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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Musical Behaviours, Dispositions, and Tendencies: Exploring Church Music-Making Through a Theory of Practice, Laura E. Benjamins

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A Comparative Analysis of the Early Twentieth-Century Music Appreciation and Community Music Movements in the United States, Andrew J. Blimke

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Moments of meeting: 'Intersubjective encounters' and ‘emancipatory’ experiences of individuals with (intellectual) disabilities in inclusive musical contexts, Caroline Blumer

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"That's the Way I Am, Heaven Help Me": The Role of Pronunciation in Billy Bragg's Music, Mary Blake Bonn

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Singing Our Stories: Building Community and Developing Self-Empowerment in the Childless Voices Choir, Laura Curtis

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Non-Directed Time, Danial Derakhshan

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Soundcurrents: Exploring sound’s potential to catalyze creative critical consciousness in adolescent music students and undergraduate music education majors, Jashen i. Edwards

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The Effect of Coping Verses Mastery Models on the Level of Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Music Learning, Self-Efficacy for Classical Guitar Playing and Guitar Achievement for Undergraduate Non-Music Majors, Patrick K. Feely Mr

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A Study of Art Song Composition and Interpretation by Three Female German Composers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Churan Feng

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Music Making in Elderly Community Program for Korean Immigrants in Canada, H. Elisha Jo

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The Maker - A Multi-Media Opera in Two Acts, Aaron Lee

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Vibes at the Village Vanguard: Hauntings, History, and the Construction of Jazz Place, Mark McCorkle

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Transference Music: For Electric Guitar Soloist and Amplified Orchestra, Andrew Noseworthy

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Prokofiev and the Soviet Dilemma: Censorship, Autonomy, and the Piano Transcriptions, Connor O'Kane

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Changing Minds And Changing Practice: Barriers And Facilitators To The Use Of Methods Associated With Popular Musicianship, And Strategies Music Teachers Use To Navigate Them, Rhiannon Simpson

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The Collective Unconscious, Yixuan Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Seeing Thro the Musical Eye: Santo Daime, Fuke-shū, 1960s Psychedelia, and the Antipodes of Musical Experience, Forest Anthony-Muran

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The Contrabass Tuned in Fifths: Towards an Understanding of Past and Present Applications., Stephen T. Bright

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Sound Judgements: Music Education Framework for Guiding Digital Mixing Practice, Artur Kapron

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Musical Signification in Biber's Rosary Sonatas, Frangel Lopez Cesena

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The Classical Sonata Forms of Franz Schubert’s Great C-Major Symphony: Exploring Tonal Structure in the New Romantic Style, Liam J. McDermott

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Secondary Instrumental Ensemble: A Shift Towards Non-Normative Learning Practices, Kristine Musgrove

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Gesture in Steve Reich's Music and its Signification: A Referential Approach to His Process, Stylistic, and Postminimalist Works, Martin Ross

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Voice Image: developing a new construct for vocal identity, Bethany R. Turpin

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The Tale of Rowan O'Shera (A Musical Drama), Emma T.L. Verdonk

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The Ghosts of Madwomen Past: Historical and Psychiatric Madness on the Late Twentieth-Century Opera Stage, Diana Wu

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Exploring Musical Knowledge Within One Canadian School Of Music: Ideology, Pedagogy, And Identity, Kyle Zavitz

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Re-imagining Brazilian Portuguese IPA: A practical guide utilizing Paulo Maron’s new opera Lampião, Jorge Luiz Alves Trabanco Filho

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Music Sounds Better With You, M Gillian Carrabre

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Coloquio entre dos Perros, Comic Chamber Opera in Nine Scenes, Sandra Rocio Fuya-Duenas

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Waves of Lament, Kennedy Kimber-Johnson

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Mood, Music Choices, and the Emotional Outcomes of Music Listening: An Examination of the Moderating Role of Rumination using Experience-Sampling Methodology, Elizabeth E. Kinghorn

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Speaking Songs: Music-Analytical Approaches to Spoken Word, Chantal D. Lemire

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Music for Self-Attention, Jeffrey A T Lupker

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Music of Peace and Protest: U.S. Composers and Musical Activism during the Vietnam War (1965-1971), April P. Morris

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A Thematic Analysis Of Nicolas Martynciow’s "Impressions Pour Caisse Claire Et Deux Toms" And A Dissection of the Extended Techniques Required For Performance, Joe Moscheck

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A Narrative Approach to the Barcarolles for Solo Piano by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Matthew T. Pope

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Motivic Metamorphosis: Modelling Intervallic Transformations in Schoenberg’s Early Works, Adam Roy

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The Integration of the Style Hongrois into Brahms’s Musical Language in His Chamber Works, Raymond D. Truong

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Ann Southam's Solo Piano Music: A Performance Guide, Amelia G. Yates

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Critical Border Crossing: Exploring Positionalities Through Soundscape Composition and Critical Reflection, Kelly Bylica

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See It and Believe It: An Investigation into Singers' Imagery Use, Brianna DeSantis

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Domenico Dragonetti: A case study of the 12 unaccompanied waltzes, Jury T. Kobayashi

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Understanding Viktor Ullmann Through His Liederbuch des Hafis, Chad G. Louwerse

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Dreamvision Songbook: Five Songs for Mixed Ensemble, Maxwell R. Lucas Mr.

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The Alia musica and the Carolingian Conception of Mode, Matthew R J Nace

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Music Education in a Liquid Social World: The Nuances of Teaching with Students of Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds, Gabriela Ocádiz Velázquez

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Exploring Being Queer and Performing Queerness in Popular Music, Rosheeka Parahoo

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Music in the Moment of "Cyber Culture:" An Outward Spiral, Brandon Sked

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The Search for Canadian Art Song: Developing the Framework for a Database of Art Song by Canadian Composers, Leanne Vida

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Contexts for Musical Modernism in Post-1945 Mexico: Federico Ibarra - A Case Study, Francisco Eduardo Barradas Galván

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"It's Obvious Who Plays an Instrument and Who Doesn't": Using Doxa and Illusio to Explore Inequities in English School Music Education, Alison Butler

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Creative Collaborations: The Songs/Poems of Canadian Artists Leslie Uyeda and Lorna Crozier, Jennifer Cyr

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James Rolfe's Vocal Chamber Music: A Performance Analysis and Interpretation, Laura Duffy

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Understanding Game Scoring: Software Programming, Aleatoric Composition and Mimetic Music Technology, Mack Enns

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Prufrock: a Monodrama for Baritone and Electronics, Daniel Gardner

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The Impact of Expanded, Multimodal Applications during a German Lied Performance, Adam Domenico Iannetta

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Forward and Up: An Exploration of Implementations of the Alexander Technique in Post-Secondary Music Institutions, Mei Lee

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No Space to Sing: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Classical Singers with Primary Muscle Tension Dysphonia, Elizabeth Lepock

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Playscapes for Piano Trio, James Lowrie

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Exploring Stretto: An Investigation into the Use of Stretto in J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Kathryn McDonald

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Performing Identities, Performing Possibilities: A Music-Centered and Relational Perspective on Performance in Community Music Therapy and Music Education, Elizabeth Mitchell

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The Lieder of Joseph Marx and the Italienisches Liederbuch, Caleb Mora

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Musical Ekphrasis in Concert: Case Study of Alexey Khevelev’s Chagall Vitraux, Natalia Skomorokhova

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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...and the songs of another... for Six Voices & Live Electronics, Matthew David Becker

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The Art Songs of Kyrylo Stetsenko: Ukrainian Lyric Diction Guide, Olena Bratishko

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The Effects of Infertility on Female Vocalist Identity, Laura Curtis

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The Significance of Aram Khachaturian and His Piano Concerto, Sarah M. Dardarian

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Job: An Oratorio for Voices and Chamber Ensemble, Kevin Gibson

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Rachmaninoff's Piano Works and Diasporic Identity 1890-1945: Compositional Revision and Discourse, Renee MacKenzie

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Capriccio for Mixed Ensemble and Piano, André McEvenue

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Toward A Pedagogical Guide To Argentine Art Song, Matthew B. Pauls

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Teaching Prospective Verdi Baritones: A Repertoire-Based Approach, Andrew Rethazi

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The Donnelly Opera, Joshua L. Richardson

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The Old House, Eric Swiatoschik

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The Political Power of Carlos Chávez and His Influence Upon Silvestre Revueltas and Blas Galindo, Yolanda Tapia

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Six Blake Songs, Willyn Whiting

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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The Effects of Video Recording on the Level of Expertise and Self-Regulated Learning Ability of Adults in a Beginner Classical Guitar Class, Patrick K. Feely

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Teleology in César Franck's Prélude, Choral et Fugue, Stephanie Gouin

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Antoinette, an Opera in One Act, Colin McMahon

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Audio Mastering as a Musical Competency, Matthew T. Shelvock

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Fuzzy Family Ties: Familial Similarity Between Melodic Contours of Different Cardinalities, Kristen Wallentinsen

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Felix Mendelssohn and Sonata Form in the Nineteenth Century, Katharine G. Walshaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Requiem, Wendell Glick

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Namazu, Sean Kim

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Two Movements for Orchestra, Jeff Lupker

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Musical Forces in Claude Vivier’s Wo bist du Licht! and Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire, Emilie L. Marshall

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Ethos, William T. Nicolaou

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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A Study of Form and Structure in Pierre Boulez's Pli selon Pli, Emily J. Adamowicz

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Family Music Listening Legacies: A Case Study-based Investigation of the Intergenerational Transmission of Music Listenership Values in Five Families, Jillian Bracken

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J. S. Bach's Modal Compositional Practice in the Chorale Preludes for Solo Organ: A Schenkerian Perspective, Michael Fitzpatrick

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A cross-generational examination of learner engagement and agency in non-traditional music education programs, Jennifer M. J. Lang

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Amor Fati, Aaron Lee

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In Search Of Transformative Music Learning Experiences: Voices From The Margins In Northeastern Brazil, Nan Qi

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Heteroglossia: Novella For Orchestra, Andrzej J. Tereszkowski

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Sophie, A Music Drama for Solo Soprano and Chamber Ochestra, Alondra Vega-Zaldivar

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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A Comparative Analysis of Neoliberal Education Reform and Music Education in England and Ontario, Canada, Stephanie Horsley

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Functional Transformations and Octatonality in Selected Works by George Crumb, Peter Lea

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Interpretive Reproduction and Informal Music Learning in the Grade One Classroom, Leslie S. Linton

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From Communism To Democracy: Choral Music Education In Czechoslovakia (1948 – 1992) And The Czech Republic (1993 – 2011) as Experienced by Four Prominent Czech Musicians, Jakub Martinec