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Baptism (Primary Song), Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

Universidad Autónoma De Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Hymn Preludes: Book Five "The Sacrament" - Piano Or Organ, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

Two Soundpieces (Score), Gary Smart

Gary Smart

I was a student at Indiana University when I wrote Two Soundpieces (1969). The piece was originally written for a friend, tenor saxophonist, Robert Hores, who asked for a piece that used the tenor’s idiomatic “illegitimate” sounds. It was soon picked up by avant garde saxophonist Ken Dorn who performed the piece several times in various new music venues. I moved to Germany in 1970 and soon after lost much of my personal music library, including this piece, in a Cologne warehouse fire. At the time I had just a few copies of most of my works….and suddenly they were …

Two Soundpieces - Soundpiece I: Tripartite (Recording), Gary Smart, Michael Bovenzi

Gary Smart

I was a student at Indiana University when I wrote Two Soundpieces (1969). The piece was originally written for a friend, tenor saxophonist, Robert Hores, who asked for a piece that used the tenor’s idiomatic “illegitimate” sounds. It was soon picked up by avant garde saxophonist Ken Dorn who performed the piece several times in various new music venues. I moved to Germany in 1970 and soon after lost much of my personal music library, including this piece, in a Cologne warehouse fire. At the time I had just a few copies of most of my works….and suddenly they were …

Two Soundpieces - Soundpiece Ii: Rag-Cadenza (Recording), Gary Smart, Michael Bovenzi

Gary Smart

I was a student at Indiana University when I wrote Two Soundpieces (1969). The piece was originally written for a friend, tenor saxophonist, Robert Hores, who asked for a piece that used the tenor’s idiomatic “illegitimate” sounds. It was soon picked up by avant garde saxophonist Ken Dorn who performed the piece several times in various new music venues. I moved to Germany in 1970 and soon after lost much of my personal music library, including this piece, in a Cologne warehouse fire. At the time I had just a few copies of most of my works….and suddenly they were …

Piano Sonata (Score), Gary Smart

Gary Smart

My Piano Sonata consists of four large contrasting movements. Each movement bows to tradition and convention in many ways. Yet each also aims to creates something new. I utilize diverse materials in my music, materials from Americana, jazz and world musics As well as the Western European tradition. Pluralism has become a major force for me. I find the 21st century to be strikingly different than the time in which I studied and came of age. Technology has brought us all into very close contact. Today the alien does not remain alien for long; it is soon incorporated. The world …

Piano Sonata Iii. Turtle Dreams Of Flight (Recording), Gary Smart, Yukino Miyake

Gary Smart

This slow movement was directly inspired by a dream. I enter the mind of the turtle. I dream my turtle self into other dimensions, where I think and feel without the use of language. This pseudo-waltz scherzo moves more than once from very slow to very fast, from low to high register, from simple to complex with an urgent, yet disguised purpose. Like my dream, this is a mysterious drama indeed, as is life itself. In the end one is still left with a question, perhaps Ives’ Unanswered Question. For me this piece is symbolic of an inexorable desire for …

Piano Sonata Iv. Chez Garuda (Recording), Gary Smart, Yukino Miyake

Gary Smart

Garuda is a mythical bird-god. His statue in Sanjusangendo is fierce and menacing. The figure seemed almost comical in its ferocity. The Garuda I saw was a crazed Hellboy musician stamping out a beat, playing wild licks on his flute. But it seemed he might also be capable of the most inspired lyricism. If so, his would be formidable music-making, no doubt. This movement is my reaction to that image. Here my jazz background becomes apparent. Bebop, boogie-woogie, Bill Evans lyricism…all this and more is mixed together in a swirling cartoon world of expression. The movement is loosely cast in …

Piano Sonata I. Kimnara’S Blessing (Recording), Gary Smart, Yukino Miyake

Gary Smart

The first and last movements here are named after deities in the Japanese Buddist-Hindu canon. I was inspired by a visit to the Sanjusangendo shrine in Kyoto, where 1000 exquisite ancient wood statues have stood for many centuries. There I saw Kimnara, a winged female spirit, a gentle celestial musician. My evocation of her music is ritualistic. The piece begins and ends with an “a-men” and features an abundance of thematic material which includes lyrical expression, as well as harp-like flourishes and most notably, exuberant sections based on the ringing metallic sounds and rhythmic gestures of the Balinese gamelan orchestra. …

Piano Sonata Ii. Moonspinner (Recording), Gary Smart, Yukino Miyake

Gary Smart

This playful, virtuosic movement is evocative of American folk music, particularly Appalachian fiddle music and song. The fiddle music is abstracted, certainly, yet the figurations are idiomatic. The folk song, which interrupts the “instrumental” music twice, is original. A hint of it appears in the “working out’ at the center of the form and also in the high register at the very close of the movement. The title, “Moonspinner” is named after an old-fashioned hand made wooden toy I once saw in North Carolina. I always promised myself I would write a piece with this title.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital Featuring Stephen Lawson, Horn, Assisted By, J. Steven Hall, Marimba, Percussion, Kay Lawson, Bassoon, Peggy Johnston, Piano, Stephen Lawson, J. Steven Hall, Kay Lawson, Peggy Johnston

Stephen Lawson

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital Featuring Stephen Lawson, Horn, Assisted By, J. Steven Hall, Marimba, Percussion, Kay Lawson, Bassoon, Peggy Johnston, Piano, Stephen Lawson, J. Steven Hall, Kay Lawson, Peggy Johnston

Stephen Lawson

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Nevelson Duo, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Violin, Leslie Petteys, Piano, Assisted By Blake Racer, Voice, In "E" Is For..., Elizabeth Reed Smith, Leslie Petteys

Elizabeth Reed Smith

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital, Featuring, Martin Saunders, Trumpet, Accompanied By, Alanna Cushing, Piano Sean Parsons, Piano, Martin Saunders, Alanna Cushing, Sean Parsons

Martin Saunders

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital, Featuring, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Assisted By J. Steven Hall, Marimba, Percussion, Kay Lawson, Bassoon, Peggy Johnson, Piano, Stephen Lawson, Steven Hall, Kay Lawson, Peggy Johnson

Stephen Lawson

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital, Featuring, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Assisted By J. Steven Hall, Marimba, Percussion, Kay Lawson, Bassoon, Peggy Johnson, Piano, Stephen Lawson, Steven Hall, Kay Lawson, Peggy Johnson

Steven Hall

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Music Alive, Guest Artist Concert Series, The Capital Trio, Chopin Bicentennial Concert, Duncan Cummings, Piano, Hilary Cummings, Violin, Şölen Dikener, Cello, Duncan Cummings, Hilary Cummings, Şőlen Dikener

Şőlen Dikener

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Richard Kravchak, Oboe, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Henning Vauth, Piano, Richard Kravchak, Stephen Lawson, Henning Vauth

Richard Kravchak

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University Of Akron Dustin Seifert Senior Recital (Mar 27, 1996), Robert D. Jorgensen

Robert D. Jorgensen

Presenting Mr. Jorgensen on Euphonium, and Mrs. Anne Jorgensen on piano.

Reading Music: Representing Female Performance In Nineteenth-Century British Piano Method Books And Novels, Laura Vorachek

Laura Vorachek

The editorial content of piano method books published in the nineteenth century contributed to the gendering of the domestic piano by targeting a middle-class female audience. At the same time, these tutorials circumscribed the ability and ambition of female pianists, cautioning women against technical display or performing challenging pieces in company, thereby reinforcing the stereotype of the graceful, demure woman who played a little. However, this effort was complicated by both the tutorials themselves and contemporary fiction. The middle-class women reading these tutorials also read novels—a fact the method books occasionally acknowledge—which often presented a very different picture of women’s …

Lord, Teach Me How To Pray - 2 Part Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

This is a 2 part choir arrangement of Willy Reske's setting of "Prayer is the soul's sincere desire."

Hymn Preludes - Piano Or Organ, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

Prelude settings of 20 hymns for piano or organ.

Hymn Preludes: Book Two - Piano Or Organ, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

Prelude settings of 20 more hymns for piano or organ

Singing The Blues (Recording), Gary Smart

Gary Smart

The pop song “Singing the Blues” was written in 1920 by a team of composers (Robinson-Conrad-Lewis-Young) and was recorded that year by both the Original Dixieland Jass Band and singer Aileen Stanley. Both recordings were on the Victor label. But the inspiration for my improvisation here is the famous 1927 recording on the Okeh label by Bix Beiderbecke and his group. Bix’s jazz is not as brilliant as that of Louis Armstrong, nor is it as dramatic. But it is wonderful stuff, more sophisticated harmonically and more purely melodic. It is serene and musical. I have long loved this style. …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Tour Around The World: Hamburg, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Violin, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Henning Vauth, Piano, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Stephen Lawson, Henning Vauth

Henning Vauth

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Music Alive Faculty & Guest Artist Collaboration Series, A Tour Around The World: Hamburg, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Violin, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Henning Vauth, Piano, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Stephen Lawson, Henning Vauth

Henning Vauth

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital, Reed Smith, Violin, Wendell Dobbs, Flute, With Guest, John Ingram, Piano, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Wendell B. Dobbs

Elizabeth Reed Smith

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Richard Kravchak, Oboe, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Henning Vauth, Piano, Richard Kravchak, Stephen Lawson, Henning Vauth

Henning Vauth

No abstract provided.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Tour Around The World: Hamburg, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Violin, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Henning Vauth, Piano, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Stephen Lawson, Henning Vauth

Elizabeth Reed Smith

No abstract provided.