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Concert Recording 2012-01-28, Dallas Tucker

Concert Recordings & Programs

Zapping trio / Eric Sammut -- Canned heat / Eckhard Kopetzki -- El decameron negro. La huida de los amantes por el valle de los ecos ; Ballada de la doncella enamorada / Leo Brouwer -- Velocities / Joseph Schwanter -- Residue / Michael S. Horwood -- Trio per uno. Mvt. 1 / Nebojsa J. Zivkovic

Opera And The Modern Culture Of Film: The Genesis Of Cinemopera, Its Intertextuality And Expansion Of Operatic Source Material, Yuell "Chuck" E. Chandler Iv

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The boundaries of opera, as in all art forms, are constantly being re-evaluated. This analysis examines one of the most recent developments in opera-the use of film as source material, and connections to the film world- through analyzing three operas: Austrian composer, Olga Neuwirth’s opera, Lost Highway, Chinese-American composer, Tan Dun’s opera, The First Emperor, and acclaimed American film composer, Rachel Portman’s opera, The Little Prince. Each of these works exemplifies the modern relationship of opera and film in different ways. To classify these newly film-influenced works, the term cinemopera is used in describing operas connected to …

Elegies For Cello And Piano By Bridge, Britten And Delius: A Study Of Traditions And Influences, Sara Gardner Birnbaum

Theses and Dissertations--Music

In the western classical tradition, the violoncello has developed a reputation for its soulful, vocal qualities. Because of this distinction, many composers have written elegiac works for the cello. This document comprises studies of three twentieth-century British elegies for cello and piano, each explored against a backdrop of poetic, societal and musical influences. The results reveal several common tropes of mourning, both musical and extra-musical, which can be applied to further studies of musical works.

Expression In Technical Exercises For The Cello: An Artistic Approach To Teaching And Learning The Caprices Of Piatti And Etudes Of Popper, Leah Hagel

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The Caprices of Piatti and Etudes of Popper are considered by most cellists to be fundamental components of the cello literature designed to provide a solid technical basis for the student. This document will provide an alternative approach to teaching and learning these works by focusing on the qualities of expression that can be developed during the process of integrating these studies into one's repertoire. After providing contextual information for the both composers and the works, I will examine how this concept of "artistry through technique" has been adopted by other art forms, used in training students on different instruments, …

Christopher Rouse: An Exploration Of Three Percussion Standards, Brian T. Nozny

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The percussion ensemble is still a relatively young ensemble, with the first works by Edgard Varèse and Amadeo Roldan composed in the first third of the 20th century. Because of this youth, it is important to examine significant works for the percussion ensemble which establish themselves as staples to the repertoire. Christopher Rouse, a Pulitzer-Prize winning composer has written three such works, Ogoun Badagris (1976), Ku-Ka-Ilimoku (1978), and Bonham (1989). This study will closely examine each of these works, providing background, detailed analysis, and performance practice for each of these works.

Strategies And Methods For Improving Sight-Reading, Ming-Hui Kuo

Theses and Dissertations--Music

A student's sight-reading ability directly affects the speed and quality of their learning, especially for those at the beginning and intermediate levels. Sight-reading on keyboard percussion instruments is typically very challenging for percussionists because percussion instruments are the only kind of instruments that the player doesn't physically touch when they play them. The player is removed from contact with the instrument through the use of mallets. This document will cover the topics of body movements, kinesthetic sense, music pattern recognition, sight-reading strategies in different levels, and music resources for instructors. Students who develop better sight-reading skills will learn new music …

Recreational Music-Making In Music Pedagogy: A Manifesto For Change, Brandon Keith Wood

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The arts are an essential part of any student’s well rounded education. The future of music in education will depend on its ability to deliver relevant, effective, and measurable outcomes. However, the expectations and performance nature of traditional curricula often foster a sense of musical elitism and ostracizes students that are solely interested in music as a recreational outlet. Incorporating recreational music-making into education can provide opportunities for students to experience self-expression, creativity, social connection, and enjoyment. These values will not only enhance their education, but also lead to acquired skills for use in all areas of their lives. Activities …

Exploring The Multi-Generational Influence Of American Ragtime Music Through The Works Of Charles Ives, William Walton And William Bolcom, Rebecca E. Smith

Theses : Honours

Ragtime music is a style of popular music established in America that came to prominence between the years of 1896 and 1918. It is believed to have its roots in Blackface minstrel shows, it's defining feature, the heavily syncopated rhythm, quickly becoming a stereotype of African-American music. This thesis will explore the multi-generational influence of American Ragtime music on the art-music world through the works of Charles Ives (1874-1954), William Walton (1902-1983), and William Bolcom (1938-). It will timeline the undulating influence of Ragtime music on these subsequent generations of composers, noting in particular the revivals of the 1940's and …

Program Notes For A Graduate Recital In Piano, Amy Jun Ming Chin

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of this paper is to offer a biographical background of the composers, and historical and theoretical analysis of the works performed in my Master's recital. This will assist the listener to better understand the music performed.

Language As A Performance Parameter: The Marcel Bitsch Vingt Etudes, Evan Benjamin Duke

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The Bitsch Vingt Études are a significant part of the trumpet performers repertoire. They are taught in many university trumpet studios across the United States. David Baldwin, professor of trumpet at the University of Minnesota, has recorded all of them for the International Trumpet Guild. The editor, Raymond Sabarich, is considered the founder of the modern French school of trumpet playing.

Articulation is a significant component in performing on a brass instrument. By varying the attacks of the tongue, different timbres can be successfully achieved on the trumpet. Because of the volume the trumpet can generate, any defective articulation will …

Exploring Low Brass Recording Techniques, Phillip Andrew Broome, Philip Andrew Broome

Theses and Dissertations

The modern day art and science of music recording evolved through a constant process of trial and error. Although many of these techniques are well-documented and commonplace in modern recording studios, most of them are generalized recording techniques used in the popular and classical music industries. Among these techniques, there is an observable lack of recognized standards for the recording of low brass instruments. This project aims to articulate quality techniques for low brass recording through research in early recording techniques and through an experimental study comparing many popular stereophonic microphone techniques. Although testing every low brass instrument would give …

Senior Clarinet Recital, Katherine Jakrzweski

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The written portion of this thesis combines program notes for the recital with reasoning behind programming choices and a reflection to give the reader context for the actual performance.

Concert Recording 2012-05-06, Corderro Baxter

Concert Recordings & Programs

Endlich, Endlich wird mein Joch / J. S. Bach -- Amarilli, mia bella / Giulio Caccini -- Sorge infausta una pocella / G. F. Handel -- Pro peccatis / G. rossini -- La mi sola Laureola / Fernando Obradors --Seguidilla Murciana ; Austuriana / Manuel de Falla -- Don Quichotte à Dulcinée. Chanson romanesque ; Chanson epique ; Chanson à boire / Maurice Ravel -- Dichterliebe. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai ; Aus meinen tränen spriessen ; Die rose, die lilie, die taube die sonne ; Wenn ich in deine augen seh ; Ich will meine seele tauchen ; Im Rhein, …

Concert Recording 2012-10-19, Manchusa Loungsangroong, Kristine Mezines, Catalina Barraza

Concert Recordings & Programs

Arabesque / Germaine Talleferre -- Clarinet sonata no 1 in f minor, op 120. Allegro appassionato ; Andante un poco adagio ; Allegretto grazioso ; Vivace / Johannes Brahms -- Wings / Joan Tower -- Suite, op 157b. Ouverture ; Divertissement ; Jeu ; Introductuion et final / Darius Milhaud

Concert Recording 2012-11-14a, Jamie Stuckey, Olga Zelevinskaja, Kate Knox, Matt Beach, Michael Olefsky, Madeleine Applegate-Gross, Adriana Rueda Garcia, Jesse Austin, Hannah Howard, Zessna Garcia

Concert Recordings & Programs

Duo for clarinet and piano / Norbert Burgmuller -- Rico Vacilon / Rosendo Ruiz -- Son de la loma / Migheul Matamoros -- Hoy / Gianmarco Zignago -- Helena / Manuel Jimenez -- Lluvia con nieve -- Mon Rivera

The Social Life Of Musical Instruments, Eliot Bates

Publications and Research

Accordion Crimes, a novel by E. Annie Proulx, traces the life of and routes travelled by a green diatonic button accordion: its birth in Sicily in the workshop of “The Accordion Maker,” its numerous changes of ownership in the Americas during encounters between various immigrant communities, and its death when it finally falls into disrepair in the town of Old Glory, Minnesota. There are other accordions in the book, and many temporary human owners, but it is one particular green accordion that is the book’s protagonist. We meet and experience other characters largely through their interactions with the green accordion, …

Concert Recording 2012-09-06, S. Michael Shuman, Rebecca Rollene, Jeannie Lee

Concert Recordings & Programs

The tides of Manaunaun (1922) / Henry Cowell -- Makrokosmos, Book 1 (1972). Crucifixus ; Dream images (love-death music) / George Crumb -- Try me good king: Last words of the wives of Henry VIII (2000). Anne Boelyn ; Jane Seymour ; Anne of Cleves / Libby Larsen -- Masquerade. Waltz / Aram Khachaturian -- The Girl in 14G (2000) / Jeanine Tesori -- Four encore songs (unpublished). Tobacco ; A flea and a fly ; "Come, come," said Tom's father ; Song of the open road / Florence B. Price -- Amelia goes to the ball. Dearest Amelia / …

Concert Recording 2012-10-26, Richard Rulli, Jennifer Fox, Philip Elsbecker, Dylan Gililland, Nathan Cunningham, Bethany Hayes, Traci Perry, Corey Divine, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

Intrada / Arthur Honegger -- Concerto in A-flat major (1949) [Abridged] / Alexander Arutunian -- Nightsongs / Richard Peaslee -- 4 Miniatures. Fanfare ; Intermezzo ; Canto ; Tarantella / Joseph Turrin -- I remember / Dana Wilson -- Sonata for trumpet and piano / Eric Ewazen -- Concerto in E-flat major. Vivace / J.B.G. Neruda -- Sonata for trumpet and pian. Allegro moderato ; Adagio tenero ; Allegro / Halsey Stevens ; La virgen de la macarena / Bernadino Bautista Monterde

Concert Recording 2012-12-03, Traci Petty, Kristine Mezines, Katie Zwit, Jennifer Fox, Corey Divine, Bethany Hayes, Clay Johnson, Marcus Bowles

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata for trumpet and piano / Eric Ewazen -- Fantaisie for trumpet and piano / Francis Thome -- Quiet city / Aaron Copland ; arr. J. Brodbin Kennedy -- Variations on a jazz setting. Hear the pyramids ; Walkin' with the count ; Tag-team waltz / Paul Nagle

Concert Recording 2012-11-17, Bo Newsome, Cheryl Wefler, Theresa Delaplain, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Maigen Anderson, Grace Warren, Andrew Baker, Kim Snyder, Emily Thompson, Bo Newsome

Concert Recordings & Programs

Partita in g minor, BWV 1013. Bouree Anglais / J. S. Bach -- Athena's muse / Glen B. Cortese -- Oblivion / Astor Piazolla -- Sonata in g minor. Adagio ; Allegro ; Vivace / C. P. E. Bach -- Concerto for two oboes, op. 9 no.3. Allegro ; Adagio ; Allegro / Tomaso Albinoni -- Shepherds of Provence. Pastorale provencale / Eugene Bozza -- Trio op 87. Presto / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Varioations on "La ci darem la mano" / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Oboemania selections

Concert Recording 2012-11-28, Tazonio Anderson, Eric Barnett, Drew Fischer, Dylan Gililland, Shannon Horner, Marissa Johnson, Jamey Jullian, Katie Martin, Tyler Simmons, Kristi Smylie, Heather Werschky, Katie Zwit, Kailey Miller Erwin, Amanda Davis, Amy Frenzel, Anna Hall, Emily Erickson, Manchusa Loungsangroong, Crystal Skahan

Concert Recordings & Programs

Frosty the snowman / [arr.] Chris Crockarell -- Two on the aisle. If you hadn't but you did / Jules Styne -- Three pieces for three pieces. Classical / Harold Shapero -- Sonata for alto saxophone and piano (1959). Andantino cantabile / Lawson Lunde -- Scherzo / Randall E. Faust -- Duettino. Allegro moderato ; Andantino ; Allegro ma non troppo-stretto canonique / Eugene Bozza

Concert Recording 2012-10-25, Eddie W. Jones Sr., Paige Geroy, Colby Corcoran, Amanda Davis, Brittany Hernandez, David Tripp, Alexandra Bond, Abby Carr, Andrew Serio, Kirsten Smith, Breana Stewart, Benjamin Winn, Torneshia Rogers, Morgan Aldridge, Olga Greenhut, Sophie Kirmanidou, Dipendra Sunam

Concert Recordings & Programs

Ah! love but a day / Amy Beach -- Mame. Mame / Jerry Herman -- Vittoria mio core / Giacomo Carrissimi -- Les Miserables. Empty chairs and empty tables / Claude-Michel Schonberg -- The ballad of Baby Doe. Willow Song / Douglas Moore -- The last five years. Still hurting / Jason Robert Brown -- There is a balm of Gileqad / Harry T. Burleigh -- The jolly miller / Roger Quilter -- the medium. The black swan / Gian Carlo Menotti -- Allerseelen / Richard Strauss -- Gia il sole del Gange / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Ol' Jim / …

Concert Recording 2012-10-17, Amber Lomolino, Matthew Sharp, Stephen Byars, Andrew Jones, Riley Shell, Olga Zelevinskaja, Andrew Baker, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Cody Walter, Jason Forte, Amanda Davis, Amy Frenzel, Sean Breast, Joseph Rulli, Crystal Skahan, Will Brani, Jeff Payne, Jordan Wilhelm, Jacob Hilton, Josh Matlock

Concert Recordings & Programs

Urban Suite. I Skyline ; II Street beat ; III Lilly my love ; IV Jungle rumble / Shawn Kelly -- O mio babbino caro / Giacomo Puccini -- Concertino for oboe, op. 110. II Romanze ; III Vivace / Johann Wenzel Kelliwoda -- Suite for tuba. Allegro maestoso ; Adagio espressivo ; Allegro con brio / Don Haddad -- The willow song / Douglas Moore -- The bride of the waves / Herbert L. Clarke -- Andante et scherzetto. II Scherzetto / Pierce Lantier -- Achieved is the glorious work / Franz Joseph Haydn

Concert Recording 2012-10-18, Candace Davis, Heather Milholland, Katie Young, Traci Hall, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Children's Choir, Prairie Grove High School (Prairie Grove, Ark.). Choirs

Concert Recordings & Programs

Kyrie canon / Andy Beck -- Polly wolly doodle / Brad Printz -- Oh, dear! (What can the matter be?) / Canfield -- We may not be vampires (But we're still men!) / Burrows -- Irish lullaby / [arr.] Sirrett -- Jubilate alleluia / Mary Lynn Lightfoot -- Children will listen / Sondheim ; Brymer -- Song for the unsung hero / Martin -- The awakening / Martin

Concert Recording 2012-11-12, Stephen Caldwell, Jeannie Lee, Manchusa Loungsangroong, Mallory Bennett, Rebecca Pugh, Lisa Banks, Kerry Cole, Edge Nowlin, Baron Lyle, Andrew Chu, Tazonio Anderson, Patrick Bellah, Blaine Nims, S. Michael Shuman, Kristina Marie Eckelhoff, Mark Haney, Allison Dean, Michael Rochmeyer, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Master Chorale

Concert Recordings & Programs

Salve regina, D 388 ; Rosamunde D797. Hirtenchor ; March in E D606 ; String quartet no. 14 , Death and the Maiden D 810. Scherzo ; Der Doppleganger D 957 no 13 ; Standchen D 957 no 4 ; Der Lindenbaum D 911 no 5 ; Mass no. 2 in G major D167 / Franz Schubert

Concert Recording 2012-11-30, Taylor Moore, Kailey Miller Erwin, Janelle Hollister, Judd Burns, Allison Dean, Mallory Bennett, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Opera Workshop

Concert Recordings & Programs

Gondoliers. From the sunny spanish shore ; In enterprise of martial kind ; O rapture, when alone together ; There was a time / Arthur Sullivan -- Cosi fan tutte. Una donna a quindici onni ; Prendero quel brunettino / W. A. Mozart -- Comedy on the bridge. If I had only stayed with Mother / Bohuslav Martinu -- Le nozze di Figaro. Via resti servita ; Non so piu cosa son, cosa faccio ; Cona sento! / W. A. Mozart

Concert Recording 2012-04-15, Todd Prickett, Kailey Miller Erwin, Kristine Mezines, Allison Dean, Andrew Chu, Baron Lyle, Tazonio Anderson, Patrick Bellah, Shannon Horner, Tyler Morales, S. Michael Shuman, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Schola Cantorum

Concert Recordings & Programs

Super flumina Babylonis / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Ecco mormorar l'onde / Claudio Monteverdi -- Idomeneo. Placido e il mar / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Away from the roll of the sea / Allister MacGillivray -- Breakers / Stephen Leek -- The city and the sea. Maggie and Milly and Molly and May -- Titanic requiem / Patriquin ; [poetry by] Wolfgang Kater -- Water night / Eric Whitacre -- Six Chansons. Un cygne / Paul Hindemith -- Alice in Wonderland. The Lobster Quadrille / Irving Fine -- O sapo / [arr.] Stephen Hatfield

Concert Recording 2012-12-14, W. Stephen Smith, Torneshia Rogers, Blaine Nims, Janelle Hollister, Taylor Moore, Amanda Davis, Allison Dean

Concert Recordings & Programs

Der Schauspieldirektor. Bester Jungling / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Kriegers Ahnung / Franz Schubert -- Turandot. Signore ascolta / Giacomo Puccini -- Die tote Stadt. Tanzlied des Pierrot / Erich Wolfgang Korngold -- The Ballad of Baby Doe. Willow song / Douglas Moore -- Susannah. Ain't it a pretty night / Carlisle Floyd

Teaching Lower Laryngeal Position With Emg Biofeedback, Adam Kirkpatrick, John R. Mclester

Faculty Articles

The authors explore new and innovative ways to teach singers how to maintain the lower laryngeal position while singing - a component of classical singing technique that many consider essential to achieving a vibrant, focused, and resonant tone.