Doctoral Final Projects--Choral Conducting (DM)
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Item A conductor's analysis of Antonio María Valencia's Requiem(Indiana University, 2020-05-03) Hernandez, JuanItem A conductor's analysis of Antonio María Valencia's Requiem(Indiana University, 2020-05-03) Hernández, Juan (Juan Camilo)Item A conductor's guide to the music of Hildegard von Bingen(Indiana University, 2021-07-23) Gardiner, KatieItem A CONDUCTOR’S ANALYSIS OF GABRIEL JACKSON’S “THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST”(Indiana University, 2024-05-01) Abernathy, LawrenceItem A jazz vespers: for chorus, soloists, orchestra and jazz quintet(2016-12-16) McCutchen, KeithAn Analysis of Liturgical Jazz, Classical and Jazz Collaborations and Analytical Commentary on a Jazz Vespers for Chorus, Soloists, Orchestra and Jazz Quintet This paper presents a background on the use of jazz in the church, a historical timeline of integration of jazz and classical music, and lastly, a summary and analysis of my Jazz Vespers for Chorus, Soloists, Orchestra and Jazz Quintet. This piece reflects my desire to reconcile the various cultural aspects of my work and the components of the church’s history into a single act of worship. These components include the harmonies and rhythms of jazz and gospel music, Twentieth Century Classical music, including Stravinsky and more extensively Monteverdi’s Vespers, Musical Theater and Opera. The modern use of the term “Jazz Vespers” means primarily a jazz performance or service without any application of text, and/or use of the formal structure of the actual Vespers service of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, or Protestant liturgies. None the less, there are many instances of jazz music being used successfully as service music, and performances being observed within the structure of a liturgical service, such as the Vespers, with the use of either traditional Psalms or Old Testament readings and poems, literary prose, and other writings which reflect a spiritual, humanistic nature.Item Item A performing edition of the opera La lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo by Agostino Steffani (1654-1728)(2012-05-15) Alireti, CinthiaItem Assessing cultural value : ethical gatekeeping in choral music(Indiana University, 2024-02-14) Grace, SamuelItem Assessing the leadership potential of choral conductors(2012-12-17) Ludwa, ChrisWhen it comes to assessing the leadership aspects of conducting a music ensemble, the traditional focus is musical skills and knowledge, past experience, and observation, with little true understanding of leadership skills. In contrast, organizational science and psychology offer numerous methods of assessing leadership potential. A tool informed by these research disciplines would be helpful to choral organizations that are seeking a new director or those leaders wishing to assess their own leadership skills. In this study, I discuss the dynamics of leadership in the context of choral ensembles, examine several leadership aptitude assessments developed in fields other than music, and design a unique assessment approach specifically tailored to choral organizations. The study involved a sample of choral conductors (N=20) at liberal arts and state colleges in the United States who are leading successful choral programs. Participating conductors completed an anonymo! us survey, as did students in one of their ensembles (N=437) and colleagues from the school at which they worked (N=19). The answers on the three related survey respondent groups were compared in order to determine the correlations between perceived leadership style from the point of view of the conductor, student, and colleague. The validity of the assessment was tested by administering it to a sample of choral conductors in liberal arts colleges and comparing their results with questionnaire data gathered from other stakeholders (singers and colleagues). The study was designed to inform an effective approach for beginning to assess leadership attributes in a conductor and how self-perception relates to perception of leadership by singers and colleagues. Using Cronbach’s Alpha, analyses showed strong reliability on the measures of magnitude, better than average reliability for certain subscales of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) of Avolio and Bass which were used in the study, and strong reliability for the composite scales of the MLQ, specifically those determining transformational and transactional leadership capabilities. Results show strong correlations between a conductor’s ratings on magnitude and certain communication skills with their own ratings of skills in transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and inspirational motivation. When student assessments of various leadership attributes were compared with those from other students, strong correlation existed, but when student assessments of the conductor were compared with similar self-assessments performed by the conductor, either a smaller, zero, or negative correlation occurred between the transformational, transactional, and inspi! rational motivation scores. When compared with conductor scores on the same measures as well as others believed to be related to good leadership, colleague assessments of the conductor showed either a small or nonexistent correlation within the conductors’ own ratings of themselves. The study explores how the MLQ, magnitude, and communication assessments used within might be applied to conductors to determine leadership potential and to compare the conductor’s results with students’ or colleagues’ assessments of them. The findings suggests that the elusive nature of leadership is hard to describe for ensemble conductors, and that overall success of the organization may or may not be connected to the conductor’s leadership ratings using one of the measures within the present study. Finally, conductors, just as any other leader, should be aware that one’s own perception may not reflect the experience of followers. Both self-awareness and awareness of the type of leadership modality needed in a situation might create a more closely correlated assessment of the leader’s ability to lead from the perspective of the conductor, singers, and colleagues.Item Caroline Shaw's use of Renaissance and Baroque dance forms in her partita for 8 voices(Indiana University, 2020-04-10) Harper, Joshua (Joshua David)Item Church and theater on a colossal scale: the juxtaposition of ancient and modern elements in Franz Liszt's oratorio Christus(Indiana University, 2018-12-13) Hagan, Maria C.Item Conceptual blending and becoming as tools for interpreting choral multidisciplinary performances: lessons from Meredith Monk's Book of days(2013-05-10) Doerries, MarkThe cognitive integration networks of Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner offer a framework for understanding multimedia performance. Drawing on these conceptual blending networks, specifically the mirror, single-scope, and double-scope networks, this paper illustrates a continuum of multidisciplinary performance. While the phrase mixed media refers to performances where media retain their independent characteristics (mirror network), multimedia references media relationships that develop a new emergent content (double-scope network). While Fauconnier and Turner approach the creation of this emergent content from a cognitive perspective, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari offer an experiential model of becoming that relates to the content of the emergent structure. Content deemed non-representational through this becoming process is considered multisensory and requires the interpretation of an audience; it is an extension of the multidisciplinary performance continuum. Representational content restricts the need for interpretation because the media of a performance make their intentions obvious. To illustrate focal nodes along this multidisciplinary performance continuum, Fauconnier and Turner’s conceptual blending model and Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of becoming are applied to excerpts of Meredith Monk’s film Book of Days.Item Cultural Appropriation: The Use of Māori Material in Western Choral Music(Indiana University, 2025-05-09) Palmer, JonathanItem Item Early Forms and Processes in the Choral Works of Paul Hindemith(Indiana University, 2025-05-07) Berlanga, StevenItem Edward Elgar's Te Deum and Benedictus in F Major, Op. 34: A Critical Edition(Indiana University, 2025-05-07) Kim, JaeEunItem Heaven and Earth: A Conductor's Guide(Indiana University, 2020-11-17) Lewis, CalebItem It must be so: reconsidering the dramatic agencies in George Frideric Handel's Jephtha(2012-12-10) Geehern, GregoryItem Making Chinese choral music accessible in the United States : a standardized IPA guide for Chinese-language works(Indiana University, 2020-12-04) Cai, Hana J., 1988-Chinese choirs and conductors are gaining an increasing presence at American choral conferences. Yet as much as Chinese choral conductors advocate for performing Chinese pieces, it is nearly impossible to find easy ways to prepare and perform Chinese choral works in the United States. Through interviews with conductors and composers of Chinese choral music, I researched the process of acquiring these pieces remotely, the trends in Chinese choral music, and the potential market for these works. This study examines why the accessibility of Chinese choral music in America is hindered by issues of discoverability, copyright and publication, and language. Although simple solutions do not exist for the first two issues, I have addressed language by advocating for the use of Pinyin in all Chinese choral publications in the US and by establishing and creating a Mandarin Chinese diction guide for choral conductors. This diction guide includes a chart that equates every sound of Pinyin with an IPA symbol and describes how to teach each sound to non-Chinese speakers.