Emily Bateman and Professor Lawrence Vincent, Music I am a Music Performance major with emphasis in the Vocal area. It is a generally understood rule that most music performers spend time teaching in order to supplement the meager income that can be expected from a career in the performing arts. So, recently I have undertaken to […]
Becoming True Guitar Heroes
Justin Aiken and Professor Lawrence Green Background Guitar Hero and Rock Band are two of the most successful video game franchises of all time – Guitar Hero alone has topped $2 billion in the first quarter of last year. In these games, a player mashes plastic buttons on a guitar shaped controller in time to notes […]
Chinese Music Infield Study: Insights and Personal Experiences from Attending the Tianjin Music Conservatory
Robert Willes and Professor Kory Katseanes, School of Music My Chinese music study experience began with touring China with the BYU Chamber Orchestra in April of 2011. This tour was a very rich and unique two weeks filled with some of the most beautiful sights in Asia. The Great Wall of China, The Forbidden City, […]
National Identity and Culture: Through Traditional Language and Music in Okinawa, Japan
Ryler Nielsen and Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, School of Music Two of the most often used methods that we, as humans, use to identify with each other are language and music. The Omoro Soushi, compiled in the early 1600s, is a compilation of poems and songs in the Okinawan language that were used to create music. […]
The Music Within Urban Noise
Todd Kitchen and Dr. Steven Ricks, School of Music My goal was to expose the musicality inherent in urban environments through a musical composition involving sound recordings made in New York City. Specifically, I used the sophisticated software available to me in the BYU Electronic Music Studio to identify the specific frequencies (pitches) and rhythmic […]
Hubert Parry’s Fantasia and Fugue in G Major: Scholarly Edition
Jonathan Evans and Dr. Douglas Bush, School of Music The initial goal of this project was to “:transcribe three versions of Hubert Parry’s Fantasia and Fugue in G Major, with the end goal being a scholarly edition that I hope to publish.” The project is still progressing towards completion. Importance of Project One of the […]
A Study of Italian Opera
David Coughanour and Dr. Arden Hopkin, School of Music This project entailed studying with great performers, directors and pedagogues to increase my ability in and understanding of Italian Opera. My primary study took place at the Atlantic Music Festival this last summer from July 11th to August 14th. I was able to study with Dr. […]
Original Composition for the BYU Symphonic Band
Garrett Breeze and Dr. Kirt Saville, School of Music The goal of this project was to gain hands on experience by composing an original piece for the BYU Symphonic Band. There are currently no composition courses taught at BYU focusing on Concert Band literature; and because of the large volume of existing work by established, […]
An Analysis of Music Specialist Principles and Practices in Hungarian Music Education
Christy Ripa and Professor Jerry Jaccard, Department of Elementary Music Education Contrary to what I expected when our team arrived in Budapest, Hungary, I found that it was not much different from our American cities. While they are speaking a different language and have different cultural expectations and norms, they wear modern clothes and live modern […]
Hungary’s Undeniable Success in Music Education: An Analysis of Public and Private Teaching Principles and Practices in Hungarian Music Education
Bethany Richards and Professor Jerry Jaccard, Department of Elementary Music Education The purpose of my trip to Hungary was to observe and analyze the Hungarian music education system, realize its strengths, and adapt what I learned into my teaching here in America. My specific research assignment was to investigate the relationship between private and public music […]