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A Century Of Symphony: Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Jeffrey

SCL Faculty and Staff Publications

The Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra reached its centennial year in 2008. This monograph celebrates the history of cooperation between Western Kentucky University’s Music Department and community musicians and supporters. By necessity, the text examines the history of WKU’s Music Department and sets the Orchestra within the community’s musical context.

Metric Conflict In The Brandenburg Concertos Of J. S. Bach, Ellwood P. Colahan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper presents a comprehensive metric analysis of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, with particular emphasis on the issues of metric conflict. The analytic methodology is based on the work of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff, while the analytic notation used is based partly on that of Lerdahl and Jackendoff and partly on that of Jonathan Kramer, with some original modifications.

The paper discusses the factors generating metric conflict, along with its distribution, correlation with other structural parameters, and functional effects. The relationship between metric conflict and fluctuations in the depth of metric hierarchy is examined in detail. Some cases of metric …

Frank Zappa And Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's Carnival Made Contemporary, Sarah Hill Antinora

Theses Digitization Project

For this project, the author uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of carnivalesque techniques in challenging authority see the genius in his work.

Una Interpretacion Del Ritmo Poetico En Mester De Lejania De Pedro Lastra, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

En Metrica Espanola, Tomas Narro Tomas dice ques "el espanol ha enriquecido las experiencias de su versificacion mediante el cultivo del ritmo". Tal afirmacion pone un enfasis supremo sobre el ritmo como conductor principal en la creacion de un poema.

Mesotic For George Carlin (2008), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Text-based Fluxus-style piece for an unspecified number of performers – premiered by the JCFA Composers Orchestra, October 2008

Awakenings (Winter) (2008), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Piano solo, for either the left or right hand alone – commissioned by the American Pianists Association – premiered by the candidates for the APA Fellowship, March, 2009

Inspiration Plus Performance Equals Success: A Study Of Instrumental Music Participation And Its Effect On Fifth Grade Students In An Inner-City School, Gary E. Jack

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis examines the academic performance of inner-city elementary school children with the purpose of proving or disproving that exposure to instrumental instruction in addition to general music class enhances learning in the core areas of study, thus improving test scores and overall academic performance. The data collected and the results that come from this experiment are intended to represent only a small neighborhood in a fairly large city.

Loch Lomond - Ttbb | 10-96280, James Q. Mulholland

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Loch Lomond, From "Three Scottish Songs"

Part Number:
10-96280

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
TTBB

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

Also Available:
Caledonian's Air; Wi' A Hundred Pipers

Message, The | 10-96290, James Q. Mulholland

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The Message, for SSA Voices with Piano Accompaniment

Part Number:
10-96290

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
SSA

Lyrics By:
Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892)

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

Commissioned by the Harry C. amd Jean I. Snyder Family Trust
for the 10th Anniversary of the Milwaukee Choral Artists,
Dr. Sharon A. Hansen, conductor

Take, O Take Those Lips Away | 15-96190, Benjamin Martinson

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Take, O Take Those Lips Away

Part Number:
15-96190

Price:
$1.75

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
William Shakespeare

Music By:
Benjamin Martinson

Amid The Splendors Of The Sun | 20-95990, Nick Page

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Amid The Splendors Of The Sun

Part Number:
20-95990

Price:
$1.95

Voicing:
SSAA

Lyrics By:
William Blake

Music By:
Nick Page

Arrow And The Song, The | 20-96000, Robert I. Hugh

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The Arrow and the Song

Part Number:
20-96000

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SSA

Lyrics By:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music By:
Robert I Hugh

Magnificat | 20-96020, Henry Leck

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Magnificat
From "Magnificat in D" (BWV 243)

Part Number:
20-96020

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SSATB

Music By:
J.S. Bach

Arranged By:
Henry Leck

Vus Vet Zayn | 21-20110, Stephen Hatfield

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Vus Vet Zayn
Yiddish Song

Part Number:
21-20110

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SATB

Arranged By:
Stephen Hatfield a cappella (opt. Klezmer Band)

Who Has Heard The Music? | 20-96010, Julie I. Myers

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Who Has Heard The Music?

Part Number:
20-96010

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
Two-Part

Music By:
Julie I. Myers with Clarinet

Happiness: Three Voice Duets For Soprano And Mezzo-Soprano And Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 30 : 1 score (v + 33 pages ) ; includes table of contents and poem.

Composed for "Happiness" a poem by Henry David Thoreau and a collage of verses by John Warner Barber, William Ellery Channing and John Donne as quoted by Thoreau in Walden.

Movements:

1. Happiness
2. To Sweeten Our Lips
3. Come Ye Who Love

Reflections On John Cage’S Music Of Changes, Cathryn Wilkinson

Philosophical Ideas and Artistic Pursuits in the Traditions of Asia and the West: An NEH Faculty Humanities Workshop

No abstract provided.

Medievalism And Exoticism In The Music Of Dead Can Dance, Kirsten Yri

Music Faculty Publications

In 1991, the alternative rock band Dead Can Dance released an album that caught the attention of music reviewers by constructing an aural allegiance to the Middle Ages. Suitably called A Passage in Time, the album was described as imitating medieval chant, troubadour music, Latin hymns and courtly songs and included Dead Can Dance’s hybrid medieval songs as well as performances of actual medieval repertoire. In modeling their songs and sounds after historical recordings of medieval music, Dead Can Dance also adopted some of the ideological parameters of these performances and historical reconstructions. Examining the output of Dead Can Dance …

Volume 22, Various Authors

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

No abstract provided.

Ua96/4 Southern Normal School Departmental Records, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about individual departments of the Southern Normal School. The series contains brief information regarding athletics, business courses and music.

Biologie Littorale Des Mers Temperées, Bruno Ruviaro

Music

A title contributes strongly to the détournement of a work, but a reaction of the work on the title is inevitable. Thus one can make an extended usage of specific titles borrowed from scientific publications or military ones; and even from many phrases found in illustrated books for children. The French word détournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose. This piece, as well as this paragraph, can be reproduced, imitated, or partially quoted, without the slightest indication of origin.

Três Fontes, Bruno Ruviaro

Music

What do you get when you mix saxophone fragments of Webern, Debussy, and Pousseur in one same algorithmic cauldron, in a bucolic park in Turin, Italy? This piece provides one possible answer to that question. “Três Fontes,” in Portuguese, can be translated as “Three Sources,” but also “Three Fountains.” You are free to use, study, remix, and share this piece.

Digging, Gluing, Printing, Playing: Making The Music Of Colonial Mexico Come To Life, Craig H. Russell

Music

No Abstract.

Endurance, Jeremiah Bush

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This thesis, a musical composition of my own making, is about the ending of a relationship. The written component describes both the pragmatic nature of the piece as well as the theoretical analysis of the musical score and CD components. The music was written to convey feelings of anger, sadness, and relief that one can feel during and after a break up. The end of the piece deals with reconciliation between the two people.

Ua37/2 Faculty Personal Papers Small Collections, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small donations from individual faculty and staff members. These are generally one or two items housed in a single folder. Papers range from gradebooks and syllabi to funeral cards and obituaries. The existing records are arranged in alphabetical order by donor surname. Future donations will be arranged in the order in which they are received.

Ua1c6 Events Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of events not otherwise categorized.

1. Demonstrations & Protests
2. Commencement
3. Homecoming
4. Banquets / Dinners
5. Conferences / Workshops
6. Dedications
7. Entertainment
8. Exhibits

Includes images of College High and Training School events.

Critical Pedagogies And Music Education Practices: Sharing Practical, Political And Conceptual Histories, Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt

Music Education Publications

This article considers questions related to educational practices taking in consideration three main concepts: Cultural capital, metodolatry, and salvation. These are taken both in especific terms as well as an metaphorical exercise for the exploration of pedagogical, policy and practice issues and concerns in music education in the United States. The article also makes reference and traces connections between subjects that may create a Pan-American mode of thinking; exorting a call for further, more prolific and greater scope in research and dialogue between North and South regions of the Americas.

Graduate Music Education, Kenneth H. Phillips

Research & Issues in Music Education

This essay on graduate music education is in response to an article by David Hebert on challenges and solutions in online music teacher education that appeared in the online journal, Research and Issues in Music Education, 5(1). I found the article stimulating because so little has been written on the topic of music teacher education at the graduate level.

It appears that graduate music education in institutions of higher learning is locked into traditions that online programs are ready to challenge. In this essay I consider this challenge from a traditionalist viewpoint to determine if an online approach is a …

Processing Surprise Tension In Tonal Melodies, David Sears

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

Expectation plays a vital role in understanding how we experience music. Processing music requires listeners to form expectations about upcoming events as they unfold. The formation and violation of these expectations has been empirically tested in harmonic priming paradigms, in harmonic priming during melodies, and in more general divided attention models. Recent research has also suggested that passive exposure to music leads to the development of implicit knowledge about musical expectations for untrained as well as trained listeners. Expectation has even been cited by the theorist Leonard Meyer as "the prime generator of musical affect" (qtd. in Margulis, 2005). Expectation …

A Comparison Of Mexican Children’S Music Compositions And Contextual Songs, Patricia E. Riley

Research & Issues in Music Education

The purpose of this research was to make observations and comparisons between original music composed by Mexican children, and traditional Mexican songs. Data were obtained through notated music compositions created by the children, and through videotaped interviews during which the children performed their compositions, talked about both their compositions and songs representative of their cultural context, and performed the songs. Subjects were 10 randomly selected fourth-grade children enrolled at the Julian Hinojosa School in Puebla, Mexico. Prior to composing, the children explored the instruments to be used, and the musical elements of pitch, duration, tempo, dynamics, and timbre. Results indicate …