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Selected Solo Marimba Music of Raymond Helble: A Guide for Teaching and Performance
(2013-12-13)
This document examines the pedagogical and historical importance of Raymond Helble’s solo marimba music. Selected titles include The Well-Tempered Marimbist Books One and Two (1983), Preludes for Marimba Nos. 1-3 (1971), ...
An Overview of the Piano Concerto in Canada Since 1900 with Stylistic Analyses of Works Since 1967 by Eckhardt-Gramatte, Dolin, Louie, Kuzmenko, and Schmidt
(2013-12-13)
This study provides an overview of the piano concerto in Canada since 1900 with stylistic analyses of five concertos written in the five decades since 1967 by five Canadian composers: Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Samuel ...
Heinrich Domnich: A Discussion of His Career, Pedagogy and Concert Works for the Horn
(2014-08)
This document explores the life, music, and writing of Heinrich Domnich, a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and a horn virtuoso of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Domnich lived from 1767 to 1844 and ...
The Acting System of Konstantin Stanislavski as Applied to Piano Performance
(2019-12-06)
This document presents methods to address common performance challenges faced by college-level piano performance majors by adapting techniques from the acting System of Konstantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor, director, ...
Transcriptions and Choral Arrangements of Five Wichita Melodies
(2015-08)
Preservation of Native American music is a timely and necessary endeavor. In the hopes of preserving the music of one Southern Plains tribe, this document examines five melodies and four choral arrangements of the Wichita ...
Technological Innovations Culminating in the American Symphonic Organ, 1880-1920
(2014-05-09)
The middle nineteenth century saw the rise of the Romantic Era and, with it, a change in the prevailing musical aesthetics. Composers expanded musical forms and pioneered new ones with the goal of expressing intense ...
The Interpretive Development of Four Successful University Band and Wind Ensemble Conductors Concerning Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger and Symphony in B flat by Paul Hindemith
(2015-05-08)
In this study, two monumental works from the wind band repertoire, Lincolnshire Posy (1937) by Percy Grainger (1882 - 1961) and Symphony in B flat (1951) by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963) were examined from an interpretive ...
MODERN INNOVATIONS IN AMERICAN TRUMPET MOUTHPIECE DESIGN
(2014-05-09)
In the early part of the 20th century, technological advancements in machinery allowed the production of trumpet mouthpieces to become more consistent than ever before. Vincent Bach and his contemporaries improved upon ...
Horatio Parker's Hora Novissima, Op. 30 (1892): A Critical History and Analysis
(2014-05)
This document is a critical history and analysis of Horatio William Parker’s 1892 cantata Hora Novissima, Op. 30, an 11-movement work for chorus, large orchestra, and four soloists. Its libretto is drawn from the 12th-century ...
Approaches to Bartok's Contrasts: A Collection and Comparison by Clarinet Artists
(2013-12-13)
The purpose of this study is to broaden the knowledge of an important work in the clarinet repertoire, Contrasts, Sz. 111, for violin, clarinet and piano, by Bela Bartok. The method chosen for this study is the collection ...