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Florence Price: Forgotten No More, Kathryn E. Amdahl

2023 Symposium

Florence Price was a composer and musician who lived from 1887 to 1953. She composed music in every genre except for opera. The music of Florence Price traveled practically everywhere; from the radio to the concert halls to the church. Throughout her life, she became well-known as the first African American female composer who was featured by a major symphony. Florence Price was tenacious, brave, and courageous during her era which contributed to the level of acceptance that society now holds for African American composers. Despite the challenges she faced during her lifetime, she never gave up or collapsed due …

Guide To The Robert Leigh Morris Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Robert Leigh Morris (b. 1941) is an American composer and music instructor. The Robert Leigh Morris Collection contains his personal music scores, from published works to drafts, and programs from his performances, as well as scores by other composers. Professional correspondences, documents, and some of Morris’s writings are also included.

Our Perception Of Scary Sounds: A Comparison Of Films And Popular Music, David Puhl

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

My Capstone Research Paper will be an analysis on the usage of “scary” sounds performed in popular music as well as a comparison to the practice of using similar sounds in film, making a note of any similarities or differences (ex. audience perception, use of visuals). I will also touch on the integration of scary sound effects alongside music scoring for film, specifically in the Horror and Suspense genres. With popular music being my primary focus, I want to elaborate on the cognitive psychology of audiences (in film and music) and their reactions to "scary" or "horrific" sounds to better …

Music From The Harpsichord House, Julie Zhu

Theses and Dissertations

Music from the Harpsichord House is an installation and series of concerts that exists in the binary of in and out of performance. During a concert, the harpsichordist is hidden inside the house and his face is live-projected outside. Fifteen new musical compositions were commissioned for the harpsichord house.

The Wishing Well: A Children's Ballet (A Composer's Perspective), Lydia Dempsey

Honors Projects

As a composer, I am passionate about introducing audiences to contemporary classical music. I chose to compose a twenty-five-minute children's ballet titled The Wishing Well based on the fairytale Diamonds and Toads. It premiered on April 2, 2016 at the Bowling Green Performing Arts Center in collaboration with choreographer Sophia Schmitz and conductor Robert Ragoonanan. Other elements of the project included set design, costuming, lighting, audio and video recording, and marketing. The mission was to provide the local community with a free arts event, introduce young audiences to music and ballet, enrich people’s lives through music and dance, provide …

Much More Than Ragtime: The Musical Life Of George Hamilton Green (1893-1970), Ryan C. Lewis

Books and Monographs

This document preserves and synthesizes the unpublished information within the Green Family scrapbooks and miscellaneous archival materials with existing source materials to construct an accurate and documented account of the musical life of George Hamilton Green (1893-1970) hitherto deficient. The stereotype of Green as a novelty ragtime xylophonist diminishes as the many facets of Green’s diverse musical career are revealed: talented musician, versatile performer, recording and radio artist, pedagogue and author, composer-arranger, and influential instrument designer, as well as formidable athlete, talented artist-cartoonist, and devoted family man. George Hamilton Green is a significant twentieth-century American musician who lived an extraordinarily …

Scrapbooks, Doug Lofstrom

Doug Lofstrom Music Collection

Spanning from the beginning of his career to the dawn of the internet, the scrapbook covers the years 1967 to 1997 and showcase flyers, newspaper articles, critic reviews, programs, promotional materials, newsletters and photographs highlighting his work.

Volume 66, Number 11 (November 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Te Deum Laudamus

Needs of the Young Singer (interview with Giuseppe Valdengo)

Shake Hands With the School!: How the Teacher May Profit by Keeping in Touch With the Day School

Christ and Etude

This is Berlin

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist, A Centenary Biography, Part 5

Stumbling Into Music (interview with Douglas Taylor)

Richard L. Austin (Obituary)

Jenny Lind's Vocal Exercises: Additional Advice from a Great Singer of the Past, Supplementing the Article in the Etude from February 1948

People's Song to Their God: A Delightful Picture of the Medieval Origin of the Gregorian Chant

Make Your Christmas Music …

Volume 58, Number 10 (October 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Neighbor Policy

Armies of Singing Men

Take Time to Take Time

Good Singing is Natural (interview with Jussi Bjoerling)

Romance in Songs

How Ferruccio Busoni Taught (interview with Egon Petri)

Who Wrote That?

Basis of Violin Playing Today

What Shall I Sing? (interview with Eva Gauthier)

Getting a Start in a Small Town

Dissecting the Chromatic Scale

Dr. E.E. Hipsher Retires

Helps Toward Sight Reading

Sign That Paid

Getting Laughter Through Music: An Important Description of Works in Which Composers Have Stiven to Make Fun with Tones

Volume 18, Number 11 (November 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Slow Practice

Difference in Fractions

Teaching: Its Purpose and Its Influence upon Music at Large

Ideas for Teaching Children

True Basis of Teaching

Playing or Non-Playing Teachers

Mental Attitude of Teacher and Pupil

Letter to a Young Composer

Primary Teaching, Part 2

How to Begin the Study of Bach

Teacher's Fertility

Home-Circle Critics

Some Points of Success

Talking Lessons Not All

Rapid Memorization of Key Signatures

Art of Holding Pupils

Look up to Bach

Volume 04, Number 04 (April 1886), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of Composing

Sight Reading

Just for Home Amusement

Louis Koehler

Items

Appeal

Something New in Piano-Forte Playing

Well-Tempered Clavier

Puzzle

Gradual Development in the Science of Tuning Pianos

Classifying Students

Counting Time Aloud

Fingering Again

Fingering of Scales

Simplicity of Technique

Rubinstein's Touch

Reply to Mr. Ruggles

Mr. Wood's Finger Gymnastics

Volume 02, Number 10 (October 1884), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

International Copyright

Course in Harmony

Artist-Concerts

Signs of the Times

W.H. Sherwood, Poem

How to Teach Beginners

Everything in a Great Name

Main Principle of Fingering

Musical Literature in Pamphlet Form

Growth of Piano Playing

Oldest Piano

Humoristics to a Singer