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A Survey Of Musical Expectations In The Marine Forces Reserve Band Stationed In New Orleans, Louisiana, Brandon Paul Carbonari

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This research document examines the musical expectations of United States Marines serving in the Marine Forces Reserve Band from 2017 to 2021. Chapter One of this study provides a detailed foundation of the musical and non-musical responsibilities of a United States Marine musician. Training regime, rehearsal schedule, and logistical area responsibilities will be described to help convey the full scope of duty. The source material for Chapter One includes dissertations, journal articles, published books, online sources, and interviews. Chapter Two provides results of a survey that was conducted with members of the band. The questions were designed to record the …

Concert Recording 2021-04-05, James Joseph

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Determination, acoustic ; [03:41]. Determination, room / James Joseph -- [07:28]. Solidão, acoustic ; [10:29]. Solidão, room / Jobim -- [13:28]. Dialog, room ; [17:38]. Blue bossa, electric ; [28:44]. Blue bossa, room / Kenny Dorham -- 39:55]. Bright size life, electric ; [47:06]. Bright size life, room / Pat Metheny -- [54:30]. Eastbound, electric ; [01:00:58]. Eastbound, room / Fourplay Band -- [01:12:27]. Sweet night, electric ; [Track 13]. Sweet night, room / James Joseph.

Concert Recording 2021-04-09, Grant Hollis

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Solace: a lyric concerto / Joel Love -- [21:20]. Energy drink I / Mark Engebretson -- [30:37]. Tantrum / Stacy Garrop -- [46:03]. Star bits / Corey Dundee.

Concert Recording 2021-04-12, Aaron Smelley, Miroslava Panayotova, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Nightsongs / Richard Peaslee -- [11:25]. Cascades / Allen Vizzutti -- [15:22]. Concertino in E-flat / Ernest Sachse -- [22:45]. Rose Variations. Intro, The garden gate ; Theme, Carolina (wild) rose ; Var I, Dorothy Perkins (rambler) rose ; Var II, Frau Karl Druschki (white) rose ; Var III, Cinnamon rose (with humming birds) ; Var IV, American beauty (red) rose / Robert Russell Bennett.

Concert Recording 2021-04-22a, Jenelle Edwards, Sophie Lopez

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sicilienne and rigaudon in the style of Francoeur / Kriesler -- [06:13]. Suite for violin and orchestra in A minor, op. 10. I. Presto ; II. Adadio / Sinding -- [13:41]. Concerto for violin no. 1 in A minor. I. Allegro ; II. Adagio / J.S. Bach -- [24:56]. Violin concerto in B minor opus 35. I. Allegro moderato ; II. Andante ; III. Alegro moderato / Rieding.

Concert Recording 2021-10-17, Er-Gene Kahng, Tim Macduff, Dominic K. Na, Hyun Kim

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Violin sonata no. 1 in D minor, op. 75. I. Alegro agitato, Adagio ; II. Allegretto moderato, Allegro molto / Camille Saint-Saëns -- [10:20]. Suite Hebraique. I. Rapsodie ; II. Processional ; III. Affirmation / Ernst Bloch -- [24:50]. Cello sonata in D minor, op. 40. III. Largo ; IV. Allegro / Dmitri Shostakovich -- [36:29]. Piano quartet no. 2. I. Allegretto ; II. Andante maestoso ma con moto ; III. Poco allegro più tosto moderato ; IV. Allegro / Saint-Saëns.

Concert Recording 2021-10-18, Moon-Sook Park, Hyun Kim, Dominic K. Na, Chris Scherer, Jeffrey A. Murdock

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. lo song pur solo, H. 344, Solo cantata for soprano and basso continuo. I. Recitiative, lo son pur solo ; II. Aria, Sono amante / Alessandro Scarlatti - Szene aus Goethe's Faust. Gretchens Bitte, D. 564 / Franz Schubert -- Deh pietoso, oh addolorata / Giuseppe Verdi -- Song of Almah. I. Rose of Sharon ; III. Cedar Lebanon / Andrew Beall -- [44:48]. Duet.Les chansons des roses. Dirait-on / Morten Lauridsen -- Puisqu'ici bas toute âme, Op. 10, No. 1 / Gabriel Fauré -- Korean art song collection. Ihwau (Pear blossom rain) ; Betle Norae (Loom song) / …

Concert Recording 2021-10-29a, Er-Gene Kahng, Hyun Kim

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Violin sonata no. 2 in D minor. I. Ziemlich langsam, Lebhaft ; II. Sehr labhaft ; III. Leise, einfach ; IV. Bewegt / Robert Schumann -- [32:22]. Violin sonata no. 1 in D minor. I. Allegro agitato ; II. Adagio ; III. Allegretto moderato ; IV. Allegro molto / Camille Saint-Saëns.

Concert Recording 2021-10-29b, Megan Park, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Maestoso from Heroic Music / Georg Philipp Telemann -- [02:54]. Triptyque. I. Scherzo ; II. Largo ; III. Saltarelle / Henri Tomasi-- [07:21]. Concerto for trumpet and orchestra / Alexandra Pakhmutova.

Concert Recording 2021-11-14b, Tlaloc Perales, Derrick Rassinier, Keven Kraus, Michael Puryear, Juan Santos-Sierra

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. A philharmonic fanfare for brass trio / Eric Ewazen -- [04:12]. Trio for brass. I. Allegro deciso ; II. Berceuse ; III. Vivo / Lauren Bernofsky -- [19:32]. Time capsule. III. Rendezvous ; II. Chorale ; I. Daybreak / Howard J. Buss -- [28:25]. Mexican folklore suite. I. The coyote and the fox ; II. The mermaid of the volcano ; III. The snake / James M. Stephenson.

Concert Recording 2021-11-19b, Amy Gilreath, Susan Rider, Stacie Mickens, Natalie Mannix, Velvet Brown, Stiletto Brass Quintet

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Red stiletto ; Scarpe! / Drew Bonner -- [03:24]. Suite Impromptu. I. Epithalame ; II. Marche ; III. Elegie ; IV. Mouvement / André LaFosse -- [09:26]. A Scent of Paradise / Kenneth Amis -- [14:57]. Dance Renwick / Wilke Renwick -- [15:31]. Boy Meets Horn / Duke Ellington -- [21:11]. Sea Suite. I. Gulls ; II. Sea Urchins ; III. Heron by Moonlight ; IV. Seaweed Dance / Dorothy Gates -- [35:23]. Escape / Kevin McKee.

Concert Recording 2021-12-03, Ethan Andrews, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Tuba concert. I. Allegro ; II. Lento e mesto ; III. Allegro giocoso / Edward Gregon -- [19:55]. Divertissement for solo tuba. I. Statement ; II. Waltz ; III. Chant / Bennie Beach -- [27:46]. Emission nebula . Emission nebula, backing track / Davis Vaughn -- [40:47]. Song for the skies / Paul Lovatt-Cooper.

Concert Recording 2021-12-05a, Max Hinojosa, Hyun Kim

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Serse. Frondi tenere, ombra mai fu / George Frideric Handel -- [03:33]. Der Lindenbaum. Gefrorne Tränen / Franz Schubert -- [10:20]. Beau soir / Claude Debussy -- [12:48]. Mandoline / Gabriel Fauré -- [14:54]. The crucifixion / Samuel Barber -- [17:07]. Let beauty awake / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- [18:59]. Non più andrai, from Le nozze di Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Concert Recording 2021-12-05b, Garrett Vogel, Hyun Kim

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Vagal una / Vincenzo Bellini -- [03:38]. L’ultima canzone / Paolo Tosti -- [07:53]. Ich grolle nicht / Robert Schumann -- [09:31]. Verborgenheit / Hugo Wolf -- [12:13]. Chanson Triste / Henri Duparc -- [15:01]. Fleur jetée / Gabriel Fauré -- [16:48]. Come away death / Roger Quilter -- [19:54]. The lordy Hudson / Ned Rorem -- [22:13]. Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja, from Die Zauberflöte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Crouching Tiger Cello Concerto - A Melding Of Form And Content For The Concert Stage, Xiaohang Yu

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto for Amplified Cello and Orchestra is not only one of the most frequently performed cello concerto of the recent past; it also demonstrates Tan’s masterful synthesis of artistic forms from the Chinese and the Western art music traditions with visual media that extends beyond the concert-hall. The music for this concerto was initially composed as part of the score for Ang Lee’s film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, itself a landmark blend of Chinese cinema with Western technique. The score broke boundaries, combining Western orchestral music with traditional Chinese instruments and thematic material. This melding …

The Clarinet And Piano Works Of Ernst Mahle: A Collaborative Pianist’S Perspective, Edgar Augusto Gonsales

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Ernst Mahle is a German-Brazilian composer who not only became a Brazilian citizen but also a reference for Brazilian classical music. His vast list of compositions includes works for all major genres, as well as containing instrument combinations that are not mainstream. In addition to being a composer, Mahle dedicated a big part of his life as a pedagogue, as a teacher and as the director of the Escola de Música de Piracicaba (Piracicaba Music School).

Through research on Mahle’s biography, compositional styles, and an interview with the composer, the purpose of this paper is to study his four clarinet …

A Study Of Language And Its Uses In Flute Performance And Pedagogy, Sarah Tuley

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Various tone colors can be produced on the flute in part by altering the shape of the lips, jaw and tongue movement, and air speed. As these actions are similar to those in the production of speech, flutists and flute teachers often associate aspects of playing with consonants and vowels. However, the shape of the oral cavity can vary depending on the spoken language of the flute-player. By becoming familiar with the pronunciations of different sounds from various languages, the flutist may discover a wider variety of tone colors at his/her disposal. This document will investigate the use of vowels …

Chimurenga Chepfungwa: A Liberated Cultural Curriculum For The Madzimbabwe Singer, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Chimurenga ChePfungwa is the self-liberation of the mind. Education can either be an instrument for liberation or a tool for colonial indoctrination, brainwashing, and enslavement — the European colonization of Africa in the late-nineteenth century and the continent's epic efforts at self-liberation have amply taught us this.

Chimurenga ChePfungwa calls for the centering of ChiVanhu knowledge systems such as Ngano, Tsumo neNziyo. ChiVanhu encapsulates Madzimbabwe indigenous knowledge systems, cosmologies, and ways of being, and this paper insists on the primacy of these ChiVanhu epistemologies for the construction of knowledge and knowing.

Amagama ayadala. Words create. So much of the language …

Songs For High Voice: An Annotated Guide To African Romances, Op. 17 By Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Makeda Danielle Hampton

Theses and Dissertations--Music

African Romances, Op. 17, composed in 1897 by African-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), is a collection of seven songs for high voice that is uniquely both African and American. The lyrics of this song cycle were first published in the book Majors and Minors, a collection of poems published in 1895 by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906).

An analysis of resources supports that academic discourse in Black vocal music has been underrepresented due to the absence of centralized information, such as published scores, recorded materials, catalogs, and guides for study and performance. While in depth research focusing on the art …

Shining A Spotlight On Female African American Composer Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, Iris E. Fordjour-Hankins

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Those who are interested in learning more about Evelyn Simpson-Curenton (b. 1953) will find it challenging to find scholarly material on her life and music. She is best known for her arrangements of spirituals that were sang and recorded by Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman (whose concert recording Spirituals in Concert was released in 1991). Simpson-Curenton is also known for her choral work, “Psalm 91,” made famous by Oakwood University’s Aeolians. Though she is self-published, her absence from compilations, volumes, and anthologies for solo voice and piano is regrettable. This dissertation provides well researched scholarly information about her musical life …