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Music and Dance Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Much scholarship on French grand opera has understandably focused on the monumentality of the genre--its sweeping historical panoramas, public spectacles, and large onstage chorus. This focus is reinforced, for example, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)This composition is a symphonic poem for full orchestra roughly eighteen minutes in length. The work takes both its title and inspiration from George Orwell's novel 1984. Each individual section of music reflects on a ...
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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, 2013-10-10)This thesis seeks to explore the voice leading parsimony, bass motion, and chromatic extensions present in Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus. Voice leading will be explored using Neo-Riemannian type transformations followed ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz defines “double time” as “the apparent doubling of the tempo […] achieved by halving the prevailing note value.” A more precise term for this concept is “double-time feel.” The question of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Heinrich Scheidemann and Jacob Praetorius (ii), young organ students from Hamburg, traveled to Amsterdam around the turn of the seventeenth century in order to study with the Dutch organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. While ...
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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, 2013-10-03)The Elements: Period 2, for Large Orchestra is a 44-minute-long cycle of eight orchestral "tone images", each one based upon an individual element from the second period of the Periodic Table of Elements: Lithium, Beryllium, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Inferno, Volume I of Dante Alighieri's timeless magnum opus, The Divine Comedy, persists to modern times as a work of immense imagination and philosophical poignancy. Dante, as the Pilgrim, spins in verse a massive tale ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)"A Lawn in the Sky" is a musical drama in two acts on a libretto by Katherine Hollander. The piece is based on the true story of Lieutenant Onoda Hiroo, a Japanese "straggler" who refused to believe that Japan had surrendered ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The purpose of this study is to examine the presentation of Joan of Arc's life in two lyric works, Jules Barbier and Charles Gounod's Jeanne d'Arc (1873) and Auguste Mermet's Jeanne d'Arc (1876), that premiered in Paris ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The evidence found through comparing and contrasting staging manuals strongly suggests that Massenet might have been involved in the staging of his operas. Several important differences, which include the implications of ...
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The Effect of Metaphoric-Image, Motion, and a Dual Modality Approach on the Perception of Vocal Tone (University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The use of imagery and movement to affect vocal tone has long been a part of choral pedagogy. These often used, yet little explored tools, are employed by choral directors on all levels. The present study sought to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)In this dissertation, I examine Stevie Wonder's compositional style from his celebrated "classic period," (1972-1976) focusing specifically on the concentrated two-year time span from 1972-1974 marked by his unparalleled ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This thesis examines Stravinsky’s aesthetics of objectivism, as described in his own book and displayed in three different genres from his neoclassical period: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920), Perséphone (1933), ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The Birthday of the Infanta, a ballet that was created by John Alden Carpenter, Adolph Bolm, and Robert Edmond Jones, was performed at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on December 23, 1919 and the Lexington Theatre in New ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The Lieder of Fanny Hensel have received very little attention from modern music scholars, and her music has mostly been looked at as only a sidebar to the music of her much more famous brother, Felix Mendelssohn. Adding ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Seventeenth-century division violin music is not considered part of the classical canon, but its background as a European art form may make it seem “too Western” for traditional ethnomusicological study. The purpose of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation highlights the position of the violin works in Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s oeuvre. The violin was an integral part of this composer’s life from an early age. Despite this, his compositions for the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The purpose of this research was to investigate the creative process of six professional American Belly Dancers: Shannon Conklin, Elena Villa, Lila McDaniel, TC Skinner, Manny Garcia, and Cera Byer. I took a class with ...
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