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Music and Dance Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This piece is an exploration of tango music. Having played, arranged, composed, and performed this music since 2011, I consider myself steeped and well-versed in the culture and musical language of tango, and this piece ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Fais de Beaux Rêves is a single-movement atonal string quartet for a duration of approximately 17 minutes. My inspiration for this piece came from my language immersion experience in the French School at Middlebury College. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This thesis asks why women gangsta rappers have been excluded from virtually all academic and popular discourses about the genre. While ‘positive’ and ‘empowering’ New York-based female rappers in the late 80s and 90s are ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)In Schubert’s music, the theme “wandering” is used frequently, closely related to human life and death. I presume that, being stricken by serious illness and facing challenging relationships, Schubert lived his short life ...
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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, 2017-09-06)During the 1970s, the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, or P-Funk, performed a unique type of funk music that impacted the lives and culture of generations of fans. Their music has been a vital force in the developments ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This concerto is the composer’s conversation with the past. In four movements, each one embodies a traditional musical form. The work is a continually transforming kaleidoscope of relentless virtuosity, fanciful flights ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)For centuries, the horror genre has ensnared audiences across generations and genre lines: ballet, opera, literature, poetry, film, and, most recently, video games have all utilized the power of terror to shock, horrify, ...
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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, 2017-09-06)The last thirty years have seen a resurgence in the research of sonata form. One groundbreaking treatise in this renaissance is James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s 2006 monograph Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and ...
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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, 2017-09-06)This thesis explores the use of modified Schenkerian analysis and how it relates to a feminine narrative in a piece of music. In music theory literature about music by women, Schenkerian analysis is a tool that is often ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis addresses the matter of convention in Broadway songs of the song and dance era. Composers worked with implicit, regular procedures in the commercial aesthetic of the 1920s and 1930s New York theater industry. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This qualitative research study was designed to gain a deeper, more profound understanding of the lived experiences of collegiate male dancers. Through three phases of research, this study uncovered societal and familial ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This mixed methods investigation analyzes the effect of a novel somatics training program on dance skills. Fourteen dancers were divided into treatment and control groups. The treatment group participated in an eight-week ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This opera is the composer’s fanciful speculation on the origin of the banshee, a character out of Irish legend whose keening is a herald of death. In three scenes, the opera tells the story of a witch whose quest for power ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)This dissertation provides the first full-scale musicological study of Stuttgart 95, a thirteenth-century song book, formerly thought to be from the abbey of Weingarten. Upon further examination, it is clear that rather ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)A Piece of Steak is a chamber opera in four scenes based on the Jack London short story of the same name. The piece is composed for five operatic soloists, a chorus, a voice actor, and a Pierrot ensemble with percussion, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Anton Webern’s Op. 18 stands at nearly the exact center of his published work. Though it was in his Op. 17 that Webern began working with ordered pitches, there are some logistic struggles evident in his diversions from ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This dissertation explores why undergraduate music theory students may not be motivated in their classes and how we can begin to improve music theory pedagogy by addressing the negative preconceptions surrounding the subject ...
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