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'...Sometimes The Actual Sound Of The Voice Is My Own': An Interview With Garrett Sholdice, Mark Fitzgerald

Articles

This interview surveys the music of Garrett Sholdice, discusses influences and traces aspects of Sholdice's aesthetic and technical approach.

Music And The Presidency: How Campaign Songs Sold The Image Of Presidential Candidates, Gary M. Bogers

Honors Undergraduate Theses

In this thesis, I will discuss the importance of campaign songs and how they were used throughout three distinctly different U.S. presidential elections: the 1960 campaign of Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy against Vice President Richard Milhouse Nixon, the 1984 reelection campaign of President Ronald Wilson Reagan against Vice President Walter Frederick Mondale, and the 2008 campaign of Senator Barack Hussein Obama against Senator John Sidney McCain. In doing so, there will be an analysis of how music was used to sell the image of these presidential candidates through both its juxtaposition with other forms of mass media (television advertisements, radio, …

Teaching Music Literacy In Beginning Band: A Review Of Method Books And A Proposed Alternative Method, Haley Caroline Harrington

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to review current band methodologies, specifically for the beginning band, and identify the current process of teaching music literacy. For beginning bands, music literacy instruction is a powerful tool music students use to be successful at sight-reading. It cannot be assumed that simply because students perform music on instruments, they also will achieve high ratings at sight-reading. Brain-compatible learning may offer a solution in addressing the issue with how beginning band students are taught to read music. Therefore, this study will propose a more effective method, applying the Music Learning Theory of Edwin Gordon …

Mills Brothers (1924-1981), John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

The Mills Brothers were the first African American group musical group to enjoy popularity with white audiences, and had a career that lasted over fifty years.

Paul, Les (1915-2009), John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Les Paul was a guitarist and inventor who experimented with multitrack recording.

A Descriptive Analysis Of Rehearsal Techniques Of Expert Middle School Band Directors From Kentucky, Mississippi, And Tennessee, David John Culp Jr

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to identify rehearsal techniques among expert middle school band directors Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Twenty-one potential participants were recommended by university faculty and other leaders within the profession. Seven directors were identified who met criteria for participation in the study. Six directors agreed to participate, but due to scheduling conflicts, five were observed. Participants were observed and video recorded for three consecutive rehearsals. Initial analysis divided rehearsals into subsections including: warm-up, repertoire rehearsal, run-through performance, and non-instructional time. Repertoire rehearsal time for all participants was then systematically analyzed using rehearsal frames with two …

Concert Recording 2019-04-06, Erin Horner, Hannah Mindeman Shuman

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00 Inno a Diana.Morire? . Canto d'anime / Giacomo Puccini -- [06:14]. Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques / Maurice Ravel -- [13:40]. Stabat Mater. Quis non posset / Franz Joseph Haydn -- [18:24]. Hat dich die Liebe berürht / Joseph Marx -- Kling!... op. 48, no. 3 / Richard Strauss -- [22:42]. Sound of Music. Climb every mountain .

Concert Recording 2019-12-03b, Erick Amaya, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Concerto for trumpet and piano / Alexandra Pakhmutova -- [13:08]. Fantasy for B-flat trumpet / Malcolm Arnold -- [17:00]. Triptyque. I. Scherzo ; II. Largo ; III. Salterelle / Henri Tomasi -- [20:52]. Sonata for trumpet and piano. I. Allegro moderato ; II. Adagio tenero ; III. Allegro / Halsey Stevens -- [35:41]. My regards / Edward Llewellyn -- [42:18]. Strasbourg / St. Denis.

Applying “El Sistema”: An Analysis Of The People’S Music School In Chicago, Illinois, Elizabeth Schmidt

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

"Founded in 1975 by José Antonio Abreu in Venezuela, El Sistema is a music education program that gives underprivileged children the opportunity to learn to play a string instrument in a youth orchestra setting. The mission of the program is to promote long-term social change through the character development that accompanies instrumental music education. El Sistema has since grown to include over one million students in Venezuela, and its mission has inspired educators in the United States to create similar programs. These El Sistema-inspired programs serve students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, aiming to provide students with hope and teach lifelong …

Ua99/5 Bowling Green Business University Departments, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the departments of Bowling Green Business University.

Ua1c3/6 Student/Alumni Small Group Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of small groups of identified students.

Ua1c11/87 Howard Carpenter Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs collected by Howard Carpenter.

Ua1c11/88 Jamie Daly Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs taken of and by Jamie Carlyle Daly during her time with the Gemini Jazz Band.

Ua1c4/4 Band Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of WKU marching band, orchestra, symphonies, etc.

Musical Legacy Projects (Fa 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1386. Interviews conducted by WKU students with musicians in southcentral and western Kentucky, a folklore fieldwork class contribution to the Kentucky Folklife Program’s Southcentral Kentucky Musical Legacy Project.

A Descriptive Study Of The Faber Series Piano Adventures And Its Implications For Piano Pedagogy, Martha Frances Monroe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine the Piano Adventures method books written by Randall and Nancy Faber. The series was thoroughly researched and developed for ten years before it was published in 1993. Since that time, the series has been enhanced and has added numerous additional books of repertoire, technique, and improvisation. An online application has been created to help not only students, but also to provide teaching tools and guides for teachers. With the inclusion of technology at the forefront of all education, the Faber series has opened the door for students through a new approach that …

Junior High School Student Preference: Teaching Taiwanese Folk Songs Using Orff Activites Vs Traditional Teaching, Mei-Chi Wu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research explores the development of the Orff approach in Taiwan and its applications in the teaching of singing. The researcher seeks to examine the effects of Orff activities in raising the interest of junior high school students in singing. The literature review includes the historical background of the Orff approach and the examination of potential creative adaptations in the teaching of folk songs. In this research, the following are discussed: music education in Taiwan, the development of the Orff approach in private schools, comparisons and contrasts between the New and the Old Curricula in Taiwan, the nature of folk …

Defining The Late Style Of Johannes Brahms: A Study Of The Late Songs, Natilan Casey-Ann Crutcher

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Johannes Brahms has long been viewed as a central figure in the Classical tradition during a period when the standards of this tradition were being altered and abandoned. His resistance to innovation creates some difficulty when trying to pinpoint his "late style", and how he fits into the late style concept. While existing scholarship on Brahms's late style tends to focus on his chamber works, this document focuses on his late Lieder. This document proves a study of Brahms's literary considerations, a comparison of his early and late songs, and a comparison between Brahms and some of his contemporaries. In …

Prizes, Winning, And Identity: Narrative Vocal Music Of The Pulitzer Prize, 2008–2018, Julia K. Kuhlman

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis considers the ways in which the Pulitzer Prize for Music shapes and is shaped by music of the moment. Since 1943, the Pulitzer Prize has marked 83 pieces as “distinguished” examples of American music. The financial rewarding of winning composers and the initiation of a reciprocal transfer of prestige and political capital, the Pulitzer’s expert juries and governing body has contributed to the preservation of a perpetually-shifting status quo. By chronicling the year-to-year shifts of administrative power dynamics in prize selections, the Pulitzer Prize has mirrored the changing American musical landscape.

Drawing on methods of reception history, archival …

Concert Recording 2019-04-09a, Austin Dearing, John Lee, Cody Hutchison, Brandon Garrett, Garrison Dean, Benjamin Pierce, Ethan Andrews, Mason Moore, Ryan Moos, Jordan Alimena, Stephen Hunt

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Fanfare / James Barnes -- [01:39]. Contrapunctus IX / J.S. Bach ; arranged by Michael Forbes -- [05:11]. Celestial suite. I. Eclipse ; II. Canzone lunaire. Pt. 1 ; Pt. 2 ; III. Solar plexus / Stephen Bulla -- [13:39]. Misty Mountain / Howard ; arranged by Cody Hutchison -- [16:01]. Passage to Bangkok / Rush ; arranged by Cody Hutchison -- [19:30]. Power / John Stevens -- [21:14]. Ballade / John Stevens -- [24:35]. Cherokee / John Schooley -- [29:42]. Go / Michael Forbes -- [35:26]. Canzona Bergamasca / Samuel Scheidt ; arranged by Cody Hutchison -- [40:49]. …

International Music Preferences: An Analysis Of The Determinants Of Song Popularity On Spotify For The U.S., Norway, Taiwan, Ecuador, And Costa Rica, Brendan Joseph Suh

CMC Senior Theses

This paper examines data from Spotify’s API for 2017-2018 to determine the effects of song attributes on the success of tracks on Spotify’s Top 200 Chart across five different countries: the U.S., Norway, Taiwan, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. Two dependent variables are used to measure the success of a song – a track’s peak position on the charts and the number of days it survives on a country’s Top 200 Chart. Using ten separate regressions, one for each dependent variable in all five countries, it is concluded that the presence of a featured guest on a track increases a song’s …

Concert Recording 2019-11-17, Jack Mason, Madison Spyres, Logan Morris, Nicholas Beck, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Introduction -- [00:20]. Joy / Frank Ticheli -- [02:53]. On a hymnsong of Philip Bliss / David Holsinger ; [07:02]. Flashing winds / Jan Van der Roost -- Closing remarks -- [11:29]. The Kappa Kappa Psi Fraternity hymn / Scott Jeffrey Heckstall, Jr. ; arranged by Lortie.

Concert Recording 2019-02-11, Tim Pardue

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Petite symphonie. Adagio et allegretto ; Andante cantabile ; Scherzo ; Finale-Allegretto / Charles Gounod -- [19:43]. Funeral music of Queen Mary. March ; Man that is born of a woman ; Canzona ; Man that is born of a woman March / Henry Purcell -- [30:09]. Canticle for eleven winds and mallet percussion / Francis McBeth -- [34:03]. Capriccio. Allegretto ; Andante / Leos Janacek.

Concert Recording 2019-01-31a, Ross Monroe Winter, Vakhtang Kodanashvili

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Recitativo and scherzo-caprice, op. 6 / Fritz Kreisler -- [05:11]. Lonely suite (Ballet for a lonely violinist), op. 70 / Lera Auerbach -- [15:33]. Visions fugitives, op. 22 / Sergei Prokofiev -- [41:10]. Sonata no. 1 in A minor, op. 105 / Robert Schumann -- [58:33]. Three preludes for violin and piano / George Gershwin.

Concert Recording 2019-04-20a, Kaitlyn Craven, Hannah Mindeman Shuman

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Hamburger sonata in G Major. I. Allegretto ; II. Rondo / C.P.E. Bach -- [07:42]. Suite modale. I. Moderato ; II. L'istesso tempo ; III. Allegro giocoso ; IV. Adagio - Allegro deciso / Ernest Bloch -- [21:09]. Serenade aux etoiles op. 142 / Cecile Chaminade -- [25:2]. Kokopeli / Katherine Hoover -- [29:44]. Three American pieces. I. Early song ; II. Dedication ; III. Composer's holiday / Lukas Foss.

Concert Recording 2019-12-10, Fernando Valencia, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Latin American Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Fresa y chocolate / Rebeca Mauleon ; arranged by Fernando Valencia -- [05:56]. Philadelphia mambo / Tito Puente ; arranged by Valencia -- [12:52]. Flor palida, polo montanez / vers. M. Anthony feat. Leyla Coronel ; arranged by Valencia -- [17:50]. Cocinando suave / Ray Barretto -- [24:34]. Santo Domingo / Mark Levine featuring Michael Hanna ; arranged by Valencia -- [31:15]. El sol no regresa / Angel Reyero ; arranged by Valencia -- [35:38]. La flauta magica / Antonio Rameu featuring Dominique Phillips ; adapted by Valencia -- [41:14]. Desafinado / A.C. Jobim -- [48:00]. Chega de saudade …

Concert Recording 2019-03-31b, Blake Manternach

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Quintet no. 1 / Victor Ewald -- [13:50]. Duet no. 2 for clarinet and bassoon, WoO26 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- [24:15]. Tennessee Waltz / Redd Stewart ; arranged by Blake Manternach -- [26:28]. Trois chansons / Claude Debussy ; arranged by Michael Levin -- [33:15]. Three motets. I. Veilla regis ; II. Locus iste ; III. Pange lingua / Anton Bruckner ; transcribed by Ralph Sauer -- [41:27]. Devils waltz / Steven Verhelst -- [45:39]. Beatrice / Sam Rivers -- [51:48]. Round' Midnight / Thelonius Monk -- [01:02:16]. Honesuckle rose / Fats Waller.

Concert Recording 2019-03-06, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Department Of Music

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00. A place in this world / Taylor Swift -- [03:12]. Alone / Heart -- [06:56]. Baby Love / The Supremes -- [09:32]. Before he cheats / Carrie Underwood -- [12:46]. A case of you / Joni Mitchell -- [17:25]. I hate love songs / Kelsea Ballerini -- [20:39]. Jolene / Dolly Parton -- [23:19]. Once upon another time / Sara Bareilles -- [27:56]. Rhiannon / Fleetwood Mac -- [31:34]. Say a little prayer for you / Aretha Franklin -- [35:27]. Single ladies / Beyoncé -- [39:22]. Sk8r boi / Avril Lavigne-- [44:08]. Take it all / Adele -- [48:12]. …

Concert Recording 2019-03-10, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. An die Musik / Franz Schubert -- [02:29]. Theme from "The Moldau" / Bedrich Smetana -- [05:06]. Sarabande. Gigue / Johann Sebastian Bach -- [09:50]. Ten duos for two cellos, op. 53. No. 1 Comodo in C major ; No. 2 Leggiero in E minor ; No. 4 Vivace in D major / Reinhold Gliere -- [14:58]. From Marche militaries in Dmajor D. 733 / Franz Schubert -- [20:03]. Romance op. 28 no. 2 / Robert Schumann -- [24:38]. Humoresque no. 7 op. 101 / Antonin Dvorak.

Concert Recording 2019-03-27, Randall Faust, Broc Hite, Timothy Thompson

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Rondo for horn and piano (in honor of Roger Collins). Romanza for horn and piano (for Randy Gardner, in memory of Philip Farkas) / Randall E. Faust -- [ 08:21]. Three English folksongs. The water is wide / arranged by Faust -- [12:43]. The tourney of King John / Camille Saint-Saëns ; arranged by Marvin C. Howe -- [15:52]. ""out of the darkness-into the light"" (for Timothy Thompson) / Randall E. Faust -- [23:53]. Hamonielehre for solo horn (in honor of Douglas Campbell) / Faust -- [31:59]. Dreams of the casbah for solo horn / Jeffrey Snedeker -- [35:52]. …