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Star Of The East | 16-96790, Christopher Matthews

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Sleep, My Loved One (Sleep and Dream of Me)

Part Number:
16-96790

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
Eugene Field

Music By:
Christopher Matthews

a cappella

Black Is The Colour | 20-95890, Lee R. Kesselman

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Black is the Colour
Traditional Folk Song

Part Number:
20-95890

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SATB

Arranged By:
Lee R. Kesselman

with Oboe (part included)

By The Rivers Of Babylon | 20-95810, Susan Brumfield

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By the Rivers of Babylon

Part Number:
20-95810

Price:
$1.95

Voicing:
SSAA

Lyrics By:
Based on Psalm 137

Music By:
Susan Brumfield

with Four-Hand Piano Accompaniment
and Optional Percussion (parts available separately)

By The Rivers Of Babylon-Percussion Parts | 20-95811, Susan Brumfield

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By the Rivers of Babylon

Part Number:
20-95811

Price:
$14.95

Voicing:
SSAA

Lyrics By:
Based on Psalm 137

Music By:
Susan Brumfield

with Four-Hand Piano Accompaniment
Percussion includes: Congas, Shaker, and Body Percussion

It's A Jazz Thing | 20-95900, Robert I. Hugh

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It's A Jazz Thing

Part Number:
20-95900

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
Two-Part

Music By:
Robert I. Hugh

with Descant

Rapsodia Española No. 1 | 20-95840, Judith Herrington

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Rapsodia Española No. 1
Spanish Tongue Twister

Part Number:
20-95840

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
Unison/Two-Part

Lyrics By:
Spanish Tongue Twister

Music By:
Judith Herrington

Featured at:
2014 WACDA Summer Institute
2014 Rodney Eichenberger Conductor's Clinic
2014 Z. Randall Stroope Choral Immersion Workshop
2014 CCDA Summer Conference
2015 ACDA National Convention
2016 WACDA Summer Convention
2016 MSVMA Summer Workshop

Shenandoah | 20-95860, Nancy Grundahl

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Shenandoah
American Folk Song

Part Number:
20-95860

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SSA

Arranged By:
Nancy Grundahl

Seagull, Seagull | 20-96450, Susan Brumfield

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Seagull, Seagull

Part Number:
20-96450

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SA

Arranged By:
Susan Brumfield

with optional Conga and Maraca accompaniment

Featured at:
2013 NeMWA Elementary Reading Session
2014 NyACDA Summer Conference
2014 KSU Summer Symposium
2015 National ACDA Convention

Woke Up This Mornin' - Conga Part | 20-95851, Robert I. Hugh, Marc Kaplan

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Woke Up This Mornin' - Conga Part

Part Number:
20-95851

Price:
$5.50

Arranged By:
Robert I. Hugh & Marc Kaplan

Welcome Here | 20-95870, Robert I. Hugh

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Welcome Here
(Three Shaker Songs)

Part Number:
20-95870

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
Unison/Three-Part

Arranged By:
Robert I. Hugh with Hand Drum Accompaniment (Part Included)

Featured at:
2013 Long & McQuade Summer Reading Clinic
2014 Southern Division ACDA Convention
2014 CSU Intl. Choral Education Workshop
2016 WCDA Convention

Woke Up This Mornin' | 20-95850, Robert I. Hugh, Marc Kaplan

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Woke Up This Mornin'
(American Civil Rights Song)

Part Number:
20-95850

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SAB

Arranged By:
Robert I. Hugh & Marc Kaplan with Conga

Featured at:
2014 CoACDA Summer Conference

Mesmo Que Depois, Bruno Ruviaro

Music

When a sample that is tired of suffering meets another sample that is also tired of suffering, it’s time to consider that intermodulation may suddenly happen. When there is a sample that sorely misses another sample, and this other sample does not understand it, just let that new intermodulation happen, even if clipping becomes unavoidable. How silly I was, trying in vain to rationally understand things about sampling that no one can actually explain. Come, let us try now, only a new use can twist the old one.

Carols Of Christmas | 13-96870, James Q. Mulholland

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Carols of Christmas (A Festival of Carols)

Part Number:
13-96870

Price:
$4.50

Voicing:
SATB

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland

with Chimes (Part Included)
Optional Brass Parts Available (Click HERE)
Optional Orchestral Parts Available (Click HERE)

Featured at:
2014 Z. Randall Stroope Choral Immersion Workshop

Death Be Not Proud | 16-96770, Christopher Matthews

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Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet X)

Part Number:
16-96770

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
John Donne (1572-1631)

Music By:
Christopher Matthews

a cappella

Featured at:
2013 Rodney Eichenberger Conductor's Clinic
2014 NM All-State Choral Reading Session

Gloria In Excelsis Deo | 20-95820, Wayland Rogers

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Gloria In Excelsis Deo

Part Number:
20-95820

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SSA

Music By:
Wayland Rogers with Organ

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burnin'-Satb | 20-96425, Greg Gilpin

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Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burnin'
Traditional Spiritual

Part Number:
20-96425

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SATB

Arranged By:
Greg Gilpin

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 …

Atmospheric Patterns And Asian Typhoon Landfalls, Ivetta Abramyan

Theses and Dissertations

The Western North Pacific Ocean (WNP) produces more frequent and intense tropical cyclones (TC) than anywhere else in the world, and these storms greatly impact society. This study examines synoptic scale atmospheric patterns and their effects on landfalling typhoons in Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam using composite analysis at upper and mid-levels of the atmosphere, as well as analyzing teleconnection impacts on tropical cyclone frequency, duration and intensity.

Examined Best Track data (1946-2010) shows an increased likelihood of Taiwan landfalls earlier in the season, Japan landfalls mid-season, and Vietnam landfalls towards the end of the typhoon season. The formation locations also …

Romantic Exoticism: The Music Of Elsewhere In The Nineteenth Century, Josiah Raiche

Senior Honors Theses

Western art music has drawn on many sources. One of these is non-western music, which can be integrated into European classical music tradition in the form of exoticism. This paper will highlight musical elements used by composers seeking to create exoticism, examine selected works, and note common elements of western music that have exotic roots. In the nineteenth century, there were three general trends in exoticism. The first, non-musical exoticism, utilizes conventional western music alongside extra-musical exotic elements. Romantic exoticism portrays distant lands using musical elements, drawing these from the audience’s perceptions of the music represented. Realistic exoticism attempts to …

Little Eichmanns: A Composition For Chamber Octet, Benjamin D. Norton

Theses and Dissertations--Music

An original composition in one movement for a chamber octet comprised of a string quartet and a jazz piano quartet with tenor saxophone. The work develops an idée fixe, introduced in the opening bars, through a wide variety of transformations, textures, and styles. The two quartets begin in antiphonal alteration, united in thematic material, yet separated by style. A modern art music style contrasts with an improvisational jazz style. Gradually, the two quartets, and their concomitant musics, bleed into one another, breaking down stylistic boundaries. In the conclusion of the work, the idée fixe, the supplementary themes, and …

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 …

The Meaning And Purpose Of Quotation And Stylistic Reference In Hans Werner Henze's Requiem: Nine Sacred Concertos For Piano Solo, Trumpet Concertante, And Large Chamber Orchestra (1990-92), Daniel C. Pappas

Theses and Dissertations

Quotation and stylistic reference are important communicative devices in the musical language of Hans Werner Henze that serve as a means of expression in his multilayered approach to composition. This study examines the central role that quotation and reference play in Hans Werner Henze's Requiem: Nine Sacred Concertos for piano solo, trumpet concertante, and large chamber orchestra (1990-92). While some studies have identified selected references, their primary focus has been on the work's pitch organization and formal plan. This study instead considers Henze's unique approach to quotation and reference. In addition to interviews with the composer, Henze's own writings are …

Keys From The Past: Unlocking The Power Of Eighteenth-Century Contrapuntal Pedagogies, Jonathan R. Paget, Stewart J. Smith

Research outputs 2013

How did eighteenth-century musicians learn to compose, and how were they able to produce musical works with such comparative ease and fluency? What were the strategies at play that enabled even the most workman-like of composers to produce vast amounts of competent music, and how was it possible for almost any professional keyboard player to improvise a passable fugue? It is only recently that scholars have sought the answers to such questions. Groundbreaking work by Gjerdigen (1988; 2007a), Porter (2000; 2002), Renwick (1995), and others, provides a fascinating glimpse of the working methods of eighteenth-century musicians, and also offers implications …

Joe Henderson's Harmonic Approach To Improvisation Within The Duo Setting In His 1992 Quintet Album, Lush Life: The Music Of Billy Strayhorn, Patrick Van Der Moezel

Theses : Honours

Jazz improvisation can be greatly influenced by the combination of instrumentation, influencing the role of the instruments and the way they relate to each other. Notably, the stripped-back nature of the duo emphasises these differences. Musicians such as Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Joe Henderson are three of many saxophonists who have employed this particular combination to explore different ways of improvisation.

This paper will draw on Joe Henderson’s 1992 album Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, which uses the duo setting on three tracks. Each of these three tracks has a slightly different combination (saxophone with bass, with …

A Survey Of Christian Cross-Over Songwriting: Core Principles And Potential For Impact, Paul Malhotra

Senior Honors Theses

A cross-over song has been defined as a song written by a Christian artist aimed at a mainstream audience. An understanding of the core principles of cross-over songs and their relevance in contemporary culture is essential for Christian songwriters. Six albums marked by spiritual overtones or undertones, representing a broad spectrum of contemporary cross-over music, were examined. Selected songs were critiqued by analyzing the album of origin, lyrical content, author’s expressed worldview, and level of commercial success. Renaissance art also provided a historical parallel to modern day songwriting. Recommendations were developed for Christian songwriters to craft songs with greater effectiveness …

Ronald Stevenson, Composer-Pianist : An Exegetical Critique From A Pianistic Perspective, Mark Gasser

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This exegetical critique makes a conceptual summation of Ronald Stevenson’s life’s work for the piano and his contributions as a composer‐pianist. Chapters one and two provide a profile of Stevenson as a pianist, examining the aesthetic and musical concerns that defined his long career, as well as precedents and antecedents of his pianism. Of particular interest are the ways that Stevenson coalesces aspects of the ‘grand manner’ and his obsession with a pianistic bel canto style. Chapter three examines Stevenson’s remarkable output in terms of piano transcriptions. His conceptualization of this as ‘capturing the essence’ of the original composer is …

Creating And Performing New Australian Works On The Hungarian Concert Cimbalom, Joshua Webster

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis explores the creation and performance of five new Western Australian works for the Hungarian concert cimbalom. These include four solo works, and one duet, which were scored, analysed, performed, and recorded. This thesis is in two parts: this exegetical component, which details the background, development, and findings of the research, including the scores created, and the manual that was developed for composers’ use; and a practical component, which is an active representation of the research, included as video recordings. To assist the composition of the new works, a manual was developed for the composers’ use. This manual began …

Voice Recitals At The Unl School Of Music: Compilation Study, Audrey M. Nicholson

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

An informative compilation of Voice Recitals at the UNL School of Music categorized by Masters, DMA, and Faculty recitals from 1988-2012. Information includes: composer, work title, song title, performer, performance date, instrumentation, audio availability, and online program link.

"Download" button links to pdf version of file. Spreadsheet version (.xls) is attached below as "Related file." ".xlr" files are spreadsheets and can be opened from MS Excel.

Directional Tonality In Schumann's Early Works, Benjamin K. Wadsworth

Faculty Articles

Beginning and ending a work in the same key, thereby suggesting a hierarchical structure, is a hallmark of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practice. Occasionally, however, early nineteenth-century works begin and end in different, but equally plausible keys (directional tonality), thereby associating two or more keys in decentralized complexes. Franz Schubert’s works are sometimes interpreted as central to this practice, especially those that extend third relationships to larger, often chromatic cycles. Robert Schumann’s early directional-tonal works, however, have received less analytical scrutiny. In them, pairings are instead diatonic between two keys, which usually relate as relative major and minor, thereby allowing Schumann …

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 …