Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Music"
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Articulating the Fall: Satan's Instrumental Rhetoric in Paradise Lost
(2023-08-30)Milton’s Paradise Lost establishes itself as a song from its first invocation of the muse. Approaching the poem as a musical composition, this paper examines the acoustic properties of Satan’s rhetoric. Specifically, this ... -
An Astonishing Symphony of Voices: Birdsong in the Poetry of Don McKay
(2011-09-06)Numerous scholars have observed that Don McKay’s poetry is profoundly musical and particularly attentive to the sounds of birds. However, it has not been examined how musicology can illuminate McKay’s use of birdsong. This ... -
CEOL AGUS TEANGA: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRISH LANGUAGE MUSIC AND IRISH LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2021-07-14)This study examined the relationship between music, language, and cultural knowledge management, through the lens of Knowledge Management. I interviewed both students and educators on-site at St. Mary’s University Halifax, ... -
Instrumental Architecture: Investigating the Live Music Venue as a Process of Gathering along the Halifax Waterfront
(2020-04-13)This thesis aims to connect live music, people, and place in Halifax by approaching the live music venue as a process of gathering. This strategy builds upon Christopher Small’s concept of ‘Musicking’ by approaching the ... -
Mass Romantics: Grappling with Genre in 2000s Indie Rock
(2015)In the early 2000s, popular music’s indie rock genre reached unprecedented levels of commercial success: on the sales and singles charts, in television ads and programs, on music and pop-culture websites, at sold-out music ... -
MUSIC IN PEACEBUILDING: Examining Music within the Peacebuilding Discipline
(2018-04-25)This thesis will examine the peacebuilding discourse, alongside current findings in the music discourse, to determine whether the integration of music could enhance current peacebuilding practices. Music is an important ... -
Music, Madness, & the Mainstream: The Communication of Bipolar Disorder in the Art and Reception of Kanye West & Mariah Carey
(2024-04-13)Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Mariah Carey are two of the biggest stars of popular music. While they have both earned vast amounts of critical and commercial success throughout their respective careers, this has ... -
Musical Works Without Musical Works: An Essay in Ontology
(2013-08-26)This thesis provides an answer to the question, “what is a musical work?” I begin by canvasing four of the leading accounts in the literature, two Platonist theories and two Nominalist theories. Nominalism is, I suggest, ... -
Perspectives on Music, the Environment, and Sustainability Education from Recording Artists Featured on the David Suzuki Foundation Playlist for the Planet, 2011
(2016-07-21)The arts have the power to evoke emotion, spark dialogue, encourage innovative thinking, present diverse perspectives, cope with ambiguity and non-linearity, and influence the development of cultural norms. Increasingly ... -
"Quietly Present in the Land and the Wind": Maria Schneider's Musical Land Ethic
(2018-04-05)Despite the common association of jazz with urban environments, contemporary large-ensemble jazz composer Maria Schneider has written numerous programmatic pieces in which she and her ensemble celebrate and represent ... -
"She Drew Forth Its Strongest Sounds": Tracing the Historical Throughline of Women Harpists
(2024-04-13)The cultural value placed on the harp today, as the instrument hiding graceful young women in the back of orchestras, is uniquely gendered. While there have been studies done on the feminization of harps and harpists, the ... -
THEODOR ADORNO'S THEORY OF LISTENER REGRESSION
(2014-04-07)Theodor Adorno’s theory of listener regression describes the process by which music industry forces transform listeners from independent social creatures into passive, compliant consumers of musical product. Listener ... -
The Value and Ownership of Art in a Digital Age
(2015)This thesis examines three key research questions, including: How are artists making art and making a living? How do they use the Internet in their artistic practice? How do they use and understand copyright? These questions ... -
What About My Voice? Music Pedagogy and Trans Identity
(2024-04-13)In this thesis, I examine the domain of music education and the experience of trans students, with particular attention to singers. In the past two decades, medical transition has expanded and become accessible to more ...