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A Popular Teaching Resource for Training Piano Technique in China: Études by Carl Czerny
With the development of piano pedagogy, more and more piano teachers have developed their own teaching systems. They have specific leveling references and preferred method books for different levels of students. In China, ... -
"The choir Is dead, long live the choir" : contemporary worship music and the transformation of the church choir.
(2022-05-04)Church choirs in North America have undergone substantial transformations in the early twenty-first century due to the steady increase of informal worship practices and the continuing decrease of formal worship elements ... -
“Passin’ the faith along" : a sonic history of the Gaither Vocal Band.
(2021-08-06)This dissertation presents a “thick history” of the career of Bill Gaither, to use Jennifer Lena’s term. While examining the Bill Gaither Trio and the Gaither Vocal Band, the principal performing groups founded by Bill ... -
Perceiving parallax : human agency in the changing nature, history, and influence of the Brazilian Baptist hymnal Cantor Cristão.
(2021-08-04)This dissertation is a cultural history and musical ethnography of the first Brazilian Baptist hymnal Cantor Cristão. Published in 1891, it was revised and expanded, and went through thirty-seven editions but remained the ... -
Danube to the stars : a study in the application of compositional techniques to vernacular media.
(2021-05-04)This project is a full-length album of my own composition. Every instrumental track and every vocal track was performed by me, with the exception of the spoken vocals. The texts were composed by two of my old high school ... -
Prophecy.
(2021-04-22)Throughout this paper I will provide analytical insight into the various compositional elements that constitute my capstone master’s project for orchestra, Prophecy. Utilizing examples from the score as well as those of ... -
Remergence.
(2020-04-29)Remergence is a piece for orchestra, about nine-and-a-half minutes in length, that I wrote in the first two semesters of composition lessons with Dr. McAllister at Baylor University and finished editing in the third semester. ... -
Personifying dynamic video game music through live performance : a rescoring of RiME.
(2020-05-01)My central argument for this thesis is that video game music loses its adaptive functionality when performed outside of a gameplay context. My goal is to use technology to incorporate live performance into dynamic game ... -
Is this my story? Is this my song? Exploring narrative dissonance in worship music through the lens of ludomusicology.
(2019-11-14)This thesis explores connections between ludomusicology, sociology of religious narratives, and church music studies in a larger context of the digital mediatization of music and culture. Analysis of cultural trends around ... -
Musical techniques in the compositions of Der wilde Alexander and Rumelant von Sachsen in the Jenaer Liederhandschrift.
(2019-04-23)The Jenaer Liederhandschrift is a large fourteenth-century manuscript that serves as the primary source for melodies of German medieval vernacular song. Although scholarship focusing on the poetic texts has enjoyed activity ... -
Church music through the lens of performance : the embodied ritual of sacred play.
(2018-06-11)Scholars who address religious music making in general, and Christian church music in particular, use “performance” in a variety of ways and under varying constellations of assumptions, creating confusion around the term ... -
The relational ethics of church music.
(2018-07-19)Music is an “indispensable” aspect of Protestant Christian worship, to use Brian Wren’s term (2000, 48). Yet it is also perceived as one of the most divisive aspects of that activity, with scholars, practitioners, and ... -
The Glimmer on the Scorched Earth.
(2018-04-26)Throughout my childhood, I’ve always found myself gravitating towards war time movies. I revel in them not only because of the extremely breathtaking and dramatic storyline and the costly hi-tech visual and sound effects, ... -
"Fantasy of the Desert" for full orchestra.
(2018-04-16)"Fantasy of the Desert", is a full orchestral piece inspired by travelling in the desert near my hometown. Generally speaking, I intend to depict the different scenes when it is sunny, windy, and stormy. For this goal, I ... -
Fantasies and delusions : Billy Joel's turn and return to classical music.
(2018-04-17)In 2001, the release of Fantasies and Delusions officially announced Billy Joel’s remarkable career transition from popular songwriting to classical instrumental music composition. Representing Joel’s eclectic aesthetic ... -
Exploring homilies and hymnody : the thematic relationship between George Whitefield’s sermons and A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship.
(2017-11-14)This thesis examines George Whitefield’s A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship and presents a thematic analysis of the hymn book’s lyrical content. This research contributes to a fuller understanding of Whitefield’s ... -
The trombone as signifier in sacred germanic works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
(, 2017-10-09)During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Germanic composers recognized and propagated certain rhetorical associations of the trombone. Following a tradition of signification in sacred dramatic works, these composers ... -
Sunshower : a symphonic poem for wind ensemble.
(2017-03-16)Composed in the programmatic spirit of standard wind ensemble works such as H. Owen Reed’s La Fiesta Mexicana, Winds of Nagual by Michael Colgrass, and Alfred Reed’s Armenian Dances, Sunshower is an exploration in sonoristic ... -
The influence of poetry on the piano music of early twentieth-century France and England.
(2017-04-19)The turn of the century in France saw an increased intensity of interest in equating the arts of poetry and music. England experienced a similar trend. Debussy and Ravel were influenced by the Symbolist poets and their ... -
"Cycles" for full orchestra and electronics.
(2016-11-14)The piece “Cycles” for full orchestra and electronics takes inspiration from the cycles of the earth. Specifically, the piece describes elastic rebound theory in the first movement, cycles of water in the second movement, ...
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