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Nextet, Virko Baley, Arthur Gottschalk, Max Duykers, John Duykers, Kenneth Goldsmith, Michelle Latour, Timothy Hoft, Timothy Harpster, Joel Davel

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed.

Junior Recital, Dmytro Nehrych, Jae Ahn-Benton

Junior Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Doctoral Recital, Luc Brust, Micah Holt

Graduate Student Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Junior Recital, Dmytro Nehrych, Jae Ahn-Benton

Junior Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Global Music Perspectives: Music Outside The Western Canon In Local Schools, Jane A. Best, John F. Grimsley, Alan C. Heise, Lauren M. Mascioli, Samantha F. Moroney, Lauren A. Satterfield, Emily I. Zeller

Celebration

As a class, we are designing a research project for investigating how music teachers from counties in South-Central Pennsylvania use music from outside the Western canon (i.e. "world music"). We are performing a qualitative study by interviewing k-12 music teachers from school districts in South-Central Pennsylvania. Teachers may choose to participate in a focus group interview with other teachers or in one-on-one interviews. The focus group interview will not exceed two hours and the one-on-one interviews will not exceed an hour. The interviews will be guided using a questionnaire (see attached), but the conversation may deviate from these questions at …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Robert Alfred Nuñez, Baritone With William Murphy, Piano, Robert Alred Nunñez

All Performances

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Junior Recital, Elizabeth Bedrosian, Dejan Daskalov, Sammi Ciarlo, Josh Sjoen, Summer Kodama

Junior Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Junior Recital, Elizabeth Bedrosian, Dejan Daskalov, Sammi Ciarlo, Josh Sjoen, Summer Kodama

Junior Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Emily Hall, Clarinet, Emily Hall

All Performances

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Music Alive Faculty & Guest Artist Collaboration Series, A Tour Around The World: Hamburg, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Violin, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Henning Vauth, Piano, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Stephen Lawson, Henning Vauth

All Performances

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Alec Hunt, Trumpet, Assisted By Mark Smith, Piano, Alec Hunt

All Performances

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Vocal Jazz In Concert, Alexandra Blum, Samantha Dominguez, Megan Sola-Guinto, Shayda Khorosani, Mathew Grifka, Bronwyn Warzeniak, Donner Hanson, Greg Jasperse, Vivian Lu, Albert Alva, Lauren Potts

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

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Convocation, Unlv Convocations

Convocations

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"Grand Finale" Spring Concert, David B. Weiller

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed.

2013-2014 Performance Forum - May 2, 2014, Yasa Poletaeva, Trace Johnson, Jesse Monkman, Ricardo Pozenatto, Timothy Nemzin, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Josiah Coe, Ricardo Chinchilla, Kevin Karabell, Jordan Robison, Derek Mitchell, Delcho Tenev, Isac Ryu, Fabiola Porras, Hyunwook Bae, Mark Poljak, Zongxi Li, Blaine Inafuku

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

2013-2014 Class Of 2014 In Concert, Anastasiya Timofeeva, Meghan Yost, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Carlos Villareal, Carina Inoue, Timothy Nemzin, Peter Smith, Olga Kim, Giorgi Chkhikvadze, Misaki Saito, Fabiola Porras

Other Student Recitals

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Organizing An Honor Elementary Choir (Grades 4-6), Mona Jackson

Music Graduate Projects and Theses

The Elementary Honor Choir was for selected participants from Southwestern Idaho Elementary schools with a guest conductor, from Tacoma, Washington. Area Music Teachers supported this event by selecting students and preparing them in advance for the one-day rehearsal and performance. Through the process of preparation and rehearsals the students gained vocal development, further musicianship skills, camaraderie, and created an aesthetic musical experience. Attending elementary music teachers observed techniques for working with elementary choirs and details of teaching each song selection that they could take back to their individual classrooms to implement. The concert performance gave students the opportunity to implement …

Antonio T. De Nicolás: Poet Of Eternal Return, Christopher Key Chapple

Research Resources

This book includes essays in honor of Professor Antonio de Nicolas.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Jazz Ensemble Ii, Mr. Jeffrey Wolfe, Director, Jeff Wolfe

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Tour Around The World: Hamburg, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Violin, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Henning Vauth, Piano, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Stephen Lawson, Henning Vauth

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Mirrors, Zachary R. Ross

Undergraduate Honors Theses

MIRRORS is a cycle of songs composed for soprano voice and piano using five poems by Sylvia Plath. The work features the creation of a protagonist and tells a chronological story through the arrangement of the five poems colored and unified by the manipulation of a thematic twelve-tone row.

Narrative Structure In The Works Of Frederic Rzewski, Bree K. Guerra

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This thesis examines the compositional strategies Rzewski applies to affect his audience’s expectations so that the experience of the work parallels the political and philosophical ideas within it. Employing musical narrative theory as a way to characterize the process of expectation that can guide the perception of musical meaning, I explore how Rzewski’s pieces support or reject interpretation through a musical dramatic trajectory in ways that reflect the concepts behind the work to argue that: 1) Rzewski’s early variation works follow a linear narrative whose sequence of musical transvaluation conveys dynamics of socio-political problems and suggest solutions through collective action; …

Einstein On The Beach: A Global Analysis, Chelsea M. Coventry

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

Einstein on the Beach, the minimalist opera by Philip Glass, represents the culmination of a unique musical style within the minimalist genre developed by Glass over several decades. Since its premiere, only two analyses have been offered for the music of this opera, by Glass himself, and by Keith Potter. These analyses have provided valuable insight as to specific details of this work, but a large-scale, global analysis can also be undertaken, offering valuable insight into the overall structure of the work and also into the musical language created by Glass. Analyzing the key harmonic themes of the opera, …

Student And Teacher Experiences With Informal Learning In A School Music Classroom: An Action Research Study, Mark C. Adams

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

Despite the ubiquitous nature of music in the lives of adolescents, school music education rarely offers experiences with the informal music making practices that are used by their favorite vernacular artists. This action research study implemented informal learning practices into the formal learning environment of my current teaching position in a rural Midwestern community, to understand more about student experiences and the educator’s role in such a classroom. The qualitative research approach used in this study borrowed from grounded theory techniques. Data collection included twenty-five total interviews with nine first-year beginning instrumentalists. Interviews were conducted in three waves, where the …

The Process Of Musicking: An Alternative To Melodic Dictation And Other Activities Involved In The Undergraduate Music Program, Tanya Krof

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

This thesis makes the claim that the current American undergraduate music institution does not effectively integrate the skills learned in aural skills courses; as a result, too few students are engaged in the learning process and fail to master the required skills. One common activity used in aural skills courses is melodic dictation, an activity which asks students to notate a performed melody. While activating a multitude of useful skills, melodic dictation could cause a cognitive overload due to demanding too many tasks to be performed simultaneously. A suggestion of implementing Musicking activities—which emphasize music as a process (an act), …

Воспоминания (Acts Of Remembrance): For Violin, Cello And Piano, Marat E. Sanatullov

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

The piece has three movements: I. Истоки (Act I. Beginnings); II. Очарование (АCT II. Charm); III. Просветление (ACT III. Lucidity). The title of the piece and the titles of its movements are in Russian.

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Cognitive Vs. Aesthetic Musical Experiences : An Examination Of The Relationships Between Music Aptitude And Musical Preference In Third Grade Students., Erin Archer Elliott

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to measure correlations between third grade students’ music aptitude and preferences for music. Students (N = 60) from two elementary schools in Central Kentucky participated in the study. Students took Gordon’s Intermediate Measures of Music Audiation (IMMA) and a researcher-designed test called the Children’s Music Preference Index. Correlations between IMMA scores and music preference were tabulated using a two-tail bivariate correlation computing a Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient. No significant correlations were found between IMMA scores and the overall preference for music (r = -.018). There was an apparent weak negative correlation between aptitude and …

“Why Do You Sing To Me?”: A Case Study Of Form And Function Of Children's Songs In The Caribbean Diaspora Culture In South Florida, Finley Walker

Masters Theses

How does a child gain a musical identity? Music resides in the depths of personhood. Even before birth we are all touched by its power. Music is a language in that it communicates--thoughts, feelings, desires, information, and more. As children grow physically and mentally, they also grow musically. A person's musical development will be directly influenced by their culture and family. The following qualitative study looks at the form and function of children's songs, specifically children's songs from the diasporic Caribbean culture in South Florida. Twenty-one interviews, including 53 participants, were conducted to see how children's songs might play a …

Chopin Mazurkas And Its Influence On Polish Nationalism, Pablo Cintron

Masters Theses

The innovative character of Chopin Mazurkas is forever linked with Polish culture. This thesis examines how the unmistakable sound of the Mazurka captures the Polish sound more than any other work written by the composer and how it contributes to Polish cultural nationalism during the Polish diaspora of the nineteenth-century. In this study, the author presents a brief examination on Chopin's traditional interpretation of his mazurkas as well as isolating the characteristics of Polish interpretation that sets the Mazurka performance apart from the non-traditional style. A research case is made when contrasting the current concept of the classical execution of …

Al'riq: The Arab Tambourine, Nathaniel Stottlemyer

Masters Theses

The riq (plural: riqat) is a small tambourine measuring 22cm - 25cm in diameter and approximately 5cm - 7cm in depth. The instrument consists of ten pairs of brass, bronze or copper jingles inserted equidistantly around the frame in two rows, held in place by metal pins. It is traditionally fitted with a natural skin head, usually fish, however modern riqat often utilize a variety of tuning systems, making the use of synthetic skins possible. Several names for the instrument exist historically. Historical variations of the riq appear frequently in Islamic art. The riq is performed with exceptional dynamic contrast …