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Concert Recording 2021-10-17, Er-Gene Kahng, Tim Macduff, Dominic K. Na, Hyun Kim

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Violin sonata no. 1 in D minor, op. 75. I. Alegro agitato, Adagio ; II. Allegretto moderato, Allegro molto / Camille Saint-Saëns -- [10:20]. Suite Hebraique. I. Rapsodie ; II. Processional ; III. Affirmation / Ernst Bloch -- [24:50]. Cello sonata in D minor, op. 40. III. Largo ; IV. Allegro / Dmitri Shostakovich -- [36:29]. Piano quartet no. 2. I. Allegretto ; II. Andante maestoso ma con moto ; III. Poco allegro più tosto moderato ; IV. Allegro / Saint-Saëns.

Concert Recording 2021-10-18, Moon-Sook Park, Hyun Kim, Dominic K. Na, Chris Scherer, Jeffrey A. Murdock

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. lo song pur solo, H. 344, Solo cantata for soprano and basso continuo. I. Recitiative, lo son pur solo ; II. Aria, Sono amante / Alessandro Scarlatti - Szene aus Goethe's Faust. Gretchens Bitte, D. 564 / Franz Schubert -- Deh pietoso, oh addolorata / Giuseppe Verdi -- Song of Almah. I. Rose of Sharon ; III. Cedar Lebanon / Andrew Beall -- [44:48]. Duet.Les chansons des roses. Dirait-on / Morten Lauridsen -- Puisqu'ici bas toute âme, Op. 10, No. 1 / Gabriel Fauré -- Korean art song collection. Ihwau (Pear blossom rain) ; Betle Norae (Loom song) / …

Concert Recording 2021-10-28, Daniel Crawford, Doug Harnish, Ray Lenhart, Ethan Peters, Ethan Thompson, Will Williams, Ethan Coombs, Keven Kraus, Cory Mixdorf, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Razorbones

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. À la manière de Schumann / Jean-Michel Defaye -- [05:25]. Bushes and briars / Ralph Vaughan Williams ; arranged by Richard Myers-- [08:16]. Now is the month of Maying / Thomas Morley-- [09:27]. Concerto in one movement / Alexey Lebedev -- [17:07]. Suite of Lieder. I. Lob der Einsamkeit ; II. Grab und Mond ; III. Widersprich / Franz Schubert ; arranged by Rowell -- [23:58]. The song of King David / Norman Bolter -- [32:31]. Leviathan / Jack Wilds -- [34:50]. -- Ave Maria / Anton Bruckner ; arranged by Donald R. Frederick -- [37:01]. Prelude, op. 34, …

Concert Recording 2021-10-29a, Er-Gene Kahng, Hyun Kim

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Violin sonata no. 2 in D minor. I. Ziemlich langsam, Lebhaft ; II. Sehr labhaft ; III. Leise, einfach ; IV. Bewegt / Robert Schumann -- [32:22]. Violin sonata no. 1 in D minor. I. Allegro agitato ; II. Adagio ; III. Allegretto moderato ; IV. Allegro molto / Camille Saint-Saëns.

Concert Recording 2021-10-29b, Megan Park, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Maestoso from Heroic Music / Georg Philipp Telemann -- [02:54]. Triptyque. I. Scherzo ; II. Largo ; III. Saltarelle / Henri Tomasi-- [07:21]. Concerto for trumpet and orchestra / Alexandra Pakhmutova.

Concert Recording 2021-11-02, Benjamin Pierce, Daniel Bartley, Peyton Lickfelt, Lucas Bass, Brady Callicott, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Tuba Euphonium Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Fortitude / Kent Eshelman -- [02:40]. English madrigal suite. I. My Bonny Lass / Thomas Morley ; arranged by Michael Forbers ; II. Dear, may some other / John Hilton ; arranged by Michael Forbers ; III. Let go, why do you stay me? / John Bennett ; arranged by Michael Forbers ; IV. Late in my rash accounting / Thomas Weelkes ; arranged by Michael Forbers ; V. Rest, sweet nymphs / Francis Pilkington ; arranged by Michael Forbers ; VI. Sing and we chant it / Thomas Morley ; arranged by Michael Forbers -- [12:43]. Three Bruckner …

Concert Recording 2021-11-10a, Richard Rulli, Tlaloc Perales, Katey J. Halbert, Cory Mixdorf, Benjamin Pierce, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Arkansas Brassworks

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. when a body meets a body / Bruce Broughton -- [06:03]. Quintet / Michael Kamen -- [10:25]. Quintet no. 3. I. Allegro moderato ; II. Intermezzo ; III. Andante ; IV. Vivo / Victor Ewald -- [31:30]. Mini overture / Witold Lutoslawski -- [34:59]. Brass quintet no. 1, “Circus.” I. Entry ; II. Clowns ; III. The ringleader ; IV. The contortionist ; V. Finale / Clint Needham.

Concert Recording 2021-11-12, Derick Ekekwe, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Mantis dance/Reflections / David Lomotey -- [07:47]. Fantasiestücke, op. 73. I. Zart und mit Ausdruck ; II. Lebhaft, leicht ; III. Rasch und mit Feuer / Robert Schumann -- [17:48]. O mio babbino caro / Giacomo Puccini -- [20:44]. My mountain top / Andy Scott -- [29:29]. Fantasy / Philip Sparke -- [39:08]. Concerto for euphonium, part one. I. Non troppo allegro ; II. Dance. Zeibékikos tempo di allegro barbaro / Philip Wilby -- [50:56]. Abendlied (Evening song) / Robert Schumann.

Concert Recording 2021-11-14b, Tlaloc Perales, Derrick Rassinier, Keven Kraus, Michael Puryear, Juan Santos-Sierra

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. A philharmonic fanfare for brass trio / Eric Ewazen -- [04:12]. Trio for brass. I. Allegro deciso ; II. Berceuse ; III. Vivo / Lauren Bernofsky -- [19:32]. Time capsule. III. Rendezvous ; II. Chorale ; I. Daybreak / Howard J. Buss -- [28:25]. Mexican folklore suite. I. The coyote and the fox ; II. The mermaid of the volcano ; III. The snake / James M. Stephenson.

Concert Recording 2021-11-16, Eric Troiano, Tyler Trickey, Bailey Ross, Quintin Roper, Crystal Espinosa, Haley Evans, Gabriel Garcia, Andrew Swerts, Markell Cox, Dylan Matheny, Sallie Hendrix, Max Morrow, Dylan Engholm, Nathan Alexander, Erin Newberry, Ryan Miller, Eric Aguilar, Catherine Ryan, Bumblebee Saxophone Quartet, Kopi Saxophone Quartet, Sunaru Saxophone Quartet, Rose Saxophone Quartet, Castalia Saxophone Quartet, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Saxophone Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Cello Suite No. 4. Prelude / J.S. Bach -- [05:49]. Black Mary / Shelley Washington -- [14:54]. Ali / Alex Mincek -- [20:02]. Premiere Quatour. Andante / Jean Baptiste Singelee -- [26:15]. Variations Saxophoniques / Fernande Decruck -- [36:03]. Mountain Roads. Overture / David Maslanka -- [42:45]. Passaggi. Bugarka / Pepito Ros -- [47:46]. Blueprint / Caroline Shaw ; arranged by Dylan Matheny -- [55:16]. Lo Yisa Goy / Stacy Garrop -- [01:01:30]. First Suite in E-flat. Chaconne / Gustav Holst ; arranged by Christian T. Anderson.

Concert Recording 2021-11-17, Lauren Nicole Clare, Lenora Green-Turner, Jonathan Stinson, Helen Becqué

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Die tote Stadt. Tanzlied des Pierrot / Erich Korngold -- [05:23]. Let us garlands bring. Come away, come away, death ; Who is Sylvia? ; Fear no more the heat o' the sun / Gerald Finzi -- [16:20]. Finding Neverland. Neverland / Gary Barlow ; Eliot Kennedy -- [19:47]. Cosi fan tutte. Come Scoglio / W. A. Mozart -- [25:22]. Daybreak in Alabama / Ricky Ian Gordan -- [29:12]. Let America be America again / Ethan Godfrey -- [33:59]. Nightsongs. Creole girl / Leslie H. Adams -- [36:48]. Poéme de Max Jacob. III. La petite servant / Francis Poulenc …

Concert Recording 2021-11-19b, Amy Gilreath, Susan Rider, Stacie Mickens, Natalie Mannix, Velvet Brown, Stiletto Brass Quintet

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Red stiletto ; Scarpe! / Drew Bonner -- [03:24]. Suite Impromptu. I. Epithalame ; II. Marche ; III. Elegie ; IV. Mouvement / André LaFosse -- [09:26]. A Scent of Paradise / Kenneth Amis -- [14:57]. Dance Renwick / Wilke Renwick -- [15:31]. Boy Meets Horn / Duke Ellington -- [21:11]. Sea Suite. I. Gulls ; II. Sea Urchins ; III. Heron by Moonlight ; IV. Seaweed Dance / Dorothy Gates -- [35:23]. Escape / Kevin McKee.

Concert Recording 2021-12-03, Ethan Andrews, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Tuba concert. I. Allegro ; II. Lento e mesto ; III. Allegro giocoso / Edward Gregon -- [19:55]. Divertissement for solo tuba. I. Statement ; II. Waltz ; III. Chant / Bennie Beach -- [27:46]. Emission nebula . Emission nebula, backing track / Davis Vaughn -- [40:47]. Song for the skies / Paul Lovatt-Cooper.

Concert Recording 2021-12-05a, Max Hinojosa, Hyun Kim

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Serse. Frondi tenere, ombra mai fu / George Frideric Handel -- [03:33]. Der Lindenbaum. Gefrorne Tränen / Franz Schubert -- [10:20]. Beau soir / Claude Debussy -- [12:48]. Mandoline / Gabriel Fauré -- [14:54]. The crucifixion / Samuel Barber -- [17:07]. Let beauty awake / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- [18:59]. Non più andrai, from Le nozze di Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Concert Recording 2021-12-05b, Garrett Vogel, Hyun Kim

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Vagal una / Vincenzo Bellini -- [03:38]. L’ultima canzone / Paolo Tosti -- [07:53]. Ich grolle nicht / Robert Schumann -- [09:31]. Verborgenheit / Hugo Wolf -- [12:13]. Chanson Triste / Henri Duparc -- [15:01]. Fleur jetée / Gabriel Fauré -- [16:48]. Come away death / Roger Quilter -- [19:54]. The lordy Hudson / Ned Rorem -- [22:13]. Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja, from Die Zauberflöte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Concert Recording 2021-12-08, Emily Lannutti, Mickel Gordon

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Oh! Had I Jubal’s lyre / George Frideric Handel -- [02:58]. Ophelia Lieder. Wie Erkenn’ Ich Dien Treulieb ; Sein Leichenhemd Weiss ; Auf Morgen ist Sankt Valentins Tag ; Sie Trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss ; Und konnt er nicht mehr zuruck? / Johannes Brahms -- [07:57]. Le oiseaux dan la charmille / Jacques Offenbach -- [13:22]. La vie en rose / Edith Piaf -- [18:19]. 3 Shakespeare songs. O mistress mine ; Take o take those lips away ; Fairy lullaby / Amy Beach -- [25:03]. Le rossignol et la rose / Camille Saint-Saens -- [28:36]. …

John Wesley Work Iii: Arranger, Preserver, And Historian Of African American Traditional Music, Kaylina Madison Crawley

Theses and Dissertations--Music

This study focuses on John Wesley Work III’s life and career in response to the scarcity of existing research and publication devoted to him. To expand the scholarship focused on Work and to deepen the history of African American artistry, this dissertation analyzes his additions to concert repertoire through his arrangements of spirituals, investigates his scholarship, and performance— including his activities as Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers — and provides a foundation for further analytical study of African- American sacred music. Methodology utilized in this thesis includes construction of a biographical narrative based on primary sources and analysis of …

Circuition: Concerto For Jazz Guitar And Orchestra, Richard Alan Robinson

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Circuition: Concerto for Jazz Guitar and Orchestra is a programmatic musical composition which tells the story of the life cycle. Each part is designed to represent a particular time in life through age or set of events that relate to all people regardless of the specifics in one’s life. Although I disclose how the program of relates to specifics within my own life, the goal is that a listener will find resonance with their own. In this document I examine how the elements of form, harmony, melody, and rhythm shape the composition and inform its programmatic nature.

Topics are divided …

Crouching Tiger Cello Concerto - A Melding Of Form And Content For The Concert Stage, Xiaohang Yu

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto for Amplified Cello and Orchestra is not only one of the most frequently performed cello concerto of the recent past; it also demonstrates Tan’s masterful synthesis of artistic forms from the Chinese and the Western art music traditions with visual media that extends beyond the concert-hall. The music for this concerto was initially composed as part of the score for Ang Lee’s film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, itself a landmark blend of Chinese cinema with Western technique. The score broke boundaries, combining Western orchestral music with traditional Chinese instruments and thematic material. This melding …

The Clarinet And Piano Works Of Ernst Mahle: A Collaborative Pianist’S Perspective, Edgar Augusto Gonsales

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Ernst Mahle is a German-Brazilian composer who not only became a Brazilian citizen but also a reference for Brazilian classical music. His vast list of compositions includes works for all major genres, as well as containing instrument combinations that are not mainstream. In addition to being a composer, Mahle dedicated a big part of his life as a pedagogue, as a teacher and as the director of the Escola de Música de Piracicaba (Piracicaba Music School).

Through research on Mahle’s biography, compositional styles, and an interview with the composer, the purpose of this paper is to study his four clarinet …

A Study Of Language And Its Uses In Flute Performance And Pedagogy, Sarah Tuley

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Various tone colors can be produced on the flute in part by altering the shape of the lips, jaw and tongue movement, and air speed. As these actions are similar to those in the production of speech, flutists and flute teachers often associate aspects of playing with consonants and vowels. However, the shape of the oral cavity can vary depending on the spoken language of the flute-player. By becoming familiar with the pronunciations of different sounds from various languages, the flutist may discover a wider variety of tone colors at his/her disposal. This document will investigate the use of vowels …

A Pilot Study Evaluating A Training For Music Therapy Students On Considerations For Lgbtq Clients, Cecilia Blair Wright

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Music therapists are expected to understand the influence of gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation on the therapeutic process, yet may not be receiving education that adequately prepares them to support LGBTQ clients. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the impact of a one-hour educational training for music therapy students on considerations for working with LGBTQ clients. The presentation included information about terminology, discrimination, healthcare discrimination, music therapy research, musical considerations, and additional resources provided as a handout. The minority stress theory and queer theory informed the development of the presentation. Exploratory analysis revealed that participants …

Teacher Perspectives On The Influence Of Participation In Dalcroze Training In The K–12 Music Classroom: A Mixed Methods Study, Holly Smith

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the teacher perspectives on the influence of participation in Dalcroze training in the K–12 music classroom. A primary goal was to investigate how Dalcroze training influenced music teachers’ classroom instructional practices. An explanatory sequential mixed methods design was use for this study. Participants (N = 91) completed a cross-sectional survey, the Dalcroze Training Experience Questionnaire (DTEQ). Interview participants (N = 6) were selected using stratified sampling based on their years of Dalcroze experience and not demographic characteristics. Each participated in one semi-structured interview.

Quantitative data was analyzed using a …

A New Model Of Interpreting Modified Strophic Design: Brahms’S Late Viennese Solo Lieder, Yung-Ching Yu

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The study of the interaction between musical and text-based elements in songs has received a great amount of attention in recent years. Although numerous previous researchers have contributed to the study of Brahms’s Lieder, more work remains to explore Brahms’s various compositional techniques of modification to reveal the music-text relationship and performance implications in his strophic songs. Since the majority of Brahms’s modified strophic songs were composed during his later Viennese period (1875–97), this dissertation offers a thorough analysis of Brahms’s late twenty-eight strophic solo Lieder and develops a new formal model to categorize them as one of four types …

Chimurenga Chepfungwa: A Liberated Cultural Curriculum For The Madzimbabwe Singer, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Chimurenga ChePfungwa is the self-liberation of the mind. Education can either be an instrument for liberation or a tool for colonial indoctrination, brainwashing, and enslavement — the European colonization of Africa in the late-nineteenth century and the continent's epic efforts at self-liberation have amply taught us this.

Chimurenga ChePfungwa calls for the centering of ChiVanhu knowledge systems such as Ngano, Tsumo neNziyo. ChiVanhu encapsulates Madzimbabwe indigenous knowledge systems, cosmologies, and ways of being, and this paper insists on the primacy of these ChiVanhu epistemologies for the construction of knowledge and knowing.

Amagama ayadala. Words create. So much of the language …

Songs For High Voice: An Annotated Guide To African Romances, Op. 17 By Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Makeda Danielle Hampton

Theses and Dissertations--Music

African Romances, Op. 17, composed in 1897 by African-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), is a collection of seven songs for high voice that is uniquely both African and American. The lyrics of this song cycle were first published in the book Majors and Minors, a collection of poems published in 1895 by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906).

An analysis of resources supports that academic discourse in Black vocal music has been underrepresented due to the absence of centralized information, such as published scores, recorded materials, catalogs, and guides for study and performance. While in depth research focusing on the art …

Shining A Spotlight On Female African American Composer Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, Iris E. Fordjour-Hankins

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Those who are interested in learning more about Evelyn Simpson-Curenton (b. 1953) will find it challenging to find scholarly material on her life and music. She is best known for her arrangements of spirituals that were sang and recorded by Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman (whose concert recording Spirituals in Concert was released in 1991). Simpson-Curenton is also known for her choral work, “Psalm 91,” made famous by Oakwood University’s Aeolians. Though she is self-published, her absence from compilations, volumes, and anthologies for solo voice and piano is regrettable. This dissertation provides well researched scholarly information about her musical life …

Symphony No. 3 For Chamber Orchestra, Derrik Nelson

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Symphonic works provide the composer an opportunity to create and explore an entire world, establishing the rules and laws by which the music operates, subject only to the whims and wishes of the composer. I view large-scale symphonic works as one of the highest achievements of musical expression and craft a composer can accomplish. I chose to compose for the chamber orchestra due to its intimate arrangement, narrowing down the orchestra to its most essential components: strings, woodwinds, and brass, along with the inclusion of the piano. Though the piano is technically not an “essential” component of the orchestra, I …

A Glimpse Into Chinese Piano Education And Performance Through An Influential Professor, Xin Zhang

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Although China traditionally did not have keyboard instruments of its own origin, the country has taken to the modern piano exceedingly well. In the past decades, piano performance and education have progressed at an impressive rate, its popularity reaching unprecedented heights. The virtuosity of Chinese pianists has earned them prizes at renowned international competitions. These developments have sparked the interest of scholars as well as the general public.

First introduced to China around 1840, the piano was slow to be accepted, but interest grew steadily in the twentieth century. Missionaries and foreigners were the first piano teachers, with figures like …

Orchestral Excerpts For Trombone From Villa-Lobos’S “Chôros”– Performance Considerations And Collected Edition, Hugo Eustáquio De Faria Pinheiro Sr.

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The daily routine of playing in a professional orchestra can be very challenging. An important and useful tool for students, professors and professional players in the preparation process of playing is the focused study of orchestral excerpts, where one can consciously practice ahead of time the most technically demanding passages, in order to be ready for rehearsals and performances.

The orchestral output of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos is vast, with many technical and musical challenges for low brass musicians. This research will cover Villa-Lobos’s Chôros series, with a special focus on the works that present at least one trombone …