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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)The purpose of this study was to determine what relationships exist, if any, between psychological well-being, psychosocial well-being, internalized homonegativity (IH), and LGBT community band participation, as well as ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Inferno, Volume I of Dante Alighieri's timeless magnum opus, The Divine Comedy, persists to modern times as a work of immense imagination and philosophical poignancy. Dante, as the Pilgrim, spins in verse a massive tale ...
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(University of Oregon, 2006-06)The use of basso continuo in the performance of many late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century genres is well documented, yet the influence of this practice on the Lieder during that time has never been fully explored. ...
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(University of Oregon, 1995)Recent developments in Cognitive Science have demonstrated that, contrary to traditional thinking, categories are not rigid, feature-defined phenomena. Rather , they are influenced by human experience and by the context ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century portraits from the Italian peninsula that depict women with keyboard instruments have been discussed as an apparent trend by feminist art historians and musicologists. While the connection ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This thesis is an interdisciplinary study to compare the simultaneous “revolutions” in music theory and physics during the early decades of 20th-century Vienna. In my first case study, I situate music theorist Heinrich ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)The interpretation of analytical claims about music presents a dilemma between positivism and fictionalism: is it that the structures imputed by the analysis are part of the reality of "the music itself" or are the structures ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Much scholarship on French grand opera has understandably focused on the monumentality of the genre--its sweeping historical panoramas, public spectacles, and large onstage chorus. This focus is reinforced, for example, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The purpose of this study is to examine the presentation of Joan of Arc's life in two lyric works, Jules Barbier and Charles Gounod's Jeanne d'Arc (1873) and Auguste Mermet's Jeanne d'Arc (1876), that premiered in Paris ...
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Kernel (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Kernel is a fifteen-minute work for wind ensemble. Its unifying strands of rhythm, melody, and harmony are spun out of simple four-note tone clusters which undergo changes in contour, intervallic inversion, register, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)"A Lawn in the Sky" is a musical drama in two acts on a libretto by Katherine Hollander. The piece is based on the true story of Lieutenant Onoda Hiroo, a Japanese "straggler" who refused to believe that Japan had surrendered ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Pit musicians have fallen through the cracks of musical theater scholarship. In all my research, I have yet to come across any sources that thoroughly examine musical theater from the perspective of the musicians who perform ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)My thesis piece "Listening to the Arts" is a twenty-minute long composition for chamber orchestra that consists of four movements. Each movement is inspired by an artwork from a different artist, namely Antonio Canova's ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-02-18)Madame Park is a tone poem for chamber orchestra. It is based on the Korean classical literature “박씨부인 (bak-ssi-bu-in).” The story is written by an anonymous person in the Joseon dynasty after the Qing invasion of Joseon ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This dissertation explores why undergraduate music theory students may not be motivated in their classes and how we can begin to improve music theory pedagogy by addressing the negative preconceptions surrounding the subject ...
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Marsyas (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Marsyas is a ballet in one act, written for chamber orchestra and with a cast of five to thirteen characters. The story, though based on ancient Greek myth, contains themes of class subjugation that are prevalent in our ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)This music composition is meant to be a narrative reflection of the mental state and the hopeful healing of those who have suffered from abuse at any age. This can be from physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse, or for ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The evidence found through comparing and contrasting staging manuals strongly suggests that Massenet might have been involved in the staging of his operas. Several important differences, which include the implications of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)The use of melodic inversion in the second reprises of Bach's keyboard suites is commonly acknowledged. However, no published account gives a detailed explanation of the context-driven nature of such inversion. After ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)This dissertation contextualizes melodic variation within a cultural, historical, and cognitive framework. This work discusses how traditional musicians learn how to vary melodies by observing norms of social and musical ...
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