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Orchestral Tuba Audition Preparation: The Perspective Of Three Successful Teachers, Golden A. Lund
Orchestral Tuba Audition Preparation: The Perspective Of Three Successful Teachers, Golden A. Lund
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
Daniel Perantoni, Warren Deck, and Mike Roylance have played significant roles in developing students that have won orchestral tuba positions in recent decades. These three instructors are representative of the past 30 years in that the success of their students are tiered chronologically over that time period; Perantoni has had students winning orchestral positions since the 1980s, Warren Deck’s studio began flourishing in the 1990’s, and Mike Roylance’s students have been emerging since he began teaching in Boston in 2003.
The purpose of this study was to determine commonalities and differences between the three of these teachers. Their effectiveness was …
Violin Concerto #1, Matthew J. Holman
Violin Concerto #1, Matthew J. Holman
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
This piece is a violin concerto modeled after, but not explicitly quoting melodic material of, several pieces of music by composers Bear McCreary, and Martin O’Donnell. The first and third movements of my piece were each modeled after two of Bear McCreary’s pieces from the soundtrack to Battlestar Galactica Season 2 – Allegro, and Prelude to War, respectively. The second movement of my piece was modeled after Martin O’Donnell’s piece Ashes, from the soundtrack to Halo: Reach.
Although I model my piece on the formal structures and, occasionally, the chord progressions of McCreary’s and O’Donnell’s pieces, …