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Muop 356/856: Intermediate/Advanced Opera Techniques—A Peer Review Of Teaching Project Benchmark Portfolio, Jamie M. Reimer

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

I began the investigation of this course and subsequent course portfolio with the following objectives in mind:

1. To solidify and articulate the skills I intend students enrolled in this course to achieve by the end of the semester;
2. To think creatively about the presentation of course material to most effectively engage and empower students' success; and
3. To assess the effectiveness of the course activities in achieving course goals stated in the syllabus.

I am also excited to explore the options available for different methods of content delivery in this course, particularly the application of recorded performance for assessment. In the …

Made In Japan: Kumi-Daiko As A New Art Form, Anna Marie Viviano

Theses and Dissertations

Japanese taiko ensemble drumming, known in Japan as kumi-daiko, is an art form that has only taken shape within the past fifty years. This new performance style involving taiko seems, on the surface, to have much in common with traditional Japanese court and theater music, regarded by scholars as the art music of Japan. Using drums that have a long history in Japan, however, does not necessarily make that ensemble part of ancient Japanese tradition. By studying the most famous groups in Japan, such as Kodo, it is easy to discern that kumi-daiko has many different inspirations, but is not …

Conrad Susa's Discovery And Praises: A Conductor's Guide To Performance Considerations, Keith Harry Walker

Theses and Dissertations

Conrad Susa (b. 1935) is an American composer who has contributed over thirty choral works that are of high quality incorporating texts written by well-known literary figures. His choral works are usually spiritual in nature though not strictly liturgical. Discovery and Praises is a presently unpublished cantata in four movements for mixed chorus, solos for two sopranos, an alto, a tenor, and a baritone. The accompaniment is scored for organ, harp, percussion, flute and handbells. Susa chose to set ancient poetry by Caedmon, Wipo of Burgundy, John Donne, and St. Patrick. Although the piece was composed in 1966 and revised …

The Wind Chamber Works Of Ernst Toch: A History And Comparative Analysis, C. Nicole Gross

Theses and Dissertations

Ernst Toch (1887-1964) is one of the forgotten composers of the twentieth century. Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg, and Kurt Weill were contemporaries, while Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Erich Kleiber championed his early works. Toch lamented his lack of notoriety to Nicolas Slonimsky two years prior to his death. Forgotten or underappreciated were his numerous compositions of art music written in the decades prior to his immigration to the United States and in the final years of his career; remembered only were his lighter works and American film music.

Toch composed one work for military band: Spiel für Blasorchester, Op. 39 (1926), …

The Psychological Benefits Of Participating In Group Singing For Members Of The General Public, Marianne D. Judd, Julie Ann Pooley

Research outputs 2013

The last decade has produced a growing number of studies examining the potential psychological benefits of singing in a choir. Studies have tended to focus on the benefits for groups that might be described as marginalized or criminal. In contrast, the current study focused on members of the general public who regularly participate in choral singing. An in-depth qualitative design was utilized to explore the meaning and importance of group singing for 10 participants. Thematic analysis based on an interpretive approach was utilized to analyse the data. Psychological benefits emerged as two themes: individual and group. A third theme, mediating …

Reflections On The Construction Of Meaning Through Immanent Visual Association, Samuel P. Gillies, Lindsay R. Vickery

Research outputs 2013

Since the advent of digital video editing and projection, multimedia presentation in the concert space is no longer exclusive to the music of stadiumsized popular music events. Increasingly, many in the field of new music are incorporating elements of mixed media presentation. Examples of this trend include performances across the spectrum of new music such as Sensorband, Nico Muhly, Leafcutter John, and more. This paper discusses the artistic and thematic accomplishments of four different approaches to audio-visual association before discussing the influences of these approaches, their incorporation or rejection, into my own work Red River. (Gillies, 2011)

Concert Recording 2013-04-17, Riley Snell, Kristine Mezines, Matt Land, Amy Frenzel, Ryan Key, S. Michael Shuman

Concert Recordings & Programs

Nowbody knows this little rose. 1 / John Duke -- Horn concerto, op.8. Allegro moderato / Franz Strauss -- Sonata. Adagio; Presto / Henri Eccles

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 2013-11-26, 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

Fsu Ovation: 2012-2013 Season Fine Arts Series And Chancellor's Distinguished Speaker Series, Lamb Earnest

Choir History

The Department of Performing and Fine Arts Building Community through the Arts

Vision: The Department of Performing and Fine Arts will be the cultural and intellectual center for Fayetteville and its environs.

Mission: The primary mission of the Department of Performing and Fine Arts is to produce graduates in the performing and fine arts — music, dance, theater, visual arts — that will be leaders in their respective fields and its advocate. The Department is also committed to building community through the arts by being a resource for performing and fine arts pedagogy, cultivating a climate where creativity flourishes, engaging …

Utilizing Classical Saxophone Articulation Techniques In Jazz Performance, Jeremy Trezona

Theses : Honours

No abstract available.

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 …

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 …

Joe Henderson's Harmonic Approach To Improvisation Within The Duo Setting In His 1992 Quintet Album, Lush Life: The Music Of Billy Strayhorn, Patrick Van Der Moezel

Theses : Honours

Jazz improvisation can be greatly influenced by the combination of instrumentation, influencing the role of the instruments and the way they relate to each other. Notably, the stripped-back nature of the duo emphasises these differences. Musicians such as Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Joe Henderson are three of many saxophonists who have employed this particular combination to explore different ways of improvisation.

This paper will draw on Joe Henderson’s 1992 album Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, which uses the duo setting on three tracks. Each of these three tracks has a slightly different combination (saxophone with bass, with …

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. …

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.

Voice Recitals At The Unl School Of Music: Compilation Study, Audrey M. Nicholson

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

An informative compilation of Voice Recitals at the UNL School of Music categorized by Masters, DMA, and Faculty recitals from 1988-2012. Information includes: composer, work title, song title, performer, performance date, instrumentation, audio availability, and online program link.

"Download" button links to pdf version of file. Spreadsheet version (.xls) is attached below as "Related file." ".xlr" files are spreadsheets and can be opened from MS Excel.

Voice Studio Recital, Unlv Choral Ensemble

Choral Ensembles

Program listing performers and works performed.

Doctoral Recital, Jeremy Meronuck

Graduate Student Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Doctoral Recital, A. J. Merlino, Karalyn Clark, Chris Dye, Max Feld, Luigi Ng, Bronson Purdy, Erin Vander Wyst, Chris Tusa

Graduate Student Recitals

List of performers and performances.

2012 Holiday Concert: Old Dominion University Symphony Orchestra And Old Dominion University Wind Ensemble, Old Dominion University Symphony Orchestra, Jeff Phelps (Director), Old Dominion University Wind Ensemble, Dennis J. Zeisler, (Director), Alexandra Borza, (Graduate Conductor), Andrew Bohnert (Graduate Conductor), Matthew Phillips, (Graduate Conductor)

Ensemble Performances

No abstract provided.

2012-2013 Gingerbread Holiday Concert, Lynn University Philharmonia, Albert George Schram

Philharmonia

10th Annual Gingerbread Holiday Concert sponsored by Bank of America, presented by Lynn University and Friends of the Conservatory

Junior Recital, Robin Calarese

Junior Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Doctoral Recital, Stephenie M. Weiss, Karen J. Mccann

Graduate Student Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Guest Recital, Erisvaldo Borges, Guitar, Erisvaldo Borges

All Performances

No abstract provided.

2012-2013 Master Class - Elmar Oliveira (Violin), Elmar Oliveira, Olesya Rusina, Olga Kim, Delcho Teven, Zhen Yang Yu, Misaki Saito, Roman Yearian, Darren Matias, Silvia Suarez

Master Classes

No abstract provided.

Convocation, Michael Weber, Rahmaan James Phillip, Bronson Foster, Chang Yue, Patrick Garcia, Christopher Fujiwara, Samantha Ciarlo, Jeremy Russo, Jonathan Cannon, David Chavez

Convocations

List of performers and performances.

Nextet, Virko Baley, Sean Shepherd

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed.

Senior Recital, Jesse Garcia, Nick Schmitt, Halsey Harkins, Austin Pooley, Nick Tulli, Patrick Garcia

Senior Recitals

List of performers and performances.

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Symphonic Band, Jennifer Parson, Conductor, And The Marshall University Wind Symphony, Steve Barnett, Conductor, Jennifer Parsons, Steve Barnett

All Performances

No abstract provided.