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Piano Proficiency Among Choral Directors, Heather Anderson Robertson

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

The purpose of this study was to examine the practice of using piano in the secondary choral rehearsal setting by examining the functional piano skills used and advocated for by current choral educators with the goal of determining if the level and type of preparation provided by university and college music education teacher preparation programs is adequate in terms of meeting choral directors’ “real world” needs. An electronic survey was disseminated to 514 middle school and high school choral directors currently serving in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Research was conducted based on usable responses (N=190) from two groups, those who …

Makiko Kinoshita And Her 9 Preludes For Piano: The Amalgam Of American Jazz And European Tradition, Mai Nagatomo

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

Makiko Kinoshita is one of the leading contemporary composers in Japan. Kinoshita’s 9 Preludes (2001) is remarkable twenty-first century piano literature that provides abundant use of various musical styles. The most important style that Kinoshita combined with traditional Western writing is jazz; especially the rhythmic and harmonic language of Jazz music. This document provides a detailed analysis of Kinoshita’s unique treatments of form, tonality, harmony, rhythm, and motivic materials. The central section of this study employs musical examples in order to examine how Kinoshita fuses diverse elements of musical styles with modern musical language to create her own idiom. Along …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Music Alive Faculty & Guest Artist Collaboration Series, Freya String Quartet, Henning Vauth, Piano, November 15, 2012, Henning Vauth

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Marshall University School Of Music And Theatre Presents Faculty Recital Wendell Dobbs, Flute And Guest Artist John Ingram, Piano And Ezgi Karakus, Violoncello, Wendell B. Dobbs, John Ingram, Ezgi Karakus

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Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Faculty & Guest Artist Duo Recital Meral Güneyman, Piano Şőlen Dikener, Cello, Şőlen Dikener, Meral Güneyman

Şőlen Dikener

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Christina Wood In A Senior Piano Recital, Christina Wood

Student Concert Performances, Programs, and Posters

This is the program for the senior piano recital of Christina Wood. This recital took place on April 26, 2012, in the McBeth Recital Hall in the Mabee Fine Arts Center.

Ravel And Roussel: Retrospectivism In Le Tombeau De Couperin And La Suite Pour Piano, Op.14, Qingfan Jiang

Papers

Urged by an increasingly pervading nationalism, many French composers at the beginning of the twentieth century sought to create unique French music by linking to their past musical traditions. This trend of the retrospective approach to musical composition is evident in the works of contemporary French composers such as Vincent d’Indy, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Albert Roussel. Of the latter two composers, however, personal stylistic traits differentiate their Retrospectivism on both the musical level and the aesthetic one.

Tiny Sounds, Valeria Ch. Jonard Perez

Masters Theses

Our auditory system perceives sounds within a specific range of frequencies and amplitudes. It is the way we define our aural world and the sounds we are able or willing to hear. Just above the border of the threshold of human audition hearing, we find unique sounds with particular characteristics. These sometimes forgotten or ignored sounds interest me as compositional elements.

Listening attentively requires extra effort from our ears and concentration; listening to sounds that vacillate from imperceptible to audible changes how humans typically listen to sounds in their environment. Although amplifying these discreet sounds would rob them of their …

Variations On A Russian Folk Song, Brian R. Denu

Student Publications

This piece for solo piano demonstrates a wide range of techniques utilized in twentieth century composition. The theme is taken from the Finale of Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird", which itself is based on a Russian folk song. Each subsequent variation focuses on one or more compositional technique.

I. Theme

II. March (chords by thirds, extended triads)

III. Molto grave e expressivo (chromaticism)

IV. L'istesso tempo (ten-tone row)

V. Fast and light (twelve-tone row, secundal harmony)

VI. Much less (minimalism, extended techniques)

VII. Hazy (quartal harmony, modal melody)

VIII. Finale (spectralism)

The order of the variations partly reflects a chronological …

Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Guest Artist Gerald Lee, Piano, Gerald Lee

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Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Faculty & Guest Artist Duo Recital Meral Güneyman, Piano Şőlen Dikener, Cello, Şőlen Dikener, Meral Güneyman

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"After The Golden Age: Romantic Pianism And Modern Performance" By Kenneth Hamilton, Robert Winter

Performance Practice Review

Winter reviews and critiques Hamilton's work.

The Antebellum "Piano Girl" In The American South, Candace Bailey

Performance Practice Review

Throughout the nineteenth century, the education of young gentlewomen almost always included music lessons, with piano lessons being the most frequently recommended. The social context for these young women pianists, “piano girls,” has been described in several modern works, particularly since Arthur Loesser’s seminal work Men, Women, and Pianos: A Social History.1 In the 1980s, Judith Tick made the term “piano girl” a familiar one in musicological studies, and since that time the idea of the piano girl and her role in society has been explored by others.2 Most of these studies describe the social phenomenon of the piano girl, …

Homeward Bound - Sacred Song (High Voice), Keith Rowley

Keith D Rowley

Sacred song for high voice and piano. Words by David L. Crowley.

Une Allee Du Luxembourg - Vocal Solo (Tenor), Keith Rowley

Keith D Rowley

A French art song for tenor and piano. Words by Gerard de Nerval.

Program Notes For A Graduate Recital In Piano, Amy Jun Ming Chin

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of this paper is to offer a biographical background of the composers, and historical and theoretical analysis of the works performed in my Master's recital. This will assist the listener to better understand the music performed.

Orbits For Two Pianos, N. Lincoln Hanks

N. Lincoln Hanks

A tone poem for two pianos based on this text by Rilke:

I live my life in growing orbits

which move out over the things of the world.

Perhaps I can never achieve the last,

but that will be my attempt.

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,

and I have been circling for a thousand years,

and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm,

or a great song.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Psaume 24 - Voix Mixtes, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

Hymne pour voix mixtes et piano.