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Rediscovering Frédéric Chopin's "Trois Nouvelles Études", Qiao-Shuang Xian

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Frédéric Chopin’s Trois Nouvelles Études (Three New Études) were composed in 1839 at the request of François Fétis and Ignaz Moshceles for inclusion in a new and elaborate piano teaching method. While these new studies are less dramatic and brilliant than Chopin’s two previous sets of Études, op. 10 and 25, they are no less concerned with expressive musical qualities and they are of equal artistic merit to any of Chopin’s earlier Études. The monograph’s five chapters deal with specific aspects of these works. Chapter One traces the historical background of the Three Nouvelles Études. Chapter Two is devoted to …

Alban Berg's Filmic Music: Intentions And Extensions Of The Film Music Interlude In The Opera Lula, Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The music composed to accompany the film in Berg’s Opera Lulu--the “Film Music Interlude” (FMI)--is the subject of this study. Although this is film music, and Berg wrote his own Film Music Scenario, scholars have ignored writings about film theory and film music in their historical and analytical treatments of the FMI. How do writings about film theory and film music apply to the analysis and exploration of historical and social contexts of the FMI, and what musical and extramusical intentions and extensions can be drawn from the FMI? Some answers come to light while exploring sources containing Berg’s correspondence …

An Introduction To American Song Composer Daron Aric Hagen (B.1961) And His Miniature Folk Opera: Dear Youth, Jane Mccalla Redding

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

American composer Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961) is emerging as one of America's brightest young composers of the twenty-first century. Ned Rorem, the champion of American art song, believes Hagen to be a composer of great ability and skill. This study deals with the miniature folk opera Dear Youth (1990) which is composed of eight songs for soprano, piano, and flute. The songs are "The Bonnie Blue Flag" (Ketchum), "I Stop Again" (Ropes), "The Picture Graved Into My Heart" (Ropes), "The Trouble Was Tom..." (Anonymous), "The Lord Knows" (Smith), "O, for Such a Dream" (Smith), "Christmas Night" (Ingram), and "...Silently …

Text And Structure In Schoenberg's Op. 50, And An Original Composition, Symphony #1, Thomas, Jr. Michael Couvillon

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Part One of this document provides an analytical study of Schoenberg's final opus, Op. 50, three religious choral works written in the serial style: Driemal Tausend Jahre, Op. 50a (1949), De Profundis, Op. 50b (1950), and Modern Psalm, Op. 50c (1951). This study is divided into five chapters: an introduction, a conclusion, and a chapter of analysis for each of the three pieces. Analysis of these pieces reveals three significant conclusions: 1) Schoenberg consistently incorporates areas of relative consonance and pitch emphasis into his serial structures; 2) these areas of pitch emphasis, together with other musical devices are used to …

Algorithmic Composition In Contrasting Musical Styles, Tristan Mcauley

Theses : Honours

The aim of this project is to create software that will give non-musical people the ability to compose convincingly 'real' music in specific musical genres. By 'real' music we mean music which is not obviously "machine generated", recognisable as being of the selected genre, of an aesthetically pleasing quality (a very subjective concept) and usable in a commercial context. To achieve this goal various computational techniques are used including genetic algorithms and finite state automata. The process involves an original, top down approach and a bottom up approach based on previous studies. A novel, skeletal structure is formed to depict …

A Historical Descriptive Analysis Of Federal, State, And Local Education Policy And Its Influence On The Music Education Curriculum In The New York City Public School 1950-1999, David Crone

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Aspects Of Jazz And Classical Music In David N. Baker's Ethnic Variations On A Theme Of Paganini, Heather Koren Pinson

LSU Master's Theses

David Baker's Ethnic Variations on a Theme of Paganini (1976) for violin and piano bring together stylistic elements of jazz and classical music, a synthesis for which Gunther Schuller in 1957 coined the term "third stream." In regard to classical aspects, Baker's work is modeled on Nicolo Paganini's Twenty-fourth Caprice for Solo Violin, itself a theme and variations. From Paganini,it borrows aspects of melody, harmony, and articulation, not only of the theme but also the variations. In regard to jazz, Baker transforms most variations (including the theme, which in comparison to Paganini's is already a variation) into distinct styles related …

Paradise: In A Dream, Jonathan Beresford Horrocks

LSU Master's Theses

Paradise: In a Dream is a poem by Christina Rossetti, which is based on a dream the author had of heaven. It was my goal to give this masterpiece a musical dimension: expanding its meaning and giving the experience dramatic implications. The harmonic language and tensions come from the words of the poem. I used progressive tonality to tie the twentieth-century musical element to the romantic idiom of the poem. There are two important musical themes. The “song of Paradise” theme is Schubertian and dance-like, appearing for the first time before the second verse (meas. 32). The theme of earthly …

The Effects Of Internet Guided Practice With Aural Modeling On The Sight-Singing Accuracy Of Elementary Education Majors, Jessica L. Hall

LSU Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of aural modeling in guided practice through the Internet on the sight-singing improvement of elementary education majors. Students enrolled in a music methods course for elementary education majors (N=37) used software delivered via the Internet to practice sight-singing. The experimental web page included visual examples of sight-singing exercises as well as aural modeling of each of the exercises. The control web page included only visual examples. A t test for independent samples indicated no significant difference in the posttest scores of the two groups in rhythm (p > .05), pitch on …

Review Of Raíces: The Roots Of Latin Music In New York City, Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

When I was in school – and that was, obviously, a long time ago – the word Latin, whether as a noun or as an adjective, referred to the world of ancient Rome, its language, culture, and civilization. Needless to say, this definition has now been replaced by another, whose connotations refer to the culture of the countries south of the border of the United States. When a term alters its meaning, it is undoubtedly indicative of larger issues. In recent decades, for example, the popular music of the Spanish-speaking world, not only has attained by appropriation a distinct …

Modernity And Musical Structure: Neo-Marxist Perspectives On Song Form And Its Successors, Peter L. Manuel

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Program: Unf Wind Ensemble Feb. 24, 2001, Unf Wind Ensemble, Gordon Brock

Flyers, Playbills, Posters, and Programs

Canzona / Peter Mennin -- Irish tune from County Derry / Percy A. Grainger -- Semper Fidelis / John Philip Sousa -- Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin; ed. by Thomas Verrier.

Graduate Recital In Voice: April 16, 2002, Jason E. Jackson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Jason E. Jackson, tenor, presented his graduate voice recital on Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 6:00 in the evening in Davis Hall of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, on the University of Northern Iowa campus, in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree. His program included works by Rossini, Mozart, Falla, Britten, and Still. The recital was presented in collaboration with pianist Jennifer Iverson. This abstract includes a discussion of the backgrounds and musical features of the recital pieces.

Master’S Recital In Organ, Mi-Young Jin

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Mi-Young Jin presented a graduate organ recital at 6:00 p.m. on November 30, 2001 in Jebe Hall at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music. The recital was performed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Music degree in organ performance. The repertoire included works from the Baroque period to the Twentieth-century: Pierre Du Mage 's Grand Jeu, Johann Sebastian Bach's Trio Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 526, George Frideric Handel's Organ Concerto No. 13 in F Major (" The Cuckoo and Nightingale "), Anton Heiller's Tanz-Toccata, and Maurice Durufle's Suite, Op. 5.

Graduate Recital In Choral Conducting, Theodore J. Hesse

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The University of Northern Iowa Concert Chorale presented a spring concert on Wednesday, April 30, 1997 in the School of Music Russell Hall at 8:00 p.m. The concert repertoire was chosen, rehearsed and conducted by Theodore J. Hesse in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree requirements in Choral Conducting. The Concert Chorale presented Sechs Ouartette, Op. 112 by Johannes Brahms and Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo by Franz Joseph Haydn, assisted by a select ensemble of instrumentalists. The Concert Chorale is a chorus of fifty singers, including graduate, upper-level undergraduate, and non-music majors. One-hour rehearsals for the …

Masters Recital In Piano Performance, Ji-Young Chung

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Ji-Young Chung presented a graduate recital at 6 p.m. on April 26, 2002 in Davis Hall at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music. The recital was presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Music degree in piano performance. The recital program consisted of pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Isaac Albeniz, and Modest Mussorgsky.

Graduate Recital In Piano: April 22, 2002, Allison Rae Dencklau

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Allison Rae Dencklau, pianist, presented her graduate piano recital on Monday, April 22, 2002, at 6:00 in the evening in Davis Hall of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa This piano recital was given in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree with an emphasis in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. Ms. Dencklau's program included works by Haydn, Brahms, Liszt, and Ginastera. This abstract includes a brief discussion of the lives of the composers as well as backgrounds and musical highlights of the recital pieces.

Piano Teaching Philosophies And Influences On Pianism At The Central Conservatory Of Music In Beijing, China, Chi Lin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) is considered the best music institute in China and represents the highest level of music education in China. Since the founding of the CCOM in 1950, its piano department has been a national center for teaching, performance and research. The CCOM has trained hundreds of pianists; many of them are now key members of music schools, art organizations, and research institutes all over China and some of them have won prizes at major international competitions. Through fifty years of efforts by Chinese pianists and the influences of foreign pianists, especially Russian pianists, the CCOM …

2001-2002 Elán Wind Quintet, David Suarez, Lee Berger, Stas Pomerants, Alexander Plotkin, Sharon Case, Mihaela Buhaiciuc, Arthur Weisberg

Other Student Recitals

No abstract provided.

Concerto Competition Final Round, John Dee

Concerto Competition

Sponsored by Dr. Elizabeth E. Force

Competition Coordinator

• John Dee

Jury

• Victor Feldbrill
• Igor Gruppman
• Patricia Grignet Nott
• Wendell Simmons

Piano Accompanists

• Tao Lin
• Jodie DeSalvo

Finalists

• Daniel Andai, violin - Saint-Sanes, Havannaise
• Ying Chai, violin - Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen
• Martin Gueorguiev, cello - Dvorak, Cello Concerto
• Ying Huang, piano - Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5
• Simon Kovacs, clarient - Nielsen, Clarinet Concerto
• Hyun-Soo Lee, piano - Gershwin, Piano Concerto in F
• Yang Lu, violin - Vieuxtemps, Violin Concerto No. 5
• Marta Murvai, violin - Paganini, Violin Concerto No. 1
• Dmitri Pogorelov, violin - Glazunov, Violin Concerto

2001-2002 Interactive Piano Workshop, Roberta Rust, Hyun-Soo Lee, Ross Salvosa, Alex Tchobanov

Studio Recitals

No abstract provided.

Highlights In Jazz Concert 235- Keepers Of The Flame, Jack Keinsinger, Danny Gottlieb

Jack Kleinsinger Presents Highlights in Jazz

Jack Kleinsinger presents Highlights in Jazz. The concert was held at The Pace Downtown Theater, Thursday, December 13th, 2001 at 8:00 pm in cooperation with Pace University Performing Arts, Dr. Nicholas Catalano- University Director. Jack served as producer and master of ceremonies for the series of concerts. Artists for the concert include Christian McBride, Kevin Mahogany, Charles Haynes, Melissa Slocum, Wayne Goodman, and Benny Powell.

2001-2002 Student Spotlight, Douglas Goldberg, Martin Gueorguiev, Ying Huang, Hyun-Soo Lee, Alexander Plotkin, Tao Lin

Other Student Recitals

No abstract provided.

2001-2002 Junior Recital - Douglas Goldberg (Percussion), Douglas Goldberg, Jodie Desalvo, Paula Linder, Elizabeth Alvarado

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

2001-2002 Senior Recital - Simon Kovacs (Clarinet), Simon Kovacs, Jodie Desalvo, Douglas Goldberg

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

2001-2002 The Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra, Lynn University Philharmonia, Claudio Jaffé, Sergiu Schwartz

Philharmonia

Program

• Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 4 and 5 / Johannes Brahms
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 77 / Johannes Brahms
• Sergiu Schwartz, violin
• Symphony No. 2, op. 73 / Johannes Brahms

General Recital - December 6, 2001, Music Department

General and Sophomore Recitals

This general recital is from December 6, 2001.

Chamber Ensembles, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Recital: The Sonneries And Faculty Brass Quintet, December 3, 2001, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
Monday Evening
December 3, 2001
8:00 p.m.

University Of Richmond Wind Ensemble, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.