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The Oregon Bach Festival completed its thirty-fifth season of performances in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday, July 11, 2004. Beginning as a summer school program organized by Royce Saltzman in 1970 at the University of Oregon, the Festival's...
This dissertation investigates Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström's Five Pictures from the Bible, set for six-part unaccompanied chorus and baritone solo, by examining the historical antecedents of the work's creation, and analyzing...
The history, culture, and tradition of professional black choirs have had a great influence on choral music through the twenty-first century. During its 80 year history, professional black choirs have gained both a national and...
The purpose of this study was to investigate instructional pace by observing choral rehearsals of experienced teachers, describing teacher and student behaviors, and comparing usage of time to multiple descriptions of pacing drawn from...
This study shows stylistic traits of Stephen Paulus's choral writing by providing an analysis of six of the composer's fifty-eight multi-movement works. The context in which each work was written (with regard to the commissioning...
In this study, I explored possible effects of gesture height, specifically the location of the horizontal plane, on singer performance. Research questions for the study included: 1) Do singers change intonation, vibrato rate, vibrato...
For nearly sixty years, the Indiana University Singing Hoosiers have brought the genre of American Popular Song to audiences in Europe, Asia, Australia, Central America, the Bahamas, and all around the United States. This study documents...
An Analysis of Performance Practice Trends in Recent Recordings of Tomás Luis De Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium, O Quam Gloriosum, O Vos Omnes, and Officium Defunctorum as Related to Historical and Contemporary Scholarly Literature
This dissertation investigates performance practice trends in the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria as performed on commercially available recordings. The study discusses the prevailing philosophies surrounding musicians' quest for...
Although many teachers use concurrent instructional strategies, little is known about how or when they function in rehearsal, or how frequently they are employed. The purpose of the present study was to examine pitched and unpitched...
The purpose of this study was to examine undergraduate ensemble musicians’ perceptions of the function of facial expression in conducting. The primary research question was: (1) What are undergraduate ensemble members’ perceptions of the...
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a conductor's analysis of a specific set of repertoire by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis. The selected works share two common traits: (1) they are all scored for male chorus; and (2) their...
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide resources to enable scholarly performances of the 2007 choral-orchestral composition Kreek’s Notebook by Tõnu Kõrvits, one of Estonia’s most celebrated contemporary composers. Each movement...
The Japan Choral Association consists of 150, 000 members who belong to fifty-four regional associations. It plays an important role in the International Federation of Choral Music and has played a leading role in choral activities in the...
The purpose of this study was to examine the current practices and ability of preschool children of New Zealand in musical events. Data was obtained on static, unmanned video cameras set up inside and outside the kindergarten building...
The purpose of this study was to explore gesture’s role in the perception of technique and expressivity in vocal music performance by both performers and evaluators. Specific questions addressed were: 1) Does the use of spontaneous co...
The study of choral sound is accomplished through acoustic choral music measurement. Physical acoustics are the aspects of sound that can be quantifiably measured and psycho-acoustics is how we perceive what we hear. This study of choral...
Requiem masses have been an important part of classical music literature since the late 15th century and have been used as masses for the dead during funerals. Over the centuries the use of the requiem text has become more common because...
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...
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 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Choruses—the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus (ASOC) and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus (ASOCC)—have become exemplars for the performance of choral-orchestral repertoire. Exhibiting the...
The purpose of this study was to investigate listeners' tone quality preferences in a child's singing voice. Research questions were: a) Do musicians have expectations regarding the ideal tone quality for a child's voice? b) Will bright...
James Quitman Mulholland, composer, is Professor of Music at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has received commissions from children's choirs, middle schools, high schools, universities, professional ensembles, national...
ADr. Augustus J. Pearson is widely known as choral music educator who made significant contributions to choral music education and influenced many of his students. Moreover, his far-reaching influence as a choral conductor in various...
The purpose of the present study was: (1) to determine graduate student conductors' and teacher conductors' degree of feedback specificity, and ratio of positive to negative feedback; (2) to determine the feasibility of the Choral...
The purpose of this study is to provide a conductor's analysis of a specific set of choral arrangements of Appalachian folksongs within a cultural context. The selected works share three common traits: (1) they are folksongs that were...
This study shows the various compositional devices used in R. Nathaniel Dett’s short choral works. An analysis of each work with pertinent topical information is included for each song. The short choral works are catalogued. Additionally...
The pronunciation and interpretation of text is key to understanding its meaning, as well as cultural interpretation. A persistent problem related to performance practice of African American Spirituals is dialect. Interpretation of a...
The purpose of this study was to examine world music usage within the high school choirs of Georgia. Of interest were the amount of world music used with advanced choirs, which areas of the world were represented, and reasons for its...
Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the characteristics of existing choral pedagogical repertoire for early adolescent males, and to place those findings within a broader historical...
In its over seventy-year history, the Florida State University Choral Department has provided choral performances for audiences across the United States and around the world, as well as the opportunity for a music education. The present...
Performance Practice of Johann Sebastian Bach's Passio Secundum Johannem a Study of 25 Years of Recorded History (1982-2007) as Influenced by Events Surrounding the Historically Informed Performance Movement
This dissertation investigates developments in the performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion as evidenced in recordings of the work in the past quarter-of-a-century (1982-2007). These findings are contextualized within...
The Effect of a Training Module on Voice Quality Features on the Accuracy of Student Perception of Those Features and on Student Self-Efficacy for Clinically Working with People Who Have Voice Disorders
Speech-language pathology (SLP) students and clinicians have reported low self-efficacy, or confidence, in their ability to make auditory ratings of voice quality features. A training program for rating voice quality features may provide...
Conducting courses are a common feature of the choral music teacher education curriculum. However, practicing teachers often place lower value on conducting skills than other skills necessary for effective teaching. There may be a...
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