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Emulating The "Country Fiddler": A Performance Analysis Of Fiddle Parodies And Impressions In Charles Ives's Second Violin Sonata, Emily Vold Weiss

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In his violin sonatas, Charles Ives frequently parodies fiddling style, both through overt quotes of fiddle tunes, as well as inventive compositional devices that mimic the fiddler’s style of bowing, ornamenting a melody, or generally rustic performance. Given the breadth of these fiddling allusions, it is important that violinists who perform Ives’s sonatas understand the distinctive aesthetics of fiddle performance, including the numerous ways in which it diverges from classical performance. In this dissertation, I survey pedagogical writings on fiddling, notated tunes, and recorded fiddling performances in an effort to characterize the performance practices of fiddlers from Ives’s native New …

“A Space Where You Can Imagine In”: Queer World Building With Wynne Greenwood’S Tracy + The Plastics, Colleen M. O'Shea

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Tracy and the Plastics was a video and music project conceived and performed by artist Wynne Greenwood from 1999 - 2006. In it, Greenwood played lead singer Tracy alongside keyboard player, Nikki and drummer, Cola (both also played by Greenwood) where Tracy performed live alongside prerecorded images of Nikki and Cola. For Greenwood, the interaction between Tracy, the Plastics, and the audience provided an opportunity to create new, intentional worlds together. In this paper, I will demonstrate that Greenwood relies on collisions and alternative temporalities to instigate the creation of these worlds with her audience. I will incorporate the principles …

The Singing Self: An Exploration Of Vocality And Selfhood In Contemporary Vocal Practice, Emily C. Eagen

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Every vocal training technique relies on understandings of how a singer’s “voice,” both literal and metaphorical, participates in the act of interpreting the works of composers. Western classical singing, as codified by the early twentieth century, typically puts the singer in the role of the “medium” or “channel” for the composer. Later twentieth-century reactions promised liberation from the composer’s “voice” with a validation of the singer’s “authentic” or “natural” voice. This dissertation questions both sides of this binary and asks: what alternative models are possible? This work is in three parts. The first section provides an overview of pedagogical constructions …

For The Love Of Inner Voices: Miriam Gideon, Orchestration, And Fortunato, Whitney E. George

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Post-tonal American opera composer Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) completed a chamber opera, perhaps intended for television, titled Fortunato, based on a dark comic tragedy set in turn-of-the-20th-century, economically-ravaged Madrid. The expressive staged work follows the life of the unfortunate title character Fortunato in three operatic vignettes, each one becoming more desperate and moribund by the scene. A curious piece in Gideon’s oeuvre, the work remained unfinished, with a piano score for the complete work, but only a sample of her orchestration for Scene 1. This study examines the orchestration of Scene 1 as a template for creating an orchestration similar in …

The Light Of The World- Winter Concert, Andrews University

Concerts and Event Programs 2020-2021

The University Singers, Pioneer Mens Chorus and Canta Bella all under the direction of Stephen Zork give a concert celebrating light.

2020-2021 Senior Recital - Austin King (Double Bass), Austin King, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Concerto-Aria Competition Finals, January 27, 2021, Sey Ahn, Timothy Semanik

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
January 27, 2021
Wednesday Evening
7:00 p.m.

Jury Recognition Recital, January 25, 2021, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
January 25, 2021
Monday Evening
7:00 p.m.

Charles W. Bolen Faculty Recital Series: Ben Stiers, Percussion; January 12, 2021, Ben Stiers

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
January 12, 2021
Tuesday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Charles W. Bolen Faculty Recital Series Program Notes, January 12, 2021, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Program Notes

Us, Abundantly: From Africa To The Americas, Karisma Jay

Theses and Dissertations

"Us, AbunDantly," a Live theatrical dance performance and film, delves into the African Diaspora and its influences. An artistic and academic project built upon the amplification of Black excellence and Black pride, this paper contextualizes a work within the oral histories and contemporary dance studies of a powerfully ancestral community.

College Of The Arts 21/22 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music

2021-2022

No abstract provided.

01 Traditional Songs Introduction, William Donner

Sikaiana Traditional Songs

This is an introduction to Sikaiana songs. It includes a discussion of the social cultural context of song composition and singing. There is a discussion of the different features of song production and a list of different song genres. Most of the discussion is concerned with traditional song expression that are part of derived form changes associated with colonialism and modernization.

2020-2021 New Music Festival "A Global Harvest", Lisa Leonard, Lynn University Conservatory Of Music

New Music Festival

Introduction from Professor Lisa Leonard, the festival director

Welcome to the 15th Annual New Music Festival at the Lynn University Conservatory of Music! For 14 seasons, we have been welcoming renowned composers to take residency at the Conservatory to directly work with our students preparing three main events: a concert of emerging composers featuring student composers and performers, a master class/lecture focused on the creative and practical issues of contemporary music, and a full program solely featuring the works of the guest composer, including the premiere of the annual commissioned work.

We were thrilled when John Harbison agreed to serve …

Edgerton Center 2021/22 Season, Edgerton Center For The Performing Arts

Edgerton Center Programs

Returning to the Stage ... After a year away from live performing arts.

The Effect Of Upper-String Musician Practice Session On Scapular Kinematics, Connor James Brown

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Background: Shoulder pain is common in the upper-string musician population. [43,49] Pain has been linked with injury and impairments. Altered scapular kinematics has been associated with patients diagnosed with shoulder injury or impairment. Fatigue of the shoulder complex through repeated arm motions has been shown to alter scapular kinematics, resulting in shoulder pathologies, including rotator cuff impingement syndrome. [12,15,28] Upper string musicians have been documented with practicing multiple hours in a day and it could be inferred those practice sessions could be fatiguing. [24,49]

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effect of upper string musician practice session …

Dit/Prog/Lt: Dit Lunchtime Recital Programmes 1977-1999, Sharon Hoefig

Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Cut Song Cabaret: Performing The Replaced, Rewritten, And Recycled Songs Of Musical Theatre, Claire Wilson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

In musical theatre, “cut songs” are the pieces of music that are removed from a show, whether the cut occur in the early creative stages, a pre-Broadway run, minutes before opening night, or even for a major revival years after its initial debut. These songs easily go unnoticed, as some are never made public while some are sneakily recycled for other musicals. Cut songs, though greatly varying in quality, are still works of art that at one time fulfilled their sacred duty of entertaining an audience and required just as much artistic effort to produce as the songs that survived …

Protest Music In Response To The United States’ Oppressive Political Culture: An Analysis Of Beyoncé'S "Freedom" And Janelle Monáe's "Americans", Jessica Torrey

HMC Senior Theses

This paper aims to study a popular musical artist’s responsibility towards the empowerment of marginalized communities in the United States through an analysis of the songs “Freedom” by Beyoncé and “Americans” by Janelle Monáe. These songs will be analyzed in conjunction with the political climate during the time of their fabrication and release as well as the political climates discussed in the songs themselves. This paper presents a thorough analysis of the lyrical and musical components of both songs as well as an analysis of a specific performance of both songs. These analyses will be presented in conversation with many …

Memorizing Music: A Problem That A Pianist Has To Face, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

As we all know, now the piano is usually an instrument that needs to be played by memory. Except piano ensemble pieces, most solo piano pieces are required to be performed by memory, even including piano concerto works. For a long time, many pianists have had mixed attitudes towards memorizing music.

Concert Recording 2021-04-16b, Cadi Stair, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Arabesque / Germaine Tailleferre -- [02:44]. Sonata in E-flat major, movements I-III / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- [23:47]. Viktor's Tale / John Williams -- [28:15]. Sonatina, movements I-III / Malcolm Arnold.

Concert Recording 2021-11-13, Christopher Adkins, Jonathan Tsay

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Pastorale, BWV 590 / J.S. Bach -- [05:03]. Suite no. 3 in C major for cello solo, BWV 1009. Prelude ; Allemande ; Courante ; Sarabande ; Boureé I & II ; Gigue / Bach -- [24:31]. Pezzo capriccioso, op. 62 / Pyotr Tchaikovsky -- [31:45]. When you wish upon a star -- [34:03]. Mother goose suite. Pavane de la belle au bois dormant / Maurice Ravel -- Songs my mother taught me / Antonin Dvorák/Kreisler -- [42:24]. Hansel and Gretel. Evening prayer / Engelbert Humperdinck -- [45:18]. Cendrillon. Cinderella’s stepsisters / Jules Massenet -- [55:40]. A frog he …

Concert Recording 2021-11-10b, Emily Sink, Sophie Lopez, Carla Summers

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Se pietà di me non senti, giusto ciel / George Frideric Handel -- [07:26]. Saper vorreste / Guiseppe Verdi -- [09:19]. 8 Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blätter, op. 10. No. 1. Zueignung ; [11:12]. No. 3. Die Nacht / Richard Strauss -- [14:02]. Der Hölle Rache / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [16:57]. Deux poèmes. C ; Fêtes galantes / Francis Poulenc -- [20:25]. Les chemins del'amour / Poulenc.

Concert Recording 2021-11-18, Braden Shepherd, Sophie Lopez, Ema Plafcan, Sungkun Jung, Morgan Brown, Kassidy Moore, Leah Foster

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Prelude, op. 43, no. 1 / Reinhold Glière -- [02:38]. Etude in D minor, op. 109, no. 13, The storm / Friedrich Burgmüller -- [04:42]. Liebestraum no. 3 / Franz Liszt -- [10:47]. Sonata no. 13 in E-flat major, op. 27, no. 1. III. Adagio con espressione, Presto / Ludwig van Beethoven -- [15:03]. Moment Musicaux in B minor op. 16, no. 3 ; Prelude in C-sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2 / Sergei Rachmaninov -- [24:33]. Album Leaf / Claude Debussy -- Autumn leaves / Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prevert ; arranged by Morgan Brown -- Jazz …

Concert Recording 2021-11-21, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. World Music Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00] Dialogue -- [06:23] Morenika -- [10:37] Cachua a voz y bajo -- [12:54] Tomada el diamante -- [15:31] Summer afternoon raga -- [21:11] Jovano jovanke -- [24:31] Trance, music -- [32:18] Desert blues, music -- [41:31] El cascabel.

Concert Recording 2021-04-16a, Quintin Roper, Carson Vanduch, Lisa Kulczak, Alex Swindle, Eric Troiano, Ryan Miller

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Breathe / Evan Williams -- [06:24]. Is it? / Thomas Kessler -- [13:48]. The two siblings / Michael Goodman -- [27:27]. Big talk / Shelley Washington -- [38:47]. Hocket / Meredith Monk ; arranged by Damian Cheek.

Concert Recording 2021-04-29, Austin Mcfarland

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Phoenix rising. I. Dying in embers ; II. Reborn in flames / Stacy Garrop -- [11:08]. Quatour pour la fin du temps. III. Abîme des oiseaux / Olivier Messiaen -- [17:05]. As small birds play / Corrina Bonshek -- [23:26]. Monólogo en Tiempo de Joropo. I. La vaqueria ; II. Registro ; III. Pajarillo / Carlos Gonzalo Guzman-Muñoz.

Concert Recording 2021-10-30, Rachel Hawk, Miroslava Panayotova, Doug Harnish, Bailey Fry, Daniel Crawford

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. The song of King David / Norman Bolter-- [08:32]. O mio babbino caro / Giacomo Puccini -- [11:07]. Sonata Vox Gabrieli / Stjepan Sulek -- [19:11]. Reflective Mood / Sammy Nestico -- [24:30]. Anything Goes / [Cole Porter] ; arranged by Al Cobine.

Concert Recording 2021-12-09, Valeri Rymer, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sonate Es-dur, BWV 1031. I. Allegro moderato ; III. Siciliana ; IV. Allegro / Johann Sebastian Bach -- [09:30]. Romance in D-flat major, op. 37 / Camille Saint-Saëns -- [15:42]. Schrezina, op. 55, no. 6 / Joachim Andersen -- [17:58]. Allegro and Menuett / Ludwig van Beethoven -- [23:54]. Nocturne for alto flute / Kevin Leomo.

Concert Recording 2021-04-23, Matthew Swerts, Miroslava Panayotova, Lisa Auten

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Allegro from Concerto / J.B.G. Neruda -- [04:55]. Concerto / Alexander Arutunian -- [20:20]. Fantasy for trumpet / Malcolm Arnold -- [24:33]. Centennial Horizon. I. Aspen grove ; Interlude, Alpenglow ; II. Roaring gunnison / Kevin McKee.