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(University of Oregon, 2010-09)Though not widely acknowledged, ballet and its music were important to the nineteenth-century Italian theatre-goer. While much scholarship exists for Italian opera, less study is made of its counterpart even though the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This thesis approaches Haydn’s sonata-form procedures from the perspective of the eighteenth-century listener, asking, if a moment is allegedly “witty” according to modern analysts, would Haydn's contemporary audience have ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Heinrich Scheidemann and Jacob Praetorius (ii), young organ students from Hamburg, traveled to Amsterdam around the turn of the seventeenth century in order to study with the Dutch organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. While ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)Our Neighbor John is a new opera that tells the story of a decorated American soldier recently returned home from combat in the Mideast. As John attempts to rejoin civilian life, he falls in love with Linnea, a farmer who ...
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(University of Oregon, 1998-08)Musicians, philosophers, historians, and composers through the ages have attempted to understand the relationship between musical modes and musical affections. The Greeks used the modes as prescriptives for healing diseases, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)The synthetic, historically sensitive, analytic method of this dissertation illuminates relationships between pattern and meaning in François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin --character pieces firmly rooted in traditions of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This dissertation focuses upon patterns and concepts of containment within selected Lieder from Hugo Wolf's Mörike collection. More specifically, I focus upon melody as a way of understanding how these found patterns and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)The main purpose of this study was to investigate a possible correlation between high school band directors’ familiarity with selected marches and their perceptions of quality of the selected works. Band directors who chose ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)My percussion concerto is scored for percussion soloist, chamber orchestra, and electronics. It explores virtuosity of performance on both Chinese and Western percussion instruments, the timbral interplay between acoustic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This thesis evaluates the musical and cultural components of singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe's 2018 album and “emotion picture” Dirty Computer. I argue that Monáe engages audience members from all walks of life through her ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This thirteen-minute concerto explores the concept of the "third-stream" style, a genre prevalent from the early twentieth century onward that explores the fusion of classical and the popular idioms. The piano writing, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2007-12)Piano Concerto No. 1 is a twenty-minute work scored for large orchestra and solo piano. Its two movements explore various orchestral colors and textures, and utilize the harmonic languages of tonality, polytonality, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This song cycle, which is scored for alto and chamber orchestra, is a setting of excerpts from Emily Corwin’s beautiful poetry. It explores the archetypal themes of love, loss, identity, and obsession. In regard to the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This thesis addresses the relatively narrow understanding of simple polyphony in music history. Using three examples, I provide a survey, mostly of secondary literature available in English, and offer an overview of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)Quadruple Quartet is a four-movement work scored for 16 players, four from each of the four instrumental families of the orchestra (i.e. woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion). This unique instrumentation utilizes a minimal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Following the Revolution of 1959, the Cuban government implemented policy reforms geared towards increasing women's rights. Despite these efforts, however, sexism persists in Cuban society. This difference between rhetoric ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)During the 1970s, the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, or P-Funk, performed a unique type of funk music that impacted the lives and culture of generations of fans. Their music has been a vital force in the developments ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)The most transformative moments in life cause us to look both backward (reflection) and inward (introspection). Likewise, reflective and introspective moments in film often align with important plot points. Separating ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)Rest is an English-language Requiem Mass for mixed choir and sixteen brass players. The text is translated into English by the composer from the original Latin and Greek. It comprises twelve movements, and a performance ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) stands among the earliest keyboard players to leave their imprint on music history as both a composer and teacher. Though his influence on the composing and performing traditions of ...
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