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Item “Bless Us All, ‘Tis A Mad World”: Mad Tom O’ Bedlam, Music, And The Politic Of Noise In Seventeenth-Century London(2022-03) Nelson, JosephMusic and noise often operated as divergent sonic experiences for those living in seventeenth-century London. The degree to which people thought of music as noise often depended on the stylistic conventions of heavily class-inscribed music such as courtly dances. Music for rural dances, including folk/traditional music, was far more often associated with disorderly characters such as beggars and vagabonds. However, music and noise operated on a spectrum of sonic experiences that often ran parallel to notions of social and political disorder. This dissertation explores the connections between music, sound, and the politics of noise through a study of Poor Tom o’ Bedlam, or Mad Tom, and the sonic environment of Bethlem Hospital. This includes a history of Tom from the sixteenth-century rogue pamphlets and William Shakespeare’s King Lear (1606) to Restoration broadside ballads and eighteenth-century political pamphlets. Through analysis and close reading of music, images, and texts associated with Mad Tom, it becomes clear that the circular associations of madness, noise, and disorder in his songs run parallel to wider attitudes toward the poor, street culture, and class in London. Finally, these associations survived well into the eighteenth century and still impact how people think of madness, noise, and politics today.Item Creating Information-Literate Musicians in the Academic Library(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2023-08) Abbazio, Jessica M.; Pratesi, Angela L.; Yang, Z. SylviaFor musicians, the act of creation is multifaceted: musicians perform, analyze, write, speak, and teach in highly collaborative and diverse environments. Information-literate musicians require training to understand and engage with the myriad kinds of content and materials inherent to the contemplation, study, creation, and enjoyment of music. The various information needs of musicians requires creators to make many choices--from selecting a particular score edition or recording from many similar options, to employing a specific scholarly or pedagogical methodology to their work, musicians require the skills to critically evaluate information and determine its usefulness. Music’s ubiquity adds a further layer of intricacy, as music-related research happens in both the concert hall and the classroom, and is not limited to music programs. Disciplines from anthropology to psychology to literature to media studies employ music as a lens through which to examine art, culture, and social structures. As in other creative fields, the history of music scholarship has been heavily influenced by its focus on Western art music and has resulted in the prioritization of Euro-centric musical traditions in study and performance, making research on non-Western and popular music trickier for creators and researchers to conduct. Each of these elements contributes to a complex landscape for librarians planning information literacy instruction activities in support of music-related research and creation. Because of this complexity, students pursuing academic projects that involve music may need support for a range of creative endeavors, and information literacy instruction might seem like a complicated feat for the librarians who work with these creators. By defining what information literacy is for music students and exploring the ways that academic research and creation in music intersects with other disciplines, the authors provide a framework to help librarians contribute to the development of information-literate musicians.Item Five Short Pieces for Cello Quartet(2016-10-29) Wegley, Arianna, JMy aim for this project was to engage directly with questions of musical composition and theatrical production by creating several compositions to accompany moments in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I created my own compositions, emphasizing post-tonal music theory techniques as way of exploring how the contemporary sounds might add a new dimension to Shakespearean classics. I limited myself to one instrument, the cello, to make use of the instrumental range of what is often seen as the musical instrument that is closest to the human voice. I used GarageBand music editing software to arrange the instrumentation as a cello quartet, in which I recorded myself playing each part separately, then layered the recordings together to create four-part sonorities. My five consecutive short pieces accompany the fairy song in Act 2 Scene 2 with an introduction, and four verse accompaniments. These explore the coordination and manipulation of pitch class, pitch intervals, and the mod-12 complement system. 20th century post-tonal musical influences include Milton Babbitt's "Philomel" (1964), Steve Reich's "Different Trains" (1988), and the fourth movement of Anton Webern's "5 Sätze Für Streichquartett" (1909).