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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)This thesis describes the unique development and execution of a practice of improvisational dance through the lens of non-attachment. The ephemeral nature of dance as discussed by Maxine Sheets-Johnston is compared to a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Scenes from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke is a twenty-five minute work for violin and small ensemble. The accompanimental ensemble consists of flute (doubling alto flute), Bb clarinet, viola, cello, percussion (crotales ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Set Class Conceptualizations has two main goals: one, facilitate a student’s learning of set classes; and two, demonstrate multiple ways in which they could benefit from doing so. The intended audience of this dissertation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-06)This Digital Portfolio Dissertation presents seven compositions including text documents that explain the synthesis techniques, data mapping and routing, visual elements, the software used, all software needed to reproduce ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This artistic inquiry was conducted to explore specific processes in dance making and expand upon how I use my own history in the choreographic process. For my Movement Project Shedding Skin: Expose, Educate, and Evolve, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The purpose of this study is to explore teaching jazz dance in higher education. I investigate three research avenues: the role of music and its effect in the studio, crucial movement and conceptual elements, and historical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)The genre "Sinfonia Concertante" typically features one or more solo instruments interacting with an accompanying orchestra. It is neither a concerto nor a formal symphony, but a hybrid of the two. In this composition, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This dissertation examines representations of National Socialism in American musical theater. The Sound of Music (1959) and Cabaret (1966) use two fundamentally different approaches. Based on the German Heimatfilm, Die ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Eighteenth-century composer Domenico Scarlatti is celebrated for his more than five-hundred keyboard sonatas, but traditional scholarship is in need of new avenues. Responding to the call for bolder approaches to the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)From 1997-2002, a loose collective of hip hop and R&B musicians known as The Soulquarians collaborated to produce numerous award-winning and critically-acclaimed albums. Drawn together by the heady atmosphere of collaboration ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Song of the Most Beautiful Bird of the Forest is an English-language chamber opera scored for soprano, bass-baritone, mezzo-soprano, tenor, solo dancer, dance ensemble, and mixed instrumental ensemble of ten players. The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)In colonial Peru, the Spanish crown relied on religious orders, most notably Dominicans, Franciscans, and Jesuits, for accelerating processes of colonization. The dissemination of Christian art, architecture and music, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)The variation form, despite its significant to Brahms, has often been neglected in favor of the sonata form. A Schenkerian perspective of the Andante con moto from Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 87 reveals the motivic and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)This study provides insight into the compositional features of the monophonic ballata, a genre developed in the early to mid-fourteenth century in northern Italy. In analyzing the formal structure, melodic contour, application ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This orchestral suite is based on an original narrative by the composer and each movement is written as though it were for use in a video game featuring this narrative. Taking place in an other-planetary city, Seraphyn ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Suite of Roads is an orchestral suite comprising of two contrasting movements. This work explores and develops my original musical ideas in regard to the nature of roads and their role in connecting individuals and ...
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Sunfall (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Sunfall is a musical work for wind ensemble based on six short stories in a collection of the same name by author C.J. Cherryh. Each story takes place in a different major city on Earth, millions of years in the future, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)The implementation of an informed cross-relationship between two independent art forms has often been a source of inspiration for artists throughout the millennia. However, in the late 19th century, both Russian and French ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-12)Throughout history, wondrous discoveries of science, like great pieces of music, have often come about through extraordinary feats of creativity, informed by deep rational thought yet not limited by it. Like science, music ...
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