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Annunciation And The Cross: The Marian Theology Of Incarnation In James Macmillan’S Music And Public Discourse, Joel Clarkson

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Many of Scottish composer James MacMillan’s most essential works are influenced by his Catholic faith, and thematically focused on a theological expression of Incarnation and suffering worked out through a dissonant musical style. MacMillan has developed a robust public discourse that includes statements about his faith and the way it informs his music, and his forthright demeanor has often provoked tension with various figures and groups. This article suggests that these two forms of conflict—discordance in his composition, and elements of conflict in his public dialogue—are both driven by a Marian theology of Incarnation that provides the impetus both for …

Creativity And Organic Songwriting: A Deconstruction Of Original Songs, Pramuk Mohanlal-Vargas

Composition/Recording Projects

Creativity and organic songwriting define uniqueness and are the building blocks of artistic self-expression. This paper consists of a deconstruction of eight original song recordings including the organic songwriting methods and creative ideas which led to the end result. The formulation of each recording is discussed in chronological order and in detail as well as influential ideas and songwriting styles of well-known contemporary artists such as Damien Rice, Passenger and Bon Iver. Along with individual and psychological approaches to songwriting, production elements are mentioned which indicate how the digital world influenced the final version of each song. This area relied …

Bloom: A 21st Century Mandolin Concerto, Ashley Hoyer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

I have created a career performing various types of music on the mandolin. Very little of the concert repertoire, however, includes music originally written for the mandolin with most of it consisting of rearrangements of violin, cello, or piano music. This observation has led me down a path to learn why there is a lack of mandolin concert repertoire as well as to create new music specifically written for the instrument. In this thesis, an original mandolin concerto, Bloom, aims not only to add to the instrument’s repertoire, but bring it into the twenty-first century using contemporary compositional techniques. I …

David Gillingham’S Stained Glass For Wind Ensemble: A Transcription From The Standard Percussion Repertoire, Ashley Shoupe

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Stained Glass (1994), by David Gillingham, is a work that is considered one of the standard pieces of percussion repertoire. To date, there are no known arrangements or transcriptions which exist for wind band that originated from the percussion ensemble repertoire. Stained Glass is a work which utilizes many musical characteristics and compositional techniques that could translate successfully to the wind ensemble, such as sweeping ostinato, sustained chordal structures, and a variety of colors and textures. It is because of this observation of musical characteristics that makes this work a good candidate for a successful first transcription from percussion ensemble …

Impressions On The American Cowboy: End Of The Trail, Ghost Town And Rough Men, Jude Edmund Markey-Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2022

“Impressions on the American Cowboy” seeks to consider, expose, and investigate the symbol of the cowboy in our culture–– in all of its twisted romance. After reflecting on my personal experiences as well as various historical texts and works of western fiction, I set out to make my own western-themed work. My intention is to comment and explore the so-called “man problem” across disciplines in live performed time and space. This work attempts to think critically about how and why cowboy culture has persisted, and to delve into this particular and troubling projection of masculine consciousness.

A Portfolio Of Compositions, Anne-Marie O'Farrell

Research Theses

The works in the attached portfolio address a number of compositional focal points: to bring together diverse strands of musical influence into sustained musical argument, across various large-scale media; to enlarge and explore the musical language of the harp, including the lever harp; and to integrate received materials into new music so as to create a different context while acknowledging musical inheritance. These combine with the exploration of inherent instrumental colour within my approaches to rhythm, harmony, melodic transformation, structure and the use of text to demonstrate the development of my compositional style during my PhD study. The commentary opens …

Frederick May Songs, Mark Fitzgerald

Compositions/Arrangements

This volume gathers together Frederick May's surviving songs in a new performing edition with a commentary by the editor. Individual string parts for the Four Romantic Songs are available from the editor.

Thoreau And Integrity, Daniel Alexander Zlatkin

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Blue Mountain: A Chamber Opera For Winds And Voices By Justin Dello Joio: A Unique Contribution For Wind Band Literature, Armando Saldarini

Dissertations

Blue Mountain is an opera in one act scored for four voices, and thirty-three instruments, commissioned by Det Norske Blaseensemble. Under the direction of Kenneth Jean, the premiere took place on October 8, 2007, at Kanonhalen in Oslo, Norway, as part of the Edvard Grieg Centennial celebrations and the 2007 Ultima contemporary Music Festival. The opera takes place in Troldhaugen, Norway, during the last days of Edvard Grieg’s life. Suffering from emphysema, Grieg was being treated by his doctor with morphine that created great anxiety, fear, and mental torment. A visit from his friend, Percy Grainger, gave Grieg great …

Voice Recitals At The Unl School Of Music: Compilation Study, Audrey M. Nicholson

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance

An informative compilation of Voice Recitals at the UNL School of Music categorized by Masters, DMA, and Faculty recitals from 1988-2012. Information includes: composer, work title, song title, performer, performance date, instrumentation, audio availability, and online program link.

"Download" button links to pdf version of file. Spreadsheet version (.xls) is attached below as "Related file." ".xlr" files are spreadsheets and can be opened from MS Excel.

A Modest Proposal: A Chamber Opera In One Act, Kevin Morse

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

A Modest Proposal is a chamber opera in one act adapted from the 1729 satirical essay of the same name by Jonathan Swift. The opera’s narrative was developed in close partnership with Toronto-based Governor-General’s Literary Award-nominated playwright Lisa Codrington, whom I commissioned to write the libretto. Set in an unnamed city in the present day, the work explores themes of economic disparity, social class, political power and process, parents and children, love, anger, and revenge. I integrate musical quotations from (or references to) folk lullabies and the works of Mahler, Debussy, and Schoenberg to support and enhance the richness and …

Luigi Zaninelli: Rehearsing, Performing, And Conducting Selected Works 2005-2008, James Ernest Standland

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to provide a resource for band conductors for rehearsing and performing band compositions of Luigi Zaninelli, specifically Three Dances of Enchantment, Prayer and Canto, and Dwarf of Venice. Certain decisions conductors make and even risks they take can make the difference in an ensemble's understanding of the music. This study provides an analytical view of Three Dances of Enchantment, Prayer and Canto, and Dwarf of Venice in terms of tempi, form, ensemble blend and balance, intonation, melodic lines, and conducting gestures.

Unlv Magazine, Grace Russell, Gian Galassi, Shane Bevell, Karyn S. Hollingsworth, Jennifer Lawson, Lori Bachand, Cate Weeks, Erin O'Donnell, Peter Starkweather

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.

Hillbillies And Sharecroppers: An Introduction To East Coast And Mississippi Blues Styles, John Wesley Taylor

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In his thesis, Hillbillies and Sharecroppers: an introduction to East coast and Mississippi blues guitar styles, along with the accompanying CD performance, John Taylor discusses pre-WWII blues. The discussion includes regional guitar styles as well as physicalities involved in the performance of early acoustic blues in Appalachia and Mississippi. There is a chapter devoted to subjects covered in early blues songs with a list of lyric examples as well as a biography section devoted to both white and black performers in these styles. The live performance utilizes stories behind the songs and historical information of the performers discussed in the …

Volume 74, Number 04 (April 1956), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Music Educators National Conference

In Memorium: Edwin Franko Goldman (1878-1956)

Personal Memories of Cortot as Artist and Teacher

Diction in Singing

National Interscholastic Music Activities Commission

MTNA in Action Music in Focus National Federation of Music Clubs . . . America's Most Far-Flung Musical Organization

Phi Mu Alpha (Professional Music Fraternity) . . . What it is and What it Does

National Association of Teachers of Singing

Story of Sigma Alpha Iota

Stepping Stones to West Point (interview with John A. Davis, Jr.)

Volume 73, Number 12 (December 1955), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

I Heard the Bells

Christmas Concerts at Grand Central

It Shouldn't be a Battle (interview with Otto Harbach)

Soviet Russia's Top Pianist Makes Sensational Début in America

To Cosima—With Love

Great Church Rebuilds Its Organ

Orchestra in the Daily Life of Your School

Music Postage Bill Passes Senate

Volume 71, Number 12 (December 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music at Christmas (Poem)

Performer—or Artist? (interview with Bidu Sayão)

Messiah Sunday (interview with Gordon Bachlund)

Backstage with the TV Scene Designer

Impressions of a Musical Journey to Africa

Ole Bull Returns to Pennsylvania

Rare Bit of Singing and Dancing

Much to Do About Conducting

What is Your Carol I.Q.?

Who Was this Christmas Outcast?

Volume 66, Number 09 (September 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Passing of a Noted American Artist

Reflections on Music Teaching (interview with Artur Schnabel)

Don't Fear Memorizing!

Piano Virtuoso in Spite of Himself: Noteworthy Extracts from Harold Bauer's Memoirs

Advertising Value of Classical Music: How An Experiment in Music and Jewels Brought Out Provable Facts That for Certain Commercial Purposes Great Masterpieces Stimulate Interest in Business Institutions

Are You a Violin Teacher?

Great British Brass Band Movement

Revival of the Bach Arias

Carrying a Spear in Grand Opera: How the Cohorts Behind the Footlights See the Art

Imitation—Its Use and Abuse (interview with Set Svanholm)

Letter from An Etude Friend: …

Volume 66, Number 06 (June 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eternal Chopin

Orchestra As a Municipal Asset (interview with Harl McDonald)

Nest of the Nightingales: An Exquisite Musical Fairy Story

How Can I Become a Pianist? (interview with Artur Rubinstein)

Romeo and Juliet of the Mountains: How Music and Drama Ended the Notorius Hatfield and McCoy Feud

Natural—or Impossible! (interview with Cloe Elmo)

Concert Hall in Your Home

Approach to Elementary String Class Teaching

Pride of the Navy

Shifting—Sliding—Change of Position

Wednesday Afternoon With the Cecilians

Basis for Piano Technique

Volume 65, Number 07 (July 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Moods

Ever Play in a String Quartet?

Musical Tour of Europe Today (interview with Marjorie Lawrence)

They Hail from the Red River Valley: The Amphion Chorus of Northern Minnesota and Dakota Records Success Formula for Male Choruses in the Average American City

Radio Conducting As a Career (interview with Henry Weber)

Hearing and Musicianship (interview with Curtis H. Muncie)

Theory Behind Music: Teaching Children to Understand the Background of the Art

Developing the Boys' Choir (interview with Coleman Cooper)

Volume 65, Number 06 (June 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art and Advertising

Tiny Tots' Adventures in Theory

Virtuoso in the Jungle (interview with Leonard Pennario)

Music Teacher Takes a Vacation

Song That Named Four Towns

Etude in Calcutta

Mrs. Mascagni Turns the Trick

Romantic Career of Michael Kelly: Mozart's Irish-Singer Friend

He Fought His Way to the Top Down Under: How Bernard Thomas Heinze Became Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Pedaling—the Stepchild of Piano Study

Technical Proficiency in Singing (interview with Lucrezia Bori)

Volume 65, Number 02 (February 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mind That Carried Music to Millions (Edison)

My Father and Music

Musical Kleptomaniacs

Basic Purpose of Music Teaching (interview with Maryla Jonas)

Basic Pieces in the Student's Repertoire

Secret of Singing (interview with Christopher Lynch)

Controlling Tempo and Dynamics

Breathing in Relation to Vocal Expression

What Industry Can Do for Music

Hymn Accompaniments

School Music--For All!

Viola

How Management Builds Artists (interview with Frederick C. Schang)

Conducting is an Art (interview with Désiré Defauw)

Volume 64, Number 02 (February 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Greatest Teacher in the World

Etude Spring Festival of Music

Three Ravels: Personal Souvenirs of the Great French Composer

Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (Part 2) (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)

Harp in College and University Training

Potentates as Musicians

New Radio Shows Feature Younger Artists

Etude Music Lover's Bookshelf

Teacher's Round Table

Well, I Do Declare!: Musical Instruments Throughout the World (Section 2)

Teaching the Singer to Become an Interpretative Artist (interview with Lotte Lehman)

Louis-Hector Berlioz' Picturesque Memoirs

Perfecting Piano Technique (interview with Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson)

Volume 64, Number 01 (January 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Year Opportunity

New Keys to Practice

Don't Be Dowdy!

Short Digest in Scale Practice

Philosophy of Vocal Study (interview with Maggie Teyte)

Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)

Paying Our Debt to America (interview with Henry H. Reichhold)

Good and Bad Punctuation in Phrasing

Reform in Music Teaching (interview with Heitor Villa-Lobos)

Worth Your Weight: Common Sense in Weight Playing

Parent-Teacher Groups for Music Studios

Developing the Staff Pianist for Radio (interview with H. Leopold Spitalny)

Volume 63, Number 11 (November 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Three Centuries of Thanksgiving

Magic of Melody

Making the Met: Which is 1945 Slang for Securing an Opportunity to Appear as Soloist at the Metropolitan Opera House with the Opera Company of the Metropolitan Opera Association (interview with Edward Johnson)

Principles I Learned from Tobias Mathay (interview with Ray Lev)

Music Teacher's Day in a Boom Town

Class Teaching in Applied Music

Overcoming the Handicaps of the Adult Piano Beginner

Who Should Play the Harp? (interview with Edward Vito)

Volume 63, Number 05 (May 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and World Unity

Mexico's Famous Folk Orchestra

What is Musical Interpretation?

Tell-How Tour of the Radio City Music Hall

New Keys to Practice

Mental Projection in Singing (interview with Nadine Conner)

Music Teacher and the Post-War Period

One Hour of Practice

Tragic Memorial

Musical Progress in San Salvador

Music for the Mentally Disturbed

America and Good Music (interview with Howard Barlow)

Volume 63, Number 01 (January 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dawn on the Horizon

Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves

Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)

Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge

How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)

Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Music as a Living, Human Element

New York's First Opera

What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words

Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)

Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music

Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …

Volume 62, Number 10 (October 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Spheres

Beware of Discordant Voices

Music American Doughboys Hear in India

Compleat Musical Home: What Your Household Must Have to Secure Ideal Musical Results

Fifty Years of Settlement Music: Important Anniversary of the Creation of a Valuable Movement

Childhood and Youth of Edvard Grieg: A Musical Playlet for Young Folks

The Winnah

Physical Coördination in Singing (interview with Maria Kurenko)

Creating a Durable Musical Memory

Musical Fathers and Sons

Technic of the Month—Finale, from Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 6, by Franz Liszt

Volume 62, Number 04 (April 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

De Gustibus non est Disputandum

Great Mr. Handel Enters the Films

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

Piano Practice Game That Is Fun

Great Pipe Organs in American Mansions (interview with Archer Gibson)

Great Mr. Handel Now in the Films: Scenes from the English Technicolor Success, Courtesy of Midfilm, Inc.

Building Musicianship (interview with David and Clara Damrosch Mannes)

Rolling Her Way to Triumph: How a Girl with a Gift Arrived by the Wheel-Chair Route (interview with Ethelwynne Kingsbury)

Reaching Fame the Hard Way (interview with Jan Peerce)

Music Should be Fun for Children: How Music Parties Made Practicing a Joy

So …

Volume 61, Number 11 (November 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphonies of Smiles

Musician and the Common Cold: How Famous Artists Have Fought the Most Common Malady

Color in Singing

Bull Market in Pianos

Importance of Piano Posture

Avoiding Stilted Diction

Don't Be a Sound Post Jiggler

Opportunities for the American Composer (interview with Charles Wakefield Cadman)

Original Don Cossacks and the Music of the Don (interview with Serge Jaroff)

Fighting Man and His Music

So You Want to Try Hollywood? (interview with George Lessner)

Child Who Hates Music

Music and the Battle of Life: Why Music Gives Us Courage

Technic of the Month—Prelude in A Minor, Op. 28, No. …