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A Mission At 311, Nan Li

Theses and Dissertations

My thesis intends to look at how the aftermath of Holocaust has a tremendous life-changing impact on the children of Holocaust survivors, and to explore how these people has carried these misfortunes and burden to be resilient and joyful in their everyday lives.

Two Suites For Solo Instruments, Matthew O. Thomas

Theses and Dissertations

TWO SUITES FOR SOLO INSTRUMENTS:

MA Thesis

Matthew O. Thomas, Composer

This Thesis contains two Suites for Solo Instruments: Suite Médiévale for guitar and Seven Recital Studies for Intermediate Grade for piano solo. The recital studies were conceived as a way to fill a void in music literature for beginning advanced pianists; those students not quite ready for the large works of the masters, but are seeking challenging repertoire beyond the formulaic lesson and recital books. Each of the seven is an example of a different style, form, or theoretical concept. Notes for the performer have been included with recommendations …

Carlan Cogen - Senior Piano Recital, Department Of Music

Student Degree Recitals 2017-2018

Carlan Cogen featuring works by Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin.

Wind And Lower Strings Recital, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Students from the Department of Music featuring works by Brahms, Bach, Rota, Goedicke, Poulenc, and Morris.

Sunday Music Series, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Chi Yong Yun featuring works by Liszt, Park, and Schumann.

Andrews University Winter Concert, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

A benefit concert for Neighbor to Neighbor by Andrews University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Gonzalez, featuring Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 and Brahm's Third Symphony.

Piano, Chi Yong Yun.

Whitcomb Towers Recital Series, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Students of the Deparment of Music featuring works by Grieg and Saint Saens.

Young Artist Concert, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Students from the Andrews University Department of Music performing in the annual Young Artists Concert under the conduction of Dr. Claudio Gonzalez, professor of music and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra.

This year’s selected young artists are Donn LaTour (violin), Grant Steinweg (cello), Ellen Yoo (piano), Jeremy Ahn (piano) and Zachary Randolph (tenor).

Klezmer Elements In Paul Schoenfield’S Trio For Clarinet, Violin, And Piano: A Violinist’S Perspective, Hannah Phyllis Urdea Marcus

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Paul Schoenfield’s Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano draws extensively on the traditional Klezmer music of the Ashkenazi Jewish people of Eastern Europe. The blending of three very different instruments, as well as the Klezmer elements, unusual for the classically trained musicians, creat difficulties, as well as opportunities, for the composer and for the performers alike.

Music is often considered a language. As with any language, in order to be fluent, one must understand the cultural aspects that shape that language and the people who speak it. The way the performers present a piece greatly influences the way it is …

Faculty Trio Recital, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Carla Trynchuk (violin), Karin Thompson (cello), and Chi Yong Yun (piano) featuring works by Mozart, Fauré and Piazzolla.

Junior Recital - Katelyn Bauer, Katelyn Bauer

All Music Department Programs

This recital is in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music in Music Performance.

The Pedagogical Impact Of The Parallels Between Classical And Improvised Music, Joseph Harkins

Piano Pedagogy: Masters Research Projects

As one of the most versatile instruments in the world, the piano has been used in a plethora of musical styles and settings. Since 1850, the instrument has been relatively unchanged, and has played a role in major musical style periods such as: the romantic period, the impressionist period, atonality, minimalism, ragtime, jazz, blues, country, pop, and gospel to name a few. (A History of Western Music, Burkholder, timelines, ix,x,xi) (Gordon, p13, a history of keyboard literature, Schirmer NY 1996). The versatility of this instrument can also be seen in higher education today, in the types of collegiate piano degrees …

Junior Recital: Program Notes, Sophia Heitkamp

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The following program notes provide a brief historical background and harmonic analysis of the pieces performed at my Junior Recital. These pieces include several solo piano pieces, a piano duet, and a saxophone/piano duet.

Vital Performance: Culture, Worldview, And Romanticist Performance Practice With Application In Franz Liszt’S Consolations And Années De Pèlerinage Première Année, Andrew John Snedden

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis examines issues of historical performance in the piano music of Franz Liszt, positing cultural exegesis as an overlooked source of evidence. Philosophical biases underlying mainstream C20th performance approaches (and their inhibiting potential) are discussed. A detailed reconstruction of Romanticist style is made with attention to primary sources, including historical recordings. A nomenclature for score annotation and an analytical paradigm for identification and application of Romanticist performance characteristics are proposed. These are experimentally applied, referencing exegetical insights, in Liszt’s Consolations and Années de Pèlerinage: Première Année through annotated scores and studio recordings on an 1860’s Érard grand

Seventeen Waltzes For Piano By Leo Ornstein: A Stylistic Analysis, Jared Jones

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this document is to provide a stylistic analysis of Seventeen Waltzes for Piano by Leo Ornstein by examining the music in the analytical areas of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, texture, and keyboard layout–along with suggestions concerning pedal usage. These seventeen individual works were compiled and catalogued by the composer’s son, Severo Ornstein. The collection (S.400-S.416) is found to be a significant contribution to 20th-century piano literature by a lesser-known but nonetheless great Russian-Jewish-American composer and pianist, Leo Ornstein. The Seventeen Waltzes for Piano are a unique realization of the composer’s improvisatory writing style, mastery of large forms, …

Performance Practice In Liszt’S Hungarian Rhapsodies: A Comparison Of The Liszt-Pupil Recordings Of Hungarian Rhapsody No.12, Nicholas Williams

Theses : Honours

Despite their enduring popularity as concert works, Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies have never won favour with the critics. Played in a literal, score-bound fashion these works can indeed offer little more than fodder for the performing pony. Nevertheless, through performances that successfully capture the spirit of this music—many of which are captured on early recordings—these works are vibrant, powerful, and stirring.

This dissertation explores the performance style associated with these works. At the centre of this study is a comparative analysis of seven recordings of Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 made by the following Liszt pupils: Arthur Friedheim, Arthur de Greef, Alfred …

Analyzing And Comparing Selected Works For Violin And Piano By Chen Gang, Chen Guoquan And Bright Sheng, Liangjun Zou

Theses and Dissertations

Cross-cultural musical synthesis plays an important role in the creation of musical progress in the twentieth century. This dissertation is a study on the development of the use of Chinese folk elements in Western-style compositions by Chinese composers. Through analyses of different compositions by traditional Chinese composers, Chen Gang and Chen GuoQuan, as well as Chinese-born American composer Bright Sheng, the aesthetic variations produced by the synthesis of Western and Eastern music is examined.

Chapter One focuses on the development of Chinese violin music promoted by the efforts of several generations of composers. Chapter Two presents the background information of …

Ana Lozano Graduate Piano Recital, Andrews University

Student Degree Recitals 2017-2018

Ana Lozano performs her Graduate Recital featuring pieces by Beethoven, Schumann and Ravel.

Rachelle Gensolin-Senior Piano Recital, Department Of Music

Student Degree Recitals 2017-2018

Rachelle Gensoling featuring works by Beethoven, Scriabin, Schostakovich, and Chopin.

Senior Piano Recital - Jonathan Doram, Department Of Music

Student Degree Recitals 2016-2017

Jonathan Doram featuring works by Beethoven, Franck, Ravel and Bach-Busoni.

Whitcomb Towers Recital Series, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Students from the Department of Music featuring works by Beethoven, Faure, and Schubert.

Sunday Music Series - Ian Hobson, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Ian Hobson performing works by Debussy, Ravel and Chopin.

Homecoming 2017 - Alumni Gala Concert, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

AU Wind Symphony under the direction of Byron Graves and Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Gonzalez, featuring works by Smith, King, Daehn, Balmages, Ticheli, and Beethoven.

Special guest: Wen-Teng Ong, piano

Whitcomb Towers Recital Series, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Students from the Department of Music featuring works by Bach, Franck, and Beethoven.

Howard Presents- Trynchuk & Yun, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Carla Trynchuk (violin) and Chi Yong Yun (piano) featuring works by Brahms, Sibelius, Wtentawski, White and Faure.

To Only You: For Soprano Or Tenor And Piano, David Patterson, Tenbroeck Davison

Compositions of David Patterson

To Only You for Soprano or Tenor and Piano

Anniversary Song of Enduring Love and Devotion

Lyrics by TenBroeck Davison

Music by David Patterson

Copyright July 13th 2014 by TenBroeck Davison

Copyright July 13th 2017 by David Patterson

Attending Study Abroad In Vienna, Austria, Zachary Adamson, Dr. Scott Holden

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Throughout my life, music has been a source for mental development, spiritual growth and enjoyment. It has been at times both exciting and discouraging. As I completed my project, however, and engaged in the struggle to understand music, perform music and connect with others around me, I developed a greater vision of how music unifies the human experience, creating a positive influence on society. Specifically, I learned that valuing the arts is extremely advantageous for a society, and Vienna is a case in point; I learned specific techniques in piano playing, a kind of common legacy and style shared by …

One Fold, One Shepherd, Christopher Madsen, Rosalind Hall

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My project proposal was to compose and perform a sacred work for choir, soloists, piano, and select instruments in the Classical music style using text concerning the coming of Christ to the Nephites in the Book of Mormon and written in English, Spanish, and German. I am happy to report that in the course of the last year, I have performed premiere performances of the work (One Fold, One Shepherd) in English and German.

Degree Recital - Nathaniel Cogen, Department Of Music

Student Degree Recitals 2016-2017

Natheniel Cogen featuring works by Liszt, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Gershwin.

Senior Recital- Benjamin Krutsch: The Road Goes Ever On By Donald Swann And Other Works Of Adventure, Benjamin Krutsch, Dallas Heaton

All Music Department Programs

No abstract provided.