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Alumni Band Program 07/16/2017, Utah State University Alumni Band, Nicholas Morrison

All Music Department Programs

No abstract provided.

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

A Generalised Song, Will Turner

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

We consider parallels between words and music. We call a triple of structures, one verbal, one musical, and one mathematical, in which the mathematical structure is related to the verbal and musical structures, a generalised song. With the intention of exhibiting the potential of this form, we describe a generalised song called ‘Cube’.

At The Center Of Things: How An Academic Library Built A Bridge Between Art And Science On Campus, Michelle Catalano, Catherine Essinger, Suzanne Ferimer, Stephanie Lewin-Lane, Porcia Vaughn

Collaborative Librarianship

The University of Houston Libraries sponsored an interdisciplinary event for students, faculty, and the public, titled the Artists’ Health and Wellness Colloquium and Resource Fair. Aspiring and working artists were instructed in how to maintain good health and to avoid overstressing their bodies as they practice their art. Scholars presented both historical and trending perspectives on the intersection of art and health science. The event was held in order to facilitate learning in two key research areas and to demonstrate the library's ability to bridge disparate disciplines and forge new partnerships with multiple academic units simultaneously. This article presents planning …

Sounds Of Fear And Wonder: Music In Cult Tv, Paul Kauppila

Faculty and Staff Publications

A review of Sounds of Fear and Wonder: Music in Cult TV. Janet K. Halfyard, 2016, New York: I.B. Tauris pp. xi + 215, illus., figures and tables, acknowledgements, notes, works cited, TV and filmography, index (no price given)

Alumni Band Program 07/02/2017, Utah State University Alumni Band, Nicholas Morrison

All Music Department Programs

No abstract provided.

The Peter Nero Collection, Brooklyn College Library And Academic It

Finding Aids

This collection consists of just one item; a musical arrangement by Peter Nero, of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles. It is three pages of 16x17” Forest Brand sheet music paper from Music Writing Supplies in N.Y.C. The arrangement is done in pencil and has many special markings and notes by Peter Nero.

Pro Musica Newsletter, Summer 2017, Bowling Green State University. College Of Musical Arts

Pro Musica Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Iconic One-Hit Wonder: The History And Reception Of Franz Biebl's Ave Maria, Matthew Oltman

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

Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria is one of the most well-known small-scale choral pieces written in the latter half of the twentieth century. Since its introduction to American choirs in 1970, it has become an important part of the standard choral repertoire and is often performed perennially, especially at Christmas. It was integral to the rise in popularity of Chanticleer, the American professional male chorus, and remains closely associated with the ensemble thanks to it being recorded and published in the United States under Chanticleer’s auspices. Despite these facts, very little has been written about the composer or his iconic setting …

Music Appreciation (Gsw), Mark Laughlin, Ru Story Huffman, Julie Megginson, Robert Bryant

Fine Arts Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Music Appreciation was created under a Round Four ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Music Appreciation (Clayton State), Michael Fuchs, Nancy Conley, Christina Howell

Fine Arts Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Music Appreciation was created under a Round Four ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Music Appreciation (Georgia Gwinnett College), Todd Mueller, Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment, Irina Escalante-Chernova, Marc Gilley, Catherine Kilroe-Smith, Rachael Fischer

Fine Arts Open Textbooks

This Music Appreciation textbook was created under an ALG Round Five Textbook Transformation Grant. The original copy was presented in five modules, which are provided as separate files.

Authors' Description:

"The author of this text has intentionally kept it general in nature in order to create a platform for those who want to expand content into more in depth studies of the mentioned concepts and traditions. I believe that appreciation of any subject comes from open-minded exposure to that topic. With the arts this generally must happen at a moment when the message and meaning of the work resonates …

Music Appreciation (Ggc), Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment, Irina Escalante-Chernova, Catherine Kilroe-Smith, Todd Mueller

Fine Arts Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Music Appreciation was created under a Round Five ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Intergenerational Music Therapy : Bridging The Generational Gap Through Community-Based Music Making., Michael R. Detmer, Petra Kern, Jill Jacobi-Vessels, Kristi M. King

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Harmonic Analysis Of Saxophonist Ralph Moore Found Through Common Characteristics In Four Solo Transcriptions Of Jazz Standards From 1991–1998, Patrick Brown

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

Saxophonist Ralph Moore has performed with jazz luminaries such as Horace Silver, Roy Haynes, Freddie Hubbard, and J.J. Johnson, maintained a national television presence for fifteen years as a member of The Tonight Show Band, and has been a performing and recorded jazz artist for over thirty years. Even with this experience, Moore has not received the credit due his accomplishments.

This research details the life and music of Ralph Moore and analyzes his harmonic vocabulary through four solo transcriptions of jazz standards. Chapter one gives a brief biography of Moore and why he was chosen as the topic of …

“Ever To The Right”?: The Political Life Of 1776 In The Nixon Era, Elissa Harbert

Music Faculty publications

No abstract provided.

Key Inference From Irish Traditional Music Scores And Recordings, Pierre Beauguitte, Bryan Duggan, John D. Kelleher

Conference papers

The aim of this paper is to present techniques and results for identifying the key of Irish traditional music melodies, or tunes. Several corpora are used, consisting of both symbolic and audio representations. Monophonic and heterophonic recordings are present in the audio datasets. Some particularities of Irish traditional music are discussed, notably its modal nature. New key-profiles are defined, that are better suited to Irish music.

Evolution Of The Cello In Music, Joshua Propst

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

With this project, I have studied cello music written throughout many of the major musical eras in an attempt to discover the cello, specifically regarding playing style, technique, and tonal ability. The composers included in this project are Bach, Haydn, Dvořák, Pärt, and Amanti. Most of the major musical styles are represented, with a focus on baroque, classical, romantic, minimalism, and jazz. I performed this wide variety of pieces at my Senior Recital for the Western Kentucky University (WKU) Music Dept. The goal of the recital was to showcase the rich musical history of the cello and how cello composition …

Baroque Performance, Anne Bennion, Alexander Woods

Journal of Undergraduate Research

For my project, I learned and performed Bach Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor on baroque violin and performed it in a community recital. In the Baroque era, the violin was strung with gut strings and played with a shorter, lighter bow. This instrument was ideal for the Baroque style of music which calls for quick articulations, and a more buoyant tone. But overtime the instrument evolved into the modern violin which has greater tension in steel strings tuned a half-step higher, and played with a longer, heavier bow. This allows the violin to produce a larger sound, but …

20170628: Fine Arts, 1933-2011, College Of Arts And Media

Guides to University Archives

These items incl1933-2011. Items were received in 2017 and include notable materials from the Department of Music papers and programs, annual reports from faculty (a small select number), and program information. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.

Alumni Band Program 06/25/2017, Utah State University Alumni Band, Nicholas Morrison

All Music Department Programs

The USU Summer Alumni Band consists of over 300 alumni of the band program at USU who continue to perform seriously following graduation, many as professional musicians or music teachers.

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 …

Kreisleriana And E.T.A. Hoffman: Literary Influences On The Works Of Robert Schumann, Alissa Freeman, Scott Holden

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Robert Schumann is one of the most renowned composers of the romantic era, but only those who have studied his life realize that he also made enormous contributions to the world of literature. Through both his compositions and his own writings, Schumann was able to pay homage to many of his most beloved writers. The goal of my project was to learn more about Schumann’s connection to the writer E.T.A. Hoffmann through the piece Kreisleriana, which is one of Schumann’s quintessential pieces for solo piano. This piece was inspired and modeled off of several novels and writings by Hoffmann, …

Advocating For The Music Of Villa-Lobos, Forrest Howell, Dr. Scott Holden

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My ORCA project was an in depth study of the Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. Villa-Lobos is revered in Brazil as the father of Brazilian classical music. What is not well understood, however, is the major contribution that Villa-Lobos made to music pedagogy and even to public policy related to music education in the public school systems. Many of the composer’s writings are inaccessible to the general public. As part of my project, I visited the Villa-Lobos Museum in Rio de Janeiro. I translated important pedagogical writings from Portuguese to English, studied correspondences between Villa-Lobos and the Brazilian federal government, and …

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.

The Crimson And The Black: The History Of The Central Washington University Alma Mater, Norman D. Wallen

Music Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A brief history of "The Crimson and Black", the alma mater of Central Washington University.

Paper Disc Record: A Consumption-Based Account Of Musical Identity, David Prescott-Steed

Proceedings from the Document Academy

Since 1991, I have been keeping a pen and paper list of my CD's, added to with each new purchase. With the increasing availability of digital media, not everything that I now listen to comes from a disc. Nevertheless, I have never bought digital music downloads, and so every new album purchase is a physical product with the band name and release title still added to the list. I keep it rolled up in a desk draw (the first composition-pages of which are yellowing nicely). The list comprises approximately 280 entries. Each entry until March 5, 2006 is numbered, by …

Lawrence University, Milwaukee-Downer College Reunion, Alumni Recital, June 16, 2017, Lawrence University

Conservatory of Music Concert Programs

Memorial Chapel

Perceptions Of Talking Time In Choir Rehearsal, D. Michael Draut, Paul Broomhead

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Analyzing choir teachers’ perceptions of talking time has been a rewarding experience. I was able to collect data on how much time choir teachers spend talking during rehearsal; how choir teachers view the amount of time they spend talking; and how accurate their perceptions of time spent talking are. This study provided several answers and stirred my curiosity to develop additional questions.

Bass World 3: Music In St. Petersburg, Christian Hales, Eric Hansen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Russia has always been known for its indelible contributions to the arts. The likes of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Rostropovich and Koussevitzky cultivated their great talents there. Eric Hansen, professor of double bass at Brigham Young University, encouraged me to use some of his connections in Russia as an opportunity to experience this rich arts culture. His friend, Artem Chirkov, is principal Bassist of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and winner of the Bradetitch International Bass Competition. Eric suggested that I make the trip to St. Petersburg to participate in Artem’s World Bass Festival because it would help to prepare me for my …