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Description:: This document gives a brief history of classical music (Western art music) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a focus on recent events and developments from the beginning of the siege (1992) to the present. Further focus is placed on the effects of Sarajevo's cultural pluralism on the city's largest...
Keyword:: Sarajevo, Cultural exchange, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cultural Resistance, Music, and dma project
Subject:: Oboe Performance
Creator:: Megan Elizabeth Robbins
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2018
Date Modified:: 02/02/2018
Date Created:: 2014-06-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Since Ottorino Respighi included the recording of a nightingale in his Pini di Roma (1924), composers have used prerecorded nature sounds, or field recordings, to help establish a specific sense of place. The purpose of this project is to examine how modern composers utilize field recordings to create natural-world settings,...
Keyword:: prerecorded, mason bates, bird song, nature sound, alex shapiro, ottorino respighi, electroacoustic, insect sound, composition, whale song, and dma project
Subject:: Conducting
Creator:: Joseph E. Higgins
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2018
Date Modified:: 02/02/2018
Date Created:: 2017-12-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Since the standardization of the modern brass quintet in the middle of the twentieth century, extensive research has been dedicated to the history of the genre, ensembles which have promoted and advanced brass chamber music and the growing body of original brass quintet repertoire. Such scholarship has provided practical benefits...
Keyword:: brass quintet, ewald, dma project, and tuba
Creator:: Thomas Walsh Curry
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2018
Date Modified:: 02/02/2018
Date Created:: 201512-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Starting in the late 1950s, the advertising world rapidly became a fertile arena for experimentation in the realm of electronic music. Composers explored new forms, such as the sound logo; new technology, such as the Moog synthesizer; and new semiotic relationships between music, words, images and concepts, including attempts to...
Keyword:: Raymond Scott, sound logo, audio logo, capitalism, sonic branding, jingles, Suzanne Ciani, identity formation, Eric Siday, dma project, music semiotics, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, electronic music, and advertising
Subject:: Music Composition
Creator:: Alex R. Temple
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2018
Date Modified:: 02/02/2018
Date Created:: 2017-06-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Ever since Jean-Baptiste Lully welcomed the horn to the stage as an instrument capable of producing music suitable for indoors, a tradition of horn methodology and pedagogy has been developed and expanded over the centuries. Despite the volume and variety of pedagogical materials available to the horn student and pedagogue...
Keyword:: Music Theory, Horn, Pedagogy, Intermediate, and dma project
Subject:: Wind and Percussion
Creator:: Valerie Whitney
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2018
Date Modified:: 02/02/2018
Date Created:: 06-01-2017
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Chaya Czernowin’s opera 'Pnima…ins innere' is about the encounter between a young Israeli boy and his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor so traumatized by his past that he cannot speak. Fittingly, the opera does not contain any words: the four singers in the work instead sing phonemes and other non-verbal sounds....
Keyword:: contemporary opera, Czernowin, music theory, new music, dma project, narratology, and opera
Subject:: Music Composition
Creator:: Eliza Brown
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2018
Date Modified:: 02/02/2018
Date Created:: 2015-03-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Kaija Saariaho’s vocal music offers singers a rewarding challenge. Her works contain extended techniques and innovative performance practices, which allow her to create interesting and moving timbral effects. Her musical language has its foundation in her cultural identity, formed when she was a girl in the forests of Finland. The...
Keyword:: Saariaho, Vocal music, Contemporary music, dma project, and Extended techniques
Creator:: Alison Wahl
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2018
Date Modified:: 02/02/2018
Date Created:: 2017-03-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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