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Charles Mingus Played Bass?: Rediscovering a Jazz Soloist Through Transcription
(2014-09-30)
Bassist and composer Charles Mingus (1922-1979) was one of jazz music's most
influential and prolific artists. Both his instrumental and compositional abilities were highly
regarded during his life, and remain so today. ...
Influence, Innovation, and Structure: Modernist Evaluative Criteria in the Reception Histories of Charles Ives and Jean Sibelius
(2016)
In 1987, Maynard Solomon published an article titled “Charles Ives: Some
Questions of Veracity,” which challenged the priority and probity of Charles Ives’s
technical innovations and ignited a scholarly firestorm. ...
Press Start: Narrative Integration in 16-bit Video Game Music
(2015)
Ever since Pong graced the screens of video arcades, one of the most influential interactions between technology and sound has been the video game console. Over the past decade, scholars have begun to recognize this ...
Temporal and harmonic concerns in the music of Robert Carl
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Robert Carl is a composer-critic based in Hartford, Connecticut. His hyphenated
career has involved creating, teaching, and commenting on music for the latter half of the
twentieth century up to the present. Initially ...
A Night at the Opera: Performance, Theatricality, and Identity in the Music of Queen
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Many discussions of the rock band Queen (vocalist Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian
May, drummer Roger Taylor, and bassist John Deacon) reference their theatricality, yet few
analyze what makes Queen’s music and ...
The Otaku Lifestyle: Examining Soundtracks in the Anime Canon
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Japanese animation, or anime, has been popular around the globe for the last sixty years.
Anime has its own fan culture in the United States known as otaku, or the obsessive lifestyle
surrounding manga and anime, which ...
"Whatever you do, fund the band": The History and Continuing Implementation of the 1921 Iowa Band Law
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
For years, community bands had two methods of receiving the requisite funds needed
for operation during the concert season: donations from local businesses or the “pass-the-hat”
method. The money was used to finance ...