I believe all teachers should possess a lifelong desire to learn. I have demonstrated this desire through the pursuit of a Master’s degree. Students come into the classroom with certain needs, interests, and ability levels. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Musical themes in film are often transformed in ways that reflect major plot developments. Film music scholars typically explore such transformations across an entire film. However, this broad analytical brush misses the ...

This article states the results of a survey conducted of Portland area musicians and sound artists as to the extent to which nonmusical sounds affect their art. Results varied, but most musicians stated that nonmusical ...

This project seeks to identify the ways in which Queer Muslims construct the ‘self’ both within and outside of religious contexts — through identifying my participants’ behavioral differences and similarities in religious, ...

McMichael argues that we currently exist in the third food regime. One marked by capitalism, corporate control and increasingly extreme externalities impacting humans and the environment (Robbins, 2015). Colonialism and ...

Myotonic dystrophy (DM), a genetic and neuromuscular disorder, is the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy resulting in symptoms such as proximal muscle weakness, myotonia, iridescent cataracts and cardiac ...