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Music Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Giving Voice to a Nation: Choral Music and Russian Identity in St. Petersburg, 1861-1913
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)This project examines the cultural practices surrounding choral singing and composition in St. Petersburg between 1861 and 1913, when boundaries of social classes realigned. Because people from a range of social classes ... -
Time Use and Reported Perceptions of University Voice Students During Self-Guided Practice Sessions: A Quantitative Content Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Little research has appraised the behaviors of musicians in practice rooms during self-guided practice sessions, and no study to date has investigated singers’ behaviors across multiple self-guided practice sessions. ... -
STUDY AND PERFORMANCE GUIDELINES TO RODION SHCHEDRIN’S 24 PRELUDES AND FUGUES
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)The purpose of my document is to find the key features of Rodion Shchedrin’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, and present performance suggestions to the Preludes of Volume I. This project will be divided into three chapters. Chapter ... -
Small Hands on a Grand Piano: Understanding Individual Differences and Approaches for Small-Handed Pianists
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Abstract Having small hands is often seen as a downside for pianists because the majority of standard repertoire in the Romantic era contain large hand-spanned passages which cause challenges for people with small hands. ... -
Transparent Vapor: The Piano Music of Jehan Alain
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)In his short compositional career, French composer Jehan Ariste Alain (1911 – 1940) established a strong reputation in Parisian music circles. He received numerous honors and prizes from the Paris Conservatoire, showing ... -
Effects of Conductor Preparatory Gesture Direction on Abdominal Expansion of Teenage Singers
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This study examined teenage participants’ (N=30) lateral abdominal expansion while breathing before singing America and viewing a videotaped conductor demonstrating an upward or downward preparatory gesture. PhiMatrix grid ... -
Liberating Sound: A Study on the Consequence that Performance Practice Research has had on Performances of J. S. Bach’s Keyboard Works
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Pedagogues often advise that, when placing a student in competition, we should avoid the works of J. S. Bach, because everyone has different ideas of how it should be played. This hesitancy is carried over to the performance ... -
A Study of Coloristic Effects in Joan Tower’s Works for Piano: Petroushskates, Ivory and Ebony, and Sixth Fanfare for The Uncommon Woman
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The purpose of this study is to examine Joan Tower’s treatment of sound and coloristic effects in selected chamber and solo works for piano. Prior to the twentieth century, timbre, modes, and other coloristic effects were ... -
Léon Goossens and the Oboe Quintets of Arnold Bax (1922) and Arthur Bliss (1927)
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Léon Goossens’s virtuosity, musicality, and developments in playing the oboe expressively earned him a reputation as one of history’s finest oboists. His artistry and tone inspired British composers in the early twentieth ... -
CLINICAL DECISIONS OF MUSIC THERAPISTS IN THE TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH EATING DISORDERS
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The purpose of this study was to determine common treatment goals and subsequent music-based interventions used by music therapists who work/worked with patients with eating disorders and to begin gathering information on ... -
Selected Violin Works of Alan Scott ‘Vaness’ Chakmakjian Hovhaness: Two New Performance Editions with Historical Discussion, Compositional Style Overviews, and Pedagogical Considerations
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This DMA document introduces new performance editions of Alan Scott ‘Vaness’ Chakmakjian Hovhaness’s Khirgiz Suite, Op. 73, No. 1 (1951) and the Three Visions of Saint Mesrob, Op. 198 (1962). The new editions created for ... -
Mindfulness-Based Music Therapy Group Protocol For Individuals With Serious Mental Illnesses And Chronic Illnesses: A Feasibility Study
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Mindfulness is the practice of being fully aware of the internal and external happenings in the present moment (Kabat-Zinn, 2012). The purpose of this research study was to determine the feasibility of a mindfulness-based ... -
A Phenomenological Examination of Imposter Phenomenon in Music Therapy Students
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The current study investigated the prevalence, or lack thereof, of imposter phenomenon in music therapy students. Imposter phenomenon (IP) is an internal experience that describes feelings of fraudulence an individual may ... -
A CUBIST READING OF MAURICE RAVEL’S LA VALSE
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Ravel’s La valse is often interpreted as the embodiment of fallen or disintegrating romantic idioms, embodied in his treatment of the waltz. However, La valse can also be discussed in the context of the artistic trends of ... -
Music Therapists and Work: Experiences of Occupational Oppression in the Profession of Music Therapy
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Occupational oppression is a system of invisible barriers created by those in power that reduces the professional’s ability to perform work at the highest level. Barriers result from a combination of beliefs related to the ... -
Chanting the Propers: A Comparative Study of Selected English Sources for the Catholic Mass
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Following the Second Vatican Council, the texts of the Catholic Mass, including the Propers, were translated into the vernacular. This shift away from the Latin liturgical texts created the need for new musical settings ... -
All Tied Up: The Effect of Wearing a Necktie on Acoustic and Perceptual Measures of Male Choral and Solo Singing
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The purpose of this study was to assess acoustically (long-term average spectra and multi-dimensional voice profile) and perceptually (participant perceived phonatory ease and expert listening panel) the effect of wearing ... -
The Theme of God: A Musical and Theological Discussion of Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The purpose of this research is to help both performers and liturgical musicians to better understand Messiaen’s musical style and theological inspiration. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is one of the most important composers ... -
Love and War: Troubadour Songs as Propaganda, Protest, and Politics in the Albigensian Crusade
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)From the eleventh through the thirteenth century, the troubadours flourished in the Occitan courts of southern France. As the artistic and political voices of their culture, these men and women were educated, creative, and ... -
Use of Parody Techniques in Jacques Offenbach’s Opérettes and Germaine Tailleferre’s Du Style Galant au Style Méchant
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Abstract In past scholarship, Germaine Tailleferre has been briefly written about as the only female member of Les Six and as a composer of instrumental music. Her body of piano music and a few of her other compositions ...