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Faculty Recital: 1998-02-02 - Woodwind Faculty Recital

Description: A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
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Date: February 2, 1998
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Sundberg, Terri; Veazey, Charles; Gillespie, James; Scott, John C. (John Charles), 1947-; Reynolds, Kathleen & Scharnberg, William
Partner: UNT Music Library

As Darkness Falls: A Composition for Wind Ensemble

Description: As Darkness Falls is a composition that explores our interaction with several aspects of darkness through the use of musical imagery. The imagery attempts to reflect the moods, feelings, and impressions of a person as he or she interacts with darkness. The non-programmatic character of the composition allows listeners to superimpose their own experiences onto the musical tapestry in order to manifest a personal connection between the listener and the music. As Darkness Falls is a composition sc… more
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Date: December 1999
Creator: Prinz, Kendall R.
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Contours

Description: Contours is scored for full wind ensemble and percussion, and is approximately nine minutes in length. The title refers to the way melodic shape or contour is used to create unity and variety in the piece. Contours is a single-movement work containing three sections that are unified by thematic and harmonic materials. The melodic material is generated by three twelve-tone rows, which are then used in combination with freely composed material. The first and last sections are highly contrapuntal … more
Date: August 1994
Creator: Hughes, Russell M., 1954-
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Persistence: for Wind Ensemble

Description: Persistence is a composition scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 bassoons, E-flat clarinet, 3 1st B-flat clarinets, 3 2nd B-flat clarinets, 3 3rd B-flat clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 E-flat alto saxophones, B-flat tenor saxophone, E-flat baritone saxophone, 3 B-flat trumpets, 4 French horns in F, 2 trombones, bass trombone, baritone, tuba, timpani, and 4 auxiliary percussionists. The music consists of three movements, fast-slow-fast, lasting approximately eleven and one-half mi… more
Date: August 1997
Creator: Rickwood, Christopher M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Olympic Dances by John Harbison, a Lecture Recital together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of D. Holsinger, P. Granger, K. Husa, B. Rands, R. Vaughan Williams, and Others

Description: John Harbison's Olympic Dances was composed in 1996 and premiered in February 1997. The work was written as a piano score before it was orchestrated for a wind ensemble of 25 winds and two percussionists.The first section of the paper focuses on the various influences that have affected Harbison's compositional style. The composer's educational background includes several prominent teachers whose instruction had great impressions. Special emphasis is placed on those characteristics of Harbison'… more
Date: December 1997
Creator: Kohlenberg, Kenneth Howard
Partner: UNT Libraries

Student Recital: 1991-10-27 – Yvonne Marmolejo-Boyle, soprano, Gabriel Sanchez, pianist, and Gabriela Díaz-Alatriste, conductor

Description: A student recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
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Date: October 27, 1991
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Marmolejo-Boyle, Yvonne; Sanchez, Gabriel (Pianist) & Díaz-Alatriste, Gabriela
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Octatonic Pitch Structure and Motivic Organization in George Walker's Canvas for Wind Ensemble, Voices, and Chorus

Description: Canvas was commissioned by the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) Consortium in fall 1999 for the CBDNA Biennium National Conference to be held at the University of North Texas in February 2001. This substantial and profound three-movement work is Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker's first work for wind ensemble and is a milestone in wind composition at the turn of the millennium. This analysis considers Walker's sophisticated use of octatonic collections and their s… more
Date: May 2003
Creator: Nelson, Ryan
Partner: UNT Libraries

Pedagogical style and influence of Nadia Boulanger on music for wind symphony, an analysis of three works by her students: Copland, Bassett, and Grantham.

Description: An examination of the influences on twentieth-century wind music would be incomplete without the consideration of composer, organist, pianist, conductor, teacher, and critic Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979). Students from the United States began studying with Boulanger between World War I and World War II, and continued to travel to study with her for over fifty years. The respect awarded this legendary French woman was gained as a result of her effectiveness as a teacher, her influence on the devel… more
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Date: May 2004
Creator: McCallum, Wendy M.
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Exploring the Integration of Thai Traditional Music in Chakra by Narong Prangchareon, with a Conductor’s Guide

Description: This dissertation explores the integration of Thai traditional music in Chakra, for wind band, by Narong Prangchareon. Nipat Kanchanahud explores how Narong, inspired by Eastern philosophy, integrates elements of Thai traditional music and the types, styles, scales, and dialects of Thai culture with the formal elements of Western music and the instrumentation of the Western wind band. Chakra uniquely spans Eastern and Western cultures, creating a new musical language for both worlds to apprecia… more
Date: August 2015
Creator: Kanchanahud, Nipat
Partner: UNT Libraries
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