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The Creation, Myrna J. Layton

Faculty Publications

On the first day, God said "Let there be light. We need the world to have both day and night. Let there be light; let there be light."

Ancient Greek Music: The Aulos And The Kithara, Carina Carbone

Honors Projects

The aulos was one of the foremost woodwind instruments in ancient Greece; likewise, the kithara was one of the foremost string instruments. They varied in both form and function throughout time and by region. Given the popularity of both instruments, there are many surviving art pieces which illustrate them and their uses. There are also surviving samples of the instruments themselves.

The End Of The World And Other Times In The Future, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In an interview with his biographer Sylvie Simmons, Leonard Cohen identifies the main interests in his work as "women, song, religion". These are not merely personal concerns for Cohen, they are dimensions of the world that he tries to understand as a poet, singer, and thinker.

Now it's something of a cliché to see the modern romantic or post-romantic singer or poet in terms of personal struggles, failures, triumphs, and reversals. Poets sometimes respond by adopting elusive, ironic, enigmatic, or parodic voices: think, in their different ways, of Bob Dylan and Anne Carson. Yet Cohen has always worn his heart …

Eighteenth Century Techniques Of Classical Improvisation On The Violin: Pedagogy, Practice And Decline, Flavia Claudia Todea

Theses : Honours

The art of improvisation flourished in both instrumental and vocal music during the late seventeenth and throughout the eighteenth centuries. The violin techniques of improvisation taught in the eighteenth century (such as ornamentation of melody, decoration of fermatas, extemporization of cadenzas and creation of preludes) formed an integral part of instrumental pedagogy and performance practice at the time, which then declined significantly from the early nineteenth century onwards. It seems that this practice of improvisation has been neglected and its principles almost forgotten in the world of classical Western music today. This paper makes an argument for the re-introduction of …

Australia’S Microtonal Modernist: The Life And Works Of Elsie Hamilton (1880-1965), Talisha Goh

Theses : Honours

This dissertation represents the most complete account to date of the life and works of Australian composer Elsie Hamilton (1880-1965). Through examining the theories of the Anthroposophical movement, I demonstrate how her music feeds from this belief system, and also demonstrate how Hamilton’s stance is congruent with the modernists of her generation. In addition, I position Hamilton’s modal system within the complex mathematics of Greek musical theory (as conceived by her collaborator, Kathleen Schlessinger). Finally, I provide modern editions and electronically manipulated sound files to all of Hamilton’s surviving compositions. Elsie Hamilton’s story is fascinating. This dissertation welcomes her into …

Music Therapy And Autism: A View From Disability Studies, Joseph N. Straus

Publications and Research

Music therapy has positioned itself squarely within the medical model of disability, arguing that many sorts of human variability should be understood as illnesses, diseases, or other sorts of pathological medical conditions, and offering music as a source of normalization, remediation, and therapy toward a possible cure. But for many human conditions, including autism, cure is neither possible nor desirable. Instead of seeking to normalize autistic people, music therapy might instead acknowledge their distinctive sorts of musical interests and attitudes and offer to enhance their indigenous culture in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Instead of normalization and cure, music therapists …

Idiots Savants, Retarded Savants, Talented Aments, Mono-Savants, Autistic Savants, Just Plain Savants, People With Savant Syndrome, And Autistic People Who Are Good At Things: A View From Disability Studies, Joseph N. Straus

Publications and Research

People identified as idiot savants have long comprised an identifiable group (a high level of skill in the context of perceived mental deficiency) whose story has mostly been told by psychiatrists and psychologists within a medicalized model of disability that assumes deficiency and seeks remediation and normalization. More recently, people identified as savants have become common figures of literary and cinematic representation. Both of these narrative frames have enfreaked them as alien Others, whose gifts and disabilities place them outside the normal run of human intelligence and creativity. With a focus on music, this article tries to see through these …

An Analytical Example For Bob, Joseph N. Straus

Publications and Research

In the fall of 1981, I was the greenest, most naïve young music theorist you can possibly imagine. The ink on my doctoral diploma was still wet, and I had just started my first job, at the University of Wisconsin. It was a simpler, less demanding time for music theorists: I had never attended a conference, much less presented at one. But I found myself at the 1981 meeting of the newly formed Society for Music Theory in Los Angeles, giving my first-ever theory paper. I recognized Milton Babbitt, the keynote speaker for the conference, sitting right in front of …

Soliloquy, Christiaan Van Voorst Van Beest

Dissertations and Theses

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Dans Les Collines De Jardins De Pierres Sacrã©Es In The Hills Of Gardens Of Sacred Stones, William Apollo Brown

Dissertations and Theses

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Concerto For Violin & Chamber Orchestra, Gregory Munna

Dissertations and Theses

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Conflicts Of Soviet Ideology In Sergei Prokofiev's Film Score For Ivan The Terrible, Elizabeth R. Blaufox

Dissertations and Theses

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Sinking Orchid, Kris Davis

Dissertations and Theses

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Conversations We Have Had, Michael Koltosky

Dissertations and Theses

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Scenes From A Memory And Progressive-Metal Tonality, Blake Graham

Dissertations and Theses

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Musical Offerings Trading As Conversation In Jazz, Matthew Carter

Dissertations and Theses

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Sonata Form In Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, Michele Kishlansky

Dissertations and Theses

"Charles Rosen, in his book, Sonata Forms, discusses the ways in which sonata form elevated pure instrumental music, gripping the attention of audiences “without the seductions of spectacle, the sentiments of poetry, and the emotions of drama, or even the dazzling technical virtuosity of singer and performer.”1 Sonata forms accomplished this by providing a clear analogy for dramatic action, containing an identifiable climax—a moment of maximum dramatic tension to which the first part of the work pushes towards and which the composer systematically resolves. Furthermore, Rosen writes: It is a closed form, without the static frame of ternary form; it …

Concert Recording 2014-11-05, Yulia Orlova, Daniel Salls, Christopher Senty, Taylor Wilson, Kailey Miller Erwin, Morgan Aldridge, Savannah Bequeaith, David Malis, Judd Burns, Lisa Kulczak, Leanne Scaggs, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Opera Theater

Concert Recordings & Programs

La mia Dorabella capace non e from Cosi fan tutte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- En vain pour eviter from Carmen / Georges Bizet -- Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante from Carmen / Georges Bizet -- In un coupe...O Mimi, tu piu non torni from La boheme / Giacomo Puccini -- Giunse alfin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardar from Le nozze di Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Son rinato...Prender moglie? from Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti -- Barcarolle from The tales of Hoffmann / Jacques Offenbach -- Au fond du tmeple saint from The pearlfishers / Georges Bizet …

Concert Recording 2014-11-07, Yulia Orlova, Daniel Salls, Christopher Senty, Taylor Wilson, Kailey Miller Erwin, Morgan Aldridge, Savannah Bequeaith, David Malis, Judd Burns, Lisa Kulczak, Leanne Scaggs, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Opera Theater

Concert Recordings & Programs

La mia Dorabella capace non e from Cosi fan tutte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- En vain pour eviter from Carmen / Georges Bizet -- Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante from Carmen / Georges Bizet -- In un coupe...O Mimi, tu piu non torni from La boheme / Giacomo Puccini -- Giunse alfin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardarfrom Le nozze di figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Son rinato...Prender moglie? from Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti -- Barcarolle from The tales of Hoffmann / Jacques Offenbach -- Au fond du temple saint from The pearlfishers / Georges Bizet -- …

Concert Recording 2014-04-30, Alexis Rizzolo, Christopher Senty, Jennifer Garrison, Blaine Nims, Janelle Hollister, Hyeon Min Jang, Michael Rothmeyer, Kaci Berry, Leanne Scaggs, Judd Burns, Kailey Miller Erwin, Mallory Bennett, Stephanie Burnett, Tori Rudolph, Amanda Brooks, Kristine Mezines, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Opera Theatre, David Malis

Concert Recordings & Programs

The Mikado. Three little maids from school / Gilbert and Sullivan -- Lakme. Flower duet / Leo Delibes -- Die Zauberflote. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd shon / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Werther. Bonjour, grande soeur...va, laisse coulers me larmes / Jules Massenet -- L'elisir d'amore. Una furtiva lagrima / Gaetano Donizetti -- Cosi fan tutte. Prendero quell brunettino / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- The pirates of Penzance. O false one, you have deceived me / Gilbert and Sullivan -- Le nozze di Figaro. Cinque...dieci / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Cosi fan tutte. Soave sia il vento / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart …

Concert Recording 2014-12-10, Casey Cope, Rob Edwards, Caleb Evans, Ryan Ashworth, A. J. Carson, Austin Farnam, Hillary Fromme, David Grayling, Laura Hart, Jessica Johnson, Ron Juzeler, Alfredo Maruri, Vordie Mathis, Cari Moll, Sara Remoy, Jason Reznicek, Grant Sims, Robert Wiser, Rosabelle Zhou, Taylor Wilson, Yulia Orlova, Brittany Schroader, Hannah Mindeman Shuman, Nathan Olson, Mark Haney, Aaron Bloodworth, Olga Greenhut, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

Trashy elves / Ed. Argenziano ; arr. Janet Knighten -- Mein! from Die Schone Mullerin, D.795, no.11 / Franz Schubert -- Le charme / Ernest Chausson -- Johanna from Sweeney Todd / Stephen Sondheim -- Non posso disperar / Giovanni Bononcini -- Concertino in B flat major, opus 12 for bassoon and piano / Ferdinand David -- Chant lointain / Eugene Bozza

Concert Recording 2014-12-10, Casey Cope, Rob Edwards, Caleb Evans, Ryan Ashworth, A. J. Carson, Austin Farnam, Hillary Fromme, David Grayling, Laura Hart, Jessica Johnson, Ron Juzeler, Alfredo Maruri, Vordie Mathis, Cari Moll, Sara Remoy, Jason Reznicek, Grant Sims, Robert Wiser, Rosabelle Zhou, Taylor Wilson, Yulia Orlova, Brittany Schroader, Hannah Mindeman Shuman, Nathan Olson, Mark Haney, Aaron Bloodworth, Olga Greenhut, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

Trashy elves / Ed. Argenziano ; arr. Janet Knighten -- Mein! from Die Schone Mullerin, D.795, no.11 / Franz Schubert -- Le charme / Ernest Chausson -- Johanna from Sweeney Todd / Stephen Sondheim -- Non posso disperar / Giovanni Bononcini -- Concertino in B flat major, opus 12 for bassoon and piano / Ferdinand David -- Chant lointain / Eugene Bozza

Concert Recording 2014-10-29, Andrew Baker, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Elvis Barksdale, Hannah Mindeman Shuman, Christopher Barnett, Christine Hsu, Dorian Scott, Sean Breast, Kristine Mezines, July Emery, Helena Aung

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concerto for oboe and orchestra. Aria ; Rheita dance / John Corigliano -- Concerto for oboe and strings. Rondo pastorale / R. Vaughan Williams -- Concerto in C major. First movement / W.A. Mozart -- Midnight euphonium. First movement / Goff Richards -- The swan from Carnival of animals / Camille Saint-Saenes -- Come raggio di sol / Antonio Caldera

"More Than A Wishful Dream", Wai Yong Tang

Senior Honors Theses

“More than a Wishful Dream” is a musical drama that explores the Christmas story through the eyes of Joseph. The author hopes to bring a realization that the Christmas story was an event that truly happened by exploring the emotional and cultural realities surrounding the birth of Christ through the musical. This thesis also includes a study on the different elements of playwriting, musical theatre and songwriting. These elements were compiled and incorporated into the musical as part of the thesis. In the musical, Joseph dreams to be great like his forefathers and to save his people from suffering. However, …

Eco-Theatre, R. Murray Schafer, Eleanor James, Sarah Ann Standing

Publications and Research

Born in Sarnia, Ontario, in 1933, and widely considered Canada’s leading living composer, Raymond Murray Schafer is also a librettist, educator, writer, and “soundscape” theorist. Schafer composes for symphonies as well as chamber orchestras, solo instruments (he has even composed a piece for snowmobile), and vocalists. His compositions have played throughout the world. Schafer’s operatic cycle Patria—a masterwork almost forty years in the making—consists of ten episodes, plus a prologue and an epilogue. The prologue The Princess of the Stars and epilogue And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon (also known as the Wolf Project) comprise an eco-theatre where Schafer places …

Concert Recording 2014-10-30, Kristine Mezines, Matthew Hildebrand, Michael Moore, Stephan Mitchell, Chase Teague, Brandon Bahara, Stephen Thorn, Alex Grisos

Concert Recordings & Programs

Oliver's birthday / Bruce Broughton -- Sonata for trumpet and piano. I. Mit Kraft / Paul Hidemith -- Concerto / Alexander Arutunian -- Sonata for trumpet and piano. II. Adagio tenero ; III. Allegro / Halsey Stevens -- Prayer of Saint Gregory / alan Hovhaness -- Concertino / Ennio Porrino -- Arabesque / Joseph Turrin

On The Digital-Political Topography Of Music, Daniel William Lawrence

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

The persuasive power of music is often relegated to the dimension of pathos: that which moves us emotionally. Yet, the music commodity is now situated in and around the liminal spaces of digitality. To think about how music functions, how it argues across media, and how it moves us, we must examine its material and immaterial realities as they present themselves to us and as we so create them. This dissertation rethinks the relationship between rhetoric and music by examining the creation, performance, and distribution of music in its material and immaterial forms to demonstrate its persuasive power. While …

Total Voice Leading, Joseph N. Straus

Publications and Research

The total voice leading between sets X and Y is defined as the complete collection of ordered pc intervals formed between the pcs in X and the pcs in Y. These interval multisets (imultisets) describe the sonic signature of the motion from X to Y, and they always have the property of transpositional combination. In some cases, the same total voice leading may be produced by different pairs of X and Y (Cohn 1988 refers to this as “multiple parentage”). In such cases, the total voice leading may remain the same even though the generating chords differ.

Idiomatic Horn Writing: The Formal And Historical Contexts Of Four Horn Pieces, Elizabeth A. Danner

Masters Theses

As performers on the modern horn, we are presented with literature that was written for an instrument that differs from the one we use today. The fact that much of our solo literature was written for the natural horn does not invalidate our performances of it on the modern double horn. However, in order to present the music correctly, we must be aware of the development of the horn and historical context. In this document, I explore four pieces from different points in horn history. I assert the reasons each composer wrote the way he did by considering the physical …

Muop 356/856: Intermediate/Advanced Opera Techniques—A Peer Review Of Teaching Project Inquiry Portfolio, Jamie M. Reimer

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

Intermediate/Advanced Opera Techniques is a two credit elective course offered each spring at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. At its genesis, the course was primarily an opera scenes workshop, focused solely on the preparation and performance of an opera scene in a final concert. It is a cross-listed course meaning that students from the first year through advanced graduate study may enroll. Students may or may not have any experience on the music theater stage, nor have they had training in how to prepare a new role from casting to completed performance.

This course is an elective in the School of …