Journal of Undergraduate Research

Alisha Ard and Dr. Daniel Bachelder, Music Recently celebrating the ten-year anniversary of its independence, Ukraine is a country that for those ten years has been plagued with the need for drastic social and economic reform. The people are desperate for the freedoms a word like “independence” promises, but the opportunities just don’t seem to […]

Johnathan A Scharf and Professor David A Day, Curator, Music Library Special Collections Recorded music has existed for more than a century yet, until recently, the media on which this music is preserved degrades with each passing year. Additionally, the very use of the recording itself adds to its degradation and does irreparable damage. It […]

Kimberly Isom and Professor David A Day, Harold B Lee Library The International Harp Archives at Brigham Young University has attracted the attention of many harpists from around the world. Recently it has received acknowledgement at conferences held in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Geneva, Switzerland. The Archives have also been introduced to the American Harp […]

Marilyn Becraft and Professor David A Day, Harold B Lee Library Music Special Collections The BYU International Harp Archives serve as a vital resource for the harp world. This collection is currently the largest collection of harp materials found worldwide. The archives include scores and manuscripts, photographs, video and audio recordings, and the donated libraries […]

Angela Baer and Professor David A Day, Harold B Lee Library What is happening to the great performances of the past that were recorded on records? Are they doomed to be forgotten forever in this world of CD’s and DVD’s? Well thanks to the technology of today, audio preservation equipment can clean up the poor […]

Rebecca C. Buchert and James L Siebach, Philosophy; Douglas E. Bush, Music Johann Sebastian Bach was completely Lutheran in his world view, and Luther was thoroughly Augustinian both in his theology and theory of rhetoric. St. Augustine’s views on the purpose of rhetoric are exemplified in Bach’s St. John Passion. In On Christian Doctrine,1 St. […]

Benjamin Sabey and Michael Hicks, Music Theory and Composition My object in researching the music of Japanese composer, Toru Takemitsu with support from the ORCA grant was to distill from it those concrete organizing principles upon which rest a phantasmagoric, spontaneous music that seems to float freely from silence to silence. This was a larger […]

Bret Pimentel and Professor Ray Smith, School of Music Because the saxophone is a relatively young instrument (invented in the 1840’s), sound recording technology has been available to document much of its history. The saxophone’s importance in jazz music has promoted extensive recording of hundreds of saxophonists since the 1920’s. Increased interest in the saxophone […]

Rebeca Dawn Peterson and Professor Murray Boren, Composer-In-Residence Part of being an artist is being misunderstood. Being an artist myself, I have found that it doesn’t matter what form your art manifests itself, there is commonality among all artists if you choose to recognize it. Collaboration in the arts is something that can have positive […]

Marilyn Nelson Nielson and Professor Murray Eddington Boren, Music French composer Francis Poulenc said “The setting to music of a poem must be an act of love, never a marriage of convenience.”1 As I searched for a thesis topic, it was ultimately love for T. S. Eliot’s work that led me to create these musical […]