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Cyberpunk Beginnings: Sos, Mark Zanter
Cyberpunk Beginnings: Sos, Mark Zanter
Music Faculty Research
This performance proposal features works for electric guitar, percussion, live processing and visuals performed by Mark Zanter, and Steve Hall of Marshall University, USA. Approximate time 10 minutes. SOS integrates layers of algorithmically generated material, live signal processing, visuals, and live performance in a work exploring boundaries between machine generated sound(s), and human interaction.
Five + Two = Six: The Wartime Creation Of Bèla Bartòk's Six (Seven) Songs For Treble Voices And Orchestra (1941), Carl Leafstedt
Five + Two = Six: The Wartime Creation Of Bèla Bartòk's Six (Seven) Songs For Treble Voices And Orchestra (1941), Carl Leafstedt
Music Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Harnessing The Power Of Failure In Your Music Classroom: Grit, Growth Mindset, & Greatness, Virginia Davis, Diane C. Persellin
Harnessing The Power Of Failure In Your Music Classroom: Grit, Growth Mindset, & Greatness, Virginia Davis, Diane C. Persellin
Music Faculty Research
No pain, no gain. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. These and other similar phrases represent attitudes most teachers hope will inspire their students. Surrounded by walls adorned with such inspirational quotes, we music teachers walk a fine line between identifying students’ musical mistakes and encouraging them to keep trying. We may wonder during this process why some students seem to crumble under criticism while others never quit, despite constant difficulty. What can we do to encourage students to learn from their mistakes? What roles do talent and hard …
Nurturing The Musical "Open-Earedness" Of Seven-Year-Olds, Diane C. Persellin
Nurturing The Musical "Open-Earedness" Of Seven-Year-Olds, Diane C. Persellin
Music Faculty Research
Today’s 7-year-old children exhibit openness and excitement about many genres of musical styles experienced in their every day lives and in their ever widening world. As these young children from around the world are growing out of their early childhood, they continue to enjoy singing, dancing, moving, and playing at home or on the playground alone or with extended family members as they have since they were toddlers. Many still delight in sharing songs that they have learned at school from their friends and teachers, at home from their parents and siblings, or as they begin to participate in music …
The History Of The Guitar, Júlio Ribeiro Alves
The History Of The Guitar, Júlio Ribeiro Alves
Music Faculty Research
Conceived as instructional material for the guitar students at Marshall University (or anyone interested in the subject), it presents the historical process of the guitar in a clear and attainable fashion. Several topics related to the guitar will be discussed in detail throughout the book: the postulates associated with its origins, its evolution through the centuries, its repertoire, composers, performers, techniques, etc., culminating with the achievement of the privileged status of a respected concert instrument which it currently possesses.
Folk/Traditional Music Of West Virginia Arranged For Classical Guitar Ensemble, Júlio Ribeiro Alves
Folk/Traditional Music Of West Virginia Arranged For Classical Guitar Ensemble, Júlio Ribeiro Alves
Music Faculty Research
My motivation for writing this book grew from my desire to better understand the people and the music heritage of West Virginia and to share the findings of my experience, with the guitar community, in the form of guitar ensemble arrangements.
Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Conduction And The Network Of Composition, Mark Zanter
Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Conduction And The Network Of Composition, Mark Zanter
Music Faculty Research
In Noise, The Political Economy of Music Jacques Attali outlines how musical practice presages periods of economic development. The current late capitalist, post-Fordist, stage resembles what Attali calls the “network of composition”; where codes are oriented toward receiving pleasure from instruments of communication, use, and exchange value is experienced not accumulated. Post-Fordism affords a climate in which new codes of use and exchange emerge through limited production, flexible labor, and increased information flow. These codes increasingly support choice, nonconformity, and free-expression. Improvised/creative music, free jazz, and forms where self-expression, exploration of human potential freed from production signify the emergence of …
Jean-François Beaudin: Borrowing From The Old World And The New, Wendell B. Dobbs
Jean-François Beaudin: Borrowing From The Old World And The New, Wendell B. Dobbs
Music Faculty Research
The modern flute world is full of innovation. Every year brings a new assortment of changes intended to improve the design or functioning of the modern flute—a new head-joint or a new material, a design innovation such as the vertical flute or a new contrabass flute. Much more subtle are changes to the design of 18thcentury style flutes. Generally, modern makers of these instruments take careful measurements of particular antique flutes that are recognized for ease of playing and copy them. The innovations are most likely subtle—a new wood, gentle tweaking of the embouchure or a tone hole, or cosmetic …
Applying Brain Research To Classroom Strategies, Diane C. Persellin, John W. Flohr
Applying Brain Research To Classroom Strategies, Diane C. Persellin, John W. Flohr
Music Faculty Research
Research in the field of neuroscience has exploded in the past decade. The word brain appears in the title of nearly 40,000 books and CDs indicating intense interest in this area of study. What can music educators learn from recent investigations—often termed brain research—to guide music teaching and learning? The following ideas are intended to have broad applications and may inspire you to investigate this fascinating area of literature more thoroughly. While some findings are new, other studies affirm what music educators have previously found to be effective.
Relationships Among Music Listening, Temperament, And Cognitive Abilities Of Four-Year-Old Children, John W. Flohr, Diane C. Persellin, Daniel C. Miller, Harry Meeuwsen
Relationships Among Music Listening, Temperament, And Cognitive Abilities Of Four-Year-Old Children, John W. Flohr, Diane C. Persellin, Daniel C. Miller, Harry Meeuwsen
Music Faculty Research
The purpose of the study was twofold: (a) to investigate electrophysiological (EEG) responses in children while listening to two contrasting styles of music, and (b) to investigate the relationship between listening to recorded music and the cognitive abilities of four-year-old children. EEG data were collected on a baseline condition of eyes open. These data were then compared to EEG data produced when children listened to selections of music by Bach, while they listened to selections of rock music, and while they performed a standardized cognitive test of visual closure. Behavioral data were also collected on sex, age, home environment, and …
Faculty Development In Higher Education: Long-Term Impact Of A Summer Teaching And Learning Workshop, Diane C. Persellin, Terry Goodrick
Faculty Development In Higher Education: Long-Term Impact Of A Summer Teaching And Learning Workshop, Diane C. Persellin, Terry Goodrick
Music Faculty Research
Past participants of the Associated Colleges of the South Summer Teaching and Learning Workshop were surveyed to determine long-term impact of this type of professional development experience. Results indicate a large majority of participants across rank and academic discipline continued to view the workshop as effective and valued feedback from the perspective of the learner. Females were more likely than males to report more awareness and thoughtfulness about their teaching since having attended the workshop and to report having tried new strategies and taken more risks in their teaching. This study supports the importance of an interdisciplinary forum for faculty …
Brain-Based Education In Music: A New Science Or Science-Fiction?, Diane C. Persellin
Brain-Based Education In Music: A New Science Or Science-Fiction?, Diane C. Persellin
Music Faculty Research
We can see increased interest in the brain and brain-based education everywhere. Google turns up over one million hits on “brain-based education.” Nearly every education and music education conference offers sessions that teach ways to utilize new research on the brain. Places like MIT and Stanford increasingly sponsor workshops and courses where teachers pay big bucks to attend “learning and the brain” conferences. They believe this research is substantial enough to use in classrooms.
The number of new books on brain-based education is also startling. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks and This is Your Brain …
Strategies For Music Learning, George Palton
Strategies For Music Learning, George Palton
Music Faculty Research
Article provides strategies on how to take a new and fresh piece of literature from being completely unknown to performance ready.
An Analysis And Performance Guide To The Tuba Music Of Alice Gomez, George Palton
An Analysis And Performance Guide To The Tuba Music Of Alice Gomez, George Palton
Music Faculty Research
An analysis and performance guide to selected compositions of Alice Gomez as well as practical insights into the composition and performance of the works. Also includes background information on Gomez and her solo and chamber compositions that feature the tuba, including Bonampak, Latin Jazz Suite, and Highlife.
An Early American Family Of Flutists, Wendell Dobbs
An Early American Family Of Flutists, Wendell Dobbs
Music Faculty Research
An overview of the history of a dynasty of flutists, flute manufacturers and music publishers established by English emigrant Edward R. Riley in New York. Riley and copperplate printer Thomas Adams formed the firm Riley & Adams in 1812. It is said that all his three sons became music publishers, music instrument manufacturers and retailers.
Review Of Choral Music Of Thea Musgrave, Bridge Records, 2004, Vicki Stroeher
Review Of Choral Music Of Thea Musgrave, Bridge Records, 2004, Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
Extraordinary music demands extraordinary performance. Unfortunately, in this recording of Thea Musgrave's recent choral works (most composed between 1986 and 1994 ), the music presented here fails to receive fully satisfying realization. Each work, however different, receives the same approach, as though director and chorus understand neither the texts nor their settings. While Musgrave’s craft proves remarkably consistent, the diverse compositional techniques she exploits show an equally remarkable variety. Unfortunately, these performances by Harold Rosenbaum and the New York Virtuoso Singers capture their unity, but not their variety. It is precisely this variety that must drive interpretation.
Servant Musicians, Jeffrey L. Pappas
Servant Musicians, Jeffrey L. Pappas
Music Faculty Research
The church has always played a pivotal role during times of national distress. The most recent occurrence of this phenomenon prior to the Katrina tragedy was the [attacks on] 9/11[terrorists] attacks.
Review Of Georg Philipp Telemann, Ein Feste Burg, Carus Records, 2005, Vicki Stroeher
Review Of Georg Philipp Telemann, Ein Feste Burg, Carus Records, 2005, Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
Georg Philipp Telemann ( 1681-1767) found his niche as the Kantor/Kapellmeister of the Johanneum Lateinschule and principal churches in Hamburg, for it gave him the opportunity to compose numerous works in a variety of media, both sacred and secular. During his tenure in this position, from 1721 to his death in 1767, his sacred music output encompassed some twenty cycles of cantatas, as well as significant numbers of passions and oratorios and a sprinkling of motets and psalm settings. While in sheer volume his cantata output far outstripped that of Johann Sebastian Bach, Telemann's reputation in music history classes resides …
Review Of Harry Christophers And The Sixteen, La Jeune France, Vicki Stroeher
Review Of Harry Christophers And The Sixteen, La Jeune France, Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen (which, on this disc numbers from twelve to twenty-four singers) have assembled an exciting recording of rather unusual repertoire: that of the group of composers known as La Jeune France. Although these works may not speak aesthetically to everyone, the performances certainly will. The group's tuning is impeccable and their diction clear, even when the composer deliberately obscures the text. Christophers' interpretations are neither heavyhanded nor overly controlled, even as the chorus's expression ranges from the primitive and aggressive to the quiet and mystical.
Review Of Poulenc: Messe En Sol, Litanies A La Vierge Noire, Motets Choeur De Chambre Accentus Laurence Equilbey, Conductor 1997 Accord, Vicki Stroeher
Review Of Poulenc: Messe En Sol, Litanies A La Vierge Noire, Motets Choeur De Chambre Accentus Laurence Equilbey, Conductor 1997 Accord, Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
When conductor Laurence Equilbey established the Accentus Chamber Choir in 1991, she and the group set out to perform unaccompanied repertoire of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this recording of Francis Poulenc's sacred works from 1936 to 1953, one detects a decision well served. Equilbey and the group approach Poulenc's repertoire with a deep understanding of the period, the composer's spirituality and its effect on his creative psyche, and his obvious debts to Stravinsky, Faure, and early Catholic traditions. Poulenc's intensely spiritual sacred works are not easy to reconcile with his earlier secular and more satirical offerings, but Equilbey …
A Survey Of Daily Routines, George Palton
A Survey Of Daily Routines, George Palton
Music Faculty Research
Survey of professional tuba and euphonium players in the United States consisting of current college professors, prominent freelance musicians, and musicians in professional ensembles such as military bands and orchestras.
Lo! How A Rose E'Er Blooming, Jeffrey L. Pappas
Lo! How A Rose E'Er Blooming, Jeffrey L. Pappas
Music Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Hilliard Ensemble, Guillaume De Machaut: Motets. Ecm Records, 2004, Vicki Stroeher
Review Of The Hilliard Ensemble, Guillaume De Machaut: Motets. Ecm Records, 2004, Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
The motets of Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), though described by one scholar as "conservative and backward-looking" because of their heavy use of French texts, nonetheless provide a rich melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic palette for the extraordinary voices of the Hilliard Ensemble. The ensemble's recording of eighteen of the twenty-three known works in this genre (a twenty-fourth exists, but its attribution is spurious), is exemplary and should delight both the medieval scholar and the casual listener.
Review Of Trio Mediaeval, Soir, Dit-Elle, Ecm Records 2004 And Words Of The Angel, Ecm Records 2001, Vicki Stroeher
Review Of Trio Mediaeval, Soir, Dit-Elle, Ecm Records 2004 And Words Of The Angel, Ecm Records 2001, Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
This pair of discs by Trio Mediaeval offers an imaginative soundscape of music both ancient and new. Trio Mediaeval's approach to the ancient is laudable and lovely, but the contemporary compositions written specifically for this all female group seem to give them their truest voice. The older recording, Words of the Angel (2001), intersperses movements of the Tournai mass--one of the earliest manuscript compilations of polyphonic settings of the texts of the Ordinary—among monophonic laudae and English Marian motets and sequences. The various styles provide textural and harmonic relief, a real concern in a completely unaccompanied recording. The recording takes …
Review Of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Christus, Kirchenwerke Iii, Kammerchor 2004 Stuttgart, Bamberger Symphoniker, Frieder Bernius, Conductor. Carus-Verlag, 1987., Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
Carus-Verkag, Frieder Bernius, and the Stuttgarter Kammerchor have produced a number of impressive recordings to serve as companions to their impeccable printed editions of valuable, but seldom performed, choral works. Mendelssohn's music has been championed in at least six of these recordings, and showcases an undeniably rich output that until now has received scant attention. The present disc aims to reverse that fortune. Christus features three early works from 1822 to 1825, when the composer was just thirteen to sixteen years old, along with late works from 1843 and 1847. Even the earliest of these works provides evidence of Mendelssohn's …
George Grove And Victorian Culture, Vicki Stroeher
George Grove And Victorian Culture, Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Review Of Andrea Gabrieli, Missa Pater Peccavi, Motets And Instrumental Music, 2003 His Majestys Consort Of Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts And Cornetts, Timothy Roberts, Conductor. Hyperion, 2000, Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
Any recording that focuses solely upon the music of Andrea Gabrieli, the other Gabrieli, risks languishing in store bins, forgotten by all but the most musicological of listeners. This recording, fortunately, should not suffer that fate.
Director Timothy Roberts, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts and the newly formed His Majestys Consort of Voices have put together a celebration of Andrea Gabrieli that is as well performed as it is researched. Though some of the scoring choices are unusual, the performances are nearly impeccable with but a few exceptions.
Review Of Benjamin Britten, Sacred And Profane, Amdg, Five Flower Songs, Old French Carol, Choral Dances From Gloriana, Polyphony, Stephen Layton, Conductor. Hyperion, 2000, Vicki Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
The choral works of English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-76), like his efforts in other forms, have been overshadowed by his operas. War Requiem, essentially operatic in character, along with Rejoice in the Lamb, and A Ceremony of Carols, have risen to the top of the choral repertoire and receive the majority of the attention paid today as concert and recording fare. These, however, obscure a number of other excellent works in Britten's choral output. Sacred and Profane, a release by Stephen Layton and Polyphony, provides a useful glimpse at some of Britten's lesser known works for mixed chorus, including previously …
Robert Schumann - Romances And Ballads, Jeffrey L. Pappas
Robert Schumann - Romances And Ballads, Jeffrey L. Pappas
Music Faculty Research
Although the Romances and Ballads, op. 67, 75, 145 and 146, on this compact disc receive little recognition in the overall scheme of Schumann's compositional output, they play a much greater role in the life of the composer.
Consumer Test, Michael Stroeher
Consumer Test, Michael Stroeher
Music Faculty Research
Three players and about 30 listeners took part in a Trombone Consumer Test in the University of North Texas Concert Hall. The consumer test was inspired and based on a 1994 British Trombone study.