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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Metric dissonance in Brahms’s music is not an unfamiliar topic. Hemiola, offbeat accents, and syncopations are Brahms’s common metric strategies. These metric manipulations often facilitate a displacement between the audible ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)In the 1930s, Oregon State University received an impressive oversized manuscript, now known as "The Gradual," as part of a large donation of books. Not much was known about this manuscript. It does not have documentation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)The Metamorphosis of Gertrude and Jo, a Chamber Opera is in one act, and is scored for three singers and eight-person chamber ensemble. The libretto by Susanna Payne-Passmore is a queer retelling of the myth of Philemon ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)The Grateful Dead grew from the 1960’s counterculture and have been one of the most influential bands of American culture. This thesis examines Deadheads and the ritual dimensions of live shows subculture from its inception ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)In this thesis, I examine how the patriotic songs found in the FAK songbook helped maintain the continued imposition of apartheid. During the start of the 20th century the FAK aimed to solve the ‘poor white problem’ by ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)Bass culture describes the shared affinity for excessive low frequency aesthetics. During the 2000s and 2010s, discussion of the term first emerged within the context of bass-centric Afrodiasporic popular music genres such ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)In this thesis, I investigate fairy culture through its music. Fairy music, the music that intersects with these communities, is incredibly diverse, ranging from the protest music of gay rights movements, to music emanating ...
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The Trombone in A: Repertoire and Performance Techniques in Venice in the Early Seventeenth Century (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)Music published in Venice, Italy in the first half of the seventeenth century includes a substantial amount specifying the trombone. The stylistic elements of this repertoire require decisions regarding general pitch, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Anton Webern’s Op. 18 stands at nearly the exact center of his published work. Though it was in his Op. 17 that Webern began working with ordered pitches, there are some logistic struggles evident in his diversions from ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Dance, film, and music are living art forms. They unfold through time, motion, environments, and bodies. They take up shapes, rhythms, textures, and tones. They tell stories. And they often amplify one another in ways that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Autobiographical readings are standard when it comes to the works of British composer Ethel Smyth (1858–1944). In addition to being a composer of large-scale orchestral works, she was an outspoken feminist and prolific ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation highlights the position of the violin works in Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s oeuvre. The violin was an integral part of this composer’s life from an early age. Despite this, his compositions for the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)This study explores the experience of timelessness in music by examining the musical parameters that are in play and how those musical parameters affect and are affected by memory and expectation. I propose three types of ...
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(University of Oregon, 1990-12)Claude Debussy lived at a special point in the history of Music: .the turning point from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. As many of his contemporaries did, he tried to free himself from all the limitations of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz defines “double time” as “the apparent doubling of the tempo […] achieved by halving the prevailing note value.” A more precise term for this concept is “double-time feel.” The question of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)"Transformations" is a three-movement work that is approximately 17'30" in duration and is scored for full orchestra. The piece is a tone poem and employs extended tonal pitch content. Each of the three movements is based ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This piece is five movements for Wind Ensemble. Each movement includes unaccompanied vocal introductions. I have chosen five poems by Sara Teasdale as the text for these introductions. The large ensemble then expands and ...
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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, 2010-12)The Two Trees is a fifteen-minute musical composition for orchestra. Inspired by William Butler Yeats' poem of the same name, the piece depicts the images described by Yeats' poetic narrative through a double theme and ...
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