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Talking Heads, Monica Berger Jan 2008

Talking Heads, Monica Berger

Publications and Research

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John Zorn. The Gift; Songs From The Hermetic Theatre (2001). Chimeras; Masada Guitars (2003). Masada Recital; Magick (2004). Rituals (2005). Astronome; Masada Rock; Moonchild, Christian T. Asplund Jan 2008

John Zorn. The Gift; Songs From The Hermetic Theatre (2001). Chimeras; Masada Guitars (2003). Masada Recital; Magick (2004). Rituals (2005). Astronome; Masada Rock; Moonchild, Christian T. Asplund

Faculty Publications

Once the unruly upstart, John Zorn is now a MacArthur fellow, whose formidable catalog divides easily into early, middle, and late periods. The early period dates from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, when Zorn pioneered the practice of "comprovisation," a term used to describe "the making of new compositions from recordings of improvised material." Ultimately, Zorn's comprovisation blurs the lines between active listener and composer, since both create new works when they impose structure on found sonic material. His early structuralist-modernist approach to comprovisation produced esoteric, often severely pointillist music, and evolved into the game pieces of the late 1970s …

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A Master's Recital In Cello, Philipp Gulidov Jan 2008

A Master's Recital In Cello, Philipp Gulidov

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

On October 23, 2007 at 8:00 pm, Philipp Gulidov presented a recital in Davis Hall at the University of Northern Iowa. It was presented in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree in performance. The program consisted of J.S. Bach 's Suite No. 3 for Cello Solo in C major, BWV 1009, Brahms' Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, op. 38, Bach 's Aria from Orchestral Suite in D major, BWV 1068, Minuet by Guiseppe Valentini, Vocalise by Rachmaninoff, op. 34, No. 14, Prokofiev's March from Opera "The Love for Three Oranges" arranged by Mstislav Rostropovich, and …

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A Graduate Recital In Conducting (Orchestra), Philipp Gulidov Jan 2008

A Graduate Recital In Conducting (Orchestra), Philipp Gulidov

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

A Graduate Conducting Recital, by Philipp Gulidov, was presented on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. in Davis Hall at the University of Northern Iowa. The recital was presented in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree in Conducting. The performers for this recital were Adam Ebert, tenor, Benjamin Fox, bassoon, and the Northern Iowa Chamber Orchestra. The program consisted of five works from different historical periods: Classic, Romantic, early and late Twentieth Century. The works presented included Chamber Symphony No. J "Spring", op. 43 by Darius Milhaud, Mozart's Symphony no. 15 in G major, K. 124, "Vaudemont's …

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A Graduate Recital In Voice, Carmelita Guse Jan 2008

A Graduate Recital In Voice, Carmelita Guse

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Carmelita Guse, soprano, presented a graduate voice recital on Friday, October 17, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in Davis Hall of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on the University of Northern Iowa campus. The recital was given in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance. It was presented in collaboration with pianist Kyung Lee, and contained art songs by Henry Purcell, Gustav Mahler, Ernest Chausson, and a cycle of spirituals by John Carter.

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Master Of Music Bassoon Performance Recital, Benjamin R. Fox Jan 2008

Master Of Music Bassoon Performance Recital, Benjamin R. Fox

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Benjamin Fox presented a graduate bassoon recital on 28 February 2008 at 8 P.M. in Davis Hall of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa. Mr. Fox was assisted by Dr. Robin Guy on piano, Bonnie Alger on violin, Renee Rapier on viola, Rachel Stadler on cello, and Dr. Jean McDonald on voice. The recital was presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Music degree in bassoon performance. The repertoire selected represents a variety of challenging pieces spanning a broad range of styles, instrumental groupings, and periods.

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Graduate Recital In Flute: Works By C.P.E. Bach, Widor, Messiaen, And Prokofiev, Breta Lorraine Borstad Jan 2008

Graduate Recital In Flute: Works By C.P.E. Bach, Widor, Messiaen, And Prokofiev, Breta Lorraine Borstad

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Breta Borstad and collaborative pianist Kirstin Dyer performed a recital for the degree of Master of Music in Flute Performance-on 13 March 2008. The repertoire consisted of the Sonata in G Major, Wq. 134, H. 548, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; the Suite for Flute and Piano, Op. 34, by Charles-Marie Widor; Le Merle Noir by Olivier Messiaen; and the Sonata in D Major, Op. 94, by Sergei Prokofiev. The purpose of this abstract is to provide historical background for the works, as well as stylistic and formal considerations.

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Graduate Recital In Voice, Mark Bjorklund Jan 2008

Graduate Recital In Voice, Mark Bjorklund

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Mark Bjorklund, tenor, presented his graduate voice recital on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 8:00 PM in Davis Hall of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on the University of Northern Iowa campus. The recital was given in collaboration with pianist Kirstin Dyer and included selected works from Schwanengesang by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Winter Words by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) and the entire set of Cinq Poemes de Baudelaire by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). This abstract discusses musical and historical features of the recital pieces.

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Hsin-Yi Serena Hou, Piano, Hsin-Yi Hou Jan 2008

Hsin-Yi Serena Hou, Piano, Hsin-Yi Hou

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Hsin-Yi Serena Hou presented a graduate piano recital at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8, 2006 in Davis Hall of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music. The recital was presented in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music Degree requirements in Piano Performance. The recital program consisted of works by George Frederic Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Felix Mendelssohn.

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Music And The Brain, Kimberly D. Madison Jan 2008

Music And The Brain, Kimberly D. Madison

Graduate Research Papers

A great deal of literature focuses on the subject of music and the brain and how music can affect learning. Music stimulates brain patterns, and therefore should be considered essential in an academic setting. This review was written to provide an analysis of the published literature and studies in the area of music and cognitive development, to examine how the brain is wired for music, and to determine whether music is an effective tool in enhancing environmental and cognitive learning conditions in classrooms.

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Disability And “Late Style” In Music, Joseph N. Straus Jan 2008

Disability And “Late Style” In Music, Joseph N. Straus

Publications and Research

“Late style” is a longstanding aesthetic category in all the arts. Late-style music is presumed to have certain internal qualities (such as fragmentation, intimacy, nostalgia, or concision) and to be associated with certain external factors (such as the age of the composer, his or her proximity to and foreknowledge of death, lateness within a historical period, or a sense of authorial belatedness with respect to significant predecessors). Upon closer inspection, it appears that many of these external factors are unreliably correlated with a musical style that might be described as late. Late style is often better correlated with the bodily …

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The Effects Of Peer Teaching On Undergraduate Music Majors' Achievement And Attitude Toward Sight-Reading In The Group Piano Setting, Nancy Elizabeth Baker Jan 2008

The Effects Of Peer Teaching On Undergraduate Music Majors' Achievement And Attitude Toward Sight-Reading In The Group Piano Setting, Nancy Elizabeth Baker

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purposes of this study were: (1) to investigate the effects of peer teaching on students’ achievement in sight-reading at the piano, and (2) to determine whether peer teaching positively affected students’ attitude toward sight-reading at the piano. Participants were undergraduate music majors (N = 85) enrolled in the second or fourth semester of a four-semester group piano sequence. Participants completed a pretest and a posttest that consisted of a video-taped sight-reading performance and an attitudinal questionnaire. Control and experimental groups comprised the treatment groups for each level. Group Piano IV and Group Piano II participants in the experimental group …

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Dialogue As Performance. Performance As Dialogue, Laura Lynn Jan 2008

Dialogue As Performance. Performance As Dialogue, Laura Lynn

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation is an arts-based qualitative study in Leadership and Change that describes the qualities of dialogue revealed through the felt experience of Native and non-Native American music composers engaged in a dialogue through music composition. The fifteen co-collaborators who participated in the study range in age from three-years-old to elders. The study is theoretically embedded within Performance Studies, Dr. Carolyn Kenny’s music therapy model Field of Play, and aesthetic philosophy. Methodologically, this work is expressed through performance ethnography and autoethnography and privileges textual and non-textual modes of account including photographs, video excerpts, poetry, and music manuscript. The text is …

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