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Integrating Chinese Tradition And Western Techniques In Jiang Zuxin’S Piano Works: A Study Of Temple Fair And Mountain Flower Collection, Qi Zhang

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

This document focuses on Jiang Zuxin’s two piano suites, Temple Fair and Mountain Flower Collection, examining how traditional Chinese musical materials interact with Western compositional techniques. Through close analytical readings of selected excerpts, combined with considerations of performance practice and modal context, the research demonstrates that Jiang systematically employs pentatonic collections and their modal configurations (gong, shang, jue/zhi/yu), along with certain altered tones (such as biangong and qingjue), as foundational pitch material. He also draws on folk songs, dances, and theatrical elements from traditional Chinese culture. At the same time, he simulates the timbres and idiomatic playing techniques of …

Creating Musical Scores Inspired By The Intersection Of Human Speech And Music Through Model-Based Cross Synthesis, William Alexander Thompson Iv

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This research addresses the development of machine learning techniques used to create musical scores and performances that are inspired by the intersection of speech and music. Machine learning models are created from MIDI files that are transcribed from datasets of musical audio recordings and human speech audio recordings. Through the creation of succinct models, model based cross synthesis is possible. Models trained on musical MIDI data are asked to replicate MIDI data that approximate human speech. Alternatively, models that have been trained on MIDI data that approximate speech are asked to replicate musical MIDI data. The product of these developed …

Connection Between Visual Arts And Music: The Painting And Music Of I-Uen Wang Hwang, Yining Jenny Jiang

Dissertations, 2014-2019

This document explores the connection between the visual arts and music, particularly focusing on the similarity between visual and aural artistic expression by analyzing two sets of piano pieces composed by I-Uen Wang Hwang, a contemporary Taiwanese-American composer and artist. The piano pieces are Dream Garden, Series I and II (2000-2004) and Preludes for Piano (2016). Series I of Dream Garden contains two piano solo compositions based on a series of Hwang’s own watercolor works. Each composition has an analogous painting: “The Horn of the Plenty” and “Butterfly Orchid”. Series II includes two compositions written for two pianos: “Red and …

Morgen : Melody For Soprano And Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 48 : 1 score (ii + 3 pages) ; includes the poem "Morgen" by John Henry MacKay, in German.

In Ténarèze Country: Clarinet, Violoncello And Piano Trio In Two Tableaus, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 44 : 1 score (ii + 32 pages) ; includes table of contents ; parts for Clarinet , Violoncello and Piano.

Movements:

1. First tableau: Intimacy of winter
2. Second tableau: Song of summer

The Truth: Melody For Soprano And Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 46 : 1 score (ii + 6 pages) ; includes poem "The Truth" by E.M. Dubois (August 2015)

Concerto For Clarinet And Orchestra (Reduction For Clarinet And Piano), Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 34 : 2 parts (iv + 41 pages) ; includes parts for clarinet and piano.

Score Reduction for practice only, not for performance.

This reduction of the original score for clarinet and orchestra to clarinet and piano was prepared by the composer and is intended for rehearsal purposes only.

Movements:

1. Summer - As Told in the Language of Clouds
2. Autumn - Spider on a Web (Cadenza)
3. Winter - Rustle of Wind over the River of Grass
4. Spring - Alligators and Egrets in the Mangrove

Sketches Of Freshness: Six Miniature Character Pieces For Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 35 : 1 score (i + 7 pages)

Movements: 1. Thyme 2. Sage 3. Rosemary 4. Citronella 5. Lavender 6. Coriander

The Pyrenees: Five Miniatures For Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 31 : 1 score (iv + 11 pages) ; includes table of contents and foreward.

The set of five miniatures Op. 31 consists of tuneful short pieces. Played slowly, the four bars from m. 6 to m. 9 in the left hand of the first number, are the theme of the lullaby I composed at Susie's suggestion, soon after our first daughter was born. Years later, I built the present pieces on this idea and this piano set is dedicated to our daughters Natalie and Brigitte. The title -- The Pyrenees -- refers to the mountains that I contemplated …

Happiness: Three Voice Duets For Soprano And Mezzo-Soprano And Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 30 : 1 score (v + 33 pages ) ; includes table of contents and poem.

Composed for "Happiness" a poem by Henry David Thoreau and a collage of verses by John Warner Barber, William Ellery Channing and John Donne as quoted by Thoreau in Walden.

Movements:

1. Happiness
2. To Sweeten Our Lips
3. Come Ye Who Love

Three French Songs For Soprano Et Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 27: 1 score (ii + 23 pages) ; includes table of contents.

After poems by Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud.

Movements:

1. L’Invitation au voyage (the Invitation to Travel)
2. Chanson d’automne (Autumn Song)
3. Première soirée (First Evening)

Ave Maria For Soprano And Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 29a: 1 score (iv + 8 pages) ; includes Nota for practice

Note about the text of Ave Maria Op. 29a-d The Ave Marias for soprano and piano (Op. 29a), soprano and organ (Op. 29b), soprano and string ensemble (Op.29c), or soprano, choir, winds and strings (Op.29d) are the setting to music of the Latin words of Luke 1: 28, Luke 1: 41, and an excerpt of the Ave Maria.

Revision 2008, 2015

Partita Italiana: Fifth Piano Sonata In One Movement, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 26: 1 score (vi + 21 pages) ; includes table of contents, foreword, poem "To laugh and to love much" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).

Movements:

• Part I: Entrata scherzosa
• Part II: Primavera solenne
• Part III: Festa del sole

Caprices, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 23: 1 score (ii + 15 pages) ; includes table of contents

Piano Pieces:

1. Aurore - At Dawn
2. Papillons - Butterflies
3. Le joyeux promeneur - The Merry Wanderer
4. Le voile de la danceuse - The Dancer's Veil
5. Le charivari - The Charivari

"Détours De L'Amour" (Detours Of Love): Trois Chansons Françaises - Three French Songs For Soprano And Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 21: 1 score ( v + 21 pages) ; includes table of contents and poem "Sentimental Dialogue" by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

Movements:

1. Nocturne : L’amour perdu - Nocturne: Lost Love (set to Colloque sentimental by Paul Verlaine)
2. L’amour innocent - Innocent Love (set to A la Musique (last three stanzas) by Arthur Rimbaud)
3. L’amour marié - Married Love (a various by Emmanuel Dubois on Perrette et le pot au lait by Jean de la Fontaine)

Fantaisie Française: Fourth Piano Sonata, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 17: 1 score (iv + 20 pages) ; includes table of contents and introduction

This set of five pieces was composed by and large during the summer of 2003 in a historic village of Gascony in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France and is based on impressions gathered during walks and rides taken in the magnificent hilly countryside. Each movement is also an essay on counterpoint as I see it broadly defined by Walter Piston in the introduction to his treaty entitled Counterpoint. The Fantasie's five contrasting parts allude to the well-established genres, and overall unity and contrast results from …

Pseudo-Classical Sonatina For Piano, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 18a: 1 score (ii + 8 pages)

Movements:

1. Giocoso
2. Religioso
3. A la sicialana

Piano Rag, Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Op. 22: 1 score (iv + 11 pages) ; includes the Story Behind the Rag … in English and French.

Volume 61, Number 04 (April 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

At the Rising of the Sun

Musical Community Plan Which Works

Portal of Musical Dreams: A Message to All Teachers and Pupils from One of the World's Greatest Masters of the Piano

Holding the interest of Pupils

Died in Action: Requiescat in Pace Saxophone

Backstage with the Orchestrator (interview with Russell Bennett)

Class Piano Instruction in 1943: How Subtle Management and Informal Encouragement Produce Results

Problem of the Young Singer in Opera (interview with Fritz Busch)

O Canada, Glorious and Free! Canada's Most Loved Patriotic Songs

Handling the Meddlesome Mother

Important Elements in the Foundation of Touch: Tone Color Controlled …

Volume 60, Number 11 (November 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Church and Chancel

New American Symphonist

Duty—Honor—Country: A Story of Music at West Point—Its Great Choir—Its Grand Organ—Its Famous Band

Our Nervous Pupils

In Everything Give Thanks: Thanksgiving 1942

Making Practice Painless

Background for Opera (interview with Bruno Walter)

Profitable Piano Practice (interview with Edward Kilenyi)

Challenge for Younger Organists

Keyboard Mechanics from a Virtuoso's Standpoint (interview with José Iturbi)

How to Improve Orchestral Playing (interview with Frank J. Black)

Nine Brothers Make a Choir

Amusing Musical Episodes

Progress with the Boy Choir

How Analysis Helps Piano Study

Master Lesson on Chopin's Prelude in A Major

Technic …

Piano Course: Grade 8, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Compositions, number 801 through 860

Piano Course: Grade 8, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Lessons and Tests, number 141 through 160

Piano Course: Grade 7, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Compositions, number 701 through 760

Piano Course: Grade 6, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 6, Advanced B: Compositions, number 601 through 660

Piano Course: Grade 3, Studies, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 3, Intermediate A: Studies, number 301 through 360

Piano Course: Grade 6, Studies, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 6, Advanced B: Studies, number 601 through 670

Piano Course: Grade 5, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 5, Advanced A: Exercises, number 501 through 556

Piano Course: Grade 1, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 1, Preparatory A: Exercises, number 101 through 158

Piano Course: Grade 7, Studies, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Studies, number 701 through 770

Piano Course: Grade 7, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Lessons and Tests, number 121 through 140