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• Sounding the last mile: Music and capital punishment in the United States since 1976 

  Siletti, Michael James (2018-12-07)

  Since the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the legality of the death penalty in 1976, capital punishment has drastically waxed and waned in both implementation and popularity throughout much of the country. While ...

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• Illinois preservice music teachers’ perceptions of the high-stakes use and formative elements of the edTPA 

  Helton, Benjamin C. (2018-07-13)

  Teacher portfolio assessments are required for licensure in some states, and an increasing number of states have adopted a nationally available portfolio assessment, the edTPA, for this purpose. Preservice music teachers ...

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• Alfred Schnittke’s quest for a universal musical language in the Penitential Psalms (1987–88) 

  Lehmann, Zhanna A. (2018-07-09)

  This dissertation explores the genesis of Alfred Schnittke’s choral masterpiece, Penitential Psalms (1987–88), commissioned to celebrate the millennial anniversary of the Christianization of Russia (988–1988). Given the ...

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• Trust in music: Musical projects against violence in northern Colombia 

  Middleton, Ian Thomas (2018-07-02)

  Colombia's protracted civil war is characterized by cycles of pervasive distrust and violence. The people I work with are involved in projects across the north of the country aimed in part at breaking these cycles. In ...

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• Exiled nostalgia and musical remembrance: songs of grief, joy, and tragedy among Iraqi Jews 

  Carrizo, Liliana (2018-07-03)

  This dissertation examines a practice of private song-making, one whose existence is often denied, among a small number of amateur Iraqi Jewish singers in Israel. These individuals are among those who abruptly emigrated ...

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