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Breathing for singers: a comparative analysis of body type and breathing tendencies is a scientific study that's purpose is to determine whether a correlation exists between inexperienced young singers' body types and their breathing...
Is There Romance after Schumann: An Analysis and Discussion of Robert Schumann's Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94, Clara Schumann's Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22, and Other Selected Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22, and Other Selected Romances Written for Oboe and Piano
This document is a compilation of two lecture recitals held on November 10, 2015 and April 27, 2016. Both of these recitals explored selected works performed by oboists written in the Romance genre. The lectures define stylistic...
This treatise is meant to increase awareness of a lesser-known work by Joseph Canteloube entitled L'Arada, a cycle of six songs for voice and piano based on the sonnets of Occitan poet Antonin Perbosc. The cycle is unique in that it...
This treatise provides a thorough analysis of Augusta Read Thomas's string quartet, Sun Threads. The first chapter discusses her career background, compositional style and chamber music. The analysis in the second chapter is divided into...
The purpose of this study was to examine the literature being performed by Florida middle school, junior/senior high school, and high school jazz bands at Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA) District Jazz Band Music Performance...
After the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) left Spain in ruins, Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-1992) turned his attention towards the Caribbean for his first venture into vocal music. Cinco canciones negras (1945), commissioned by...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of music therapy on the spirituality of persons in an in-patient hospice unit as measured by self-report. Subjects (N=10) were used as their own control in an ABAB design format....
The purpose of this treatise is to present a survey of the solo guitar works written for Julian Bream and to illuminate their historical significance and lasting importance to the guitar repertoire. For each piece, this treatise provides...
María Guinand, awarded the 2009 Helmuth Rilling Prize by the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, is a Venezuelan choral music educator who has gained international renown through her work as a conductor, teacher, and advocate of the...
The folia de reis is a popular Brazilian tradition of folk Catholicism that involves a group of participants who, between Christmas and Epiphany, go on a journey asking for alms for social-religious purposes. The tradition refers to...
The preeminence of Langston Hughes as a seminal figure in twentieth century literature is a well-chronicled phenomenon in academic circles. What has not been researched in a comprehensive fashion is Hughes' importance to both popular and...
Labyrinth is a continuous work for chamber ensemble that explores a variety of emotional states. The piece is divided into nine movements performed without interruption, and is sixteen minutes in length. The labyrinth suggested in the...
Scales, etudes, performance repertoire and orchestral excerpts are the basic teaching materials for the cello student. In addition to scales and arpeggios, etudes provide both the basic facility and the technical foundation for the...
The number of compositions for unaccompanied clarinet significantly increased in the twentieth century, particularly in the second half of the century. Beginning in 1919 with Stravinsky's Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo, fifteen...
This study is an examination of European modernism based on the activities and writings of Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966). Scherchen is known today as a conductor and champion of modern music, but he was also an orchestra builder, a...
The focus of this treatise is pedagogical material and solo literature for the E-flat clarinet. Despite the E-flat clarinet's inclusion in many pieces for orchestra and wind band, the instrument is rarely incorporated into an applied...
This study was conducted to assess whether stressed tempo music would effect performance rates of track athletes. The music the athletes listened to was systematically increased over a three-week period to determine if the track athletes...
This study looked at the contemporary repertoire of college winds bands and professional orchestras. Music performed between Fall 2003 and Spring 2003 was collected from members of the College Band Directors National Association (n=23...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of differential feedback (external versus internal feedback) on closed-hand position of conductors while conducting. Closed-Hand conducting was operationally defined as palm facing...
Fingering has been among the most controversial aspects of keyboard instruction, as it is one of the hardest to approach and systematize due to the individuality of the human hand and the multiple fingering combinations that could apply...
Carnival of Souls is a work in three movements with a brief prelude, played without break, approximately eighteen minutes in duration. It is scored for conventional wind band with added low strings, harps, and electronics. The three...
The oboe reed is both a blessing and a curse--the bane and the delight of every oboist. There is nothing greater than the satisfaction of creating an amazing reed that will do everything an oboist requires. A great reed allows one to...
The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is a three-movement work for small orchestra and piano solo. Typical of the genre, the movements are arranged by tempo in a fast-slow-fast configuration. The overarching concept of the piece is a...
Although Internet survey research in music therapy has been slowly increasing, surveys regarding music therapy with pediatric patients are nonexistent. The purpose of this study was to examine the demographics, clinical and educational...
The purpose of this study was to observe people's perception of portrayed emotion in singing, and if emotion intensity influences perception of emotion. Participants, who were undergraduate non-music majors (N = 39), took part in in a...
Coping with Performance Anxiety: College Piano Students' Perceptions of Performance Anxiety and Potential Effectiveness of Deep Breathing, Deep Muscle Relaxation, and Visualization
The purpose of this study was to investigate college piano students' pre-existing awareness of performance anxiety and to present deep breathing, deep muscle relaxation, and visualization as self-regulating techniques that might be...
The study investigated the effects of background music on reading comprehension skills of college students. Seventy-one participants read a health related article in one of three conditions: silence, music with lyrics, and music without...
One of the most important roles of the online instructor is to insure successful teaching by keeping students' interactions and discussions focused on topic, adding knowledge and expertise, and maintaining group harmony. Therefore, the...
Psychiatric inpatients and outpatients (N = 12) were asked to evaluate music therapy services received while admitted in treatment. Each subject was given an anonymous survey with rating, multiple choice, and ranking questions. Music...
Say the words 'oboe' and 'method book' in the same sentence, and invariably, the majority of musicians would think of one person: Apollon Marie-Rose Barret. His book is one of today's most widely-used methods for the education of young...
This thesis presents a new interpretation of Johannes Brahms's Vier ernste Gesänge, op. 121. Foundational information is provided on Brahms's spirituality and knowledge of the Bible, his personal life surrounding the composition of the...
This study examined the reasons choral directors take their ensembles to competitions. Choral directors (N=183) in ten states were surveyed to determine the reasons they and their students participate in competitions; the importance of...
The purpose of this study was to conduct a music therapy session to determine the effect of music therapy interventions on mood elevation and reality orientation of patients with memory deficits. The Null hypothesis (H0) stated there...
In music, the field of affective (or emotional) response research is significant not only in the number of studies published, but in its study of the motivation behind music-making. Most composers, performers, and listeners participate...
Ulrich Gasser is a contemporary Swiss composer who has written music for nearly every instrument. His compositions for orchestra, chamber winds, choral groups, piano, and organ have been performed throughout Europe. His extensive...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of music therapy on patient anxiety and perception during radiation oncology procedures. The design of this study included experimental and control groups with pre-test and multiple...
Odds and Middles for Wind Ensemble explores the concept of duality in human identity. The struggle to discover and develop an individual identity which allows for inclusion in the larger social dynamic, yet is capable of enduring the...
The Influences of Mannheim Style in W.A. Mozart's Concerto for Oboe, K. 314 (285D) and Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr's Duo Sonata for Oboe and Piano
The court at Mannheim between 1740 and 1778 produced an abundance of musical innovations and compositions. Composers such as Johann Stamitz and Christian Cannabich revolutionized orchestral playing in a multitude of ways, including the...
The topic of this treatise is a comparison between autograph manuscripts and published editions of selected guitar works by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. The works involved in this comparison are as follows: Suite Popular...
This dissertation explores the compositional and stylistic development of Alban Berg (1885-1935), as demonstrated in his Jugendlieder, two volumes containing 81 art songs composed between 1901 and 1908. The biographical and cultural...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of music therapy intervention on the vocational rehabilitation of individuals with psychiatric disabilities who were residing in halfway houses. The subjects were 23 adult psychiatric...
mix/match is a multi-movement work for orchestra and its subset instrument groups. As such, some movements can be performed by string orchestras or wind ensembles. This composition is also designed for concert programmers, conductors, ...
This thesis explores the ways that practitioners in orisha worshipping traditions conceptualize aché in relation to the function of music and performance in spirit possession ceremonies. Aché is a concept generally defined as divine...
Ritual healing has fascinated ethnographers and historians for several decades. Over the last twenty-five years, ethnomusicologists have begun to examine the cognitive, performative, and phenomenological aspects of ritual and trance....
The Road for Orchestra is a tone poem based on the poem, The Road by Korean poet, Yun Dongju (1917~1945). Yun Dongju was persecuted during the final days of Japanese Imperialism in Korea. The images in his poem symbolize his oppression...
This study is an examination of the music for wind ensemble by Joseph Scwhantner. It is divided into two parts: a transcription of the composer's New Morning for the World (originally for Narrator and Orchestra), and a study of the...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of background music and song texts to teach emotional understanding to children with autism. Participants were 12 students (mean age 11.5 years) with a primary diagnosis of autism who...
Maud Powell was recognized as among the best violinists at home and abroad during her lifetime. She believed that women should play the violin and that American women could be professional musicians - performers, educators, and composers...
The Effects of Music Therapy and Token Economy System vs. Music Therapy on Decreaing Inappropriate Behaviors with Students Labeled Emotionally Disturbed
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of token economy with music therapy vs. music therapy to decrease the behavioral problems with students labeled emotionally disturbed. Subjects included 20 students aged 13-17 years. A...
Children undergoing medical procedures frequently experience severe distress, which may be ameliorated through procedural support music therapy. Parent and nurse behaviors have been noted to influence child behaviors during medical...
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