For the classically-trained musician, one of the most valuable analyses of musical style in jazz is the detailed transcription of a recording, especially when the transcription can then be rehearsed and performed in an ensemble with experienced jazz musicians. By studying the original recording, notating it, and then imitating every...
American composer George Rochberg wrote Between Two Worlds for flute and piano in 1982. The composition was commissioned by Rochberg's friends, Lennie and Marvin Wolfgang and dedicated to the Wolgangs' daughter, Karen.Theodore Presser published the piece in 1983. Flutist Sue Ann Kahn and pianist Vladimir Sokoloff gave the premiere performance...
This thesis examines how people in a Central American setting create, understand and manage conflict in everyday encounters. The investigation is based on tape recordings of actual conflict episodes, member talk about conflict and extensive participant observation in various Central American settings. The ethnography describing a folk vision of conflict...
The purpose of this investigation was to obtain kinetic data for the catalyzed para-orthohydrogen shift reaction over a wide range of pressures and temperatures and to obtain a correlation for the data. The data were obtained in a reactor, which was constructed to provide temperature and pressure- control over the...
There was much variety in American piano music of the first half of the twentieth century. With the exception of the Jazz idiom largely practiced by George Gershwin (1898-1937) and the avant-garde style, introduced by Hemy Cowell (1897-1965), music from 1900-50 gains its influences from four main categories: the old...
Through a seminar in music theory held Fall Semester 1989 and led by Professor Gonzalez, I was introduced to the songs of the early twentieth century American composer, Charles Tomlinson Griffes. The seminar actually dealt with Impressionism, focusing on the music of Debussy and Ravel, but an off-shoot of the...
The purpose of this paper is to: 1) better inform voice teachers and singers of the normal function of the TMJ system as it relates to singing technique, and 2 ) help identify symptoms related to TMJ dysfunction.
By the time of his death in 1920, Charles Tomlinson Griffes had begun to be recognized as a significant force in American music. Griffes' works included a large number of songs and lesser amounts of piano, chamber, and orchestral works, as well as transcriptions, a few choral pieces, and an...
Since the inception of the cranberry industry in the United States, Massachusetts has always been the country's leader in both acreage and production. Within Massachusetts, commercial cultivation of cranberries has traditionally been concentrated in the southeastern part of the state. Despite a past long-term decline in Massachusetts cranberry bog acreage,...