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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)The Canticle of the Black Madonna is an original opera-oratorio in two acts, comprising 27 pieces for six operatic soloists, mixed chorus, and chamber orchestra. It is based on an original libretto by Tiziana DellaRovere ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This opera, for soprano, contralto, baritone, treble voice, and chamber orchestra, sets an original story, a meditation on gender and the effects of restrictive gender norms in a society. The narrative follows a young ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)This descriptive study collected both qualitative data and quantitative data to gain an increased understanding of changes in interns and cooperating teachers during student teaching in music. Five dyads consisting of an ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Jazz chord-scale theory identifies scales that can be used to embellish a particular type of chord. It has fostered the notion that chords can generate their own local scales. This idea as well as many of the scale types ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)The revised Bloom's cognitive taxonomy classifies thinking into ways and kinds of knowing. The ways of knowing are remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. The kinds of knowing are factual, conceptual, ...
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Collaborative Dance Community: Crafting, Distilling, and Articulating Language of Shared Experience (University of Oregon, 2010-06)This qualitative and experiential research focuses on the nexus of language with educational and artistic goals within dance communities. The study shares descriptive language identified during my Master of Fine Arts ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)The focus of this study was a free site-specific dance and music performance for the general public in Alton Baker Park (Eugene, Oregon), designed to enhance public engagement with the park and with dance. Collaborative ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Through a review of literature and interviews with physical therapists specializing in dance, hip and low back injuries common to dancers are described and options for treatment are discussed. Injuries include internal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)As a prolific song composer whose works span the development of the French song cycle, Massenet is worthy of close examination. To date, analyses of his songs have included a cursory glance by Frits Noske and a review ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This concerto is the composer’s conversation with the past. In four movements, each one embodies a traditional musical form. The work is a continually transforming kaleidoscope of relentless virtuosity, fanciful flights ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Cosmic Lotus, Rising is a seventeen-minute, multi-movement experimental intercultural work for North Indian tabla and a fourteen-instrument chamber ensemble. This piece integrates playing styles from cosmopolitan classical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This thesis examines how and why the musical preferences of the Batavian elites shifted in the late nineteenth century. I argue that Batavian elites constructed and performed “Europeanness” to distinguish themselves not ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This research uses dance and film to investigate the creation and conveyance of a kinesthetic experience of place. The choreographer, dancers, and videographer participating in the study aimed to create a kinesthetic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)My research identifies critical thinking as an essential component of dance training for students of all ages and abilities, particularly students K-12. This project strategizes ways in which the studio dance teacher can ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)In my research into interdisciplinary choreographic processes, I found there to be a lacking representation of recent scholarship dedicated to exploring the relationship between literature and dance. As a dance theatre ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This mixed methods investigation analyzes the effect of a novel somatics training program on dance skills. Fourteen dancers were divided into treatment and control groups. The treatment group participated in an eight-week ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This thesis document articulates the development of Dance/Video Mashup as a Choreographic Process. Prior to this movement thesis I determined a list of goals I would aim to achieve throughout the exploration of Dance/Video ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)In the summer of 1996 the 1st Annual DanceAbility Teacher Training was offered by Alito Alessi in Eugene, Oregon. In the past 13 years 265 people have completed the teacher training and are certified instructors of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)In the last 40 years, Fanny Hensel’s reputation has evolved. Once seen merely as Felix Mendelssohn’s sister, Hensel is now regarded as an idiosyncratic and innovative composer whose music warrants recognition. Scholarship ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis addresses the matter of convention in Broadway songs of the song and dance era. Composers worked with implicit, regular procedures in the commercial aesthetic of the 1920s and 1930s New York theater industry. ...
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