The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective: an Ongoing Experiment in Musical Self-Governance
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The KNIGHT REVISION of HORNBOSTEL-SACHS: a New Look at Musical Instrument Classification
The KNIGHT REVISION of HORNBOSTEL-SACHS: a new look at musical instrument classification by Roderic C. Knight, Professor of Ethnomusicology Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, © 2015, Rev. 2017 Introduction The year 2015 marks the beginning of the second century for Hornbostel-Sachs, the venerable classification system for musical instruments, created by Erich M. von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs as Systematik der Musikinstrumente in 1914. In addition to pursuing their own interest in the subject, the authors were answering a need for museum scientists and musicologists to accurately identify musical instruments that were being brought to museums from around the globe. As a guiding principle for their classification, they focused on the mechanism by which an instrument sets the air in motion. The idea was not new. The Indian sage Bharata, working nearly 2000 years earlier, in compiling the knowledge of his era on dance, drama and music in the treatise Natyashastra, (ca. 200 C.E.) grouped musical instruments into four great classes, or vadya, based on this very idea: sushira, instruments you blow into; tata, instruments with strings to set the air in motion; avanaddha, instruments with membranes (i.e. drums), and ghana, instruments, usually of metal, that you strike. (This itemization and Bharata’s further discussion of the instruments is in Chapter 28 of the Natyashastra, first translated into English in 1961 by Manomohan Ghosh (Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, v.2). The immediate predecessor of the Systematik was a catalog for a newly-acquired collection at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. The collection included a large number of instruments from India, and the curator, Victor-Charles Mahillon, familiar with the Indian four-part system, decided to apply it in preparing his catalog, published in 1880 (this is best documented by Nazir Jairazbhoy in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology – see 1990 in the timeline below). -
Following the Science
November 2020 Following the Science: A systematic literature review of studies surrounding singing and brass, woodwind and bagpipe playing during the COVID-19 pandemic Authors: John Wallace, Lio Moscardini, Andrew Rae and Alan Watson Music Education MEPGScotland Partnership Group MEPGScotland.org @MusicEducation10 Table of Contents Overview 1 Introduction Research Questions Research Method 2 Systematic Review Consistency Checklist Results 5 Thematic Categories Discussion 7 Breathing Singing Brass playing Woodwind playing Bagpipes Summary Conclusions 14 Recommended measures to mitigate risk 15 Research Team 17 Appendix 18 Matrix of identified papers References 39 Overview Introduction The current COVID-19 situation has resulted in widespread concern and considerable uncertainty relating to the position of musical performance and in particular potential risks associated with singing and brass, woodwind and bagpipe playing. There is a wide range of advice and guidance available but it is important that any guidance given should be evidence- based and the sources of this evidence should be known. The aim of the study was to carry out a systematic literature review in order to gather historical as well as the most current and relevant information which could provide evidence-based guidance for performance practice. This literature was analysed in order to determine the evidence of risk attached to singing and brass , woodwind and bagpipe playing, in relation to the spread of airborne pathogens such as COVID-19, through droplets and aerosol. -
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the 2008 League of American Orchestras Inaugural Development Fellowship Program: a Fellow’S Report
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the 2008 League of American Orchestras Inaugural Development Fellowship Program: a Fellow’s Report by Michelle Bair, M.M. Dissertation In FINE ARTS Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Approved Dr. Michael Stoune, Co-chair Dr. Christopher J. Smith, Co-chair Prof. Angela Mariani, Committee member Dr. William Gelber, Committee member Dr. Linda Donahue, Committee member Fred Hartmeister Dean of the Graduate School May, 2009 Copyright 2009, Michelle Bair Texas Tech University, Michelle Bair, May 2009 Acknowledgements One summer, my dad and I were headed home in the car. He loved music, and even though he didn’t play or sing, it was always around. Tonight, however, something on the radio would change my life. An intoxicating sound came through the speakers of the car and I was enchanted. It was sweet and soulful. I turned to my dad and asked, “What is that?” He said, “a saxophone.” I repeated the word over and over in my head so that I wouldn’t forget. I even wrote it down on a sheet of paper once we got home. That was the instrument that I wanted to play. The song was Harlem Nocturne. I would like to thank my mom and dad for never giving up on me and my passion for the arts even when I thought I had. Band rehearsals, private lessons, concert band, marching band, jazz band, summer camps, concerts, competitions, parades, parades, parades… They have always been there for me, chauffeuring me, supporting me, happy for me, and never questioning this crazy career that I have chosen. -
Program for Meet the Plumbers (April 20
The PLUMBING FACTORY BRASS BAND Henry Meredith, Director – Meet the PLUMBERS – Music for various types of brass instruments in small and large ensembles APRIL 20, 2016 Byron United Church – 420 Boler Road (@ Baseline), LONDON, Ontario __________________________________________ TUTTI – Introducing our members according to the types of instruments they play, from the bottom up Joy, Peace & Happiness Richard Phillips (born 1962) CORNETS – The sweeter, mellower cousins of the trumpets can still sound like trumpets for fanfares! Tuba Mirum from the Manzoni Requiem (1874) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), arr. H. Meredith Fanfare for Prince Henry (1984) Jeff Smallman (born 1965) BRASS BAND Instrument Predecessors –Parforce Horns for the hunt Polka Mazur & Österreichesche Jägerlied Anton Wunderer (1850-1906) Le Rendez-vous de Chasse (1828) Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) TROMBONES – The “perfect” instrument remains basically unchanged after five centuries! Two Newfoundland Folk Songs arr. Kenneth Knowles Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary’s & Lots of Fish in Bonavist’ Harbor Jazz Invention No. 1 Lennie Niehaus (born 1929) More Predecessors of BRASS BAND Instruments – Valveless Trumpets - The instruments of kings Fanfares pour 4 Trompettes naturelles (1833) Sigismund Neukomm (1778-1858) Allegro & Polonaise Quartuor No. 1 – Marche François-Georges-Auguste Dauverné (1799-1874) TUBAS/ EUPHONIUMS – Bass and Baritone Horns of the Saxhorn type – Going places! Indiana Polka (from Peters’ Saxhorn Journal, Cincinnati, 1859) Edmund Jaeger, J. Schatzman Pennsylvania Polka Lester Lee (1903-1956) and Zeke Manners (1911-2000) Washington Post March (1889) John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) TUTTI – Another important place name – how the West was won Dodge City (2001) Jeff Smallman Muted CORNETS and Flugelhorns – The Pink Panther (1964) Henry Mancini (1924-1994), arr. -
Piano Concerto Henry Dixon Cowell Was Born in Menlo Park, California, on March 11, 1897, and Died in Shady, New York, on December 10, 1965
Piano Concerto Henry Dixon Cowell was born in Menlo Park, California, on March 11, 1897, and died in Shady, New York, on December 10, 1965. Cowell completed his Piano Concerto in 1928 and as soloist introduced the first movement and possibly also the second with the Conductorless Orchestra in New in April 1930; he was also the soloist in the first complete performance, on December 28, 1930, with the Havana Philharmonic conducted by Pedro Sanjuan. The only previous performance by the San Francisco Symphony was given in June 2000; Ursula Oppens was soloist and Michael Tilson Thomas conducted. The score calls for an orchestra of three flutes (first doubling piccolo), three oboes and English horn, three clarinets, three bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (snare drum, large and small cymbals, triangle, and crash cymbals), and strings. Duration: about seventeen minutes Some composers have the bad luck to come up with an idea whose label leaves such a strong imprint that it dogs their name and reputation to the point of blotting out all their really significant achievements. It happened to Schoenberg with atonality, to Hindemith with Gebrauchsmusik (music for a practical purpose or a specific use), and to Henry Cowell with tone clusters. Although he did not invent the device--that was Vladimir Rebikov, followed by Charles Ives--it was Cowell who invented this term for the simultaneous sounding of a bunch of adjacent or close-together notes on a keyboard. At the piano recitals with which he both delighted and infuriated audiences in Europe and America, Cowell himself made much use of tone clusters, playing with the outside of his hand, his forearm, or a stick cut to a specific length. -
Research Report: Hybrid Clarinet Project
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CCRMA Research Report: Hybrid Clarinet Project Romain Michon and John Granzow December 4, 2013 In the past thirty years we have seen a wide range of studies on the physical modeling of mu- sical instruments using the waveguide technique. We now have at our disposal sophisticated models encompassing a large array of musical instruments. While the waveguide technique is both efficient and allows for the creation of effective models, it remains dependent on the precise control of the parameters of the model as well as on the quality of the excitation that is used to drive them. Many works on the control of waveguide physical models and on the modeling of nonlinear excitations have been carried out. However, the link between these two parameters is generally understudied. Indeed, for most musical instruments, the excitation is the element that has the greatest num- ber of parameters to control and is thus the hardest element to model. The properties of the bore of a clarinet for example (but this also applies to most of the woodwind and brass in- struments) can only be modified by tone holes, that are very discrete controllers (they can be opened or closed or half closed in some cases). On the other hand, the interactions between the mouthpiece and the player are extremely complex and difficult to simulate on a computer. This problem has been addressed in many ways in the past with different solutions for almost every case. Yamaha, for example, created a breath controller that worked with the VL1 synthe- sizer series1. For violins, Esteban Maestre developed a technique where the parameters of the physical model are controlled by gesture data acquired from real world performers[3]. -
Mystery Instrument Trivia!
Mystery Instrument Trivia! ACTIVITY SUMMARY In this activity, students will use online sources to research a variety of unusual wind- blown instruments, matching the instrument name with the clues provided. Students will then select one of the instruments for a deeper dive into the instrument’s origins and usage, and will create a multimedia presentation to share with the class. STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO identify commonalities and differences in music instruments from various cultures. (CA VAPA Music 3.0 Cultural Context) gather information from sources to answer questions. (CA CCSS W 8) describe objects with relevant detail. (CACCSS SL 4) Meet Our Instruments: HORN Video Demonstration STEPS: 1. Review the HORN video demonstration by San Francisco Symphony Assistant Principal Horn Bruce Roberts: Meet Our Instruments: HORN Video Demonstration. Pay special attention to the section where he talks about buzzing the lips to create sound, and how tightening and loosening the buzzing lips create different sounds as the air passes through the instrument’s tubing. 2. Tell the students: There many instruments that create sound the very same way—but without the valves to press. These instruments use ONLY the lips to play different notes! Mystery Instrument Trivia! 3. Students will explore some unusual and distinctive instruments that make sound using only the buzzing lips and lip pressure—no valves. Students should use online searches to match the trivia clues with the instrument names! Mystery Instrument Trivia - CLUES: This instrument was used in many places around the world to announce that the mail had arrived. Even today, a picture of this instrument is the official logo of the national mail delivery service in many countries. -
The Relationship of the Transformational Leadership Process and Group Mood Among Musicians and Their Effects on Artistic Quality
THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROCESS AND GROUP MOOD AMONG MUSICIANS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON ARTISTIC QUALITY WITHIN THE AMERICAN ORCHESTRAL ORGANIZATION By Mary Katherine Engels Elizabeth K. Crawford James A. Tucker Associate Professor Professor (Co-Chair) (Co-Chair) David W. Rausch Lee A. Harris Professor Professor (Committee Member) (Committee Member) THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROCESS AND THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG MUSICIANS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON ARTISTIC QUALITY WITHIN THE AMERICAN ORCHESTRAL ORGANIZATION By Mary Katherine Engels A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Doctorate of Learning and Leadership Degree The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, Tennessee May 2018 ii Copyright © 2018 By Mary Katherine Engels All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT The desire to understand the American classical music experience and its relationship to transformational leadership is the foundational reason for this study. The experience of listening to the same orchestra under the direction of nine different conductors throughout the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera’s conductor search, led to an interest in further understanding the processes involved in the classical musical experience. There is minimal research focused on the American symphony orchestra and an acute lack of research on leadership processes within the American symphony orchestra. Examination and study of the leadership process between conductor and musician, musician group mood, and artistic quality are all considerations in understanding the classical musical experience. The research design for this study was a quantitative design using simple correlation analysis. The intent of this study was to understand how the independent and dependent variables covary, and therefore a non-experimental, associational approach was used (Gliner, Morgan, & Leech, 2009). -
Measurements and Simulations of Aerosol Released
1 Measurements and Simulations of Aerosol 2 Released while Singing and Playing Wind 3 Instruments 4 Tehya Stockmana*, Shengwei Zhub, Abhishek Kumarc, Lingzhe Wangd, Sameer Patele, James Weaverf, 5 Mark Spedeg, Don Miltonh, Jean Hertzbergi, Darin Tooheyj, Marina Vancek, Jelena Srebricl, Shelly L. 6 Millerm* 7 8 a Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 9 Boulder, CO, 80309, USA 10 b Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, MD, USA 11 c Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, 80309, CO, USA 12 d Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, MD, USA 13 e Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujrat, 382355, India 14 f National Federation of State High School Associations, Indianapolis, IN, 46402, USA 15 g Department of Performing Arts, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA 16 h Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, 17 College Park, MD, 20740, USA 18 i Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, 80309, CO, USA 19 j Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, 80309, 20 CO, USA 21 k Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, 80309, CO, USA 22 l Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, MD, USA 23 m Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, 80309, CO, USA 24 *Corresponding authors emails: [email protected], [email protected] 25 26 27 28 Abstract 29 Outbreaks from choir performances, such as the Skagit Valley Choir, showed that singing brings potential 30 risk of COVID-19 infection. -
The Alphorn in North America: “Blown Yodeling” Within a Transnational Community
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works School of Arts & Sciences Theses Hunter College Fall 1-6-2021 The Alphorn in North America: “Blown Yodeling” Within A Transnational Community Maureen E. Kelly CUNY Hunter College How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/682 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] The Alphorn in North America: “Blown Yodeling” Within A Transnational Community by Maureen E. Kelly Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Music, Hunter College The City University of New York 2021 01/06/2021 Barbara Hampton Date Thesis Sponsor 01/06/2021 Barbara Oldham Date Second Reader CONTENTS CHAPTER I: Meeting the North American Alphorn Community 1 1. Structure of Research 2. Data Gathering 3. Studying the Alphorn a. The History of the Alphorn b. Imagined Communities and Identity c. Cultural Tourism d. Organology CHAPTER II: “Auslanders:” Travels to Switzerland 8 1. Bill Hopson 2. Laura Nelson 3. Gary Bang CHAPTER III: Establishing North American Alphorn Schools 31 1. Utah 2. West Virginia 3. The Midwest CHAPTER IV: “We All Serve the Same Master:” The Alphorn Trade 49 CHAPTER V: An Instrument of Kinship 69 Bibliography 75 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Bill Hopson in Frauenfeld 12 Harmonic Series 13 Excerpt, Brahms Symphony no. 1 in c minor 13 Albumblatt für Clara Schumann 14 Excerpt, Mozart Concerto no. -
Kyong Mee Choi • Dma
KYONG MEE CHOI • DMA Professor of Music Composition | Head of Music Composition Chicago College of Performing Arts | Roosevelt University 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605, AUD 950 Email: [email protected]/Phone: 312-322-7137 (O)/ 773-910-7157 (C)/ 773-728-7918 (H) Website: http://www.kyongmeechoi.com Home Address: 6123 N. Paulina St. Chicago, IL 60660, U.S.A. 1. EDUCATION • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, U.S.A. Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Composition/Theory, 2005 Dissertation Composition: Gestural Trajectory for Two Pianos and Percussion Dissertation Title: Spatial Relationships in Electro-Acoustic Music and Painting • Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. Master of Arts in Music Composition, 1999 • Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Completed Course Work in Master Study in Korean Literature majoring in Poetry, 1997 • Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea Bachelor of Science in Science Education majoring in Chemistry, 1995 PRINCIPAL STUDY • Composition: William Brooks, Agostino Di Scipio, Guy Garnett, Erik Lund, Robert Thompson, Scott Wyatt • Lessons and Master Classes: Coriun Aharonian, Larry Austin, George Crumb, James Dashow, Mario Davidovsky, Nickitas Demos, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Vinko Globokar, Tristan Murail, Russell Pinkston, David Rosenboom, Joseph Butch Rovan, Frederic Rzewski, Kaija Saariaho, Stuart Smith, Morton Subotnick, Chen Yi • Music Software Programming and Electro-Acoustic Music: Guy Garnett (Max/MSP), Rick Taube (Common music/CLM/Lisp), Robert Thompson (CSound/Max), -
Fall 2020 AR
Published by the American Recorder Society, Vol. LXI , No. 3 • www.americanrecorder.org fall 2020 fall Editor’s ______Note ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume LXI, Number 3 Fall 2020 Features y 1966 copy of On Playing the Flute Giving Voice to Music: by J.J. Quantz is dog-eared and has a The Art of Articulation . 9-22, 26-33 numberM of sticky tabs hanging out, showing By Beverly R. Lomer and my years of referring to its ideas; the binding María Esther Jiménez Capriles is releasing the pages consulted most often. After reading the articles in this issue, you Articulating Arcadelt’s Swan . 23 may discover why and find your own copy. By Wendy Powers This isn’t a typical AR issue. With few Departments events taking place, and thus not much news Advertiser Index and Classified Ads. 48 in Tidings, it gives us the opportunity to run an entire large article on articulation in one Education . 38 issue, plus a shorter one on madrigals—with Michael Lynn decodes what you should play the authors outlining historical guidelines when you see those small signs in the music (like Quantz) and living sources, then pro- viding music demonstrating ways you can President’s Message . 3 apply articulation on your own (page 9). ARS President David Podeschi recaps the past few Quantz also makes a brief appearance months, and looks ahead, thanking those who have in the first of a series of Education pieces been guiding the ARS’s efforts on ornamentation. In this issue (page 38), Michael Lynn covers the appoggiatura Reviews and trill, with the promise of more infor- Recording .