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Carlos Chávez: A Guide To Research [Book Review], Antoni Pizà Sep 1999

Carlos Chávez: A Guide To Research [Book Review], Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

There is no doubt that Robert Parker's Carlos Chávez: A Guide to Research is an important contribution to music scholarship. A guide dedicated to the most important Mexican composer of this century has long been overdue.


Fred Bartenstein: The Right Place At The Right Time, Kurt Mosser May 1999

Fred Bartenstein: The Right Place At The Right Time, Kurt Mosser

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Fred Bartenstein has always seemed to find himself perfectly situated to pursue his life-long interest in bluegrass music – as he puts it, “I’ve always seemed to be in the right place at the right time.” This luck has allowed him to find bluegrass in the most surprising places, whether at a private day school in New Jersey, or at Harvard University in the late 1960s. It has also meant that, among other things, he found himself attending the first bluegrass festival in Fincastle, Va., becoming a bluegrass DJ at the age of 16, starting Muleskinner News magazine, and playing …


Jazz Band Arranging : Original Big Band Arrangements, Jay M. Byron Apr 1999

Jazz Band Arranging : Original Big Band Arrangements, Jay M. Byron

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper examines five big band arrangements written during a period of two semesters from 1998-1999. I will provide an overview and performance considerations for each arrangement. Each arrangement uses common conventions such as unison lines, octave doubling, four and five part voicings, found in closed, semi-open, and open position. Approach techniques include diatonic, dominant, diminished, chromatic, and parallel. Choice was based primarily on two considerations: desired texture and the best voice leading options identified to provide each part with a swinging line and maintain melodic integrity. Other conventions applied include chord substitution, upper structure triads, and altered and diminished …


Instabilices, Bruno Ruviaro Jan 1999

Instabilices, Bruno Ruviaro

Music

Harpsichord version premiered by Kelly Savage, Stony Brook University Chamber Music Festival, May 4th, 2006.


A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Music Of Charles Ives, James Sinclair Jan 1999

A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Music Of Charles Ives, James Sinclair

Descriptive Catalogue of The Music of Charles Ives

This catalogue serves to describe the music manuscripts in the Charles Ives Papers, MSS 14, in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University. Published in 1999. Revised in 2012.