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0895: Whear Family Papers, 1909-2019, Marshall University Special Collections

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Dr. Paul W. Whear was a noted composer and Marshall University professor and founded the Huntington Chamber Orchestra. Nancy Robinson Voiers Whear was a renowned musician who worked in Morrow Library at Marshall University and wrote several articles that were published. Their children were Allen Whear, violoncellist, brother Bill, a prominent photographer, and Cynthia, another distinguished musician.

The Whear Family Collection includes original compositions and musical scores by Paul W. Whear, research materials used by Nancy Whear, photography by Bill Whear, and documentation of the musical career of Allen Whear. Also included are programs and other materials from the Huntington …

0880: Don Ferguson Sheet Music Collection, 1850-1981, Marshall University Special Collections

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Don Ferguson’s collection consists of 358 individual pieces of piano sheet music spanning the first seven decades of the 20th century. There are also two string quartette scores named Quartette by Mozart and Beethoven for two violins, viola, and cello. They were published in Leipzig, Germany in the 1940s and were given to Mr. Ferguson by a member of the Bern, Switzerland Symphony Orchestra.

Marshall University School Of Music Presents The Twelfth Annual Festival Of New Music, Mark Zanter

Festival/Concert Programs

Anthony Almendaréz, Alumni composer

Shelby Ard, Alumni composer

Dalton Carney, MU student composer

Alli Feamster, MU student composer

Jarohn Grandstaff, Alumni composer

Esin Gündüz, Alumni composer

Mark Haas, Alumi composer

Lily Lauffer, MU student composer

Zack Merritt, Alumni composer

Sean Price, Alumni composer

Rodrigo Teodoro, MU student composer

John Shuff, MU student composer

James Stamm, Alumni composer

Eli Wisen, MU student composer

Mark Zanter, Festival Host, Marshall University

Cyberpunk Beginnings: Sos, Mark Zanter

Music Faculty Research

This performance proposal features works for electric guitar, percussion, live processing and visuals performed by Mark Zanter, and Steve Hall of Marshall University, USA. Approximate time 10 minutes. SOS integrates layers of algorithmically generated material, live signal processing, visuals, and live performance in a work exploring boundaries between machine generated sound(s), and human interaction.

The Tenth Annual Festival Of New Music February 28 - March 1, 2019, Mark Zanter

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Society Of Composers Region Iii Conference February 25-27, 2016, Mark Zanter

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Sixth Annual Festival Of New Music February 27 - March 1, 2015, Mark Zanter

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Birke Fine Arts Festival 2014. Fifth Annual Festival Of New Music. Marshall University, February 25-28, 2014, Mark Zanter

All Performances

No abstract provided.

An "Alien Foundation": The Eclectism Of Antonin Dvorak's American Period, Kelly Marie Fallon

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In 1891 Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) was offered a position as the Director of the American Conservatory in New York City by Jeanette Thurber (1850-1946) due to his reputation as a nationalistic composer. Thurber was intending to create a national music for America and hired Dvorak to not only promote the American Conservatory, but help her achieve her goal of an American style. By early 1892 an agreement was reached between the two parties, and Dvorak assumed his role as Director of the Conservatory in October of 1892, a tenure which lasted until May 1895. This three year period, …

Folk/Traditional Music Of West Virginia Arranged For Classical Guitar Ensemble, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

Music Faculty Research

My motivation for writing this book grew from my desire to better understand the people and the music heritage of West Virginia and to share the findings of my experience, with the guitar community, in the form of guitar ensemble arrangements.

4th Annual Festival Of New Music February 28, March 1, 2013, Mark Zanter

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Conduction And The Network Of Composition, Mark Zanter

Music Faculty Research

In Noise, The Political Economy of Music Jacques Attali outlines how musical practice presages periods of economic development. The current late capitalist, post-Fordist, stage resembles what Attali calls the “network of composition”; where codes are oriented toward receiving pleasure from instruments of communication, use, and exchange value is experienced not accumulated. Post-Fordism affords a climate in which new codes of use and exchange emerge through limited production, flexible labor, and increased information flow. These codes increasingly support choice, nonconformity, and free-expression. Improvised/creative music, free jazz, and forms where self-expression, exploration of human potential freed from production signify the emergence of …

2012 Festival Of New Music, Mark Zanter

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Senior Composition Recital - Chris Miller, Live Electronics, Chris Miller

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Boz For Jazz Orchestra And Vocal, Esin Gunduz

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

“Boz” means grey in Turkish and is a word that also connotes unclear or mixed substances or situations.

The source of all the pitch material in the piece is a tetrachord, that is, the first tetrachord of a Turkish makam “Sedaraban” (0145). The lines and the vertical sound in the brass and woodwind, the chords in the piano, the bass line are all produced form the transpositions of this same material. The name “Boz,” which means “grey” or “unclear” in Turkish, is supporting this idea. From the chords that the brass and woodwinds play, it is impossible to define which …

The Body Of Light : Poems, Alicia Matheny

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This creative thesis explores the different facets of Pink Floyd and their music, drawing inspiration from albums varying from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) to Dark Side of the Moon (1973). Using images drawn from nature, the cosmos, and Pagan mythology, this thesis also incorporates biographical details found in Nicholas Schaffner’s important biography, Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey (New York: Harmony Books, 1991). There are also experiments with form in the poems, in that in many of the poems, instead of commas, there are tab spaces. Each space expresses the silence between each word. …

J.A.C. Redford's A Psalm Triptych As Sonic Altarpiece, Erin Jones Kishpaugh

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

J.A.C. Redford’s love of music for the voice and the importance of his faith, key factors in understanding this composer who is best known for his film and television scores, are displayed through the song cycle A Psalm Triptych. This study examines the structure of and inspiration behind this song cycle as a means to determine its function. Redford’s approach to text setting is motivated by a desire for the meaning to be more clearly understood when illuminated by his music. Inspired by visual art, he generated a textual structure resembling triptych altarpieces, through which the listener hears the psalmist’s …

A Survey Of Daily Routines, George Palton

Music Faculty Research

Survey of professional tuba and euphonium players in the United States consisting of current college professors, prominent freelance musicians, and musicians in professional ensembles such as military bands and orchestras.

Hillbillies And Sharecroppers: An Introduction To East Coast And Mississippi Blues Styles, John Wesley Taylor

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In his thesis, Hillbillies and Sharecroppers: an introduction to East coast and Mississippi blues guitar styles, along with the accompanying CD performance, John Taylor discusses pre-WWII blues. The discussion includes regional guitar styles as well as physicalities involved in the performance of early acoustic blues in Appalachia and Mississippi. There is a chapter devoted to subjects covered in early blues songs with a list of lyric examples as well as a biography section devoted to both white and black performers in these styles. The live performance utilizes stories behind the songs and historical information of the performers discussed in the …

Roussel: The Flute And Extramusical Reference, Wendell Dobbs

Music Faculty Research

The article Roussel: The Flute and Extramusical Reference reveals the literary side of Roussel's flute music.

0583: Janice Chandler Papers, 1969-1976, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia music educator. Papers include a script for "200 years celebration of Cabell county," a bicentennial musical presentation that was never produced.

0400: Dr. Glenray C. Stein Musical Score, 1948, Marshall University Special Collections

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"Moonlight Sonata" Beethoven Second Piano, arranged by Dr. Stein. Dr. Glenray C. Stein was music director of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.

The Masculine And Feminine Encounter In Song : An Analysis Of Six Poems As Set By Both Male And Female Composers, Catherine Bodo Schoew

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

That fusion of poetry and music which we call song has provoked controversy, evoked ecstasy, and has tempted nearly every composer sometime during his musical career. What is it that drives a man to take immortal words and endeavor to transcend them in music? Indeed few composers have ever been truly successful, but even the idea of "perfect song" stimulates argument. The well-worn controversy of the importance of music above the words, and vice versa, has never been resolved, nor is it likely to be. The greatest problem lies in the fact that a poem existed as an independent work …

0241: William Tweel Papers, 1920-1978, Marshall University Special Collections

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Contains arrangements of popular music by Tweel in his orchestra. Also contains two research papers written while a graduate student at Marshall University: " Bill Tweel and his society music", for the Music Department; and "Samuel Finley Breese Morse", for the Art Department.

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Contemporary Music Festival, Paul A. Balshaw

All Performances

No abstract provided.