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Mindless Pleasures: Living With Gravity's Rainbow, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Flute/Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet in B^b, Bassoon, Trumpet in B^b, Horn in F, Trombone, Percussion (2), Violin (2), Viola, Cello, and Double Bass.

I A screaming comes across the sky
II "more Ouspenskian nonsense"
III triggered to the icy noctiluca
IV The Kenosha Kid Medley
V All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland
VI brains ravaged by antisocial and mindless pleasures

57 pages

Théodore Nisard’S Accompagnement Du Plain-Chant From Dictionnaire Liturgique, Historique Et Théorique De Plain-Chant Et De Musique D’Église Au Moyen Age Dans Les Temps Modernes (1854): An English Translation, Gerald W. Holbrook

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

Joseph Louis d’Ortigue (1802-1866), a music critic in Paris beginning in 1829, succeeded Hector Berlioz as a writer for the Journal des dèbats. He first published writings on opera, but after 1840 because of a fascination with religious music, especially chant, he devoted himself to the study of this genre, eventually undertaking his Dictionnaire Liturgique, Historique et Théorique de Plain-Chant et de Musique d’église au moyen age et dans les temps modernes (1854). For this work he commissioned Théodore Nisard, also known as Abbé Théodule Elzéar Xavier Normand, a Belgian organist and editor, to write a treatise on organ accompaniment …

Mark Adamo: The Solo Vocal Works Through 2006, Scott D. Miller

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

American composer Mark Adamo enjoyed tremendous success with his first two full-scale operatic works, Little Women, and Lysistrata. For both of these works, Adamo served not only as composer, but also as his own librettist. Originally eager to pursue a career as a composer of the Broadway musical, his background and training in playwriting, acting, and musical composition provide him with a unique and well informed perspective on the fundamentals of dramatic and musical form and function which is both simple and ingenious. His gift for setting language to music is extraordinary, and his knowledge of the human …

Music At The Fair! The Trans- Mississippi And International Exposition. An Interactive Website, Grace Carey

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

“Music at the Fair!” gives the daily musical programs for The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, held in Omaha, Nebraska, June 1 through October 31, 1898.

The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition brought an unprecedented array of local, national, and international musical acts to Omaha, NE in 1898. This served to designate Omaha, "the gateway to the west" as a musical hub, as well as to incite musical excitement in the region. Some of the more popular acts featured were the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, the U.S. Marine Band, and the Apollo Club of Chicago. Many more groups and their musical programs can …

Bach-Busoni Chaconne: A Piano Transcription Analysis, Marina Fabrikant

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

In 1893 Ferruccio Busoni transcribed, for the piano, the famous Bach Chaconne for violin solo from the Partita No.2 in D minor. Numerous transcriptions of this piece for different various instruments exist; however Busoni's transcription stands above all others. The purpose of this study was to analyze what the famous, twentieth-century pianist did when he transcribed Bach's Chaconne. What information exists on the topic comes primarily from pianists who dared to learn this exceptionally difficult, beautiful composition. Busoni's accomplishments lie in the new concept, a conceptual transcription, which has two roots: understanding how, historically, we are connected to the music, …

Performance Practice Issues In The Short Solo Works Of Serge Koussevitzky, Maurice Kelley

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

This document deals with performance practice issues in the four original short solo double bass compositions of Serge Koussevitzky. There has been minimal literature published concerning performance practice issues for the double bass as a solo instrument. By analyzing the 1929 recording Koussevitzky made of two of his pieces for double bass and the 1988 recordings modern bass virtuoso Gary Karr made of Koussevitzky’s four short pieces a direct comparison of performance practice issues can be made. The four short pieces, Andante, Valse Miniature, Chanson Triste, and Humoresque were written by Koussevitzky around 1900. His recording of Chanson Triste and …

A Manifestation Of Apollonian Ecumenism In Selected Piano Works Of Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), Svetlana Yashirin

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

The period of 1890-1920, surrounding the Russian October Revolution of 1917, was marked by an unprecedented outburst in all human activities and a tremendous struggle of intellectual forces represented by various personalities and groups. Creativity among poets, artists and musicians soared because of a strong belief in art as a transforming force.

Composer Alexander Tcherepnin was born in 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Tcherepnin’s early exposure to the traditions of the New Russian Music School through his father Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1945) and to modern art of the Mir Iskusstva (The World of Art) led to the formation of a unique …

Assessment Of Muscle Activity And Joint Angles In Small-Handed Pianists:, Brenda Wristen, Myung-Chul Jung, A. K. G. Wismer, M. Susan Hallbeck

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

This pilot study examined whether the use of a 7/8 keyboard contributed to the physical ease of small-handed pianists as compared with the conventional piano keyboard. A secondary research question focused on the progression of physical ease in pianists making the transition from one keyboard to the other. For the purposes of this study, a hand span of 8 inches or less was used to define a "small-handed" pianist. The goal was to measure muscle loading and hand span during performance of a specified musical excerpt. For data collection, each of the two participants was connected to an 8-channel electromyography …

Sight-Reading Versus Repertoire Performance On The Piano: A Case Study Using High-Speed Motion Analysis, Brenda Wristen, Sharon Evfans, Nikolaos Stergiou

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

This study was intended to examine whether differences exist in the motions employed by pianists when they are sightreading versus performing repertoire and to determine whether these differences can be quantified using high-speed motion capture technology. A secondary question of interest was whether or not an improvement in the efficiency of motion could be observed between two sight-reading trials of the same musical excerpt. This case study employed one subject and a six-camera digital infrared camera system to capture the motion of the pianist playing two trials of a repertoire piece and two trials of a sight-reading excerpt. Angular displacements …

Archaeopteryx, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, trumpet, trombone, guitar, piano, bass, and drum set.

Original produced in 1981, revised in 2006.

41 pages

Consort, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Tenor Recorder and Organ.

I Allemande
II Courante
III Sarabande
IV Gavotte
V Just a Giguealolo

36 pages

Dances Of Siva, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Organ.

prolog: Cambrian Explosion
Permian Extinction
Cretaceous Extinction
Pleistocene Ice Age

Original 1989, revised 2006.

31 pages

Lady Daibu, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Narrator, Soprano, Alto Flute/Piccolo, Cello, Percussion, and Harpsichord.

prolog
I At the Heian Court
II Love's Miseries
III Upheaval
epilog

Original 1987/Revised 2006

79 pages

Nova Cygni, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Double Bass and Bass Guitar.

Original 1979/Revised 2006

10 pages

Rara Avis, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Piccolo Solo.

Original 1982/Revised 2006

7 pages

Psalms For A Dark Age, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Solo Trombone, Trombone (10), and Trombone (Bass) (2).

I Litanies
II Die Fahne Hoch
III Devouring Time

19 pages

New Refrains, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Flute, Cello, and Piano.

Original 1980/Revised 2006

13 pages

Sonatina, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Flute and Harp.

13 pages

Voyages Through The Inland Sea, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Soprano and Clarinet in B^b.

Prelude
Postcards 1
In The Laundromat
Postcards 2
Cherry County, Nebraska
Field Studies
Postcards 3
Arkansas Song (interpolation)
The Very Old

poems: Ted Kooser

Original 1977/Revised 2006

16 pages

The Voyages Of Ibn Battuta, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Flute (2), Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet in B^b (3), Bass Clarinet, Soprano Sax., Alto Sax., Tenor Sax., Baritone Sax., Trumpet in B^b (2), Flugelhorn, Horn in F (3), Trombone (2), Tuba, Piano, and Percussion (5).

Original 1989/Revised 2006

50 pages

Mexico City Blues - Part I, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Flute, Narrator, and Bongos.

Junky
Dharma Bum
Dr. Sax

text: Jack Kerouac

Original 1987/Revised 2006

72 pages

American Zeitgeist: Spontaneity In The Work Of Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker And Jack Kerouac, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

During the decade following World War Two, a body of artistic work was created that clearly articulated for the first time, a distinctly American aesthetic, independent of European models. This is not to say that celebrated works like The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Appalachian Spring and Roy Harris’ Third Symphony are not recognized as American masterpieces; but their American characteristics are expressed through content, rather than form or methods of production. Fitzgerald and Hemingway all furthered their apprenticeship in Europe during the 1920s while Copland and Harris studied in Paris with Boulanger. It remained for the next generation …

Eight Untitled Pieces, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

for solo Double Bass and Wind Ensemble