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A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century American Clarinetists is designed as a resource to provide information on the lives and careers of American clarinetists and pedagogues of note, active primarily between the years 1900 and...
This treatise will focus on the life and music of Canadian jazz clarinetist Phil Nimmons. It will introduce Canadian and non-Canadian musicians to Phil Nimmons' accomplishments as a jazz performer, composer, and pedagogue. Phil Nimmons...
In his relatively brief musical career, French-Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon has written orchestral, solo, and chamber works for most instruments and voice types. His symphonic compositions have been performed by such prestigious...
This treatise is an exploration of the distinctiveness of the American Symphony Orchestra. The American Symphony Orchestra was a unique organization that combined contemporary music and young musicians of diverse backgrounds with a...
Given the horn's lengthy history, it is not surprising that many scholars have examined the evolution of the instrument from the natural horn to the modern horn and its expansive repertoire. Numerous dissertations, theses, and treatises...
Performance opportunities for saxophonists in military bands, university bands, and community bands are widespread and ever-expanding. Studying saxophone excerpts from wind band repertoire can be a beneficial supplement to the...
The IDRS and its publications are the primary scholarly resource for all double reed performers. Authors that contribute to these journals typically consist of professional orchestral performers and university professors. Articles...
This treatise provides information about the clarinetists of the John Philip Sousa Band: 1892-1931. The study focuses on the clarinetists who were featured as soloists with the band and the music they performed. Between 1892 and 1929, ...
Flute Performance Practice in the United States (1870-1900): An Exploration of the Repertoire and Writings of American Flutists Sidney Lanier and Henry Clay Wysham
Boehm-system flutes were adopted by most professional flutists in the United States between 1870 and 1900, and American audiences proved to be receptive to the new timbral and technical possibilities of this instrument. The repertoire...
In this treatise, I have transcribed into musical notation seven poems and their accompaniments on flute (collectively referred to as the Jane Poems) written by poet Jessica Hand and flutist/composer Jeana Melilli. Poetry is often set to...
The purpose of this project is to define the playing-related injuries common to clarinetists, list causes, and explore treatment and prevention methods. An online survey was conducted to yield information of the location and degree of...
The oboe reed is both a blessing and a curse--the bane and the delight of every oboist. There is nothing greater than the satisfaction of creating an amazing reed that will do everything an oboist requires. A great reed allows one to...
Ulrich Gasser is a contemporary Swiss composer who has written music for nearly every instrument. His compositions for orchestra, chamber winds, choral groups, piano, and organ have been performed throughout Europe. His extensive...
A Performance Analysis of Stylistic Features of Scott Mcallister's Selected Works for Solo Clarinet: Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind, Black Dog: Rhapsody for Clarient (and Piano), and Blingbling
The purpose of this document is to provide a resource for clarinetists regarding three works for solo clarinet by Scott McAllister: Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind, Black Dog: Rhapsody for Clarinet (and Piano), and BlingBling....
Trombonist innovator and pioneer, Stuart Dempster's diverse career has included roles as performer, teacher, commissioner, composer and healer. Through extensive interviews with Dempster, his colleagues and former students, this document...
Libby Larsen is widely recognized as one of the premiere living American composers. Her lasting influence on every genre of music is constantly asserted through ongoing performances of her works throughout the world. This treatise mainly...
James M. Stephenson is a prominent composer of the 21st Century with a particularly large output of brass music. Formerly a professional trumpet player, Stephenson was sought out as a topic of study for this treatise. As such, it is the...
Beatbox Flute is a contemporary technique in which a performer creates complex polyphonic percussive effects while playing the flute. Developed in the early 2000s, it has only recently begun to gain widespread acceptance. The current...
Wil Offermans is a flutist-composer with a holistic approach to contemporary flute pedagogy. At present day, there are very few English-language publications on Offermans; thus, in comparison to his contemporaries, the broader English...
The purpose of this document is to identify and describe each of the works for flute and piano by Philippe Gaubert. It serves as a resource to flutists to explain the unique and idiomatic way Gaubert wrote for the flute, and will...
The practice of music arranging has been in existence for centuries. With respect to percussion, transcriptions of classical works were the initial source of repertoire expansion during the 1930s, beginning with the marimba. Since that...
The aim of this treatise is to provide a practical and accessible point of reference for trumpeters and teachers looking to find Canadian trumpet literature for performance and/or pedagogical purposes. The scope of this project includes...
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote four chamber music works for mixed wind ensemble: Serenade in E flat for thirteen winds, Op. 7; Suite in B flat for thirteen winds, Op. 4; Sonatina No. 1 in F for sixteen winds, and Sonatina No. 2 in E...
The Ten Blake Songs helped to establish the unique ensemble combination of voice and oboe and has become a major staple in the chamber music repertoire for both oboists and singers. Vaughan Williams wrote the work in 1958—the last year...
The composer Ruth Schonthal (1924-2006) taught at New York University since the late 1970s. Schonthal, born in Germany just before the rise of the Third Reich, was of Jewish descent, greatly impacting her education in the 1930s and 40s...
Daniel Pinkham is best known for having produced one of the largest bodies of works for choir and organ of any composer of the twentieth century, most of which were written for the church. However, he also wrote extensively for other...
Abstract Since the teaching of transposition is largely an oral tradition, the purpose of this treatise is threefold: to survey the methods used to teach transposition that are successfully being used by horn professors in a number of...
Osvaldo Golijov's The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for Klezmer Clarinet and String Quartet, Including an Introduction to Klezmer for Performance
Osvaldo Golijov's The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for klezmer clarinet and string quartet is a reflection of the history of Judaism through means of quotation and imitation. Best known for having forged a style that melds two...
"An Annotated Bibliography of Published Duets for Clarinet and Marimba Available in the United States" is a study of available published duos. Many score collections were examined drawing on a wide range of resources. These included the...
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