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Harold Jones; Interpretation Of Big Band Swing Drumming, Danny Gottlieb 2019 University of North Florida

Harold Jones; Interpretation Of Big Band Swing Drumming, Danny Gottlieb

Showcase of Faculty Scholarly & Creative Activity

Multiple Grammy Award winning drummer Harold Jones is one of the greatest drummers in Jazz History. He has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Natalie Cole and many more. This volume work is akin depth study of Harold's drumming with the Count Basie Orchestra, of which he was a member from 1968 through 1972.


A Conductor's Guide To Alec Roth's "A Time To Dance", Eric Z. Rubinstein 2019 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

A Conductor's Guide To Alec Roth's "A Time To Dance", Eric Z. Rubinstein

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this monograph is to provide a comprehensive analysis and conductor’s guide for Alec Roth’s masterwork, A Time to Dance. This study will explore the origins of this work, provide rehearsal and performance considerations, and bring greater attention to its composer, Alec Roth. Compared to his English contemporaries, Alec Roth’s (b.1948) music is lesser-known within the British tradition. Roth composes for choir, orchestra, and musical theatre and is also well-known for his contributions to both the guitar and gamelan repertory. His music spans a variety of languages, voicings, orchestrations, and levels of difficulty, as he is also …


Editor’S Essay, Michael E. Ruhling 2019 Berklee College of Music

Editor’S Essay, Michael E. Ruhling

HAYDN: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America

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Transcribing Astor Piazzolla's Works To Maximize Stylistic Fidelity: An Examination Of Three Saxophone Quartets With A New Transcription, Sarah L. Cosano 2019 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Transcribing Astor Piazzolla's Works To Maximize Stylistic Fidelity: An Examination Of Three Saxophone Quartets With A New Transcription, Sarah L. Cosano

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

Astor Piazzolla is recognized as a pivotal figure who drew tango music onto an international stage. His output of written compositions and recordings provide a reference for studying tango. Though Piazzolla adapted a collection of flute etudes in 1988, he did not write specifically for saxophone during his lifetime. Saxophonists must instead rely on transcriptions of his music. Today, tango is a widely performed idiom for saxophone quartet.

Because of its tessitura, timbral variety, and flexibility, the saxophone is uniquely suited to perform tango music. This instrument has an expansive range when altissimo is included. Its written range spans from …


Conductors' Annotated Scores: A Comprehensive Study, Leandro de Magalhaes Gazineo 2019 Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Conductors' Annotated Scores: A Comprehensive Study, Leandro De Magalhaes Gazineo

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Conductors’ annotations have a different nature and goal from those of orchestral musicians.

The purpose of this study is to obtain a better understanding of the process of conductors’ annotations based on examined scores[1]collected from professional conductors and supported by a questionnaire answered by twenty-seven participants.

Certain questions provided a better understanding of the elements used in conductors’ annotations. For example: Why do some conductors prefer to use symbols, words, numbers, or colors? What kind of annotations are more suitable to specific repertories? Why are reinforcement markings, although redundant, so popular among conductors and why do some conductors …


Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis Of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming, Javier Diaz 2019 CUNY Graduate Center

Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis Of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming, Javier Diaz

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation consists of a musical analysis of Afro-Cuban batá drumming. Current scholarship focuses on ethnographic research, descriptive analysis, transcriptions, and studies on the language encoding capabilities of batá. However, this artistically sophisticated tradition demands a more in-depth study of its musical manufacture. Drawing from experience as a ritual batá player and as an oricha priest, I have completed the current study by following three primary analytical modalities: (1) sonic landscape, which encompasses: sound vocabulary, form, individual drum parts, and balance of musical elements; (2) timbral design, how the different batá sounds articulate meaningful and functionally distinguishable structures; (3) the …


Ukrainian Folklore Influences In The Music Of Myroslav Skoryk: Historical Background And Performance Guide To Selected Violin Works, Iuliia Alyeksyeyeva 2019 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Ukrainian Folklore Influences In The Music Of Myroslav Skoryk: Historical Background And Performance Guide To Selected Violin Works, Iuliia Alyeksyeyeva

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Myroslav Skoryk is one of the most influential Ukrainian composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His works draw extensively on the folk traditions of Ukraine to evoke various aspects of the country’s cultural legacy.

The violin holds a special place in the cultural, societal, and historical heritage of Ukraine. Skoryk’s works for violin draw on both Ukrainian folk traditions as well as classical performance traditions. The intricacies of Skoryk’s folk-inspired classical pieces of music are rooted in the oral traditions of Ukrainian folk music.

This document provides background information on certain Ukrainian folk music traditions and their connection to …


From The Dean, Seth Beckman 2019 Duquesne University

From The Dean, Seth Beckman

TEMPO

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Tempo Magazine 2018-2019, 2019 Duquesne University

Tempo Magazine 2018-2019

TEMPO

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New Maymester Program “Musica Roma”, 2019 Duquesne University

New Maymester Program “Musica Roma”

TEMPO

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Table Of Contents, 2019 Duquesne University

Table Of Contents

TEMPO

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City Music Center Offers Summer Music Workshops, 2019 Duquesne University

City Music Center Offers Summer Music Workshops

TEMPO

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Duquesne At The Grammys, 2019 Duquesne University

Duquesne At The Grammys

TEMPO

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Alumna Awarded First Violin Position, 2019 Duquesne University

Alumna Awarded First Violin Position

TEMPO

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Duquesne Graduates’ Band, ‘Starship Mantis’ Releases New Album, 2019 Duquesne University

Duquesne Graduates’ Band, ‘Starship Mantis’ Releases New Album

TEMPO

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Connecting To The Community With Music: Duquesne Chamber Orchestra Poised For Run-Out Concerts, 2019 Duquesne University

Connecting To The Community With Music: Duquesne Chamber Orchestra Poised For Run-Out Concerts

TEMPO

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Marguerite Dephillips Dougherty Voice Competition, 2019 Duquesne University

Marguerite Dephillips Dougherty Voice Competition

TEMPO

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Trumpet Ensemble Invited To Perform At International Trumpet Guild Conference, 2019 Duquesne University

Trumpet Ensemble Invited To Perform At International Trumpet Guild Conference

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International Student Success Stories, 2019 Duquesne University

International Student Success Stories

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Pep Band Crowdfunding Campaign Extremely Successful, 2019 Duquesne University

Pep Band Crowdfunding Campaign Extremely Successful

TEMPO

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