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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Music literature"”.
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A Correlative, Annotated Bibliography of Song Literature for Grade One
… study to provide an annotated bibliography of music literature with suggested correlation for grade one.</p>
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A statistical study of the contributions of certain Greek and Roman mythological terms to the modern English language
… is the great contribution of mythology to music, literature, and other arts. However, the modern, questioning student is not entirely satisfied with this answer. A more practical appeal is made in this study of the contributions of mythology to modern language.</p>
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Modern Finnish choral music and Joonas Kokkonen's "Requiem"
… to illuminate a diverse and refreshing body of music literature that is virtually unknown in North America--Finnish choral music. Because the arts reflect the cultures in which they are created, Chapter One will present an overview of Finland's history which is an important source of insight …
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An Historical Study of the Solo Concerto Cadenza
… the cadenza occupies a small place in the total music literature, it is a sort of microcosm of music. It would be impossible to make a study of the cadenza without completely understanding the concerto and related forms of music. An historical study such as this can lead to deeper understanding …
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Getting To The Pulp Of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood: Translatability and the Role of Popular Culture
… inclusion of popular culture elements such as music, literature and films. This thesis seeks to show how the novel's references to popular culture of the 1960s combine to help the protagonist establish an identity for himself as well as his place within the universal community. First, though, …
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The music teaching and learning process in an African-American Baptist church
The purpose of this study was to describe the musical experience of an African-American Baptist church including its music teaching and learning process, music literature and materials, and contextual aspects such as the following: (a) spatial relationships/physical placements, (b) performance …
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Illuminating the Eighteenth-Century British Stage: Perfecting Performance through Education
… field” that “intersect[s] with art, music, literature, history, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and fashion” (Engel 752). While much scholarship has been conducted on the actress’ life, interaction with material culture, public spectacle, authority, femininity, and …
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Organized-crime growth and sustainment: a review of the influence of popular religion and beliefs in Mexico
… narco-cultura has its own dynamic form of dress, music, literature, film, religious beliefs and practices, and slang, which have become standard in some parts of the country, especially among the lower class and uneducated. This thesis investigates the relationship between the narco-cultura and …
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An annotated bibliography of suggested repertoire for high school treble chorus
… become overwhelmed when involved in selecting music for contests or concerts. An annotated bibliography promptly supplies the high school choral conductor with a suitable repertoire for the small school treble choir. The purpose of this study was to compile a concise annotated bibliography of …
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Cello map: a handbook of Cello technique for performers and composers
… techniques have been introduced into music literature since 1950. The popular approach to support developments in modern instrumental technique is the catalogue or notation guide, which has led to isolated special effects. Several authors of handbooks of technique have pointed to an …
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A study of English-language sacred solo literature by selected twentieth-century composers
… the study of twentieth-century sacred solo literature for the voice in the English language, providing a survey of English and American composers who have made significant contributions to the sacred solo repertoire. This work also serves as a reference tool for singers and voice students in …
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Tracing the ancestral roots and the flow of pedagogical practices in the development of ballet teaching from 1950 to 2016 in Perth, Western Australia
… The art of ballet is affiliated with the arts of music, literature, and those of the visual arts: its international history covering some 500 years. This thesis spotlights Perth, the capital of Western Australia (WA) and one of the world’s most geographically isolated capital cities. Throughout …
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The High Art of Trip Hop: Extending the Bristol Sound by Incorporating Compositional Approaches from Classical Music
… techniques. The two-part thesis combines musicological and practice-led research. Part one analyses the Bristol sound, a style of popular music that developed in Bristol, England during the 1990s and is also known as ‘trip hop’. It offers an historical overview of the style’s evolution, …
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English opera and song books, 1703-1726: Their contents, publishing, printing, and bibliographical description
… history and the infiltration of Italian musical style, musicians and texts into London's music-making; the publishing history of opera and song books; the techniques and materials used to print such books; and the problems of bibliographical description caused by engraved materials, …
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Angelic airs/subversive songs: Music as cultural discourse in Victorian literature and society
… on nineteenth-century aesthetics to include music, a rarely studied yet vital Victorian artform. I argue that Victorians concurrently idealized music as a transcendent corrective to social ills and feared it as a subversive context for these ills. In Chapter One, I examine Victorian …
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Early Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Impact of the Gothic
At the beginning of the eighteenth century the word "gothic" was used in a highly derogatory manner. By the end of the century, however, the ideas embodied in the word came to have aesthetic validity. When the second edition of Horace Walpole's novel, The Castle of Otranto, appeared in 1765, it was …
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Voices from the Killing Jar
This dissertation consists of the musical score for my work for voice and ensemble, "Voices from the Killing Jar," and an accompanying paper. "Voices from the Killing Jar" was written for the Wet Ink Ensemble in 2010-2011, and takes as its subject seven female characters from literature, history, …
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"""To immerse myself in words"": Text and music in selected choral works of Samuel Barber"
… the text and its author and an analysis of the musical work as Barber's response to the poetry. The discussion focuses on Barber's attraction to and treatment of poetic devices, meter and rhythm, color, subject, and meaning. In the process are revealed the unique characteristics of Barber's …
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"""Raising the specter"": Poems and songs of the American Radical Left, 1880-1920"
"The specter of the mad anarchist, red flag in one hand and a bomb in the other, haunted the pages of America's conservative press in the period beginning with the Paris Commune and ending with the Palmer Raids. This ""haunting"" signified deep-rooted anxieties: anarchists, radical socialists, and …
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