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This work is concerned with the ways m which status is manifested, determined and altered within the Hindustani musical world of North India. This enquiry is undertaken by investigating two seemingly distinct, yet profoundly intertwined parts of North Indian classical music - the Hindustani violin and the significance of gender distinctions within Hindustani music. The 'stories' of both the Hindustani violin and of women as public performers of Hindustani classical music are inextricably tied to the larger paths of colonialism and nationalism, as they have manifested in India over the past century. At the same time, a deeper understanding of these two subjects is found in an engagement with the individuals who, through their personal actions and endeavors, have sought to shift their status within Hindustani music, thereby changing the Hindustani musical world in the process. This work is therefore grounded in the musical and social knowledge of the Hindustani violinist Kala Ramnath. Kala-ji's innovative violin technique, insights into gender differentiation within the Hindustani musical world, and articulated identity as a female Hindustani instrumentalist provide new understandings of how music, words, and personal action can affect a performer's relationship with the sociomusical world that she inhabits.

In the United States, Chinese American students participate in public school string orchestras at a disproportionately high rate. With considerable changes in both mass media and social media landscape throughout their upbringing, as well as the rapid rise of anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic as they were becoming adults, the Chinese American music students in this study possessed unique sets of experiences that affect both their musical and cultural identities. The purpose of this narrative inquiry is to consider the influences of transnational contexts, the processes of Asianization, and Chinese parenting on musical identity and racial identity formation of seven Chinese American former middle school (grades 6 through grade 8) string orchestra students. My stories as an ethnically Chinese immigrant who studied and teach music in the United States are incorporated throughout, to provide perspectives and enrich my understanding of the seven participants’ narratives. I interwove the stories of seven young adult Chinese Americans and my own stories (warp threads) with the social and historical forces at play (weft threads) to create a narrative tapestry. All participants in this study reported being aware of the various Asian stereotypes since elementary school. This awareness had affected their decisions to start or stop playing their string instruments. Being in the string orchestra or playing string instruments and the self-perception of being Asian or Chinese are two factors that often influence one another. The Asianization stereotypes, transnational contexts, and Chinese parenting affected the participants’ sense of identity as Chinese Americans; in turn, the struggle to understand themselves racially affected their musical, social, and emotional lives. / 2025-03-31T00:00:00Z

Bland det första jag fick lära mig när jag började spela fiol var betydelsen av att vara fri. Men vad innebär det egentligen? I mitt arbete har jag studerat Johann Sebastian Bachs första violinsonat i g-moll. Det är en sonat som jag har spelat enskilda satser ur vid ett flertal tillfällen, och jag har länge känt att det snart är dags för mig att sammanföra de fyra satserna för att spela dem under samma konsert. För att genomföra mitt projekt och för att få en djupare förståelse för musiken, har jag läst om Bach och jag har studerat filosofin kring musik. Hur musiken som en av de sköna konstformerna har betytt för oss människor genom historien. Mitt mål med projektet var att nå fram till en frihet i musiken där jag kan uttrycka en kreativ och personlig tolkning. Jag kom underfund med vikten av att hitta en individuell studiemetod som passar mig och mitt ändamål. Jag testade mig fram i olika övningsmetoder samt reflekterade kring övningsmetodik genom att jag förde övningsdagbok och dagligen utförde inspelningar av min övning. Jag kommer fram till betydelsen av att vara nyfiken på olika övningsmetoder, att våga lita på sina kunskaper och inte nöja sig med mindre på grund av ett bristande självförtroende. / <p>Kaija Saariaho - Nocturne</p><p>J.S. Bach - Violinsonat No.1 i g-moll</p><p>Friedrich Hermann - ur Suite Op.17</p><p>Medverkande musiker:</p><p>Catrin Borggrim - violin</p><p>Hilde Aronsson - violin</p><p>Simon Hojman - violin</p>

Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka hur en musiker utvecklar sin artikulation. För att undersöka detta har jag under sex veckors period övat artikulation ungefär tio minuter per dag. Under dessa övningstillfällen har jag fört loggbok för att kunna dokumentera mina upplevelser av min process, samt videofilmat ett urval av dessa övningstillfällen.  Som teoretisk utgångspunkt har ett designteoretiskt perspektiv använts. I resultatet presenteras hur olika resurser har använts samt hur progressionen i lärandet har sett ut. Det framkommer hur jag har använt olika resurser för att kunna artikulera bättre i mitt musicerande. I diskussionen diskuterar jag kring de olika resursernas påverkan på min utveckling och kring stråkens progression i relation till det designteoretiska perspektivet och tidigare forskning. / The purpose of this study aims on musician’s development of their articulation. In order to investigate this, I have practiced articulation ten minutes per day within six weeks. During these exercises, I had been writing a logbook to document my personal experience throughout the process. I have also video documented a selection of these practice occasions. The design theory perspective has been used as a theoretical base. The result shows an overview of how resources were used and how the learning progress has occurred. The result also reveals how I have used various resources in order to develop my string technique and to improve my own articulation overall. The last chapter contains a discussion about the impact of resources on my personal development and the progression I made within bow technique. The outcome is presented in relation to the perspective of design theory as well as the previous research on this subject.

Quartet -- Bagatelle-Kyrie eleison -- Déploration. / Wu Ming-yiu. / Thesis (M.Mus.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Table of Contents --- p.ii / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Compositions / Chapter 1. --- Quartet --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Bagatelle - Kyrie eleison --- p.34 / Chapter 3. --- Deploration --- p.47