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Towards Interaction: Combining Jazz Techniques And Idiomatic Writing For Varied Ensembles. A Collection Of Musical Works -And- An Exegesis, Glyn Alan Macdonald

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This practice-led research project has produced musical works that bring together ensembles from the Western Classical tradition that only read notation, and, jazz soloists who improvise. Three works ‘Standing Ground’, ‘The Journey’ and ‘Matt versus the Zombies’ were composed for three ensembles each with an improvising soloist. These ensembles included a British style Brass Band, Brass Quintet and a double Saxophone quartet.

The project built on the work of Andy Scott and Eddie Sauter, both of whom wrote for non-jazz ensembles and an improvising artist without including a jazz rhythm section. The accompanying non-jazz ensemble was written in such a …

Concert Programs 2018-2019, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Department Of Music

Concert Recordings & Programs

This is the annual compilation of music programs from the Department of Music for the time period indicated

Concert Recording 2019-01-25, Twyla Robinson, Jerome Tan

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Down east / Charles Ives -- [03:56]. Two memories. A. Very pleasant ; B. Rather sad -- Charles Ives -- [06;12]. Two little flowers (and dedicated to them) / Charles Ives -- [07:28]. Ansturm / Alma Mahler -- [09:16]. Bei dir ist es traut / Alma Mahler -- [11:45]. Già il sole dal Gange / A. Scarlatti -- [13:49]. Beautiful dreamer / Foster ; arranged by Penhorwood -- [17:40]. Danza, danza, fanciulla / Durante -- [19:21]. Ring, ring the banjo / Foster ; arranged by Penhorwood -- [21:30]. Attente / Lilì Boulander -- [ 23:53]. Among dawn flowers I …

Concert Recording 2019-02-04, Richard Rulli, Cory Mixdorf, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Trio pour trompette, trombone, et piano / Jean-Michel Damase -- [21:34]. Candide . Oh happy we ; Make our garden grow / Leonard Bernstein -- [37:43]. O come and dwell in me / Joseph Turrin -- [33:01]. Konzert für trompete, posaune, und orchester / Jan Koetsier.

Concert Recording 2019-03-03, Rebecca Smith, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Cello suite no. 2 in D minor BMW 1008 (1717-23). Prelude ; 4 Courante ; Gigue / Johann Sebastian Bach ; arranged by Wendell Hoss -- [07:52] .Horn concerto in B flat major, op. 91. Allegro / Reinhold Gliere -- [18:58]. Bagatelle for horn and piano / Hermann Neuling -- [24:40]. Sonata for horn and piano, I. Massig bewegt ; II. Ruhig bewegt ; Leghaft / Paul Hindemith.

Concert Recording 2019-03-05, Flávio Franco Araújo

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Mother / Flávio Franco Araújo -- [07:37]. Bella / Flávio Franco Araújo -- [14:22]. Flávio Jogando Bola / Flávio Franco Araújo -- [20:07]. Salve Campeão / Flávio Franco Araújo -- [25:51]. Erva Doce / Flávio Franco Araújo -- [29:30]. For Bill / Flávio Franco Araújo -- [33:08]. Fool on the hill / John Lennon ; Paul McCartney -- [38:45]. Somewhere over the rainbow / Harold Arlen ; Yip Harburg -- Stella by starlight / Victor Young -- [44:36]. Bossa Nova Mix. Wave / Antonio Carlos Jobim -- Bahia (Na baixa do Sapateiro) / Dorival Caymmi -- Trenzinho Caipira / …

Concert Recording 2019-03-07b, Timothy Thompson

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Anthropology / Charlie Parker -- [00:53]. Night song /Traditional melody of the People's Republic of China ; arranged by He Zong -- [02:56]. Dawn interlude / Paul Stanhope -- [06:15]. Tanquito / Dante Yenque -- [09:38]. Searching for the light / Timothy Thompson -- [19:40]. Prism / Daniel Baldwin -- [23:41]. Just desserts / Lowell Shaw.

Concert Recording 2019-03-09b, Eugene Osadchy, Dominic K. Na, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Dolcelli

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. An die Musik / Franz Schubert -- [02:29]. Theme from "The Moldau" / Bedrich Smetana -- [05:06]. Sarabande. Gigue / Johann Sebastian Bach -- [09:50]. Ten duos for two cellos, op. 53. No. 1 Comodo in C major ; No. 2 Leggiero in E minor ; No. 4 Vivace in D major / Reinhold Gliere -- [14:58]. From Marche militaries in Dmajor D. 733 / Franz Schubert -- [20:03]. Romance op. 28 no. 2 / Robert Schumann -- [24:38]. Humoresque no. 7 op. 101 / Antonin Dvorak.

Concert Recording 2019-03-13, Dominic K. Na, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sonata for violoncello and piano in G minor / John Ireland -- [22:04]. Sonate pour piano et violincelle in F major, op. 67 / Mélanie Bonis -- [38:42]. Cristal (Samba-choro) / César Camargo Mariano.

Concert Recording 2019-03-29, Moon-Sook Park, Hyun Kim, Dominic K. Na, Eun Seo Park, Chris Scherer

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Grandmother moon for soprano and cello. Ionhontsiá:te (Mother earth). / Dawn Ierihò:kwats Avery -- [04:49]. Céphale et Procris. Lieux ecartez, paisible solitude from / Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre -- [09:19]. Four Dickinson songs ; Will there really be a morning ; I'm nobody ; She died ; If I ... / Lori Laitman ; Emily Dickinson -- [18:59]. Guendae Issume (Because you are here) / Sunae Kim -- [22:51]. Lee Eung and Arirang (Arirang) / YoungRan Park -- [27:11]. She tell her love ; A boy and a girl / Stephen Caldwell -- [31:48]. Morgen, op. 27, no. …

Concert Recording 2019-04-22, Fernando Valencia, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Latin American Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. El shing-a-ling / Poncho Sanchez ; arranged by Fernando Valencia --[07:48]. Mambo Inn / Mario Bauza ; arranged by Fernando Valencia -- [12:06]. We don't talk anymore / Charlie Puth ; J. Kasher ; adapted by Fernando Valencia -- [16:17]. Song for Chano / Ray Barretto -- [23:09]. Our love is here to stay / George Gershwin ; arranged by Fernando Valencia -- [28:59]. Macumbia / Francisco Zumaque ; adapted by Fernando Valencia -- [35:32]. Coco my my / Poncho Sanchez -- [41:02]. Fly me to the moon / Bart Howard ; arranged by Fernando Valencia -- [45:55]. Hasta …

Concert Recording 2019-04-27a, Kelsey Petet, Collette Soriano, Ben Irvin, Kyleigh Pell, Stevie Petet

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sechs miniaturen. V. Adagio ; III. Allegro moderato / Matthias Schmitt -- [03:27]. Minute of news / Eugene Novotney -- [06:13]. Sonata for timpani. I. / John Beck -- [09:44]. Sleepy cat / Kelsey Petet ; Stevie Petet -- [14:03]. Drei skizzen. III. Presto / Matthias Schmitt.

Concert Recording 2019-04-27b, Ben Irvin, Kyleigh Pell

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Percussion music / Michael Colgross -- [06:40]. Max / J.C. Combs -- [08:50]. Etude no. 1 / Vic Firth -- [11:50]. Aisle seat / Jeff Queen -- [14:43]. Dialogue / Garwood Whaley -- [18:23]. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum / Claude Debussy -- [21:52]. Land / Takatsugu Muramatsu -- [26:35]. The girl with flaxen hair / Claude Debussy.

Concert Recording 2019-04-30, Hannah Rodriguez, Ann Rye, Charles Hartman

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. La pastorella mia / Francesca Caccini -- [03:47]. Per pietà bell'idol mio / Marianne Martines -- [09:13]. Sechs Lieder, opus 13. Ich stand in dunklen Träumen ; Liebeszauber ; Ich hab' in Deinem Auge / Clara Schumann -- [15:48]. Though love be a day. Thy fingers make early flowers ; lily has a rose ; maggie and millie and molly and may / Gwyneth Walker -- [22:42]. Opus 9. Sehnsucht ; Verlust ; Die Nonne / Fanny Mendelssohn Handel -- [28:37]. Ihwau "Pear Blossom Rain" / Lee Won-ju -- [34:23]. Cantique.La mer / Nadia Boulanger -- [38:18]. Three Browning …

Concert Recording 2019-02-12, Christopher Macrae, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Luoghi sereni e cari. Vaghissima semianza . O del mio amato ben / Stefano Donaudy -- [08:04 Ideale. Non t’amo piu . L’ultima canzone / Francesco Paolo Tosti -- [18:22]. The songs of travel. The vagabond ; Let beauty awake ; The roadside fire ; Youth and love ; In dreams ; The infinite shining heavens ; Whither must I wander? ; Bright is the ring of words ; I have trod the upward and the downward slope / Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Concert Recording 2019-10-06a, Nora Lee Garcia, Masae Mizuno

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Fantasie sur Francoise de Rimini / Paul Taffanel -- [07:31]. Night piece / Arthur Foote -- [05:01]. Sonata for flute and piano. I. Allegro moderato ; II. Expressivo ; III. Alegre / Radames Gnatalli -- [21:47]. Melodia / Luigi Cortese -- [23:47]. Sonata for flute and piano. I. Allegro malinconico ; II. Cantilena ; III. Presto giocoso / Francis Poulenc.

Concert Recording 2019-10-16b, Thiago Ancelmo

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Prelude (1987) / K. Penderecki -- [03:47]. Sequenza Ixa (1980) / L. Berio -- [16:25]. Fantasia sul America (1983) / C. Santoro -- [19:36]. Ludica I (1983) / R. Miranda -- [22:23]. For an actor-Monologue for clarinet (1978) / S. Ran -- [29:51]. Bug (1999) / B. Mantovani -- [35:10] Fantasie (1993) / J. Widmann -- [42:18]. Blues for D.D. (2001) / J. Agrell.

Concert Recording 2019-10-17, Mary Thornton, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Simple song / Leonard Bernstein -- [03:24]. Equinox sonata. I. Sun horizon ; II. Dream walking ; III. Moon mysteries / Carson Cooman -- [18:45]. Trumpet songs. I. Morning opens ; II. To home ; III. In our quiet ; IV. Hop & toe dance ; V. Threaded ; VI. Breaking / Jennifer Higdon -- [28:50]. Seven popular Spanish songs. I. The Moorish cloth ; II. Murcian seguidilla ; III. Asturiana ; IV. Jota ; V. Lullaby ; VI. Song VII. Polo / Manuel de Falla.

Concert Recording 2019-10-28, Stephen Hunt, Kevin Robinson, Miroslava Panayotova, Kassidy Moore

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. House of the rising sun / traditional ; arranged by Robinson -- [06:20]. Euphonium concerto. Movement 1 / Eric Ewazen -- [12:05]. Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033. Andante ; Allegro ; Adagio ; Minuet and trio / J.S. Bach ; arranged by Pierce -- [20:41]. By gaslight / Tadeusz Kassatti -- [26:04]. Madison / Ola Gjeilo -- [29:08]. Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin ; arranged by Ridenour -- [38:48]. Napoli / Herman Bellstedt -- [44:00]. Cousins / Herbert L. Clarke.

Concert Recording 2019-11-16a, Avigail Gomez, Nelson Rosa, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Lisa Auten

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Concert etude / Alexander Goedicke -- [03:58]. Concerto in F minor. I. Allegro moderato ; II. Adagio religioso, allegretto ; III. Rondo / Oskar Bohme -- [20:07]. Four miniatures. I. Fanfare ; II. Intermezzo ; III. Canto ; IV. Tarantella / Joseph Turrin -- [30:02]. Albumblatt / Alexander Glasunow -- [34:39]. Sonata, op. 18. I. Allegro con brio ; II. Andante con espressione ; III. Allegro con anima / Thorvald Hansen -- [44:33]. The maid of the mist / Herbert L. Clarke.

Concert Recording 2019-11-24a, E. Scott Sewell, Kristine Mezines

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Ev'ry valley shall be exalted from The Messiah / George Frideric Handel -- [03:21]. La serenata / Francesco Paolo Tosti -- [06:14] Penso / Francesco Paolo Tosti -- [08:41]. Tristezza / Francesco Paolo Tosti -- [11:54]. Der Zauberer / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [13:47]. Die Forelle / Franz Schubert -- [16:01]. Storchenbotschaft / Hugo Wolf -- [19:37]. Le papillon et la fleur / Gabriel Fauré -- [21:55] Mai / Gabriel Fauré -- [ 23:44]. Adieu / Gabriel Faure -- [25:54]. The one way / Charles Ives.

A Kentucky Pioneer In Music Therapy: An Oral History On The Life And Career Of Lorinda Jones, Emma Powers

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Lorinda Jones, MT-BC, is the longest practicing music therapist in Kentucky. She began her work as a music therapist in 1995 and built a private practice, which expanded over the course of the next 20 years to include services in 16 counties. Ms. Jones’ perspective on the growth of music therapy, both within the state and nationwide, as well as her extensive knowledge of Appalachian folk music, makes her an invaluable resource to Kentucky music therapists. The purpose of this study was to present a historical account of the life and career of Lorinda Jones, to gain her perspective on …

Finding The “Tech” In Technique: A Pedagogical Approach To Electroacoustic Concert Percussion Performance Practice, William Brady Harrison Ii

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Premise and Objectives

In our increasingly technology driven society, the impact of technology touches nearly every aspect of our lives in some form or another. This has been acutely felt within the world of percussion, with electroacoustic works representing perhaps the most rapidly expanding area of concert percussion over the last twenty years. Electroacoustic music couples electronic technology with traditional acoustic instruments and/or performance practices.

Broadly, this paper outlines a systematic approach to teaching electroacoustic performance practice, based on elements found in a cross-section of percussion literature. In using such an approach, not only does each student become more capable …

Teresa Carreño’S Early Years In Caracas: Cultural Intersections Of Piano Virtuosity, Gender, And Nation-Building In The Nineteenth Century, Laura Pita

Theses and Dissertations--Music

This dissertation studies the musical activities of the Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) during her formative years in Caracas. It examines the sources that pertain to her musical environment, early piano training, and first compositions in the context of the growth in Caracas of the practices of recreational sociability, the increasing influence of virtuosic music, and the tradition of private concert-making sponsored by devoted music amateurs. This study argues that Teresa Carreño’s musical upbringing occurred in a social and cultural context in which Enlightenment-framed ideologies of civilization and social progress, shaped in fundamental ways the perceptions of the …

Theoretical Study And Performing Edition Of Sonata Iii By Javier G. Compeán, José Mario Ortiz Sánchez

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Mexican composer Javier G. Compeán finished Sonata III, his most recent composition for solo guitar, in December 2015. Since the composition of his first such work in 2003, the composer has been experimenting with texture, register, dynamic range, extended techniques, harmonic possibilities, timbre, and form in his solo guitar music. In Sonata III, Compeán applied the experience he gained in previous compositions for guitar.

This work represents the composer’s current style, in which he returns to a more traditional language but continues to experiment with the technical capabilities of the instrument. Sonata III is Compeán’s most ambitious guitar composition and …

John Mackey’S Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony For Band A Discourse And Analysis Of John Mackey’S Symphony For Band, Jonathan C. Sweet

Theses and Dissertations--Music

John Mackey’s Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Band(2014) is a work of epic proportions and was the winner of the William D. Revelli Composition Contest of the National Band Association in 2015. Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Bandhas received much acclaim and many performances including a recording by the University of Texas Wind Ensemble in 2016.

The purposes of this dissertation are 1) to provide historical information on the genesis of the work through interviews with its composer, John Mackey, and commissioning director, Jerry Junkin; 2) to provide an analysis of how the programmatic elements of Homer’s Odysseyinteract with …

A Singer’S Stress: Yoga And Meditation Techniques In The Collegiate Voice Studio, Zackery David Morris

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Often neglected in voice study is the understanding that a singer’s instrument lives in his/her body and therefore cannot be packed away like other musical objects. Yoga and mindfulness compliment the belief of a whole body instrument. Data gathered on college campuses report that stress and anxiety are on the rise, thus reinforcing the need for MBSR and yoga as beneficial and proven tools for stress relief. The current state of research in the realm of mental health in colleges merits the study of a cohesive layout of these exercises and their expected outcomes in singing as well as stress …

Postminimalist Choral Music: A Pedagogical Perspective, Joshua John Chai

Theses and Dissertations--Music

After the strict processes of mid-twentieth-century minimalism, a new musical style has emerged which retains extensive use of repetition, but is generally more aurally accessible, based in non-functional triadic harmony, and flexible in its compositional structure. Frequent use of non-minimalist resources, musical resources from multiple styles in a single composition, and quotation from previous historical periods define this flexibility.

American choral music has many popular compositions that exhibit characteristics of this new musical style, in part because of its accessibility relative to earlier minimalist styles, and in part because it adapts easily to the choral setting. At the same time, …

Partita For 8 Voices & Wind Ensemble: A Transcription Process, Kaitlin May Bove

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Partita for 8 Voices (2012) is a groundbreaking a cappella work that earned its composer, Caroline Shaw, the record of youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013. While the work continues to receive performances from its premiere ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, no transcription of the piece to any other ensemble type existed at the beginning of this DMA project. The author sought to transcribe a piece by a living female composer with no work for band into the wind band medium. The resulting transcription, Partita for 8 Voices & Wind Ensemble, adds a new work to …

Uncovering Alice Bag: An Alternative Punk History, Emily Macune

Scripps Senior Theses

The intention of this thesis is to provide an alternative counter-narrative to the mainstream histories of punk that center white men. By focusing on the contributions of fem queer and POC punks, I aim to legitimize punk music as a form of resistance against systems of oppression that are oppositional to the commodified forms of mainstream punk. Using Alice Bag, as my central case study as a fem queer punk that is often left out of punk historical narratives, I contextualize her work through feminist, queer, and media studies lenses to bridge the gap between academia and forgotten personal experience.