Osvaldo Golijov’s music borrows musical styles from a wide variety of different cultures to create a distinctive brand of 21st-century storytelling. Ainadamar, his first opera, presents images of the life and death of ...
Analysis and description of the timbral characteristics of percussion instruments has been verbally transmitted from teacher to student for generations. Percussion educators use this vocabulary to indicate their desired ...
While universities may include both drum set and multiple percussion setups as part of a student’s private instruction, it is sometimes challenging to develop curricula that address both areas as equal in a complete ...
The purpose of this study is to understand the piano works by American composer ScottWheeler, a student of Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) who claimed to be the first musician in the world to have composed musical portraits ...
The piano intermezzos of Brahms are well known in piano repertoire; frequently taught, performed, and analyzed. Despite interest in these works, the reasons the title intermezzo would have appealed to Brahms as the name ...
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of music educators’ perceptions of ways in which marching band and college music education curricula connect. By examining the music educators’ perceptions, the ...
Ko Matsushita (b. 1962) is one of the most prominent figures in current Japanese choral music. With musical training both in Japan and in Hungary, he is known for his ability to write in multiple styles and genres. Some ...
This is the written component for The Gray Market, a Master of Fine Arts in Visual
Art thesis exhibition and project. It provides a detailed description of the concept and
body of work in the exhibition. The writing ...
My work investigates the role of care in society. I define care as a serious and tender
attention to someone or something. Fastening the button on the back of my daughter’s
dress without tangling it with her delicate ...
This thesis explores the graduate exhibition, Through Line, from Fall 2021 by Kerry
Hentges. The exhibition focuses on anxiety and how to relieve it through art-making. Both prints
and fabric tapestries are showcased. ...
Chief Master Sgt. Floyd Edwards Werle was the
head of the composing and arranging staff of The United States Air Force Band for thirty-two
years. His lifetime output included 513 arrangements, 23 transcriptions, ...
This thesis describes parallels between the realm of internet, specifically virtual reality
and the subconscious domain of dreams. The observation of how slowly and steadily
humans become digitalized and migrated into ...
This thesis investigates and articulates the process of directing a Shakespeare performance to create inclusive, ensemble storytelling. Interpretation and production of a play for public viewing was an integral part of ...
The thesis project, Pause: Reset, was an outdoor dance event that took place at the A.
Linwood Holton, Jr. Plaza at George Mason University’s Fairfax campus on April 22,
2021. The 25-minute work was the culmination of ...
Jiesun Lim is a composer who is considered to be one of the most prominent contemporary musicians in Korea. This dissertation investigates the stylistic features of Lim’s four solo piano works: Spiritual Dance, Ice Flower, ...
During the 1980s, a group of young Chinese composers went abroad to study music after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Their music was highly influenced by both traditional Chinese music as well as Western musical ...
This study aims to fill a gap in percussion literature by analyzing the history and usage of the Japanese concept 間(ma). Ma is a difficult concept to put into words, especially if one did not grow up in Japanese culture: ...
This research is focused on adaptations between Afro-Brazilian atabaque percussion, language performed in Candomblé music, and the drum set commonly used in Jazz styles. Candomblé is an Afro-diasporic religion developed ...
Isang Yun (1917–1995) was the first successful Korean-born composer in Western classical music. His students, Sukhi Kang (1934–2020) and Byungdong Paik (b. 1936), have been leading composers and educators in South Korea ...
The American Brass Band Movement (1835-1892) is an important period within music history that is disproportionally and inadequately taught in collegiate music history classrooms. By learning about America’s band history ...