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Eclectic: A Recording Project Of Original Crossover Compositions, Chance Moore

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Music makers have always borrowed one another’s influences, across philosophies, across culture, and thus, across genres. Since the 1950’s, a time when classical music was at its farthest reach from popular music, the rift between these two “worlds” has shrunk, and music crafters from each category are free to take from the other as they please. As a figure who stands between the cultivated and vernacular traditions, my aim for this thesis is to give an introduction to some of the ways genre hybridization has been achieved since 1950, present a collection of my own compositions (along with recordings) that …

A Jamaican Voice: The Choral Music Of Noel Dexter, Desmond A. Moulton

Dissertations

As we approach the twenty-first century, the world generally is moving away from the dominance of the European aesthetic towards a world music that owes much to the musical resources of the African-American tradition. Jamaica’s social and philosophical music belong mainly to that tradition, which includes the use of rhythms, and timbral and melodic resources that exist independently of harmony. Already in this century, Jamaicans have created two totally new music - Nyabinghi, which performs a philosophical function and Reggae, which performs a social function. The choral music of Noel Dexter is important because it is uniquely Jamaican/Caribbean in its …

Volume 04, Number 11 (November 1886), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Liszt from Another Point of View

Arm in Piano-Forte Playing

Tone Question Again

Our Musical Bringing Up

On Two Points in Piano-Forte Teaching

Music Teaching from a Psychological Standpoint

Shall Playing from Memory be Encouraged

Future of Music in America

Nature of Harmony

Grumble from Old Fogy

Music Teachers' Class Book

Techniphone Idea

Volume 04, Number 10 (October 1886), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dangers of the Romantic Ideal

How to Use the Pedal

Common Sense of Interpreting Music

How to Study Arpeggios

Talk about Pianists

Weber's Concert-Stueck

Bach's Lighter Compositions

Nature of Harmony

Some of the Ways of the Incompetent

To the Piano-Forte

My Morning's Work

Study of Musical History

Liszt and His Pupils

Simplicity of Technique

Remarks on the Grace Note

Letter of Condolence to Mme. Richard Wagner

Legato in Piano Playing