• Haydn's last heroine: Hanne, The Seasons, and Sentimental Opera 

  Roussin, Rena Marie (2018-08-31)

  Joseph Haydn’s final oratorio, The Seasons (1801), has consistently been neglected in performance and scholarship, particularly when compared to its earlier, more successful counterpart, The Creation (1798). A number of ...
• Beethoven’s Op. 28 piano sonata: the pastoral and the enlightenment 

  Anderson, Dustin (2018-08-29)

  This thesis examines Beethoven’s Op. 28 Pastoral Sonata as a musical work that is dominated by the pastoral topic, and, through its use of this topic, refers to certain ideals of the Enlightenment. The first chapter ...
• The Miqat of al-Juhfa: a historical and archaeological study 

  Alsubaie, Mohammad (2018-08-15)

  The Mīqāt of al-Juhfa is located in the west of Saudi Arabia about 187 km northwest of the Holy City of Mecca. Al-Juhfa is one of the five fixed places called Mawāqīt, or entry stations to the pilgrimage (Hajj). These ...
• The logistics and finances of touring North America, 1900-1916 

  Vickery, Anthony John Louie (2018-08-07)

  In the month of December, 1904, 420 theatre companies were “on the road” in North America. This volume of touring was made possible only by the centralisation of the commercial theatre business, a feat of organisation ...
• The piano music of Jean Coulthard 

  Colton, Glenn David (2018-08-01)

  “The Piano Music of Jean Coultthard” provides a musicological assessment of keyboard literature by one of the leading composers in the history of Canadian music. Coulthard's piano works are discussed from aesthetic, ...
• Talking with Antigone 

  Schraefel, Monica M. C. (2018-07-25)

  This project considers the role of conversation in writing by women, specifically, the role of conversational spaces for women’s construction of self within the symbolic. It does this through a consideration of narrative ...
• An investigation of periodicity in music, with reference to three twentieth-century compositions: Bartok's Music for trings, percussion & celesta, Lutoslawski's Concerto for orchestra, Ligeti's Chamber concerto 

  Mountain, Rosemary (2018-07-10)

  An investigation into the nature and functions of periodicity is presented through analysis and discussion. Periodicity is established by the repetition of any musical event at regular intervals in time. The three works ...
• Pictorial cycles of non-biblical saints: the evidence of the 8th century mural cycles in Rome 

  Jessop, Lesley Patricia (2018-07-10)

  Due to the influence of the Greek-speaking immigrants who flocked into the city of Rome over the course of the 7th and 8th centuries, there was an explosion of interest in the cults of saints and their relics, one manifestation ...
• "The time gives it proofe": paradox in the late music of Beethoven 

  Imeson, Sylvia Maureen (2018-07-06)

  It is a given that the late works of Beethoven occupy a special place in our musical life; that they continue to speak so directly to audiences more than a century and a half after they were written says much for the ...
• The orchestral music of Jean Coulthard: a critical assessment 

  Duke, David (2018-07-05)

  During a long and distinguished career, the Canadian composer Jean Coulthard (b. 1908) has become widely recognized for her many works for voice, keyboard, choir and chamber ensembles. Until recently, however, her large ...
• Tooters and tutors: flute performance practice derived from pedagogical treatises of the Paris Conservatoire, 1838-1927 

  Byrne, Mary Catherine Jett (2018-07-05)

  Throughout the two hundred years of the Paris Conservatoire, the Professors of Flute have carefully documented their philosophies in numerous large-scale, comprehensive treatises. Building on the biographical and historical ...
• Perceptual Evaluation and Analysis of Reverberation in Multitrack Music Production 

  De Man, Brecht; McNally, Kirk; Reiss, Joshua D. (Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 2017-01)

  Artificial reverberation is an important music production tool with a strong but poorly understood perceptual impact. A literature review of the relevant works concerned with the perception of musical reverberation is ...
• Propriety and passion: images of the new woman on the London stage in the 1890s 

  Thompson, Doreen Helen (2018-07-03)

  The emergence of the New Woman in the 1890s was the result of a broad spectrum of feminist demands: equal advantages with men in education, entrance into "male" professions, and a share in the government of the country. ...
• Explicatio Textus or Dramma per Musica?: the function of the church cantatas by Georg Friedrich Kauffmann 

  Janson, Peter (2018-06-28)

  Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679-1735), a contemporary of J. S. Bach, was a prolific composer who wrote about 150 organ chorales, a theoretical treatise, an Ascension Oratorio, and a great number of church cantatas. Most ...
• The "new woman" in fin-de-siécle art: Frances and Margaret MacDonald 

  Helland, Janice Valerie (2018-06-26)

  Scottish artists Margaret and Frances Macdonald produced their most innovative art during the last decade of the nineteenth century. They received their training at the Glasgow School of Art and became known for ...
• The early medieval chapel: decoration, form and function. A study of chapels in Italy and Istria in the period between 313 and 741 AD 

  Mackie, Gillian Vallance (2018-06-26)

  The relationship between decoration, architectural form, and function is investigated in depth in those early chapels of Italy and Istria which retain significant amounts of their decorative programmes. These include the ...
• Performed negotiations: the historical significance of the second wave alternate theatre in English Canada and its relationship to the popular tradition 

  Drennan, Barbara (2018-06-14)

  This doctoral project began in the early 1980s when I became involved in making a community theatre event on Salt Spring Island with a group of artists accomplished in disciplines other than theatre. The production was ...
• A study of Tal-choom together with certain western analogies 

  Kim, Hye-Soon (2018-06-08)

  Tal-choom is a generic term for various types of Korean mask-dance theatre that have been performed during traditional holidays and festivals over the past three hundred years. Literally 'tal' means mask and 'choom' dance. ...
• Paradigms of collecting from ethnography to documenting the individual artists: Grace Nicholson and the art history of Native Nortwestern California basketry during the Arts and Crafts period, 1880-1930 

  Cadge, Catie Anne (2018-05-31)

  During the Arts and Crafts period, from about 1880 to 1930, popular perceptions of Native Americans and their basketry emphasized pristine cultures prior to the effects of contact with Europeans. Pasadena basketry collector ...
• Non-invasive gesture sensing, physical modeling, machine learning and acoustic actuation for pitched percussion 

  Trail, Shawn (2018-05-07)

  This thesis explores the design and development of digitally extended, electro- acoustic (EA) pitched percussion instruments, and their use in novel, multi-media performance contexts. The proposed techniques address the ...

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