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Julie Giroux’S Symphony No. 6: The Blue Marble Background, Analysis, And Conductor’S Guide, Josh Gillen

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Julie Giroux’s Symphony No. 6: The Blue Marble (2022) is an original work for wind band that is quickly rising in popularity among instrumental conductors and ensembles throughout the world. The purposes of this document are to

1) provide biographical details regarding Julie Giroux and her musical career;

2) provide a background of the work’s conception from a musical and multi-media perspective through interviews with Giroux and the first conductors of the work;

3) provide a multi-parametric structural analysis of the work and its companion film;

4) provide conductors with useful information for programming and rehearsing the work.

Chapter one …

Michael Daugherty’S Bells For Stokowski: Historical Context & Comparative Analysis For Orchestra And Wind Band, Jeremy Harmon

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Michael Daugherty’s Bells for Stokowski (2001/2003) is an original work for orchestra and wind band. This work has continued to be performed by ensembles around the world including live performances, and studio recordings.

The purposes of this dissertation are to 1) provide historical context of the composer and inspiration for the work, through interviews with its composer, Michael Daugherty, and premiere conductor, Michael Haithcock; 2) provide relationships between the Liberty Bell (architecture), several composers Stokowski worked with and conducted (art), modern and historical compositional styles through pieces like Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (pop culture), how an audience perceives the sound …

March Performance Practices Of Henry Fillmore With Style Guides And Historical Editions Of Selected Works, James Robert Daughters

Theses and Dissertations--Music

With a career spanning over four decades, Henry Fillmore earned wide recognition as an important and prolific composer of marches and trombone smears in the wind band medium. While he contributed significantly to chamber music, solo literature, vocal settings, and arrangements for band, his compositions for wind band have arguably provided his most universal acclaim. Fillmore’s published marches are unique in that scores rarely had performance markings and contained little more than notes and repeat signs. Fillmore conducted most of his marches and altered march strains, changed orchestration, and added stylistic markings that were not indicated in the original printed …