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God's Lonely Men : Bernard Herrmann's Musical Voice For The Lonely And Tortured Men Of Cinema, Clare Nina Norelli

Theses : Honours

Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) has long been regarded as one of the most important composers of film music. Emerging during a time when the majority of film scores worked primarily with the physical action onscreen or what was immediately obvious in the dramatic narrative, Herrmann's innovative compositional style instead focused on the unconscious and the psychological states at work. The following thesis is a discussion of the key elements of Herrmann's unique film score style and, via case studies of the three lonely male protagonists in the films Citizen Kane (Welles, USA, 1941), Vertigo (Hitchcock, USA, 1958) and Taxi Driver (Scorsese, …

"Onward!" For Orchestra, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras, conducted by Benjamin Loeb. Piece was commission as part of activities as EPSYOs Composer-in-Residence.

"A Winter Pastorale" For Violin And Piano (Cambridge, Ma), Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by Vanessa Cedillos (violin, Master's degree recital) and Naoko Sugiyama (piano)

The Great Dance, Timothy G. Tollefson

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Great Dance, an original composition for full orchestra, was inspired by the novel, Perelandra (1944), by C.S. Lewis. A major theme of Lewis's book is the fall of man into sin. The central character, Elwin Ransom, is sent to the planet Perelandra to help the humans there resist falling into temptation like they did on Thulcandra (Earth). Ultimately, Perelandra's Eve does not fall, and the book ends with the angels (eldila) proclaiming long, joyous hymns of praise to God (Maleldil). During this ending scene, Ransom and the two humans of Perelandra are allowed to see through time and the …

"Songs Of Sea And Life" For Tenor/Baritone Voice And Piano, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition Jose Dominguez (tenor, student senior recital presenter) and Dominic Dousa (piano).

A Quantitative Model Of Key Distance, With An Analysis And Performance Of Schumann’S "Märchenbilder", Op. 113 (Music Theory Presentation, Lecture-Recital), Dominic Dousa, Renee Skerik

Selected Works Temporary Series

Musicians are familiar with the traditional categorizations of key relationships: closely related, parallel, relative, and foreign. While some of these terms do describe well the relatedness of keys, they do not provide a clear means of comparing the relative remoteness of all keys from a particular reference key. For example, how much “more distant” is E-flat major from C major than is G major or D minor? The model presented in this lecture includes a number of important factors that may affect the perception of key relationships and assigns numerical measures to those factors. These measures are then used in …

A Quantitative Model Of Key Distance, With An Analysis And Performance Of Schumann’S "Märchenbilder", Op. 113 (Music Theory Presentation, Lecture-Recital), Dominic Dousa

Departmental Papers (Music)

Musicians are familiar with the traditional categorizations of key relationships: closely related, parallel, relative, and foreign. While some of these terms do describe well the relatedness of keys, they do not provide a clear means of comparing the relative remoteness of all keys from a particular reference key. For example, how much “more distant” is E-flat major from C major than is G major or D minor? The model presented in this lecture includes a number of important factors that may affect the perception of key relationships and assigns numerical measures to those factors. These measures are then used in …

"Westward Journey" For Trombone Quartet (Original Composition), Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my composition by the Continental Trombone Quartet. Presented at Concert I of Works by CMS Composers.

"The Winds Of A Summer Night" For Viola And Piano, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by Stephanie Schweigart (viola) and Dominic Dousa (piano).

'Iii. The Sky's The Limit' From "High Vistas" For Piano 4-Hands, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by Dena Kay Jones (piano) and Dominic Dousa (piano) at the annual beginning-of-year Faculty Departmental Recital.

"A Winter Pastorale" For Violin And Piano, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by Lesley Chen (violin) and Dominic Dousa (piano).

"New Day Dawning" For Orchestra, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras, conducted by Benjamin Loeb. Piece was commission as part of activities as EPSYOs Composer-in-Residence.

"Sail On!" For Satb Choir And Concert Band, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by the UTEP University Chorale and University Wind Symphony, conducted by William McMillan. Commissioned by the UTEP Music Department for the annual Departmental Gala concert.

"Sculptors Of Life" For Satb Choir And Piano, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by the UTEP University Chorale, conducted by William McMillan.

Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Volume 20, Various Authors

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

No abstract provided.

'Iii. Crossing The Bar' From "Songs Of Sea And Life" For Tenor/Baritone Voice And Piano, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by Christopher Meerdink (tenor) and Dominic Dousa (piano).

What Adorno Makes Possible For Music Analysis, Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

Conceived as a commentary on four responses to Adorno’s 1928 essay, “Schubert,” by Esteban Buch, Jonathan Dunsby, Scott Burnham, and Beate Perrey, this article explores some of the implications of Adorno’s essay as they center on notions of hybridity, the interstitial and especially the provisional. It urges a critical strategy that is self-critical, that seeks to name without naming, and that draws on rigorous formal analysis without presenting its outcomes as ends but as means toward various narrative ends.

"Little Suite - 'In Early Spring' " For Soprano Saxophone And Piano (Finland / 3 Performances), Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by Dan Gordon (soprano saxophone) and Jari Piikki (piano), as part of a recital of contemporary music for soprano saxophone and piano presented at three Finnish musical venues.

"Evening Piece And Summer Dance" For Viola And Piano, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by John Holguin (viola, student senior recital presenter) and Dominic Dousa (piano).

"The Tears Of Heaven" For Satb Choir And Piano, Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by the UTEP University Chorale, conducted by William McMillan.

"Songs Of Sea And Life" For Tenor/Baritone Voice And Piano (Fairbanks, Ak), Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by Christopher Meerdink, tenor and Jamila Hla Shwe, piano at a Faculty/Guest Artist Recital.

Volume 19, Various Authors

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

No abstract provided.

"Everything I'Ve Listened To With Love" : A Study Of Guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel And His Integration Of Classical Music Elements Into Jazz, Johanne Druitt

Theses : Honours

No abstract provided.

"Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven" For Satb Choir And Piano (South Bend, In), Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by the Vesper Chorale, conducted by Robert Briggs.

The Feeling Of Music Past: How Listeners Remember Musical Affect, Alexander Rozin, Paul Rozin, Emily Goldberg

Music Theory, History & Composition Faculty Publications & Performances

No abstract provided.

Computer-Assisted Music Composition In The 32-Bar Jazz Standard Form, Chad Hogg

Computer Science Honors Papers

The goal of this research project was to explore the potential for teaching a computer to compose jazz music. Specifically, the hope was to develop a method in which every decision could be made based on information about the entire system. If this problem were solved, the ancillary goal of allowing the user to set any arbitrary constraints that have global effects would be a trivial addition.

Fantasy And The Concert Hall: Musical Performance In The Electroacoustic Age, Matthew Malsky

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

In 1941, the famously despondent Theodor Adorno worried about the detrimental effects of radio broadcast upon the symphony. He theorized that much of value was lost when listeners experienced an orchestral performance of a composition in symphonic form through its electronic transmission to their kitchens rather than in a concert hall. Based upon empirical research done in collaboration with Paul Lazarsfeld and the Princeton Radio Research Project, he argued that the presence of music was lost to the radio listener, and with it a part of music's auratic spell, its uniqueness in time and place, its ritual, cultish …

Volume 18, Various Authors

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

No abstract provided.

Eric Ewazen: A Critical Analysis Of Ballade For Trombone, Harp, And Strings, Kathryn Roslee

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.