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Воспоминания (Acts Of Remembrance): For Violin, Cello And Piano, Marat E. Sanatullov

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

The piece has three movements: I. Истоки (Act I. Beginnings); II. Очарование (АCT II. Charm); III. Просветление (ACT III. Lucidity). The title of the piece and the titles of its movements are in Russian.

Adviser: Tyler Goodrich White

In Search Of Murmurings (Full Score), Luke Martin

Honors Theses

"In Search of Murmurings" is deeply indebted to my reading of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way and explores his concept of recombining lost memories in the liminal space of our inner selves. Certain moments in the piece act as aural triggers for memory eruptions into my lost and fragmented experience of past composers' works. As much as this piece is an exploration of Proust, it is also an exploration of myself. By following these memory eruptions, I am departing from the convention, expected, and narrative path; I am asking: what happens when I allow the illogical and non-linear to take control?

Beethoven's Opus 96: The Sonata For Piano And Violin Perfected, Paul S. Roberts

Honors Theses

This thesis attempts to shed light on Beethoven's final sonata for Piano and Violin, the Sonata for Piano and Violin op. 96 in G major. Presented first is a survey of music for violin and piano throughout previous centuries (in itself a valuable resource for those who want to approach this ambiguous and disorganized subject) followed by a discussion of Beethoven's sonatas leading up to the composition of Opus 96. Then follows a more detailed discussion of the piece itself as seen through the eyes (more accurately, heard through the ears) of one who has prepared a performance of it …

Makiko Kinoshita And Her 9 Preludes For Piano: The Amalgam Of American Jazz And European Tradition, Mai Nagatomo

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

Makiko Kinoshita is one of the leading contemporary composers in Japan. Kinoshita’s 9 Preludes (2001) is remarkable twenty-first century piano literature that provides abundant use of various musical styles. The most important style that Kinoshita combined with traditional Western writing is jazz; especially the rhythmic and harmonic language of Jazz music. This document provides a detailed analysis of Kinoshita’s unique treatments of form, tonality, harmony, rhythm, and motivic materials. The central section of this study employs musical examples in order to examine how Kinoshita fuses diverse elements of musical styles with modern musical language to create her own idiom. Along …

Variations On A Russian Folk Song, Brian R. Denu

Student Publications

This piece for solo piano demonstrates a wide range of techniques utilized in twentieth century composition. The theme is taken from the Finale of Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird", which itself is based on a Russian folk song. Each subsequent variation focuses on one or more compositional technique.

I. Theme

II. March (chords by thirds, extended triads)

III. Molto grave e expressivo (chromaticism)

IV. L'istesso tempo (ten-tone row)

V. Fast and light (twelve-tone row, secundal harmony)

VI. Much less (minimalism, extended techniques)

VII. Hazy (quartal harmony, modal melody)

VIII. Finale (spectralism)

The order of the variations partly reflects a chronological …

Tiny Sounds, Valeria Ch. Jonard Perez

Masters Theses

Our auditory system perceives sounds within a specific range of frequencies and amplitudes. It is the way we define our aural world and the sounds we are able or willing to hear. Just above the border of the threshold of human audition hearing, we find unique sounds with particular characteristics. These sometimes forgotten or ignored sounds interest me as compositional elements.

Listening attentively requires extra effort from our ears and concentration; listening to sounds that vacillate from imperceptible to audible changes how humans typically listen to sounds in their environment. Although amplifying these discreet sounds would rob them of their …

Fugue In A Minor, Ryan A. Stones

Student Publications

"Fugue in A Minor" was composed during the Fall 2011 section of "Counterpoint and Composition" offered at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. The piece is composed in the style of J. S. Bach's fugues in his famous collection of solo keyboard music called The Well-Tempered Clavier. "Fugue in A Minor" is a four part fugue, featuring a traditional exposition, followed by a development section including sequences and fugue subject entries, and concluding with a recapitulation of the initial fugue material and a coda.

The Life And Selected Piano Works Of David Burge, Mary Chung

Dissertations

Although David Burge is recognized as one of the most important American pianists dedicated to contemporary music in the twentieth century, little is known about his contributions as a pedagogue, lecturer, writer, novelist, and, especially, as a composer. This biographical study focuses on three of his piano compositions: Second Sonata, Eclipse II, and Go-Hyang. Each work represents one of three distinct compositional periods: the first reflects the influence of Prokofiev and features characteristics of the neoclassicism; the second marks a turn to experimentalism, atonality, and serialism; and the final indicates the return to a more traditional style that makes use …

News From Cart, Deborah Nemko

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

The Structure Of Paul Creston's Narrative No. 2, Op. 79 No. 2 For Piano, Myrna Evelyn Johnson

All Master's Theses

This paper presents an analytical discussion of the structure of Paul Creston's Narrative No. 2. An explanation of Mr. Creston's approach to composition is followed by a general description of the free-sectional form. Next, each section is investigated separately according to its rhythm, harmony, and melody. However, at the same time relationships between the sections are mentioned also. Some characteristics of Mr. Creston's style which are revealed in this study are his use of various rhythmic structures, pantonality, the lydian mode, and tangential variation.

Sonata For Violin And Piano, Op. 3, Lynda K. Forbes

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This is a musical score written to fulfill the requirements of a master of music.

A Performer's Analysis Of Eight Piano Sonatas Of Nicholas Medtner, Sarah Louise Kinley

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The piano sonatas of Nicholas Medtner are only a portion of the great heritage bequeathed to the piano by one of the most unique and significant, although relatively unknown, modern Russian composers. Medtner's personality penetrates his compositions but can be truly discovered only through considerable study of and acquaintance with his music. "But to the earnest and sincere student approaching with goodwill and sympathetic spirit, this music will yield treasures of grave and sad, but great and most moving, beauty.

Sonata For Clarinet And Piano, Opus 4, No. 2, Edwin L. Schoen

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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.

Sonata For Clarinet And Piano, David Louis Mulder

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Volume 69, Number 04 (April 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dilemma in Detroit: Survivors of the Detroit Symphony Support Themselves with Odd Jobs and Look for a Successor to Sponsor Henry Reichhold

Zoltan Kodaly was my Teacher

How to Teach Adult Beginners

Music Has No Short-Cuts: Solid Careers Emerge Only for Unhurried, Systematic Training (interivew with Joseph Fuchs)

It's Free—It's Fun—It's Forum!

More About the Pharyngeal Voice: Widely-Used Method in the Golden Days of Italian Bel Canto

Class Piano Teaching Gets Results . . . A Successful Teacher Reveals the Formula She Has Developed Through Years of Trial and Error

Sing with Your Fingers

Volume 68, Number 03 (March 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Richards Strauss . . . Conducting is a Difficult Business

Modern Piano Musical Metaphysics . . . Its Cause and Cure

How to Build a Voice Psychologists

Evaluate Music

So You Want to be a Piano Teacher

Structure of Music Clarence Dickinson—Pioneer of Church Music

Let's Simplify the Liebestraum Cadenzas Master Lesson on Brahms' Intermezzo in E-Flat Major, Op. 117,

No. 1 Musical Medicos

For TV Thrillers

Volume 67, Number 01 (January 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On Keeping a Musical Diary

Eugène Ysaÿe as a Teacher (interview with Jeannette Ysaÿe)

Musical Fireworks Behind the Iron Curtain

Composer Needs Determination and Faith (interview with William Grant Still)

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties: Haycyon Days at Harvard

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 7)

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music, Part 2

Do Musicians Live Longer Than Others?

Volume 66, Number 06 (June 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eternal Chopin

Orchestra As a Municipal Asset (interview with Harl McDonald)

Nest of the Nightingales: An Exquisite Musical Fairy Story

How Can I Become a Pianist? (interview with Artur Rubinstein)

Romeo and Juliet of the Mountains: How Music and Drama Ended the Notorius Hatfield and McCoy Feud

Natural—or Impossible! (interview with Cloe Elmo)

Concert Hall in Your Home

Approach to Elementary String Class Teaching

Pride of the Navy

Shifting—Sliding—Change of Position

Wednesday Afternoon With the Cecilians

Basis for Piano Technique

Volume 65, Number 05 (May 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Voice of the Village Square

Tribute Dinner to a Great Conductor

Make the Right Start! (interview with Risé Stevens)

Was Music a Gift of Religion?

Beginning the Scale on Each Degree

Technique for the Amateur Pianist

Roy Newman, American Composer (1890-1946)

Master Lesson on Raff's Cavatina

Wonder of Bells

What About the Electric Organ? (interview with Ethel Smith)

Volume 62, Number 08 (August 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mind's Ear

Why Music Study Is a Priceless Investment

Keep Jazz Within Its Limits! (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Greatest Show On Earth Grew Out of Music (interview with Mrs. Charles Ringling)

Vital Use of Drudgery

Building Character Through Music

Music in the Chinese Theater

Coöperative Pupil's Recital Plan Which Succeeded

Protect your Precious Musical Instruments

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Musical Ideas Come First

Practice With Your Brains!

Technic of the Month—Prelude in F-sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 13, by Frédéric Chopin

Volume 59, Number 09 (September 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music at Bryn Mawr

Putting Assets to Work

Will Beethoven Stop Hitler?

My Most Momentous Musical Moment

Not as Written

Leader of the Famous Six (interview with Darius Milhaud)

Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 1

Musical Independence for America (interview with Rudolph Ganz)

Wanted Immediately: An Army of Musical Enthusiasts

Poise at the Piano

Great Musical Women of Yesterday

Putting Songs Across the Footlights (interview with Nino Martini)

Technic of the Month—Sixths

Were I, Nan Terrell Reed, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Carrie Jacobs-Bons & Son

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A bouquet composed of a yellow and pink flowers with leaves, painted.

First line of song: Were I a leaf I'd like to be a scarlet one up on a tree,

Moderato, con moto

High

Words by Nan Terrell Reed

Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Includes sheet music samples from the song "The Hand of You"

1 score, (6p.), 30x23 cm

Published by Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son, California

A Love Song, Zelda Sears, Harold Levey, Ira Hards, Harms Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a little girl in a circular picture frame starring off into the distance, while below her a prince on a royal throne is being entertained by a man with a guitar sitting at his feet.

First line of song: The moon across thy casement, love, hath thrown a silver bar

First line of chorus: The song of yesterday is hushed in silence

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses"

Moderato (con amore)

Words by Zelda Sears

Music by Harold Levey

Henry W. Savage presents The Only Mitzi in …

Deep In Someone's Heart, Zelda Sears, Harold Levey, Ira Hards, Julian Alfred, Harms Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a girl looking off to the corner in a circular picture frame. Below her a man on a raised platform is sitting cross crossed watching another man play the guitar.

First line of song: Woman's place they say is in the home.

First line of chorus: Deep in someone's heart, there to dwell apart

Moderato

Words by Zelda Sears

Music by Harold Levey

Henry W. Savage presents The Only Mitzi in "The Magic Ring" A Fantastic Comedy With Music

Staged by Ira Hards

Dances arranged by Julian Alfred

Book and Lyrics by Ira Hards

1 …

Who's Sorry Now, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder, Waterson, Berlin, & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a young couple. The boy is wearing a suite and holding a hat and the girl is in a dress wearing a hat holding an umbrella down to her side. There are trees and flowers in the background. There is a big circular portrait of Josef Diskay in the middle.

First line of song: You smiled when we parted, It hurt me somehow, I thought there was nothing worth while.

First line of chorus: Who's sorry now? Who's sorry now? Who's heart is aching for breaking each vow?

Valse moderato

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples …

Nine O' Clock Sal, Jack Leroy, Billy Hays, Jim Leary, Nelson Ingham, Joe Morris Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman standing, in a dress, resting her arm on a picture of a men's orchestra. A sign in the picture identifies them as the Unique Orchestra from Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The other arm resting under her chin. Also there is a clock striking 9 o'clock in the upper right corner.

First line of song: Back in the town I was born in, folks go to bed about nine

First line of chorus: Nine o'clock Sal, nine o'clock pal, you're just the girl for me

Moderato

Includes sheet music sample form the song "Just For …

By The Sapphire Sea, Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler, Ted Snyder, Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A couple sitting by an ocean with palm trees, flowers and the moon in the sky. The man is wearing a tuxedo and the women is is wearing an evening gown.

First Line of song: Somewhere over there by the Sapphire Sea, The whispering palm trees are calling me;

First line of chorus: Merrily we'll sail up on the Sapphire Sea, To a little isle where happy we will be,

Moderato

Includes Fox-Trot Chorus

Words by Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler

Music by Ted Snyder

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., …

Can't Remember, Herbert J. Brandon, Alma Goatley, Enoch & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: Can't remember getting doleful; can't remember feeling sad.

Includes sheet music samples from the songs" Come, Sing To Me", and "I passed by your Window"

The Lyric by Herbert J. Brandon

The Music by Alma Goatley

First line of chorus: Can't remember

Played in Eb

Adante moderato (happily)

1 score, (8p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Enoch & Sons., London

My Sunny Tennessee, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Herman Ruby, Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of a man on the right and a lady in the middle dancing. Also includes a pair of carnival masks.

First line of song: When the shades of night are falling, Tennessee, I hear you calling;

First line of chorus: I wanna be in Tennessee in my Dixie paradise,

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Little Min-nee-ha! ha!

By Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Herman Ruby

As sung by Eddie Cantor in Lee & J. J. Shubert's Production The Midnight Rounders of 1921

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Waterson Berlin & Snyder …