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Vocal Registration: History, Analysis, And Modern Pedagogical Applications, Patricia L. Finks

Masters Theses

A controversial aspect of vocal pedagogy is vocal registration or common divisions of the compass of the voice. A history of theories of registration, beginning in 1250, is compiled in chronological order. From this list, five contrasting theories are examined. Practical suggestions have been presented for use and application of this information, especially by the high school voice teacher.

Fabrications For Winds And Percussion: An Analysis, Douglas G. Nicholson

Masters Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to give an analytical description of Fabrications for Winds and Percussion. Part one of this document includes discussion, charts of information, and musical examples. Part two is the original score of the work.

The analysis describes each of the main musical elements, and relates the elements to one another. Charts are included showing relationships between different parts of the composition. Musical examples are presented to help identify and explain the main melodic ideas and accompanimental structures.

Fabrications is in one movement and is approximately eight and one-half minutes in duration. The formal structure …

American Piano Quartet [Compact Disc], Del Parkinson, Paul Pollei, Jeffrey Shumway, Mack Wilberg

Del Parkinson

Music for 2 pianos, 8 hands. Fantasy on themes from Carmen / Georges Bizet ; arr. [sic] Wilberg (8:58) -- Waltz from Faust / Charles Gounod ; arr. de Vilbac (5:01) -- Les contrastes: Grand duo dedicated to his Majesty, Frederick August, King of Saxony / Ignaz Moscheles (15:20) -- Rondo in C major / Bedřich Smetana (4:11) -- Country gardens / English folk song ; arr. Grainger (2:29) -- España / Emmanuel Chabrier ; arr. Chevillard (6:18) -- Slavonic dance : in C major / Antonín Dvořák ; arr. Keller (3:14) -- Sicilienne in G minor : from Sonata …

Some Thoughts On The Place Of Origin Of The Cotton Troper, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

Argues that the first fragment in London, BL, MS Cotton Caligula A.xiv was copied at Winchester Old Minster or at Worcester either for the cathedral priory at Worcester or for a highly-placed individual at Worcester. The published version of a paper given at the fourth meeting of the Cantus Planus Study Group of the International Musicological Society (September 3-8, 1990) in Pécs.

Music And Pictures In The Middle Ages, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

Discusses various examples of music and musicians in works of medieval manuscript art.

For Unto Us, Dan Rager

Dan Rager

99 Years Is Almost For Life: Punishment For Violent Crime In Bluegrass Music, Kenneth Tunnell

Kenneth Tunnell

The roots of Southern American music are located in the music of the eighteenth-century English, Irish and lowland Scots who migrated to North America. As they settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Cumberland Gap of Appalachia, they brought their songs that had been a part of their oral histories and cultures for at least two centuries. The commonly shared ways of life and social class among Appalachian mountain-dwellers not only inform about the early formative stages of bluegrass music but its growing popularity. As bluegrass music was removed from its insular setting and exposed to a wide variety …

Bach, J.S., The Musical Offering/Cd+G, Irene Girton

Irene Girton

No abstract provided.

The Making Of The Cotton Troper, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

Provides a detailed description of a fragment of an illustrated 11th-century English troper, forming the first portion of MS Cotton Caligula A.XIV (London, BL). The major decoration is an initial and paintings of Christological and hagiographical subject matter.

Without You - Pop Vocal Solo, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

A song composed in a soft-rock pop music style with words by Kristen N. Anderson.

Rhapsodie Diabolique, Jonathan D. Green

Jonathan D Green

piano, 9 minutes

Laudate Pueri (Jeremy's Book, Part Iv), Jonathan D. Green

Jonathan D Green

SATB Choir, 2 minutes