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A Tale Of Five Cities: The Peregrinations Of Somma's And Verdi's Gustavo Iii (And Una Vendetta In Dominò And Un Ballo In Maschera) At The Hands Of The Neapolitan And Roman Censorship, David Rosen

Verdi Forum

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Verdi Vs. Wagner, Marcello Conati

Verdi Forum

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The Revision Of Recitatives From Il Trovatore To Le Trouvère, David Lawton

Verdi Forum

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Johannes Brahms's Requiem Eines Unpolitischen, David B. Dennis

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Twenty Centuries Of Living Hymns, Lilianne Douhkan

Faculty Publications

"The following is a distillation of a spoken presentation by the author, assisted by the Andrews University choirs, given as the opening event of Faith Ablaze! Hymns of Heart and Heritage, a hymn festival held at Andrews University in November, 1999.1 It is a journey through time, starting with the beginnings of the church and continuing to the present, one in which we hope you, the reader, like those present that evening, can come to a better understanding of how our hymns came about, and what they meant to those who preceded us. Given the constraints in time that evening …

Fred Bartenstein: The Right Place At The Right Time, Kurt Mosser

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Fred Bartenstein has always seemed to find himself perfectly situated to pursue his life-long interest in bluegrass music – as he puts it, “I’ve always seemed to be in the right place at the right time.” This luck has allowed him to find bluegrass in the most surprising places, whether at a private day school in New Jersey, or at Harvard University in the late 1960s. It has also meant that, among other things, he found himself attending the first bluegrass festival in Fincastle, Va., becoming a bluegrass DJ at the age of 16, starting Muleskinner News magazine, and playing …

A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Music Of Charles Ives, James Sinclair

Descriptive Catalogue of The Music of Charles Ives

This catalogue serves to describe the music manuscripts in the Charles Ives Papers, MSS 14, in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University. Published in 1999. Revised in 2012.

Review Of La Imagen De Nuestros Músicos: Del Siglo De Oro A Edad De Plata, Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

La imagen de nuestros músicos: Del Siglo de Oro a la Edad de Plata is a hefty compilation of 681 portraits of Spanish composers from the Renaissance to the present. The illustrations are organized in four large chapters: "Del siglo de oro a la ilustración", covers the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries; "El primer romanticismo" and "El segundo romanticismo", deal with the first and second half of the 19th century; the final section, "Los músicos de nuestro siglo" focuses on the 20th century. If my numbers are correct, the earliest composer included in the study is the polyphonist Cristóbal de …

Review Of Michael Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians And Their Music In The Third Reich (New York And Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), David B. Dennis

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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On Censored Performances Of 'Les Vêpres Siciliennes' And 'Rigoletto': Evidence From The Verdi Archive At New York University, Martin Chusid

Verdi Forum

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'Musica Adattata All'intelligenza Ed Alle Esigenze Del Pubblico': Giuseppe Verdi, Errico Petrella, And Their Audience, Sebastian Werr

Verdi Forum

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The Censorship Of 'I Masnadieri' In London, Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Verdi Forum

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Mallorca: Centers For Musical Historical Research, Antoni Pizà, Joan Parets I Serra

Publications and Research

Majorque, la plus grande des îles Baléares, a une riche histoire musicale. Depuis plus de dix ans, le Centre de documentation musicale historique local a entrepris de recueillir, conserver et propager le patrimoine historique et musical des îles Baléares. L'article retrace l'historique de la recherche dans la région et donne un aperçu des collections et des activités du Centre, qui incluent des publications, des colloques réguliers et des rencontres scientifiques.

Mallorca, eine der größten Inseln der Balearen, hat eine reiche Musikgeschichte. Seit zehn Jahren ist das lokale Zentrum für historische Musikdokumentation dabei, das historische und musikalische Erbe der Balearen zu …

Chromaticism And The Use Of The Keyed Trumpet In The Haydn And The Hummel Trumpet Concerti, Gary R. Turner

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study addresses the development of a trumpet capable of playing a complete chromatic scale. The invention of the keyed trumpet at the end of the eighteenth century freed the instrument from the acoustic limitations of the Baroque "natural" trumpet. These limitations are explained in the study. The capabilities of the keyed trumpet prompted first Franz Joseph Haydn and later Johann Nepomuk Hummel to compose concerti in which the solo trumpet parts contain novel chromatic melodic passages impossible to perform on natural trumpets. These concerti, both written for the same instrument, with only seven years separating their composition dates, reflect …

Resonances In The British Invasion, 1965-1968, Jonathan D. Bellman

Music Faculty Publications

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From The Director's Desk, Martin Chusid

Verdi Forum

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The Critical Reception Of Verdi's Operas In England, 1845-1847, Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Verdi Forum

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Verdi Sings Erminia Frezzolini, Mary Ann Smart

Verdi Forum

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Censorship In Verdi's 'Attila': Two Case Studies, Linda B. Fairtile

Verdi Forum

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Abstracts From The Sarasota Conference On Verdi's Revisions, Martin Chusid, Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell, James Hepokoski, Harold Powers, David Rosen

Verdi Forum

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"Permit Me Then Good Friends To Sing": Reflections, Reactions, And Manipulations In Civil War Songs, Joanne Thomas

Masters Theses

Musicologists, folklorists and historians agree that the music of the Civil War was a significant means of communication for Americans in all regions and classes. The popularity of music soared during the war, with songs about the war holding center stage. This study moves beyond the acknowledgment that these songs were an important means of communication to seeing what messages were being communicated by both professional and amateur songwriters. These lyricists criticized and praised behaviors, often pointing out the social acceptance or exclusion that could result from individual behaviors, made assumptions about and passed moral judgements on female, male, and …

Flamenco Deep Song [Book Review], Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

Timothy Mitchell's Flamenco Deep Song certainly is not a flamenco handbook describing the genres, forms, instruments, and biographies of flamenco music, but a critical study questioning the accounts of flamenco (its histories, one could say) that have been set forward by historians, anthropologists, folklorists, and even flamenco artists themselves.

Composing For The Virtuoso: Harmony, Form, And Rhythm In Paganini's Twenty-Four Caprices For The Violin, Op. 1, Philip T. Harrison

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The study presents a brief historical background of the Italian violinist Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840) and an analysis of five caprices from Twenty-Four Caprices for the Violin, Op. 1 with the intent of determining the harmonic language. Many music historians and theorists give little attention to Paganini as a composer, though his compositions encompass many genres. Historians, in particular, focus their attention on his life as a performing virtuoso. It is the contention of this study that Paganini composed the Twenty-Four Caprices for the Violin, Op. 1, for the virtuoso performer. The harmonic language of the caprices is an amalgamation of …

The Relationship Between Musical Behavior, Holistic Living, And Perceived Delinquency In Adolescents, Janice S. Schreibman

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between musical behavior, holistic living, and self-perceived delinquency in adolescents. One hundred thirty-seven ninth-grade students from two Detroit area high schools were selected for this study. All participants completed two surveys — an adapted version of the Holistic Living Inventory (HLI) (Stoudenmire, Batman, Pavlov & Temple, 1985), and surveys developed by the researcher to measure involvement in music and self-perceived level of delinquent behavior.

A three-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed there were no significant differences between the adolescents' level of involvement in music, the degree to which they practiced …

From Jazz To Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians And Their Music, 1890-1935 By Thomas Hennessey (Book Review), Gene H. Anderson

Music Faculty Publications

According to Hennessey, the purpose of the present text, an extension of his dissertation, "From Jazz Age to Swing: Black Musicians and Their Music, 1917-1935" (Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1973), is to trace the interaction between the enormous sociological changes in America and the music of African American musicians from the origin of jazz to the beginning of the swing era. He claims that "the transformation of jazz from a primarily local music rooted in black folk traditions to the tightly managed product of a national industry controlled by white businessmen and aimed at a predominantly white mass market paralleled …

Verdi's First "Willow Song": New Sketches And Drafts For Otello, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

The genesis of Verdi's Otello is a familiar episode in the history of Italian opera. The semiretired composer's reluctance to reenter the operatic fray, his gradual interest in Arrigo Boito's draft libretto, and the astonishing speed with which he composed the music have been the subject of both musicological and biographical study. Letters between librettist and composer detail the textual modifications that Boito made to accommodate Verdi's needs. Up until now, however, we have had few corresponding musical documents readily available to illustrate how Verdi grappled with the challenges of Boito's libretto. Beginning with his draft text, dispatched to Verdi …

Don Quixote (1950) [Music Review], Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

Far from being a culturally disengaged body of musical works, Roberto Gerhard's music is a rich and complex web of cultural references encompassing history, myth, literature, folklore, and contemporary social issues. Don Quixote (1950) exemplifies Gerhard's mature, fully developed style with this emblematic eclecticism.

Mla Reports: Pre-Conference On Conservation, And A Report On The Conference, Lisa Rae Philpott

Western Libraries Publications

Report of the Music Library Association's 65th Annual meeting, held at the Seattle Westin, February 5-1 1, 1996. The pre-conference Conservation Workshop, offered by Ted Honea of Sibley Library was invaluable and informative. Gerard Schwarz, Music Director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra since 1983, described his indebtedness to music libraries, and how he devises programmes for the SSO. Other topics included: Brahmsiana; Managing Difficult People; Managing Technology; Teaching the 'Net; the Selling of Seattle Through Song; and Handel's Relationship with his Publishers. And, the Eastman School/Sibley Library has recently received the Alexander Courage Collection (source materials, sketches, and movie scores, …

Letter To The Editor, Victor Fell Yellin

Verdi Forum

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Abstract: Verdi's Ternary Structures In Les Vêpres Siciliennes, James Hepokoski

Verdi Forum

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