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Setting of five Korean folk songs for solo voice and string orchestra
<p>The culture of Korea is one of the oldest in the Par East. It goes back in legend over 4,200 years to Dan-Goon (means King of the oak tree), mythical founder of Korea. The high point was obtained during the time of the three kingdom--Silla, Paikje, and Kokuryu--about the beginning of the …
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The Use of Black American Slave Folk Songs in The Social Studies Curriculum
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Junior High School Student Preference: Teaching Taiwanese Folk Songs Using Orff Activites vs Traditional Teaching
… creative adaptations in the teaching of folk songs. In this research, the following are discussed: music education in Taiwan, the development of the Orff approach in private schools, comparisons and contrasts between the New and the Old Curricula in Taiwan, the nature of folk songs, and …
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Songs of Deviance and Defiance: Subjectivity, emotions and authenticity in Bhawaiya Folk Songs of North Bengal
Bhawaiya is one of the most popular folk song genres to Bengalis. While all Bangla folk songs express the emotions and the stories of the most marginal people, Bhawaiya is significant for expressing the female passion grounded in day to day material reality through the stories of the female subject …
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THE HISTORY, NATURE, AND USE OF FOLK SONGS: AN EXAMINATION OF RACIST ORIGINS IN ELEMENTARY GENERAL MUSIC REPERTOIRE
… was to examine the history, nature, and use of folk songs with racist origins in the elementary general music classroom. The purpose of the first study was to explore the historical transmission and practices of folk songs in the Appalachian region from the perspective of folklorist Henry …
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Global Conversation: A Meeting Between Taiwanese Folk Song and Jazz, on the Model of Nils Landgren’s Swedish Folk Modern
The album Swedish Folk Modern (ACT Music 1998) was a creation by Swedish jazz musician Nils Landgren (trombone) and Esbjörn Svensson (piano). This recording combined selected Swedish folk melodies with jazz improvisation and furthered the richness of the original melodies within a duo setting. The …
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Campaign songs as a factor in American politics
… in his article “Slang in America” observes that folk songs, like language, are not an abstract construction of the learned, bu something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has their bases broad and low, close to the ground; because …
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Η ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΣΗΜΑΣΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟΥ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙΟΥ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΣΦΥΓΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ. ΕΘΝΟΜΟΥΣΙΚΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΠΡΟΣΕΓΓΙΣΗ
… STUDY OF THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TRADITIONAL FOLK SONGS IS THE RESULT OF WIDE FIELD WORK THAT TOOK PART ON THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS IN 1984, AMONG THE REFUGEES (FROM THE TURKISH INVASION IN 1974). THE AIMS ARE TWOFOLD: A) FORMAL ANALYSIS OF THE MUSIC ITSELF AND B) ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE …
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Graduate Recital, Clarinet
… composers have utilized traditional folk-music as inspiration for their works. The programing focuses on several techniques used as a means for synthesizing folk-songs and art-music, ranging from setting preexisting melodies to accompaniment, to manipulating the idiomatic musical and …
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An Analytical Study of Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev's Musical Style in his Early Piano and Orchestra Works: Grande Fantaisie on Russian Folk Songs and Concerto Op.1 in F# Minor.
… and orchestra works, Grande Fantaisie on Russian Folk Songs and Concerto Op. 1 in F# Minor, were composed in the middle of the nineteenth century when in Russia there were no particularly important works for piano and orchestra. Balakirev was still a teenager when he wrote these two pieces and …
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Folk song in Cumbria : a distinctive regional repertoire
… England has been the lack of systematic study of folk song and its performance in discrete geographical areas. This thesis endeavours to address this gap in knowledge in a small way, through a study of Cumbrian folk song and its performance over the past two hundred years. Although primarily a …
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Doctoral thesis recital (lecture recital)
Three wedding songs / Godwin Sadoh -- Six Yoruba folk songs / Akin Euba -- Because of you / Fela Sowande -- Two songs for Julie-Ju / Noel da Costa -- Songs of separation / William Grant Still -- Early in the mornin' / David Baker -- Heart on the wall / Robert Owens.
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The Tale of the Southern Tour
… history. This section contains ancient Chinese folk songs to take the listener back to ancient China. The second section, The Fancy Southern World, depicts the landscape of southern China. The composer incorporates minimalist compositional style in the melodic writing, the melody itself is based …
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Part-song arrangements for junior high school voices
… toward reading from that clef. The first few songs keep both tenor and bass parts very simple with only the elementary skips for the bass part. Gradually chromatic tones and more difficult skips are introduced in the bass part. Chromatics are used sooner and more frequently in the tenor part. …
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The effect of bilingual music therapy on the expressive language of Spanish speaking children who are learning English in early childhood classrooms
… group, the researcher utilized Western songs, and spoke and sang only in English. In the Bilingual group, the researcher sang traditional Latin American folk songs in Spanish and English, and communicated with the students bilingually. Pretest and posttest data were analyzed on the …
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Piano and popular culture: how Snow White and Charlie Brown made it to the concert hall
… composers drawing on popular melodies from folk songs to operas. Composers’ fascination with popular culture has only increased with the passage of time. This document will focus on more recent inclusions of popular culture in works for piano. The works examined are specifically, Ellen …
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Exploring Alberto Ginastera’s Piano Compositional Styles in His ‘Objective Nationalism’ Period (1934-1947)
… and he applied Argentine traditional folk elements in piano works. This study examined the composers and folk elements that influenced Ginastera and led to the formation of his keyboard musical style of ‘objective nationalism.’ The dissertation explores how Ginastera was influenced by …
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Graduate Recital, Cello
… (1882 - 1957), contains elements from Hungarian folk songs and requires the cello's lower strings to be tuned a half-step lower than they are usually tuned. The third piece is a set of variations on a Czechoslovakian folk theme by Bohuslav Martinu (1890 - 1959). Following intermission, I will …
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A justification for the study of folk song settings, or the arrangement as a valid composition
… thesis explores arrangements of British Isles folk song melodies as set by major composers: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). These composers found vivid inspiration and a certain amount of …
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An historical and analytical survey of the Transcendental Etudes by Sergei Liapunov.
… as well as the sounds of his native Russian folk songs and dances. His music rarely conveys the urgency or profound melancholy which is often seen in the music composed during the same period by Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Liapunov continued and enriched the great traditions of Russian music …
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