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Determining What's Next: A Slow Movement For Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Golombisky
Determining What's Next: A Slow Movement For Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Golombisky
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This piece was started during the spring semester of 2005. The original conception was to write something that was both emotionally and mentally moving. The tempo is very slow, 54 beats per minute. The underlying theme is the harmonic movement of an E minor triad (E G B) moving to a F major 7th chord (F A C E). This chord is often approached using deceiving the listener with a do – re – ma – do melody in E minor, but when the final E is heard, it has become the 7th degree of the cadence chord, F major …
Eager And Hungry For Music: The Wpa Music Project In New Orleans, 1935-1943, Jason Abate
Eager And Hungry For Music: The Wpa Music Project In New Orleans, 1935-1943, Jason Abate
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Of the millions of American workers who suffered economically during the Great Depression of the 1930s, musicians in particular fell on hard times. The live music profession had begun to decline even before the onset of the Depression due to the introduction of new acoustic technologies. In 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in an attempt to put the nation back to work through governmentsponsored work projects. One division of the WPA was Federal Music Project (FMP). A great deal has been written about the WPA, but the Music Project has received little scholarly attention, …