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 ...
ABSTRACTUSING SOLO TRANSCRIPTION TO DEVELOP A PERSONAL JAZZ IMPROVISATIONAL STYLE
Brendan Schnabel, DMA
George Mason University, 2021
Dissertation Director: Dr. Darden Purcell The practice of transcribing improvised ...
This dissertation discusses compositional techniques used by Mark Camphouse in the twelve of his published pieces that he believes are his best and most important. These techniques define his overall characteristic sound ...
This dissertation proposes a geometrical model of musical chords and melodies based on the molecular bonding models, exploring music through a piano performer’s synesthetic mind that integrates auditory perception with ...
In the early twentieth century, a religious and cultural renewal movement took hold in the Evangelical Church (Lutheran) in Germany. As a result, music from the masters of the Renaissance and Baroque period saw new popularity ...
Gerald Joseph “Gerry” Mulligan (1927–96) was a highly acclaimed jazz musician in the twentieth century. One of relatively few to adopt baritone saxophone as his or her main instrument he had a nearly fifty-year-long career ...
Historically, the act of commissioning has been a primary method of bringing new works into the wind band repertoire. It is essential to the growth and development of the genre and the ensemble itself. Throughout the ...
“Klezmer” is the term commonly used today to refer to music Jewish music from Eastern Europe and is often associated with the Yiddish language and Ashkenazi Jews. Since the 1970s a renewed interest in klezmer has led ...
This dissertation explores John Philip Sousa’s The Last Days of Pompeii and its relationship to two preceding artistic treatments of the same title, a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and a painting by Karl Bryullov. Each ...
In the past 50 years, American children’s choruses have flourished. Some were guided by four of the most influential conductors and leaders of the children’s choir movement—Jean Ashworth Bartle, Helen Kemp, Henry Leck and ...
This dissertation describes the current state of analysis of film music with the intent of finding connections between ideas on narrative analysis and film music. I posit an approach from Almén that overlays Micznik’s ...
In 1976 composers Benjamin Britten and George Rochberg premiered separate works titled Phaedra. Both composers adapted Robert Lowell’s verse translation of Jean Racine’s Phèdre into settings for solo Mezzo-Soprano and ...
When playing games and surfing the internet, anyone can take on any identity they choose. The concept of the internet and custom avatars being used by transgender people has been a concept since the early 1990’s with Caitlin ...
This thesis describes the work of Jorge E. Bañales, focusing on the conceptual basis for
his MFA thesis exhibition Inertia of the Real. Installed in the Gillespie Gallery in the Arts
and Design Building at George Mason ...
THE HOLY RABBIT is an ANDiLAND short experimental film about reclaiming power over one’s body while under a constant threat of violence. A surreal hero's journey down the rabbit hole of the female grotesque to find the ...
Motherscape, the MFA thesis of Jayne Matricardi, explores the psychological landscape of motherhood through paintings, video, mixed media and poetry. The exhibition shines light on hidden struggles of motherhood, investigates ...
This thesis investigates the trend of dancers losing their ability to access the imagination,
to engage in child-like play, and to connect emotion to dance. In the process of
researching this thesis, the author utilized ...
Asian American students have long been perceived as musically and academically
gifted. However, recent studies have shown that stereotypes and discrimination impact
the mental health, educational opportunities, and ...
Liminal Glyphs, MFA thesis exhibition of Kate Fitzpatrick, was on display at Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University in Fall of 2020. The exhibition provided a space to explore the nature of language, meaning, and ...