Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Crash Ensemble, 2011 Technological University Dublin
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Crash Ensemble, Adrian Smith
Articles
Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland entry on the Crash Ensemble
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Deirdre Gribbin, 2011 Technological University Dublin
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Deirdre Gribbin, Adrian Smith
Articles
Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland entry on the Irish composer Deirdre Gribbin
Tunepal: Searching A Digital Library Of Traditional Music Scores, 2011 Technological University Dublin
Tunepal: Searching A Digital Library Of Traditional Music Scores, Bryan Duggan, Brendan O'Shea
Reports
Purpose – This paper aims to describe the Tunepal project as an example of a music information retrieval (MIR) system that is having an impact on how musicians access, learn and play traditional Irish music around the world. Design/methodology/approach – This paper describes the functionality of the Tunepal system: consisting of the tune corpus, the web site tunepal.org and mobile apps supporting iOS and Android OS. Tunepal facilitates query-by-title and query-by-playing music (QBP) searches and allows a musician to retrieve and playback scores amongst other supported functions. Findings – Tunepal has been favorably received and musicians report that the system …
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Rob Canning, 2011 Technological University Dublin
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Rob Canning, Adrian Smith
Articles
Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland entry on the Irish composer Rob Canning
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Kevin Volans, 2011 Technological University Dublin
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Kevin Volans, Adrian Smith
Articles
Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland entry on Kevin Volans
From Modality To Tonality: The Reformulation Of Harmony And Structure In Seventeenth-Century Music, 2011 University of Puget Sound
From Modality To Tonality: The Reformulation Of Harmony And Structure In Seventeenth-Century Music, Lukas Perry
Summer Research
The syntax of common practice tonality creates the potential for expansive musical works, with almost guaranteed gratification for the listener through a harmonic interplay between tension and resolution. The evolution of common practice tonality from the older system of modes spans the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With a focus on the seventeenth century, this study endeavors to clarify how, when, and, to some extent, why the monumental shift between modality and tonality occurred. A discussion of crucial differences between the two systems of musical organization—mainly the melodic basis of the modes versus the harmonic basis of the tonal major and …
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Jonathan Nangle, 2011 Technological University Dublin
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Jonathan Nangle, Adrian Smith
Articles
Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland entry on the Irish composer Jonathan Nangle
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Point Theatre, 2011 Technological University Dublin
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Point Theatre, Adrian Smith
Articles
Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland entry on the Point Theatre
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Royal Hospital Kilmainham, 2011 Technological University Dublin
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Adrian Smith
Articles
Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland entry on the Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Gráinne Mulvey, 2011 Technological University Dublin
Encyclopedia Of Music In Ireland: Gráinne Mulvey, Adrian Smith
Articles
Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland entry on the Irish composer Gráinne Mulvey
The Structure And Genesis Of Copland's Quiet City, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Structure And Genesis Of Copland's Quiet City, Stanley V. Kleppinger
Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications
Aaron Copland’s Quiet City (1940), a one-movement work for trumpet, cor anglais, and strings, derives from incidental music the composer wrote for an unsuccessful and now forgotten Irwin Shaw play. This essay explores in detail the pitch structure of the concert work, suggesting dramatic parallels between the music and Shaw’s play.
The opening of the piece hinges on an anhemitonic pentatonic collection, which becomes the source of significant pitch centres for the whole composition, in that the most prominent pitch classes of each section, when taken together, replicate the collection governing the music’s first and last bars. Both this principle …
Influence Of Rap And Hip-Hop Lyrics On Male Body Image And Attitudes Toward Wwomen, 2011 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Influence Of Rap And Hip-Hop Lyrics On Male Body Image And Attitudes Toward Wwomen, Lorena Munoz
McNair Poster Presentations
Rap and hip-hop music are a widely popular and accessible genre of media. Its popularity and controversial lyrics raise questions as to the effects it may have on its audience. This study proposes to investigate the influence of rap and hip-hop music will be correlated with higher mean levels of thin-ideal appearance internalization (INT-GEN), negative attitudes towards women, and cultural expectations of masculinity compared to published normative data. Participants will complete online measures addressing questions about their body image (e.g. drive for muscularity) and attitudes toward women (e.g. objectification and misogyny). Future research should compare the influence of rap and …
The 21st Century Piano Teacher By Claire Wachter, 2010 University of Texas at El Paso
The 21st Century Piano Teacher By Claire Wachter, Oscar E. Macchioni
Oscar Macchioni
Ernst Widmer’S Kosmos Latinoamericano: A Progressive Piano Method, 2010 University of Texas at El Paso
Ernst Widmer’S Kosmos Latinoamericano: A Progressive Piano Method, Oscar E. Macchioni
Oscar Macchioni
Article. Published February/March Issue, 2011.
Latin American piano repertoire for the elementary to intermediate level is not an easy subject since most of the available scores of famous Latin American composers are for the late intermediate or advanced level. Ernst Widmer (1927-1990), a Swiss composer who moved to Bahia, Brazil in 1956, composed Kosmos Latinoamericano between 1978 and 1982. It is an eclectic collection of 146 pieces organized in four volumes ranging from the beginner to the intermediate/advance levels. It includes an array of musical elements such as: original compositions and improvisations; readings and exercises; popular melodies and rhythms from …
Innovation And Tradition In Lisan Wang’S Piano Suite Other Hill, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Innovation And Tradition In Lisan Wang’S Piano Suite Other Hill, Rongjie Xu
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
Lisan Wang is one of the most celebrated musical figures in China. His five-movement piano suite Other Hill (1980) is the composer’s response to the “New Wave”, a compositional trend generated in China after the 1977 Cultural Revolution. Gaining fame as a piano composition for showing the application of multiculturalism and syncretism to music, Other Hill is regarded as a prime example of cross-cultural piano composition in China. Wang challenges Chinese traditional piano composition with different artistic media—philosophy, calligraphy, poems, and various folk elements in Other Hill. This document proposes an interdisciplinary study of Lisan Wang’s musical fusion of …
Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers And Sifting Through The Ruins: An Analysis Of Two Chamber Song Cycles By Libby Larsen, 2010 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers And Sifting Through The Ruins: An Analysis Of Two Chamber Song Cycles By Libby Larsen, Juline Erika Barol-Gilmore
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
American composer Libby Larsen is one of the most active, prolific composers living today. Although she is known for composing in many musical genres, her vocal works are among her most recognized compositions. When selecting song texts, Libby Larsen carefully chooses poems that speak to her personally, both in the rhythm of the language and in the text’s depth of meaning and spirit. In addition, a large number of her vocal works are based on texts by or about women.
In sum, authors and poets have profoundly influenced Larsen, specifically in her chamber song cycles Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me …
A Metrical Analysis And Rebarring Of Paul Creston's Sonata For Alto Saxophone And Piano, Op. 19, 2010 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
A Metrical Analysis And Rebarring Of Paul Creston's Sonata For Alto Saxophone And Piano, Op. 19, Christopher Kyle Sweitzer
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
The Sonata For Alto Saxophone and Piano Op. 19 is one of the most popular pieces in the saxophone literature, commonly played by professional saxophonists during their training. It features exciting rhythmic devices like irregular and mixed meter, the notation of which is the main focus of this paper. Although Creston often used irregular and mixed meter in his compositions, he rarely specifically notated them, choosing instead to use accents, beams, slurs, and other phenomenal cues at the musical surface to create the effect of these metric plans. Time signatures often remained constant throughout entire movements. Creston believed this would …
An Analysis Of The Career And Solo Style Of Jazz Trombonist Carl Fontana, 2010 University of Southern Mississippi
An Analysis Of The Career And Solo Style Of Jazz Trombonist Carl Fontana, John Wesley Parker
Dissertations
Carl Fontana’s ability and creativity as a jazz trombonist is held in high regard by his contemporaries, as well as by those who followed him. The significant aspects of his career were highlighted in a brief biography with historical and anecdotal information provided by jazz trombonists who new him and were influenced by him. Fontana’s solo style was analyzed and compared through transcriptions of three improvisations performed during contrasting points in his career: “Intermission Riff” from 1956, “Just Friends” from 1978, and “It Might As Well Be Spring” from 1985. His influence on the jazz trombone community was discussed through …
'Some Quite Nice Little Tunes': An Overview Of The Preparation And Recording Of The Incipits For The Britten Thematic Catalogue, 2010 Yale University
'Some Quite Nice Little Tunes': An Overview Of The Preparation And Recording Of The Incipits For The Britten Thematic Catalogue, Jonathan Manton
Jonathan Manton
Karol Szymanowski. Prelude Op. 1 No. 2., 2010 University of Texas at El Paso
Karol Szymanowski. Prelude Op. 1 No. 2., Oscar E. Macchioni
Oscar Macchioni
Oscar Macchioni performs Karol Szymanowski's Prelude op. 1 No. 2