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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 ...
American diversity and the Genesis of Mass settings following the Second Vatican Council : a case study of Mary Lou’s Mass and La misa panamericana.
(2015-07-31)
This thesis will examine how ethnic diversity in American Catholicism contributed to the development of vernacular Mass settings in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. The case studies, Mary Lou’s Mass and La misa ...
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 history and formation of the military band in nineteenth-century Britain.
(2016-07-31)
In the nineteenth century, the military band underwent significant alterations as the British musical system endeavored to take the historical tradition and grand concepts of the bands and place them into a more unified ...
Voices of the soul.
(, 2013-09-16)
Voices of the Soul is a composition for orchestra and mezzo-soprano that comprises two movements. It uses texts by the Argentinian writer and poet Alfonsina Storni. Two contrasting ideas are illustrated in the piece, ...
Paul Simon's Graceland and its social and political statements on apartheid in South Africa.
(2007-01-11)
Paul Simon's Graceland album is one of the most controversial rock-and-roll albums in history because of its strong connection with South Africa during the apartheid. Simon's interest in South African music led him to ...
"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, ...
Scenes From the City
(2006-12-05)
Scenes From The City is a one-movement orchestral work approximately ten and a half minutes in duration. The work was inspired by a weekend trip to New York City in January of 2005. It is a programmatic piece, with obvious ...
"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 ...
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, ...