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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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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
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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...
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Fall 2022
The saxophone continues to inspire through its ability to both play an extremely wide array of dynamics and evoke intense emotions. This recital and recording project explores works for saxophone written in the last forty years that best encapsulate the extreme musical and emotional dynamics of...
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Sing, Pray, Heal: Neo-Kirtan and the Perceived Health Benefits of Westernized Group Chanting
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"Neo-kirtan," a Westernized version of a devotional call and response singing practice, is growing in popularity outside of kirtan's original South Asian contexts. This research project aims to describe the cultural and musical components of neo-kirtan through ethnographic analysis with...
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Spring 2012
For several centuries ginans have played an integral part of the Khoja Ismaili tradition. Community members learn, memorize, and sing ginans as part of their daily lives. Thus far, ginans have been studied mostly from textual and historical perspectives, however, it is through hearing, reciting...