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Faculty Recital: 2012-09-17 - Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano; Paul Leenhouts, recorder; Cynthia Roberts, baroque violin; Allen Whear, baroque cello; Christoph Hammer, harpsichord and organ

Description: A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
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Date: September 17, 2012
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Lane, Jennifer, 1954-; Leenhouts, Paul, 1957-; Roberts, Cynthia; Whear, Allen & Hammer, Christoph
Partner: UNT Music Library
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A Similar Approach with Different Results: the Use of Baroque Elements in Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne (1933), Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata in G Major, Op 134 (1968) and Schnittke’s Suite in the Old Style (1972)

Description: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) were three of the most important avant-garde Russian composers of the twentieth century. Even though their music shares a number of important traits, their work also reflects very individualized and distinct compositional styles. This study illustrates the similarities in their approach and the contrasting elements present in three selected pieces: Stravinsky´s Suite Italienne for Violin and Piano (193… more
Date: August 2013
Creator: Oh, Hyun Sun
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Richard Sparks conducts Baroque Orchestra during Boston Early Music Festival rehearsal]

Description: Photograph of Richard Sparks, Chair of Conducting and Ensembles at the University of North Texas, conducting the Baroque Orchestra during a rehearsal for the Boston Early Music Festival in 2012. Members of the orchestra are positioned in a semi-circle around him.
Date: November 2012
Creator: Leenhouts, Paul, 1957-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Was There a Trumpet Sonata Before the Trumpet Sonata? an Investigation of Girolamo Fantini’s Trumpet Sonatas with Respect to Other Stile Moderno Solo Instrumental Sonatas

Description: In 1638 Girolamo Fantini wrote eight multi-sectional trumpet sonatas. This dissertation compares these sonatas with recognized stile moderno solo instrumental sonatas by Biagio Marini and Dario Castello in order to show that Fantini’s sonatas are stile moderno trumpet sonatas. This study looks at how form, texture, motivic organization, and instrumental effects function in the works of Castello, Marini, and Fantini. This comparison shows how and to what degree Fantini uses stile moderno chara… more
Date: August 2015
Creator: Stoltzfus, Andreas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Faculty Recital: 2014-01-17 - Paul Leenhouts, recorder, Cynthia Roberts, violin, Allen Whear, cello, and Brad Bennight, harpsichord

Description: A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: January 17, 2014
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Leenhouts, Paul, 1957-; Roberts, Cynthia; Whear, Allen & Bennight, Brad
Partner: UNT Music Library
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An Analytical Study of Paradox and Structural Dualism in the Music of Ludwig van Beethoven

Description: Beethoven's rich compositional language evokes unique problems that have fueled scholarly dialogue for many years. My analyses focus on two types of paradoxes as central compositional problems in some of Beethoven's symphonic pieces and piano sonatas. My readings of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 27 (Op. 90), Symphony No. 4 (Op. 60), and Symphony No. 8 (Op. 93) explore the nature and significance of paradoxical unresolved six-four chords and their impact on tonal structure. I consider formal-tona… more
Date: May 2016
Creator: Graf, Benjamin
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Interpretation and Execution of Chords on the Double Bass from Select Movements of the Bach Cello Suites

Description: The Bach Cello Suites have become widely transcribed and studied on the double bass. They have also become essential teaching material as most US orchestra auditions demand solo Bach for bass auditions. Transcribing the chords in Bach Cello Suites presents many difficulties on the bass because of the different tuning of our instrument (cello in 5ths; double bass in 4ths). There is no unified solution to all the problems presented in chord playing at this time. The purpose of this project, there… more
Date: August 2018
Creator: Chen, Der-Shiuan
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Sensitivity, Inspiration, and Rational Aesthetics: Experiencing Music in the North German Enlightenment

Description: This dissertation examines pre-Kantian rational philosophy and the development of the discipline of aesthetics in the North German Enlightenment. With emphasis on the historical conception of the physiological and psychological experience of music, this project determines the function of music both privately and socially in the eighteenth century. As a result, I identify the era of rational aesthetics (ca.1750-1800) as a music-historical period unified by the aesthetic function and metaphysical… more
Date: December 2015
Creator: Fick, Kimary E.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Guide to Arranging Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Harmoniemusik in an Historical Style

Description: The wind octet was a popular ensemble of the classical period. In 1782, the Viennese Emperor formed a wind octet which specialized in playing opera arrangements. This music was used primarily as a form of background entertainment for dinners. This guide analyzes and compares the works of several well-known arrangers from the classical period in order to demonstrate arranging styles of the time. The arrangers of the period were often the performers of these various wind octets who were writing s… more
Date: August 2015
Creator: April Marie Ross
Partner: UNT Libraries
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