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Frameworks For Jazz Improvisation Volume 1 Bebop

Description: This book embarks on a jazz improvisation journey with "Frameworks for Jazz Improvisation Volume 1: Bebop" with Nick Finzer. Discover the essence of bebop language, guided by renowned jazz artist and professor Nick Finzer and inspired by jazz piano pedagogue Barry Harris. From Charlie Parker to Thelonious Monk, explore the idiomatic approaches that shaped generations of jazz. With practical exercises and insights, internalize bebop vocabulary and elevate your improvisational skills. Unleash you… more
Date: 2023
Creator: Finzer, Nick A.
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Partner: UNT College of Music

Obertura "Andes" (1886)

Description: Transcribed score for the first movement of Arturo Berutti's "Obertura 'Andes,'" written for orchestra. It includes a brief written biography about Berutti's work as well as editorial notes about the process used to create modern notation from the original work.
Date: 2025
Creator: Illari, Bernardo; Freedman, Cole & Wolski, Kristin A.
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Partner: UNT College of Music
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Mapping Musical Mobilities: Challenging Musical Nationalism through Mobility and Migration

Description: This article asserts that classical music has been viewed in some quarters as a product of particular national cultures, with little regard paid to the ways in which mobile phenomena can contribute to its production, whether in the form of mobile people, objects, or concepts. This paper turns to notions of mobility as a means of exploring how musical cultures can be animated. It explores, too, the possibilities of particular forms of “mapping” as a way to retain, but also rethink, the spatial s… more
Date: April 16, 2024
Creator: Holden, Michael; Adey, Peter; Snyder, Beth; Meyn, Norbert & Grosch, Nils
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Partner: UNT College of Music

Health Patterns of Clarinetists: An Epidemiologic Survey and its Impact on Educators, Performers, and Student-Musicians

Description: Presentation on a study that investigated the prevalence, intensity, frequency, and quality of musculoskeletal pain as well as performance anxiety and identify factors among clarinet players and instructors. Some results of the study are discussed along with implications for performers, educators, and student-musicians. It was presented at the International Clarinet Association Conference held in July 2019.
Date: July 2019
Creator: Behel, Kensley; Taylor, Meghan S.; Zuhdi, Nabeel & Chesky, Kris S.
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Partner: UNT College of Music

Health Problems of Clarinetists: An Epidemiologic Survey

Description: Poster presenting results of a study that characterizes clarinet specific health problems such as site-specific pain, non-musculoskeletal issues, performance anxiety, and related variables including instrument type, use of neck-strap, educational attainment, musician identity, and other lifestyle and performance-related factors. An online survey specifically for clarinetists was developed using techniques adopted from a recent study of trombonists (interactive body maps, skip logic, etc.). In a… more
Date: June 2019
Creator: Behel, Kensley; Taylor, Meghan S.; Zuhdi, Nabeel & Chesky, Kris S.
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Partner: UNT College of Music
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Creating the Optimal Experience: An Analysis of Flow Theory Factors in High School Band Programs

Description: Undergraduate thesis explores the link between self-perceived flow states and a feeling of community belonging within the context of the high school band environment. The methodology observed a positive interdependence between a perceived sense of community and the flow parameters of challenge-skill ratio, utilization of clear goals, and provision of unambiguous feedback.
Date: Spring 2022
Creator: Murthy, Amrutha V.
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Partner: UNT College of Music
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Um Nordeste Alternativo: A nova cena do Recife

Description: This paper focuses on music trends in Recife, Brazil in 2000-01. It explores how alternative music communicates a contemporary regional identity in Northeast Brazil, is affected by cultural politics, and circulates within the musical market, in order to show how the perceived demands of globalization, such as the need to consume the products of the global entertainment industry, intersect with the dynamics of a regional music community. It was presented at the first Associação Brasileira de Etn… more
Date: November 2002
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
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Partner: UNT College of Music
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Competing Discourses: The Interplay of Musical Style and Patronage in Recife’s New Popular Music Scene

Description: Paper on the factors that affected of alternative popular music in Recife, Brazil. The contrasts between the discourses of bands, producers, and patrons reflect larger tensions in the Recife alternative music scene, which in turn point towards ruptures in the relationship between mainstream and alternative cultural production in Brazil.
Date: July 6, 2001
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
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Partner: UNT College of Music
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Mangue Beat and Popular Culture

Description: This essay explores the author's perspective of Mangue Beat and popular culture. The discussion of popular culture focuses on the musical aspects of popular culture, especially those he experienced during his time living in Recife, Brazil from 1990-91. It includes a translation into Brazilian Portuguese by André Curiati de Paula Bueno.
Date: 2003
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick) & Bueno, André Curiati de Paula
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Partner: UNT College of Music
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Regional Identity, Cultural Politics, and the Circulation of Musical Ideas: Alternative Popular Music in Northeast Brazil

Description: This paper explains how alternative music communicates a contemporary regional identity in Northeast Brazil, is affected by cultural politics, and circulates within the musical market, in order to show how the perceived demands of globalization, such as the need to consume the products of the global entertainment industry, intersect with the dynamics of a regional music community. It was presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology held in Detroit, Michigan on October… more
Date: October 2001
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
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Partner: UNT College of Music
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The Charanga in New York, 1987-88: Musical Style, Performance Context, and Tradition

Description: This study describes the state of the charanga, a Latin popular music ensemble, in New York in 1987–1988. After sketching the historical background of the ensemble, I will present and analyze data derived from primary fieldwork with Orquesta Broadway and secondary work with La Orquesta Típica Novel and Charanga América in the domains of musical style, performance context, and tradition.
Date: 2020
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
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Partner: UNT College of Music
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Collaboration, Learning, and Connect

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper describes the projects completed by music students at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil in a programme exploring how participatory arts projects can be led using highly student centered, creative approaches.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Feichas, Heloisa & Wells, Robert
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Partner: UNT College of Music
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