Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
Cool Kids Never Have the Time: The Music of the Smashing Pumpkins and Youth of the 1990s |
2008 |
4219 |
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the connection between youth of the 1990s and the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. The introduction is used to provide the reader with pertinent background information on youth, the 1990s, alternative music, an... |
William Duckworth’s The Time Curve Preludes and postminimalism |
2016 |
3441 |
Composer William Duckworth’s piano cycle The Time Curve Preludes (1979) is considered to be the first work in a style called “postminimalism.” In the intervening years, postminimalism has become a popular compositional style. Even the most famous of ... |
The year of the girl : nostalgia and girlhood portrayed in the music of Taylor Swift |
2024 |
334 |
American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift is known to be one of the most successful artists within the music industry. Her successes have been attributed to her songwriting capabilities as well as her skills in performance. Swift also has one of th... |
Identity through excess : trans identities expressed through hyperpop |
2024 |
208 |
Hyperpop is a culturally rich genre that is densely populated by young transgender artists. Musicians drawn to this genre use its chaotic, excessive, and overwhelming sonic features to express their identities in unique ways that reflect evolving per... |
Making up for lost time: hypermetric equilibrium in two keyboard sonatas of Franz Joseph Haydn |
2017 |
2291 |
The secondary stress on the third beat in a simple quadruple meter facilitates half-measure hyperbeats. Through the shortening or lengthening of hyperbeats and/or hypermeasures, the hypermetric downbeat may shift to mid-measure creating a second-half... |