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Music, School of: Recent submissions
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KYUIL YOON: The Fusion of Korean and Western Musical Language
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)The purpose of this study is to examine the music of Kyuil Yoon. His work represents the fusion of Korean folk music with western musical tradition. Kyuil Yoon is a Korean composer born in South Korea in 1970. Yoon’s ... -
The future of the French bassoon: changing perception through innovation.
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)Over the past 150 years the French bassoon has experienced great fluctuations in popularity and innovation, but is now at a turning point due to advancements based on recent research and development by musicians and ... -
AN EXPLORATION OF ENROLLMENT AND RETENTION TRENDS OF BEGINNING BAND AND ORCHESTRA STUDENTS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF INSTRUCTION
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)The purpose of this study was to explore student attitudes towards enrollment and retention in first-year beginning band and orchestra classrooms. A secondary purpose of this study was to investigate if different instrumental ... -
MUSIC-BASED EMOTION REGULATION (MBER) INTERVENTION MANUAL FOR PREVENTION OF DEPRESSION IN OLDER PERSONS
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)Despite unprecedented growth of the aging population and the need for evidence-based programs that target prevention of age-related depression, there is paucity of such programs in and outside music therapy. Lack of ... -
Bringing Hands Together Through Music: Dick and Georgia Bassett and the Association for Music in International Schools
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)The Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS) is an international music education organization that currently serves 93 international schools in 53 countries on five continents. AMIS supports the students, ... -
Mozart's Figaro and Don Giovanni, Operatic Canon, and National Politics in Nineteenth-Century Prague
(University of California Press, 2018-03-01)After the enormous success of Le nozze di Figaro at Prague's Nostitz Theater in 1786 and the world premiere of Don Giovanni there in 1787, Mozart's operas became canonic works in the Bohemian capital, with numerous ... -
Practices in Visual Media
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)Practices in Visual Media At approximately 13 minutes in length Practices in Visual Media aims to explore composition with a wide variety of instrumentation, genre, and style inspired by different platforms of visual media. ... -
The Art of Recital Programming: A History of the Development of Solo Piano Recitals with a Comparison of Golden Age and Modern-Day Concert Programs at Carnegie Hall
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)ABSTRACT The art of recital programming is a never-ending discovery, and rediscovery of hidden gems. Many things go in and out of fashion, but the core composers and repertoire played on piano recitals have remained the ... -
THE EFFECTS OF PRACTICE AND MEMORIZATION TECHNIQUES ON GOAL SPECIFICITY AMONG NOVICE STRING STUDENTS
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)The purpose of this problem-driven content analysis was to examine differences between self-reported goals of novice high school orchestra students (N = 31) when given directions to either practice or memorize music during ... -
Towards a Skills-Based Curriculum: Recent Trends in Music History Pedagogy
(Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016)The Information Age poses a crucial dilemma for musicologists. If our courses value the dissemination of knowledge as a primary goal, then we must find a way to compete with the vast oceans of knowledge at our students' ... -
CULTIVATING VIRTUOSITY: RESIDENT PIANISTS IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MUSICAL SCENE
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)ABSTRACT As performers, teachers, and composers, resident pianists were an integral part of the bustling musical scene in nineteenth-century New York City. The constant presence of such musicians was critical to America’s ... -
Broadway Starts to Rock: Musical Theater Orchestrations and Character, 1968-1975
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)In 1968, the sound of the Broadway pit was forever changed with the rock ensemble that accompanied Hair. The musical backdrop for the show was appropriate for the countercultural subject matter, taking into account the ... -
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 ...