creative expression and self-confidence, in the context of collective free improvisation. The use of masks has been well ... -
Modern Folk Music Composition: A Self-reflexive Exploration
(2018-11-21)This thesis is comprised of two parts: six recorded original compositions and this paper, which includes an autobiographical survey of my musical influences and an analysis of the compositions. The compositions are all ... -
The Sound of Silence: An Ethnography on the Sama 'Ritual in the Nematollahi Kaneqah in Toronto
(2018-11-21)This thesis examines the Sufi ritual of Sama as practiced by the Nematollahi order in Toronto and will explore how music induces trance in Sufis during their ceremonies called Sama. My approach is ethnomusicological. ... -
Pedagogical Composition in the Wind Ensemble Genre
(2018-11-21)The performance of wind music has become an integral part of music education throughout North America. With approximately 2,500 new young band publications every year, publishers use grading systems to determine the ... -
Space and Voice: Compositions for Contemporary Cello
(2018-11-21)This dissertation contains a diverse portfolio of ensemble and solo compositions for contemporary cello. Throughout the accompanying paper, the concepts space and voice are utilized as analytical lenses, as they are central ... -
Beyond the Silver Moon: Exploring the Lost Tradition of Dvorak's Operas through a Study of Myth, Music, and Nationalism
(2018-08-27)When one examines the compositional oeuvre of Antonn Dvok, one bears witness to a catalogue of well-known works, and critical successes, in every genre except one, opera. Dvoks Cello Concerto, Op.104 is regarded as the ... -
Falstaff and Rodion: Programmatic Compositional Study of Two Characters of Fiction
(2018-08-27)The goal of this thesis is to explore specific aspects of creativity from the point of view of the composer. I have found, in looking back over twenty-plus years of writing music, that I have had a tendency to gravitate ... -
The Hungarian Cimbalom: History and Evolution
(2018-08-27)Two distinct and separate traditions exist in the repertoire and performance styles of the Hungarian cimbalom (classical and folk). These two approaches are intertwined and can be perceived in both the canon of certain ... -
The Harmony of Debussy in Contemporary Jazz
(2018-08-27)Claude Debussy and other late 19th-century composers (especially Maurice Ravel) introduced several new harmonic innovations that have since become standard tools of the jazz composer/arranger/improviser, among them the ... -
Terminal Station: The Creation And Study of A Canadian Rock Operetta (And Its Idiomatic Soup)
(2018-05-28)What does the action or discipline of composition mean in 2017? Different arts will flow into, and away from each other organically. Rigidly defined boundaries can restrict what art belongs where, and which preservation ... -
What Moves You? Raving at the Confluence of Musical Space, Headspace, Temporal Space, and Cultural Space
(2018-05-28)This study is an ethnographic investigation of rave and its culture, focusing on the motivational structures of individuals within the community. The aim of the study is to better understand the nature and form of raves ... -
Three Rock Music Compositions and the Groups that Inspired Them: The Beatles, Yes, and Led Zeppelin, From 1967 to 1972
(2018-05-28)This thesis presents three of my popular music compositions and places these works in their historical context. The discussion spans the years 1967 to 1972, when British popular music in general and the Beatles in particular ...
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