Emmaline Sanders and Faculty Mentor: Aaron Merril, Commercial Music While many students apply for an ORCA grant to fund scientific research or, in the case of other Commercial Music majors, technical audio application, I wanted to complete a project that was purely artistic. My emphasis has always been in classical concert composition first and foremost, […]
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Uncovering Hidden Post-War Music of Stefan Kisielewski
Haley Gammon and Luke Howard, Music History Stefan Kisielewski – writer, publicist, politician, and composer – not only lost many of his works as a result of the Second World War, but was controlled under Soviet censorship many years after it. Today there is a current surge of excitement and opportunity to uncover missing information […]
Advocating for the Music of Villa-Lobos
Howell, Forrest Advocating for the Music of Villa-Lobos Dr. Scott Holden, School of Music Introduction My ORCA project was an in depth study of the Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. Villa-Lobos is revered in Brazil as the father of Brazilian classical music. What is not well understood, however, is the major contribution that Villa-Lobos made to […]
The History of the Nauvoo Music and Concert Hall (1845-6)
Hughes, Sydney The History of the Nauvoo Music and Concert Hall (1845-6) Faculty Mentor: Darrell Babidge, College of Fine Arts Introduction Darrell and I have worked together on the article “The History of the Nauvoo Music and Concert Hall (1845-6),” the first written history of the Nauvoo music and concert hall to date. We originally […]
“Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty”: Matilda the musical through a feminist lens
Perkins, Kristin “Sometimes You Have to be a little bit naughty”: Matilda the musical through a feminist lens” Faculty Mentor: Megan Sanborn Jones, Theatre and Media Arts Introduction My research analyzed the popular musical Matilda to dissect and explicate underlying feminist ideologies. The grant went primarily to helping fund a trip to New York City […]
Calculating music similarity with mobile device playlists
O’Bryant, Jacob Calculating music similarity with mobile device playlists Faculty Mentor: Dennis Ng, Computer Science Introduction Music recommendation systems, such as Pandora and Spotify, help listeners to discover new music. The similarity of different songs is an important measure used in music recommendation. We have studied manually-created playlists on mobile devices to see if they […]
Bass World 3: Music in St. Petersburg
Christian Hales and Eric Hansen, School of Music Introduction Russia has always been known for its indelible contributions to the arts. The likes of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Rostropovich and Koussevitzky cultivated their great talents there. Eric Hansen, professor of double bass at Brigham Young University, encouraged me to use some of his connections in Russia as […]
The Culture of British Servitude and Music
Meeks, Erin The Culture of British Servitude and Music Faculty Mentor: Jeff Parkin, Theater and Media Arts Department Introduction I am writing a feature-length screenplay set in Victorian England about a servant of a manor trying to bring her mother’s fairy tales to life to escape her homesickness. However, I soon realized that writing this […]
Dangers to Musician Hearing at BYU
Smith, Kieren Dangers to Musician Hearing at BYU Faculty Mentors: Jeremy Grimshaw, College of Fine Arts and Communications Tracianne Neilsen, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences At any stage in a musical career, musicians experience large quantities of high-level sound. Noise-induced hearing loss penetrates many musicians’ lives and is cumulative over a lifetime. Some performing […]
Elisa von der Recke: Volume IV of the Critically Edited Collected Works Restored Sheet Music
Seay, David Elisa von der Recke: Volume IV of the Critically Edited Collected Works Restored Sheet Music Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michelle James, German & Russian Department My project involved recording and publishing restored music from the 18th century. BYU’s “Mentored Research Sophia Project,” led by staff within the German & Russian Department, is creating a […]
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