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A Hybrid Curriculum Of Private And Group Lessons For College Clarinet & Saxophone Studio Instruction, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

This model of teaching presents a curriculum that blends traditional one-on-one private college studio instruction on the clarinet and saxophone with small group lessons. Each student receives a weekly forty-minute private lesson and a twenty-minute group lesson. This hybrid model of teaching is an approach that, for the administrator, (1) increases student credit hour production because more students can be taught in fewer hours (2) addresses the increasing state pressure to reduce degree credit hours by including chamber music in the studio curriculum (3) supports retention efforts by helping freshmen acclimate to college through camaraderie developed in groups. And for …

A Hybrid Curriculum Of Private And Group Lessons For College Clarinet & Saxophone Studio Instruction, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

This model of teaching presents a curriculum that blends traditional one-on-one private college studio instruction on the clarinet and saxophone with small group lessons. Each student receives a weekly forty-minute private lesson and a twenty-minute group lesson. This hybrid model of teaching is an approach that, for the administrator, (1) increases student credit hour production because more students can be taught in fewer hours (2) addresses the increasing state pressure to reduce degree credit hours by including chamber music in the studio curriculum (3) supports retention efforts by helping freshmen acclimate to college through camaraderie developed in groups. And for …

Wilson Studio Recital, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

Dr. Elisa Fraser Wilson and Ellen Wilson combined their studios to perform a studio recital featuring a eclectic mix of music from several time periods and genres.

Highlights In Jazz Concert 294- I Love A Piano, Jack Kleinsinger, Danny Gottlieb

Jack Kleinsinger Presents Highlights in Jazz

Jack Kleinsinger presents Highlights in Jazz. The concert was held at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Thursday, March 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pm. Jack served as producer and master of ceremonies for the series of concerts. Artists for the concert include Cyrus Chestnut, Michael Wolff, Dezron Douglas, Neal Smith, Chip Jackson, and Mike Clark. Surprise Guest Rachel Price.

El Paso, Texas, Museum Of Art, Music Forum Concert Series, March 15, 2009, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Susannah, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

The UTEP student newspaper featured Dr. Wilson and the Music Theatre Company in an article about their upcoming performance of Susannah.

Susannah, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

Dr. Wilson produced and conducted the UTEP Orchestra and Music Theatre Company in this fully staged performance of Carlisle Floyd's opera. Of special note is the return of student opera to the university's Magoffin Auditiorium after a ten-year hiatus.

Yisd Uil Solo/Ensemble Contest, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

Dr. Wilson adjudicated high school vocal solos and small ensembles at this University Interscholastic League competition held at Riverside Middle School, El Paso, TX.

University Choirs Concert, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

The university choirs performed an evening of choral music. Dr. Wilson conducted the Women's Glee Club on four pieces by von Bingen, Morley, Mendelssohn, and Whitacre.

"Departed Days" For Satb Choir And Piano, Dominic Dousa

Dominic Dousa

A performance of my original composition by the UTEP University Chorale, conducted by William McMillan.

Faculty Recital, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

With faculty colleague Dr. Dena Kay Jones, piano, Dr. Wilson performed a set of Manuel da Falla songs as part of the International Rodrigo Festival on the UTEP campus.

El Paso, University Of Texas. International Rodrigo Festival. February 23, 2009, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Mesa St Trio And Valentine Ballet, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

"Macchioni is a sublime pianist with a deft touch... Any time the name of piano professor Oscar Macchioni shows up in one of the faculty recitals at the University of Texas at El Paso, I try to be in the audience."

Highlights In Jazz Concert 293- Highlights In Jazz 36th Anniversary, Jack Kleinsinger, Danny Gottlieb

Jack Kleinsinger Presents Highlights in Jazz

Jack Kleinsinger presents Highlights in Jazz. The concert was held at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pm. Jack served as producer and master of ceremonies for the series of concerts. Artists for the concert include Dick Hyman, Joe Wilder, David Ostwald, Wycliffe Gordon, Anat Cohen, Job-Erik Kellso, and Kevin Dorn, with surprise guests Mark Shane and Howard Alden.

Solo Composition Recital (February 17, 2009), Dominic Dousa

Dominic Dousa

Faculty Compositon Recital, presented by Renee Skerik (viola, guest artist from Texas Tech University), the Texas Tech University Viola Choir, and Dominic Dousa (piano). Also included performance of Milhaud's "Sonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano".

Performances of the following original compositions:

"Mountain Song"

"Two Pieces for Viola Choir"

Sonata for Viola and Piano, 'From a Land Wild and Free'

You Sing, Youtube: A Hands-On Approach To Using Youtube In The Performance Curriculum, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

In September 2007, the University of Texas at El Paso Music Theatre Company embarked on a voyage of on-line discovery: how to utilize YouTube as a tool for self-and peer critique and outside professional review. Music Theatre Company is the Department of Music’s opera/music theatre skills development workshop and production company, presenting two to three scenes and/or full-scale productions each year. As such, its curriculum has traditionally revolved around the preparation and in-class coaching of songs, arias, and scenes, with public concert or production outcomes. The recent addition of a required textbook has added a necessary written assignment component; however, …

El Paso, University Of Texas, Faculty Recital, February 7, 2009, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Senior Performance Project: Malori Cade, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

Dr. Wilson directed and produced this staged performance of the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Song and Dance, featuring Malori Cade in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the BFA in Music Theatre.

"Evocations From The Plains" For Piano Quintet (El Paso, National Chamber Music Fesitval), Dominic Dousa

Dominic Dousa

A performance of my original composition by the Biava String Quartet and Doris Stevenson (piano).

Historical, Theoretical, And Technical Considerations For Teaching And Performing Rumen Bairaktarov’S Concerto For Violin And Orchestra, Miroslav Hristov

Music Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Chrome Pieces, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

Chrome Pieces (2009)

I Incisive

II Veiled

III Plaintive

IV Manic

V Elegaic

Program notes: Chrome Pieces is in part an exploration of the coloristic capabilities of the brass quintet. Consisting of mostly fast, relatively concise music, the quintet features solos and duets in the inner movements while emphasizing full, equal ensemble participation in I and V, somewhat suggestive of the arch form. Further symmetry is provided by the use of mutes in II and IV. The opening movement, cast in three sections, is built around a marcato four-note figure yielding to a softer, lyric middle section. The tuba is …

Article: Phrasing...Speaking In Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, Official Journal Of The Ky Music Educators Association, John M. Cipolla

John M Cipolla

Tips on the necessary skills for musicians to learn to play convincing phrases.

Review: New American Works For Clarinet, Vol. Ii, Featuring Clarinetists, Richard Stoltzman, Michele Gingras, And Kim Ellis, John M. Cipolla

John M Cipolla

No abstract provided.

Historical, Theoretical, And Technical Considerations For Teaching And Performing Rumen Bairaktarov’S Concerto For Violin And Orchestra, Miroslav Hristov

Miroslav Hristov

No abstract provided.

2009- 2010 Unlv Mcnair Journal, Kathleen Bell, Danetta Bradley, Vacheral M. Carter, Nydia Diaz, Kathryn E. English, Sarah Harrison, Michelle Israel, Christina Macke, Erica Orozco, Pilar Palos, Sandra Ramos, Soraya A. Silverman, Susan Taylor, Sajar Camara, William Mccurdy, Yvonne C. Morris, Maxym V. Myroshnychenko, Ricardo Rios, Monique Sulls, Bremen Vance, Barbara Wallen

McNair Journal

Journal articles based on research conducted by undergraduate students in the McNair Scholars Program

Table of Contents

Biography of Dr. Ronald E. McNair

Statements:

Dr. Neal J. Smatresk, UNLV President

Dr. Juanita P. Fain, Vice President of Student Affairs

Dr. William W. Sullivan, Associate Vice President for Retention and Outreach

Mr. Keith Rogers, Deputy Executive Director of the Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach

McNair Scholars Institute Staff

Strategies For Music Learning, George Palton

Music Faculty Research

Article provides strategies on how to take a new and fresh piece of literature from being completely unknown to performance ready.

An Analysis And Performance Guide To The Tuba Music Of Alice Gomez, George Palton

Music Faculty Research

An analysis and performance guide to selected compositions of Alice Gomez as well as practical insights into the composition and performance of the works. Also includes background information on Gomez and her solo and chamber compositions that feature the tuba, including Bonampak, Latin Jazz Suite, and Highlife.

Review: New American Works For Clarinet, Vol. Ii, Featuring Clarinetists, Richard Stoltzman, Michele Gingras, And Kim Ellis, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

No abstract provided.

Modern Performance Trends In Bach's Sacred Music : Changing Tastes In The Performance Of Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium : An Exploration Of The Rhetorical Style, Sam Nester

Theses : Honours

This dissertation investigates changing tastes in the performance practice of Johann Sebastian Bach's sacred music from the second decade of the Twentieth Century to the present day. In particular I focus on the 'rhetorical style', and offer a comparative study of four recordings of Bach's Weihnachtsoratoritmt (Christmas Oratorio) BWV 248 by Harnoncourt (1973), Gardiner (1987), Jacobs (1997), and Suzuki (1998). Though all of these interpretations would be categorised as being in the 'rhetorical style', I attempt to show that within this classification there exists a multiplicity of performance approaches.

An Investigation Of Specific Structural Techniques Used By The Miles Davis Quintet On Selected Live Recordings From 1964-1965, Callum G'Froerer

Theses : Honours

This dissertation intends to deconstruct and analyse specific structural techniques employed by members of Miles Davis' second great quintet, which consisted of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams. The motivation behind the selection of structural techniques as the basis of this dissertation lies in its ability to clearly articulate a large aspect of the group's amazing flexibility as an ensemble. The specific areas of analysis are: tempo feel changes, tempo fluctuations, and texture changes. The recordings in focus are 'Autumn Leaves' from the album 'Miles In Berlin', and three selections from the influential live recording of two …