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Sanctus | 10-96435, James Q. Mulholland

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Sanctus, From "Missa Romantica"

Part Number:
10-96435

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
SATB

Text:
Missa Brevis

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

with keyboard accompaniment

Winter Night | 10-96375, James Q. Mulholland

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Winter Night, From "Mementos of Millay"

Part Number:
10-96375

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
TTBB

Lyrics By:
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

Commissioned by the Renaissance City Choirs, Pittsburgh, PA
For their 20th Anniversary Celebration

Ventania, Bruno Ruviaro

Music

The text below serves as program notes to Ventania. The particular use of commas and capitalized letters is intentional and should not be altered. “Vento”, in Portuguese, means “wind”, and “ventania”, a particularly strong wind, Twenty-three surviving fragments of music are presented here, says the composer, in a somewhat uncomfortable explanatory tone, One after the other, he continues, As if they could possibly reconstruct all the other meaningful connections that were lost along the way, The wind has come and gone, someone oddly interrupts, at times no one seems to be paying attention, or is it just me, one can …

Making The Scene: An Investigation Of The Rock And Roll Scenes Of Nashville, Tennessee, And Athens, Georgia, Kevin Jones Murphy

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Making the Scene: An Investigation of the Rock and Roll Scenes of Nashville, Tennessee, and Athens, Georgia, takes a look at the ways in which both the identities of a music scene and the individuals taking part in that scene are created and maintained. Issues of identity are addressed by examining the roles performed by various members of the scene (musicians, soundmen, club owners, etc . . .), by focusing on the influence of landscape, and looking at the ways a scene’s members identify with the cultural region that surrounds their particular scene (in this case both scenes are located …

George Grove And Victorian Culture, Vicki Stroeher

Music Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

How Composers Compose: In Search Of The Questions, Bernard W. Andrews

Research & Issues in Music Education

The Genesis Project is a multi-phase research project designed for the purpose of developing an in-depth understanding of the nature of musical creativity by investigating how composers compose. In this first phase of the project, an understanding of the four dimensions of musical creativity: 1) the person, 2) the compositional process, 3) the pre-requisite training, emotions and context, and 4) the musical piece itself, provided a theoretical framework for investigating how composers compose new music through expert review. Questions in each of these dimensions were generated from the literature, examined by a panel of composers and educators, and then refined …

K-4 Pre-Service Classroom Teachers' Beliefs About Useful Skills, Understandings And Future Practice In Music, Francine Morin

Research & Issues in Music Education

The purpose of this study was to investigate K-4 pre-service classroom teachers’ beliefs about useful skills, understandings, and future practices in music. Questionnaire (N=74) and interview (N=35) data were gathered from teacher candidates enrolled in music methods courses at a large, western Canadian university. Music skills and understandings such as singing, listening, and integrating music across other subject areas were rated as "most useful," indicating a definite valuing of pedagogical content knowledge over content knowledge like music fundamentals, music history, or playing accompaniment instruments. Future music practices discussed by pre-service teachers were closely aligned to the beliefs they hold about …

Comparing Two Approaches For Teaching Rhythm Reading Skills To First-Grade Children: A Pilot Study, Delores Gauthier, Robert E. Dunn

Research & Issues in Music Education

This pilot study compared two approaches for teaching rhythm reading skills to first-grade children. Two intact first-grade classes participated in six lessons focusing on simple rhythms (4 beats using eighth and quarter notes). The lessons were based on the same musical materials; only the approach was varied. After random assignment, Class 1 experienced the “Subdivision Approach” where the quarter note is the beat, and eighth notes are subdivisions of the beat. Class 2 used the “Additive Approach” where, in this case, the eighth note is the “shortest sound” and a quarter note is the equivalent of two short sounds.

Pre- …

Canons In Harmony, Or Canons In Conflict: A Cultural Perspective On The Curriculum And Pedagogy Of Jazz Improvization, Kenneth E. Prouty

Research & Issues in Music Education

This essay examines how jazz educators construct methods for teaching the art of improvisation in institutionalized jazz studies programs. Unlike previous studies of the processes and philosophies of jazz instruction, I examine such processes from a cultural standpoint, to identify why certain methods might be favored over others. Specifically, jazz education is treated as a fusion of two distinct historical and cultural forces: those of musical academia, and of the jazz community. I argue that methods of teaching improvisation reflect a dual identity, in which these two cultural traditions sometimes exert an uneven influence upon the learning environment. Improvisational curricula, …

Joseph Cooper Walker, Esq. (C. 1761-1810), A Forgotten Irish Bard: A Dissection Of His Advertisement As A Map To His Melodies, Hilary Brady Morris

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

In conducting preliminary research for my undergraduate honors thesis, I discovered a two-volume publication in Mullins Library at the University of Arkansas, The Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (1818) by Joseph Cooper Walker, Esq. (c. 1761-1810). It held a variety of information on the music and poetry of ancient Ireland. What interested me most was the collection of melodies at the end of the first volume. Looking at overviews of Irish music collection, I saw little mention of Walker and his Irish Bards. Upon further investigation, I found that the first edition of his book (1786) contained only fifteen …

Program Notes: Senior Piano Recital, Juan Arauco

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.

Albert George ("Al") Hibbler, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Al Hibbler was a singer who had success both as a solo artist ("Unchained Melody") and with big bands (Jay McShann, Duke Ellington).

Inventing Jazztowns And Internationalizing Local Identities In Japan, E. Taylor Atkins

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

Describes the respective claims of port cities Yokohama and Kobe to be the points of entry for jazz in Japan.

Job Hunt Rhetoric: The Conversation Behind The Successful Search, Sheridan Stormes, Gordon Theil

Scholarship and Professional Work

This chapter analyzes several job postings. In addition. it presents several groups of questions that help to clarify candidates' and employers' intentions during the interview process. The combination of informative written materials and informed conversation can contribute to a positive outcome for all concerned

Blessed Chaminade, Harry Hagan O.S.B.

Musical Compositions about the Marianist Charism

In praise of Chaminade

[Review Of] Encyclopedia Of World Pop Music, 1980-2001, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Concert Recording 2004-02-23, John Sampen, Benjamin Pierce, Maria Sampen, Marilyn Schrude, Robert Mueller

Concert Recordings & Programs

Interior spaces; Notturno: In memorium Toru Takemitsu / Marilyn Shrude -- From the gardens of melancholy / Robert Mueller -- Nocturne / James Greeson -- Memorie de luoghi; Renewing the myth / Marilyn Shrude

Concert Recording 2004-03-08a, Jeremy Pratchard

Concert Recordings & Programs

A flourish / Malcolm Arnold -- Variations on a Korean song / John Barnes Chance -- Alligator alley / Michael Daugherty -- Who's who in Navy blue / John Phillip Sousa

Concert Recording 2004-06-14, Laura Terry, Lawrence Pereira

Concert Recordings & Programs

The Indian Queen. I attempt from love's sickness / Henry Purcell -- Monon Lescaut. In quelle trine morbide / Puccini -- Hai luli / Arthur Coquard -- Bescheidene Libre / Hugo Wolf -- Come ready and see me / Richard Hundley

Concert Recording 2004-10-28, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Trumpet Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

No abstract provided.

Concert Recording 2004-11-11, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Inspirational Singers

Concert Recordings & Programs

No abstract provided.

Concert Recording 2004-12-02, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Saxophone Chamber Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

No abstract provided.

An Analytical Study Of Concerto For Piano And Orchestra, Op.13, By Costa Rican Composer Carolos Enrique Vargas, Manuel Matarrita

LSU Major Papers

Carlos Enrique Vargas Méndez (1919-1998) was one of the most influential and versatile Costa Rican musicians of the last century. His work involved many areas since he was an accomplished pianist and organist, conductor, composer, arranger, editor, pedagogue and musicologist. However, Vargas’ work as a composer is perhaps the least researched and most neglected of the music disciplines he embraced. This research will focus on one of Vargas’ most important compositions, his Piano Concerto Op. 13, composed and premiered in 1944. The monograph is divided into four chapters. The first chapter includes a synopsis of the history of composition in …

Transcriptions, Paraphrases, And Arrangements: The Compositional Art Of Moritz Moszkowski, Gilya Hodos

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Although more or less forgotten by most musicians, Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925) was a celebrated composer, conductor, teacher, editor, and performer. This thesis seeks to draw a thorough biographical sketch of the composer as both a man and a musician and to provide a general description of his piano transcriptions, arrangements, and paraphrases, as well as a detailed analysis of three of his virtuosic piano transcriptions. An analysis of Moszkowski's standing among his peers is also presented. His often under-appreciated achievements are documented in the musical journals of his day, including The Etude, The Musical Courier, The Musical Times, Musician, and …

An Ethnoarchaeomusicological Investigation Of Highland Guatemalan Maya Dance-Plays, Mark Harold Howell

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Instrumental music played on two valveless trumpets and a wooden slit-drum currently accompanies the highland Guatemalan Maya dance-play Rab'inal Achi. These two instrument types are known from the Prehispanic record and have been associated with the play since its first mention in the mid-nineteenth century.

The script of the Rab'inal Achi is considered by many scholars to have Prehispanic roots. The possibility that its accompanying music also originated in Precolumbian times is the impetus behind my study. To explore this possibility I apply ethnoarchaeomusicological research methods, incorporating data supplied by iconology-iconography, ethnographic analogy, history, archaeology, and music analysis. Ethnoarchaeomusicological …

Concert Recording 2004-12-01a, Chris Moore

Concert Recordings & Programs

No abstract provided.

Concert Recording 2004-04-25b, Jeremy Pratchard, University Of Arkansas Fayetteville. Concert Band

Concert Recordings & Programs

First suite in E♭ / Gustav Holst -- Two British folk songs / Percy Grainger -- Introit / Fisher Tull -- Pas Redouble / Camille Saint-Saens

Gretsch: "That Great Gretsch Sound!", Gretsch Company

Gretsch Company Catalogs & Price Lists

The catalog has page spreads for the different types of guitars, with some celebrity endorsements.

Concert Recording 2004-12-06, Jenny Hornberger, Elizabeth Terry, Abdul Aziz Maraka, Mauricio Salguero, Lori Ellezian, Jonathan Story, Alexander Hunt, Sharon Holloway, Lyndon Meyer

Concert Recordings & Programs

Rhapsody, op. 79, no. 2 / Johannes Brahms -- Prelude no. 1 / George Gershwin -- Pictures at an exhibition / Modest Mussorgsky -- Arabian etude for clarinet and piano / Abdul Azis Maraka -- Sonetto 104 del petrarca / Franz Liszt -- Sonata no. 2, op.36, in B♭ minor / Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Six piano pieces, op. 118 / Johannes Brahms -- Suite bergamasque / Claude Debussy -- Fantasy in F minor, op. 49 / Frederic Chopin

Concert Recording 2004-03-10a, Marcel Rominger

Concert Recordings & Programs

English suite no. 3 g minor, BMV 808 / J.S. Bach -- Sonata in f minor, op. 57 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Two concert etudes / F. Lizt -- Sonata in a minor, op. 28 / S. Prokofiev