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Concert Recording 2011-11-18, Allison Dean, S. Michael Shuman

Concert Recordings & Programs

Pietà, signore / Anonymous -- O, bid your faithful Ariel fly / Thomas Linley -- Ridente la calma / W. A. Mozart ; Le nozze di Figaro. Dove sono i bei momenti / W. A. Mozart -- O liebliche wangen ; Liebestreu ; Meine lieder ; Vergebliches Stänchen / Johannes Brahms -- Après un rêve ; Fleur jetée / Gabriel Fauré -- Beau soir ; Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison / Claude Debussy -- Three Dickinson songs. As imperceptibly as grief ; Will there really be a morning? ; Goodmorning midnight / André Previn -- Faust. Ah! …

Concert Recording 2011-04-12, Richard Rulli, Timothy Dailey, Timothy Thompson, Gerald Sloan, Benjamin Pierce

Concert Recordings & Programs

Canzona / Samuel Scheidt -- Fabrics / John Stevens -- Divertimento / Karel Husa -- The trombone family. Sally Trombone ; Bull Trombone ; Miss Trombone / Henry Fillmore -- Bis / Eugene Bozza

Concert Recording 2011-04-09a, Timothy Dailey, Kristine Mezines, Charles Rigsby

Concert Recordings & Programs

Toccata / Giambattista Martini ; adapted by Marie-Claire Alain -- Concert for trumpet in E Major / J.N. Hummel -- Prayer of St. Gregory / Alan Hovhaness -- Trumpet concerto / Edward Gregson

Concert Recording 2011-04-07, Timothy Dailey, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Trumpet Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

Dürrenhorn passage (2007) / Kevin McKee -- Fanfare for the uncommon woman (1993) / Joan Tower -- Clouds (1978) / Ge Vrijens -- Suite / Henri Tomasi -- Danny boy / Traditional -- Suite for 6 trumpets / Anthony Plog

Concert Recording 2011-04-17a, Albert Miller, Albert Miller, Gretchen Renshaw, Sarah Stout, Timothy Dailey, Kristine Mezines, Dallas Tucker, Brandon Hults, Sarah Stout, Justin Stowe, Gretchen Renshaw, Justin Stowe

Concert Recordings & Programs

The four seasons suite. The start in season ; Water lily ; Storm of autumn ; Noel arpeggio / Yukiko Isomura -- Concertino / Jacque Casterede -- Football! (The great moment) / Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen -- Quartet for trombones / Leslie Bassett -- The village choir / Alexander Borodin ; arr. by Tubalate -- Wind Sketches. Whirlwind ; Fremantle doctor ; White squall ; Vientos y fugas / Brian Balmages

Ives's Seasonal Songs, Warren Kimball

LSU Master's Theses

Throughout his career, Charles Ives composed eight songs on texts that in some manner concern the yearly seasons. Unexamined by scholars to any depth, and never heretofore considered as a group, these pieces have typically been treated in tandem with Ives’s other songs about nature. Studied as a set, however, they reveal the theme of seasonal change to be an artistic topic of significant, enduring appeal to the composer. Although these pieces are stylistically diverse, examining them as a group helps us to better understand Ives’s maturation as a composer, the seasonal topic serving usefully as a constant around which …

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Sonic Pleasure, Absence And The History Of The Self: An Alternative Approach To The Criticism Of Sound Art, Jonathan W. Marshall

Sound Scripts

Historical, psychoanalytic and cinema criticism have characterised the history of Western modernity and the individual subject as founded upon an affective lack. Pleasure is solicited by the promise of fullness, but this is never fulfilled, fuelling further desire. Sound art however is more typically theorised as inherently present and immersive, as a form that offers direct experience, which literally touches the subject. I draw upon the work of Jonathan Sterne, Steven Connor, psychoanalysis and film criticism to rearticulate not just modernist media and subjectivity as characterised by lack and absence, but the perception of aestheticised sound. Starting with an analysis …

Master And Slave In The Music Of Coil, Drren Jorgensen

Sound Scripts

For Theodor Adorno, pop music perpetuates thedrudgery and alienation of working class existenceby providing a distraction from it. This paper turns toa similar critique of pop music, in the work of Coil.Born out of the UK industrial scene, Coil distort thepop song format, reproducing and appropriating itssounds with cynical manipulations. This cynicismshines through a mastery over the forms of popmusic and its sounds, that Coil configure withoutveering into pop's more explicit commercialism. Byestranging the familiarity of pop music, Coil point tohow listeners are enslaved by the industrial mode ofmusical alienation, by reproducing this alienation in anew way.

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Aspects Of Rhythm In The Music And Improvisation In Six Pieces By Bassist Avishai Cohen, Nicholas L. Abbey

Theses : Honours

This dissertation examines significant aspects of rhythm in the music and improvisations by the trio of the seminal bassist Avishai Cohen through transcription and analysis of a selection of his recorded works. Repertoire examined has been selected from Cohen’s Gently Disturbed and Seven Seas releases to demonstrate some important devices commonly used by the group. This study is fuelled by interest in the trio’s use of rhythmic devices to create free-flowing and consistently interesting music despite rhythmic complexity inherent to the compositions. In the context of modern jazz, the group’s rhythmic approach is more complex and unique than its treatment …

Differences In Depression Levels Among Tenors, Baritones, And Basses, Rhiannon Jane Talbot

Honors Program Theses

Music and speech are closely related to one another. Both have specific elements, such as average fundamental frequency, pitch variation, and speed, to accurately communicate emotion. Some emotions have characteristic speech patterns; in the case of sadness, a low mean fundamental frequency, slow speed of speech, and minimal pitch variation are common. Both music and speech also utilize physical metaphors (up/down, high/low, etc.) to express positivity and negativity. The study was intended to determine whether male vocal register correlated with levels of depressive symptoms. Specifically, tenors were expected to have lower levels of depression than baritones and basses. Participants (16 …

Musical Eating And Culinary Listening: Composing With Sounds And Flavors, Isaac Brockshus

Honors Program Theses

My interests in music are wide-ranging. While the majority of my energies as a student are invested in the mastery of music that is more or less conventional, I also find myself obsessing over ideas intended to clear new avenues of expression while establishing new perspectives on the familiar. My experimental side thrives in a vast playground of extant musical constructs, free to be exploded, reassembled, and reexamined. Within these constructs come certain audience expectations for the music. The presence of these expectations and the practical issues resulting from a clash of expectations served as instigators of creative thought throughout …

Time Out Of Mind As Distant Past Beyond Memory; Bob Dylan And His "Late Style", Koji Matsudo

Dissertations and Theses

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Respectability And The Modern Jazz Quartet; Some Cultural Aspects Of Its Image And Legacy As Seen Through The Press, Carla Marie Rupp

Dissertations and Theses

"The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) was a noted jazz ensemble whose original members—John Lewis (piano and director), Milt “Bags” Jackson (vibraphone), Ray Brown (bass) and Kenny “Klook” Clarke (drums)—first performed together in Dizzy Gillespie’s big band in 1946.1 Lewis (1920-2005), Jackson (1923-1999), Brown (1926- 2002), and Clarke (1914-1985) first recorded as a group, calling themselves the Milt Jackson Quartet, in 1951-2. By the time the first recordings of the group under the name Modern Jazz Quartet were released in 1952, Percy Heath (1923-2005) had already replaced Brown as bassist. By 1954, the group had begun performing regularly in nightclubs and …

Concert Recording 2011-12-07a, Kelsey Crawford, Marie Erickson, S. Michael Shuman, Sean Sweeden

Concert Recordings & Programs

Hamburg sonata in G major. Allegretto / C.P.E. Bach -- Night Soliloquy / Kent Kennan -- Suite modale. Moderato ; L̕istesso tempo ; Allegro giocoso ; Adagio. Allegro deciso / Ernest Bloch -- Andante pastoral et Scherzettino / Paul Taffanel -- Sonata in e minor. Grave ; Allegro ; Adagio ; Allegro / G. F. Handel -- Due Northwest / Michael Culligan -- Il pastore Svizzero / Pietro Morlacchi -- Danse de la Chévre / Arthur Honegger -- Cantabile et presto / Georges Enesco

An Analysis Of Selected Band Works With Composer Perspective, Christopher Lawrence Mroczek

Masters Theses

Concentration in Conducting

This project contains the detailed study of three works for wind band. Each study includes direct input by the composers whose pieces are represented. The author interviewed all the composers by e-mail.

The pieces analyzed are:

• At Morning's First Light by David Gillingham
• Hebrides Suite by Clare Grundman
• Undertow by John Mackey

Questions asked in the interviews were unique to the particular musical elements present in the works. Each piece was analyzed with the same criteria using the following elements:

1. Composer Information
2. Composition Background Information
3. Score Description / Instrumentation
4. Form Analysis
5. Melodic Analysis
6. Harmonic Analysis
7. Meter/Tempo/Rhythm
8. Texture/Dynamics …

Rhythmic And Metric Structure In Alberto Ginastera's Piano Sonatas, Rachel Hammond

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) was one of the leading South American composers of the twentieth century. Born in Argentina at a time when his country was striving to achieve a national identity and culture, Ginastera was recognized for combining the techniques of Western European art music with elements of Argentine folk music. His piano sonatas, composed during both his early and late periods, serve as excellent examples of this cultural synthesis throughout the course of his career. The Sonata No. 1 for Piano Op. 22 (1954), Sonata No. 2 for Piano Op. 53 (1981), and Sonata No. 3 for Piano Op. …

Fan Commitment And Its Transformation Into Communitas Through The Process Of Proxemic Exchange, Arthur Alexander Aguirre

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Live performances are comprised of various elements that scholars have utilized to understand the artist-fan relationship as well as the relationship among the fans themselves. In this study, I look at fandom in independent, or “indie” music and utilize my findings to creation a foundation for the understanding of fan commitment. I then argue that when a fan of a particular artist attends a live performance by that artist, they inherently engage in a proxemic exchange with the artist as well as the fans around them. This proxemic exchange is driven by fan commitment and facilitates the creation of communitas …

Regina Caeli, Gustavo Leone, Martin Schmid S.J.

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Jesuits were expelled from the Spanish colonies in South America in 1767, leaving behind a remarkable musical legacy that was buried for over two hundred years. But the music did not disappear completely. Thanks to the Chiquitos people of Bolivia, the music was played and preserved throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1985, Swiss architect Hans Roth discovered 9,000 of these musical manuscripts and in 1990 UNESCO declared the churches of the Chiquitos a “patrimony of humanity”. Dr. Gustavo Leone of Loyola University Chicago's Department of Fine and Performing Arts has painstakingly retrieved and restored several of these …