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Concert Recording 2013-10-17, Thomas Bacon, Johan Botes, Timothy Thompson

Concert Recordings & Programs

Jagdstuck op. 59, #2 / Emil Kronke -- Zeal / Robert Avalon -- Dreams, yearning / Jonathan Craft -- Decicace / James DeMars -- Toys in the audience / Ellsworth Milburn

Concert Recording 2013-04-15, Stephen Byars, Matthew Sharp, Amber Lomolino, Joey Calvillo, Robert Wiser, Kristine Mezines, Benjamin Pierce, Jordan Wilhelm

Concert Recordings & Programs

Fantasia di concerto / Eduardo Boccalari -- Stuff. Theme ; Lullaby ; Insistent ; Cartoon music ; Gregarious ; Urgent ; More urgent ; Swing it! ; Theme / James Grant -- A walk in the woods / Jiro Censhu -- Sonata no 6 / Antonio Vivaldi -- Soliloquy ix / Christopher Wiggins -- Concerto / Edward Gregson

Concert Recording 2013-11-16a, Catalina Barraza, Yeo Hun Chun

Concert Recordings & Programs

Violin concerto no. 1 in D op. 19 / S. Prokofiev -- Caprise 16 / N. Paganini -- Zigeunerweisen / P. Sarasate

A Master's Recital In Piano, Katrina Ann Benjegerdes

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Katrina Benjegerdes presented a full graduate piano recital on Monday, October 28, 2013. The recital was performed at 6 p.m. in Davis Hall in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa. This recital was given in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. The program consisted of works by Scarlatti, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, and Mozart. This abstract contains further discussion of the performed works.

Concert Recording 2013-05-01, John Brilhart, Manchusa Loungsangroong, Andrew Baker, Sarah Busch, Joel Head, Richard Bobo, Marissa Johnson, Sara Remoy, Andrew Stephens, University Of Arkansas Fayetteville. Bassoon Ensemble, Austin Jay, Emily Erickson

Concert Recordings & Programs

Five stones from the same chaotic stream / Robert Mueller -- Dance of the Yao tribe / Mao Yuan ; Liu Tieshan

Concert Recording 2013-04-10, Rachel Humble, Nicole Johnson, Anna Hall, Peter Hamby, Amy Mayes, Emily Thompson, Emily Erickson, Michael Burner, Jackson Jones, Taylor Ping, Bobby Cather, Stephanie Mcullough, Gerry Gloan, Elliot Green, Michael Olefsky

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata op.6. 1 ; 2 / Beethoven -- Aires tropocales. Contradanza ; Afro / Paquito d'Rivera -- A breach of the peace / Simon Wills -- Salvation is created / Chesnokov

Concert Recording 2013-10-30, Christine Hsu, John Brilhart, Mycah Kettner, Michael Burner, Lauren Meyers

Concert Recordings & Programs

Andante cantabile / Marco Boldogni -- Suite Espanol. Asturias (Leyenda) / Isaac Albeniz -- Concerto in C Major Op 8 / Franz Strauss

Concert Recording 2014-04-30, Alexis Rizzolo, Christopher Senty, Jennifer Garrison, Blaine Nims, Janelle Hollister, Hyeon Min Jang, Michael Rothmeyer, Kaci Berry, Leanne Scaggs, Judd Burns, Kailey Miller Erwin, Mallory Bennett, Stephanie Burnett, Tori Rudolph, Amanda Brooks, Kristine Mezines, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Opera Theatre, David Malis

Concert Recordings & Programs

The Mikado. Three little maids from school / Gilbert and Sullivan -- Lakme. Flower duet / Leo Delibes -- Die Zauberflote. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd shon / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Werther. Bonjour, grande soeur...va, laisse coulers me larmes / Jules Massenet -- L'elisir d'amore. Una furtiva lagrima / Gaetano Donizetti -- Cosi fan tutte. Prendero quell brunettino / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- The pirates of Penzance. O false one, you have deceived me / Gilbert and Sullivan -- Le nozze di Figaro. Cinque...dieci / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Cosi fan tutte. Soave sia il vento / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart …

Concert Recording 2013-02-13, Kailey Miller Erwin, Judd Burns, Kristine Mezines, Will Brani, S. Michael Shuman, Matthew Kamilos

Concert Recordings & Programs

La Cenerentola. Il duetto / Rossini -- Rustiques / Eugene Bozza -- Pitt County Excursions. March ; Serenade ; Air ; Ragtime / William Duckworth

Concert Recording 2013-11-22a, Stephen Byars, Johan Botes

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonate in G minor / Henry Eccles ; [arr.] Fernand Lelong -- Ordner seg / Øystein Baadsvik -- Lamento / Sofia Gubaidulina -- Six studies in English folksong / Vaughan Williams ; [arr.] Michael Wagner -- Parallels / Aron Romhanyi -- Rumanian dance no. 2 / Dumitru Ionel

An Examination Of Expression: Sonata No.1 In F Minor, Op. 120 By Johannes Brahms, Mary Beth Thiry

Honors Program Theses

Johannes Brahms' Sonata in F minor, no. 1 opus 120 is a very important piece in clarinet repertoire. The piece was originally composed for Richard Muhlfeld, a clarinet virtuoso in Brahms' time. This sonata has been performed and recorded by many musicians. Each individual that performs the sonata creates his or her own unique interpretation of the work. The artists investigated in this study come from various schools of thought including the French school, the German school, the British school, the American school, viola transcriptions, and period instruments. Every piece of music has a formal structure, which is its foundation. …

Concert Recording 2013-12-05, Cari Moll, Emily Willis, Matt Land, Hua Wang, Peter Hamby, Isaac Vargas, John Brilhart, Curtis Simmons, Dylan Adkins, University Of Arkansas Fayetteville. Horn Choir, Timothy Thompson

Concert Recordings & Programs

Kanon / Timothy Thompson -- Le son du cor / Arne Oldberg -- Overture to the Marriage of Figaro / W.A. Mozart -- Hornscape / Timothy Thompson -- Idyll und Jagerlust im Wienerwald / Rudolf Huber

Concert Recording 2013-04-21, Heather Werschky, Bailey Stephens

Concert Recordings & Programs

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Concert Recording 2013-10-16, Sean Beast, Kristine Mezines, Robert Wiser, Hannah Mindeman Shuman, Yudai Hironaka

Concert Recordings & Programs

Partita op. 89 / Arthur Butterworth -- Sonata no. 1 / Benedetto Marrello -- Morcean symphonique / Alexandre Guilmant -- Napoli / Herman Bellstedt

Concert Recording 2013-11-21a, Kristine Mezines, Jake Ivey, Benjamin Reid, Robert Wiser, David Grayling, Josh Matlock

Concert Recordings & Programs

Andante and rondo / Antonio Capuzzi -- Sonata in g minor / Henry Eccles -- Sonata / Bruce Broughton -- Partita / Arthur Butterworth

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 …

Czech Bluegrass Fiddlers And Their Negotiations Of Past And Present, Lee Bidgood

ETSU Faculty Works

Excerpt: Proc ty housle? ("Why the fiddle?") - "Fiddlers are all bad here - Why not write about the banjo or something else that Czechs are good at?"These questions about my ethnographic fieldwork came from musician colleagues with whom I working in researching bluegrass music in the Czech Republic, during a jam circle around a table. While these colleagues were mainly banjo and guitar players, these critiques of Czech fiddling are common even among Czech fiddlers, who are in many cases not as accomplished (in technical skill or musicality) as are their banjo-playing and mandolin-picking compatriots.

Concert Recording 2013-09-22, Matthew Haislip, Matthew Siegel

Concert Recordings & Programs

Theme and variations, op. 13 / Franz Strauss -- Evening reveries / Usamah Mustafa -- Horn concerto, K. 447 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Parable viii for solo horn, op. 120 / Vincent Persichetti -- Nocturno, op. 7 / Franz Strauss -- En foret / Eugene Bozza

Concert Recording 2013-10-02, Mark Haney, Kristine Mezines, S. Michael Shuman

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata innamorata / PDQ Bach -- A green lowland of pianos / Samuel Barber

Concert Recording 2013-10-13, Benjamin Pierce, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

Drei Romanzen, op. 94. I Nicht schnell ; II Einfach, innig ; III Nicht schnell / Robert Schumann -- Prelude from Partita III in e-major, bwv 1006 / J.S. Bach -- Lamento / Sofia Gubaidulina -- Jabberwocky / David Gillingham -- Euphonium Concerto / John Stevens -- Aimons-nous / Camille Saint-Saens -- Estrellita / Manuel Ponce -- Moto perpetuo / Peter Christoskov ; [arr.] Pierce

Concert Recording 2013-04-18, University Of Arkansas Fayetteville. Saxophone Chamber Ensemble, Stan Morris

Concert Recordings & Programs

Miniatyrer. Intermezzo lirico ; Marcia piccola ; Fantasia svedese ; Rondo giocoso / Erland von Koch -- Conzona / Girolamo Frescobaldi -- Ballet du roy pour sonner apres / Michael Praetorius -- Histoire du tango. Cafe / Astor Piazzolla

Concert Recording 2013-04-20, Jennifer Fox, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concerto Saint Marc / Tomaso Albinoni ; [reconst.] Jean Thilde -- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra / Charles Chaynes -- Solo for unaccompanied flugelhorn ; Litany of breath for unaccompanied trumpet / David Sampson -- Concerto in F minor / Oskar Bohme

Concert Recording 2013-04-24a, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Curtis Simmons, Amber Lomolino, Kristine Mezines, Tyler Simmons, Stephan Mitchell

Concert Recordings & Programs

Evergreen / Benjamin Finley -- Andante et allegro / Joseph Guy Ropartz -- Concerto. Quasi una leggenda ; finale / Launy Grondahl -- Villanelle / Paul Dukas

Concert Recording 2013-05-05, Emily Mcpherson, Elizabeth Lee

Concert Recordings & Programs

Noa noa for flute and electronics ; Oi kuu for bass flute and cello / Kaija Saariaho -- Scrivo in vento for solo flute / Elliott Carter -- Mirrors for flute and cello ; Fetals for solo cello / Kaija Saariaho -- Figment for solo cello; Enchanted preludes for flute and cello / Elliot Carter

Concert Recording 2013-05-23, Stephen Gates, Paulo Eskitch, Molly Sharp, Er-Gene Kahng, Linda Anderson

Concert Recordings & Programs

String quintet in g minor, k 516 / W. A. Mozart ; String quintet no 2 in g major, op 111 / Johannes Brahms

Concert Recording 2013-11-26, Baron Lyle

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata no. 1 for solo violin in g minor / J.S. Bach -- Violin concerto no. 1 in e minor. III Allegretto, ma non troppo - allegro molto vivace / Felix Mendelssohn -- Sonata no. 3 for solo violin "ballade" / Eugene Ysaye

“We Sang Alleluia, Praise The Lord!”: African-American Identity And The Use And Reception Of Music Within A Seventh-Day Adventist Church In New York City, 1970 – 2010, Jeryl Lee Cunningham-Fleming

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The Ephesus Seventh-day Church, one of the first Black SDA churches that were formed in the New York City area during the late 1920s and early 1930s, is one church that has been faced with the challenge of maintaining traditional repertoire and musical practices, while including more popular genres and styles that lay outside the SDA guidelines. Located in Central Harlem, Ephesus is surrounded by the cultural and historical influences within the Harlem community. The Ephesus Church, based on extant hymnals and the recollections of church members, continued in the Euro-centric musical traditions of early SDA churches until the 1960s, …

Reconsidering Brazilian Representations In Choros No. 5 And Bachianas Brasileiras No.4 For Piano By Heitor Villa-Lobos, Paula Maria Lima Galama

Theses and Dissertations--Music

This study offers a reconsideration of the music of Villa-Lobos and its relationship to diverse musical expressions and musical syntheses in Brazil. Its primary purpose is to present a line of interpretative thought for Heitor Villa-Lobos’s piano compositions, emphasizing significant elements reflective of the folk and popular culture of Brazil that the composer integrates with stylistic features influenced by European art music traditions. It highlights Villa-Lobos’s adaptation of characteristic Brazilian dances, dance rhythms, melodies, direct quotations, and fragments of folk and popular tunes in Choros no. 5 (Alma Brasileira) and Bachianas Brasileiras no. 4 (Brazilian Bachianas no. 4). In the …

The 10,000-Hour Threshold: Interviews With Successful Percussionists, Colin J. Hill

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Musicians are universally reliant on practice to improve and perfect their craft and there is substantial evidence that suggests mastery can only be achieved after 10,000 hours of practice early in life. This dissertation explores the validity of this theory as it pertains to master percussionists and examines their discoveries and recommendations as to how those 10,000 hours should best be spent. Research sources include selected published literature and personal interviews with thirty-six percussionists, conducted between 2010- 2013. The research is summarized in the following six sections: the 10,000-hour threshold; planning a practice session; warming up; learning new music; problem …

An Investigation Of The Benefits Of Improvisation For Classical Musicians, Rebecca S. Kossen

Theses : Honours

For centuries improvisation has been an integral part of European classical music culture. Until the nineteenth century most musicians were composers, improvisers and performers. Today, improvisation is less common in the classical music scene with most classical musicians being either performers or composers and only a minority of them having the ability to improvise. Is improvisation relevant to the classical musician whose main concern is the performance of written repertoire?

Learning how to improvise and practicing improvisation requires a musician to develop particular skills which can be directly applied in the performance and interpretation of precomposed music. This make improvisation …