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The Impact of Technology-Based Music Classes on Music Department Enrollment in Secondary Public High Schools in the Northeastern United States
The purpose of this study was to examine if the implementation of a technology-based music class in public high schools in the northeastern United States had any significant impact on the overall music department enrollment and on enrollment in traditional performance ensemble courses, such as band and chorus, as they are the courses most offered in high schools in the United States. The two phases of the study included identifying eligible schools and collecting data from schools. A six-year history of music department and school enrollment data was collected from participating schools (n = 12). Individual music classes in each school were categorized as Band, Chorus, Orchestra, Technology-based, or Other Music Classes. Results found a statistically significant increase in overall Music Department enrollment and no statistically significant change in enrollment in Band or Chorus after the implementation of a technology-based music class. Reductions in enrollment did occur in Other Music classes. No significant change to the number of teachers in music departments was found. This study suggests that implementing a technology-based music classes may help increase overall music department enrollment without negatively impacting enrollment in traditional performance ensembles and may not necessitate funding for additional faculty.
Date:
August 2019
Creator:
Freedman, Barbara Ann
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
When Does Race Matter in Music Education?: An Exploration of Race, Racial Hegemony, and Predominantly Latinx Secondary Music Programs through the Theory of Racial Formation
Latinx students are underrepresented among high school music students in the United States, nationally. However, localized demographics in some parts of the country reveal secondary music programs that are comprised nearly entirely of Latinx students. Still, the experiences of such a large and racially marginalized population as Latinx students remain under-researched in the field of music education. To explore how Latinx racial identity may inform the experiences of Latinx music students and their music teachers, I conducted a post-qualitative study of students and teachers in music classes at large secondary schools in which the Latinx population is 95 percent or more. Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with music students and their teachers. To guide my thinking on the role of race in the lives of the participants, I incorporated Omi and Winant's (2015) theory of racial formation throughout the data analysis. Overall findings indicated that race informs much of the experiences of the participants in varying, sometimes subtle ways. Through racism, racial resistance, the formation of racial identity, and the incorporation of both colorblind ideology and race consciousness, the participants provided nuance as to how we may regard the role and significance of race in music education. Implications …
Date:
December 2019
Creator:
Escalante, Samuel
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Classic Keys: Keyboard Sounds That Launched Rock Music
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Classic Keys is a beautifully photographed and illustrated book focusing on the signature rock keyboard sounds of the 1950s to the early 1980s. It celebrates the Hammond B-3 organ, Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, the Vox Continental and Farfisa combo organs, the Hohner Clavinet, the Mellotron, the Minimoog and other famous and collectable instruments. From the earliest days of rock music, the role of keyboards has grown dramatically. Advancements in electronics created a crescendo of musical invention. In the thirty short years between 1950 and 1980, the rock keyboard went from being whatever down-on-its-luck piano awaited a band in a bar or concert hall to a portable digital orchestra. It made keyboards a centerpiece of the sound of many top rock bands, and a handful of them became icons of both sound and design. Their sounds live on: Digitally, in the memory chips of modern keyboards, and in their original form thanks to a growing group of musicians and collectors of many ages and nationalities. Classic Keys explores the sound, lore, and technology of these iconic instruments, including their place in the historical development of keyboard instruments, music, and the international keyboard instrument industry. Twelve significant instruments are presented as …
Date:
September 2019
Creator:
Lenhoff, Alan S., 1951- & Robertson, David E., 1956-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
EverWind: Original Composition and Analytical Essay on the Role of Inspiration and Nature in Music
This paper provides an overview of the inspiration, research, and creative process involved in the composition of EverWind for orchestra and electronics. EverWind is based on field recordings from the American Southwest. The composition uses pitch material derived from spectral analysis of the recordings, and it incorporates a fixed media element using the field recordings that are then electronically manipulated to various degrees; this fixed media element is played alongside the orchestra. The paper also analyzes John Luther Adams' Dark Waves for Orchestra and Electronics and R. Murray Schafer's Music for Wilderness Lake in order to place EverWind within the broader musical context.
Date:
August 2019
Creator:
Gerard, Garrison
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Music scores and buttons]
Photograph of buttons, flyers and music scores available for display on UNT's music library table at the 2019 Archives Bazaar held at the Patterson-Appleton Center in Denton, TX, on Saturday, November 2, 2019.
Date:
November 2, 2019
Creator:
Esparza, Anna
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ensemble: 2019-03-30 – 22nd Annual African Cultural Festival of Traditional Ethnic Music and Dance
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World ensembles concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Date:
March 30, 2019
Creator:
Afrikania Cultural Troupe of Ghana
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
From the Archives: Duke Ellington Collections at the UNT Music Library
Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode describes five major collections of materials related to Duke Ellington, including multiple sound recordings which are unreleased according to available discographical information: Ellington at the Paramount Theater, April 30, 1947; Ellington on WWDC radio, April 21, 1946; Ellington interviewed by Willis Conover, March 27, 1948; Ellington interviewed by Willis Conover, September 5, 1973; Swedish telecast, February 7, 1963; Goteborg, Sweden, November 6, 1958; Milan, Italy, January 15, 1967.
Date:
August 15, 2019
Creator:
Feustle, Maristella
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[UNT music library table]
Photograph of UNT's music library table at the 2019 Archives Bazaar held at the Patterson-Appleton Center in Denton, TX, on Saturday, November 2, 2019.
Date:
November 2, 2019
Creator:
Esparza, Anna
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Saxophone Music of Pierre-Philippe Bauzin: A Survey of Original Compositions and Rediscovery of Lost Works
Pierre-Philippe Bauzin (1933-2005) was a skilled keyboard performer, improviser, and composer. By way of his close personal friendship with renowned saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix, Bauzin began dedicating, composing, and often times performing music for saxophone with Londeix, beginning in 1959. The results of this friendship produced eleven original works for saxophone with diverse instrumentation, ranging from solo compositions to large ensembles. Due to Bauzin's preference for improvising the piano accompaniments of his music on each performance, however, a majority of his compositions were thought to be incomplete or lost. This study surveys Bauzin's complete opus for saxophone by way of both his published works, and the author's rediscovery of the manuscripts to these previously assumed lost compositions for saxophone. The pieces studied are Sonata no. 1 (1959), Poème (1960), Cinq Pièces Breves en Forme de Musique (1960), Esquisses (1967), Divertimento (1968), and Quatuor no. 1 (1962). In addition, chapter 8 provides information regarding other compositions for saxophone by Bauzin that did not survive in their completed form. The survey of each work contains information pertaining to creation, performances of significance in saxophone history, and compositional techniques present within each work that can be used to identify the components of Bauzin's unique …
Date:
May 2019
Creator:
Murphy, Sean (Saxophonist)
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Addressing Technical and Musical Demands of Contemporary Music for Horn through Newly-Composed Etudes
Contemporary music for horn often requires techniques and musical or notational considerations that are unconventional with respect to the standard pedagogy of the instrument. As such, these considerations often represent a level of challenge to which the average-intermediate to advanced-hornist is unprepared to approach or altogether unfamiliar. The most prominent of these demands arising in the last few decades of the twentieth century through today include microtonality (such as extended just intonation and quarter tones), extended techniques in combination or juxtaposition (such as multiphonics and right hand technique), rhythmic complexity (including metric modulation, non-dyadic meters, additive rhythms, and nested tuplets), and unconventional notations (graphic, spatial, and other temporal notations). This document first surveys the challenges of the repertoire in question, which includes works by György Ligeti, Thea Musgrave, Milton Babbitt, Brian Ferneyhough, Iannis Xenakis, Heinz Holliger, and Douglas Hill, among others. After considering the merits and limitations of existing pedagogical materials that work towards these ends, the document then underlines a strategic pedagogical goal for understanding and approaching unconventional contemporary repertoire through newly-composed etudes. This document is written in conjunction with and justification for the author's 24 Unconventional Etudes for Horn, and includes examples therefrom.
Date:
August 2019
Creator:
Hessel, Eric
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Solo, Chamber Music and Orchestral Excerpts Selected and Organized Pedagogically for the Intermediate Cellist
The use of orchestral excerpts from standard music repertoire as a pedagogical means has been adopted by many instrumental pedagogues to train the advanced instrumentalist. This dissertation presents an innovative idea among the excerpt tradition by drawing excerpts from solo, chamber music and orchestral music to function as etudes for the intermediate level cellist. 320 music excerpts are drawn and organized under the headings of different technical categories in order to train the techniques within the context of quality music. The purpose of the dissertation is to introduce the young player to the concept that techniques and musical expression are not two separated entities, rather, techniques serve as a medium to convey the music.
Date:
August 2019
Creator:
Zhou, Lejing, 1986-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2018-2019: Student Performances, Volume 1
Student performances program book from the 2018-2019 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2019
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music with Friends: The Role of Voice of America's Willis Conover in the Global Reach of Polish Jazz [Presentation]
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Presentation on Voice of America broadcaster Willis Conover's long association with Polish jazz, given at the meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held in Kraków, Poland July 14-19, 2019.
Date:
July 18, 2019
Creator:
Feustle, Maristella
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
María Teresa Prieto's "Seis Melodías": An Analysis of Its Historical Background and Text-Music Relationship
Spanish composer María Teresa Prieto (1895-1982) belongs to a group of Spanish exiles who left their country for Mexico as a result of the Spanish Civil War. She arrived in Mexico in 1936 and developed her compositional career in there. Her first composition after her arrival in the new country was the song cycle Seis Melodías, a work that includes six songs with poetry by Ricardo de Alcázar, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca, and María Teresa Prieto herself. This document analyzes each one of the songs, both musically and poetically, as well as the relationship between music and text. Seis Melodías' structural organization as a cycle is very particular, since Prieto organized the cycle in pairs—namely I and II, III and IV, and V and VI—each group with strong poetic and thematic unity. The songs belonging to this cycle, present the duality of being independent and dependent at the same time, given that each song stands by itself, but together they create a meta-narrative that progresses from hope to desolation, not as a political statement, but as a homage to, as well as a lament, for the Spanish land and freedom. The cyclical nature of this work is accomplished …
Date:
December 2019
Creator:
Monsalve Mejía, Juana
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2018-2019: Student Performances, Volume 2
Student performances program book from the 2018-2019 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2019
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ensemble: 2019-02-05 – Symphonic Band
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Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
Date:
February 5, 2019
Creator:
University of North Texas. Symphonic Band.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Descriptive Study of the Musical Backgrounds of Orchestral Concert Attendees, with an Emphasis on Past Participation in School Music Programs
This was a descriptive study that was completed to gather information about musical backgrounds of orchestral concert attendees, and to determine if those attendees perceived relationships between past participation in school music programs and current patronage of classical music concerts. Participants completed a survey about their musical experiences from childhood through adulthood, as well as memories from school music programs. Results and analysis of the responses identified common themes among participants' childhoods, their schooling and private lessons, experiences that served as gateways to classical music listening, the aesthetic benefits that they found in concert attendance, and negative responses that they had to music participation. Results also found a large number of pieces and composers that participants recalled from past participation in school music programs. Findings from this study analyze why these experiences were important to participants and why they might serve as motivation to attend classical music concerts or continue to support them. Implications of this study include suggestions for professional music organizations, school music educators, professional classical musicians, and church music directors. Suggestions for further research based on this study's findings are also included.
Date:
May 2019
Creator:
Pearce, Kevin (Conductor)
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music with Friends: The Role of Voice of America's Willis Conover in the Global Reach of Polish Jazz [Presentation Notes]
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Notes accompanying a presentation on Voice of America broadcaster Willis Conover's long association with Polish jazz, given at the meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held in Kraków, Poland July 14-19, 2019.
Date:
July 18, 2019
Creator:
Feustle, Maristella
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2018-2019: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 4
Ensemble performances program book from the 2018-2019 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2019
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2018-2019: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 2
Ensemble performances program book from the 2018-2019 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2019
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2018-2019: Scholarships & Departmental Recitals, Volume 1
Scholarship performances and departmental recitals program book from the 2018-2019 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2019
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2018-2019: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 3
Ensemble performances program book from the 2018-2019 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2019
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2018-2019: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 1
Ensemble performances program book from the 2018-2019 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2019
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Introduction to Contemporary Characteristics in Twentieth-Century Piano Music for the Late-Intermediate Student: A Pedagogical Analysis of the Bagatelles, Opus 5 by Alexander Tcherepnin
Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977) was a Russian-born American composer, his musical style represents the modern and diverse features of much twentieth-century piano music. The purpose of this research is to conduct a comprehensive pedagogical analysis of Alexander Tcherepnin's Bagatelles, Op. 5 with the goal of introducing contemporary characteristics in twentieth-century piano music for the late-intermediate student. Chapter 2 contains overall biographical information regarding Alexander Tcherepnin and a discussion of the general compositional style of his piano works. Chapter 3 analyzes the Bagatelles, Op. 5 from the perspective of musical challenges concerning the contemporary characteristics, including contemporary harmony: interval of seconds, non-tertian chords, special use of the seventh chords, and ninth chords; contemporary rhythm and meter: shifted accents, asymmetric meter, meter change, and ostinato; modal melodic resources and tonalities; and other special tonalities. Chapter 4 has suggestions on fingering, pedaling, articulation, tone, dynamics and phrasing, and practicing procedures for individual technical difficulties. Studying the Bagatelles, Op. 5 provides a transition for the student from learning standard repertoire of the eighteenth and the nineteenth century, to contemporary repertoire through the combination of Russian compositional traditions with twentieth century repertory.
Date:
May 2019
Creator:
Ai, Meilin
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library