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Practicar / Practicing Tips, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

A number of approaches to practicing technical passages that utilize varied rhythms, meters, and poly rhythms. Originally a blog post on Clariperu website in Spanish, English translation appears here.

Redefining Classical Music Literacy: A Study Of Classical Orchestras, Museum Anthropology, And Game Design Theory, Kimberly M. Zahler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The current state of declining audiences for the performing arts in the United States is cause for concern for those musicians and ensembles interested in the continuation of the art forms. The previous model of using audience numbers as the sole or primary measure of an orchestra's success is no longer sufficient in an era of participatory design and interactive experiences. Through observation and analysis of the culture of classical music, this study focuses on the emerging visions of participatory culture and the ways in which museum anthropology and game design theory can be used to redefine classical music literacy …

Community Singing As Troubled Learning: Exploring Musical, Social, And Ethical Dimensions Of Safety And Risk Among Adult Singers, Deanna Yerichuk

Music Faculty Publications

How are safety and risk negotiated within community singing? Many group facilitation techniques within adult education take as foundational that participants must feel safe to participate fully in group learning. This concern for participants safety acknowledges that power and privilege circulate unequally within any social learning context, shaped by race, gender, class, ability, sexual orientation, and in the case of singing, musical competencies. However, community singing can be safe without being comfortable. Comfort, therefore, is not the same as safety, although the two concepts are often conflated. A lack of ease with the process and/or content suggests a possibility of …

Whence Comes Black Art?: The Construction And Application Of “Black Motivation”, Derrell Acon

Lawrence University Honors Projects

George Schuyler, in his tragically misguided 1926 essay for The Nation magazine, “The Negro-Art Hokum,” suggests that the only difference between Blacks and Whites is the color of skin, and that both races experience the same social, psychological and educational forces in America. He blatantly disregards American racism and inequality, and in his attempt to put forth his advocacy of color-blindness he merely projects and perpetuates the most racist of ideals within our country. Schuyler views the concept of Black Art very narrowly and insists on the impossibility of such an idea because of the supposed Americanness of the art. …

War Songs, Evan Michael Williams

Lawrence University Honors Projects

War Songs is a song cycle of poetry by Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Iraq War veterans Andrew Borene, and Brian Turner, written in the summer of 2010. It also includes an arrangement of the popular wartime song “Over There” by George M. Cohan. In writing this cycle, I researched the Iraq War, especially the justifications for invading the country. I also researched previous musical works about war. This research informed the composition of the cycle. While I wanted to illustrate the issues of the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I also wanted the cycle to be universal …

Concert Recording 2011-09-29, Don Bailey, Donald Sulzen

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata for flute and piano. Allegretto malincolico ; Cantilena ; Presto giocoso / Francis Poulenc -- Barcarola et scherzo, Op. 4 / Alfred Casella -- Stepping out. Allegro, con brio ; Lento, con passione ; Allegro, con zelo / Cindy McTee -- Ballade / Frank Martin -- Sonata in F (K.V. 13). Allegro ; Andante ; Menuetto primo/Menuetto secondo / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Fantasie (Op. 79). Andantino ; Allegro / Gabriel Fauré -- Sweet simplicity / Rhonda Larson -- Hypnosis / Ian Clarke -- Sonata for flute and piano. Allegro deciso ; Scherzo ; Andante ; Allegro con moto …

Concert Recording 2011-04-16, C. J. Morris, Dallas Tucker, Nick Ryan, Mary Beth Martin, Lisa Napier, Chalon L. Ragsdale, Jesse Austin

Concert Recordings & Programs

Timeless (1997) / Michael Burritt -- Duettino concertante (1966) / Ingolf Dahl -- Sunset glow (1985) / Dave Samuels -- Prism (1995) / Keiko Abe -- Doomsday machine (2000) / Michael Burritt

Concert Recording 2011-04-30, Patrick Oliverio, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concerto in D Major / Johann Friedrich Fasch -- Trumpet concerto / Johann Nepomuk Hummel -- Triptyque / Henri Tomasi -- Nightsongs / Richard Peaslee

Concert Recording 2011-11-11, Sarah Stout, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

Notes from the underground. Existential ballade ; Elegy for nothingness ; The inevitable moto perpetuo / Robert Mueller -- Melody / Myroslav Skoryk ; [arr.] Stout -- Three Euphonics / Howard Buss -- Alegro Assai / Vladmir Cosma -- Wondrous Starry Night / David Gillingham -- Dance: Zeibékikos / Philip Wilby

Concert Recording 2011-03-03, Benjamin Pierce

Concert Recordings & Programs

Partita (1991) / Arthur Butterworth -- Concerto (1999). Wondrous starry night / David Gillingham -- Insects (2011). Fly ; Butterfly ; Grasshopper ; Dragonfly ; Beetle / Elena Lebedeva -- Euphrates euphony (2009) / Shin-ichiro Ikebe -- Three Bach preludes / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Notes from the underground (2011) / Robert Mueller -- Flight (1993) / Philip Wilby

Concert Recording 2011-03-14, Pasha Sabouri, Colette Valentine

Concert Recordings & Programs

Thais (Meditation from Thais) / Jules Massenet -- Romance, op. 78, no. 2 / Jean Sibelius -- Nocturne in c♯ minor, op. posthumous / Frederic Chopin -- Sonata for violin and piano / Cesar Franck -- No. 2 The maiden in the bridal chamber ; No. 3 Dogberry and Verges ; No. 4 Intermezzo ; No. 5 Masquerade (incidental music from Much Ado about Nothing) / Erich Korngold -- Estrellita / Manual Ponce

Concert Recording 2011-03-18, L. Graham Schultz

Concert Recordings & Programs

Prelude and fugue in d minor (Dorian), BWV 538 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Rhapsody no. 3 in c♯ minor / Herbert Howells -- Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 203 / Dietrich Buxtehude -- Four versets on ave maris stella / Marcel Dupré -- Choral varie sur le theme du veni creator, op. 4 / Maurice Duruflé

Concert Recording 2011-04-28, Michael Olefsky, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concertino for trombone and piano / Lars-Erik Larsson -- Four serious songs. One thing befalleth the beasts and the sons of men ; So I returned and did consider ; O death ; Though I speka wtih the tongues of men / Johannes Brahms ; arr. M. Dee Stewart -- Mission red (1994) / Michael Davis -- Elegy for Mippy II / Leonard Berstein -- Two preludes / Dmitri Shostakovich ; arr. Allen Ostrander -- Cavatine / Camille Saint-Saëns

Concert Recording 2011-04-17b, Joseph Pullara, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concerto in D / Giuseppe Torelli -- Trumpet concerto in E♭ Major / Joseph Haydn -- Trumpet sonata / Harold Shapero -- Beau soir / Claude Debussy ; poem by Paul Bourget

Concert Recording 2011-04-19, Andrea Schenk

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concerto in e minor / Edward Elgar -- Élégie / Gabriel Fauré -- Suite no. 1 for solo cello ; Suite no. 2 for solo cello / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Pièces en concert / François Couperin -- Concerto no. 4 in G Major / Georg Goltermann -- Minuets 1 & 2; Gigue / Johann Sebastian Bach

Concert Recording 2011-10-22, Nick Ryan, Brett Gilbertson, Dallas Tucker, Sean Sweeden

Concert Recordings & Programs

March / Elliot Carter -- My lady white / David Maslanka -- Blues for Gilbert / Mark Gentworth -- Almost beyond / Nathan Daughtrey -- Frum / Askell Mason -- Trip Per Uno. Mvt I / Nebojsa J. Zivkovic

Personal Therapy For Undergraduate Music Therapy Students: A Survey Of Amta Program Coordinators, Susan Gardstrom, Nancy A. Jackson

Department of Music Faculty Publications

The primary purpose of this study was to gather information in order to understand if and how various modalities of personal therapy are employed with undergraduate music therapy students in the United States, AMTA degree program coordinators were asked about 3 therapy modalities, in particular: verbal therapy, music therapy, and expressive arts therapy (excluding music therapy).

It was predicted that less than a quarter of the respondents would indicate that personal therapy of any modality was required in their undergraduate curricula, but that a larger percentage would indicate that it was encouraged. Both hypotheses were supported, with just over 14% …

Concert Recording 2011-10-31, Todd Prickett, Jennifer Garrison, Kristine Mezines, S. Michael Shuman, Sean Sweeden, Allison Dean, Benjamin Winn, Kara Young, Jeremy Morris, Chelsea Hodge, Sharon Fox, Judd Burns, Anousis Luanglathay, David Frantz, Allison Bolin, Jonathan Variames, Tazonio Anderson, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Schola Cantorum

Concert Recordings & Programs

All that hat life and breath / René Clausen -- Daemon Irrepit Callidus / György Orbán -- The Tenderland. Stomp your foot ; The promise of living / Aaron Copland -- The Making of the drum. The skin ; The barrel of the drum ; The two curved sticks of the drummer ; Gourds and rattles ; The gong-gong / Bob Chilcott -- Let down the bars, O death / Samuel Barber -- Quick! We have but a second / [arr.] Charles V. Stanford -- I feel like my time ain't long / William Grant Still -- Bach (again) / …

Chord Conundrum: Examining The Performance Practice Of Polyphonic Figures In J.S. Bach's Solo Violin Works, Emily Vold

Theses and Dissertations

Interpreting and expressing the musical intentions of a composer in an informed manner requires great dedication and study on the part of a performer. This holds particularly true in the case of music written well before the present age, where direct connections to the thoughts of the composer and even the styles of the era have faded with the passing of time. Violinists today consistently struggle with studying and performing a set of works from the musical period referred to by scholars as the Baroque era (1600-1750), the Sonatas and Partitas for Violin without Bass accompaniment, composed by Johann Sebastian …

Concert Recording 2011-10-16, Kyung-Won On, American Guild Of Organists. Northwest Arkansas Chapter

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sinfonia from cantata no.29. Wir danken dir, gott, wir danken dir / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Concerto in G major, BWV 592. Allegro ; Grave ; Presto / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Aria / Paul Manz -- Prelude and fugue in G major, BWV 541 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Fantasy in f minor, K. 608 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Three organ solos in jazz style. Our Father's world ; Jesus loves me ; Deep river / Joe Utterback