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The Texas Bandmasters Association: A Historical Study of Activities, Contributions, and Leadership (1920-1997)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the leadership role of the Texas Bandmasters Association (1920-1997) in the development of the band program in Texas. It sought to determine TBA's effect on the band movement in Texas, and ascertain how the TBA has contributed to the emphasis on performance focus that is associated with the Texas band tradition. In doing so, the study also provided information regarding the association's goals, purposes, activities, and contributions during the time period under investigation. The historical data for the study was compiled from documentary sources and personal interview. Documentary sources included minutes of meetings from 1920-1997, information contained in various periodicals including the Southwestern Musician combined with the Texas Music Educator, and a nearly complete set of clinic-convention programs. Historical data from past researchers, including several masters theses and doctoral dissertations, and tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by past researchers, as well as interviews conducted by this researcher, were also utilized. Much of the historical data for the study was located at the Texas Music Educators Association archives, housed at the association headquarters in Austin, Texas. The researcher identified five periods of the association's history. In addition to developing a historical chronology, …
Date:
May 2000
Creator:
Shoop, Stephen Scott
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gunther Schuller and John Swallow: Collaboration, Composition, and Performance Practice in Eine Kleine Posaunenmusik, with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Berio, Bogle, Gregson, Pryor, Suderburg and Others
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Gunther Schuller is credited with coining the term Third Stream, meaning compositions where twentieth-century art music forms exist simultaneously with jazz. Furthermore, Schuller specifically states in the liner notes to the debut recording of Eine Kleine Posaunenmusik "The work is not a Third Stream piece." Yet the concerto alludes to jazz through a multitude of slide glissandi and plunger mute effects, Solotone mute passages, specific references to the jazz trombone styles of Tommy Dorsey and Lawrence Brown, musical quoting or indirect reference, and the use of a walking bass line in Movement V, Finale. What makes one piece Third Stream and another simply a modern composition with jazz implications? Is Third Stream primarily a compositional designation or a performance practice stipulation? How does a celebrated trombone soloist inspire and collaborate with a distinguished composer in the creation of a major work? The somewhat conspicuous title, Eine Kleine Posaunenmusik, seems to point towards Mozart's famous string serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. What connection to Mozart, if any, does Schuller's title suggest? All of these questions are elucidated in this study through careful investigation and research of Gunther Schuller's Eine Kleine Posaunenmusik. New interviews with John Swallow and Gunther Schuller are included.
Date:
May 2000
Creator:
Bogle, James Michael
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Carl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798-1859) Forgotten Composer for the Clarinet
Carl Gottlieb Reissiger was a successful German composer, conductor, and teacher in the first half of the nineteenth century. At the height of his career, he was Hofkapellmeister of theater and opera in Dresden, a position he held until his death. He was a composer of more than 200 works in a multitude of different genres. Today he is mainly known as a composer of opera, a small portion of his total output as a composer. He wrote approximately eighty piano solos, eighty collections of songs or duets, nine masses, and many smaller sacred choral works, as well as 27 piano trios, seven piano quartets, and three piano quintets. In addition to these many works, he wrote five works for the clarinet: Concertino, op. 63, Duo Brillant for clarinet and piano, op. 130, Fantasie, op. 146, Second Fantasie, op. 180, and Adagio und Rondo alla polacca, op. 214. This document provides a biographical sketch of Reissiger, including his personal life, his life as a conductor, and his life as a composer. It also provides a look at the artistic life of his day: his fellow composers and the music they were writing for clarinet, outstanding clarinetists and the different instruments …
Date:
May 2002
Creator:
Coltman, Charles Arthur
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A status and vision investigation of US university piano pedagogy programs.
The two major research questions were: “What is the current status of 20 prominent piano pedagogy programs?” and “what is the vision of an ideal future piano pedagogy program from the perspective of 20 piano pedagogy leaders?” Subjects were the leaders of the top 20 US university piano pedagogy programs. A survey study with interview questions was used as the instrument for the study. The results showed that faculty, curriculum, and teacher training were three top factors that contributed to the quality of the programs. Most interviewed subjects held a doctoral degree in music. The curricular content and degree options were diverse across the selected programs. The content of teacher training included private and group teaching. The perceived best qualifications of a piano pedagogy instructor were to have a balanced education. Most programs had small or little to no budget, however, the preparatory program was perceived to be an enhancement to teacher training program finances. The greatest challenges were faculty acquisition and financial limitations. Gaining more money was the most common improvement priority for programs. To envision an ideal future piano pedagogy program, most leaders stated that an ideal program should contain encourage: (1) collaborating with other divisions' faculty members …
Date:
May 2007
Creator:
Fu, Hui-Ju Camille
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Russian trumpet sonata: a study of selected representative sonatas for trumpet and piano with an historical overview of the Russian trumpet school
The impact of training on virtual team effectiveness was assessed in five areas: communication, planning tasks and setting goals, solving problems and making decisions, resolving conflict, and responding to customer requirements. A 12-page survey was developed exploring all aspects of virtual teams. 180 surveys were distributed, 52 were returned representing 43 companies. Training led to higher effectiveness in planning tasks and setting goals, solving problems and making decisions, and conflict resolution, but not in communication and responding to customer requirements. Training may not solve all the problems that virtual teams will encounter; however, training will make the challenges easier to handle.
Date:
May 2003
Creator:
Akhmadullin, Iskander
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Approach to the Critical Evaluation of Settings of the Poetry of Walt Whitman: Lowell Liebermann's Symphony No. 2
Walt Whitman's poetry continues to inspire composers of choral music, and the growing collection of musical settings necessitates development of a standard evaluative tool. Critical evaluation of the musical settings of Whitman's work is difficult because the extensive body of verse is complex and of uneven quality, and lack of common text among compositions makes comparison problematical. The diversity of musical styles involved further complicates the issue. Previous studies have focused on either ideology or style, but none have united the two critical approaches, thus restricting potential for deeper understanding of the music. This study proposes an approach to critical evaluation of Whitman settings that applies hermeneutics, or a blend of analysis and criticism, to the process. The hermeneutic approach includes an examination of the interrelationship between musical form and style and the composer's ideology, which is revealed through his/her treatment of Whitman's poetry and analyzed in light of cultural influences. Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961) has composed a large scale choral/orchestral setting of Whitman texts in his Symphony No. 2, opus 67 (1999). The selection, placement, and treatment of poetry in Symphony No. 2 provide a window into the composer's mind and his place in the current musical climate. Liebermann's …
Date:
May 2003
Creator:
Kenaston, Karen S.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance Issues Related to Soli by Carlos Chávez and Two Little Serious Pieces by Silvestre Revueltas, A Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of Kennan, Stravinsky, Haydn, Hummel, Neruda, Stevens and Others
Performance issues related to Soli by Carlos Chávez and Two Little Serious Pieces by Silvestre Revueltas. Chapters one and two provide a brief biography of each composer. Chapter three is an examination of their musical style and the influence that indigenous Indian music, popular music and nationalism had on their styles. Chapter four provides an investigation of Soli by Carlos Chávez, a chamber piece written for oboe, B-flat clarinet, bassoon and B-flat trumpet. Chapter five offers an examination of Two Little Serious Pieces by Silvestre Revueltas, a wind quintet for piccolo, oboe, C trumpet, B-flat clarinet and baritone saxophone. Chapters four and five contain an analysis of these pieces with regard to melodic and harmonic material, tonality, texture, range, phrase structure and form. Performance issues, such as tempo, dynamics, articulation, rhythm and style are likewise addressed with the result being an interpretive analysis of each piece. The final chapter offers a comparative analysis of Soli and Two Little Serious Pieces relative to the topics discussed in chapters four and five.
Date:
May 2000
Creator:
Hofer, Calvin D.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Catalog of Hardin-Simmons University, 1982-1983 Graduate Bulletin
Catalog describes the governance, admission requirements, course offerings, and campus life in the Division of Graduate Studies at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 31, 1982
Creator:
Hardin-Simmons University
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Hardin-Simmons University, 1982-1983 Undergraduate Bulletin
Catalog describes the governance, admission requirements, course offerings, and campus life of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 30, 1982
Creator:
Hardin-Simmons University
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of McMurry College, 1951-1952
Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 1951
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of McMurry College, 1952-1953
Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 1952
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of McMurry College, 1953-1954
Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 1953
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of McMurry College, 1956-1957
Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 1956
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of McMurry College, 1957-1958
Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 1957
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of McMurry College, 1958-1959
Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 1958
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of McMurry College, 1959-1960
Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 1959
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of McMurry College, 1960-1961
Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 1960
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of McMurry College, 1961-1962
Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
May 1961
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 30, Ed. 1, Friday, May 18, 1956
Weekly student newspaper from Abilene Christian College in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
May 18, 1956
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jeans, Boots, and Starry Skies: Tales of a Gay Country-and-Western Bar and Places Nearby
Fourteen short stories, with five interspersed vignettes, describe the lives of gay people in the southwestern United States, centered around a fictional gay country-and-western bar in Dallas and a small town in Oklahoma. Various characters, themes, and trajectories recur in the manner of a short story cycle, as explained in the prefatory Critical Analysis, which focuses on exemplary works of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson, Italo Calvino, Yevgeny Kharitonov, and Louise Erdrich.
Date:
May 2010
Creator:
Gay, Wayne Lee
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music Career Opportunities and Career Compatibility: Interviews with University Music Faculty Members and Professional Musicians
This study used a semistructured interview schedule to identify the music career opportunities available to students who graduate with an undergraduate music degree, and the skills, interests, work values, and personal characteristics that may determine a person's suitability for these music careers. Six university faculty members from each of the 11 NASM-accredited undergraduate music degree fields participated in the study (n = 66). Fourteen professional musicians who were recommended by these faculty members also participated in the study. Concerning the musical and non-musical skills that may determine a person's suitability for a music career, participants consistently noted the importance of performance skills in their respective fields. Participants also consistently cited people skills, and noted that most musicians interact with people on a daily basis, and use people skills to build social networks that may lead to employment. When asked about the interests that may lead someone to a music career, participants commonly cited the importance of good high school ensemble experiences in students' music career decisions. Concerning the rewarding aspects of music careers, many participants noted that they were more rewarded by the ability to support themselves doing what they loved, than by fame or wealth. Concerning the personal characteristics …
Date:
May 2010
Creator:
Branscome, Eric E.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1967
Weekly student newspaper from Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
May 5, 1967
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 102, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1957
Daily newspaper (except Sunday) from Breckenridge, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 23, 1957
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1978
Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 25, 1978
Creator:
Ezzell, Ben
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History