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Concert Recording 2013-10-16, Sean Beast, Kristine Mezines, Robert Wiser, Hannah Mindeman Shuman, Yudai Hironaka

Concert Recordings & Programs

Partita op. 89 / Arthur Butterworth -- Sonata no. 1 / Benedetto Marrello -- Morcean symphonique / Alexandre Guilmant -- Napoli / Herman Bellstedt

Concert Recording 2013-11-21a, Kristine Mezines, Jake Ivey, Benjamin Reid, Robert Wiser, David Grayling, Josh Matlock

Concert Recordings & Programs

Andante and rondo / Antonio Capuzzi -- Sonata in g minor / Henry Eccles -- Sonata / Bruce Broughton -- Partita / Arthur Butterworth

Beethoven Sonata No. 10, Op. 96 For Piano And Violin In G Major (1812) : Looking Ahead, Cheng-Yin Lin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827) dedicated the Sonata No. 10, Op. 96 for Piano and Violin in G Major (1812) to Pierre Rode ( 1774-1830), one of the French School violinists who had impacts on Beethoven’s composition in violin style and technique. To be noted that Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) , the founder of the French Violin School and the father of modern violin playing, was one of the great Italian violinists who immigrated to France and lived in a transitional era for the standardization of violin and bow. The piano during Beethoven’s lifetime was almost developing into the modern form …

The Call For Bravery: The Use Of Improvised Story Songs With A Preschooler With Developmental Delays, Emily Mcclure

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how improvised story songs reflect the lived experience of a preschool-age child with developmental delays, exploring what these musical experiences indicate about the child's development and therapeutic process. The researcher developed this area of study based on the participant's unique clinical experience with improvised story songs during his 10 months in music therapy. Archive video recordings of past sessions with the participant were thoroughly reviewed, and three to four improvised story songs were selected as the primary source of data for this study. These songs, as well as the therapeutic …

The Performance And Perception Of Social Identities In Country-Rap Music, Rachel Grandstrand

Honors Papers

Within the United States, few genres incite as vehement of a reaction as Country and Hip-Hop music, and both of these genres have faced a history of marginalization by the mainstream media corporations and by the broader population of the US. The reason for this marginalization often stems from the racial and class associations of the communities that produce this music, and the relationship between these genres and the broader population is well documented. What remains under-discussed is the relationship between these two communities. This study explores this relationship through an analysis of Country-Rap music, a sub-genre of Country music …

A Historical Review Of Music Therapy And The Department Of Veterans Affairs, Jenna Spencer

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the history and development of music therapy within the veteran population, specifically in regards to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This research will be conducted qualitatively utilizing narrative inquiry and historical review. Using numerous sources of literature, the researcher will conduct a thorough historical review in order to fully portray the development of music therapy practice within the veteran population. The researcher will explore various sources of relevant literature in order to discover when and how music therapy was first used to treat the veteran population and how music therapy programs …

Forgotten Russian Piano Music: The Sonatas Of Anatoly Aleksandrov, Irina Pevzner

Theses and Dissertations

This historical and analytical study focuses on the piano sonatas of Anatoly Aleksandrov (1888-1982), the longest-living Russian and Soviet composer-pianist of the twentieth century. The fourteen piano sonatas, written between 1922 and 1971, reflect not only the composer's evolution of style, but also reveal the vast array of influences which characterize the music of the twentieth century. Chromaticism that results from stretched harmonic sequences, strong melodic lyricism that threads these epic compositions, rich writing for piano, and hints of Russian folklore all contribute to the composer's original style, which synthesizes Aleksandrov's four main figures of influence, namely Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Medtner, …

Unni E I Romani, Gli, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

A censored version of Attila first performed at Palermo's Teatro Carolino in 1854.

Otello, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

Verdi's penultimate opera represents his first new work for the stage after a nearly sixteen-year hiatus. As battles raged over the future of Italian opera-whether it should remain rooted in song or follow foreign trends that assign a greater role to the orchestra-Giulio Ricordi and Boito patiently lured Verdi back into the fray. Boito's libretto, an ingenious and at times eccentric adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, inspired the composer to a highly personal fusion of tradition and innovation. At its premiere Otello was widely hailed as a masterpiece, an emphatic and fundamentally Italian answer to the debate over music and …

Louis Armstrong, Gene H. Anderson

Music Faculty Publications

Despite his lifelong claim of 4 July 1900 as his birthday, Armstrong was actually born on 4 August 1901 as recorded on a baptismal certificate discovered after his death. Although calling himself “Louis Daniel Armstrong” in his 1954 autobiography, he denied knowledge of his middle name or its origin. Nevertheless, evidence of “Daniel” being a family name is strong: Armstrong's paternal great-great-grandfather, a third generation slave brought from Tidewater Virginia for sale in New Orleans in 1818, was named Daniel Walker, as was his son, Armstrong's great-grandfather. The latter's wife, Catherine Walker, sponsored her great-grandson's baptism at the family's home …

Verdi At 200: Recent Scholarship On The Composer And His Works, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

The 100th anniversary of Verdi’s death, observed in 2001, inspired nearly a dozen academic conferences. At the dawn of his 2013 bicentennial, a celebratory year shared with Richard Wagner, hundreds of recent studies assess Verdi’s life, his works, and his impact. The present article surveys a selection of books and articles published between these two commemorations. A popular topic is Verdi’s role as a national icon, the calculated product of Italy’s search for a postunification identity. His engagement with foreign cultures has also received attention, for his German literary sources, his forays into French grand opera, and his use of …

American Institute For Verdi Studies, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

The AIVS was founded in 1976, in response to a tide of scholarly interest in Verdi. Its first director, Martin Chusid, assembled an archive of materials at New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.

Scapigliatura, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

An artistic movement founded in the 1860s by Arrigo Boito, Emilio Praga, and other young Italians seeking to revitalize culture by rejecting middle-class values.

Iago, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

An alternate title for Otello, used intermittently throughout much of its composition, possibly to avoid comparison to Rossini's opera of the same name.

The Verdi Forum, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

The peer-reviewed journal of the AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR VERDI STUDIES (AIVS). Early issues, first titled A/VS Newsletter (1976) and later Verdi Newsletter (1977-98), were edited by the AIVS's director, Martin CHUSID. They featured scholarly articles, essays of more general interest, and news items about performances, recordings, and conferences. While Nos. l-7 were issued semi-annually, beginning with No. 8 (1980) the Verdi Newsletter became an annual publication. Nos. 7 (1979), 9-ro (1981-82), and 17-18 (1989-90), collectively titled 'The Verdi Archive at New York University,' document the history and holdings of the AIVS Archive at that time.

Romantic Exoticism: The Music Of Elsewhere In The Nineteenth Century, Josiah Raiche

Senior Honors Theses

Western art music has drawn on many sources. One of these is non-western music, which can be integrated into European classical music tradition in the form of exoticism. This paper will highlight musical elements used by composers seeking to create exoticism, examine selected works, and note common elements of western music that have exotic roots. In the nineteenth century, there were three general trends in exoticism. The first, non-musical exoticism, utilizes conventional western music alongside extra-musical exotic elements. Romantic exoticism portrays distant lands using musical elements, drawing these from the audience’s perceptions of the music represented. Realistic exoticism attempts to …

Czech Bluegrass Fiddlers And Their Negotiations Of Past And Present, Lee Bidgood

ETSU Faculty Works

Excerpt: Proc ty housle? ("Why the fiddle?") - "Fiddlers are all bad here - Why not write about the banjo or something else that Czechs are good at?"These questions about my ethnographic fieldwork came from musician colleagues with whom I working in researching bluegrass music in the Czech Republic, during a jam circle around a table. While these colleagues were mainly banjo and guitar players, these critiques of Czech fiddling are common even among Czech fiddlers, who are in many cases not as accomplished (in technical skill or musicality) as are their banjo-playing and mandolin-picking compatriots.

Recording Review Of Charlie Poole With The Highlanders: Complete Recordings, Ted Olson

ETSU Faculty Works

Review of Charlie Poole with The Highlanders: Complete Recordings

The History Of The System Of Music Education In Jamaica: Emancipation In 1838 To The 21st Century, Randy Tillmutt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The rich and internationally respected Jamaican music culture has been influenced by the system of music education that exists in the country. Public school and college level music education programs in particular have provided the opportunity for students to have an early exposure to music and to pursue a career in music. However, the multitude of opportunities to study and pursue music did not always exist in Jamaica. The goal of this study is to examine the history of music education in Jamaica with particular focus on such influences as British colonialism, the African Diaspora, Jamaican folk music and Jamaican …

Sound As Artifact, Jeff Benjamin

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

A distinguishing feature of the discipline of archaeology is its reliance upon sensory dependant investigation. As perceived by all of the senses, the felt environment is a unique area of archaeological knowledge.

It is generally accepted that the emergence of industrial processes in the recent past has been accompanied by unprecedented sonic extremes. The work of environmental historians has provided ample evidence that the introduction of much of this unwanted sound, or "noise" was an area of contestation. More recent research in the history of sound has called for more nuanced distinctions than the noisy/quiet dichotomy. Acoustic archaeology tends to …

Music Student Shares Dream For Native Country, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Concert Recording 2013-09-22, Matthew Haislip, Matthew Siegel

Concert Recordings & Programs

Theme and variations, op. 13 / Franz Strauss -- Evening reveries / Usamah Mustafa -- Horn concerto, K. 447 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Parable viii for solo horn, op. 120 / Vincent Persichetti -- Nocturno, op. 7 / Franz Strauss -- En foret / Eugene Bozza

Concert Recording 2013-10-02, Mark Haney, Kristine Mezines, S. Michael Shuman

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata innamorata / PDQ Bach -- A green lowland of pianos / Samuel Barber

Concert Recording 2013-10-13, Benjamin Pierce, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

Drei Romanzen, op. 94. I Nicht schnell ; II Einfach, innig ; III Nicht schnell / Robert Schumann -- Prelude from Partita III in e-major, bwv 1006 / J.S. Bach -- Lamento / Sofia Gubaidulina -- Jabberwocky / David Gillingham -- Euphonium Concerto / John Stevens -- Aimons-nous / Camille Saint-Saens -- Estrellita / Manuel Ponce -- Moto perpetuo / Peter Christoskov ; [arr.] Pierce

Concert Recording 2013-04-18, University Of Arkansas Fayetteville. Saxophone Chamber Ensemble, Stan Morris

Concert Recordings & Programs

Miniatyrer. Intermezzo lirico ; Marcia piccola ; Fantasia svedese ; Rondo giocoso / Erland von Koch -- Conzona / Girolamo Frescobaldi -- Ballet du roy pour sonner apres / Michael Praetorius -- Histoire du tango. Cafe / Astor Piazzolla

Concert Recording 2013-04-20, Jennifer Fox, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concerto Saint Marc / Tomaso Albinoni ; [reconst.] Jean Thilde -- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra / Charles Chaynes -- Solo for unaccompanied flugelhorn ; Litany of breath for unaccompanied trumpet / David Sampson -- Concerto in F minor / Oskar Bohme

Concert Recording 2013-04-24a, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Curtis Simmons, Amber Lomolino, Kristine Mezines, Tyler Simmons, Stephan Mitchell

Concert Recordings & Programs

Evergreen / Benjamin Finley -- Andante et allegro / Joseph Guy Ropartz -- Concerto. Quasi una leggenda ; finale / Launy Grondahl -- Villanelle / Paul Dukas

Concert Recording 2013-05-05, Emily Mcpherson, Elizabeth Lee

Concert Recordings & Programs

Noa noa for flute and electronics ; Oi kuu for bass flute and cello / Kaija Saariaho -- Scrivo in vento for solo flute / Elliott Carter -- Mirrors for flute and cello ; Fetals for solo cello / Kaija Saariaho -- Figment for solo cello; Enchanted preludes for flute and cello / Elliot Carter

Concert Recording 2013-05-23, Stephen Gates, Paulo Eskitch, Molly Sharp, Er-Gene Kahng, Linda Anderson

Concert Recordings & Programs

String quintet in g minor, k 516 / W. A. Mozart ; String quintet no 2 in g major, op 111 / Johannes Brahms

Concert Recording 2013-11-26, Baron Lyle

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata no. 1 for solo violin in g minor / J.S. Bach -- Violin concerto no. 1 in e minor. III Allegretto, ma non troppo - allegro molto vivace / Felix Mendelssohn -- Sonata no. 3 for solo violin "ballade" / Eugene Ysaye