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Recital Report, Alan P. Beste May 1975

Recital Report, Alan P. Beste

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The purpose of the solo recital was to further develop my abilities on an instrument to my maximum capacity; to obtain a fuller understanding of the performance-related problems of the bassoon, and to discover and practice the solutions to those problems; to have an opportunity to encounter various musical styles from all periods; to gain a greater knowledge of the existing solo literature for the bassoon; and to gain a better understanding of performance problems in general as they relate to all areas of instrumental performance.

This report will present the works performed on that recital in the light of …


Recital Report, Robert Steven Call May 1975

Recital Report, Robert Steven Call

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

It was the purpose of the recital to afford the performer an opportunity of developing overall musicianship and gaining insight into the teaching of brass instruments through the preparation and performance of several pieces of varied musical styles.

The writer elected to perform on trombone, baritone horn, and tuba. Successful performances had been done on trombone and baritone horn prior to the preparation of the master's recital. However, the tuba was a new performance experience because serious study of the instrument had only covered about one year.

The writer was specifically concerned with the selection of literature suitable to the …


1. History Of The Development Of The Violin 2. Construction Of The Violin 3. Repairs Of The Violin String Instruments, Carl David Nyman May 1975

1. History Of The Development Of The Violin 2. Construction Of The Violin 3. Repairs Of The Violin String Instruments, Carl David Nyman

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The origin of all stringed instruments is lost in the midst of time, and despite the most patient and laborious research on the part of famous savants, no positive information has as yet been furnished regarding this point . Knowledge of the subject is more or less conjectural, and all that has been definitely established is the existence of the predecessors of the violin - the English crewth, a six stringed bowed instrument which is conspicuous for its rectangular shape, which is strongly reminiscent of the Greek kithara; the rebec, an instrument in the shape of an elongated pear having …


Graduate Recital, Gary Austin Poore May 1975

Graduate Recital, Gary Austin Poore

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

From among the bountiful literature of vocal music and the numerous composers, the works discussed in this paper were chosen for this writer's master's recital as works representative of the finest of the given composer's output in song form, and as works which would present a challenge to the performer while exhibiting his vocal skills to greatest advantage in performance.

The long , hard road of preparation for the performance is only partially represented herein, All that remains visible of the hundreds of hours of effort devoted thereto is this mass of written data which evidences this writer's scholarly capabilities …


Patrick Edward Connor And The Military District Of Utah: Civil War Military Operations In Utah And Nevada, 1862-1865, Max Reynolds Mccarthy May 1975

Patrick Edward Connor And The Military District Of Utah: Civil War Military Operations In Utah And Nevada, 1862-1865, Max Reynolds Mccarthy

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Troops, requested by the federal government for the security during the Civil War of the overland mail, telegraph, and emigrant routes, were provided by California for those portions of the routes which crossed the territories of Utah and Nevada. A force, never exceeding 1,200 in strength, commanded by Patrick Edward Connor, was assigned a geographic responsibility, the Military District of Utah.

Connor's California Volunteers established principal troop locations at Fort Churchill and Fort Ruby in Nevada, and at Camp Douglas and Fort Bridger in Utah Territory during mid-1862. Major actions were conducted against the Indians at the battle of Bear …


A History Of Mapleton, Utah To 1945, Ralph K. Harmer May 1975

A History Of Mapleton, Utah To 1945, Ralph K. Harmer

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Mapleton, a small rural Utah community located on the benchlands between Hobble Creek Canyon and Spanish Fork Canyon fifty miles south of Salt Lake City, was settled in the late 1860s and early 1870s by Springvllle and Spanish Fork families who built their homes on their individual farms. These families did not follow traditional Mormon settlement patterns with a City of Zion plat as their guide; their community grew along quite different lines. Its inhabitants never heard a "call" nor did they have their land alloted to them by their church.

The Latter-day Saint Ward, established on the bench In …


Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 2, 1975 Jan 1975

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 2, 1975

Journal of Mormon History

--Quest for Refuge: An Hypothesis as to the Social Origins and Nature of the Mormon Political Kingdom
Marvin S. Hill, 3

--Jacob Hamblin, Apostle to the Lamanites, and the Indian Mission Charles S. Peterson, 21

--Letters from the Frontier: Commerce, Nauvoo, and Salt Lake City Edited by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, 35

--Mormon Migration and Settlement after 1875
Richard Sherlock, 53

--"The Mormon Peril": The Crusade against the Saints in Britain, 1910-1914
Malcolm R. Thorp, 69