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Chopin Mazurkas And Its Influence On Polish Nationalism, Pablo Cintron

Masters Theses

The innovative character of Chopin Mazurkas is forever linked with Polish culture. This thesis examines how the unmistakable sound of the Mazurka captures the Polish sound more than any other work written by the composer and how it contributes to Polish cultural nationalism during the Polish diaspora of the nineteenth-century. In this study, the author presents a brief examination on Chopin's traditional interpretation of his mazurkas as well as isolating the characteristics of Polish interpretation that sets the Mazurka performance apart from the non-traditional style. A research case is made when contrasting the current concept of the classical execution of …

The Use Of Original Song-Writing To Help Families Cope With Hospice Care, Kelsey Mcquillan

Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day (2011-2017)

No abstract provided.

"Retrograde Soul": A Song Cycle, Victoria E. Bouton

Senior Honors Theses

The song cycle is a classical music genre originating from the German Lieder tradition with roots in the early romantic period. Its versatility as a compositional form has ensured its popularity from its 19^th century origins on, and accounts for the diversity of works within the genre. This thesis is a creative project involving the composition of a song cycle for female voice, accompanied by a string quartet and containing an original poetic text. The purpose of the project was to allow acquired knowledge of music theory, history, and technique to inform the creative process of generating an original …

Stacy Busch Senior Honors Recital: Composer, Stacy Busch

Honors Theses

The works that I selected to be performed on my senior recital are pieces that I’ve written over the course of the past year. Most of my work is predicated on the exploration of the human condition. Rather than focusing on technical and cerebral complexities that abstract music aims to explore, my work is grounded in the emotional realm. This foundation, I hope, provokes the listener to experience and question the characteristics of their own self. The largest piece on my program, “Creature”, is a 20 minute multi-­‐media production that includes video, electronic music and live performance. The piece is …

Garden Of The Carpathians: Four Reflective Pieces For Mixed Ensemble That Highlight The Dualism Of Romania’S People, Culture, And Aesthetic, David Stamps

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

Garden of the Carpathians is a collection of original compositions inspired by four separate explorations of Romanian cultural elements, rural and urban landscapes, and an American perception of dualism within their historical aesthetic. The four pieces (Țuică, Troubled Splendor, From Unknown Heights, and Modistoric) each emphasize a different aspect of this dichotomy. Țuică focuses on the social traditions of Romania by examining customary meal-time interactions that are now influenced by Western culture and commercialism. Troubled Splendor acknowledges the typical stereotypes of communism, gypsy life, and poverty, but then highlights the hard-working, curious, and motivated enlightenment …

Provost Publishes 6th In Series Of Conductor’S Guides, Matt Kurz

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

P-08 A Composition Project: An Original 12-Tone Fugue Modeled After J.S. Bach’S Bwv 847, Ilana Cady

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

The specific goal of this project is to explore the compositional techniques of the 12-tone system developed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1921 and apply these techniques to fugal writing. In this process I am taking Bach’s fugue, BWV 847, and using it as the blueprint for my original 12-tone fugue. I will follow the same overarching structural pattern of BWV 847—retaining the number of voices, subject entries, and usage of the middle development section, while submitting them to the paradigms of 12-tone serialism. My composition will push the fugue form in an unexpected and more progressive direction. The 12-tone system …

Flow, Tommy Bravos

Compositions

Flow was composed in the Spring of 2014 and premiered in it’s entirety during the April Student Composition Concert here at Illinois Wesleyan University. I composed the piece during an emotionally tumultuous time, and it represents many events that were occurring cyclically in my life at the time. The emotional events that directly inspired Flow were like opposite sides of a coin: one being relationships attempting to grow and the other being relationships gradually turning sour, needing to be left behind. These ideas are represented by the piece revolving around the recurring motive, showing how these events constantly wove in …

Student Composition Concert, Danielle Kamp

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Birke Fine Arts Festival 2014. Fifth Annual Festival Of New Music. Marshall University, February 25-28, 2014, Mark Zanter

All Performances

No abstract provided.

2013-2014 New Music Festival, Lisa Leonard, Shirley J. Thompson

New Music Festival

Eighth Annual New Music Festival

• Shirley J. Thompson, Composer-in-Residence
• Lisa Leonard, Director

Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 7:30 pm

• Spotlight: Faculty Concert

Sunday, February 24, 2014 at 7:30 pm

• Contemporary Music Forum - Post Modernism: Contemporary Influences in Art Music

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 7:30 pm

• Spotlight: Young Composers

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 7:30 pm

• Spotlight: Shirley J. Thompson

Commissioned Work

Tequesta Song for Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano by Shirley J. Thompson. The full score is displayed in the Creative Works collection.

Sonata Divina Commedia (Part I: Inferno), Anthony Elia

Bridwell Library Research

Part 1 of planned 3-part violin and piano sonata modeled after Dante's "Divina Commedia." Part 1 "Inferno" is a wild modernist adventure for violin and piano, echoing the terrors of inferno. As the piece is incredibly virtuosic, the composer allows for variation, adaptation, and some minor changes if necessary for performers to execute the piece, as faithfully as they can. The work was written in honor of two superb musicians, who by random chance, the composer met or had connections with separately, before realizing the violinist (Mr. Kerr) and the pianist (Mr. Wallace) actually met and went to school together …

A Song Through Time: Tiger Rag And The Twentieth Century, Thomas Grady Hartsock

Music

Tiger Rag is one of the first recorded jazz works.This project investigates the initial creation of the work and follows it through five different artists in the twentieth century to explain how this piece of music has grown in it's hundred years of life.

An "Alien Foundation": The Eclectism Of Antonin Dvorak's American Period, Kelly Marie Fallon

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In 1891 Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) was offered a position as the Director of the American Conservatory in New York City by Jeanette Thurber (1850-1946) due to his reputation as a nationalistic composer. Thurber was intending to create a national music for America and hired Dvorak to not only promote the American Conservatory, but help her achieve her goal of an American style. By early 1892 an agreement was reached between the two parties, and Dvorak assumed his role as Director of the Conservatory in October of 1892, a tenure which lasted until May 1895. This three year period, …

On Constructing A Sonic Gangbang: System And Subversion In Gerald Barry’S Chevaux-De-Frise, Mark Fitzgerald

Articles

This paper examines Chevaux-de-frise by Gerald Barry. The work is from a transitional period in Barry's work forming a bridge between the work of the 1980s (most notably The Intelligence Park) and the more polyphonic work of the 1990s. The paper describes Barry's use of canonic devices and his manipulation of found material before making some brief links to later works from Barry's output.

I Shall Not Live In Vain | 16-96760, Christopher Matthews

Music Faculty Scores

I Shall Not Live in Vain (Three Choral Fugues)

Part Number:
16-96760

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
Emily Dickinson

Music By:
Christopher Matthews

a cappella

Dear Friends Farewell | 10-96065, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Dear Friends Farewell, Appalachian Folk Song for SATB Voices with Piano Accompaniment

Part Number:
10-96065

Price:
$1.75

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
Traditional

Music By:
Traditional

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland

Composed for the Berea College Concert Choir, Berea, KY
Stephen C. Bolster, conductor (2014)

Featured at:
2014 Rodney Eichenberger Conductor's Clinic

Christmas Lullaby-Satb | 10-96055, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Christmas Lullaby (Away in the Manger)

Part Number:
10-96055

Price:
$1.75

Voicing:
SATB

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland

Also Available in SA

Featured at:
2015 ACDA Convention
2015 Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute

Christmas Lullaby-Sa | 10-96050, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Christmas Lullaby (Away in the Manger)

Part Number:
10-96050

Price:
$1.75

Voicing:
Treble (Univson S/A)

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland

Also Available in SATB

Featured at:
2015 TCDA Convention

If Love Should Count You Worthy Ttbb | 10-96040, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

If Love Should Count You Worthy

Part Number:
10-96040

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
TTBB

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

with Horn (part included)

Also available in SATB

Prayers Of Teasdale | 10-96070, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Prayers of Teasdale

Part Number:
10-96070

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
Sara Teasdale

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

Commissioned and Premiered by the 2014 Indiana Choral Directors Association's All-State Honor Choir in honor of past ICDA All-State Chairs, Phil Dunn and Herb Perry.

Rhosymedre | 41-96740, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Rhosymedre (Welsh for "Lovely")

Part Number:
41-96740

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
TTBB

Lyrics By:
Based on Robert Burns

Music By:
Melody by J.D. Edwards (1805-1885)
Adapted by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland

with Four-Hand Piano

Featured at:
2014 Rodney Eichenberger Conductor's Clinic

Written for and dedicated to The Singing Statesmen,
Gary R. Schwartzhoff, conductor

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day Satb | 13-96865, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day

Part Number:
13-96866

Previous Part Number:
AMP 0142

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
William Shakespeare

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

Also available in SSAA

Commissioned by Lousiana American Choral Direcor's Association
In Memory of Louise Cochrane Boteler

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day Ssaa | 13-96860, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day

Part Number:
13-96860

Previous Part Number:
AMP 0143

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
SSAA

Lyrics By:
William Shakespeare

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

Also available in SATB

Commissioned by Lousiana American Choral Direcor's Association
In Memory of Louise Cochrane Boteler

Sour Wood Mountain | 10-96060, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Sour Wood Mountain

Part Number:
10-96060

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
SATB

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland

Composed for the Berea College Concert Choir, Berea, KY - Stephen C. Bolster conductor (2014)

Featured at:
2015 MN ACDA Summer Convention

That I Shall Never Look Upon Thee More Satb | 13-96850, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

That I Shall Never Look Upon Thee More

Part Number:
13-96850

Previous Part Number:
AMP 0147

Price:
$2.40

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
John Keats (1795-1821)

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

Also available in TTBB.

Commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association
Raymond W. Brock Memorial Endowment Trust
for the 1996 ACDA Convention

Auburn Mass | 20-95780, John Starr Alexander, Henry Leck

Music Faculty Scores

Auburn Mass

Part Number:
20-95780

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SA

Music By:
John Starr Alexander

Edited By:
Henry Leck

Featured at:
2015 TCDA Convention

Farewell To Tarwathie | 20-95790, Shelly Cooper, Henry Leck

Music Faculty Scores

Farewell to Tarwathie
Scottish Folk Song

Part Number:
20-95790

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
Two-Part Treble

Arranged By:
Shelly Cooper

Edited By:
Henry Leck

Featured at:
2015 ICDA/OCDA State Conventions
2016 SW ACDA Convention

Rapsodia Española No. 2, Judith Herrington

Music Faculty Scores

Rapsodia Española No. 2
Spanish Tongue Twister

Part Number:
20-95800

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
Unison/Two-Part

Lyrics By:
Spanish Tongue Twister

Music By:
Judith Herrington

Featured at:
2014 WACDA Summer Institute
2014 Rodney Eichenberger Conductor's Clinic
2014 KCDA Summer Conference
2015 ACDA National Convention
2015 MN ACDA Summer Convention
2016 MSVMA Summer Workshop

Cliffs Of Dooneen, The | 20-95770, Robert I. Hugh

Music Faculty Scores

The Cliffs of Dooneen
(Irish Folk Song)

Part Number:
20-95770

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
Four-Part Treble

Arranged By:
Robert I. Hugh