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(University of Oregon, 1990-12)Claude Debussy lived at a special point in the history of Music: .the turning point from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. As many of his contemporaries did, he tried to free himself from all the limitations of ...
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(University of Oregon, 1995)Recent developments in Cognitive Science have demonstrated that, contrary to traditional thinking, categories are not rigid, feature-defined phenomena. Rather , they are influenced by human experience and by the context ...
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(University of Oregon, 1998-08)Musicians, philosophers, historians, and composers through the ages have attempted to understand the relationship between musical modes and musical affections. The Greeks used the modes as prescriptives for healing diseases, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2004-08)Church music has been given relatively little scholarly attention in the study of nineteenth-century music. While there is an array of mass settings that were composed by Romantic-era composers, current musicological ...
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(University of Oregon, 2006-06)The use of basso continuo in the performance of many late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century genres is well documented, yet the influence of this practice on the Lieder during that time has never been fully explored. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2006-12)The main purpose of the study was to examine the effects of learning songs by ear in multiple keys on skills in playing by ear and sight-reading. Secondary purposes of the study were to explore the effects of instruction ...
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(University of Oregon, 2007)This study focuses on the development of harmonic vocabulary in Bulgarian music. It analyzes the incorporation of harmony in village music from the 1930s to the 1990s, "wedding music" from the 1970s to 2000, and choral ...
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(University of Oregon, 2007-12)Piano Concerto No. 1 is a twenty-minute work scored for large orchestra and solo piano. Its two movements explore various orchestral colors and textures, and utilize the harmonic languages of tonality, polytonality, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-03)Several of Chopin's nocturnes contain interesting chorales. This study discusses three such works-the Nocturnes in C# Minor (without opus number), A-flat Major (Op. 32, No.2), and F Minor (Op. 55, No.1). The chorales in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)This investigation compared the effectiveness of cooperative learning to individualistic instruction in two fourth-grade elementary school general music classes. Effects of the two strategies on the music composition, ...
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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, 2008-06)Beethoven's last five string quartets have engaged the imagination and curiosity of performers, listeners, and critics at a level that has rarely been touched in the world of chamber music, or beyond. Throughout the late ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)This study explores the intersection of the individual's imagery ability, imagery use in dance training and performance, and learning style. Thirty-four intermediate-level ballet and modem dance students at the University ...
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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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(University of Oregon, 2008-09)The purpose of this study was two-fold: 1) to uncover, describe, compare, and contrast the personal stories and experiences of dance in the lives of the four cancer survivors who volunteered to participate in this research ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-09)Medieval Aquitaine was a vibrant region in terms of its politics, religion, and culture, and these interrelated aspects of life created a fertile environment for musical production. A rich manuscript tradition has ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)Symphony No.2, "Crime in the House of Names," is a forty-minute work for large orchestra in four movements. The final movement features a mezzo-soprano soloist who sings a setting of the poem "Herbsttag" ("Autumn Day") ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-03)This thesis is a study in large-scale musical form and utilization of the Western symphony orchestra. It explores the problems of large-scale musical structure by employing symmetrical, yet radically contrasting sections ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)The purpose of this study was to identify and define the essential characteristics of hip hop dance. Hip hop dance has taken many forms throughout its four decades of existence. This research shows that regardless of the ...
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