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Fall 2011
Rachel Portman is a successful female film score composer known for her rich orchestral scores, many for films that can be classified as women's films. Portman has collaborated on several films with the Chinese-American film director Wayne Wang who in many of his films has explored the issues of...
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Fall 2010
ABSTRACT Rashomon, a composition for wind ensemble, portrays a musical event—the simple motion of rise and fall—from three different perspectives, each assigned to one of the three movements. The underlying form, the basic gestural content, pitch material and instrumentation remain the same in...
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Fall 2011
This thesis is a comparative analysis of representations of the African American fife and drum musical tradition in North Mississippi, tracing the ways these representations are shaped by the ideologies, aims, methods, and social positions of the person(s) in primary control of representation. It...
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Fall 2011
Folk music is a site of contestation to define national culture and language amongst the cultural elites in Pakistan. The elites who established cultural institutions for the promotion of folk music represented Pakistan either as a cultural unit with Islam and the Urdu language as its unifying...
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Fall 2010
This work examines the harmonic theory of the Austrian music theorist Robert Mayrhofer (1863-1935) as described in the author’s first two treatises, Psychologie des Klanges and Die organische Harmonielehre. In presuming that musical listening involves the visual conceptualization of pitch as...
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Fall 2024
San Ignacio, one of the musical works that came out of the Chiquitano and Moxos Missions of eastern Bolivia in the mid-18th century, is an enigmatic product of the Jesuit colonial project. Heavily loaded with dramatic religious language, this work is an intriguing blend of European influences...
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Scholarly Notes to Accompany a Compact Disc Recording Project: An Interpretive Analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Capriccio on the Absence of the Beloved Brother, BWV 992, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110, Frédéric Chopin’s Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38, and Nino Rota’s 15 Preludes
DownloadSpring 2015
This thesis project consists of three components: 1. a solo piano recital; 2. a compact disc recording of the recital program; and 3. comprehensive scholarly notes to accompany the compact disc. The recital was given at the University of Alberta’s Convocation Hall on January 17, 2015 at 8:00...