Browsing Composition, Music Theory and Musicology Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2019 Spring"
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Daughter of Bird and Earth
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The single movement symphonic poem Daughter of Bird and Earth draws its inspiration from my own long poem in modern Chinese, The Resurrection of Poems, which narrates an imaginary woman’s life journey, both internally and ... -
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 ... -
Scissors for Orchestra
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)As a composer originally from South Korea who favors Western musical languages as a medium for composition, it has always been my passion to create works that integrate my Korean culture in some way. Sometimes I combine ...