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• “I hear music when I look at you”: Teenage agency, mass media, and Frank Sinatra in World War II America 

  Hollenbach, Katie Beisel (2018-04-19)

  The years following World War II have seen a wealth of scholarship dedicated to the topic revealing the undeniably huge impact the war had on people and politics throughout the world. In terms of the United States’ involvement ...

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• A comparison of two sets of variations on Chopin’s Prelude op. 28, no. 20 in C minor: Ferruccio Busoni’s Ten Variations on a Theme by Chopin, BV 213a and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin, op. 22 

  Kuhny, Anne Marie (2018-04-17)

  This dissertation explores and compares two sets of variations that use Frédéric Chopin’s Prelude, op. 28, no. 20 as a theme: Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Chopin, op. 22 (1902-1903) and Ferruccio Busoni’s ...

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• Jazz vibraphone as a chordal instrument: a comprehensive guide to comping and block chord techniques 

  Shaw-Rutschman, Micah (2018-04-17)

  Although there are many jazz vibraphone method books available on the market, I have found that they do not cover the full spectrum of concepts that are necessary to play the vibraphone as a chordal or comping instrument ...

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• Secondary choral music educators’ use of technology-assisted assessment tools 

  Hawkins, Jason A. (2018-04-15)

  Assessment of student learning is a crucial part of what all teachers do in all disciplines and at all levels. Music educators often find administering and documenting this important step of the educational experience ...

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• Partimento pedagogy and its modern application 

  Endo, Yohei (2018-04-06)

  The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to examine and advocate for the use of a historical keyboard improvisation pedagogy in both modern educational settings and individual learning environments as a self-contained, ...

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