Graduate Capstones and Terminal Projects
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2024-03-28T08:39:45ZPedagogical and Technical Suggestions for J. S. Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006, for First-year College Students in a Four-year Course of Study
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Pedagogical and Technical Suggestions for J. S. Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006, for First-year College Students in a Four-year Course of Study
Shin, Ji Yeon
The purpose of this lecture document is to present a four-year course of study,
using the Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006 by Johann Sebastian Bach, for an
entering first-year college student. Even though the Sonatas and Partitas by Bach have
been included in college auditions as repertoire to present the student’s musicality and
technique as a solo violinist without any accompaniment, many students have little
experience with this literature. In the proposed course of study, three case studies (the
Allemanda in D Minor, the Gavotte en Rondeau in E Major, and the Fuga in G Minor) of
the Sonatas and Partitas are presented in two different approaches – the historically
informed performance practice (HPP) and the mainstream performance practice (MSP).
The list of references for the first-year student in each approach is included.
135 pages
2018-08-01T00:00:00ZTaking Shelter from the Rain: Exploring Trailside Shelters in Olympic National Park
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Taking Shelter from the Rain: Exploring Trailside Shelters in Olympic National Park
Wisernig, Adeline
Shelters along the trail system of what is now Olympic National Park (the Park) have been a dry place to rest for employees and the public alike since they were constructed beginning in the early 1900s. They began as an integral component for sheltering workers tasked with monitoring the vast Olympic forest and the natural resources of timber and game therein. Today, they continue to be used by Park employees as well as by the ever-growing number of Wilderness visitors each year. Of the over ninety that once stood in boundaries of the Park, only nineteen remain as of 2023. This project outlines the history of the development of the trailside shelter network in the Park as well as the legal issues surrounding the preservation of those that remain. From there, the project elaborates on the various shelter typologies and their unique construction styles in the larger context of National Park Service conventions of their time. Furthermore, the project proposes evaluating the Historic Trail Network of Olympic National Park—including the trailside shelters as contributing features—as a cultural landscape resource that is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Lastly, the project explores how the preservation of historic structures in designated Wilderness offers the opportunity to preserve more intangible aspects of our nation’s heritage in the form of the traditional trades such as the preservation carpentry and masonry.
141 pages
2023-06-01T00:00:00ZENRIQUE SORO AND CARMELA MACKENNA: PROMINENT COMPOSERS OUTSIDE THE CHILEAN CANON
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ENRIQUE SORO AND CARMELA MACKENNA: PROMINENT COMPOSERS OUTSIDE THE CHILEAN CANON
Osses, Camila
Enrique Soro and Carmela Mackenna were prolific Chilean composers in the first half of the twentieth century. They developed different music careers: Soro in Chile, and Mackenna in Germany. For political reasons, Soro's work was relegated as a composer "from the past" even though he was an active performer and composer until his death, while Mackenna's music was ignored due to gender biases and the fact that she developed her career outside Chile. In the present work, I will analyze Soro's Piano Sonata No. 2, a work that has not been published and that offers insights into his personality and compositional style. I will also comment on and analyze Carmela Mackenna's life and work, particularly her songs for voice and piano, which have not received the attention they deserve.
By addressing the Chilean canon, an aesthetic that originated in 1929 after the reformation of the National Music Conservatory in Chile, I will deconstruct the labels that both composers received during their lifetime and after their death.
150 pages
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZBeyond City Beautiful: Interpreting Cultural Landscapes at the International Rose Test Garden and Laurelhurst Park in Portland, Oregon
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Beyond City Beautiful: Interpreting Cultural Landscapes at the International Rose Test Garden and Laurelhurst Park in Portland, Oregon
Tran, Lindsay
Historical interpretation (alternately referred to in this research as “heritage interpretation and “public interpretation”) often limits the narratives that are highlighted for public consumption in places of historical importance. I argue via discussion of cultural landscape theory and material rhetoric (the idea that discourse is material, i.e. that beyond content, the format of a piece of communication carries a rhetorical power of its own) that such limitations are a choice, not an inevitability—especially with cultural landscapes, which thanks to their relationship with time are historic resources of a particularly dynamic character. Treating public parks as cultural landscapes that evolve over time, rather than as historic sites wedded to a discrete period of significance, allows for a more flexible interpretation of their historical meaning. When parks are treated as cultural landscapes, their significance to many people and many groups throughout history presents as a coherent narrative, rather than a haphazard and seemingly unrelated collection of events. Using the inductive process of grounded theory as a methodological approach, I critically examine the extant interpretive infrastructure in two case studies, Laurelhurst Park and the International Rose Test Garden. I explore the material form of each park’s historical interpretation as a series of rhetorical choices, and then suggest expansions based on each park’s respective history and the material rhetoric of the existing interpretive infrastructure.
164 pages
2023-06-01T00:00:00Z