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John La Montaine (b. 1920) has devoted his life to music composition. His major works total 62 opus numbers, including operas, concertos, songs, chamber music, and orchestral works as well as eleven compositions for solo piano. Among his composition teachers were Nadia Boulanger and Howard Hanson, and his first piano concerto was awarded the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music. He was active also as a concert soloist and collaborative pianist, appearing on prestigious concert series and with first-rank orchestras. Despite his obvious success, La Montaine did not seek publicity. As a result, the majority of his music is not widely known. La Montaine's eleven compositions for solo piano are written in a wide variety of styles, from tonal to serial, with many based on a tonal center, and they range in difficulty from the easiest beginner pieces to challenging concert works. His elementary works include a set of easy canons and many small pieces written for an early piano method. An imaginative set of children's pieces and a small virtuoso étude challenge the intermediate pianist. A diverse range of works for the advanced pianist includes a serious sonata, a lively toccata, several contrapuntal works, lilting dance pieces, and unique smaller pieces. The recording included with this research project is the first to present La Montaine's complete works for solo piano. The composer's own recordings of many of his works are difficult to obtain, and only a few have been recorded commercially. While some of his works remain in publishers' catalogs, those which are out-of-print can be obtained via interlibrary loan. This recording and discussion of La Montaine's solo piano pieces are intended to make his work better known.
ContributorsO'Brien, Andrew Charles (Author) / Hamilton, Robert (Thesis advisor) / Cosand, Walter (Committee member) / Holbrook, Amy (Committee member) / Meyer Thompson, Janice (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2010
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Collaborative piano skills are not only important for pianists. Many of the skills that collaborative pianists use regularly are the same skills used by music educators, music therapists, and vocal and instrumental professionals. If these skills were included in the class piano curriculum of music majors for whom piano is not their primary instrument, students might be better prepared for essential tasks they will accomplish in their future careers. This study seeks to discover the extent to which collaborative piano skills such as sight-reading, collaboration with a singer or instrumentalist, and score reduction are incorporated into the class piano courses offered in Arizona. A survey was sent in 2021 to all community college and university instructors of class piano in Arizona, asking them about the role, frequency, and assessment methods of collaborative piano skills in their courses. Public information was also gathered from institutional websites regarding course curriculum. To collect more detailed information regarding the pedagogical practices of Arizona class piano educators, I interviewed four professors who develop and implement class piano curricula in Arizona.
The results of this study suggest that Arizona class piano educators desire to incorporate more collaborative piano skills in their courses. The goal of this research is to bring awareness to the discrepancy in class piano curriculum standards with regards to collaborative piano skills across Arizona and spur pedagogical dialogue among educators regarding ways to improve programs. These enhancements will ultimately serve to give each student the best possible preparation for a career in music.
ContributorsSherrill, Amanda May (Author) / Campbell, Andrew (Thesis advisor) / DeMaris, Amanda (Committee member) / Holbrook, Amy (Committee member) / Ryan, Russell (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
Description本文对中国制药企业并购溢价影响因素进行了研究，提出了对制药企业并购非常重要的两个新的影响因素：可生产药品批文和在研新药批文。本文以2011年1月—2019年12月间我国制药行业上市公司并购事件为样本，对在研新药和可生产药品批文的价值从四个维度度量：是否有在研新药和可生产药品批文；在研新药数量及可生产药品批文数量；根据创新药和仿制药两个类别进行细分；标的企业所拥有的在研新药和可生产药品批文的市场价值。论文发现药品批文对企业并购溢价的影响不是很显著。进一步的，本文探究了药品批文对主并企业的对被并购公司的估值的影响。实证结果表明，我国制药企业在并购估值时确实会考虑到在研新药和可生产药品批文的价值。本文还发现对于可生产药品来说，相对创新药，被并购公司持有的仿制药批文影响更显著。而对于在研新药来说，主并企业更看重在研的创新药，在研仿制药对并购估值的影响不大。最后，本文选取了两个代表性案例进一步分析和探讨药品批文对企业并购的影响。
ContributorsYe, Tao (Author) / Shen, Wei (Thesis advisor) / Chang, Chun (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Gu, Bin (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
Description汽车行业属于国家支柱型产业，创造了高额的产值，增加了就业岗位。随着汽车生产行业竞争日趋激烈的趋势影响，汽车经销商在未来会出现明显的分化，并且逐步向头部集中。基于这样的行业背景，本项研究开展汽车经销商整体经营和盈利能力等方面的详细深入分析，即系统整合汽车经销商业务运营层面和财务层面数据，结合统计研究方法，对经销商盈利能力进行系统且详实归因分析，从而试别驱动盈利能力的关键业务要素。其研究成果能够完善对行业发展规律和经营模式系统性理解，从而进一步指导该领域的相关业务实践，提高经销商整体经营业绩。本课题通过四个阶段来开展经销商整体经营与盈利归因的相关研究。首先，本课题梳理了中国汽车消费行业发展的历史，同时阐述样本期内（2018-2020年）国内宏观经济和汽车消费市场的特征进行，并介绍X品牌汽车经销商的地理分布、资质和业绩评级体系、自身经营特征以及汽车生产商对经销商扶持政策等方面。在第二阶段，本课题聚焦研究假设、模型与方法，通过对X品牌汽车经销商的业务结构和运营管理开展分析，并逐步识别影响经销商盈利的关键指标变量，并提出研究假设和相关模型（即时间序列模型和面板回归模型）。在第三阶段，本课题首先开展经销商相关信息整体性统计分析，获得关键业务指标在样本期内动态特征，并结合时间序列回归模型探讨各项业务指标对经销商整体盈利能力的影响程度。在第四阶段，本课题采用（个体）固定效应的面板回归模型来研究不同组别（控制）条件下经销商盈利能力的影响因素以及其盈利能力对这些因素的敏感程度，从而更深入和全面地揭示影响经销商盈利能力的潜在因素。
基于上述四阶段的研究结果，本研究进一步就提升经销商盈利能力展开讨论，并提出相应对策。本课题相关结论仅从X品牌汽车经销商经营和财务数据进行定性和定量分析获得，但衷心希望本研究的成果能够对汽车经销商改善经营业务方面能起到实践上的借鉴和指导意义。
ContributorsPan, Guangxiong (Author) / Shen, Wei (Thesis advisor) / Wu, Fei (Thesis advisor) / Zhu, Qigui (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
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Alexina Louie (b. 1949) is a highly respected Canadian composer who has received numerous prestigious awards. The present study focuses on her pedagogical works for young pianists: Music for Piano (1982), Star Light, Star Bright (1995), and Small Beautiful Things (2016). All three sets, written in different periods of her compositional career, reveal Louie's highly artistic musical style adapted to her strong interest in piano pedagogy.
Music for Piano, intended for intermediate-level pianists, has four individual pieces, taking two to three minutes each, representing Louie’s early compositional style. Star Light, Star Bright, for intermediate-level pianists at a slightly lower level than intended for Music for Piano, consists of nine short character pieces inspired by the stars and planets and other phenomena of the solar system. Small Beautiful Things is technically less challenging than the other works. It consists of eleven-character pieces with titles from everyday life that are designed to appeal to young musicians.
The first chapter is an account of Louie's educational background and how mentors influenced her development as a pianist, composer, and teacher. The chapter also documents Louie's strong interest in teaching, which led her to compose piano music with pedagogical intent. The second chapter describes the compositional elements of Music for Piano, examining Louie's uses of various Asian elements, minimalism, notational innovations resulting in rhythmic freedom, and Impressionistic timbres and sonorities. The third chapter assesses Star Light, Star Bright, showing the overall palindromic structure of the set while discussing the content and pedagogical value of the individual pieces. The fourth chapter focuses on how the pieces of Small Beautiful Things help young pianists to develop basic techniques and musicianship.
Overall, the discussion reveals not only the musical and expressive qualities of Louie's works for young pianists, but also their value for cultivating both technique and musicality.
ContributorsNam, Michelle Yelin (Author) / Hamilton, Robert (Thesis advisor) / Holbrook, Amy (Thesis advisor) / Meir, Baruch (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
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Korean composer Youngmin Jin (b. 1959) has composed in a wide variety of genres, including works for solo instruments, chamber music ensembles, orchestra, and opera. Jin has written only five solo piano pieces. This paper discusses three of these works for solo piano: Tschum für Klavier (1998), From Childhood for Piano (2014), and A Little Talk for Piano (2016-2017). Prior to the description of these pieces, the document provides a biography of the composer and introduces his compositional features through examples from his music for other genres. Jin has a flexible approach to tonal organization, which he calls SinJoseong. In certain works he employs such Korean elements as pentatonicism, ornamentation, and distinctive Korean rhythms, incorporating them into his music in Western forms and idioms. Jin's later style tends toward clarity and the use of basic elements, a trend that is evident in the two later piano works discussed here, in particular in their formal structures and their sharing and transforming of motives.
The examination of the content and features of these three piano pieces by Youngmin Jin is augmented by information gained through interviews with the composer. A link to my recording of these works is provided in support of the discussion.
ContributorsLee, Eunhwa (Author) / Holbrook, Amy (Thesis advisor) / Meir, Baruch (Thesis advisor) / Campbell, Andrew (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
ContributorsMargolis, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2017-11-19
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COVID-19 has affected every aspect of society, including the performing arts. This study creates a historic record of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Navy Band Southwest (NBSW), located in San Diego, CA. It is an account of Navy Band Southwest’s journey under my direction as the Bandmaster and the transformation from live music performances to performances in the virtual environment from March 2020 until September 2021. The paper details safety protocols developed by the NBSW leadership team that were implemented following Center for Disease Control and Department of Defense overarching guidance. It also examines the process of development of recording techniques, both audio and video, as well as hardware used to create virtual band performances. Chapters cover NBSW operations pre-COVID, development of the virtual music-making process, and the creation of specific projects, including an original commission for wind band that was conceived, composed, rehearsed, and recorded entirely in a virtual environment. This paper aims to capture the perseverance and professionalism of U. S. Navy Sailors and how these musicians adapted to continue making music during forced isolation and quarantine. An archive of selected performances is included with this document.
ContributorsMansfield, Bruce John (Author) / Caslor, Jason (Thesis advisor) / Edwards, Bradley (Committee member) / Holbrook, Amy (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021
Description新世纪以来中国电影的产业化改革与探索愈发呈现良好的态势，国产院线电影也在实践中努力赢得观众和票房市场。其中类型喜剧电影，最符合商业电影规律、最顺应影视市场需求、最能获得票房收益而备受影视创投机构、制作公司青睐。本论文研究对象聚焦类型喜剧电影，通过“欢声笑语里的财富”现象，探究类型喜剧电影内部本体构成要素与外部客观促成要素的关联；以通过分析自变量与因变量因素对中国电影票房之类型喜剧影响因素进行实证研究，为影视创投和影视制作总结并提供可靠建议。
本论文整体结构包括：第一部分为导论，包括研究背景、目的意义，相关文献综述与文献评述和论文创新性。第二部分聚焦类型喜剧本身，从电影学范畴的电影本体出发，探究“笑”的心理、社会与文化内涵，并分析将“笑”对经济领域的延伸。第三部分以影视投资、票房为依托，从现象和数据中探寻影响类型喜剧电影的因素，为展开中国电影票房之类型喜剧影响因素实证研究做好理论的铺垫。第四与第五部分则基于上述理论进行实证检验，选用2013-2020年电影样本，采用多元线性回归模型研究喜剧类型对票房的吸引力，以及不同种类型喜剧对电影票房的提振效果作用差异。研究发现喜剧电影对电影票房有显著的提振作用；以及研究电影的外部影响因素（续集效应）对电影票房的作用。发现续集电影有更好的票房表现，续集效应的票房提升作用在喜剧电影中表现的更加明显。
本论文研究成果最终将回归到“欢声笑语里的财富”本身；即“类型复合喜剧”对促进电影与金融产业的互动关联、实现更加可持续化发展，以及进而推动经济及文化业的发展。
ContributorsLiu, Yongqian (Author) / Shen, Wei (Thesis advisor) / Zhu, Ning (Thesis advisor) / Dong, Xiaodan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
Description人口的老龄化不仅对养老事业提出更高的要求，也对养老服务产业人才的培养提出要求。但是青年学生选择涉老服务专业的意愿却非常低。因此，为了探究职业学院如何增强涉老服务专业吸引力这一问题，本文以学生为主体视角，利用相关理论，对于影响青年学生选择涉老服务专业的因素进行全面的分析，并结合深度访谈和调查法，提出并建构了相关的理论模型。首先，通过深度访谈和焦点小组讨论，结合对现有的文献的分析，本文提出了影响青年学生选择职业院校涉老服务专业的各种因素，主要包括：个人未来风险感知、家庭经济资本、社会信息评价、校企合作水平、专业课程建设水平、学生激励水平、师资队伍建设水平。之后，本文通过调查法，基于社会认同理论构建了本文的研究模型，并通过结构方程模型对所构建的模型进行检查。
本文的研究结果表明：个人未来风险感知对学生专业认同度产生负面影响；家庭经济资本对学生专业认同度产生负面影响；社会信息评价对学生专业认同度产生正面影响；校企合作水平对学生专业认同度产生正面影；专业课程建设水平对学生专业认同度产生正面影响；学生激励水平对学生专业认同度产生正面影响；师资队伍建设水平对学生专业认同度产生正面影响；学生专业认同度对学生专业选择意愿产生正面影响。
基于上述研究结论，本文选取了个人未来风险感知、家庭经济资本、社会信息评价、校企合作水平、专业课程建设水平、学生激励水平、师资队伍建设水平等因素对于广东岭南职业技术学院涉老服务专业的现有吸引力进行了分析和评估，并从这些视角进一步了对如何提升招生吸引力问题进行探讨，为提高涉老服务专业对于青年学生的吸引力，得出了相关管理建议。
ContributorsZhou, Lanqing (Author) / Shen, Wei (Thesis advisor) / Wu, Fei (Thesis advisor) / Pei, Ker-Wei (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021