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Blue Mountain: A Chamber Opera For Winds And Voices By Justin Dello Joio: A Unique Contribution For Wind Band Literature, Armando Saldarini
Blue Mountain: A Chamber Opera For Winds And Voices By Justin Dello Joio: A Unique Contribution For Wind Band Literature, Armando Saldarini
Dissertations
Blue Mountain is an opera in one act scored for four voices, and thirty-three instruments, commissioned by Det Norske Blaseensemble. Under the direction of Kenneth Jean, the premiere took place on October 8, 2007, at Kanonhalen in Oslo, Norway, as part of the Edvard Grieg Centennial celebrations and the 2007 Ultima contemporary Music Festival. The opera takes place in Troldhaugen, Norway, during the last days of Edvard Grieg’s life. Suffering from emphysema, Grieg was being treated by his doctor with morphine that created great anxiety, fear, and mental torment. A visit from his friend, Percy Grainger, gave Grieg great …
Songs Of Love And Loss, Dallas Heaton, Usu Opera
Songs Of Love And Loss, Dallas Heaton, Usu Opera
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Opera Scenes program, featuring scenes from opera and musical theatre.
Second program of two presented.
Songs Of Love And Loss, Dallas Heaton, Usu Opera
Songs Of Love And Loss, Dallas Heaton, Usu Opera
All Music Department Programs
Opera and Musical theatre scenes program, Fall 2014.
First program of two presented.
Songs Of Love & Loss, Usu Opera Theatre, Dallas Heaton
Songs Of Love & Loss, Usu Opera Theatre, Dallas Heaton
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A performance by the USU Opera Theatre.
Marshall University Music Department Presents Amahl And The Night Visitors, By Gian-Carlo Menotti, Featuring The, Marshall University Opera Theatre, Linda Dobbs, Director, And The, Sanctuary Choir Of Johnson Memorial United Methodist Church, Robert Wray, Director, Linda Dobbs, Robert Wray
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No abstract provided.
Unmasking Wagner's Grail: Homoeroticism, Androgyny, And Anxiety In Parsifal, Tyler Cole Mitchell
Unmasking Wagner's Grail: Homoeroticism, Androgyny, And Anxiety In Parsifal, Tyler Cole Mitchell
Masters Theses
Most readings of Wagner’s final music drama Parsifal seek to illumine a clandestine presentation of Wagner’s racist doctrine or make sense of a less-shrouded but still ambiguous panegyric to Christianity. However, little scholarly material addresses Wagner’s provocative account of sensuality and homoeroticism in this Bühnenweihfestspiel [Stage Consecration Festival Play]. This thesis explores desire and homosexuality within the drama and considers how and why Wagner masks these themes through the opaque mythos of religion, race, and community. Parsifal was partly informed by Wagner’s own complex neuroses: his sexual anxieties and scandals, amalgam of German philosophies, and confusion concerning Germanness. As filtered …
Marshall University Music Department Presents The Mu Opera Theatre, 2013 Opera Gala, Linda Dobbs
Marshall University Music Department Presents The Mu Opera Theatre, 2013 Opera Gala, Linda Dobbs
Linda Dobbs
No abstract provided.
Center Stage: Operatic Culture And Nation Building In Nineteenth-Century Central Europe, Philipp Ther
Center Stage: Operatic Culture And Nation Building In Nineteenth-Century Central Europe, Philipp Ther
Central European Studies
Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nearly every large town possessed a theater in which operas were performed, especially in Central Europe, the region upon …
Summary Of Creative Activities Grant Results- Abinadi, An Opera In Two Acts, Meredith Ryan Taylor, Dr. David Sargent
Summary Of Creative Activities Grant Results- Abinadi, An Opera In Two Acts, Meredith Ryan Taylor, Dr. David Sargent
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Abinadi, at the time of this report, has not been completed. Originally the opera was intended to be finished with an orchestration requiring soloists, chorus and a small instrumental ensemble of not more than twenty players. Early on in the process of writing, Dr. Lawrence Vincent (head of BYU opera) expressed an interest in somehow staging the work, but was unsure that the funds would be available for an orchestra. In consideration of this and the prospect of having the work staged I decided to reduce the amount of instrumentalists to three- two pianists and a woodwind specialist (the cast …
The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Dallas Heaton, Usu Opera
The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Dallas Heaton, Usu Opera
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Composed by Otto Nicolai.
A Comic Opera in Three Acts, produced by USU Opera under the direction of Dallas Heaton.
Marshall University Music Department Presents Amahl And The Night Visitors, Linda Dobbs, Robert Wray
Marshall University Music Department Presents Amahl And The Night Visitors, Linda Dobbs, Robert Wray
Robert Wray
No abstract provided.
Bridging The Gap, Rachelle M. Hulme, Lawrence Vincent
Bridging The Gap, Rachelle M. Hulme, Lawrence Vincent
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Many students of music struggle once they have reached the critical point in their training where they are expected to make their way in the professional world. They find a substantial gap between their opportunities as university students and the seemingly unattainable status of professional musicians. I proposed to study the tools to help students to bridge that gap by attending a six-week opera program called AIMS in Graz, Austria.
Sources, Linda B. Fairtile
Sources, Linda B. Fairtile
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Sources of instrumental music and of non-dramatic vocal music are generally understood to include preliminary sketches and drafts, manuscript and printed scores, performing parts, and, in the latter case, materials related to the choice or development of the vocal text. Letters, diaries, administrative papers, and even journalistic reviews can also be considered sources. Opera, as a collaborative fusion of music and drama, expands this list to include such materials as set and costume designs, staging manuals, lighting plots, and prop lists. Technology has further augmented the inventory, first with still photographs, and later with audio and video recordings. This chapter …
Love, Lust, And Loss: A Senior Recital/An Afternoon Of Contemporary Works, Emily Cedriana Donato
Love, Lust, And Loss: A Senior Recital/An Afternoon Of Contemporary Works, Emily Cedriana Donato
Senior Projects Spring 2014
I am graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College’s Music Department as a classical vocalist. For my senior project I have put together a set of two recitals. My goal was to create contrasting programs that were interesting, each with a specific theme.
The first recital took place on Sunday, December 15th at 7:00 p.m. in the László Z. Bitó Conservatory Performance Space. The concert was titled “Love, Lust and Loss: A Senior Recital” and it explored these themes while demonstrating a wide range of abilities in my voice. Throughout all musical eras, composers have written about …
French Opera And The French Revolution, Etienne Nicolas Mehul, Savannah J. Dotson
French Opera And The French Revolution, Etienne Nicolas Mehul, Savannah J. Dotson
Departmental Honors Projects
Although Etienne Nicolas Méhul is relatively unknown today, he was greatly respected by his contemporaries, including Beethoven, Cherubini and Berlioz. He rose to popularity and notoriety during the most turbulent years of the French Revolution, when most intellectuals fled for their lives, and yet he managed to maintain his status as a favorite of the people. From an examination of some of his operas - Euphrosine (1790), Ariodant (1799), Adrien (1792, 1799), and Horatius Coclès (1794) - it is apparent that Mehul used thinly veiled allegories to express his views. His heroes in these operas were Romans, Scottish nobles, and …
The Remaking Of An American Opera: A Detailed Look At Carlisle Floyd's Grand Opera 'The Passion Of Jonathan Wade', Joshua R. Wentz
The Remaking Of An American Opera: A Detailed Look At Carlisle Floyd's Grand Opera 'The Passion Of Jonathan Wade', Joshua R. Wentz
Theses and Dissertations
Carlisle Floyd's single grand opera, The Passion of Jonathan Wade, premiered in 1962 in New York City only to be placed on a shelf for the next twenty-eight years to collect dust. In 1990, David Gockley at Houston Grand Opera commissioned a revival of the work, prompting Floyd to write eighty percent new music and libretto. The two versions are similar in plot but are set very different musically.
This document examines the composer, a historical background of the American landscape at the time of each premiere, and a brief analytical examination of The Passion of Jonathan Wade in both …