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Multiple Media Outlets For Composition, Bethany A. Ciullo

Honors Scholar Theses

Through integrating different forms of media, the creator is able to give their audience a unique, multi-sensory experience. In my honors thesis, I concentrated on combining sight and sound as a communication tool and to further engage the observer.

The first type of media I chose to include was original solo instrument, voice, and piano songbooks focusing on lyrical playing for student and amateur musicians. I have also created audio realizations of the songs through Finale, which I then organized into CDs with the intention that the musician could understand how the music sounds before practicing. I combined the visual …

Master Recital, Chris Kase, David Skouson, Donald Malpass, Aki Oshima, Christopher Fujiwara, Brian Marsh

Graduate Student Recitals

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Doctoral Recital, Glenn Webb

Graduate Student Recitals

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Senior Recital, Christina Riegert, Jae Ahn-Benton

Senior Recitals

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2010-2011 Ludwig Van Beethoven, Piano Concerti No. 2 And No. 5 "Emperor", Maria Lyapkova, Marcoantonio Real-D'Arbelles

Other Student Recitals

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Teaching Music To Students With Multiple Disabilities: A Study Into Teachers' Perspectives And Practices For Self-Contained General Music Instruction, Angela D. Clemens

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

This study investigates the experience of elementary teachers providing music instruction to students with multiple disabilities in self-contained classrooms. With legislation mandating public education for students with special needs, music teachers increasingly encounter these students in their classrooms, which range from inclusion to self-contained environments. Research indicates that music is a valid and valuable tool for supporting extra-musical learning as well as fostering musical growth in students with special needs. Additionally, research provides insight into inclusion experiences for teachers and for students. However, research into self-contained instruction is minimal. This study addressed that gap through phenomenological exploration of teachers in …

The Evolution Of Style In The Neoclassical Works Of Stravinsky, Kyle Szabo

Dissertations, 2014-2019

The compositional output of Igor Stravinsky is roughly divided into three periods: Russian, Neoclassical, and Serial. In his neoclassical period of composition, Stravinsky developed highly refined methods of formal construction, harmonic management, and use of counterpoint. Careful analysis of several neoclassical and transitional works serves to demonstrate Stravinsky’s innovative methods of voice leading, economy of pitch class set material, and ingenuity in redefining Classical era forms. Stravinsky’s Russian ballets are stylistically focused on practical and stage-oriented formal structures, stratified counterpoint, and thematic content originating in folk materials. As he began writing more concert music, the extraction of these stylistic elements …

Convocation, Carolina Gamazo, Isabella Ivy, Aleksandra Oleapiec, Lindsay Testai, Sofiane Merkouche, Joelle Morris, Alyssa Ledesma, Miguel Alasco, Christopher Fujiwara, Richard Paugh, Michelle Lee, Jae Ahn-Benton, Susan Easter, Bilyana Tancheva, Nick James, Ji-Eun Kim, Eugenie Burkett

Convocations

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The California E.A.R. Unit, The California E.A.R. Unit

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

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Highlights In Jazz Concert 308- Remembering Hank Jones, Jack Kleinsinger, Danny Gottlieb

Jack Kleinsinger Presents Highlights in Jazz

Jack Kleinsinger presents Highlights in Jazz. The concert was held at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Thursday, May 5th, 2011 at 8:00 pm. Jack served as producer and master of ceremonies for the series of concerts. Artists for the concert include Joe Lovano, Jon Faddis, Junior Mance, Steve Turre, George Mraz, Winard Harper, and special guest Frank Wess.

Student Recital: Michael Panlilio, Guitar, Michael Panlilio

Student Recitals

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Graduate Recital: Steven Martinez, Tenor, Steven Martinez, Jason Peterson

Student Recitals

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2010-2011 Performance Forum - May 4, 2011, John Patton, Chun Yu Tsai, Nicholas Thompson, Yang Shen, Cristina Rodriguez, Teng Kuan Wang, Joe Goering, Tao Lin, Joel Biedrzycki, Zhou Jiang, Jeff Adkins, Daniel Furtado

Performance Forum

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Convocation, Aaron Delahuerta, Cody Stover, David Casey, Kendall Demavivas, Kirsten Kraemer, Jaimie Lynn Gargantos, Hayden Bryant, Melissa Sugarman, Zuriel Santoyo, Edward Cotton, Jourdan Borowiak, Lakesba Harden, Samantha Alterman, Eugenie Burkett, Nancy Porter, Jae Ahn-Benton, Senequa Malone, Jieun Kim, Sofiane Merkouche, Shane Jensen, Harry Taylor, Randy Hughes, Nick James

Convocations

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Senior Recital, Sandro Ladu, Sergio Godinez

Senior Recitals

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Franz Liszt: The Sonata In B Minor As Spiritual Autobiography, Jonathan David Keener

Dissertations, 2014-2019

Many composers, particularly in the 19th century, have attempted to write “autobiographical” music. Although Franz Liszt never explicitly mentioned that any of his works were autobiographical, the facts we have about his life and the symbolism within his Sonata in B Minor suggest that this piece may serve this purpose, either intentionally or subconsciously. Liszt, having strong ties to the Catholic Church, may have also consciously or unconsciously incorporated religious symbolism into the work. Works that exerted influence on the formal structure and the possible extra-musical meaning of the Sonata in B Minor include Charles-Valentine Alkan’s Grande Sonate, Robert …

Senior Recital, Michael Elliot, Michelle Lee, David Warner

Senior Recitals

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Doctoral Recital, Barron Coleman, Karen Mccann

Graduate Student Recitals

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Unlv Brass Band, Takayoshi "Tad" Suzuki

Orchestra

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Presentation By The University Of Nevada, Las Vegas: College Of Fine Arts, Unlv Brass Band, Takayoshi Suzuki

Wind Ensemble

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The Perpetual Creation And Provocation Of The Self, Krista Damico

Senior Honors Projects

The Perpetual Creation and Provocation of the Self

Krista D’Amico

Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Barber, English

This project consists of four related parts. The first part is a critical and creative work of prose in which I converse with the thought of two philosophers, namely Spinoza and Gilles Deleuze. This conversation enables me to present my own thought and subjectivity in relationship to a very important aspect of my life: music-making. The second part of my project is a critical essay in which I contemplate the work of another artist, Virginia Woolf, and the way that her credo Three Guineas (1938) …

Graduate Recital: Steven Sartinez, Clarinetist, Steven Sartinez

Student Recitals

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Finding The Beat In Music: Using Adaptive Oscillators, Kate M. Burgers

HMC Senior Theses

The task of finding the beat in music is simple for most people, but surprisingly difficult to replicate in a robot. Progress in this problem has been made using various preprocessing techniques (Hitz 2008; Tomic and Janata 2008). However, a real-time method is not yet available. Methods using a class of oscillators called relay relaxation oscillators are promising. In particular, systems of forced Hopf oscillators (Large 2000; Righetti et al. 2006) have been used with relative success. This work describes current methods of beat tracking and develops a new method that incorporates the best ideas from each existing method and …

Randall Thompson's Requiem: A Text Setting Analysis And Recommendations For Performance, Zachary J. Vreeman

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

Randall Thompson is a well-known composer of some of the most familiar and accessible American choral music of the twentieth century. His conservative harmonic language and idiomatic writing for voices has made many of his works popular with both amateur and academic choirs. They are particularly admired for their sensitive setting of English text.

In 1958, Thompson wrote a large work titled Requiem, inspired by a young terminally-ill choral conductor, and commissioned by the University of California. Though positively reviewed, it received only a handful of performances, and is little known today outside of a few extracted movements. The …

A Comparison Of Viola Strings With Harmonic Frequency Analysis, Jonathan Paul Crosmer

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

Many brands of viola strings are available today. Different materials used result in varying timbres. This study compares 12 popular brands of strings. Each set of strings was tested and recorded on four violas. We allowed two weeks after installation for each string set to settle, and we were careful to control as many factors as possible in the recording process. The recordings include individual note samples of 8 seconds each and performances of the prelude from the first Bach cello suite. For this study, we recorded 576 note samples and 24 performances of the Bach prelude. Spectrum analysis of …

The Tardy Recognition Of J.S. Bach's Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Solo, Di Su

Publications and Research

J. S. Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo (BWV 1001-1006) are among the most important masterpieces in the literature of violin music. They are included in standard repertoire for serious violin students; they are frequently performed in solo recitals; they are recorded by numerous virtuosi; and they are required in major violin competitions. The vast amount of editions also indicates the importance of the works. In Edlund’s catalogue, one finds as many as seventy-seven editions ranging from Simrock (1802) to Henle (1987)

However, the Solos did not enjoy such a prominent status in Bach’s own time and even in …

A Systematic Analysis Of Risks To Adolescent Vocal Health, Debra P. Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze risks that threaten adolescent vocal health. Qualitative interviews revealed risks associated with vocal over-use, lack of scientific vocal pedagogy, poor tonal ideals, inadequate choral procedures, and vocal difficulties in high school musical theater productions. Anonymous student surveys (N=60) from two rural high schools in West Georgia revealed over-use and lack of knowledge about chest voice singing as risky to adolescent vocal health. Anonymous choral director surveys (N=2) from the same high schools indicated that choral directors may be uncomfortable teaching chest voice production, allowing students to use their chest voice …

High Water Mark: Suite For Jazz Octet, David Von Kampen

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

High Water Mark is a five-movement suite for jazz octet, inspired by the poetry of David Shumate, from his collection of the same name.  The piece is scored for trumpet (doubling flugelhorn), alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trombone, male vocalist (without words), piano, bass, and drums.  Although this instrumentation would generally be considered a small jazz group (as opposed to a big band), the piece is written in the spirit of a larger ensemble. The essence of small-group jazz is spontaneous creativity, interaction and improvisation.  Although improvised solos appear in every movement of this piece, it is better considered as a …

Reinventing The Classical Recital: Examining The Connections Between Performer And Audience, Kimberly R. Dinicola

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Reinventing the Classical Recital: Examining the Connections Between Performer and Audience was a project intended to create a dialogue between the performer and audience about the kind of experience a classical recital typically is versus what it can be. Recitals given at Syracuse University, and in the classical music community in general, generally have strict guidelines for the amount, type, and quality of music to be performed. Certain composers or types of song are considered more appropriate than others, depending on the instrument and length of the recital. In creating a recital to evaluate in what ways the performer can …

New Horizons: A Folk Song Cycle, Chris Cresswell

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The purpose of the project was to create a piece of music that transcended musical genres and told the story of my coming of age in the first decade of the 21st century. The work featured both original text and original music and culminates in a live performance of the work.

I wanted to tell a story. More specifically, I wanted to tell my story. The story of coming of age in the 21st century. I was 11 in the year 2000, I was 21 in 2010. My formative years correlate directly with the formative years of the 21st century. …