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2024-2025 Master Class - Scott Hostetler (English Horn), Scott Hostetler, Hoon Chang, Daniel Cruz, Juan Fernandez Villegas, Olivia Oakland, Amanda Rearden Jan 2025

2024-2025 Master Class - Scott Hostetler (English Horn), Scott Hostetler, Hoon Chang, Daniel Cruz, Juan Fernandez Villegas, Olivia Oakland, Amanda Rearden

Master Classes

No abstract provided.


2024-2025 Master Class - Cynthia Yeh (Percussion), Cynthia Yeh, Christian Bartholomew, Jose Ignacio Diaz, Anna Dunford, Jeremiah Grace, Steven Halpner Jan 2025

2024-2025 Master Class - Cynthia Yeh (Percussion), Cynthia Yeh, Christian Bartholomew, Jose Ignacio Diaz, Anna Dunford, Jeremiah Grace, Steven Halpner

Master Classes

No abstract provided.


2024-2025 Performance Forum - January 17, 2025, Jenna Salliman, Ana-Maria Uzunova, Miriam Smith, Amanda Rearden, Noah Suarez, Kyle Mechmet, Nataniel Farrar, Jacob Lomboy, Ingryd Herrera, Santiago Moreno, Devin Salazar, Miguelangel Garcia Marquez, Dj Combs Jan 2025

2024-2025 Performance Forum - January 17, 2025, Jenna Salliman, Ana-Maria Uzunova, Miriam Smith, Amanda Rearden, Noah Suarez, Kyle Mechmet, Nataniel Farrar, Jacob Lomboy, Ingryd Herrera, Santiago Moreno, Devin Salazar, Miguelangel Garcia Marquez, Dj Combs

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.


2024-2025 Master Of Music Recital - Brenda Lorenzo (Collaborative Piano), Brenda Lorenzo, Giah Bush, Brooke Gunter, Nataniel Farrar Jan 2025

2024-2025 Master Of Music Recital - Brenda Lorenzo (Collaborative Piano), Brenda Lorenzo, Giah Bush, Brooke Gunter, Nataniel Farrar

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.


2024-2025 Ppc Recital - Rachel Miner (Viola), Rachel Miner, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Brenda Lorenzo Jan 2025

2024-2025 Ppc Recital - Rachel Miner (Viola), Rachel Miner, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Brenda Lorenzo

PPC/PSDP Recitals

No abstract provided.


2024-2025 Master Of Music Recital - Gabrielle Malaniak (Viola), Gabrielle Malaniak, Sheng Yuan Kuan Jan 2025

2024-2025 Master Of Music Recital - Gabrielle Malaniak (Viola), Gabrielle Malaniak, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.


2024-2025 Ppc Recital - Rachel Miner (Viola), Rachel Miner, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Brenda Lorenzo Jan 2025

2024-2025 Ppc Recital - Rachel Miner (Viola), Rachel Miner, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Brenda Lorenzo

PPC/PSDP Recitals

No abstract provided.


Vincenzo Pocci: Cataloguer, Editor, Digital Pioneer, Marco Vinicio Bazzotti, Adriano Sebastiani Jan 2025

Vincenzo Pocci: Cataloguer, Editor, Digital Pioneer, Marco Vinicio Bazzotti, Adriano Sebastiani

Soundboard Scholar

An obituary of Dr. Vincenzo Pocci, author of the Guide to the Guitarist’s Modern and Contemporary Repertoire and an internationally recognized scholar of twentieth-century guitar music.


Jazz And Politics: Was Ornette Coleman Inspired By The Civil Rights Movement?, Jason Dreher, Josiah Boornazian Jan 2025

Jazz And Politics: Was Ornette Coleman Inspired By The Civil Rights Movement?, Jason Dreher, Josiah Boornazian

The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research

Due in part to increasing intellectual and political polarization in the United States in recent decades, there has been a resultant decrease in viewpoint diversity and an increase in instances of groupthink and widespread conceptual bias in the construction of many jazz history narratives. One example of these phenomena is the historiographical narratives linking free jazz and avant-garde jazz with the Civil Rights Movement in twentieth-century America. In the past several decades, the narrative that free jazz and/or avant-garde jazz was predominantly artistically inspired by the Civil Rights Movement has become broadly espoused by a wide variety of both scholarly …


2024-2025 Master Of Music Recital - Reagan Nguyen (Piano), Reagan Nguyen Jan 2025

2024-2025 Master Of Music Recital - Reagan Nguyen (Piano), Reagan Nguyen

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.


Sentimental Aesthetics In D-Flat Major: Adagio Of Haydn’S Hob. Xvi:46, Keri Hui Jan 2025

Sentimental Aesthetics In D-Flat Major: Adagio Of Haydn’S Hob. Xvi:46, Keri Hui

HAYDN: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America

Although the concept of key characteristics was widely affirmed in the eighteenth century, the key of D-flat major was rarely adopted by composers. The so-called Romantic period, however, saw a remarkable increase in the use of this key, as demonstrated in the many well-known pieces written by composers such as Chopin. The article first reviews the different receptions of D-flat major in the eighteenth century and explores how the clavichord might have allowed Haydn to hear D-flat major as a key of sentimentality, one that echoes Christian Daniel Friedrich Schubart’s interpretation. It then examines ways in which Haydn presents the …


2024-2025 Piano Passion From The Studio Of Roberta Rust, Gabrielle Siena, Aidan Quintana, Shuqi Yang, Zion Montebon, Caroline Dratnal, Hanting Peng, Jenna Salliman, Ana-Maria Uzunova, Reagan Nguyen, Elisabeth Thomashoff Jan 2025

2024-2025 Piano Passion From The Studio Of Roberta Rust, Gabrielle Siena, Aidan Quintana, Shuqi Yang, Zion Montebon, Caroline Dratnal, Hanting Peng, Jenna Salliman, Ana-Maria Uzunova, Reagan Nguyen, Elisabeth Thomashoff

Studio Recitals

No abstract provided.


2024-2025 Performance Forum - January 10, 2025, Shuqi Yang, Gabrielle Siena, Hanting Peng, Zion Montebon Jan 2025

2024-2025 Performance Forum - January 10, 2025, Shuqi Yang, Gabrielle Siena, Hanting Peng, Zion Montebon

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.


Lee Konitz’S Use Of Standards’ Melody In Improvisation, Gonçalo Pazeres, Ricardo Pinheiro Jan 2025

Lee Konitz’S Use Of Standards’ Melody In Improvisation, Gonçalo Pazeres, Ricardo Pinheiro

The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research

The main goal of this article is to examine the mechanisms through which Lee Konitz uses the melody of jazz standards in his improvisation process. Beginning with the transcription and comprehensive analysis of five improvised solos, and using the thematic analysis method, we identified melodic ideas coming from the songs on which the saxophonist builds some of his solos. Our conclusion is that Lee Konitz, besides clearly quoting the melody of jazz standards on which he improvises, also frequently uses some of its notes as target-notes, and develops melodic motifs inspired by that same melody.


Scale Choices, Modal Harmony, And The Interpretation Of Slash Chord Notation For “Naima” By John Coltrane, Josiah Boornazian Jan 2025

Scale Choices, Modal Harmony, And The Interpretation Of Slash Chord Notation For “Naima” By John Coltrane, Josiah Boornazian

The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research

This analysis of Naima is intended to provide useful conceptual tools for those who are interested in analyzing the harmonic language of modal jazz. The goals: to demonstrate the value of thinking about jazz harmony using slash chords, to suggest specific scale choice options to fit each chord in “Naima,” and to offer an explanation of how jazz composers can use modal harmony to create a sense of harmonic tension, release, and motion. Such an approach can provide a useful framework which will open new vistas of harmonic and melodic vocabulary for jazz composers, performers, and educators.


Audiotactile Music Theory And Jazz Education: Historical And Pedagogical Perspectives, Stéphane Audard Jan 2025

Audiotactile Music Theory And Jazz Education: Historical And Pedagogical Perspectives, Stéphane Audard

The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research

The Audiotactile Music Theory offers new perspectives for considering the issues associated with the institutionalization of jazz education and the gradual transition from informal transmission situations to formalized curricula. The aim of this article is to show how certain central the concepts of the ‘Audiotactile Music Theory’ can be used in a dual historical and pedagogical perspective, to overcome certain dichotomies that structure discourses on jazz teaching at different times: written/oral, formal/informal and art/popular music. The Audiotactile Music Theory also allows us to question the place of jazz in music teaching institutions today, and our own pedagogical practice.


Twin Sons Of Different Mothers: Harmonic Convergence In Jazz And Classical Music, Kurt Ellenberger Jan 2025

Twin Sons Of Different Mothers: Harmonic Convergence In Jazz And Classical Music, Kurt Ellenberger

The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research

Jazz and classical music are two of the most celebrated genres of “art music.” Their origins could not be more disparate. The two genres are, on the surface, very different from one another. Yet, the humanity and creativity that shines through across time and space speak to something else at play: an unfathomably deep connection that defies the temporal, geographical, racial, and cultural differences, revealing instead the shared human spirit that is manifested in these powerful artistic expressions.


The Shape(S) Of Jazz To Come. Jazz Studies, Interpretation, Theory And Education Research Project, Ricardo Pinheiro Jan 2025

The Shape(S) Of Jazz To Come. Jazz Studies, Interpretation, Theory And Education Research Project, Ricardo Pinheiro

The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research

Jazz Studies: interpretation, theory and education is a research project developed at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Polytechnic University of Lisbon, that involved the collaboration between the Jazz and Composition Departments. The focus of the project coordinated by Ricardo Pinheiro (with the collaboration of Carlos Caires and Carlos Marecos) was to rethink artistic research outputs in the field of jazz studies, questioning the hegemony of the current musicological paradigm (Cook, 2014; Pinheiro and Caires 2019; Pinheiro, Caires and Neto 2024), and to explore the broad academic, scientific and artistic scope that this field can provide.


‘Keeping It Real’ Goes Wrong: Deconstruction Of Masculinity In The Work Of Jay-Z And Kendrick Lamar, Leo Mcmahon Jan 2025

‘Keeping It Real’ Goes Wrong: Deconstruction Of Masculinity In The Work Of Jay-Z And Kendrick Lamar, Leo Mcmahon

Theses and Dissertations

Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar use their latest albums, 4:44 and Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers, to address the wake of damage their behaviors have caused. On a personal level each artist apologizes to their wife for infidelities, but along the way they deconstruct performances of masculinity that have dominated popular hip-hop music since the late 1980's. Highlighting the pressure the music industry puts on hip-hop artists to perform a hyper-sexual, hyper-violent masculinity, I argue that the artists join the genre of African-American autobiography to reveal the inauthentic performances of 'realness' in hip-hop. Posturing as representatives of African-American men, …


European Jazz Does Not Exist, Wouter Turkenburg Jan 2025

European Jazz Does Not Exist, Wouter Turkenburg

The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research

Marion Dunkel and Josiah Boornazian have critically analyzed and evaluated important questions such as: What is jazz, and what it is not? How have its histories been written in the past? What are the various approaches in jazz historiography? Both authors provide useful suggestions to move past the confusing, standard teleological presentation of jazz history, and the methods used in the construction of jazz historiographies. I argue that jazz history must function as a dynamic and life-long applicable tool assisting the jazz musician in the decisions to be taken in musical, social, and cultural interactions.


Toxic Jazz Narratives - Dispelling The Illusory Relationship Between Suffering And Creativity, Rob Foster Jan 2025

Toxic Jazz Narratives - Dispelling The Illusory Relationship Between Suffering And Creativity, Rob Foster

The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research

The trope of the suffering artist is a persistent theme in discussions about jazz, often overshadowing the music itself. The focus on the negative aspects of an artist's biography can inadvertently shape students' perceptions, leading them to associate artistic greatness with personal turmoil rather than with the technical and expressive aspects of the music. The emphasis on tragic life stories in introductory jazz courses can detract from a holistic understanding of the genre. Jazz should be explored as a rich tapestry of musical innovation, cultural expression, and collaborative effort, rather than through the lens of individual suffering. Highlighting the achievements …


Chenoweth Prevails: The Connection Between Social Standards And The Marimba’S Development In The Western Art Music Tradition, Jackson Hall Jan 2025

Chenoweth Prevails: The Connection Between Social Standards And The Marimba’S Development In The Western Art Music Tradition, Jackson Hall

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Among percussionists, the names of many marimbists come to mind before that of Vida Chenoweth (1928-2018), the pioneer of the modern marimba recital. Chenoweth began her first recital tour in the early 1950s at a time when the marimba did not yet have a dedicated solo repertoire, and women were largely excluded from performing on orchestral instruments. This thesis explores the musical and social contexts in which Chenoweth performed and worked, with particular attention to her recital history, critical reviews, and, through works written specifically for her performance, her technical abilities. She not only sparked the evolution of marimba technique …


Mentoring And Training In Performance Librarianship, Mallory Sajewski Jan 2025

Mentoring And Training In Performance Librarianship, Mallory Sajewski

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Performance librarians, or ensemble librarians, consist of a subset of music librarians who serve the music and information needs of orchestras, bands, and other performing ensembles. As there is no formal training system for performance librarians, the skills required to win an audition for a job must be learned by working with a mentor. This study investigated the mentoring process experienced by both mentors and mentees in the training and career preparation of performance librarians. Using a qualitative phenomenological approach, the researcher conducted semistructured interviews with 21 performance librarians in the United States and used thematic analysis to analyze the …


Concert Program 2025-03-18, Kalista Brown, Sung Kun Young, Rebekah Holland Jan 2025

Concert Program 2025-03-18, Kalista Brown, Sung Kun Young, Rebekah Holland

Concert Recordings & Programs

No abstract provided.


Mckensie Miller, Soprano In A Graduate Recital, 2025 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music. Jan 2025

Mckensie Miller, Soprano In A Graduate Recital, 2025 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recitals given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.


La Valse And The Parisian Salon: Nostalgic Continuities And Sonorous Modernisms, Claire Weydt Jan 2025

La Valse And The Parisian Salon: Nostalgic Continuities And Sonorous Modernisms, Claire Weydt

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Immediately following World War I and the death of prominent French composer Claude Debussy, French composers and music critics were concerned that the war created an unbridgeable chasm between generations of composers who, through their various aesthetic allegiances, worked to define musical sounds as undeniably French. Numerous scholars have characterized this process as an aesthetic rupture brought on by the World Wars. French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), however, seems to have bridged this gap, at least for some influential critics. My project challenges notions of wartime rupture by resituating musical modernism within a framework of aesthetic continuity. Ravel’s choreographic poem …


The Effects Of Operatic Voice Type On Singer Identity, Adelaide J. Mcdonald Jan 2025

The Effects Of Operatic Voice Type On Singer Identity, Adelaide J. Mcdonald

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Within Western art music, voices are typically classified using the Fach system, which is based upon vocal characteristics and separates singers into the categories of soprano, mezzo soprano, contralto, counter tenor, tenor, bass, and baritone. Over time, these categories have become embedded with social and cultural meaning within the operatic world, leading to the development of stereotypes and expectations surrounding singers, as well as social categories and identities, referred to in this study as “sociocultural vocal categories” and “sociocultural vocal identity,” respectively. Currently, there are limited explorations of the sociocultural vocal categories and their associated stereotypes, with research on singer …


Bridging The Gap: Fostering Emotional Expression Through Teaching Strategies In The Middle School Choral Classroom, Jacob Brown Jan 2025

Bridging The Gap: Fostering Emotional Expression Through Teaching Strategies In The Middle School Choral Classroom, Jacob Brown

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

This study investigates the impact of teacher-elicited expression strategies (i.e. emotionally evocative metaphor, technical elements through modeling, body of the conductor, understanding the emotional content) on the emotional expressivity of my middle school choral students. Using a mixed-method approach, data was collected through surveys of students' self-evaluations of the expression strategies, and their overall value of expression before and after learning processes that emphasized emotional expressivity. I found that each teacher-elicited expression strategies impacted student expressivity positively. Concrete strategies (i.e., body of the conductor and technical elements through modeling) were highly effective, particularly in my beginner and intermediate choirs, while …


Minority In Baroque Trumpet Repertoire: Minor-Key Literature For Baroque Trumpet, Wing Heng Victor Yuen Jan 2025

Minority In Baroque Trumpet Repertoire: Minor-Key Literature For Baroque Trumpet, Wing Heng Victor Yuen

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The repertoire for trumpet in the Baroque era is overwhelmingly in major keys for obvious reasons. As natural trumpet is limited by design to play the notes of the harmonic series, most players have little access to sonorities outside the major scale and arpeggios within the series without the help of technical innovations such as the slide, and much later, vent-holes. Baroque trumpet makers built valveless natural trumpets, which are limited by design to play the notes of the harmonic series. Since the fundamental physics limit the musical notes available to the natural trumpet, minor key is not an essentially …


Examples Of Storytelling In Tan Dun’S The Banquet Piano Sonata, Ni Zhan Jan 2025

Examples Of Storytelling In Tan Dun’S The Banquet Piano Sonata, Ni Zhan

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The Banquet is a 2006 Chinese martial arts film directed by Feng Xiaogang. Chinese-American composer Tan Dun was invited to create the film's original soundtrack. In 2016, Tan adapted the music from the soundtrack into a four-movement piano sonata, also titled The Banquet, using melodies from the original film score. This document examines The Banquet Piano Sonata’s connection to the film’s narrative. It explores ways in which the storytelling of the film is used in the sonata; this is accomplished through three key aspects depicted in the music: culture, atmosphere, and inner emotions.