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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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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)Music has meaning. But what is the nature and source of meaning, what tools can we use to illuminate meaning in musical analysis, and how can we relate aspects of musical structure to our embodied experience? This dissertation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)While some composers at the beginning of the twentieth century drifted away from tonal hierarchical structures, Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams sought ways of integrating tonal ideas with new materials. By analyzing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Between c.1700 and 1900, Swiss Alpine song was used as a tool to cultivate mountainous aspects within human bodies. Scholarship on Alpine song in this period typically focuses on the subgenre of the ranz des vaches, a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)This dissertation investigates the music and liturgy of the German Benedictine convent of Kloster Preetz as reflected in three fifteenth-century manuscripts: the Buch im Chor of prioress Anna von Buchwald, an antiphoner ...
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Music Borrowing in Organ Literature through History: Couperin, Bach, Brahms, Ives, Alain, and Cage (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)This dissertation is a study of borrowed melodies, harmonies, and formal structures in six representative works from the organ literature of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. These works, by composers François ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-12)Despite the immense popular and critical response given to the Harry Potter narrative and phenomenon, little has been written about the music for the Harry Potter films. I establish that the aesthetic differences that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-09)The rising popularity of the use of "contemporary music" for worship in Christian churches has created an ever-growing body of music professionals who, coming largely from a rock-influenced folk idiom, are often untrained ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)How have we come to hear melody as going “up” or “down”? Why does the Western world predominantly adopt spatial terms such as “high” and “low” to distinguish musical notes while other non-Western cultures use non-spatial ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-02-18)Kaija Saariaho’s and Amin Maalouf’s 2000 opera “L’amour de Loin” has received world-wide praise and acknowledgement for their masterful storytelling, and breathtaking, fresh musical setting. In 2020, the Met offered this ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)This study looks at the lives of female musicians who lived and worked in Oregon in the early twentieth century in order to answer questions about what musical opportunities were available to them and what musical life may ...
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