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A Discussion Of Shiguang Cui’S Piano Concerto No. 2, Focusing On A Stylistic Analysis And Traditional Chinese Musical Elements, Yuting Ji

Dissertations

Shiguang Cui (崔世光) (b. 1948) is a Chinese composer and pianist. To celebrate the 2008 Summer Olympic Games held in Beijing, his work Concerto for Ten Concert Grand Pianos and Orchestra was commissioned by the Dean of the National Center for the Performing Arts, Mr. Ping Chen. Ten internationally-renowned pianists were invited to give the world premiere on August 19, 2008. The pianists were Claude Frank, Phillippe Entremont, Vladimir Feltsman, Louis Lortie, Yunyi Qin (秦云轶), Shikun Liu (刘诗昆), Lang Lang (郎朗), Cyprien Katsaris, Guillermo Gonzalez, and Sha Chen (陈萨).¹

This piece was originally conceived as Concerto for Ten Concert …

Songs From The Willow Tree: Staging Collective Inspiration For Creative Songwriting, Aubrey W. Carpenter

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The songwriting process, inspiration to song, can take many forms. This project explores a highly structured approach, using themes derived from reported individual experience to direct the creation of musical ends addressing common experience.

Characteristics Of Lifelong Musicians, Austin Lamon Farnam

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate causes for lifelong musicianship through examining the life experiences and influences of ten lifelong musicians. The participants in this study have played music starting in their childhood and into adulthood. Ages of participants range between 35 and 60 years of age. All participants have separate careers in conjunction with being active musicians.

Data collection was attained through a three phase process of an observation, interview, and collection of artifacts. Data was coded using open, focused, and axial coding and further analyzed for the purpose of identifying emerging themes. From the analysis, the …

Keyboard Collaborative Arts Recital, Yijiao Tian, Evangelina Jodjana, Jason Liebson, Varsénik Aslanyan, Jeffrey Goldberg, Esther Kim, Ariel Chien, Mikayla Feldman, Rachel Danielson, Tyler Johnson, Erin Theodorakis

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Big Band & Jazz Combo In Concert, Chapman Big Band, Chapman Jazz Combo

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Chapman Saxophone Ensemble, Chapman Saxophone Ensemble, Gerry Schroeder

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Chapman Percussion Ensemble, Chapman Percussion Ensemble

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Guest Artist In Recital: Daniel Shapiro, Piano, Daniel Shapiro

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Two-Piano Faculty Recital, Louise Thomas, Paul Floyd

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The Chapman University Choir And The Chapman University Women's Choir In Concert, Chapman University Choir, Chapman University Women's Choir

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Chapman University Wind Symphony And The Chapman Orchestra, Chapman University Wind Symphony, Chapman Orchestra

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Guest Artists In Recital: "Songs Of The Holocaust", Rachel Joselson, Réne Lecuona

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To Know, Love And Serve, Maria A. Smith

Musical Compositions about the Marianist Charism

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Chapman University Singers In Concert, Chapman University Singers

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"Kurt Weill After Dark": A Cabaret-Style Review, Opera Chapman

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A Collaborative Recital: "Break The Coconut": Songs By The Brazilian Nationalist Composer, M. Camargo Guarnieri, Sarah Tyrell, Rebecca Sherburn, Louise Thomas, Madeleine Adranga, Melina Adranga, Varsénik Aslanyan, Rachel Danielson, Claudia Doucette, Mikayla Feldman, Evangelina Jodjana, Esther Kim, Jason Liebson, Melissa Montaño, Cayton Park-Coburn, Kristen Reynolds, Yijiao Tian, Anna Turkisher

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Season Premiere Concert, Chapman Orchestra, Chapman University Wind Symphony

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Faculty Recital, Mary Palchak, Clara Cheng, Rebecca Rivera, David Black, Nick Terry

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The Rhythm And Blues (R&B) Protest Songs Of The Civil Rights Movement: Outlining The Natural Alignment Between The Foundational R&B Recordings Artists And The African-American Church During The Movement, Michelee Jones

Masters Theses

This study examines the R&B protest songs performed during the Civil Rights Movement and outlines their stories and musical characteristics for the purposes of highlighting a natural alignment that existed between several of the R&B recording artists that laid the foundations of R&B music and the agendas of the African-American church during the Civil Rights Movement. This study includes lyric and music analyses of some of the more popular R&B songs released during the Civil Rights Movement between 1960-1968 in which these analyses are compared with one another to form some general themes as to how these songs outlined the …

Recital And Masterclass, Charles Fierro

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