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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 ...
La Suite Cubana: Creative Intersections with Cuban Musical Forms
(2016-11-25)
The objective for this thesis is to compose a three-part suite and to provide an in-depth analysis of the musical content. The music is written based on the synthesis of traditional Cuban forms and stylistic features with ...
Folkloric Flux
(2016-09-20)
This paper accompanies the authors original symphony for large orchestra, folkloric flux. Although primarily based on traditional symphonic formal and developmental features, folkloric flux also employs narrative to guide ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hip life music: re-defining Ghanaian culture (1990-2012)
(2016-06-23)
African music is full of life ... we have different ethnic groups, different languages and cultures, moods, shades; it's so dynamic, and we have a message. (Diana Hopeson, p.c. 2006) My research documents the hip life ...
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 ...
Contemporary Art Music Compositions with Folkloric Elements of El Salvador
(2018-03-01)
There is a critical lack of ethnographic and ethnomusicological research that focuses in El Salvadors indigenous (folkloric) music. Drawing on the historical studies and research of Santiago Ignacio Barberena and Dr. Jorge ...
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, ...
Mobile-Based Interactive Music for Public Spaces
(2016-09-20)
With the emergence of modern mobile devices equipped with various types of built-in sensors, interactive art has become easily accessible to everyone, musicians and non-musicians alike. These efficient computers are able ...