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Reflexiones Sobre La Relacion Poesia-Musica, Marianella Machado Dec 2004

Reflexiones Sobre La Relacion Poesia-Musica, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

A lo largo de la historia de la cultura universal es posible apreciar que la poesia y la musica siempre han estado muy intimamente unidas.

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Una Lectura Musical De Registro De Roberto Picciotto, Marianella Machado Dec 2003

Una Lectura Musical De Registro De Roberto Picciotto, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

Desde na primera lectura de la poesia de Roberto Picciotto es posible darse cuenta de la intensa y profunda carga musical que habita en sus poemas.

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Remembranza, Marianella Machado Dec 2003

Remembranza, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

For String Orchestra

Performer:

Eastern Kentucky University String Orchestra

Mark Chambers, conductor.

Remembranza is a Spanish word that means remembrance. This piece was especially written for the Eastern Kentucky University’s String Orchestra as part of a series of pedagogical works that Marianella Machado has been composing in the last ten years for high school, college, and non-professional orchestras. These works feature major compositional techniques and procedures from 1900 to the present.

The principal compositional techniques employed in Remembranza are metric modulation, polytonality, and quotation. The tempo of this piece remains steady but every six or eight measures there is a …

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You've Been Very Goood! (Fennell Sym. Winds), Dan Rager Dec 2003

You've Been Very Goood! (Fennell Sym. Winds), Dan Rager

Dan Rager

1) White Christmas - Robert Russell Bennett
2) A Christmas Festival - Leroy Anderson
3) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Coats/arr: James Swearingen
4) O Holy Night - Adam/ arr: Donze
5) Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson
6) The Christmas Song - Torme & Wells/arr: John Higgins
7) And the Herald Angels Sang - Trad. arr: James Swearingen
8) Winter Wonderland - Smith & Bernard/arr: David Bennett
9) Brazilian Sleigh Bells - Faith/arr: J. Warrington
10) Home for Christmas - S. Markham
11) Stille Nacht (Silent Night) - Gruber/arr: Dan Rager
12) Do You Hear What I Hear/Snow …

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American Night At The Pops (In Russia), Dan Rager Dec 2002

American Night At The Pops (In Russia), Dan Rager

Dan Rager

Concert excerpts from a 2003 performance in Saratov, Russia with the Volga Windorchestra.
  • Americans We (March)
  • Clarinet Candy
  • Disney at the Movies

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Prairie River Reflections (Sym. No. 2), Dan Rager Dec 2002

Prairie River Reflections (Sym. No. 2), Dan Rager

Dan Rager


2003 Award by the American Composers Forum
First Prize
Symphony No. 2

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Colours Of Saratov Concerto No. 1, Dan Rager Dec 2002

Colours Of Saratov Concerto No. 1, Dan Rager

Dan Rager

Video is an excerpt of concerto No. 1
COLOURS OF SARATOV
(Concerto for Solo F Horn and wind band, 3 Mvts.)
Premiered by the Saratov Volga Windorchestra of Russia
Soloist: Natalya V. Medvedeva/Rager
GLME-68 $150.00 Grade 4

A full orchestra version is available.

COLOURS OF SARATOV
(Premiered by Saratov Philharmonic Orchestra)
Concerto in 3 Mvts./Full Orchestra
Dan Rager
GLME-73 $150.00 Grade 4

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Immutable For French Horn Solo, Marianella Machado Dec 2001

Immutable For French Horn Solo, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

No abstract provided.

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Tonos Diamantinos No. 6 For Woodwind Quartet, Marianella Machado Dec 2001

Tonos Diamantinos No. 6 For Woodwind Quartet, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

No abstract provided.

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Percussion Wonderland (Cleveland Percussion Ensemble), Dan Rager Dec 1993

Percussion Wonderland (Cleveland Percussion Ensemble), Dan Rager

Dan Rager

1) Deck the Halls/O Little Town of Bethlehem
2) We Three Kings
3) God Rest Ye Merry Gentalmen
4) *Wencelas's Favorite Things
5) *Do You Hear What I Hear
6) Joy To the World
7) *O Holy Night
8) Jingle Bells
9) *The Little Drummer Boy
10) The First Noel/Away In A Manger/O Come All Ye Faithful
11) Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
12) *Percussion Wonderland
13) Silent Night
14) We Wish You A Merry Christmas
*Arrangements by Dan Rager

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For Unto Us, Dan Rager Dec 1991

For Unto Us, Dan Rager

Dan Rager

1) O Come All Ye Faithful - arr. Kirkland
2) Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Wilson/arr: Dan Rager
3) Three Christmas Traditions - Dan Rager
4) God Rest Ye Meery, Gentlemen - M. McGregor
5) Jingle Bells/Sleigh Ride - arr: Dan Rager
6) Quints & Quarts - Albert O. Davis (Commission)
7) French Carol - K. Snell
8) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Trad./arr: Dan Rager
9) A Santa Claus Medley - G. Viebranz
10) Once In Royal David's City - M. McGregor
11) For Unto Us - Handel/arr: Dan Rager
12) It Came …

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Trilce, Poema Xxxii, Marianella Machado Dec 1981

Trilce, Poema Xxxii, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

Poem XXXII, Trilce, written by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, appeals to the sounds of words and onomatopoeic expressions (rather than to their actual meaning) to both move and shock the listener and make him/her aware of the particular situation the work presents. The extensive use of nonsense words and harsh sounds makes this work very difficult, if not impossible, to translate without altering the effect of the poet’s intention.

Two opposite dimensions are dealt with in the poem. The first, reality or the outer world, is symbolized by heat and warmth. It expresses chaos, oppression, injustice, and the absurd …

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