• And the TV Said..., 

    Robertson, Jonathan Craig (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-02)
    And the TV Said..., scored for actress, digital media, and sextet, is a music theater piece set to Jason Ludlow's script of the same name. The script is written for two characters: a woman and her television. The role ...
  • Jazz elements in select Finnish and Swedish choral music 

    Peck, Sarin W. (Sarin Christine Williams), 1978- (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-09)
    Jazz was born in the United States around the turn of the twentieth-century and arrived in the Nordic lands in the 1920s and '30s. After this initial encounter, jazz spread throughout Finland and Sweden, the two countries ...
  • Pray for the lights to go out: the portrayal of Blacks in Kansas City published sheet music 

    Ogunmola, AnnaMarie Lois, 1982- (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-20)
    This study examines sixteen pieces of sheet music published in Kansas City, Missouri, dating from the 1880s through the 1930s. The pieces are located in the LaBudde Special Collections at the University of Missouri-Kansas ...
  • Sinfonietta for wind ensemble augmented with string quartet 

    Eichenbaum, Daniel Adam (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-09)
    A small consort of strings joins a full-sized wind ensemble in Sinfonietta. Although it is not a concerto, Sinfonietta flips the classical notion of an orchestra on its head. Whereas the Classical orchestra represented ...