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The Motivations and Musical Backgrounds of Participants and Non-Participants in Selected Community Choruses
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An Analysis of the Acoustics of Tamtam Sounds. (With Original) Composition: Deciduata I for 2 to 4 Choruses
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A Study and Critical Analysis of Orin Idaraya Choruses in the Yoruba Baptist Hymnal (2000) of the Nigerian Baptist Convention
… and critically analyze the ninety indigenous choruses titled Orin Idaraya in the Yoruba Baptist hymn book of the Nigerian Baptist Convention published in the year 2000. The study examines the choruses for their biblical, theological, and cultural meaning to ascertain their messages, evaluate …
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Call timing interactions, aggressive behavior, and the role of acoustic cues in chorus formation in treefrogs
… males and the factors influencing the onset of choruses and settling patterns of males in a chorus. Choruses are dynamic, socially complex communication networks that function as focal points for sexual selection. Frogs calling in groups produced longer calls, overlapped calls, and engaged in …
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Polymorphic mating signals and female choice in an Amazonian frog
… male signals. Males of P. petersi form choruses. Males that produce different call morphs are found calling together in sympatric populations. This set up the question if Peters’ Dwarf Frogs use acoustic cues to join choruses in nature. In the second chapter, I demonstrated that the …
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The effectiveness of Aebersold play-along recordings for gaining proficiency in jazz improvisation
… to record a pretest of improvisation over two choruses of F blues, along with a rhythm section playalong recording. Three expert judges evaluated these pretest performances using the Instrumental Jazz Improvisation Evaluation Measure (IJIEM). Participants self-reported a total of four hours of …
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Swagger, gentlemanliness, and brotherhood : explorations of lived experiences in a high school men's chorus
… and vulnerable, (d) Participants in male choruses enjoy making excellent music and impressing others, (e) Participants in male choruses may have a broader view of male gender roles--learning to think outside of heterosexual and homosexual male stereotypes, (f) Participants in male choruses …
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The emergence of the independent prologue and chorus in Jesuit school theatre c.1550 - c.1700, derived from a comparative analysis of Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre, lay youth confraternity theatre and the oratorio vespertina of the Congregation of the Oratory
… examination of the musical prologues and choruses performed within Jesuit theatrical productions and the musical works performed in the services of the Congregation of the Oratory over the period c.1550-c.1660 shows a parallel progression of development; the development of the oratorio in …
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Liturgical expressions of a classical romantic: a choral conductor's investigation of selected sacred trebel chorus compositions by Josef Rheinberger
… more readily accessible to conductors and choruses today. Therefore, information which is available about these works is beneficial to conductors of women’s choruses. These compositions afford musical challenges and rewarding performance opportunities for women’s chorus and this document …
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Aperture
… and void. And darkness on the face of the deep. Choruses from "The Rock" T.S. Eliot
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DETERMINATION OF STANDARD AND FIELD METABOLIC RATES IN TWO GREAT LAKES INVADING FISH SPECIES: ROUND GOBY (NEOGOBIUS MELANOSTOMUS) AND TUBENOSE GOBY (PROTERORHINUS SEMILUNARIS)
… birds. I found that birds begin their dawn choruses significantly earlier with increasing moon brightness and ambient temperature, and significantly later with presence of cloud cover and precipitation. I found no significant changes in dawn chorus start times when birds were exposed to …
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Vocal Minimalism: An analysis and pedagogical approach to minimalist vocal techniques in new works for choir
… small number of total works written for amateur choruses. This is further exacerbated by the lack of pedagogy for teaching minimalist techniques to non-professional singers, and in some cases, a disregard for the voice's limitations and opportunities. This document seeks to encourage increased …
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Dialectic
… meet in his temple; You must not deny the body. Choruses from "The Rock" T.S. Eliot We read in this stanza, from a T.S. Eliot poem, a description of man. Here we find man as a created being experiencing the two separate worlds that merge within him. We witness the coexistence of these two worlds …
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Anglican Chant and Chanting in England and America, 1660-1811
… service, with solo verses and chant tune choruses, was another practical innovation of the Restoration period. In the eighteenth century, the chant tune developed its own notation and performance conventions, taking its seven-bar length from the unbalanced phrases--nine syllables to …
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The Influence of Contest Ratings on Student and Director Attitudes Toward State Large Group Choral Competition
… Conclusion. Ratings received by Mixed Choruses appear to have an influence on student and director attitudes toward the amount and value of time spent preparing and participating in the State Large Group Choral Contest. Students and directors who received Superior ratings appeared to …
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Development and validation of a rating scale for wind jazz improvisation performance
… were asked to record two improvisations-two choruses of Bb blues and one chorus of Killer Joe accompanied by an Aebersold play-along compact disc. Sixty-three adjudicators with varying degrees of jazz experience evaluated the 12 improvisations using the WJIES and the Instrumental Jazz …
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Robert Schumann and the Gesangverein: The Dresden Years (1844 - 1850)
… demand for music for social gatherings. Amateur choruses and partsinging reached their peak of popularity in nineteenth-century Germany. Gesangvereinen: mixed voice choirs) soon broke into segregated choirs known as Liedertafeln: male voice choirs) and Frauenchoren: female voice choirs). These …
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Wagner's Meistersinger and the tradition of comic opera
… types, traditional orchestral forms, ensembles, choruses and moral endings. Much of this marks a unique departure from the other works composed at this stage of his career and evinces his debt to the traditions of comic opera. The vocality of his protagonists owe much to the traditions of comic …
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Hormonal mechanisms for variation in female mate choice
… either HCG or saline and exposed to either mate choruses or silence. Egr-1 expression was quantified in an auditory midbrain nucleus, the torus semicircularis (TS). The region within the TS responsible for auditory-motor integration showed a near significant elevation in egr-1 expression in …
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Stress, sexual signaling, and alternative mating tactics in male green treefrogs, Hyla cinerea
… CORT and androgens levels among males in natural choruses can be a cause or consequence of mating tactic expression.
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