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Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris' Concept of Movement as Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula
(2017-07-27)One of the challenges faced in post-secondary jazz education across the GTA is finding qualified instructors who are familiar with dialogical methods for teaching African American jazz histories. More specifically, finding ... -
Red Mitchell: Tuning in Fifths and the Walking Bass Line
(2014-07-09)In 1966, Red Mitchell began tuning his bass in fifths to meet the demands of film composers who required a low C. Having played in fourths for approximately twenty years, Mitchell required only nine days to adapt to fifths ... -
Reflections on the Development of Steelpan Music: Compositions for Steel Orchestra
(2018-03-01)The steelpan is a musical instrument created in Trinidad and Tobago circa 1930s. It has secured a place in the countrys cultural identity as one of its most important musical developments. It is authenticated as an orchestral ... -
Requiem Mass as Concert Piece
(2016-09-20)This dissertation concerns the history and architecture of the requiem mass as a composition conceived and designed for concert performance. The overall academic format and design of this work includes five chapters and ... -
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 ... -
Searching for a Musical Middle Way: A Composition for Multi-traditional Percussion
(2015-08-28)This thesis aims to integrate the author's major fields of musical training through a suite of compositions that combines compositional and aesthetic elements of those traditions, namely, Japanese taiko drumming, Karnatic ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Tango…The Perfect Vehicle The Dialogues and Sociocultural Circumstances Informing the Emergence and Evolution of Tango Expressions in Paris Since the Late 1970s
(2015-08-28)This dissertation examines the various dialogues that have shaped the evolution of contemporary tango variants in Paris since the late 1970s. I focus primarily on the work of a number of Argentine composers who went into ... -
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 ... -
The 'Jazz Gene': Examining the Use of Jazz Aesthetics in Hip-Hop Music
(2018-03-01)This thesis is made up of 7 original compositions that aid in exploring the common cultural traits and practices of African-American music referred to using the metaphor of the Jazz Gene. These conventions are historically ... -
The Application of Tapping Techniques in Compositions for the Solo Electric Bass
(2016-09-20)This thesis is an investigation into the application of tapping techniques in compositions for the solo electric bass. Through the detailed analysis of seven compositions, an understanding of the technical merit of tapping, ... -
The Arpeggiator: A Compositional tool for Performance and Production
(2016-11-25)The properties of the arpeggiator bring forth a creative process that marries production, composition, improvisation and performance in a manner that inspires the musician/producer, helped define the aesthetics, creative ... -
The Book of Lullabies
(2018-03-01)Lullaby is a genre which shares thematic material, is in a slow or moderate tempo and its melody puts stepwise motion and consonant intervals first. The Book of Lullabies is composed of two parts. Part One presents ... -
The Chromatic Guitar Method
(2015-12-16)The Chromatic Guitar Method was written to help beginning guitar students better understand music theory and music notation. In my 17 years of experience teaching guitar I have found common pitfalls associated ... -
The Generation Variations: A New Work for Double Bass Soloist and Electric Guitar Accompanist
(2016-11-25)This thesis combines the score of an original work by Arthur Roth for double bass and electric guitar with effects entitled The Generation Variations with a written analysis. The analysis presents the intent, method and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...