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In this dissertation I examine Balinese musical meaning as situated knowledge. I analyze ways that people interpret the significance of musical sound in theatrical and ceremonial performances, considering the diversity of views and practices and abundant regional and personal va…

This project explores the early years of the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir (known initially as the Freiheit Gezang Farein or Freedom Singing Society), a mixed amateur ensemble with roots in the secular Jewish labour movement. I cover the choir's beginnings in 1925 through the depart…

In this dissertation, I argue that listeners’ ability to apprehend the expressive power and stylistic signature of late eighteenth- and early ninteenth-century music lies as much in its sonority (timbre and chord spacing) as in the traditional syntactic parameters (of harmony, r…