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Luba’S Theme, Amy Clements-Cortés

Music Faculty Publications

The following case study is of Luba, a 4 year old girl diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease and her music therapy process. Foundational information on Tay-Sachs disease is provided alongside a discussion of anticipatory grieving, and the death of a child.

Saxophone Elicits Passion Among Its Players, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Ua68/9/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Music Bands, Ensembles & Orchestras, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by individual bands and ensembles.

W.O.C. In Da Biz, Graeme Aegerter, Ellen Butterworth, Katie Davidson

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

Writings and art addressing intersectionalities of music, gender, and race, focusing on M.I.A., Janelle Monae, and Ciara Princess Harris.

Mesmo Que Depois, Bruno Ruviaro

Music

When a sample that is tired of suffering meets another sample that is also tired of suffering, it’s time to consider that intermodulation may suddenly happen. When there is a sample that sorely misses another sample, and this other sample does not understand it, just let that new intermodulation happen, even if clipping becomes unavoidable. How silly I was, trying in vain to rationally understand things about sampling that no one can actually explain. Come, let us try now, only a new use can twist the old one.

America's Music: A Film History Of Our Popular Music From Blues To Bluegrass To Broadway, Booth Library

America's Music: Exhibit Booklet

Exhibit Dates

This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library January 11 - April 6, 2013

About the Exhibit

America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from

Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway brought together scholars, musicians, students and community members to gain new perspectives on American music, culture and history. The program featured screenings of documentary films on six uniquely American genres: blues and gospel, Broadway, jazz, bluegrass and country, rock ‘n’ roll, and mambo and hip hop. Scholars will gave presentations to contextualize the films and led discussions following the screenings.

Additionally, the programs included performances, panel discussions, …

America's Music, Booth Library

Booth Library Programs

Photo galleries of performances and supplemental exhibits can be found on the AMERICA'S MUSIC exhibit page.

Exhibit Dates

This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library January 11 - April 6, 2013

Judith Lang Zaimont: Part I, Profile, Susan Cohn Lackman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Do You Have The Personality For Teaching Music?, David W. Snyder

Faculty Publications - Music

Six different classes of music education majors enrolled in a large Midwestern university were asked to take an online personality survey and then were tracked through graduation. Personality types, as determined by the Myers- Briggs Personality Type test, were then examined for how they related to choice of major and attrition within the music education degree program. The hope was to combine these findings with other research done on personality and get a snap shot of what personality types are drawn to teaching choir and further what types persist through graduation.

Cure For The Romantic Virus: An Introduction To Principles Of Metrical/Mathematical Analysis, Willem (Wim) Ibes

Music Faculty Publications

During the last century and a half, the "Romantic Virus" has been solidly entrenched in performances of music by 18th, 19th and even 20th century composers. Simply stated, it is the compulsion to always play across the bar-line or into the next strong(er) beat and to change 6/8 measures from a trochaic to an iambic meter (the first movements in Mozart's Sonata in A major and Beethoven's Opus 101 are just two examples). It mars - actually makes unintelligible - almost all performances of music of the baroque and classical era. Romanic composers of course frequently do go across the …

Carols Of Christmas | 13-96870, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Carols of Christmas (A Festival of Carols)

Part Number:
13-96870

Price:
$4.50

Voicing:
SATB

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland

with Chimes (Part Included)
Optional Brass Parts Available (Click HERE)
Optional Orchestral Parts Available (Click HERE)

Featured at:
2014 Z. Randall Stroope Choral Immersion Workshop

Death Be Not Proud | 16-96770, Christopher Matthews

Music Faculty Scores

Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet X)

Part Number:
16-96770

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
John Donne (1572-1631)

Music By:
Christopher Matthews

a cappella

Featured at:
2013 Rodney Eichenberger Conductor's Clinic
2014 NM All-State Choral Reading Session

Book Review: "Staging The French Revolution: Cultural Politics And The Paris Opera, 1789-1794", Wayne C. Wentzel

Scholarship and Professional Work – Arts

Dr. Wayne Wentzel's review of Mark Darlow, Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 421 pp. Tables, illustrations, graphs, musical examples, bibliography and index. $ 65.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-977372-5.

Gloria In Excelsis Deo | 20-95820, Wayland Rogers

Music Faculty Scores

Gloria In Excelsis Deo

Part Number:
20-95820

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SSA

Music By:
Wayland Rogers with Organ

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burnin'-Satb | 20-96425, Greg Gilpin

Music Faculty Scores

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burnin'
Traditional Spiritual

Part Number:
20-96425

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SATB

Arranged By:
Greg Gilpin

Revolution Calling! (2013), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Double brass choir, percussion, and four-channel fixed media – composed for Butler ArtsFest 2013 and the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts – premiered by Robert Grechesky and the Butler Wind Ensemble

Voice Of The Mountains (2013), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

SATB and piano – text by the composer, commissioned by Dr. Matthew Tressler and the Irvine Valley College Master Chorale

The Perfect Pitch 2013, Wmu School Of Music

School of Music News

The Perfect Pitch 2013:

• Director's Note
• Student Centered
• Discovery Driven
• Globally Engaged
• Celebrating 100
• Alumni Activities
• Student Achievements
• Faculty Activities
• Welcome New Faculty & Staff
• Retirement
• Honor Roll
• Guest Artists

Exploring The Essence Of Trust Through The Lived Experiences Of Jazz Educators, John Newell Canfield

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this phenomenological study is to contribute to the body of knowledge on trust, educational leadership, and jazz by exploring the lived experiences of jazz educators with regard to the phenomenon of trust in the educational environment.

Kiss Me, Kate Critical Edition, David Charles Abell, Seann Alderking, Cole Porter, Samuel Spewack, Bella Spewack, Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Walter Paul, Robert H. Noeltner, Freddie Bretherton, Genevieve Pitot

Cole Porter Critical Edition

No abstract provided.

Johanna Kvan's Honors Recital, Johanna Kvam

Music Honors Projects

No abstract provided.

Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Conduction And The Network Of Composition, Mark Zanter

Music Faculty Research

In Noise, The Political Economy of Music Jacques Attali outlines how musical practice presages periods of economic development. The current late capitalist, post-Fordist, stage resembles what Attali calls the “network of composition”; where codes are oriented toward receiving pleasure from instruments of communication, use, and exchange value is experienced not accumulated. Post-Fordism affords a climate in which new codes of use and exchange emerge through limited production, flexible labor, and increased information flow. These codes increasingly support choice, nonconformity, and free-expression. Improvised/creative music, free jazz, and forms where self-expression, exploration of human potential freed from production signify the emergence of …

U.S. Army Black Regimental Bands And The Appointments Of Their First Black Bandmasters, Peter M. Lefferts

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

The black regimental bands and their bandmasters in U.S. Army service between the Civil War and World War I comprised a fluid yet tight little community of soldier-musicians. Conspicuous in their own day, these units and their leadership teams are by no means familiar to modern readers. Replacement of white by black bandmasters in this community in the first decade of the twentieth century represented in its day an important public battle in the struggle for civil rights and racial fairness in the military. The following narrative offers a fuller account of this battle than has previously been available, but—full …

A Community Of Peer Interactions As A Resource To Prepare Music Teacher Educators, Jihae Shin

Research & Issues in Music Education

The purpose of this study was to investigate interactions between two doctoral students and their colleagues in a graduate music education program and determine how a community of peer interactions functions as a resource to prepare music teacher educators. Results of this study showed that peer interactions between two participants and other students in graduate classes demonstrated characteristics of communities of practice (Wenger, 1998). The domain was the commonality of working as full-time music educators at the college-level and wanting to be better music teacher educators. While reflecting on this common goal, they developed a shared repertoire including their own …

Curriculum Reform In Rural China: An Exploratory Case Study, Patricia E. Riley

Research & Issues in Music Education

This case study consisted of an examination of the perspectives of students, teachers, and administrators at the Shuangling Primary School, a rural Chinese school in Shaanxi Province, as they relate to themes of China’s most recent curricular reform efforts. The intent was to understand these perspectives and determine how to best assist teachers in rural primary schools in Shaanxi Province, and perhaps more broadly in other rural Chinese primary schools, in implementing the themes outlined in the reform document (Ministry of Education of the Peoples’ Republic of China, 2010). Researcher narrative describes this exploration, and data include student, teacher, and …

High School Band Students’ Perspectives Of Teacher Turnover, Thomas E. Kloss

Research & Issues in Music Education

Teacher turnover remains an important issue in education. The least researched perspectives, though, are those of the students who experience teacher turnover. The purpose of this study was to examine how high school band students experience teacher turnover. A total of twelve students were interviewed, representing three schools that experienced a teacher turnover that year. Students were asked to give advice to teachers leaving a program, teachers coming to a new program, and for students who learn that their teacher is leaving. The study shows that reactions to teacher change vary, and that there is more to the turnover process …

Assessment In Music Education: Relationships Between Classroom Practice And Professional Publication Topics, Sarah H. Mcquarrie, Ronald G. Sherwin

Research & Issues in Music Education

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between actual current assessment practices of elementary music teachers and the assessment topics as published in the literature aimed at those teachers. Specifically, this study sought to: 1) identify the current assessment techniques utilized by elementary music teachers; 2) identify the types of assessment techniques included in the current music teacher literature, and 3) identify any relationships between the assessment techniques that are most frequently utilized by teachers and those that are most frequently included in teacher-focused music education publications.

The researchers first examined data collected from the 100 elementary …

Juan Luis Guerra And The Merengue: Toward A New Dominican National Identity, Raymond Torres-Santos, Cuny Dominican Studies Institute

Publications and Research

This research monograph offers a historical account about the development of merengue in the Dominican Republic from the late 1800’s to the present.

How Bebop Came To Be: The Early History Of Modern Jazz, Colin M. Messinger

Student Publications

Bebop, despite its rather short lifespan, would become a key influence for every style that came after it. Bebop’s effects on improvisation, group structure, and harmony would be felt throughout jazz for decades to come, and the best known musicians of the bebop era are still regarded as some of the finest jazz musicians to ever take the stage. But the characteristics of bebop can easily be determined from the music itself. [excerpt]

Communication Of Emotion In Music, Jesse Paul Huhnerkoch

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The communication of emotion in music has been shown to be dependent on musical structure and emotional prompting with lyrical messages. This study seeks a new approach to researching the communication of emotion in music by creating musical samples that are based upon the sound wave frequency parameters of emotive speaking. An electronic survey containing six different emotive musical samples was conducted to gather listener interpretations of the intended emotional quality. Further research is needed to properly distinguish the parameters of emotive frequencies in order to provide for exposure of the functionalities of this phenomenon.