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Baby Book For Soprano And Orchestra., Lauren Spavelko

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Baby Book is a 12-minute work for soprano and orchestra. It sets three poems from Chloe Yelena Miller's collection of the same name. It will later be expanded into a six-movement work. The cycle explores miscarriage, pregnancy, and motherhood.

I. Great Aunt Dora

II. Objects

III. Children's Pool Game

Great Aunt Dora is a real person; she is the poet's own great aunt, a dearly beloved family matriarch. This poem is a conversation between the mother and the growing child inside her. Great Aunt Dora passed away before she could meet the child. Thus, the conversation is bittersweet, but full …

Music Composition, Spencer Snyder

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Void: For Orchestra, Jared Aragon

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In astronomy, a void is an area in outer space which contains no galaxies. These are vast expanses of darkness and emptiness. This orchestral piece, simply titled void, attempts to describe such an area through various musical methods: long sustained notes depicting the huge distances away from galaxies, wide distances between upper voices and lower voices creating a sense of void between musical elements, and close distances and tight harmonies to recreate the sense of confusion and uncertainty that may be experienced in an area of emptiness.

Searching For Modeling Of Stravinsky's Petroushka In Poulenc's Rapsodie Nègre: Poulenc's Use Of Popular Forms And Techniques In His Earliest Work, Jeremy Rover

Senior Theses

Why does the view that French composer Francis Poulenc was a musical hack and a fraud continue to be discussed today? To get to the bottom of this, we need to look at the evidence available and find proof to back up these claims. In the predominant research on Poulenc, many scholars mention musical themes and quotations linked to other composers, but most of these claims aren’t backed up with specific examples or score studies. Therefore, in this paper I attempt to trace the “crime” to its source by showing Poulenc’s possible borrowing of harmonies, thematic material, styles, and rhythms …

We Live In Waves, William S. Trachsel

Graduate Thesis Collection

Composition for orchestra.

Rift, Luke Flynn

Graduate Thesis Collection

Composition for orchestra.

Violin Concerto #1, Matthew J. Holman

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

This piece is a violin concerto modeled after, but not explicitly quoting melodic material of, several pieces of music by composers Bear McCreary, and Martin O’Donnell. The first and third movements of my piece were each modeled after two of Bear McCreary’s pieces from the soundtrack to Battlestar Galactica Season 2 – Allegro, and Prelude to War, respectively. The second movement of my piece was modeled after Martin O’Donnell’s piece Ashes, from the soundtrack to Halo: Reach.

Although I model my piece on the formal structures and, occasionally, the chord progressions of McCreary’s and O’Donnell’s pieces, …

The Silence: Overture And Two Scenes From An Opera In Two Acts, Eric Jurgens

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The Silence is the story of William Rose, a man who, while searching the world for his missing wife and daughter, is kidnapped and held in a secret Iranian prison. After many years of torture, abuse and a slow descent into insanity, secrets about his family manifest as mysterious and magical occurrences, creating a dangerous tension between the prisoners and guards. Questions begin to arise: Who is actually in charge of this prison? Why haven’t the guards ever met the warden? Why is the prison haunted by mysterious voices? And what exactly would it take to crumble the walls of …

Song Of The Wind, Aaron B. Bittman

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

Song of the Wind is an original cantata for contralto soloist, chorus, and chamber orchestra. More similar to Carmina Burana than a cantata such as those written by J. S. Bach, musical influences were drawn from such diverse sources as Greek Orthodox chant, minimalism, and New Age popular music. The story of Song of the Wind is drawn from a number of different texts, mostly Eastern and Mid-Eastern in origin, but European texts are represented as well. These texts span a period of time between 3,000 years before the Common Era and the Renaissance, and also include newly written verse. …

A Survey Of The Sacred Choral–Orchestral Works Of Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869–1941), Martin C. Cook

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

In the closing years of the 19th Century, when Charles Villiers Stanford, Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar were at the height of their fame and influence in British musical society Henry Walford Davies emerged as one of the most promising talents of the day, receiving commissions from the provincial music festivals of Great Britain, which were a rite of passage for emerging composers.

Between 1904 and 1929 Davies produced eleven sacred choral-orchestral works for these festivals and one further work, which were received favorably in their day but are now almost forgotten. There are five large multi movement works: The …

We Are The Music Makers-Orchestra | 10-96351, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

We Are The Music Makers, Orchestra Score/Parts

Part Number:
10-96351

Price:
$95.00

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
Arthur O'Shaghnessy (1844-1881)

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

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Commissioned by Downers Grove, IL, South High School
Laura Coster, Choral Music
Craig Roselieb, Director of Bands

Today-Orchestra | 10-96561, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Today, Orchestra Score/Parts

Part Number:
10-96561

Price:
$75.00

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

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The Plumed Serpent, Doug Lofstrom

Doug Lofstrom Music Collection

A symphonic piece for orchestra and jazz soloists composed in 1982 in four continuous movements; duration is 25 minutes. Accompanying audio recording is from page 65 of the score until the end of the piece. Score is 85 pages and recording is 6:04 minutes.

An Analysis Of The Styles Of C. Saint-Saëns And W. A. Mozart With Emphasis On Their Clarinet Compositions, Gerald Kenneth Steele

All Master's Theses

This paper has represented an effort by the writer to learn something about two major clarinet compositions and about their composers, and to provide for the readers of this paper a means of better understanding Wolfgang Mozart and Camille Saint-Saëns and their clarinet compositions. The study of these compositions has been in connection with the preparation for their performance in a Graduate Recital by the writer. The two composers studied in this project represent two periods of music history, two different styles of composition and two different personalities.

Concerto For Orchestra, Donald Clifton Driscoll

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This is a musical score written in completion for a master of music.

Volume 69, Number 08 (August 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Young Man with an Idea

Forgotten Songs of Robert Burns

Musicians in the Woods

Let's Teach the Child How to Practice

Musician's Working Capital

Music Weaves Patterns

Bruckner and the St. Florian Organ

Decline of the Art of Singing: If Bel Canto is a Lost Art, It May be the Fault of Composers Rather than of Singers

Master Lesson on Schumann's Novellette, Op. 99, No. 90

Sing as You Speak

Capturing Interest in Music

Studio Rogues' Gallery

Story of the Baton

"The People Will Live On" : From "The People, Yes", By Carl Sandburg : A Composition For Chorus, Orchestra And Narrator, Leighton M. Edelman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Tripping Along (With You And Me), Jerry Sullivan, Harry Hosford, Jack Mills Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of an orchestra.

First line of song: I have looked around, now at last you're found.

First line of chorus: Tripping along our merry way, tripping along all thru the day

Valse moderato

Includes sheet music samples from songs "It's a Man (Ev'ry Time) It's a Man", "That Golondrina Melody", "Miami Moon", "Dream Away", "Smile Again Kathleen Mavourneen", and "Out Where The Blue Begins"

Words and Music by Jerry Sullivan and Harry Hosford

Frank Westphal and his Orchestra

Big Radio Hit

1 score, (8p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Jack Mills Inc, New York

Volume 18, Number 10 (October 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Common-Sense in Music

What is a Lesson Worth?

Restlessness and Repose

Personal Maganetism

Mission of the Studio

Mental and Muscular Activity

Old Beethoven Program

Music in American Colleges

University of Michigan

Princeton University

Smith College

Amherst College

Oberlin University

Adelph College

Reproduction of Orchestral Effects on the Pianoforte

Serious Purpose in Music Study

Push Forward

Rebinding Music Books

Absolute Pitch

Individuality in Teaching

Primary Teaching

What and the Why of the Choice of Music

Soft Pedal

Obscure Teaching Terms

Harmony—Yesterday and To-day