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Anthony Williams, Trombone, January 30, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Guest Artist Recital Series: Drew Whiting, Saxophone; January 30, 2014, Drew Whiting

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
January 30, 2014
Thursday Evening
8:00 p.m.

2013-2014 Collaborative Spotlight: The Miami Brass Quintet, Marc Reese, Jose Sibaja, Hector Rodriguez, Domingo Pagliuca, Dan Satterwhite

Other Seasonal Concerts

Past Collaborative Spotlight Concerts

• 2011 - Duo Pianists Leonard and Shen
• 2012 - The American Brass Quintet
• 2013 - Featuring the Faculty of the Conservatory of Music

Composing For The Orchestra: An Exercise In Decision Making, Benjamin Sabey, Dr. David Sargent

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As a young, aspiring composer, writing for the orchestra has always been a desirable but intimidating goal. I knew that my first attempt would be fraught with obstacles and challenges. The first of these was one of purely logistical nature: the lack of orchestra that might play my piece. There aren’t many good orchestras lined up at my door waiting for me to write for them (yet). Thankfully, the Office of Research and Creative Activities provided an answer. With the grant that I received from ORCA I planned to hire good student instrumentalists and create my own orchestra. Thus, having …

Bridging The Gap, Rachelle M. Hulme, Lawrence Vincent

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Many students of music struggle once they have reached the critical point in their training where they are expected to make their way in the professional world. They find a substantial gap between their opportunities as university students and the seemingly unattainable status of professional musicians. I proposed to study the tools to help students to bridge that gap by attending a six-week opera program called AIMS in Graz, Austria.

The Development Of Musical Thought, Melissa J. Clayton, Jerry L. Jaccard

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The question that drives this research is: What is the process of musical thought development in children? In sorting through possible answers to this question I have studied the work of Piaget (1, 5 and 6) and Moog (4). Moog’s studies of the musical experience of pre-school age children has led him to conclude that the developmental changes in the structure of musical thought appear to coincide with changes from one developmental stage, as in the developmental stages set forth by Piaget, to the next and that the underlying principle of these changes have to do with memory (4).

Chamber Music Master Class, Dorival Puccini, Ross Hoksbergen, Matthew Oliphant, Caleb Lambert, Kevin Harrison

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed.

Viola Project Report, Tyler Hokanson, Dr. Claudine Bigelow

Journal of Undergraduate Research

William Primrose, eminent performer, pedagogue, and proponent of the viola, spent his last few years at Brigham Young University. Mr. Primrose was a colleague and former teacher of David Dalton, who was at that time professor of viola at the university. Because of Primrose’s close connection to Dalton, Primrose bequeathed many of his personal viola-related materials to the university in order to from an archive. This archive, named the Primrose International Viola Archive (or PIVA), is now the largest and most complete of its kind. It contains scores, recordings, memorabilia, and instructional materials relating to the viola.

Illinois State University Concerto Aria Competition Finals, January 29, 2014, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
January 29, 2014
Wednesday Evening
7:00 p.m.

2013-2014 Junior Recital - Yordan Tenev (Violin), Yordan Tenev, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Mastering Berio’S Sequenza For Oboe, Melanie Carter, Dr. Geralyn Giovannetti

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My principal goals upon starting this project were first, to prepare myself for graduate level studies, future orchestral playing, and teaching; and second, to help me gain an appreciation and understanding of 20th century music.

Music Cataloging: The Compositions Of Murray Boren, Darrell L. Brown, Dr. Brian Harker

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Murray Boren is the composer-in-residence at Brigham Young University as well as a professor of musical composition and theory. He studied composition at BYU as an undergraduate and did graduate work at BYU and City University of New York. He is a composer who has generated many works and is respected by his colleges. I have had association with Professor Boren, and because of that association, my peers have often asked why access to Professor Boren’s compositions is non-existent—why recordings of the performances are difficult to find and the scores unobtainable. Premieres of Professor Boren’s compositions are regular on the …

Communicating Hope Through Music In Ukraine, Alisha Ard, Dr. Daniel Bachelder

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Recently celebrating the ten-year anniversary of its independence, Ukraine is a country that for those ten years has been plagued with the need for drastic social and economic reform. The people are desperate for the freedoms a word like “independence” promises, but the opportunities just don’t seem to exist for many. Discouragement sets in followed shortly by apathy, and soon they are faced with a close relative of the chicken and the egg conundrum: do people lack ambition because there are no opportunities, or are there no opportunities because the people lack ambition. While I do not offer an answer …

Artist-In-Residence Recital, Inna Faliks

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed.

Karen Black, Organ, January 28, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

2013-2014 Senior Recital - Zhen Yang Yu (Violin), Zhen Yang Yu, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Master's Recital, Gregory Burr

Graduate Student Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Upshaw '82 Wins Fifth Grammy, Hannah Dhue

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

2013-2014 Master Class - Philip Fowke (Piano), Philip Fowke, Heqing Huang, Misaki Saito, Vladislav Kosminov, Jie Ren, Anastasiya Timofeeva, Anna Tsukervanik, Hsin Hui Liu, Giorgi Chkhikvadze

Master Classes

No abstract provided.

2013-2014 Guest Pianist Weekend - Philip Fowke, Philip Fowke

Guest Recitals

No abstract provided.

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Ninth Annual Middle School Festival Band, Grand Concerts, With Guest Conductors, Radonna Hess, Rhonda E. Smalley, Shirelle Yuhase, Radonna Hess, Rhonda E. Smalley, Shirelle Yuhase

All Performances

No abstract provided.

International Harp Archives Website, Kimberly Isom, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The International Harp Archives at Brigham Young University has attracted the attention of many harpists from around the world. Recently it has received acknowledgement at conferences held in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Geneva, Switzerland. The Archives have also been introduced to the American Harp Society in their last semiannual journal. The International Harp Archives has one of the largest collections of harp materials. It has photographs, manuscripts, recordings, harp scores, and many more valuable items. One concern the Archives has is how to make it more accessible to harpists throughout the world. This year I have worked on a website …

Audio Restoration Of Clarinetist Simeon Bellison, Angela Baer, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

What is happening to the great performances of the past that were recorded on records? Are they doomed to be forgotten forever in this world of CD’s and DVD’s? Well thanks to the technology of today, audio preservation equipment can clean up the poor audio quality of records and tapes and preserve them on CD’s

Rhetoric And Theology In Bach’S St. John Passion, Rebecca C. Buchert, James L. Siebach

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Johann Sebastian Bach was completely Lutheran in his world view, and Luther was thoroughly Augustinian both in his theology and theory of rhetoric. St. Augustine’s views on the purpose of rhetoric are exemplified in Bach’s St. John Passion. In On Christian Doctrine,1 St. Augustine outlines three elements of communicating the truth: docere (to teach), delectare (to please) and movere/flectere (to move). Bach employs all of these elements in his compositional practice.

Preservation And Restoration Of Music Through Digitization, Johnathan A. Scharf, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Recorded music has existed for more than a century yet, until recently, the media on which this music is preserved degrades with each passing year. Additionally, the very use of the recording itself adds to its degradation and does irreparable damage. It is a major concern for an institution that archives such media to find a method that permits the enjoyment of early recordings without subjecting them to further damage. Moreover, a means of restoring degraded recordings would permit a long-term solution for circulating such work. Through the use of computer technology, these goals can be achieved. It is now …

Student Recital: Dennis Northerner, Percussion, Dennis Northerner, Ryan Taylor, Sarah Williams, Amber Hentley

Student Recitals

No abstract provided.

Compositional Techniques Of Toru Takemitsu, Benjamin Sabey, Michael Hicks

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My object in researching the music of Japanese composer, Toru Takemitsu with support from the ORCA grant was to distill from it those concrete organizing principles upon which rest a phantasmagoric, spontaneous music that seems to float freely from silence to silence.

Collaboration In The Arts, Rebeca Dawn Peterson, Murray Boren

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Part of being an artist is being misunderstood. Being an artist myself, I have found that it doesn’t matter what form your art manifests itself, there is commonality among all artists if you choose to recognize it. Collaboration in the arts is something that can have positive and/or negative effects, but is something that should be encouraged, especially among students.

“Voices In The Wind’S Singing”: Three Original Art Songs With Text By T. S. Eliot, Marilyn Nelson Nielson, Murrary Eddington Boren

Journal of Undergraduate Research

French composer Francis Poulenc said “The setting to music of a poem must be an act of love, never a marriage of convenience.”¹ As I searched for a thesis topic, it was ultimately love for T. S. Eliot’s work that led me to create these musical settings of his text. I have loved Eliot since I was in second grade, when my oldest brother Kenneth memorized T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” He recited it for me, and though I did not understand exactly what the poem meant, I was immediately captivated by the mood …

Giant Steps: Essential Saxophone Recordings On Compact Disc, Bret Pimentel, Ray Smith

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Because the saxophone is a relatively young instrument (invented in the 1840’s), sound recording technology has been available to document much of its history. The saxophone’s importance in jazz music has promoted extensive recording of hundreds of saxophonists since the 1920’s. Increased interest in the saxophone in conservatories and university music departments in the past several decades has fueled the recording of contemporary concert soloists, as well as renewing interest in recordings of the early virtuosos. The saxophone’s adaptability to popular styles has also produced a windfall of recordings. Many of the finest of these recordings are currently available in …