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Lee Hoiby's Song Cycle The Shining Place, With Poetry by Emily Dickinson
(2010)
LEE HOIBY'S SONG CYLE THE SHINING PLACE,
Samuel Barber's <italic>Souvenirs</italic>: A Comparative Study of the Solo, Duet, and Orchestral Versions
(2010)
Souvenirs is one of Samuel Barber\'s least known piano works despite possessing many of the trademark elements--beautiful melodies, elegance, compositional variety, and emotional appeal--that made his music famous. Souvenirs ...
Something Old, Something New: The Rustic Wedding Symphony of Karl Goldmark
(2010)
While Karl Goldmark was an internationally-known composer and respected teacher in the late nineteenth century, his music is not widely known among performers and audiences today. This document attempts to address this ...
OBSERVATIONS OF PRACTICE CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDERGRADUATE CLARINET STUDENTS IN PRACTICE SESSIONS AND PRECEDING APPLIED LESSONS
(2010)
This study observed practice characteristics demonstrated in the practice sessions of sixteen undergraduate clarinetists, and examined the relationship between those characteristics and the activities each student experienced ...
An Application of the Principles of Anatomy, Physiology, and Neurology to the Balancing and Playing of the Flute
(2010)
Flutists encounter significant physical problems in the course of their everyday playing of the instrument and frequently are not given the detailed and accurate scientific teaching and training that would prevent the ...
An Analysis of John Adams' Grand Pianola Music
(2010)
Grand Pianola Music, composed in 1982 by John Adams, was written for pairs of winds, extended percussion, three female vocalists, and two pianos. Due to critic and audience disapproval, by way of booing after its 1983 ...
Carter Pann's Four Factories for Wind Symphony: An Analysis and Discussion
(2010)
Carter Pann is an award-winning composer of music for a variety of mediums and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Pann's Four Factories, commissioned ...
An Analysis of Selected Percussion Ensemble Arrangements
(2010)
The emergence of the percussion ensemble in the early twentieth century and its continued expansion into the twenty-first has resulted in a substantial amount of new music for this relatively young musical genre. This ...
The Mechanical Development of the Piccolo
(2010)
The purpose of this document is to explore the mechanical development of the piccolo in relation to the flute. Although there have been several studies conducted about the mechanical development of the flute, the piccolo ...
OBSERVATIONS OF PRACTICE CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDERGRADUATE CLARINET STUDENTS IN PRACTICE SESSIONS AND PRECEDING APPLIED LESSONS
(2010)
This study observed practice characteristics demonstrated in the practice sessions of sixteen undergraduate clarinetists, and examined the relationship between those characteristics and the activities each student experienced ...