By Discipline: Music (2025)

• Claude Debussy's String Quartet in G Minor - Advancing Form and Harmony in the 19th Century

  
  Performance Art
  
  (Music, History, Art)
  Conner R. Gallagher*, Lainie M. Mueller, Tucker M. Maxwell, and Evan L. O'Day
  Dr. Brian X. Kubin, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Collaboration in Composition: A Comissioned Work For Saxophone-Piano

  
  Performance Art
  
  (Music)
  Carson J. Merical
  Dr. Victor Marquez, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Echoes of the Divine:  Resounding Russian Orthodox Chant in Sergei Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Music, Russian)
  Irene E. Pehanich♦
  Dr. Peng Liu, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Exploring Scott McAllister’s X Concerto for Clarinet: A Fusion of Classical and Contemporary Influences

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Music)
  Yongzhuo Zhu♦
  Dr. Jesse Krebs, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• From Tribute to Subversion: A Comparative Study of Musical Symbolism in Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly and David Cronenberg’s film M. Butterfly

   

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Music)
  Yiwen Tan
  Dr. Peng Liu, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Johanna Senfter: Life and Composition Through the Clarinet

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Music)
  Harper R. Golden♦
  Dr. Jesse Krebs, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Klezmer: a Vessel of Musical Culture Interpreted by Béla Kovács

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Folklore, History, Music)
  Danilo E. Viquez-Poveda♦
  Dr. Jesse Krebs, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• The Political Effect of 9/11 On Country Music

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Music, Sociology)
  Addi Noecker
  Dr. Amber Johnson, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• The Unstable Voice: Exploring Vocal Challenges in Singers with EDS

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Music, Disability Studies)
  Alexander E. Walcott
  Dr. Jill Phillips, Faculty Mentor