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The Music Salon Of Pauline Viardot: Featuring Her Salon Opera Cendrillon, Rachel Miller Harris

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Pauline Viardot (1821- 1910) was a famous mezzo-soprano with a career spanning twenty-four years (1839-1863). Her Music Salon is credited for launching the careers of Camille Saint-Säens, Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré, and Charles Gounod. After her retirement she turned her attention towards teaching and composition. She has written over 100 Vocal compositions, 15 Instrumental compositions and 5 Salon Operas. Chapter 1 presents an introduction and biography of the composer, with special emphasis on her family, friends, colleagues, performance career and music salon. Chapter 2 is a closer look at her salon opera Cendrillon including an analysis of the work. This …

Concerto For Orchestra, Alejandro Jose Arguello

LSU Master's Theses

Concerto for Orchestra was written between Fall 2004 and Spring 2005. It is scored for regular orchestra, including piano, harp and celesta. The concerto is written in three separated movements, following the common pattern of the regular solo concerto: Fast-Slow Fast. The purpose of the piece is to create a virtuoso work in which all the instrumental sections have an important and relevant role as if they were soloists. There are three different forms for the movements of the piece. The first movement, Allegro molto, is a modified sonata form. The form of this part is Exposition (A- transition- B- …

Gerald Finzi And John Ireland: A Stylistic Comparison Of Compositional Approaches In The Context Of Ten Selected Poems By Thomas Hardy, Richard Michael Jupin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this paper is to provide a stylistic analysis that contrasts five Thomas Hardy settings by Gerald Finzi with five settings by John Ireland. In order to investigate the apparent intuitiveness with which both Ireland and Finzi approached Thomas Hardy’s poetry, biographical information is provided to reveal similarities in the backgrounds of each composer. Highlighted are the compositional techniques and text setting ideologies each composer utilized when facing the challenges and eccentricities of Hardy’s poetry. A brief discussion on the philosophical foundations of Thomas Hardy’s poetry is also included. The repertoire discussed within are the settings Summer Schemes, …

Review Of Analogías Musicales: Kandinsky Y Sus Contemporáneos, Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

It is hard to believe that curators and scholars still find something to say about the relationship between music and art of the twentieth century. Still, in recent years there has been a relentless boom of exhibitions, scholarly studies, and books dedicated to this topic. This interest, to be sure, is due, in part, to the prestige that modernist art commands among wealthy collectors and institutions, but also to its immense popularity among the general public. Less popular in appeal, though equally revered among the happy few, is modernist music. When both manifestations – art and music – are brought …

Like Falling Off A Log: Rubato In Chopin's Prelude In Ab Major (Op. 28, No. 17), William Rothstein

Publications and Research

Rubato is widely regarded as a purely intuitive art. While it may be true that most performers rely solely on intuition for their rubato, a conscious approach may also be helpful. For the teacher of “analysis for performers,” a conscious approach is essential if rubato is to be discussed at all.

Rubato is a difficult subject to theorize. The late David Epstein made an admirable attempt in his book Shaping Time, using recordings by performers he admired to construct quantitative models. My approach here will be qualitative rather than quantitative, and introspective rather than empirical. Unlike Epstein, I will …

Wabi Sabi (Score), Gary Smart

Music Faculty Research and Scholarship

Wabi Sabi is a fantasy for eight instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and bass. The title, a Japanese phrase, refers to a love and nostalgia for ancient times, for old 
things - antiques - things which evoke feelings of purity, nobility, hard won wisdom, an essential spirituality, true worth. A tea ceremony in a Kyoto garden is “wabi sabi”. The piece was formed intuitively as a kind of drama, perhaps a Japanese folk tale. The expansion of “time perception”, the savoring of sound colors and the evocation of mood is central to the aesthetic of this music.

The Dignity And Humanity Of Bruce Springsteen's Criminals, Abbe Smith

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this essay, I discuss Springsteen's criminals by focusing on two albums, Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad, and Springsteen's title song to the movie soundtrack Dead Man Walking. These are classic albums about criminals and prisoners, and "Dead Man Walkin’" may be one of the best songs ever written about being on death row. Before getting into the music, I first note the historical context - Springsteen's career has taken place during a particularly hostile time for lawbreakers - and offer a brief biographical sketch of Springsteen.

An Early Violin Sonata By Peter Cornelius: A Critical Edition And Study, Johannes P. Knijff

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The dissertation offers a critical edition of the Violin Sonata in E-flat Major (1844) by Peter Cornelius (1824–1874) based on the autograph manuscript (A-Wn Mus. Hs. 4752, fol. 31r–47r). An early work of a composer still in his student years, the sonata can nonetheless be considered one of the most ambitious instrumental compositions of Cornelius, who is well-known for his opera Der Barbier von Bagdad and his art songs. The sonata's four movements are: Allegro (340 mm.); Scherzo (B-flat major, 416 mm.); Fantasie (C minor, 35 mm.); and the finale (252 mm.).

In Chapter One, I describe Cornelius's family background …

Virtuosités De Berlioz, Peter Bloom

Music: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Concert Recording 2005-02-17, Richard Ramey, Henry Runkles

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata for bassoon and piano. Contemplative, singing freely ; Scherzo ; Pensive / Jay Vosk -- 16 Valsas para fagote solo. Pattapiada ; Valsa improvisada / Fransisco Mignone -- Two pieces for unaccompanied bassoon. Vals Venezolano ; Contradanza / Paquito D'Rivera -- Kicho / Astor Piazzolla

Concert Recording 2005-02-26, Pavel Palanco-Safadit, Richard Ramey, Candace Stafford

Concert Recordings & Programs

Valsa improvisada / Francisco Mignone -- Suite Argentina. Candombe de la solapa ; Del barro a la cuidad ; Ojo de tormenta / Jorge Mockert -- La ultima vez / Paul Summerlin -- Contemplation for bassoon, piano, and rainstick / Robert Mueller -- Impromptu for bassoon and piano / Richard Bromley -- Melado / Pavel Palanco-Safadit -- Pattapiada / Francisco Mignone -- Stick! / Steve Dembski -- Two pieces for bassoon. Vals Venezolano ; Contradanza / Paquito D'Rivera -- Valsa-choro / Francisco Mignone -- Chega de saudade ; Agua de beber ; Triste ; Desafinado / Antonio Carlos Jobim -- …

Concert Recording 2005-03-07, Benjamin Pierce, Nicholas Hutchinson

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concert Gallop / Phillip Wilby -- Those endearing young charms / Mantea -- Debutant / Clark -- Prelude in f major / Rachmaninoff -- Concerto / Poncielli -- Song of the brother / Leidzen -- Variation on a Tirolian / Arban -- Dance of the goblins / Botzinni

Concert Recording 2005-03-12a, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Occupancy 627, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Spindrift

Concert Recordings & Programs

Content: Ta and clap / Nico Muhly -- Vespertine formations / Christopher Deane -- Drumtalker / Russell Hartenberger, arr. Spindrift -- Crystal canon / James Tenney -- Insomnia / Kevin Bobo -- Music for wooden shoes / Koos Terpstra -- Selections from redline / Steven Bryant -- The persitence of past chemistries / Charles Griffin

Concert Recording 2005-03-29, Jonathan Story

Concert Recordings & Programs

Toccata no. 5 in e minor, bwv 914 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Sonata in c major, op. 2, no. 3 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Piano piece no. 2 in e♭ / Franz Schubert -- Sonata no. 2 in b♭ minor, op. 36 / Sergei Rachmaninoff

Concert Recording 2005-04-06, Jenny Hornberger

Concert Recordings & Programs

Partita I / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Sonata in f minor, op. no. 1 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Rhapsody in g minor, op. 79 no. 2 / Johannes Brahms -- Prelude I ; Prelude II (Blue lullaby) ; Prelude III (Spanish lullaby) / George Gershwin

Concert Recording 2005-04-20a, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Saxophone Chamber Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

Two rags for saxophone ensemble. Sad rag ; Glad rag / Arthur Frackenpohl -- Testament / Robert Donahue -- Concertino for saxophone ensemble. Waltz ; Elegy ; Festival / Brian Israel -- Brandenburg Concerto. Finale / J.S. Bach [arr] Laycock -- Eine kleine nachtmusik. Allegro / W. A. Mozart [arr] Caravan -- Aubade / Walter Hartley -- Saeterjentens sondag / Ole Bull ; [arr.] Patrick -- Suite for saxophone emsemble. Proclamation ; Sicilienne ; Chorale (lamenet) / Virginia Johnston -- Two British folk settings. Mo Nighean Dubh ; The Hunter in his career / Percy Aldridge Grainger [arr. Chalon Ragsdale]

"Everything I'Ve Listened To With Love" : A Study Of Guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel And His Integration Of Classical Music Elements Into Jazz, Johanne Druitt

Theses : Honours

No abstract provided.

Concert Recording 2005-10-20, Ronda Mains, Theresa Delaplain, Nophachai Cholthitchanta, Richard Ramey, Timothy Thompson, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Lyrique Quintette

Concert Recordings & Programs

Golden age. Polka / Dmitrii Shostakovich ; arr. Jerry Smith -- Quintet for winds / Troy Thompson -- Three Argentinian Tangos. Calambre ; La cumparsita ; Taguito militar / Astor Piazzola ; Gerardo Rodriguez ; Moriano Mores -- String Quartet, F major / Maurice Ravel ; trans. Mark Popkin

Concert Recording 2005-03-04, Windsor Dutton

Concert Recordings & Programs

Magnificat in d major. Deposuit potentes / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Danza, danza fanciulla / Francesco Durante -- O, del mio dolce ardor / Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck -- L'Elisir d'amore. Una furtive lagrima / Gaetano Donizetti -- Siete canciones populares espanolas. El pano moruno ; Seguidilla murciana ; Polo / Manuel de Falla -- Mondnacht ; Intermezzo ; Ich grolle nicht / Robert Schumann -- La faune / Claude Debussy -- Puisque l'aube grandit / Gabriel Faure -- Oh, quand je dors / Franz Liszt -- Dancing in the Sun / John W. Work, Jr. -- I got …

The Gretsch House Telegram, A Publication For Gretsch Retailers, Volume 11 No. 1, Gretsch Company

Gretsch Company Newsletters

No abstract provided.

"You Better Work": Underground Dance Music In New York City By Kai Fikentscher, Eliot Bates

Publications and Research

You Better Work!: Underground Dance Music in New York City is arguably the first ethnography of electronic dance music culture; it is also one of the first ethnomusicologically-influenced monographs on mediated dance music. Kai Fikentscher deftly avoids the wealth of music industry genre tags (such as "deep house" or "two step garage") that plague many writings on electronic dance music, instead focusing on a specific dance community in New York City which began its social dance practice in the days of disco and continued the practice well into the 1990s. His study took place over the course of thirteen years, …

Three Choral Compositions By Alice Parker: A Conductor's Analysis Of Songstream, Angels And Challengers, And Songs From "The Dragon Quilt", Jennifer Sue King

LSU Major Papers

Alice Parker (b. 1925) has earned a place of respect in choral music through more than half a century of work in arranging and composition, conducting, teaching and writing. Her works reflect diverse interests, from short, unison pieces for treble choir, to the complexity of unaccompanied madrigals, to major choral/orchestral works and operas. Conductors and singers all over the world have been influenced by her writings, seminars and SINGS, and she continues to extol the value of music, both in the concert hall and as a part of everyday life. Scholarly research of her choral compositions is limited, and further …

Musical Stem Completion: Humming That Note, Jill A. Warker, Andrea Halpern

Faculty Journal Articles

This study looked at how people store and retrieve tonal music explicitly and implicitly using a production task. Participants completed an implicit task (tune stem completion) followed by an explicit task (cued recall). The tasks were identical except for the instructions at test time. They listened to tunes and were then presented with tune stems from previously heard tunes and novel tunes. For the implicit task, they were asked to sing a note they thought would come next musically. For the explicit task, they were asked to sing the note they remembered as coming next. Experiment 1 found that people …

How To Prepare A Piano, Annea Lockwood

Sound Scripts

My original Piano Transplants (1969-72) were about relishing the shock of displacement: pianos planted in an English garden, sinking in a Texas cattle pond, pianos beached and aflame; observing their slow transformation through natural processing the five year decay. My relationship with the piano did not end with the Piano Transplants, though. I will also discus more recent works stemming from my fascination with the rich array of sounds which can be drawn from every part of the instrument once the keyboard is dethroned.

Western Electric: A Survey Of Recent Western Australian Electronic Music, Lindsay Vickery

Sound Scripts

This paper surveys developments in recent Western Australian electronic music through the work of a number of representative artists in a range of internationally recognised genres. The article follows specific cases of practitioners in the fields of Sound Art (Alan Lamb and Hannah Clemen), live and interactive electronics (Jonathan Mustard and Lindsay Vickery) and noise/lo-fi electronics (Cat Hope and Petro Vouris) and glitch/electronica (Dave Miller and Matt Rösner).

Invisible Symmetries: A Retrospective Of The Work Of Lindsay Vickery, Jonathan Mustard

Sound Scripts

The following is a retrospective of the work of Western Australian born composer Lindsay Vickery. The paper examines the composer's diverse output in composed and improvised instrumental and electronic music and multimedia works. A nine digit string of numbers that the composer calls a "cypher", ties together a significant portion of Vickery's output for almost two decades of compositional activity, but the sense in which these works are about something else is palpable in each and every one. Iconic pieces where a serial-like method is an anathema and cypher based pieces all seem to point to a structure the composer …

Sound Art / Mobile Art, Cat Hope

Sound Scripts

This paper examines the role of sound installation and music composition practices in addressing the relationship between sound and telecommunications devices, in this case the mobile phone. The popularity of mobile phone artworks is rapidly increasing, with handsets readily available, artists excited about sponsorship opportunities, and the general push in electronic arts. This paper focuses primarily on work by Perth mobile phone Sound Art collective, Metaphonica, which explore many issues raised by this art form. "Phonebox" (2005) was a site specific sound installation where phones are called from a remote computer, presenting a synchronized composition featuring sounds created by the …

Modernist And Postmodernist Arts Of Noise, Part 1: From The European Avant-Garde To Contemporary Australian Sound Art, David Bennett

Sound Scripts

The broad aim of the paper that follows is to test the claim of critics such as Miriam Fraser and Steve Connor that the modernist deconstruction of the music/noise dichotomy has entered a distinctively postmodern phase. The article below therefore traces the history and poetics of this dichotomy from the modernist avant-garde to contemporary Australian postmodernist Sound Art, moving from a discussion of the ideas of Russolo, Cage, Boulez and Schaeffer, to a close reading of Ros Bandt's "Stack" (2000- 01). These themes as expressed in contemporary Australian composition are then explored in Part Two.

Modernist And Postmodernist Arts Of Noise, Part 2: From The Clifton Hill Mob To Chamber Made Opera’S Phobia, Linda Kouvaras

Sound Scripts

This paper will continue to trace negotiations outlined in Part 1 of the music/noise dichotomy as expressed in modernist and postmodernist works.1 Drawing connections with the trajectory of "glitch" in popular music since the 1970s. The paper will examine a number of key ways in which the music/noise dichotomy has been addressed as a borderline dispute between, for example, the embodied and the disembodied, the scored and the unscored, the accidental and the intentional, sense and nonsense, culture and nature. Two key figures from the highly influential group of sound artists who came together at Melbourne's Clifton Hill Community Centre …

Surface Noise, Philip Samartzis

Sound Scripts

This paper seeks to trace the genealogy of surface noise as a tool of musical expression by surveying a range of artistic practices based around the record and turntable that privilege detritus, abrasion, repetition and decay as key compositional devices. The paper begins by examining the acoustic properties of the oldest playable recording (Frank Lambert's talking clock) in order to outline the numerous characteristics and flaws inherent in early models of mechanical reproduction and storage that vigorously conspired to interfere with the listening experience. This is followed by an examination of the way recording technology was converted from a tool …