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Performance Practice Review

List of Contributors for the Fall 1996 of Performance Practice Review.

End matter and advertisements from the Fall 1996 (9/2) issue of Performance Practice Review.

Violes Esgales--Sainte Colombe, Marais, Couperin, Les Voix Humaines. Duo De Violes De Gambe, Annette Otterstedt

Performance Practice Review

Reviews and critiques Violes Esgales' record of Baroque music for two violes de gambe.

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Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

No abstract provided.

"Stolen Time: The History Of Tempo Rubato." By Richard Hudson., Barton Hudson

Performance Practice Review

Review's and critiques Hudson's 1994 book.

"Monsieur De Saint Lambert: A New Treatise On Accompaniment." Trans. And Ed. By John S. Powell, Charlotte S. Mattax

Performance Practice Review

Reviews and critiques Powell's translation and editorial work on Lambert's Accompaniment Treatise.

The Mandolin: Its Structure And Performance (Sixteenth To Twentieth Centuries), James Tyler, Paul Sparks

Performance Practice Review

RILM: "A history of the instrument, with information about the construction and repertoire, and particular reference to performance techniques. The derivation of the term "mandolin" is discussed, as are the differences between the mandolino and the Neapolitan mandolin."

Performing On The Trombone: A Chronological Survey, David M. Guion

Performance Practice Review

RILM: "A history of the trombone from the late 14th c. to the present, with special emphasis on performance practice."

Action And Singing In Late 18th And Early 19th Century England, Robert Toft

Performance Practice Review

RILM: "Examines the role that action played in the performance of vocal music in the late 18th and early 19th c., through descriptions in writings from the period. Gilbert Austin's Chironomia, or, A treatise on rhetorical delivery (London, 1806) provided instruction in elocution and described such topics as standing, using the hands and arms, and making gestures in relation to the text. Austin's notation of action is applied to Thomas Gray's poem An elegy written in a country church-yard--which was set to music by Stephen Storace--to illustrate how action might have been employed by singers in the late 18th …

Historical And Regional Pronunciations In Vocal Performance, Douglas Leedy

Performance Practice Review

RILM: "Particular pronunciations or dialects are important factors in the creation and execution of vocal music. Such sounds can have a dramatic effect on the coloration and rhythmic profile of a piece of music; the recreation of such sounds is thus of great importance."

With Intent To Stage: Editing Kurt Weill's Music For The Theater, Ed Harsh

Performance Practice Review

RILM: "A critical edition of Weill's opera and music theater works confronts special editorial problems. The complex and dynamic identity of a work for the theater conflicts with the paradigm of the stable, definitive text that critical editions usually aim to present. Further, the collaborative nature of such works allows significant influence to be exerted on the text by individuals other than the composer. A satisfactory solution to these problems is not possible by recourse to the conventional musical-editorial philosophy that has prevailed for most of the 20th c. Rather, a new philosophy that places a positive value on the …

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Performance Practice Review

Table of Contents for the Fall 1996 issue of Performance Practice Review.

Elements Of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, And Deformations In The Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata, Mark Richards

Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

No abstract provided.

Tosca’S Prism: Three Moments In Western Cultural History, Juan Chattah

Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

No abstract provided.

A Russian Rhetoric Of Form In The Music Of Witold Lutosławski, Douglas Rust

Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

The capacity to write music that clearly conveys one formal meaning in its immediate context, and yet expresses a different meaning in a wider context, is one of the most interesting attributes in the musical style of Witold Lutosławski (1913–94), who cultivated multiple temporalities in his compositions using the musical language of twentieth-century modernism. In developing these innovations, he was inspired by his Russian-trained composition teacher to use metaphors of rhetoric and drama to model the “psychology” of his musical forms on the example of Beethoven’s sonatas. This article will suggest ways in which Lutosławski’s manner of composing music in …

The Unfolding Tale Of Griffes’S “White Peacock”, Taylor A. Greer

Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

This essay provides an interdisciplinary study of
Charles Griffes’s monumental piano work, “The White Peacock,” integrating historical, analytical, and literary perspectives. A strong correspondence exists between the poem’s central image, the bird’s unfolding tail, and three aspects of Griffes’s setting: (1) his style of “motivic magnification,” in which the initial lush dominant ninth chord is transformed into composed-out melodic spans in the bass; (2) a strategic expansion of register, coinciding with the recapitulation; and (3) his unusual treatment of form, which in the final measures suggests perpetual repetition. Finally, Griffes’s work underlines his ties to European artistic culture by reviving …

Schenker, Schubert, And The Subtonic Chord, David Damschroder

Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

A close reading and critique of Heinrich Schenker’s treatment of the subtonic chord (for example, B♭-D-F in C major or C minor) serves as the foundation for a detailed assessment of the diverse contexts in which it was employed by Franz Schubert. Numerous analyses of musical excerpts by Schubert help to reveal the relationship between the subtonic chord and the dominant Stufe (scale-step) and to demonstrate various linear contexts in which it may arise. Although the chord often is labeled as VII in C minor or as ♭VII in C major, its subsidiary role within the projection or connection of …

How To Build A Development Section: A Schenkerian Perspective, Timothy Cutler

Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

More than fifty years ago, Allen Forte rightly predicted that the theories of Heinrich Schenker would have a profound impact on music theory pedagogy. In particular, Schenkerian analysis benefits Fernhören (“distance-hearing”), which relates not only to musical connections severed by chronological remoteness, but also to the conceptual space that extends from the composition itself to its background structure. This essay examines one underutilized method for strengthening Fernhören. Using the fundamental structure of an unnamed composition as a starting point, a note or two at a time will be added to the background, working through the middleground and toward the foreground. …

Beats That Commute: Algebraic And Kinesthetic Models For Math-Rock Grooves, Brad Osborn

Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

Math rock’s most salient compositional facet is its cyclical repetition of grooves featuring changing and odd-cardinality meter. These unconventional grooves deform the conventional rhythmic structures of rock, such as backbeat and steady pulse, in such a way that a listener’s sense of metric organization is initially thwarted. Using transcriptions from math-rock artists such as Radiohead, The Mars Volta, and The Chariot, the author demonstrates a new analytical apparatus aimed at making sense of the ways listeners and performers process these changing pulse levels: the pivot pulse. The pivot pulse is defined as the slowest temporal level preserved in a given …

What’S In A Theme? On The Nature Of Variation, Roman Ivanovitch

Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

Most descriptions or taxonomies of variation suggest a conception of “theme” as a repository of elements from which the variations will select, emphasizing now one aspect, now another. When considered as a temporal phenomenon, however, a theme appears not as a static arrangement of “structural” elements, but instead stands in a complex and reciprocal relationship to the variations: it bequeaths to them a set of expectations about how they might proceed, and yet exists as a mutable collection of possibilities or potentialities to be activated and reshaped by the course of the variations themselves. The article explores some of the …

Compound Melody And Jazz Improvisations: A Reconsideration, John D. Check

Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

The concept of “compound melody” (a frequent component of Schenkerian analysis) pertains to the way a single line of music projects two or more voice-leading parts. While usually associated with works of the common-practice period, it also plays a role in jazz improvisations. This is especially so in an improvisation by alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, on “All The Things You Are” by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. The voice-leading graphs of this solo, and the attendant commentary, suggest that an awareness and appreciation of compound melody can enable a deeper understanding of jazz styles.

This article is part of …

Walker, Josephine, 1864-1944 (Sc 2498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2498. Diary kept by Josephine Walker, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky from 4 November 1891 to 10 October 1893. She records the weather, visits, illnesses, local births and deaths, and everyday household and farm activities such as food preparation,quilting, sewing, and her piano playing. Local family names mentioned include Traylor, Diddle, Flowers, Atkins and Murrell.

Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscritps Small Collection 342. Letters (25) written by Mrs. Giles, an author of Knifley, Adair County, Kentucky, to her friends, Joe Covington and Mitchell Leichhardt, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating much about her writings.

Roberts, Ethel (Sc 2499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2499. Letter, 18 January 1923, from 16-year-old Ethel Roberts, a student in Big Creek, Kentucky, to Helen Ferenczy, Altgeld School, Chicago, Illinois. Ethel describes Christmas and other activities at her school.

Frozen, Parkland College

Parkland Theatre

By Bryony Lavery

Director: Randi Jennifer Collins Hard
Composer: Tim Schirmer
Lighting Designer: Thomas V. Korder
Sound Designer: Joshua D. Stewart
Graphic Designer: Paul Young
Technical Director: David G. Dillman

January 18, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 at 7:30pm
January 29 at 3pm

Produced by special arrangement with

To view images from this production, visit Frozen (2012).

Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Wayne County, Kentucky Project (Fa 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 23. Oral history interviews with various residents of Wayne County, Kentucky, conducted by Western Kentucky University folk studies students. Topics include the oil industry, folk medicine, water witching, one-room schools and banjo playing.

Zeppelins Over London, Ron Anderson

ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program

Hear the story of the first strategic bombing campaign in history. The target was the civilian populated areas of London in World War I. Come on board a giant Zeppelin of the Imperial German Navy Air Service and learn what these raids did, or did not accomplish, from Ron Anderson, local zeppelin historian.

If Religion = Restrictive, “I’M Leaving It!” “Well, I’M Changing It!” Say The Two Millennials: Welcome To The Second And Third Generation Rebels, Filip Milosavljevic

180 Symposium Publications

Second and third generation young adult Christians have rebelled against the church of their parents, against the status quo. Therefore, in a simple two-group understanding, they have either left the church altogether or have chosen to cope by personalizing their faith. In response to these two “rebellious” groups, older generations have either pulled in their reigns against apostasy of the latter group or have chosen to exclude the mavericks and forget those considered to be “weak” who have left the ranks. What do leaders do with the alarming statistics regarding those who have left, and what do they do with …

The Effects Of Oxygen On The Electrophysiology Of Co2/H+-Chemosensitive And -Insensitive Neurons Of The Solitary Complex Of The Rat, Michael Patrick Matott

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study tested the hypothesis that decreasing the control O₂ level from 95% to 40% (5% CO₂ + 55% N₂) maintains viability in caudal solitary complex (cSC) neurons in transverse slices (~300-400ꝳ) prepared from neonatal rat (P2-22) maintained at 32-34°C. The underlying rationale is to reduce exposure to redox and nitrosative stimuli generated during several hours of exposure to 95% O₂ that produces a tissue O₂ tension throughout the slice which is in excess of 203 kPa (2.0 atmospheres absolute,ATA) oxygen. Whole cell recordings of cSC neurons maintained in 40% O₂ exhibited spontaneous …

Mercel Knight Daniels

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Marcel Knight Daniels on Jan. 27, 2012 at Parrish Grove Baptist Church

Contributors/End Matter

Performance Practice Review

List of contributors to the Spring 1995 (8/1) issue of Performance Practice Review.

End matter and advertisements from the Spring 1995 (8/1) issue of Performance Practice Review.