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Innovation And Tradition In Lisan Wang’S Piano Suite Other Hill, Rongjie Xu

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

Lisan Wang is one of the most celebrated musical figures in China. His five-movement piano suite Other Hill (1980) is the composer’s response to the “New Wave”, a compositional trend generated in China after the 1977 Cultural Revolution. Gaining fame as a piano composition for showing the application of multiculturalism and syncretism to music, Other Hill is regarded as a prime example of cross-cultural piano composition in China. Wang challenges Chinese traditional piano composition with different artistic media—philosophy, calligraphy, poems, and various folk elements in Other Hill. This document proposes an interdisciplinary study of Lisan Wang’s musical fusion of …

An Analysis Of The Career And Solo Style Of Jazz Trombonist Carl Fontana, John Wesley Parker

Dissertations

Carl Fontana’s ability and creativity as a jazz trombonist is held in high regard by his contemporaries, as well as by those who followed him. The significant aspects of his career were highlighted in a brief biography with historical and anecdotal information provided by jazz trombonists who new him and were influenced by him. Fontana’s solo style was analyzed and compared through transcriptions of three improvisations performed during contrasting points in his career: “Intermission Riff” from 1956, “Just Friends” from 1978, and “It Might As Well Be Spring” from 1985. His influence on the jazz trombone community was discussed through …

A Metrical Analysis And Rebarring Of Paul Creston's Sonata For Alto Saxophone And Piano, Op. 19, Christopher Kyle Sweitzer

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

The Sonata For Alto Saxophone and Piano Op. 19 is one of the most popular pieces in the saxophone literature, commonly played by professional saxophonists during their training. It features exciting rhythmic devices like irregular and mixed meter, the notation of which is the main focus of this paper. Although Creston often used irregular and mixed meter in his compositions, he rarely specifically notated them, choosing instead to use accents, beams, slurs, and other phenomenal cues at the musical surface to create the effect of these metric plans. Time signatures often remained constant throughout entire movements. Creston believed this would …

Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers And Sifting Through The Ruins: An Analysis Of Two Chamber Song Cycles By Libby Larsen, Juline Erika Barol-Gilmore

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

American composer Libby Larsen is one of the most active, prolific composers living today. Although she is known for composing in many musical genres, her vocal works are among her most recognized compositions. When selecting song texts, Libby Larsen carefully chooses poems that speak to her personally, both in the rhythm of the language and in the text’s depth of meaning and spirit. In addition, a large number of her vocal works are based on texts by or about women.

In sum, authors and poets have profoundly influenced Larsen, specifically in her chamber song cycles Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me …

'Some Quite Nice Little Tunes': An Overview Of The Preparation And Recording Of The Incipits For The Britten Thematic Catalogue, Jonathan Manton

Jonathan Manton

Karol Szymanowski. Prelude Op. 1 No. 2., Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni performs Karol Szymanowski's Prelude op. 1 No. 2

Karol Szymanowski. Prelude Op. 1 No. 7, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni performs Karol Szymanoski's Prelude op. 1 No. 7.

Las Cruces, New Mexico. St. Paul United Methodist Church Concert Series. November 14, 2010., Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Cd Review. Mostly Tangos: Piano Music From The Americas., Oscar Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

"He plays these endlessly evocative works with understanding and seeming ease—bringing out their lovely melodies, finding tempos that seem quite right, and expertly balancing their wit, gravity, and passion."

Tucson, Arizona. Steinway Gallery. October 4, 2010, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Faculty Artist Series Recital, Jeanne Belfy, David Saunders, Svetlana Maddox

Jeanne M. Belfy

A program of trios, including a 1998 Suite by Alexander Arutiunian and a big romantic work by Heinrich von Herzogenberg. Solo works for oboe by Vincent Persichetti and for horn and piano by Francis Poulenc were also featured.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. College Music Society National Conference. September 24, 2010., Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Presented my book in a lecture-recital format.

The Tango in American Piano Music. Selected Tangos by: Thomson, Copland, Barber, Jaggard, Biscardi, and Bolcom.

College Music Society Press, June 2010

Studies In English Church Music, 1550-1900. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Cs926) By Nicholas Temperley (Review), Julian Onderdonk

Music Theory, History & Composition Faculty Publications & Performances

No abstract provided.

Sex And Laughter In Women's Music, 1970-77, Sarah Dougher

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

The women's music movement of the early 1970's was created by and for women who came to political consciousness as a result of the women's liberation movement. The music culture that emerged was originally called "lesbian music", but later gained the less controversial descriptor "women's music". Outside of this music movement music produced during this period rarely made explicit links with emerging feminist consciousness.What differentiated "women's music" from other music made by women of the period was its lesbian focus (in both lyrics and performance contexts). Women's music was created for a lesbian audience to describe lesbian experiences and desires. …

European Piano Teachers Association, World Piano Conference. Novi Sad, Serbia, August 28, 2010, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Invited.

Presented a lecture-recital on my book "The Tango in American Piano Music. Selected Tangos by Thomson, Copland, Barber, Jaggard, Biscardi, and Bolcom.

Diploma Of Excellence. World Piano Teachers Association, World Piano Conference. Serbia., Oscar Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Dr. Dorian Leljak, World Piano Teachers Association (WPTA) President, has requested that we make a preliminary review of your 2010 WPC presentation. We have just completed the review and are extremely happy to report that your presentation merits the WPTA Diploma of Excellence (WPTA dip-E) Accreditation, our highest esteemed accolade. We congratulate you on this important professional achievement and wish you success in your future endeavors. Kind regards, WPTA Accreditation Board

Douçaine Vivant: The Life, Death, And Resurrection Of A Cylindrical Survivor, Aage Bent Nielsen

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Thirty years ago, ocean archaeologists excavating the sunken wreck of the Tudor flagship the Mary Rose uncovered a “mystery instrument,” later revealed as the only extant douçaine. This exciting discovery catalyzed this work and a new career direction for the author. The douçaine is a cylindrical bored early double reed instrument mentioned frequently in literature and chronicles from the thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries. Unfortunately, none of the known references included a definitive description or iconographical depiction. Despite the emergence of the extant douçaine, relatively little scholarship exists on the instrument. Furthermore, only one contemporary instrument maker uses the extant …

William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast: Orientalism And The Continuation Of The English Oratorio, Elissa Hope Keck

Masters Theses

This study investigates aspects of Orientalism found within the genre of the English oratorio, specifically William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast (1931). Building on Edward Said’s research on Orientalism, analyses of Orientalist representations in music exploded the field of musicology in the 1980s and 90s. However, the examination of Orientalism in sacred genres remains lacking. Bringing forth cultural, political, and musical conflicts between East and West, Walton’s oratorio encourages further investigation in previously unaddressed genres. I argue that, by combining dramatic operatic elements with sacred text, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast reflects a continuation of Orientalist ideologies through binary opposition aimed at perpetuating the …

Ginastera "Malambo." Live Performance, St. James's Piccadilly, London, July 30, 2010, Oscar Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Live performance. St. James's Piccadilly, London, UK. Organized by the Iberian and Latin America Music Society of London.

Astor Piazzolla "Adios Nonino." Live Performance At St. James's Piccadilly, London, July 30, 2010, Oscar Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Live performance. St. James's Piccadilly, London, UK. Organized by the Iberian and Latin America Music Society of London.

London, St. James's Piccadilly Concert Series. July 30, 2010, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Poldowski Rediscovered, David Mooney

Articles

This is a brief magazine article, commissioned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the death of Poldowski. It contains a biographical sketch and a description of compositions.

Cd Review. Mostly Tangos: Piano Music From The Americas., Oscar Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

"...fine pianist, his playing is strong, with clear and expressive phrasing. And the recorded sound is excellent... quite vigorously if this performance is anything to go by. Recommended"

International Steinway Artist. 2010, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Named International Steinway Artist by the prestigious piano manufacturing company.

July 2010

The Features Of The Voice Of African American Tradition: An Analysis Of African American Rhetoric For The Influence Of The Call Response Technique, Laura Venezia

Communication Studies

This project explicates the nature of the rhetorical strategies, especially the call response, used by various African American artists and orators (Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Public Enemy). The techniques include the interplay of repetition and heightening emotion provided especially through 1. using the “call response” directly, 2. announcing jeremiad warnings and rallying cries, and 3. using potent images to arouse emotions—the objective correlative.

Argentina. Teatro San Martín, Tucumán. May 20, 2010, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

El Paso, Texas. Grace United Methodist Church. Solo Recital. May 9, 2010, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

No abstract provided.

Protest Music Of The Vietnam War: Description And Classification Of Various Protest Songs., Amanda Marie Carr-Wilcoxson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Vietnam War and subsequent protest movement remains one of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history. This thesis is an attempt to define and describe the protest movement as well as the varied popular protest songs that came from this era. Building on a previous study written by Elizabeth Kizer, this thesis creates sub-categories in which the protest music falls into.

The first two chapters of this study help by giving historical context to the songs by describing the Vietnam War and then the protest movement in the U.S. The final chapter then deals with popular protest songs that …

El Paso, University Of Texas. Faculty Recital Series. April 25, 2010., Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Conservative Radical: Martin Luther’S Influence On Congregational Singing, Jonathan Knight

B.A. in Music Senior Capstone Projects

Martin Luther played an influential role in the transition from the priest-dominated Catholic worship to congregationally accessible evangelical services. This study demonstrates that, though his musical reforms were not dramatic, they were intentional and effective. Luther’s understanding of music theologically, theoretically, and practically enabled him to effectively utilize available musical resources to make music increasingly accessible, for the purpose of teaching the Word of God. Through Luther’s hymns, people began proclaiming the Word of God musically. Through liturgical reform, Luther provided congregations with a framework through which to incorporate congregational song in the liturgy. Through music education, Luther increased musical …