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Concert Recording 2020-01-26, Megan Beard, Fernando Valencia, Chalon L. Ragsdale, Chris Scherer, Carson Vanduch, Tanna Walton, Jackie Tavernaro

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Four pieces for timpani (1963) I. Recitative ; IV. Finale / John Bergamo -- [03:35]. A cricket sang and set the sun (2006) / Blake Tyson -- [10:02]. 2+1 (2013) / Ivan Trevino -- [15:50]. Glamour (2012) / Casey Cangelosi -- [25:51]. Chromatic fox trot (1984) / George Hamilton Green.

Music Reviews, Volume 76, No. 3, Kathleen Roland-Silverstein

Voice - All Scholarship

Contains reviews of Lasser, Phillip (b. 1963). Elemental Earth: A Cycle of Four Songs on Poems by Robert Frost; The War Prayer; The Senator’s Stump Speech; Wheeler, Scott (b. 1952). Canzoni Italiane, for mezzo soprano and guitar; Erik Satie: 22 Mélodies.

Middle School Education In Music Media Literacy Could Combat The Potential Negative Effects Of Exposure To Sexual Content In Music, Stephanie B. Mihalache

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The current study focused on examining the relationship between music media literacy and middle school students. The goal of the study was to bring awareness towards adding music media literacy in the middle school curriculum; in order to further educate middle school students on the potential negative effects of popular music on their attitudes and behaviors, help middle school students understand the processes involved in the creation of popular music, and help middle school students understand how popular music can reflect and impact society as a whole. Participants (n=20) were selected through social media ads, ads posted on listservs, and …

May Ayim's Blue Notes In Blues In Schwarz Weiss, Gabrielle Taylor

Theses and Dissertations--Modern and Classical Languages, Literature and Cultures

May Ayim has become a staple when it comes to Black German poetry within German Studies and continues to influence and challenge ideas of what it means to be black in Germany at the end of the 20th century. What is perhaps not challenged enough is the ways in which we, the readers and students of German literature and poetry, approach and study Ayim’s poetry as we move deeper into the 21st century. Her collection of poetry, Blues in Schwarz Weiss, can be seen through a significant word found in her collection’s title—blues. It is through blues, …

Why Was I Not Made Of Stone., Ian Callen

Graduate Thesis Collection

The original inspiration for this work came from Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame when Quasimodo asks the gargoyles on the cathedral “Why was I not made of stone like thee?” as he watches Esmerelda ride off. This piece is an attempt to express the aspect of the human state contained in Quasimodo’s words. I believe that this piece succeeds in communicating both the innate humanity in the futile search for a state of invulnerability and the intrinsic value and beauty of despair. It is neither optimistic or pessimistic but rides a fine line between the two without being …

Songs About Words, Justin Hung

Graduate Thesis Collection

A song cycle for baritone and mixed chamber ensemble, "Songs about Words" consists of five songs for everyday concepts and subjects, and explores deeper themes of communication and identity. The ensemble consists of piano, accordion, tenor saxophone, percussion and double bass. The text was inspired by Pablo Neruda and written by the composer.

Singing Out: Gala Choruses And Social Change, Heather Maclachlan

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Can you change the world through song? This appealing idea has long been the professed aim of singers who are part of choruses affiliated with the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA). Theses choruses first emerged in the 1970s, and grew out of a very American tradition of (often gender-segregated) choral singing that explicitly presents itself as a community-based activity. By taking a close look at these choruses and their mission, Heather MacLachlan unpacks the fascinating historical and cultural dynamics behind groups that seek to change society for the better by encouraging acceptance of LGBT-identified people and promoting diversity …

Concert Recording 2020-01-18, Felix Olschofka, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Dominic K. Na, Josquin Larsen, Eun Seo Park

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sonata for two violins in E minor, Op. 3, No 5 I. Allegro ma poco ; II.Gavotte - andante grazioso ; III. Presto / Jean-Marie Leclair -- [12:58]. Eight pieces for violin and cello, Op. 39. Prelude ; Intermezza ; Gavotte ; Berceuse ; Canzonetta ; Scherzo / Reinhold Gliere -- [26:40]. Piano quintet in A minor, Op. 84 I. Moderato - allegro ; II. Adagio ; III. Andante - allegro / Edward Elgar.

Concert Recording 2020-02-15, Rie Kaizuka, Benjamin Pierce, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Fidelity in love for euphonium and piano / Yasuhide Ito -- [03:25]. Cascades / Allen Vizzutti -- [06:42]. Wie melodien zieht es mir / Johannes Brahms -- [09:03]. Feldeinsamkeit, Op.86 No.2 [11:20]. Hatsukoi "first love" / Tatsunosuke Koshitani -- [14:09]. Euphoniada / Frigyes Hidas -- [23:51]. Party piece / Philip Sparke -- [30:48]. Fantaisie and variations on "The carnival of Venice" / Jean-Baptiste Arban -- [39:46]. Two duets, op. 10. I. Puisqu'ici-bas toute âme ; II. Tarentelle / Gabriel Fauré.

Guide To The Collection Of De Paur Chorus Materials, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The Collection of De Paur Chorus Materials is small and holds sound recordings, photographs and ephemera documenting the De Paur Chorus and its activities, primarily during the early 1950s, a chorus established by Leonard de Paur.

Guide To The Caleb Dube Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Caleb Dube was an ethnomusicology scholar and teacher who studied blues music through an anthropological framework. The Caleb Dube Collection primarily contain general research in the fields of cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology, along with more narrow research linking these two fields of study to Chicago, and the blues.

Guide To The Collection Of Materials On The National Association Of Negro Musicians (Nanm), Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) was founded in Chicago by a group of African-American professional musicians and composers to advance the education and careers of African-American musicians; there are local branches of NANM in many cities. The collection contains materials about the National Association of Negro Musicians and its history and activities, particularly the primary documents included in A Documentary History of the National Association of Negro Musicians, edited by Doris Evans McGinty.

Guide To The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection reflects his activities as a bandmaster, a press correspondent, activities in the Hotel Association of the Virgin Islands, and as educator, civic leader, composer, author, and local historian in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

Guide To The Dominique-René De Lerma Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Dominique-René de Lerma (1928–2015) was a prominent, pioneering scholar in black music research, an oboist, an author, and an educator. The collection contains his research materials, collected scores, and sound recordings.

Guide To The Anna Gardner Goodwin Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Anna Gardner Goodwin was a composer of classical music. Her compositions include “Adelene” and “Freedom to All March.” and the collection also contains biographical and genealogical documents, musical scores, and other material related to her family.

Guide To The Zenobia Powell Perry Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Zenobia Powell Perry was a professor, pianist, and composer of classical music. The collection is comprised entirely of Perry’s unpublished scores and music manuscripts, and the collection was arranged by her biographer, Jeannie Gayle Pool.

Guide To The Paul Robeson Centennial Project Records, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

These records chronicle the Chicago centennial project in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, and activist, headquartered at Columbia College Chicago; one of many such local committees who came together globally.

Guide To The Wendell Wright Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The Wendell G. Wright Collection consists primarily of materials relating to the Lois J. Wright Memorial Concert Series as well as programs and correspondence. Also included are several published musical scores by Black composers and manuscript and facsimile manuscripts of Gerald Burks Wilson.

Ancient Mesopotamian Music, The Politics Of Reconstruction, And Extreme Early Music, Samuel N. Dorf

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

I write this piece primarily as a musicologist and amateur early music practitioner (viola da gamba player) who tries to understand the ways twentieth- and twenty-first century musicians and scholars have imagined and performed ancient music and dance. This essay emerged from my book project Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1935 and brings my training as a historical musicologist and dance historian to bear on issues typically of concern to archaeologists, classicists, and linguists.

While working on that book, I kept running across a number of individuals working now who are deeply engaged in …

Music In Medicine: Enhancing Emotion Recognition In Medical Students, Grace Chon, Debra Lew Harder, Md, Dma

Phase 1

Previous studies have shown that visual art courses for medical students have improved their diagnostic skills. A music course in a similar fashion may enhance their ability to recognize patient emotion in the patient’s voice. Identifying patient emotion via auditory cues allows future physicians to appropriately respond to patients’ mental states and provide empathetic care. This study proposes that medical students who complete a course in recognizing emotional cues in music will outperform a control group in correctly identifying emotion in the human voice.

Participants were randomly divided into control and experimental groups, in which only the latter completed a …