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From Story To Song: Exploring The Storytelling Potential Of Instrumental Music, Celine Darr
From Story To Song: Exploring The Storytelling Potential Of Instrumental Music, Celine Darr
Honors Projects
For this project, I have composed a piece of program music with the aim of capturing scenes from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" through music. The project seeks to answer questions regarding the elements that make instrumental music "programmatic", or able to portray a story.
Golliwog's Cakewalk From Children's Corner Arranged For Clarinet Quartet, Elizabeth Johnson
Golliwog's Cakewalk From Children's Corner Arranged For Clarinet Quartet, Elizabeth Johnson
Honors Projects
By demonstrating integrated learning through interdisciplinary connections between music performance and arranging techniques, this honors project was the culmination of a process of using my knowledge of piano and clarinet performance techniques to arrange the piece “Golliwog’s Cakewalk” by Claude Debussy from piano to clarinet quartet. To arrange the piece for clarinet quartet, I utilized my experience in playing piano and clarinet to critically analyze the piano score and decide how it would best aurally transfer to an ensemble of four clarinets. The project also demonstrates critical thinking as I arranged the piece to be at a playing level appropriate …