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On The Influence Of Jazz Rhythm In The Music Of Aaron Copland, Stanley V. Kleppinger Apr 2003

On The Influence Of Jazz Rhythm In The Music Of Aaron Copland, Stanley V. Kleppinger

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

Surveys scholarly views of jazz's rhythmic and metrical structures in the 1920s (at the outset of Copland's career) focusing especially on Copland's own writings on the subject. Analyses of selected passages from Copland's piano concerto, the second piece of Four piano blues, the Piano variations, the piano sonata, the clarinet concerto, and Appalachian spring help to assess the ambiguity surrounding the identification of jazz-based rhythmic influences in Copland's music.


Review Of Gareth Curtis, Ed. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, Iv: Early Masses And Mass-Pairs, Peter M. Lefferts Jan 2003

Review Of Gareth Curtis, Ed. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, Iv: Early Masses And Mass-Pairs, Peter M. Lefferts

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

The volume under review is the latest entry in a slowly unfolding series, entitled Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, within the larger Early English Church Music (EECM) enterprise. It follows three previous volumes, namely I: Antiphons and Music for Holy Week and Easter (EECM 8, 1969, ed. Andrew Hughes), II: Four Anonymous Masses (EECM 22, 1979, ed. Margaret Bent) and III: The Brussels Masses (EECM 34, 1989, ed. Gareth Curtis). However, in his Foreword to the present volume, John Caldwell, General Editor of the Early English Church Music Committee of the British Academy, announces that this book heralds a new initiative, inaugurating …


Dover Beach, Randall Snyder Jan 2003

Dover Beach, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, and Piano.

text: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Original 1966/Revised 2003

13 pages


Sonata No. 2, Randall Snyder Jan 2003

Sonata No. 2, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Clarinet in Bb and Piano.

I Arioso
II Variations
III Rondino Burleske

Original 1965/Revised 2003.

23 pages


Chicaroscuro Pieces, For Trumpet And Strings, Randall Snyder Jan 2003

Chicaroscuro Pieces, For Trumpet And Strings, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

No abstract provided.


Elegy For September, Randall Snyder Jan 2003

Elegy For September, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

for soprano sax, harp, strings Originally conceived for lute, then arranged for harpsichord. The first section evolves through a veiled opening to a more agitated middle part before a return to the spirit of the beginning. The piece concludes with an arrangement of The Silver Swan, by Orlando Gibbons. Begun in early September, 2001, as a memorial to the composer’s father, the Elegy unfortunately assumed more universal relevance with the unfolding of the tragic events of 9/11 .


Starlata, Princess Of Mars, Randall Snyder Jan 2003

Starlata, Princess Of Mars, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

Piano/Vocal Score