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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Virgil Thomson"”.
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A Transcription for Solo Organ: Symphony on a Hymn Tune, Op. 53, by Virgil Thomson
… is to provide a transcription for solo organ of Virgil Thomson's Symphony on a Hymn Tune. The study is two-fold: first, to explore the early life and career of Thomson with a focused view on how his organ and composition studies influenced the composition of Symphony on a Hymn Tune; and second, …
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Florence Price: The Hidden Pioneer of Imposed Simplicity
… aesthetics, iconic works by Copland and Virgil Thomson are analyzed to quantify these aesthetics, which can then be applied to the analysis of Price's pieces. Price’s Sonata in E Minor for piano (1932) contains many of these qualities and precedes the earliest examples of both Copland and …
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Musical Thinking as Exemplified in Music Criticism
… M. Greene, and D. W. Gotshalk and critics Virgil Thomson and M. D. Calvocoressi were surveyed, and their outlines of the critical process were used to develop a paradigm for the thought process involved in the formulation of music criticism. Thirty pieces of written music criticism from the …
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A performer's guide to Virgil Thomson's Five Songs from William Blake
… Acts and The Mother of Us All, American composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) did write nearly seventy songs for voice and piano, including several important song cycles. One of these cycles, the Five Songs from William Blake, represents an impressive composition for the baritone voice. …
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Original repertoire for the American Brass Quintet, 1962-1987 : a guide for performers and composers
… Suite for Brass; Leonardo Balada, Mosaico; Virgil Thomson, Family Portrait; Elliott Carter, Brass Quintet; Jacob Druckman, Other Voices; Robert Starer, Evanescence; Dan Welcher, Brass Quintet; Vladimir Ussachevsky, Dialogues and Contrasts; David Sampson, Morning Music; Maurice Wright, …
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The Politics of Intermediality: Late Modernist Circulations of the Event
… artists I engage with include Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, Virginia Woolf, Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, Ann Petry, Mina Loy, John Hersey, Shda Shinoe, and Nagai Takashi. The four chapters comprising this project take up fluctuating interactions among sonic, …
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A study of English-language sacred solo literature by selected twentieth-century composers
… repertory: Amy Beach, Charles Ives, Ernst Bacon, Virgil Thomson, David Diamond, Ned Rorem, Daniel Pinkham, Alan Hovhaness, Norman Dello Joio, and Carlisle Floyd. English art song composers include English composers who have composed sacred songs primarily for the concert stage and are recognized …