Browsing School of Music by Author "McKinney, Timothy R."

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An investigation of pedagogical methods for increasing the perceived relevance of music theory courses to undergraduate music students.

Ripley, Angela N. (, )

This thesis investigates three pedagogical avenues toward increasing the perceived relevance of music theory to undergraduate music students. These avenues include exploring the relation of analysis to performance, the ...
Musical process and the structuring of riffs in Metallica.

Van Valkenburg, Aaron.

This study focuses on the 1980s thrash metal music of Metallica. It analyzes the harmonic and melodic nature of Metallica's riffs and examines how musical processes help shape the formal structures of these riffs. Drawing ...
Reworking of musical material and the reinterpretation of musical drama: Luciano Berio's Sequenza X (1984) and Kol Od [Chemins VI] (1996).

Harbuziuk, David.

Luciano Berio wrote a series of pieces entitled Chemins for soloist and ensemble. Each chemins contains one entire solo line from one of his sequenzas for solo instruments. Numerous similarities and differences between ...