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Léonce de Saint-Martin: Organist and composer
… the life and work of the largely forgotten organist Léonce de Saint-Martin and the role he played in the life of Notre-Dame Cathedral Paris. The Study consists of two parts: A) Performance The performance part consisted of four performances in addition to the final recital. These were …
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Addressing performance anxiety in organists through pedagogical guidance
… emotional attributes is a daunting task for any organist. The techniques with which an organist consolidates these attributes have a direct effect on the accomplishment of a definitive goal – a successful music performance. However, this portrays the ideal situation. There is a myriad of internal …
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Gottlieb Muffat's clavier suites.
… to greater prominence in Austria. A noted organist, his Apparatus Musico-Organisticus (1690) represents the high point of the liturgical toccata. Born in Upper Savoy in 1653. at 17 he had completed six years under Lulli and other Parisian Masters, was interim organist of the Strasbourg …
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The choral music of Maurice Durufle (1902-1986)
… educator, church musician, musicologist, concert organist, and composer; it was, to a large extent, his work in the letter two categories to which his current reputation may be attributed. Ironically, Durufle undertook a very limited number of concert engagements, most of which were performed as …
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From Lineage to Legacy: Charles Garland Verrinder and Victorian Anglo-Jewish Music
… chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and with Royal Organist Sir George Elvey, Verrinder’s forty-five-year career as the first organist of the West London Synagogue (Britain’s first ‘Reform’ synagogue) overlapped with his work for the church as well as with many significant professional and amateur …
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The role of music and musicians in current English parish church worship : the attitudes of clergy and organists.
… by questionnaire to the priest-in-charge and organist at almost half the churches in a large diocese (that of Oxford). This yields an overall picture of: - respondents' personal backgrounds and general attitudes; - respondents' perceptions, both objective and subjective, of the situation at …
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The Stylistic Variance and Underlying Unity in Selected Organ Works by Clarence Mader
… of his professional career in California as organist, composer, teacher and organ consultant. Chapter Two will outline the various influences that shaped Mader as a composer during the 20th century in America, as well as identify the common threads that permeate his music. A former pupil of …
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The Victor Brass Quartet: Its Genesis, History, and Literature
… of William Horatio Clarke, the famous American organist and organ builder, and includes biographies on the early years of William's sons Herbert L. Clarke, Edwin Clarke, and Ernest Clarke. The Clarkes' activities are traced to Indianapolis in 1884. Chapter two contains an account of the musical …
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Understanding the Organ Music of Olivier Messiaen: Optical Illusions Versus Aural Realities
… both from the viewpoint of a theorist and as an organist. I assert that not only his influences, but also his in-depth understandings of the mutations stops of the organ and what pitches are produced by using these stops inform Messiaen's music. Furthermore, the organ music requires more than …
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A Performance Guide to Tomas Svoboda's Duo Concerto for Trumpet and Organ, Op. 152
… of primary sources, Tomas Svoboda, composer and organist at the premiere, and Fred Sautter, principal trumpet of the Oregon Symphony and trumpeter at the premiere, the performance guide illuminates the piece with a discussion of five different topics. Chapter 2 of the guide reveals the …
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A Transcription for Solo Organ: Symphony on a Hymn Tune, Op. 53, by Virgil Thomson
… of issues encountered by the performing organist in playing the transcription. Discussions encompass organ registration, tempi, manual suggestions, articulation, phrase markings, and dynamic expression. Musical examples both from the author's transcription and Virgil Thomson's organ works …
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The Music of Rene Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760): a Source Study and Stylistic Survey, with Emphasis on His Sacred Output : a thesis submitted to the New Zealand School of Music in fulfilment of the degree of Master of Music in Musiology
… (1703-1760) was an admired composer and an organist of renown. This thesis examines this musician's life and work, and attempts to bring Bousset's music, hitherto largely unknown, to the attention of musicologists and performers today. Primarily a source study, the thesis makes a survey of …
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American Verismo?: insights into The Padrone, and opera by George Whitefield Chadwick (13 November 1854 - 4 April 1931)
… forms: composer, teacher, conductor, pianist and organist. A leading figure of the Second School of New England composers, Chadwick was also largely responsible for the effective reorganization of the New England Conservatory. He was arguably one of the most influential teachers in American music …
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Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894): A Victorian Musician in Dublin
… by his English contemporaries. His career as an organist of exceptional talent saw a lengthy association with the cathedrals of Christ Church and St Patrick’s. As a conductor, he directed several music societies including the University of Dublin Choral Society and the Bray Philharmonic Society …
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Organ music for the beginner : a progressively graded collection of thirty-eight novel selections
… was to assemble and edit for the beginning organist a body of musical literature useful to that important, Initial step in learning which combines Manual and Pedal activity. The thirty-eight selections which comprise the collection are compositions which have never before been used in …
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Doctoral thesis recital (organ)
Toccata settima / Michelangelo Rossi -- Variations on "Est-ce Mars" / Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck -- Concerto in A minor / Antonio Vivaldi -- Prelude and fugue in G minor / Johannes Brahms -- Toccata in d, BuxWV 155 / Dietrich Buxtehude -- Trio on "Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr" BWV 676 / J. S. …
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Defined, But Not Confined: Transnationalism, Transcendence, and Exclusion In the Works of Horatio Parker
… of Horatio Parker (1863-1919). Parker was an organist, composer, and the dean of the School of Music at Yale from 1904 until his death. Although his reputation has since waned, during his lifetime he was a sought-after speaker and composer, gaining recognition across the United States and in …
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The Worlds of Samuel Felsted: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica
The Anglo-Jamaican organist Samuel Felsted (1743-1802) is the only eighteenth-century composer from Jamaica whose sheet music has survived. Previous scholarship on Felsted has focussed on the rediscovery of his oratorio *Jonah*, and the list of subscribers that was published alongside it in 1775. …
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"The Neumeister collection of chorale preludes of the Bach circle": an examination of the chorale preludes of J. S. Bach and their usage as service music and pedagogical works
… preludes by several prominent German Baroque organists including Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694), Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703), and Johann Sebastian Bach (1658-1750). Historically, it is an important compendium because it augments the number of known chorale …
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