Hannah Williams and Jacob Hickman, Anthropology Though art can be found in all walks of life, it lends itself particularly well to the expression of political frustration. During the deeply rooted religious conflict between Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland, commonly referred to as the Troubles, many artists and musicians used their creativity to […]
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Perception of Speech and Song in Religious Music: A Neurological Approach
Dagan Pielstick and Francesca Lawson, Comparative Arts & Letters Introduction The relationship between speech and song has been an area of interest in evolutionary biology and neuroscience over the past two decades. Some evolutionary biologists have hypothesized that music and language descended from a protolanguage in early human communication (Brown 2000). At the same time, […]
Media Music Composition and Production
Shane Myers and Aaron Merrill, School of Music This project is a collection of four pieces of original music that will be used for professional demo purposes. It represents some of my best compositional and songwriting work and shows that I have the capacity to compose music in a broad variety of genres suitable for […]
Celebrating Utah County in Multi-Media Recital with Progressive New Music and Photography
Clark Evans and Steven Ricks, School of Music The primary goal of this project was to better the quality of knowledge and education of a handful of composition students. By working one on one with each of them over an extended time, I would lend them my experience as a string player in order to […]
The Healing Power of Music: Documentary
Maren Cline, Robert Walz, Communications I created a documentary about the clinical use of music therapy intervention. The documentary is an in-depth exploration of two music therapy clients through the intervention process. The American Association of Music Therapy states, “Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a […]
Analyzing and Mutating Structural Patterns To Create New Music in the Style of Other Music
Drew Jex and Dr. Dan Ventura, Computer Science Department Introduction A common element in music is the concept of repeating patterns. It is the careful organization and combination of notes and rhythms that forms these patterns, and indeed the very essence of music itself. Because music is definitive and pattern-based, we as humans recognize it […]
The Relationship of Music and [Emotion]: An Experiment in Areas of Brain Activity
Caleb Cuzner Faculty Mentors: Steve ricks, school of Music; Neal Bangerter, Electrical and Computer Engineering Introduction In order to study the relationship between music and color in areas of brain activity, I proposed to have participants’ brains scanned by an MRI machine while seeing different colors and listening to contrasting music samples. After learning that […]
How it Sounds and What it Means: Understanding Indian Music and Culture Through Study of the Hindustani Violin
Megumi Terry and Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, Department of Music Introduction As a classically trained violinist, having studied since the age of four, I have had an unlikely fascination with other world music cultures. In the summer of 2015 I had the opportunity to live in India and explore the culture and come to […]
A Compassionate Listening Guide to Musical Worship
Madison Blonquist and Faculty Mentor: Jeff Sheets, School of Communications Introduction Sacred Sounds was an ORCA funded research project that resulted in an exhibit that ran from November 10, 2017 to January 3, 2018 in the Harold B. Lee Library. The overall goal was to curate an immersive, multimedia, musical experience that focused on the […]
The Prevalence of Music Related Injury Among College Students in Utah and Potential Preventative/Combative Measures
Kaia Rose and Faculty Mentor: Brittany May PhD., Department of Music Introduction: Shortly after beginning my music studies at Brigham Young University, I began to struggle with overuse injury that made it difficult to play my instrument. Conversations with fellow BYU music majors over the past few years revealed that music related injuries seem to […]
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