Music Senior Integrated Projects
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This collection includes Senior Integrated Projects (SIPs, formerly known as Senior Individualized Projects) completed in the Music Department. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this material.
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Redefining Location: How Kendrick Lamar Expands Locality in Hip Hop Through DAMN
(2022)Kendrick Lamar has been a household name since 2012, when he released his critically acclaimed album, good kid, m.A.A.d. city. Lamar, born in Compton California, has released several classic hip hop albums since his rise ... -
A Business Strategy for Independent Record Labels in 2019
(2019-11-22)This Hip Hop business strategy includes situational analysis, case studies, a marketing plan, and operational plan. The other concludes with ten important lessons learned in the process: 1. If I am going to be an entrepreneur ... -
The World is Yours : SIP Album
(2020-04-12)An original album. Tracks: Bless You (Intro)- (feat. Philippe Orbe) -2:54 || Close to me -3:13 || Deep- (feat. Meech) -2:17u || Humble- (feat. TinTin) -3:41 || Inner Thoughts (feat. Roezart) -3:17 || KB -3:11 || Listen ... -
SIP Piano Recital
(2020-05-31)Program | Three Preludes for Piano--George Gershwin I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso II. Andante con moto e poco rubato III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso | The Demon Barber (after "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" from ... -
“Sailing Seas Depends on the Helmsman” : Songs of the Cultural Revolution in China
(2016)This paper examines how music was utilized as a political tool during the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) by analyzing musical compositions from three different time periods: pre Cultural Revolution, early years ... -
Senior Voice Recital : Jenna Hunt, Mezzo Soprano
(2013-03-09)Program for the voice recital of mezzo soprano Jenna Hunt, accompanied by Jack Brooks on Saturday, March 9, 2013 in Stetson Chapel at Kalamazoo College. Recital program is available to the public, but audio files are ... -
The Grand Illusion: Opers; Its Form and Musico-Theatrical Conventions and Their Relationship with Examples from Three Faustion Operas
(1974)The central thrust of my study has been to understand how music serves the theatrical event. In doing so I have been able to expand my opinion of theatre. I have learned to appreciate Theodore Shank's study The Art of ... -
Spanish Popular Music in the Collegiate: A Cappella Style
(2010)In my Senior Individualized Project (SIP), I take music from another culture and arrange it in the collegiate a cappella style, which is a "musical practice that uses certain techniques in order for the vocal-only ... -
Senior Voice Recital, May 13, 1994
(1994)Essay, program notes, and program for a Senior Recital by Amy Mast, mezzo-soprano, and Matthew Robey, piano, given on Sunday, May 15, 1994 in the Kalamazoo College Light Recital Hall. -
Music for Piano and voice by Women Composers
(1994)Short essay and program for a Senior Recital by Laura Zemrowski, mezzo-soprano, and Toby White, piano, given on Sunday, May 15, 1994 at the Kalamazoo College Light Recital Hall in the Fire Arts Building. Bibliography and ... -
Is Jazz Dead? ( or has it changed its dress)
(2007)In this essay, I will first historicize jazz within a paradoxical American identity which sees itself embodied by both a broad common culture and fierce individualism. Jazz, as a participant in this paradox, is described ... -
Concerto for Ten Wind Instruments
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Flexural Horns
(1963)This paper is divided into three main sections. The first is a theoretical approach to flexural waves in the defined horns. Although the major emphasis has been placed on the normal flexural modes of a specific flexural ... -
The Clarinet Works of Johannes Brahms
(1967)Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) wrote four works especially for the clarinet and became the first master musician since Carl Maria von Weber to really concentrate his energies on the instrument. Like Weber and Mozart before ... -
Prelude and Variations
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How to Become a Piano Teacher in 22,176 Easy Lessons
(1969)A note of explanation is necessary concerning the title of this paper. It is my premise that one cannot begin to consider oneself a piano teacher, unless and until one i8 involved in the process. When a teacher has given ...