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Departmental Assembly, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Students of the Department of Music featuring works by Beethoven, Haydn, Chopin, Debussy, and Schumann.

From Improvisation To Artistry: A Study Of The Piano’S 12 Sides By Carter Pann, Louis Claussen

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

Intended as a resource for pianists who may analyze or perform Carter Pann’s The Piano’s 12 Sides, this study provides biographical information on the composer and explores his professional relationship with the pianist for whom it was composed, Joel Hastings. Each piece from The Piano’s 12 Sides is discussed in terms of form, melody, harmony, texture and Pann’s approach to the pianistic compositional idiom. The composition is also examined with regard to extra-musical details and programmatic elements as well as inspiration and dedications that influenced Pann’s compositional process.

Correspondence and interviews with the composer reveal the motivation and inspiration behind …

Young Artist Competition, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Students from the Music Department and the AU Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Wild featuring works by Mozart, Prokofiev, Saint-Saens, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky.

Soloists:

Emily Jurek

Stephanie Guimaraes

Jeremy Myung

Jade McClellan

Katharina Burghardt

Simon Luke Brown

Graduate Conductor:

Edgar Luna

Sunday Music Series - Contemporary Composers Of Au, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Students and faculty from the Department of Music featuring their own compositions.

Pedagogical Thoughts On Album Des Six: A Piano Set By Les Six To Represent French Nationalism, Dipendra Sunam

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Les Six, formally established in 1920, included a group of young French composers: Georges Auric (1899-1983), Louis Durey (1888-1979), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) and Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983). The primary motivation for their formation was the reaction against foreign influences, especially German Romantic music, in French music. Jean Cocteau, inspired by Erik Satie’s style, proposed a new French musical aesthetic: simplicity, directness, clarity, and terseness. Les Six followed these ideals in their formative years. Their artistic association was short-lived, but while it lasted it produced Album des Six, their sole joint production, a published …

Discovering The "Finnish Chopin"—Selim Palmgren's 24 Preludes, Op. 17, And Tres Piezas Para Piano, Op. 54, Sijia Wang

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) is one of the most significant musical figures in Finland. Unlike Jean Sibelius, who is undoubtedly the greatest Finnish symphonic composer of his time, Palmgren’s concentration is more on smaller-scale character pieces. His contribution to the piano and vocal repertoires earned him the reputation of being the “Chopin of the North” and also the “Schumann of the North.” Palmgren was not only prolific, having written over 300 piano works and 200 vocal pieces, but also versatile, frequently blending within his works various nationalistic, impressionistic, and other musical styles and elements within his works.

This paper is focused …

Sunday Music Recital Series - Carla Trynchuk & Chi Yong Yun, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Carla Trynchuk (violin), and Chi Yong Yun (piano) featuring works Beethoven, mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Franck.

Whitcomb Towers Recital Series, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Students of the Department of Music featuring works by Scriabin, Mozart, Beethoven, Greig, Piazzolla, and Gershwin.

Rachmaninoff And The Flexibility Of The Score: Issues Regarding Performance Practice, Tanya Gabrielian

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s piano music is a staple of piano literature, but academia has been slower to embrace his works. Because he continued to compose firmly in the Romantic tradition at a time when Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg variously represented the vanguard of composition, Rachmaninoff’s popularity has consequently not been as robust in the musicological community. He left a rich legacy of recorded material which provides a first-hand account of his approach to musical interpretation. Few have analyzed Rachmaninoff’s recordings in great detail, and there are even fewer studies addressing Rachmaninoff’s performances of works by other composers.

The aim of this …

Taemin Yoon Piano Senior Recital, Andrews University

Student Degree Recitals 2017-2018

Taemin Yoon presents her senior recital featuring works by Beethoven and Chopin.

Carlan Cogen - Senior Piano Recital, Department Of Music

Student Degree Recitals 2017-2018

Carlan Cogen featuring works by Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin.

Sunday Music Series, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Chi Yong Yun featuring works by Liszt, Park, and Schumann.

Andrews University Winter Concert, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

A benefit concert for Neighbor to Neighbor by Andrews University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Gonzalez, featuring Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 and Brahm's Third Symphony.

Piano, Chi Yong Yun.

Whitcomb Towers Recital Series, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Students of the Deparment of Music featuring works by Grieg and Saint Saens.

Young Artist Concert, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Students from the Andrews University Department of Music performing in the annual Young Artists Concert under the conduction of Dr. Claudio Gonzalez, professor of music and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra.

This year’s selected young artists are Donn LaTour (violin), Grant Steinweg (cello), Ellen Yoo (piano), Jeremy Ahn (piano) and Zachary Randolph (tenor).

Klezmer Elements In Paul Schoenfield’S Trio For Clarinet, Violin, And Piano: A Violinist’S Perspective, Hannah Phyllis Urdea Marcus

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Paul Schoenfield’s Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano draws extensively on the traditional Klezmer music of the Ashkenazi Jewish people of Eastern Europe. The blending of three very different instruments, as well as the Klezmer elements, unusual for the classically trained musicians, creat difficulties, as well as opportunities, for the composer and for the performers alike.

Music is often considered a language. As with any language, in order to be fluent, one must understand the cultural aspects that shape that language and the people who speak it. The way the performers present a piece greatly influences the way it is …

Faculty Trio Recital, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Carla Trynchuk (violin), Karin Thompson (cello), and Chi Yong Yun (piano) featuring works by Mozart, Fauré and Piazzolla.

Vital Performance: Culture, Worldview, And Romanticist Performance Practice With Application In Franz Liszt’S Consolations And Années De Pèlerinage Première Année, Andrew John Snedden

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis examines issues of historical performance in the piano music of Franz Liszt, positing cultural exegesis as an overlooked source of evidence. Philosophical biases underlying mainstream C20th performance approaches (and their inhibiting potential) are discussed. A detailed reconstruction of Romanticist style is made with attention to primary sources, including historical recordings. A nomenclature for score annotation and an analytical paradigm for identification and application of Romanticist performance characteristics are proposed. These are experimentally applied, referencing exegetical insights, in Liszt’s Consolations and Années de Pèlerinage: Première Année through annotated scores and studio recordings on an 1860’s Érard grand

Performance Practice In Liszt’S Hungarian Rhapsodies: A Comparison Of The Liszt-Pupil Recordings Of Hungarian Rhapsody No.12, Nicholas Williams

Theses : Honours

Despite their enduring popularity as concert works, Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies have never won favour with the critics. Played in a literal, score-bound fashion these works can indeed offer little more than fodder for the performing pony. Nevertheless, through performances that successfully capture the spirit of this music—many of which are captured on early recordings—these works are vibrant, powerful, and stirring.

This dissertation explores the performance style associated with these works. At the centre of this study is a comparative analysis of seven recordings of Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 made by the following Liszt pupils: Arthur Friedheim, Arthur de Greef, Alfred …

Analyzing And Comparing Selected Works For Violin And Piano By Chen Gang, Chen Guoquan And Bright Sheng, Liangjun Zou

Theses and Dissertations

Cross-cultural musical synthesis plays an important role in the creation of musical progress in the twentieth century. This dissertation is a study on the development of the use of Chinese folk elements in Western-style compositions by Chinese composers. Through analyses of different compositions by traditional Chinese composers, Chen Gang and Chen GuoQuan, as well as Chinese-born American composer Bright Sheng, the aesthetic variations produced by the synthesis of Western and Eastern music is examined.

Chapter One focuses on the development of Chinese violin music promoted by the efforts of several generations of composers. Chapter Two presents the background information of …

Ana Lozano Graduate Piano Recital, Andrews University

Student Degree Recitals 2017-2018

Ana Lozano performs her Graduate Recital featuring pieces by Beethoven, Schumann and Ravel.

Rachelle Gensolin-Senior Piano Recital, Department Of Music

Student Degree Recitals 2017-2018

Rachelle Gensoling featuring works by Beethoven, Scriabin, Schostakovich, and Chopin.

Senior Piano Recital - Jonathan Doram, Department Of Music

Student Degree Recitals 2016-2017

Jonathan Doram featuring works by Beethoven, Franck, Ravel and Bach-Busoni.

Whitcomb Towers Recital Series, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Students from the Department of Music featuring works by Beethoven, Faure, and Schubert.

Sunday Music Series - Ian Hobson, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Ian Hobson performing works by Debussy, Ravel and Chopin.

Homecoming 2017 - Alumni Gala Concert, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

AU Wind Symphony under the direction of Byron Graves and Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Gonzalez, featuring works by Smith, King, Daehn, Balmages, Ticheli, and Beethoven.

Special guest: Wen-Teng Ong, piano

Whitcomb Towers Recital Series, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Students from the Department of Music featuring works by Bach, Franck, and Beethoven.

Howard Presents- Trynchuk & Yun, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2017-2018

Carla Trynchuk (violin) and Chi Yong Yun (piano) featuring works by Brahms, Sibelius, Wtentawski, White and Faure.

Degree Recital - Nathaniel Cogen, Department Of Music

Student Degree Recitals 2016-2017

Natheniel Cogen featuring works by Liszt, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Gershwin.

Beijing Opera Elements In Qigang Chen’S Piano Concerto Er Huang, Funa Wang

Dissertations

Beijing opera (known as jingju in Chinese) dates back to 1790 and is the most famous traditional Chinese regional opera of some 335 different styles, combining music, vocal performance, dance, and acrobatics. Originally considered vulgar by the court, Beijing opera became especially popular with the Qing dynasty court in its later days (1884-1910), thus raising its status at the beginning of the twentieth century to a ‘national opera.’ Furthermore, it has become an important nationalistic and traditional element in Chinese contemporary music.

Qigang Chen studied and lived in Europe for long time and is proficient in Western compositional techniques. On …