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William Bolcom’S "Twelve New Etudes" (1988): Theoretical And Interpretative Analysis, Ran Dank

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Ever since its naissance, composer William Bolcom’s set of Twelve New Etudes has garnered great critical praise, culminating with the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Although much has been written about the background surrounding the creation of these pieces and their technical novelty, no formal analysis of this set of etudes has been published.

This dissertation thoroughly examines the various aspects which hold these pieces together. Each etude is analyzed according to a clearly defined set of criteria: dynamics, compositional language, range, texture, articulation and contour, meter and rhythm, and form. In addition, a more detailed analysis is offered, providing …

A Study Of Nikolai Medtner's Compositional Technique: Form And Narrative In Tales, Oliver H. Markson

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation delves into the compositional approach of Russian-born composer Nikolai Medtner. A discussion of Medtner’s own words on composition from his book The Muse and Fashion: Being a Defence of the Foundations of the Art of Music is followed by original analyses of four Tales. Focus is placed on the composer’s philosophy regarding the relationship between form and narrative, in association with his expressed warnings of the dangers behind shifting compositional dominance from pure music to extra-musical narrative. The analyses are followed by a discussion of the vital importance of Medtner’s music and writings for future generations of composers. …

The Protagonist's Experience: Temporality, Narrative, And Harmonic Process In Brahms's Solo Lieder, Loretta Terrigno

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation explores musical and poetic temporality—expressions of the past, present, and future—in eighteen of Johannes Brahms’s solo Lieder. The selected songs illustrate that common tonal patterns in Brahms’s instrumental music, including tonal and modal ambiguities and associative harmonies, also suggest recurring narrative archetypes in his songs. Separate poetic and musical analyses use literary theory (narratology), as well as Schenkerian analysis and Schoenbergian conceptions of motivic development.

Narratological interpretations of poetry by Daumer, Platen, Köstlin, Goethe, Groth, Schenkendorf, Hebbel, and others first demonstrate that a series of psychological transformations form a lyric poem’s “plot” or “temporal progression.” This subjective level …

Heinrich Schenker’S Early Approach To Form, 1895–1921: Implications For His Late Work And Its Reception, Jason A. Hooper

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation constructs Heinrich Schenker’s early approach to form and traces its development as his organic theory of transformational voice leading emerged in the early 1920s. Schenker’s late approach to form is then briefly reconsidered from this newfound perspective.

Chapter 1 defines the nineteenth-century Formenlehre tradition established by A. B. Marx and passed down to Anton Bruckner through his studies in model composition, leading to Schenker himself. Chapter 2 presents Schenker’s early approach to form in a generative fashion, demonstrating how a single motive can grow into a large thematic group unified by a single key area or an economy …

Imperial Butterfly, Dagmar Rothschild

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis will examine a conceptual album that I composed, an exploration of the interaction between music and language and its effects on human emotions. I will attempt to demonstrate—in this thesis and in my composition—that when music and language come together in specific combinations, a possibility opens up, not simply for the creation of emotion but for something much more profound: personal transformation. This transformation takes place mentally (through language), and physically/molecularly/bodily (through music). It is, in essence, a kind of healing, what I have come to call “sonic nourishment.”

Imperial Butterfly follows one character, a woman (whom I …

Examining Equity In Tenure Processes At Higher Education Music Programs: An Institutional Ethnography, Deborah Bradley, Deanna Yerichuk, Lori-Anne Dolloff, Kiera Galway, Kathy M. Robinson, Jody Stark, Elizabeth Gould

Music Faculty Publications

As part of a larger mixed-methods study, this article presents findings from research on processes of tenure in Canadian higher education music faculties. The Principle Investigator and three teams of two researchers analyzed the process of tenure at three Canadian institutions to gain insight into how tenure decisions are made in relation to gender and race/ethnicity. The researchers used institutional ethnography, developed by sociologist Dorothy Smith, to examine institutional documents that organize tenure, as well as how documents organize people’s actions, studied through interviews with key stakeholders, such as directors, tenure applicants, and union representatives. The findings from the three …

Faculty Recital: Stephen Coxe, Stephen Coxe, Old Dominion University Diehn Chorale, Nancy Klein (Conductor), Patti Carlson, Wayla J. Chambo, Bianca Hall, Paul S. Kim, Jeffrey Phelps

Faculty Recitals

No abstract provided.

Uni Faculty And Student Chamber Music Concert, January 31, 2017 [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.

2016-2017 Senior Recital - Jordan Nashman (Double Bass), Jordan Nashman, Darren Matias

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Sean Botkin, Piano, January 31, 2017 [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.

The Elements, Lawrence University Flute Ensemble, January 30, 2017, Lawrence University

Conservatory of Music Concert Programs

Harper Hall

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017), directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana.

2016-2017 Master Of Music Recital - Jared Harrison (Flute), Jared Harrison, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

Mitra Sadeghpour, Soprano, January 30, 2017 [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.

Evocations, Works By Beethoven, Ravel, And Copland, Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra, January 28, 2017, Lawrence University

Conservatory of Music Concert Programs

Memorial Chapel

Jason Hardink: Liszt Transcendental Etudes, Jason Hardink

All Music Department Programs

Pianist Jason Hardink is the Artistic Director of the NOVA Chamber Music Series and Principal Symphony Keyboard of the Utah Symphony. His performances include a wide-ranging repertoire of music by living composers and works of the historical canon. Recent performances include the U.S. premiere of the complete numbered Klavierstücke of Wolfgang Rihm at Spectrum NYC, as well as concerti with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and the Utah Symphony. Over the last few seasons, he has given a series of lecture recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas, performed a cycle of recitals situating …

Young Artist Concert, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2016-2017

Andrews University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Gonzalez, and the winners of Young Artist Competition featuring works by Haydn, Saint-Saens, Prokofiev and Scriabin.

Analiz Lozano, piano.

Willagys Senior, oboe.

Rachel Gensolin, piano

Tiffany Steinweg, violin.

Dana Wilson, violin.

Wet Ink Ensemble, January 27, 2017, Lawrence University

Conservatory of Music Concert Programs

Harper Hall

Jazz Orchestra Concert(January 27, 2017), Lindenwood University

Student Music Performance Programs

Event program for the Jazz Orchestra Concert(January 27, 2017).

Ann Bradfield, Alto And Soprano Saxophones, January 27, 2017 [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.

Randall Harlow, Organ, January 27, 2017 [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.

Syracuse University Opera Theater Presents "An American Triptych: Three Contemporary One-Act Operas", Opera Workshop, Setnor School Of Music, Eric Johnson, Kathleen Haddock

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

2016-2017 Sanctuary Series - January 26, 2017, Lynn University, Mark Luttio, Harry Murphy, Kaitlyn Frame, Jiaxian Li, Harry S. Murphy, Alla Sorokoletova, Sergei Skobin, Jeff Morgan, Kendal Steiger, Anastasia Tonina, Katherine Milian

Snyder Sanctuary Series

No abstract provided.

Lane, Thomas Sylvester, 1858-1942 (Sc 3083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3083. Memo book containing information about singing schools[?] established in Edmonson and Warren counties in Kentucky. Includes a photograph of Thomas Sylvester Lane and his wife Ella Zade (Houchin) Lane.

Pavel Suliandziga, Tenor And Polina Khatsko, Piano, January 26, 2017 [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.

Jesse Orth, Tuba And Polina Khatsko, Piano, January 26, 2017 [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.

Philosophy In A Different Key: My Philosophy In Song, Donald W. Viney

Faculty Submissions

I composed my first song in the early 1970s, but all but one of the songs listed here were written after my fifty-fifth birthday in 2008—indeed, the vast majority of what I have composed was written since then. What follows are the lyrics to some of my songs. For each song, I’ve made comments that provide context, an explanation of the sources that I’ve used for inspiration, and what I was thinking in composing the piece. All of the recordings of the songs were made at Phil Ward’s Woodland Studios in Pittsburg, Kansas.

2016-2017 Performance Forum - January 26, 2017, Nicole Marie P. Cortero, Yasa Poletaeva, Darren Matias, Scott Davis, Sohyun Park, Jiaxian Li

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

2016-2017 Master Class - Andrés Cárdenes And Ilya Kaler (Violin), Andres Cardenes, Ilya Kaler, Yasa Poletaeva, Darren Matias, Junheng Chen, Yue Yang, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Shanshan Wei

Master Classes

No abstract provided.

2016-2017 Master Of Music Recital - Camille Ripple (Viola), Camille Ripple, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.