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The Role of the Horn in Band Music
In the American wind band, the role of the horn has transformed parallel to the development of professional bands, military bands, and collegiate wind ensembles. An incomplete definition of the horn's role is discussed in various writings from 1912 to1988. With a brief history of the Sousa and …
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The Effects Of Participation In Band On Band Music Preference
This study focuses on band music preference, and specifically, how this preference is affected by participation in band. With this knowledge I argue that band directors can select repertoire that both challenges and engages students while still being enjoyable to perform. Despite the existence of …
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American women composers of band music : a biographical dictionary and catalogue of works
Throughout the history of band music, works by women have received little, if any, acclaim. While some of the reasons for this lack of acknowledgment are grounded in the historical development of the band and the social restrictions of the times, an even greater problem has been the lack of …
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The Dynamics of Fidelity and Creativity: Liszt’s Reworkings of Orchestral and Gypsy-Band Music
… investigates Liszt’s use of borrowed music and his reworking methods when rendering instrumental music for the piano. By examining selected examples in detail, the study demonstrates a dynamic interaction of fidelity and creativity as a significant aesthetic underlying the …
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Fred Jewell, 1875-1936 : his life as composer of circus and band music, bandmaster, and publisher
Fred Jewell was one of the leading composers of band and circus music of the early twentieth century. Born in Worthington, Indiana in 1875, he started his musical career at age sixteen as a baritone player in a circus band. He rose to the position of bandmaster for the Barnum and Bailey, Gentry …
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A Learning Sequence for Beginners on the Clarinet Based on an Investigation of Musical and Manipulative Difficulties Found in Junior High Band Music
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T19:40:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7013540.pdf: 1982044 bytes, checksum: 6690c66be6f95424f75ac8e377bd1504 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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An Original Composition for Band “Suite for Band”
… contribute to the growing repertoire of original band music. The technique, range, intonation, and rhythm problems of average high school musicians are taken into special consideration. It could easily serve as an introductory piece to performers unfamiliar with the contemporary idiom. Although …
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Performance portfolio Jonathan William Corry PhD 2016
The music performance-based research delivered within this portfolio has been realised within my current role as Bandmaster of Enfield Citadel Band of The Salvation Army. The overall thrust of this research has been focused on, and driven by my desire for the revitalisation within the functionality …
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The Marches of Alberico De Caprio (1865-1943): Director of the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company Band and Portland Rose Festival Band
… story long missing among famed American bandleaders. Significant pieces include the official anthem of the Los Angeles County Fair, Portland Rose Festival, score for a Paramount Pictures pre-code era feature film and a march written for President Theodore Roosevelt. This dissertation will …
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Portfolio of compositions
… in this portfolio are composed for brass band and percussion, selected as they show artistic and technical advancements when compared with extant literature and methodology. The accompanying commentary discusses the patronage problems that the British brass band appears to be currently …
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What Makes Nikolai Kapustin's Classically-oriented Works Sound Like Jazz Improvisation by Deconstruction of His 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Op.53 and Concert Etudes, Op.40
… mainly focus on keyboard literature, chamber music, and big band music. Despite Kapustin's music sounding similar to jazz music and jazz improvisation, he historically denied the role of jazz in his compositions and saw himself only as a classical musician. This document will start an …
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Survey and analysis of selected rhythm band literature 1928-1932
… understand how the written scores of the rhythm band were utilized in music education. Six rhythm band pieces were selected from the era when the rhythm band was the most popular: “At the Circus” and “March of the Brigands” by Paul Valdemar from The Etude; “The Boy Scouts” and “Anitra‟s Dance” by …
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A History of the Illinois Industrial University/University of Illinois Band, 1867--1908
… study provides a comprehensive history of the band program at the Illinois Industrial University/University of Illinois between the years 1867 and 1908. In 1885 the University changed its name to the University of Illinois from the Illinois Industrial University. The University has been a …
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Amateur brass and wind bands in Southern England between the late eighteenth century and circa 1900
… of largely working-class amateur brass and wind bands in southern England in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It begins by describing the beginnings of widespread amateur banding and considers the contribution made to the later development of bands by militia and volunteer bandsp …
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The history of the Moravian Brass Band Union of South Africa (BBSA) as told through the personal histories of members, and its contemporary role in the Moravian Church in South Africa (MCSA)
… contemporary significance of the Moravian Brass Band Union of South Africa (BBSA) within the Moravian Church of South Africa (MCSA). Established in 1951, the BBSA has played a pivotal role in promoting brass band music as an integral part of worship and community life within the MCSA. The …
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Souvenir D'enfance for Concert Band
31 pages.
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Feet don't fail me now: brass bands in post-Katrina New Orleans
… this interdisciplinary study is to examine brass bands in post-Katrina New Orleans. Told primarily in the words of the musicians themselves, this study analyzes the intersection of the city's recovery efforts and the complex web of formal and informal sociocultural relationships that exist in the …
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Eliseo Pinedo y su ámbito musical (1908-1969): Estudio biográfico, social y cultural
The lack of researches on the musical society in La Rioja in the 20th Century, the people who formed it and the social and cultural environment in which they lived, serves as pretext and motivation for this thesis, that uses the musical realm of the composer and director Eliseo Pinedo López …
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