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Dr. Ryan Fogg In A Guest Artist Recital, Ryan Fogg

Guest Artist Concert Performances, Programs, and Posters

This is the poster for the guest artist recital of pianist Dr. Ryan Fogg. The recital took place on February 1, 2024, in the McBeth Recital Hall.

Music Of The Divine: Interweaving Threads Connecting Contemporary Chant-Based Piano Repertoire, Jeremy D. Duck

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

The purpose of this document is to prove chant remains an important source of inspiration among living composers, and, despite the number of piano works already incorporating chant, composers today are still finding unique ways to include chant in their music. To achieve this objective, representative works have been selected for research and analysis for four of the major chant traditions. Connor Chee’s The Navajo Piano, Victoria Bond’s Illuminations on Byzantine Chant, and Hayes Biggs’ E.M. am Flügel: Poem-Étude for Piano Solo, though the chants from which they are inspired are diverse in concept and style, they …

Dr. Lei Cai In A Faculty Piano Recital, Lei Cai

Faculty Performances

This is the promotional poster for the Faculty Piano Recital featuring Dr. Lei Cai, held on October 30, 2023, in the McBeth Recital Hall. Additional performers include guests from the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.

Priscila Navarro In A Guest Artist Recital, Priscila Navarro

Guest Artist Concert Performances, Programs, and Posters

This is the poster for the guest artist recital of pianist Priscila Navarro. The recital took place on February 3, 2023, in the McBeth Recital Hall.

Rediscovering Argentine Repertoire Written In The 1930s: A Performative Study Of Concert Piano Works By Lita Spena And Celia Torrá, Florencia Zuloaga

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

A survey of the piano repertoire written during the decade of 1930 in Argentina reveals the rising number of several works written by women composers. For the first time, the years that followed the inauguration of the National Conservatory of Music and Theater in 1924 witnessed a professionalization of women in the field of music composition, and two figures made great strides in this regard. Celia Torrá and Lita Spena stood out among the first female composition students at the National Conservatory and some of the first to succeed as professional composers. Furthermore, they were among the first women to …

More Than Two Hands: A Studio Recital, School Of Fine Arts

Student Concert Performances, Programs, and Posters

This is the poster for the concert, More Than Two Hands: A Studio Recital, held on Tuesday, November 8, at 7:30 in McBeth Recital Hall. It featured classical, Broadway, and worship music.

Emily Worner, Junior Piano Recital, Emily Worner

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Cheyenne Mccruter, Junior Piano Recital, Cheyenne Mccruter

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Micaiah Higgins, Senior Piano Recital, Micaiah Higgins

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Emma Ross, Harp And Piano, And Megan Gorog, Violin, Sophomore Recital, Emma Ross, Megan Gorog

Student Recitals

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Susie Somers, Junior Piano Recital, Susannah Somers

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Chasing Expression: Tracing Notated And Performative Devices That Create A Bel Canto Style At The Piano, Paul Zeller

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

Discussions of interpretation and performance practice often address specific historical periods, offering analyses of musical practices within a predetermined set of dates, such as ornamentation in the Baroque period, articulation as applied in the Classical era, and phrasing “the long line” in the Romantic era. Such a sectionalized approach yields many valuable insights on how to perform the music of specific composers, but it fails to consider the development of notational practices and performative idioms across different historical eras. Studying the ways in which musicians of different eras applied the same set of musical devices within a specific style could …

Micaiah Higgins, Junior Piano Recital, Micaiah Higgins

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Memorizing Music: A Problem That A Pianist Has To Face, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

As we all know, now the piano is usually an instrument that needs to be played by memory. Except piano ensemble pieces, most solo piano pieces are required to be performed by memory, even including piano concerto works. For a long time, many pianists have had mixed attitudes towards memorizing music.

Brienna Weigner, Senior Piano Recital, Brienna Weigner

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Piano Night At The Movies: A Recital, Mason Mckinney, Ben Hodde, Katie Bayer, Eryn Riley, Jenna Barnes, Sam Youmans, Anna Weyenberg

Student Concert Performances, Programs, and Posters

This is the poster and program from the recital, "Piano Night at the Movies," held on October 30, 2020, at the OBU Amphitheater.

Elizabeth Dunkel, Senior Piano Recital, Elizabeth Dunkel

Junior and Senior Recitals

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The Role Of The Piano In The 12 Poems Of Emily Dickinson By Aaron Copland, Krista Benesch

Honors Theses

In the song cycle 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson by Aaron Copland, one may observe the interplay between the piano and the narrator. Throughout all twelve songs, the piano plays different roles. In several songs, the piano plays a certain character: in “Nature, the gentlest mother,” the piano is personified as Nature, while in “Dear March, come in!” the piano is March. In other songs, the piano reacts to the narrator—for example, in “Going to Heaven!”, the narrator announces a statement, and the piano follows with fast, tumbling eighth notes that portray the narrator’s scattered thoughts. Every song in the …

Guest Recital, Richard Tirk, Suzanne Tirk, Karen Bauman Schlabaugh

Faculty Articles & Research

Flyer for the Plymouth Fine Arts Series in Wichita, Kansas on April 6th, 2019.

Featured Dr. Richard Tirk playing the trumpet, Dr. Suzanne Tirk playing the clarinet, and Dr. Karen Bauman Schlabaugh playing the piano.

From Improvisation To Artistry: A Study Of The Piano’S 12 Sides By Carter Pann, Louis Claussen

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

Intended as a resource for pianists who may analyze or perform Carter Pann’s The Piano’s 12 Sides, this study provides biographical information on the composer and explores his professional relationship with the pianist for whom it was composed, Joel Hastings. Each piece from The Piano’s 12 Sides is discussed in terms of form, melody, harmony, texture and Pann’s approach to the pianistic compositional idiom. The composition is also examined with regard to extra-musical details and programmatic elements as well as inspiration and dedications that influenced Pann’s compositional process.

Correspondence and interviews with the composer reveal the motivation and inspiration behind …

Timothy True, Senior Piano Recital, Timothy M. True

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Tyler Dellaperute, Junior Piano Recital, Tyler Dellaperute

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Brian Campbell, Senior Piano Recital, Brian Campbell

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Leah Bartlam, Junior Piano Recital, Leah P. Bartlam

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Alicia Williams, Junior Piano And Voice Recital, Alicia R. Williams

Junior and Senior Recitals

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John Mortensen: Improvisations, John Mortensen

Faculty Recitals

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Deborah Longenecker, Senior Piano Recital, Deborah Longenecker

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Brienna Weigner And Chris Conte, Freshman Piano Recital, Brienna Weigner, Christopher Conte

Student Recitals

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Luke Williams, Senior Piano Recital, Luke J. Williams

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Audrey Rutt, Senior Piano Recital, Audrey S. Rutt

Junior and Senior Recitals

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