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Neumann Lecture On Music: Cry No More: Black Music And The Mythology Of A Post-Racial America, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

"No Human Ever Made A Cathedral Such As This": Scoping The Ecology Of The Carols By Candlelight Effect In Australia's Open-Air Environments, Robin Ryan

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

During Australia’s dry December, traditional and popular forms of caroling shape the sight and sound of the key Christian festival of Christmas. Creative connections between belief, place, and music are characteristically manifest in focused open-air environments of beach, bushland or park. Reasoning from gospel belief that the very first “Christmas carol” emanated from a heavenly host of angels singing to an audience of shepherds in a field, caroling alfresco is an appropriate activity. How, then, do Australian caroling venues become conducive to environmental spheres of sound and influence? While the annual mass Carols by Candlelight concerts televised from Melbourne and …

Illinois Valley Central High School Wind Ensemble And Symphonic Band, February 27, 2020, Matthew J. Chapman, Marykatheryne E. Kuhne, Marisa A. Miko

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
February 27, 2020
Thursday Evening
8:00 pm

Bloomington High School Wind Symphony And Symphonic Winds, February 16, 2020, Max E. Chernick, Anthony C. Marinello Iii, Phillip Hash, Zachary A. Taylor

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
February 16, 2020
Sunday Evening
7:00 p.m.

Choral Showcase, February 16, 2020, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
February 16, 2020
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 p.m.

A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, And Islamic Knowledge In Kachchh, Gujarat, Brian E. Bond

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation is a study of the use and contestation of Sindhi-language Sufi poetry performance as a means of Islamic knowledge transmission and ethical self-formation in rural Muslim communities in Kachchh, a border district in the western Indian state of Gujarat adjacent to Sindh, Pakistan. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic research with Muslim performers and enthusiasts of Sindhi poetry between 2014-2018, I first examine an ecology of performative and interpretive practices revolving around the musico-poetic repertoire of the poet-saint Shāh ʿAbdul Lat̤īf Bhiṭā’ī (1689-1752 CE). I argue that the pedagogical efficacy of Sufi poetry performance is undergirded by its …

Mimicry As Movement Analysis, Rosa Abrahams

Faculty Publications

The analysis of movement to music often stems from examinations of video-recorded events. This allows the analyst an opportunity to re-watch, pause, and slow down the movements of their participants, and to produce descriptive notation that appears alongside a score (e.g., Roeder and Tenzer 2012). Unlike prescriptive forms of dance notation (e.g., Laban 1928), such transcriptions of movement often illuminate metrical connections between music and movement. However, when video-recording is not permissible, other methods of movement analysis must be developed. This paper pilots a new technique for rigorous analysis of the interaction between movement and music, which may be used …

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 …

“You Crossed My Mind … Before?”: An Intertextual Analysis Of Songs From 'To Pimp A Butterfly', Colin Outhwaite

Theses : Honours

Popular music often refers to, evokes and includes elements of other music from the past. This kind of intertextuality in popular music provides artists and audiences with short-cuts to making and interpreting meaning. It draws on nostalgia, past listening experiences and idealised perceptions of the past. Artists engaging in this practice risk criticism for being too derivative. Conversely, artists who are too innovative and forward-looking run the risk of not connecting to listeners. Kendrick Lamar’s hip-hop album of 2015 To Pimp A Butterfly is lauded as being simultaneously innovative and steeped in the recent history of African American music. Lamar …

Authenticity And Practicality: Evaluating And Performing Multicultural Choral Music, Jesse Noote

Dissertations

Many choral music educators believe that multicultural music is a vital part of any choral curriculum. However, the research shows that these same choral directors are reluctant to select multicultural octavos because they lack training in non-Western music, which prevents them from effectively teaching and performing this music authentically. The purpose of this dissertation is to equip choral directors with the necessary tools for bridging the gap between desiring to perform and actually performing multicultural octavos.

Six authors have provided authenticity checklists that are designed to help music educators evaluate and perform multicultural music. This research synthesizes those lists to …

An Analysis Of Western Art Music Arrangements For Steel Pan Chamber Ensemble, Ian Meiman

Dissertations

This dissertation is an analysis of western art music arrangements for steel pan chamber ensembles. Specifically, this dissertation will analyze how certain arrangers have adapted western art music for steel pan chamber ensemble while discussing the possible methods the arranger used to create this adaptation. The analysis will observe the melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and other significant alterations made in the steel pan chamber arrangement, and discuss any changes made, whether due to the adaptation of the instruments or otherwise, from the original works. The dissertation will also include a brief historical discussion on western art music’s influence of early steel …

Wind Symphony, November 21, 2019, Anthony C. Marinello Iii, Elizabeth Thompson

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
November 21, 2019
Thursday Evening
8:00 p.m.

University Band And Symphonic Band, November 20, 2019, Marisa Miko, Zachary A. Taylor, Marykatheryne E. Kuhne

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
November 20, 2019
Wednesday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Songs Of Resilience, November 10, 2019, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
November 10, 2019
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 p.m.

Isu Symphony Orchestra, November 9, 2019, Glenn Block, Aaron Gomez, Camilo Tellez, Teresa Fulling

School of Music Programs

Center for Performing Arts
November 9, 2019
Saturday Morning
9:00 a.m. Petting Zoo
10:00 a.m. Concert

A Child Of Our Time And An Oratorio For Soli, Chorus And Orchestra, November 3, 2019, Michael Tippett, Karyl K. Carlson, Michelle Vought, Elizabeth Thompson, Justin Vickers

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
November 3, 2019
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 p.m.

An Integration Of East And West: History, Analysis And Reception Of The Yellow River Piano Concerto, Lin Tao

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The Yellow River Piano Concerto remains as one of a few representative and major instrumental compositions within the Chinese repertoire since it was composed in 1969. Thanks to the devoted work of Chinese pianists, the Yellow River Piano Concerto has disseminated around the world and has become a musical symbol of Chinese culture in recent years. This piano concerto serves as a tool for the cultural communication between China and the world. The Yellow River Piano Concerto has a unique ability to depict Chinese culture and history through the language of music. Its exotic pentatonic melodies and eastern orchestrations make …

Wind Symphony, October 16, 2019, Anthony C. Marinello Iii, Marisa Miko, Zachary A. Taylor

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
October 16, 2019
Wednesday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Symphonic Band And Symphonic Winds, October 4, 2019, Marykatheryne E. Kuhne, Anthony C. Marinello Iii, Zachary A. Taylor

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
October 4, 2019
Friday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra, September 29, 2019, Glenn Block, James Liu

School of Music Programs

This event is sponsored in part by the Harold K. Sage Foundation
and the Illinois State University Foundation Fun

Wind Symphony, September 22, 2019, Anthony C. Marinello Iii, Davis Hale

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
September 22, 2019
Sunday Evening
5:00 p.m.

Choral Showcase, September 15, 2019, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
September 15, 2019
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 p.m.

Music Faculty Gala Concert, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Reimagining The Flute Masterclass: Case Studies Exploring Artistry, Authority, And Embodiment, Sarah Carrier

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This work explores the flute masterclass as an aesthetic, ritualized, and historically reimagined cultural practice. Based on fieldwork that took place between 2017 and 2019 in the United States, in Italy, and on the social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, I argue that the masterclass—an extension of the master/apprentice system that dominates learning in the classical music tradition—is characterized by embodied qualities of artistry and authority. These qualities are not inherent, but are perceived through subjective, social, familied, and affective bodies.

Chapter One outlines the main themes and the research design. Chapter Two is a case study that analyzes …

Singing God's Words: The Performance Of Biblical Chant In Contemporary Judaism, Mili Leitner Cohen

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

A book review is presented for Jeffrey Summit, Singing God's Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).

Verifying Modeling And Audiovisual Stimuli As Strategies For Mastering Guedes Peixoto's Maracatú, Rodrigo Clementino Diniz

LSU Master's Theses

ABSTRACT

Literature has been saying that auditory Modeling can be a useful tool in order to develop or broaden musical interpretive ideas. In the same way, literature ventilates that audiovisual stimuli can be applied to musicians in order to raise emotions that some scholars consider as indispensable when it comes to deliver expressive musical communications. More specifically, research in the Music Performance field points out that Modeling and Audiovisual stimuli are useful strategies in the learning process of building up a musical interpretation, both, fostering expressive tools for aiming musical performance.

This research is intended to empirically verify the applicability …

A Failure Of The Music Industry: The Frustration Of Women Of Color, Christina Estes-Wynne

Backstage Pass

Throughout the history of the music industry, women of color have not received the same recognition as their male counterparts because males have dominated the industry resulting in lack of female representation. Women have been oversexualized reducing their clout in their fields and the lack of acknowledgement of success, which discourages future generations of colored women from attempting to reach their highest potential.

Traditional Irish Musical Elements In The Solo-Piano Music Of Ryan Molloy, Brian Thomas Murphy

Dissertations

Music in Ireland has become increasingly popular in recent decades. There is no shortage of Irish musical groups, recordings, and live performances featuring Irish music both in Ireland and abroad. Contemporary art music in Ireland has also seen an increase in support and notoriety. Irish composers face a decision of how, if at all, to engage with traditional folk music that is so prominent in their culture. Ryan Molloy (b. 1983 in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) is a composer and performer who incorporates elements of traditional Irish music in the context and in the language of modern art music. …

"What Is An Mc If He Can't Rap?", Dominique Jimmerson

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The goal of this paper is to tell about the history of hip-hop and the many lyricists who have come throughout the years and help the genre advance. The paper starts with the foundation of hip-hop and how the genre set itself apart from disco to become its own genre. It ranges from the late 70’s and ends in the mid 2000’s and describes how the landscape of rap is constantly changing and so are the lyricists who come out. Throughout the paper there will be examples of the lyrics and used and what made them revolutionary at the time. …

Waus Thank You Concert, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Andrews University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Crhis Wild, featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Bartok, Guizar, and Borodin.

Piano, Dr. Chi Yong Yun.