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The Use of Age Appropriate Mental Skills Activities for Performance Enhancement in Six- to Twelve-Year-Old Pianists
(2011)
Music performance psychology research to date has largely focused upon advanced performers such as professional musicians and collegiate music majors. Relatively little performance psychology research has focused upon ...
The Impact of Culture, Organists, and Theology on the Professional Success of Herman Schlicker
(2013)
Herman Schlicker had a profound influence on the direction of American organ building because he was able to capitalize on a number of contemporary movements which allowed him to sell a product that he was already producing ...
Lee Hoiby's Song Cycle The Shining Place, With Poetry by Emily Dickinson
(2010)
LEE HOIBY'S SONG CYLE THE SHINING PLACE,
Deconstructing Authenticity in Three Urtext Editions of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Op. 67: A Conductor's Guide to Variant Readings for Performance
(2016)
This document suggests a solution to the problem posed by the existence of three competing urtext editions of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, op. 67, by Clive Brown, Jonathan Del Mar, and Jens Dufner. The fact that a final ...
Margery Aber and Her Contributions to the Suzuki Method in the United States
(2011)
Margery V. Aber (1914 - 2001) was a violinist and music educator who was invaluable to the growth of the Suzuki Method movement outside of Japan. Her love and enthusiasm for teaching led her to begin a new job at the ...
Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
(2012)
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast is widely recognized as the seminal work of the English composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Among his compositional output, this choral cantata launched his career as a musician and composer of ...
A Schenkerian-Schoenbergian Analysis of David Maslanka's Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble and Implications for Performance
(2017)
David Maslanka has emerged as one of the most prominent composers of music for wind instruments. His most recent piece for clarinet, the Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2014), has been performed and recorded ...
Pianistic Analysis of Bedřich Smetana's Piano Cycle Dreams, Six Characteristic Pieces for Piano
(2016)
This document provides a study resource for teachers and performers concerning Bedřich Smetana’s piano cycle Dreams, a musical work that played a key role in the development and recognition of a distinctly Czech style. The ...
Clara Schumann's Character Pieces: A Pedagogical Approach to Selected Works
(2016-05-13)
This study explores pedagogical aspects of Clara Wieck Schumann’s piano works through a discussion of selected character pieces. Although Clara composed over sixty piano pieces, only a few are standards of the repertoire, ...
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 ...