Discover. Reveal. Educate.: Making a School for Bluegrass Music in Floyd, Virginia

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dc.contributor.authorStuecker, Rebecca Marieen
dc.contributor.committeechairSchnoedt, Heinrichen
dc.contributor.committeememberEdge, Kay F.en
dc.contributor.committeememberErmann, Michael G.en
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:40:58Zen
dc.date.adate2008-10-25en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:40:58Zen
dc.date.issued2006-01-11en
dc.date.rdate2008-10-25en
dc.date.sdate2008-07-01en
dc.description.abstractArchitecture can facilitate the learning process. This book outlines a design exploration of this fundamental premise. The architectural platform for this exploration is a music conservatory dedicated to teaching the traditional mountain music of Appalachia. The rich history of mountain music and its centuries-old conversational method of conveyance remain the underlying premise of this thesis. A successful bluegrass conservatory must provide places for its students to engage in three occasions: Discovery, Revelation, and Education. Architectural form is significant to these occasions in that it not only allows, but promotes their occurrence. The discovery of inspirational material can occur in a formal stage-and-seat configuration as in the auditorium, or in an informal environment such as the street. The moment in which a musician reveals or explores this inspirational material can be a private one, most likely to take place in the individual rooms of the residential buildings. The most important occasion, education, takes place as it has for centuries - within conversation. Learning the language of bluegrass music is most likely when two or more students sit together to play, share their knowledge, and build on it. These conversations are key to the learning process and can take place on the benches lining the streets, in the indoor gathering rooms, on balconies and porches overlooking the streets, etc. The discovery, revelational, and educational processes are not chronological and must all happen coincidentally within the school grounds. I have set out to build an architectural language whose meaning is derived by conventional pragmatic parameters. This system of rules or notions governs all aspects of this school's design from stair to stage. The parameters are set according to the intrinsic requirements of placing a building on the land that must promote the occurrence of discovery, revelation, and education.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Architectureen
dc.identifier.otheretd-07012008-004450en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07012008-004450/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33857en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartStuecker_ETD.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectFloyd County, Va.en
dc.subjectbluegrassen
dc.subjectconservatoryen
dc.subjectacousticsen
dc.subjectmusic educationen
dc.titleDiscover. Reveal. Educate.: Making a School for Bluegrass Music in Floyd, Virginiaen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen

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