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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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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This choreographic research identifies and examines triggers that can induce flow, as defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, through a creative process and performance, illuminating a type of experience that supports awareness ...
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(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 ...
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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, 2017-05-01)This dissertation provides the first full-scale musicological study of Stuttgart 95, a thirteenth-century song book, formerly thought to be from the abbey of Weingarten. Upon further examination, it is clear that rather ...
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(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 ...
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(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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