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  1. Music Theses and Dissertations

    Theses/Dissertations from 2021. School Music Administration During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trauma, Loss, Meaning, Change, and Innovation, Christopher Burns. Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Songwriting Self-Efficacy (SSES) with Secondary Music Students, Patrick K. Cooper. Measuring Parental Involvement as Parental Actions in ...

  2. Research Guides: Music Research Guide: Dissertations and Theses

    A central, open-access repository of research (including dissertations and scholarly articles) by members of the Harvard community. A bibliography of completed dissertations and proposed topics in musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, and related disciplines. Maintained by the American Musicological Society.

  3. Yale University Library Research Guides: Music: Dissertations

    The Music Library has purchased many copies of dissertations from other universities. Most Yale dissertations that are not full-text in ProQuest (above) are available in paper or microfilm for reading, scanning, or printing. Dissertations can be located in Quicksearch by: (1) Entering the author or title in the Basic Search box.

  4. PDF Treatise and Dissertation Handbook

    An ETD (Electronic Thesis or Dissertation) is a document that explains the research or scholarship of a graduate student. It is expressed in a form simultaneously suitable for machine archives and worldwide retrieval. The ETD is similar to its paper predecessor: It has figures, tables, footnotes, and references.

  5. PDF Writing about Music: A Guide to Writing in A & I 24

    a piece beautiful or powerful or dificult to grasp.Writing about music is in some ways like writing about anything else: you need a convincing argument, interesting idea. clear presentation, and thoughtful organi-zation. But writing about music also entails listening, formulating observations in words, and shaping those observations into.

  6. LibGuides: Dissertation and Thesis Research and Writing Guide for Music

    This guide is intended for music students working on researching and writing their dissertation or thesis.

  7. Dissertations

    Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology - Online. DDM is a free international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.

  8. Music Theses and Dissertations

    Theses/Dissertations from 2020. PDF. Performance History of Mahler's Das Lied Von Der Erde Focusing on Bruno Walter and Leonard Bernstein, Nisan Ak. PDF. The Mathematics of Rubato: Analyzing Expressivetiming in Sergei Rachmaninoff's Performances of Hisown Music, Meilun An.

  9. Musical Examples

    Scanning Musical Examples vs. Transcribing Music Examples There are two routes to placing a musical example into a document. The first option is to scan a copy of the original and cut it down to the size/measures needed for the example. This works well if you just need to show a copy of the music, but in many cases, a musical example expands or distills the work in question in order to ...

  10. Get Started

    Musical Examples Students must license copyrighted music for use in their dissertation.

  11. A song of songs: A/r/tography, autoethnography, and songwriting as

    This dissertation is an a/r/tographic inquiry in which I explore how songs and stories about songwriting can serve as a means for theorizing new ways of conducting research in music education. I a/r/tographically braid music, lyrics, scholarship and research, autoethnography, and

  12. (PDF) Music Definition and Music Education: many perspectives, many

    Abstract Understanding music and musical meaning is a central question in various domains such as philosophy, anthropology, social sciences, semiotics and music education.

  13. Music Education Theses and Dissertations

    Theses/Dissertations from 2005. The Effect of Conducting Gesture on Expressive-Interpretive Performance of College Music Majors, Ronald Wayne Gallops. Effect of Age on 11- to 18-Year-Olds' Discrimination of Nuances in Instrumental and Speech Phrase Interpretations, Andrew Sioberg.

  14. Music Theses and Dissertations

    Music Theses and Dissertations This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Music, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

  15. Music Dissertations & Theses

    A study of practices in student teaching in selected universities with recommendations for the improvement of the full-time student teaching program in music at the Ohio State University / by Stephen Milburn Clarke. A survey of the opinions of administrators and music teachers in regard to large group music competition.

  16. PDF Conceptions of Meaning in Music

    Finally, for all of the above (except from being my supervisor); for being part of the master colloquium, for expertly reading and commenting on my thesis, for helping me keep perspective, and for discussing my thesis and everything else with me; for all your love and support; thank you Maria.

  17. Music and Dance Theses and Dissertations

    Voice, Timbre, and Politics in Chinese Popular Music, 1920-1980. Liu, Annie (University of Oregon, 2024-08-07) This thesis examines the political and cultural context informing the voices and timbres of Chinese popular music between 1920 and 1980. Drawing from scholarship by Jones (2001), Chen (2007), and Ouyang (2022), I survey ...

  18. Arsis and thesis

    In music and prosody, arsis ( / ˈɑːrsɪs /; plural arses, / ˈɑːrsiːz /) and thesis ( / ˈθiːsɪs /; plural theses, / ˈθiːsiːz /) [ 2] are respectively the stronger and weaker parts of a musical measure or poetic foot. However, because of contradictions in the original definitions, writers use these words in different ways.

  19. PDF Microsoft Word

    INTRODUCTION Completing a thesis is the culminating activity in the Master of Music Education degree program. For some students the experience of writing a thesis can be a rewarding one and can serve as a critical point of entry into doctoral study. For others, writing a thesis can be a daunting task.

  20. School of Music Graduate Theses and Dissertations

    Theses/Dissertations from 2023. PDF. A Case Study Analysis of the Experiences and Perceived Learning Outcomes of Former Non-Music Majors in Applied Horn Lessons, Jordan Bennett. PDF. Unconventional Wisdom in Resonating Echoes of the Past: A Memoir on the Life and Music of royal hartigan, Joseph Elias Boulos. PDF.

  21. An Interdisciplinary Review of Music Performance Analysis

    The Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval publishes novel scientific research in the field of music information retrieval (MIR), an interdisciplinary research area concerned with processing, analysing, organising and accessing music information. We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, musicology, cognitive science ...

  22. The Meaning of Music-Making for Computer Scientists with a Serious

    This study explores the meaning of music-making in the lives of computer scientists who play classical music as their serious avocation. In particular, it investigates their tendencies and capacities to concurrently engage in two such distinct disciplines on a regular basis, by exploring the cognitive, social, and cultural aspects of their concurrent engagement.

  23. (PDF) On music's potential to convey meaning in film: A systematic

    For this review, 24 German and English empirical studies that tested music's potential to. convey meaning were identified to be compared in their research questions, the characteristics of ...