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A Guided Approach to Teaching Hand Percussion Instruments in a Collegiate Applied Percussion Curriculum
(2022-12-16)
Hand percussion is a broad term that includes many different instruments, techniques, and styles and can be difficult to decide what to include in a collegiate percussion curriculum. Although there are several resources ...
Primary Rhetoric and the Structure of a Passacaglia
(2020-05)
The art of the musician is much like that of the orator. Both are charged with the delivery of a sonic medium over the unfolding course of time. Furthermore, both the orator and musician must be attentive to disposition ...
A Comparison of the Ivan Galamian and Rachel Barton Pine editions of the Sonata No. 3 in C Major for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 1005
(2023-05-12)
Study of the Sonatas and Partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685—1750) is an
inevitable avenue of the violinist’s artistic journey. The most commonly studied version of the
Sonatas and Partitas is the edition published ...
Accessible Bach Cantatas for Church Choirs Comprised of Amateur Singers and BWV 133 as Demonstration
(2020-05-08)
Johann Sebastian Bach composed five annual sets of sacred cantatas based on the Lutheran liturgical calendar. Bach carefully constructed cantatas with his exceptional musical ability and deep theological understanding to ...
An Analytical Study and Performance Practice Guide for Percussion Works Opus 35 and Opus 37 by Nebojša Jovan Živković
(2021-05-14)
This document provides an analysis and performance practice guide for two percussion works by Serbian composer Nebojša Jovan Živković (b. 1962). A renowned figure in the percussion world known for the aggressive style of ...
Magic Lantern Tales: A Music/Text Analysis of the Vocal Works of Cheryl-Frances-Hoad
(2023-05-12)
This document explores Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s song cycle Magic Lantern Tales, as a highlight of her oeuvre as well as of contemporary art song. Each song in the cycle, and a select few of Frances-Hoad’s other vocal works, ...
Symphony No. I
(2021-05-14)
This document contains the full score to Symphony No. I, a composition for wind ensemble comprised of four movements lasting approximately thirty minutes. On the macro level, this symphony is motivic, and is centered upon ...
The Style, Analysis, and Performance Practices of Selected Choral Works by Isabella Leonarda and Maria Xaveria Peruchona
(2022-12-16)
This document explores and analyzes sacred music composed by two Ursuline composers of the seventeenth century: Isabella Leonarda and Maria Xaveria Peruchona. It also studies the socio-historical background with particular ...
Selected Songs of Nadia Boulanger: Formal Analysis and Adaptation for Brass Chamber Music
(2021-12-17)
Worth can be a difficult thing to understand and define, even under the best of circumstances. Nadia Boulanger is known to have told her teacher, Gabriel Fauré, that “if there is one thing of which I am certain, it is that ...
Cultivating Connections in Twenty-First Century American Opera: The Commissioning of Four New Works at Pioneering Theatres
(2021-12-17)
This study investigates selected pioneering American opera theatres and four world premieres from 2000-2019, shedding light on prodigious commissioning histories and twenty-first century new works initiatives of four ...