BYU Mariachi Music Clinic

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Catherine Wernli and Dr. Andrew Dabczynski, Music Education According to the 2000 census report for the state of Utah, the state population included almost 87,883 foreign-born citizens from Latin America. In 1990 there were only 13,825. Compared with Asian-born citizens and other foreign-born citizens, this is the highest increase of an ethnic group of people […]

Christian Hand-Bells in Celtic Lands

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Adam Crandell and Dr. E. Harrison Powley, School of Music The zealous Christian missionary Patrick arrived in Ireland in 432 A.D., laboring to introduce to the Celtic tribes there the gospel and monasticism. He used bells, among other clerical instruments, for this purpose. Bells were employed to sundry ends, from the mundane gathering of the […]

“I had Walked the Damascus Road, Seen the Light, Repented of Past Transgressions…and Switched to Viola.” AN ANNOTATED INDEX OF THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM PRIMROSE

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Jennifer Call and Dr. Claudine Bigelow, Fine Arts and Communication This project was designed to create an index to the over 5,000 letters of the violist William Primrose that are held in the Primrose International Viola Archive (PIVA) at Brigham Young University. This index will be an aid to violists or others interested in researching […]

Rediscovering the New York Harp Ensemble

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Laura Allen and Professor David A. Day, Harold B. Lee Library Music Special Collections Almost forty years ago, a Hungarian immigrant named Aristid von Wurtzler created a quartet of harpists known as the New York Harp Ensemble. Throughout the Ensemble’s career, they played in over 60 countries, performed at the White House on many occasions over […]

Concert Studies Companion

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Benjamin Taylor and Dr. David Brown, School of Music The primary goal of this project was to compose a companion duet for eight of the sixteen etudes in Concert Studies for Trumpet, providing a pedagogical tool for use in the trumpet studio at BYU. The remaining eight etudes are being considered for a similar project […]

Hiva Usu: Sacred Choral Music of Tonga

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Robert Swenson and Dr. Paul Broomhead, Music Education Protestant missionaries from England first set foot in Tonga in the early 19th century. Along with a radically new theology, they brought with them a musical style rooted in Western European tradition. Tongans whole-heartedly embraced Christianity and eagerly integrated elements of European culture into their own – […]

Building Bridges through Music Tamil Nadu, India

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Shaunel Watts and Professor Susan Kenney, Elementary Music Education The southern most Indian state, Tamil Nadu, is home to over 40 colonies of leprosy affected people. To maintain livelihood, these “untouchables” generally resort to a life of begging. The situation has vastly improved in the past decade as charitable groups have helped accommodate the medical and […]

The Creation and Reception of La Reine Topaze by Victor Massé Documented in Manuscripts, Reviews, and Auxiliary Sources

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Lindsay Weaver and Professor David A. Day, Harold B. Lee Library Music & Dance Special Collections In our modern day, the Hollywood film industry is arguably the most popular source of entertainment available to our society. For the well-to-do Parisian of the nineteenth-century, his equivalent was the strange business of opera. When purchasing tickets for the season, […]