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Kamba time - for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello
(2014-04-30)Kamba Time is a composition for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello. This piece is inspired by conceptions of time of an ethnic group form Kenya - Kamba people. The idea of an absolute, potential and absent time is ... -
Kreuzspiel, Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus, and Mashups:Three Analytical Essays on Music from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
(2013-07-25)Three separate essays are presented. The first is an in-depth analysis of <italic>Kreuzspiel</italic> and its place within Stockhausen's <italic>oeuvre</italic>. The second considers the structure of Messiaen's <italic>Louange ... -
Laban Movement in Piano: An Introductory Guide to Incorporating Laban Choral Conducting Gestures in Piano Performance and Pedagogy
Rudolf von Laban was a pioneering movement theorist, deeply interested in the expression of human movement. His teachings have been adapted by James Jordan and Giselle Wyers for expressive choral conducting. Pianists, both ... -
Les Choéphores by Darius Milhaud: a study guide for conductors
(1991)This paper is intended to be a source of information about the choral-orchestral piece Les Choephores by Darius Milhaud, (1892-1971). Written in 1915 when the composer was twenty-three years old, it is the second work in ... -
The Life and Music of Isang Yun
(2014-04-30)The Life and Music of Isang Yun Edward Park Isang Yun (1917-1995), born in Duksan in Korea, is considered by many Korean and European musicians to be one of the most important of all twentieth-century composers. He spent ... -
The life and works of Peter R. Hallock (b. 1924)
(2007)Peter R. Hallock, a native of Washington State, is a mystic, countertenor, composer, organist, and liturgist inextricably linked to St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle. He served as organist/choirmaster there from 1951 ... -
lily [bloom in my darkness]: an electroacoustic opera
Lily [bloom in my darkness] is a 35-minute electroacoustic opera for voice, live electronic processing, pulse sensors, two violas, saxophone doubling clarinet, electric harp, piano, and dance with an original libretto by ... -
A living instrument: the clarinet in jazz in the 1950s and 1960s
(2002)The clarinet was a part of the most modern and avant-garde jazz in the 1950s and 1960s. It was played by Buddy DeFranco, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Giuffre, Pee Wee Russell, Tony Scott, Bill Smith, members of the AACM and Sun Ra's ... -
The London St. Cecilia's Day Festivals and the Cultivation of a Godly Nation
(2012-09-13)In the late seventeenth century, major cities across England marked St. Cecilia's Day with a musical celebration. While Oxford, Winchester, and Salisbury hosted these yearly festivals with some frequency, the tradition was ... -
Louis Vierne and the Evolution of His Modal Consciousness
University of Washington Abstract Louis Vierne and the Evolution of His Modal Consciousness Jonathan Bezdegian Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dr. Carole Terry Music During my years of organ study I have always been ... -
Mahler's Third Symphony and the Languages of Transcendence
A work reaching beyond any of his previous compositional efforts, Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony embodies cultural, political, and philosophical ideals of the Viennese fin-de-siècle generation. Comprising six enormous ... -
Marion Bauer's "Completely Musical Life" (1882-1955): An American Composer's Essential Creative Works and Contributions to Twentieth-Century Music
Marion Bauer was a major creative force in early-twentieth-century American music--a vital composer, influential educator, erudite writer, and tireless advocate. Her contributions to American music are legendary. Bauer ... -
Max Reger's Symphonische Fantasie und Fuge, Op. 57: A Study of Thematic and Harmonic Structure and Issues of Performance Practice
(2012-09-13)This dissertation is a comprehensive study of Max Reger's Symphonische Fantasie und Fuge, Op. 57. The first chapter provides biographical information on Max Reger's life and works. The second chapter features the compositional ... -
Max Reger’s Adaptations of Bach Keyboard Works for the Organ
The history and performance of transcriptions of works by other composers is vast, largely stemming from the Romantic period and forward, though there are examples of such practices in earlier musical periods. In particular, ... -
The measured upstream impedance for clarinet performance and its role in sound production
(1996)The performer's use of the airways, including the mouth, tongue, throat, and lungs, during clarinet performance was studied by measuring the airway resonances. This research tested the theory that the performer tunes airway ... -
Mental Preparation for Piano Performance Using Principles of Aikido
Although much has been written about Music Performance Anxiety (MPA), very few of its many definitions and treatments can be holistically applied. Indeed, there is only limited reference to MPA in the American Psychiatric ... -
Messiahs and Pariahs: Suffering and Social Conscience in the Passion Genre from J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (1727) to David Lang's the little match girl passion (2007)
The themes of suffering and social conscience permeate the history of the sung passion genre: composers have strived for centuries to depict Christ's suffering and the injustice of his final days. During the past eighty ... -
A method of sight reading for piano ensemble : with commentary and preparatory exercises
(2003)This method of sight reading for Piano Ensembles addresses a vacuum in the market for a method specific to the instruction of Class Piano with a focus on Sight-reading. Several aspects and techniques of sight-reading ... -
Milt Jackson: the creative genius behind "Bags' groove"
(2002)Vibraphonist Milt Jackson was a significant figure in the evolution of jazz vibraphone. His career in jazz spanned six decades and included associations with the leading jazz artists of the 20th century. Jackson was among ... -
Mirum Terra
Translating to Strange Earth, Mirum Terra is a sequence of three musical pieces (The Taos Hum, Dune, and Blip) that explore some of the naturally occurring aural phenomena throughout the world. My primary goal in creating ...