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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This opera is the composer’s fanciful speculation on the origin of the banshee, a character out of Irish legend whose keening is a herald of death. In three scenes, the opera tells the story of a witch whose quest for power ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This mixed methods investigation analyzes the effect of a novel somatics training program on dance skills. Fourteen dancers were divided into treatment and control groups. The treatment group participated in an eight-week ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)For centuries, the horror genre has ensnared audiences across generations and genre lines: ballet, opera, literature, poetry, film, and, most recently, video games have all utilized the power of terror to shock, horrify, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis explores the use of modified Schenkerian analysis and how it relates to a feminine narrative in a piece of music. In music theory literature about music by women, Schenkerian analysis is a tool that is often ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Scenes from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke is a twenty-five minute work for violin and small ensemble. The accompanimental ensemble consists of flute (doubling alto flute), Bb clarinet, viola, cello, percussion (crotales ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The purpose of this study is to explore teaching jazz dance in higher education. I investigate three research avenues: the role of music and its effect in the studio, crucial movement and conceptual elements, and historical ...
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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, 2017-09-06)This thesis addresses the matter of convention in Broadway songs of the song and dance era. Composers worked with implicit, regular procedures in the commercial aesthetic of the 1920s and 1930s New York theater industry. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This concerto is the composer’s conversation with the past. In four movements, each one embodies a traditional musical form. The work is a continually transforming kaleidoscope of relentless virtuosity, fanciful flights ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This qualitative research study was designed to gain a deeper, more profound understanding of the lived experiences of collegiate male dancers. Through three phases of research, this study uncovered societal and familial ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The last thirty years have seen a resurgence in the research of sonata form. One groundbreaking treatise in this renaissance is James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s 2006 monograph Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Fais de Beaux Rêves is a single-movement atonal string quartet for a duration of approximately 17 minutes. My inspiration for this piece came from my language immersion experience in the French School at Middlebury College. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This thesis asks why women gangsta rappers have been excluded from virtually all academic and popular discourses about the genre. While ‘positive’ and ‘empowering’ New York-based female rappers in the late 80s and 90s are ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)In Schubert’s music, the theme “wandering” is used frequently, closely related to human life and death. I presume that, being stricken by serious illness and facing challenging relationships, Schubert lived his short life ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This piece is an exploration of tango music. Having played, arranged, composed, and performed this music since 2011, I consider myself steeped and well-versed in the culture and musical language of tango, and this piece ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-06)This Digital Portfolio Dissertation presents seven compositions including text documents that explain the synthesis techniques, data mapping and routing, visual elements, the software used, all software needed to reproduce ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-06)This Digital Portfolio Dissertation centers on a collection of seven digital videos of performances of original electroacoustic compositions that feature data-driven instruments. The dissertation also includes a copy of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Lila A. Reid Master of Fine Arts Department of Dance June 2018 Title: Using Collaborative Processes and Touch-Based Partnering to Formulate Concept and Choreography for a Screendance The research in this study uses ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This orchestral suite is based on an original narrative by the composer and each movement is written as though it were for use in a video game featuring this narrative. Taking place in an other-planetary city, Seraphyn ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Decades of market research have investigated how music can influence consumer purchase, food consumption, and alcoholic drinking. Before market researchers declared music an influencer of atmospheric perception, sociologists ...
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