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  • Pattern and meaning in Francois Couperin's Pieces de Clavecin 
    Snyder, Caitlin E., 1971- (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 ...
  • Pretty Pretty Princess vs. The Underworld: A Song Cycle in Seven Movements for Alto and Chamber Orchestra 
    Haxo, Cara (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 ...
  • Symphonies -- Scores and parts 
    Morell, Justin, 1973- (University of Oregon, 2010-12)
    Throughout history, wondrous discoveries of science, like great pieces of music, have often come about through extraordinary feats of creativity, informed by deep rational thought yet not limited by it. Like science, music ...
  • Teaching Behaviors of Middle and High School Orchestra Directors in the Rehearsal Setting 
    Ihas, Dijana A. (University of Oregon, 2011-09)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency and the time that middle and high school orchestra directors engaged in seven specific teaching behaviors in a rehearsal setting. Of particular interest was the ...
  • The Role of Music Theory in Music Production and Engineering 
    Wiederkehr, George (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)
    Due to technological advancements, the role of the musician has changed dramatically in the 20th and 21st centuries. For the composer or songwriter especially, it is becoming increasingly expected for them to have some ...
  • Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree 
    Price, Wesley (University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)
    This composition is a symphonic poem for full orchestra roughly eighteen minutes in length. The work takes both its title and inspiration from George Orwell's novel 1984. Each individual section of music reflects on a ...
  • Villa-Lobos’s Cinq Preludes: An Analysis of Influences 
    Huether, Joy, 1985- (University of Oregon, 2011-05)
    While musical styles from various parts of the world intermingled in the early twentieth century, Heitor Villa-Lobos sought to promote Brazilian music throughout the classical music world. Instead of presenting only Brazilian ...
  • Vocabulary, Voice Leading, and Motivic Coherence in Chet Baker's Jazz Improvisations 
    Heyer, David, 1979- (University of Oregon, 2011-12)
    This study applies Schenkerian theory to Chet Baker's jazz improvisations in order to uncover the melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal hallmarks of his style. Analyses of short excerpts taken from multiple recorded ...

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