Through studying and performing Chaminade's Piano Trio No. 2, I refined my technical skills and developed a deeper, more intimate connection with Chaminade and the French Romantic piano tradition. Driven by a determination to master her musical language and imbue my interpretations with a nuanced aesthetic understanding, I became interested...
This project delves into Cécile Chaminade’s Six Études de concert, Op. 35, exploring her compositional and performance styles and illuminating her enduring legacy as a female composer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite societal constraints, Chaminade published over four hundred compositions, notably many piano works. The project...
As a former colony of Great Britain, the retention of colonial ideals has permeated many aspects of Jamaican culture, including music and music education. Having been granted independence in August of 1962, the 1970s ushered in a major shift in the country’s shared cultural identity. Marcus Mosiah Garvey is a...
This document contains accompanying materials for professionally recorded tracks of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel, transcribed for tuba and piano. These songs were performed by Brian Sugrue on tuba, Suyeon Kim on piano, and mastered by Kevin Harbison, sound engineer.
Track listing:
1. The Vagabond.
2. Let Beauty...
This document focuses on Ralph Vaughan Williams, more specifically, his Songs of Travel for bass-baritone voice, which I have transcribed for tuba and piano. The tuba world is very familiar with Vaughan Williams due to is groundbreaking contribution to the tuba repertoire with his Concerto for Bass Tuba. Composed in...
The rigor of music programs places pressures and anxieties into the psyches of itsgraduate students. Crippling feelings of inadequacies and disappointment negatively affected myschoolwork and musicianship in my degree program. Based on my research, as well asconversations with friends, I discovered that this mental tribulation is frequently an issue forgraduate...
Each movement of Always something moves is based on a phrase from Nan Shepherd’s memoir The Living Mountain. Shepherd was a hillwalker who spent her life wandering the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland. The title of the piece is taken from Shepherd’s observation that in nature, there’s no such thing as true silence; “always...
Stilling is a chamber work for saxophone and dancers that was inspired by the article “Global ‘Stilling’: Is Climate Change Slowing Down the Wind?" by Jim Robbins. The study of wind is relatively new, but as more tools are developed to measure surface winds and their effects,...
Many people, particularly young adults in college, habitually check their phones right after they wake up, which has notable physical and mental detriments like disrupting your circadian rhythm and increasing anxiety and depression. The Smart Mirror fits right into your pre-existing morning routine, and it displays essential information such as...
Medieval chant presents an opportunity to refine phrasing, improve sound quality, and challengestudents to reflect on a given text. As it has not been explored extensively within classicaltrumpet pedagogy, this paper will provide a foundation for approaching medieval chant on thetrumpet using examples from Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum. First,...