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Music and Dance Theses and Dissertations
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Milius, Emily
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The voice holds immense power. The voice can evoke fear or exhibit submission; it can arouse or turn off; it can signal sarcasm or sincerity. More broadly, the voice can tell someone how you are feeling in a particular ...
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Daniels, Brylee
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The Liberian Civil Wars, spanning from 1989 to 2003, represent some of the mostdevastating conflicts in recent African history, dismantling the socio-political fabric of Liberia
and leaving a profound impact on the nation's ...
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Fulton, Hannah
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
In popular song genres (and across song genres), melody plays a vital role in delivery of sung lyrics; it contributes an essential aspect of lyrics’ affect and meaning. Scholars in the field of popular music have historically ...
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Fulton, Hannah
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
“The Way of Life,” a new oratorio with music and text by Hannah E. Fulton, is a celebration of life and the connection between humanity and nature. It explores the coexistence of positive and negative experiences in life: ...
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Bopp, Emily
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Traditional style histories of midcentury musicology tend to reduce Musical Impressionism to color, light, and debussyste conventions, over-emphasizing visuality and limiting its purview to a scant few composers. To expand ...
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Pinkham, Frances
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This project explores the means by which trans and gender nonconforming (GNC) artists use technological manipulations to vocal performance to signify their gender experience. The introduction and literature review (Chapter ...
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Liu, Annie
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This thesis examines the political and cultural context informing the voices and timbres of Chinese popular music between 1920 and 1980. Drawing from scholarship by Jones (2001), Chen (2007), and Ouyang (2022), I survey ...
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De Togni, Daniel
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This song cycle is scored for soprano or mezzo-soprano soloist and chamber orchestra. The text was written by the composer, and the principal theme of this work is growth and transformation. This is the one through-line ...
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Salzman-Coon, Olivia
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Currently, career movement in the field of teaching, both for migration and attritionreasons, is a national concern for stakeholders, teachers, and researchers alike. Teacher
demographics, job attributes, and expectations ...
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Buckman, Michael
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Doublethink was originally inspired by a series of political and geopolitical events that tookplace during 2022 and elements from George Orwell's novel, 1984. Each of the three movements
derives its name from one of the ...
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Li, Yirui
(University of Oregon, 2024)
Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a common problem among the community
of music performers, affecting the performers themselves mentally or physically, as
well as the quality of the performance (Salmon et al. 2005; Cox ...
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King, John
(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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Xu, Jiayi
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
In Western music of the early twentieth century, pentatonic elements are particularly prominent when composers emulate Chinese music. Claude Debussy, for instance, drew upon Eastern musical styles in works such as “Pagodes” ...
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Burton, Nicholas
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
Bass culture describes the shared affinity for excessive low frequency aesthetics. During the 2000s and 2010s, discussion of the term first emerged within the context of bass-centric Afrodiasporic popular music genres such ...
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Chen, Rongrong
(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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ZHANG, WEI
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
The Bride with White Hair is a three-movement chamber piece composed for flute and string quartet. The music is a homage to the famous Chinese martial arts novel The Bride with White Hair by Liang YuSheng. The protagonist ...
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Taylor, Kendra
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Researchers have demonstrated that imagery and odorants can influence the physiological and psychological state of humans (Dayme, 2009; Hongratanaworakit, 2009; Song et al., 2014). Singers’ “physiological state and concept ...
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Taflinger, Beverly
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Clara Wieck/Schumann (1819 – 1896) was a musician living in an era increasingly concerned with posterity and canon formation, yet she believed that as a performer, she was destined for posthumous obscurity. On this matter, ...
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Siegal, Cameron
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Seminal music education accords, including the Housewright and Tanglewood Symposia, call on music educators to support lifelong engagement with music. Citing challenges with retention in music programs and persistence in ...
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Sulaiman, Michelle
(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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