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"Evocations From The Plains" For Piano Quintet (El Paso, National Chamber Music Fesitval), Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by the Biava String Quartet and Doris Stevenson (piano).

2008-2009 Ppc Recital - Vasile Sult (Violin), Vasile Sult, Tao Lin, Jonah Kim

PPC/PSDP Recitals

No abstract provided.

2008-2009 Master Of Music Recital - Helena Piccazio (Violin), Helena Piccazio, Carol Cole, Zhou Jiang, Veroslav Taskov, Kaitlin Richardson, Marcoantonio Real-D'Arbelles, Lydia Luce, Jonah Kim, Jeff Adkins

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

School Of Music To Host Brass Concert, Allegra Gallian ’09

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Recognition Of Prior Learning In Irish Culinary Arts, Dermot Seberry

Other resources

The emerging agenda for higher education (HE) in Europe promotes lifelong learning, social inclusion, wider participation, employability and partnership working with community organisations. Consequently, higher education authorities are increasingly recognising the significant knowledge, skills and understanding which can be developed as a result of learning opportunities found at work through individual activities and personal interests. The accreditation of learning and prior achievement is now one of the central functions of the Higher Education Authority (HEA, 2007). In exercising this function, higher education providers are increasingly considering how learning that has taken place in a range of contexts, may be assessed …

Effects Of An Interdisciplinary Method For Training Conductors, Donald J. Running

Music Faculty Publications

This study investigated effects of a method designed to enhance novice conductors’ musical expressiveness, specificity, and comfort through incorporation of acting exercises. Participants (N = 33) were divided into an experimental group receiving instruction in physical acting exercises and a control group receiving traditional conducting instruction. Pretest/posttest questionnaires and pretest/posttest video excerpts assessed by a panel of experts were employed to assess changes in participants’ abilities and attitudes. Results indicate that both the experimental method and traditional method have positive effects on the ability of the conductors to utilize and perform expressive conducting gestures (p < .01). No significant interactions were found between the control and experimental groups; both experimental and traditional methods seemed to allow for student growth equally.

Stand Up For Jesus (3): Satb Choir, Dale Grotenhuis

Choral Arrangements and Compositions

11 pages.

Factors Affecting Student Motivation Related To Enrollment And Retention In Music And Performing Ensembles Outside Of The School Environment, Craig T. Klonowski

ETD Archive

Despite extensive research regarding student motivation in performing ensembles, little is known about student motivation in ensembles outside of the school environment. The literature regarding motivation in school ensembles shows motivation comes from five main categories: parents and family, peers, directors, environment, and the students themselves. This study asks basic questions regarding motivation of students in a large community performing ensemble, and compares them to responses from the same students regarding their school ensemble experiences. The responses to the questionnaire suggest that motivating factors in community ensembles fall into the same basic categories, but have slightly different nuances based on …

Microtonality As An Expressive Device: An 
Approach
 For 
The 
Contemporary 
Saxophonist, Seán Mac Erlaine

Dissertations

This dissertation provides a critical examination of the use of microtonality as an expressive tool for the improvising saxophonist and offers a new method for quarter-tone production drawing on cultural references from European art music, Arabic Maqam and Contemporary Jazz. The thesis is underpinned by an historical, musicological analysis of tuning systems and theory necessary for the performer of microtonal music. The dissertation is presented in three chapters. In Chapter One, a discussion of tuning theory and a history of temperament systems contextualises the current uses of equal temperament and extensions of it including the quarter-tone tempered system. Chapter Two …

Pro Musica Newsletter, Winter 2009, Bowling Green State University. College Of Musical Arts

Pro Musica Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Boz For Jazz Orchestra And Vocal, Esin Gunduz

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

“Boz” means grey in Turkish and is a word that also connotes unclear or mixed substances or situations.

The source of all the pitch material in the piece is a tetrachord, that is, the first tetrachord of a Turkish makam “Sedaraban” (0145). The lines and the vertical sound in the brass and woodwind, the chords in the piano, the bass line are all produced form the transpositions of this same material. The name “Boz,” which means “grey” or “unclear” in Turkish, is supporting this idea. From the chords that the brass and woodwinds play, it is impossible to define which …

Communion Meditation On Psalm 139, John G. Barr

Music Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Vocate: Auditory Interfaces For Location-Based Services, Charlie Cullen, John Mcgee

Conference papers

This paper discusses work being carried out by the Vocate module of the LOK8 project. The LOK8 project seeks to develop locationbased services within intelligent social environments, such as museums, art galleries, office buildings, and so on. It seeks to do this using a wide range of media and devices employing multiple modalities. The Vocate module is responsible for the auditory aspect of the LOK8 environment and will seek to exploit the natural strengths afforded by the auditory modality to make the LOK8 system user-friendly in multiple scenarios, including instances where the user needs to be hands-free or eyes-free, or …

Notes From The Editor, Bruce Gleason

Research & Issues in Music Education

This issue of RIME is dedicated simply to this arena of artistic teaching and learning.

Cultural Translation In Two Directions: The Suzuki Method In Japan And Germany, Margaret Mehl

Research & Issues in Music Education

Cultural Translation in Two Directions: The Suzuki Method in Japan and Germany The Suzuki Method represents a significant contribution by a Japanese, Suzuki Shin'ichi (1898-1998), to the teaching of musical instruments worldwide. Western observers often represent the method as "Japanese," although it could be called "Western" with equal justification. Suzuki left no detailed description of his method. Consequently, it is open to multiple interpretations. Its application, whether in Japan or elsewhere, represents an act of translation with its adaptation to local conditions involving creative processes rather than mere deviations from a supposedly fixed original.

To illustrate the importance of historical …

A Principled Approach To Teaching Music Composition To Children, Michele Kaschub, Janice P. Smith

Research & Issues in Music Education

Building on an apposition of the theories of neurobiologist Antonio Damasio and music theorist Heinrich Schenker, we posit a new model for developing composition instruction based upon the organic connections between humans and music. Parallels are drawn between Damasio’s theory of consciousness in which meaning arises from the relationships between body, emotion, and feeling; and Schenker’s theory of musical structure in which opportunities for meaning making are revealed between the ursatz (background), mittelgrund (middleground), and vordergrund (foreground) layers of a musical work. The resulting principles-based approach to instruction reprioritizes the roles of elements and compositional techniques to foster greater expressivity …

Strategies For Music Learning, George Palton

Music Faculty Research

Article provides strategies on how to take a new and fresh piece of literature from being completely unknown to performance ready.

An Analysis And Performance Guide To The Tuba Music Of Alice Gomez, George Palton

Music Faculty Research

An analysis and performance guide to selected compositions of Alice Gomez as well as practical insights into the composition and performance of the works. Also includes background information on Gomez and her solo and chamber compositions that feature the tuba, including Bonampak, Latin Jazz Suite, and Highlife.

Chalk Circle Reel (2009), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Marimba solo – composed for Brooks Frederickson – premiered by him, October, 2009

Morning Becomes… (2009), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Clarinet in B-flat and violoncello – composed for the 2008 JCFA 24 hr concert and dedicated to Kim Ellis – premiered by Brianna Rhodes and Michael Riley, October 2009

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (2009), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Brecht – songs and incidental music – percussion based – Owen Schaub, director

If Music Be The Food Of Love | 10-96240, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

If Music Be The Food Of Love, for SATB Chorus with Violincello and Piano Accompaniment

Part Number:
10-96240

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
Henry Heveningham

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

Commissioned by the Wolf River Singers, Ben J. Legett, director
through the Choral Commissioning Project and a gift from Bob and Deb Cameron.
in Memory of Edwin K. Dimes