Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006. / For B♭ clarinet, alto saxophone, violin, violoncello, percussion (vibraphone, timpani) and piano. Document formatted into pages; contains 1 score (26 p.) Duration: ca. 13 min. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.M.) Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Ladislav Kubik, Florida State University, College of Music. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed 8-20-2007). Document formatted into pages; contains 49 pages. For flute, saxophone, bassoon, piano, violin, violoncello, and percussion (2 players). Includes biographical sketch.

Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / For alto saxophone in E♭, violoncello, piano, percussion (vibraphone, crystal glasses (C,E,G♯, B)) Document formatted into pages; contains 1 score (19 p.) Duration: ca. 13 min. Includes bibliographical references.

First part for bass flute with b-foot, and computer; 2nd part for metal percussion (vibraphone, glockenspiel, crotales) and computer; 3rd part for clarinet (in A and B-flat) and computer. Includes specifications for computer. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-50).

abstract: Venezuelan maraca playing is largely unknown to musicians with Western Art Music backgrounds. While some composers utilize the instrument and its associated performance practices, the resources available to learn about the subject are limited and scattered. Through research, observations, and studying with correspondences, this document will explore the vastness of Venezuelan musical concepts and maraca techniques to seek out common goals and generate a resource that is accessible to musicians and musicologists. A large part of this research will focus on the Contemporary Music in the Western tradition that has been inspired by Venezuelan maraca playing. I will explain the context in which this music is commonly found and how to apply it to a contemporary setting. The individuals I interviewed span a variety of backgrounds and expertise. All have extensive experience in Venezuelan maraca traditions. Their individual points of view will give unique perspectives to help affix the music of the past to the creation of music in the future. The limited resources on this subject inhibit education, performance quality, new music, and further research. Ultimately, my document and recordings will provide imperative examples to help develop a greater understanding of an understudied Venezuelan art form. / Dissertation/Thesis / recording of Music for Botany / recording of Javier Alvarez's Temazcal / D.M.A. Music 2012

abstract: This document examines select percussion works of Toshi Ichiyanagi (b. 1933), in order to create a resource that brings exposure and sparks interest in his percussion music. Ichiyanagi has long been one of Japan’s leading composers. However, despite having a successful career since the 1960s, he is not well-known in the United States. Furthermore, his close associations with celebrated American avant-garde composers and performers like John Cage, David Tudor, and La Monte Young, make Ichiyanagi’s virtual obscurity in the United States even more striking. Particularly, for a field birthed in the avant-garde, it is surprising that many of his percussion compositions avoid mainstream recognition. For the study, the author prepared and performed a recital of the five works that are discussed: Wind Trace (1984), Trio Interlink (1990), Rhythm Gradation (1993), Perspectives II (1996), and Ballade (2002). The document is a performance guide that also provides background information on each piece. The guide discusses technical and interpretative issues uncovered through firsthand preparation and performance, and provides suggestions to solve them. At the conclusion, the author draws connections between these pieces, to highlight similarities that will be helpful to consider when preparing performances of any of his works involving percussion. Finally, an exhaustive catalog of known Ichiyanagi percussion works is provided as a resource for further performance and research. Ichiyanagi has been writing for percussion since the 1970s. His catalog includes solos, chamber pieces, ensemble pieces, mixed-chamber pieces, and concerti. With recent compositions like Marimba Scenery (2011), Concerto for marimba and orchestra (2012), and the duo Two Dimensions (2012), Ichiyanagi continues to write for percussion. Virtuosi such as Sumire Yoshihara, Atsushi Sugahara, Momoko Kamiya, and Mutsuko Taneya have commissioned and premiered works by the composer. These pieces are on par with the challenging repertoire that has dominated percussion literature since the mid-twentieth century. Nonetheless, the author has found no existing document that is fully devoted to Ichiyanagi’s percussion work. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2017

abstract: Phantom Sun is a ten-minute piece in three sections, and is composed for flute, clarinet in b-flat, violin, cello, and percussion. The three-part structure for this work is a representation of the atmospheric phenomenon after which the composition is named. A phantom sun, also called a parhelion or sundog, is a weather-related phenomenon caused by the horizontal refraction of sunlight in the upper atmosphere. This refraction creates the illusion of three suns above the horizon, and is often accompanied by a bright halo called the circumzenithal arc. The halo is caused by light bending at 22° as it passes through hexagonal ice crystals. Consequently, the numbers six and 22 are important figures, and have been encoded into this piece in various ways. The first section, marked “With concentrated intensity,” is characterized by the juxtaposition of tonal ambiguity and tonal affirmation, as well as the use of polymetric counterpoint (often 7/8 against 4/4 or 7/8 against 3/4). The middle section, marked “Crystalline,” provides contrast in its use of unmetered sections and independent tempos. The refraction of light is represented in this movement by a 22-note row based on a hexachord (B-flat, F, C, G, A, E) introduced in measure 164 of the first section. The third section, marked “With frenetic energy,” begins without pause on an arresting entrance of the drums playing an additive rhythmic pattern. This pattern (5+7+9+1) amounts to 22 eighth-note pulses and informs much of the motivic and structural considerations for the remainder of the piece. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Composition 2017

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:35:35Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ruger_acl_me_ia.pdf: 743415 bytes, checksum: cfae5132a61a3d043568ea11a17ea1d0 (MD5) / A presente dissertação é o resultado de uma pesquisa-ação realizada no IA-UNESP, pelo aluno Alexandre Cintra Leite Ruger intutulada A percursão corporal como proposta de sensibilização musical para atores e estudantes de teatro, com a orientação da Profa. Dra. Sonia Regina Albano de Lim. Teve como objetivo refletir e avaliar a prática de ensino do mestrando sob o ponto de vista pedagógico, artístico musical e científico no curso de extensão oferecido para os alunos de primeiro ano do curso de licenciatura em artes cênicas coordenado pela Profa. Dra. Carminda Mesdes André e na preparação musical do grupo teatral Atrás do Grito, com direção de Osvaldo Anzolin, ambos do IA-UNESP. Foi importante para a pesquisa observar se a prática docente desenvolvida pelo mestrando nos cursos realizados seria um meio eficaz para sensibilizar alunos de artes cênica. O trabalho científico justificava-se na ausência quase que completa de um ensino musical sensibilizatório parfa os estudantes da área de cênicas. Os resultados pretendidos com essa prática docente concentrava-se na hipótese de que o trabalho de sensibilização musical propiciaria aos alunos de artes cênicas, um aguçar da percepção musical e rítmica, trazendo-lhes maior desenvoltura corporal e expressividade em cena. A fundamentação teórica da pesquisa estabeleceu-se a partir de uma revisão bibliográfica que se concentrou em três pontos básicos: o corpo e o ensino musical, a compreensão do binômio corpo-mente e o ensino musical nas artes cênicas como meio de desenvolvimento da expressividade e da conscientização corporal. O mestrando flundamentou sua práticac de docência e a pesquisa em alguns ensinamentos de Emmile Jacques-Dalcroz, Carl Orff, Edgard Willens Murray Schafer e no trabalho de percussão corporal desenvolvido pelo grupo Barbatuques.... / This thesis is the result of a research-action carried through in IA-UNESP, by the researcher Alexandre Cintra Leite Ruger called The Body Percussion proposed as musical sensitization for the actors and theater students, with the orientation of Profa. Dra. Sonia Regina Albano de Lima. The objective is to reflect and to evaluate the way of teaching of the researcher under the pedagogical, artistic-musical and scientific points of views in the extension course offered for the pupils of the firs year of the licentiate cours in scenic arts, coordinated by Profa. Dra. Carminda Mesdes André and in the musical preparation of the theatrical group Atrás do Grito, with Osvaldo Anzolin direction, both of the IA-UNESP. It was important for the research to observe if the teaching developed by the resarcher in the courses would be an efficient way to sensetize pupils of scenic arts. The scientific work was justified by the almost complete absence of a sensitizing musical education for the students of scenic arts. The intended results with this teaching were concentrated in the hypothesis that the work of musical sensitization would propiatiate the pupils of scenic arts, to sharpen the musical and rhytimic perception , briging bigger body nimbleness and expressiveness in scene. The research theoretical grounding was established from a bibliographical revision that concentred in three basic points: the body and musical education, the understanding of the binominal body-mind and musical education in the scenic arts as a mean of development of the expressiveness and the body awareness. The resarcher based his way lof teaching of the resarch on some techiniques of Emmile Jacques-Dalcroze, Carl Orff, Edgard Willens Murray Schafer and tin the work of body developed bye the Gorup Barbatuques. ...(Complet abstract, access undermentioned eletronic adress)

Every percussionist is faced with many challenges in their studies and their careers.  In this paper I hope to shed light on what kind of work goes into preparing, practising and performing a large solo percussion piece and share some of my personal experience with solo percussion music. This is done by choosing a piece from the repertoire and documenting what processes and methods are used from the time a piece has been chosen until it is ready for performance. The subject of this thesis is Rebonds b by Iannis Xenakis for solo percussion. The result is a blueprint that can be useful for young percussionists when they are faced with a large piece from the repertoire and guidelines for what to do when faced with challenges.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Esta pesquisa tem como tema central o processo contÃnuo de formaÃÃo humana e musical dos integrantes do Grupo de MÃsica Percussiva AcadÃmicos da Casa Caiada (GMPACC) da Universidade Federal do Cearà (UFC). O interesse por esse aspecto veio da minha prÃpria experiÃncia com atividades de percussÃo dentro da Universidade Federal do Cearà - UFC, em organizaÃÃes nÃo governamentais (ONGs) e em grupos de maracatus, na cidade de Fortaleza. Pude observar que a partir de 2006 houve um aumento significativo do surgimento de grupos percussivos voltados para atividades no perÃodo carnavalesco e tambÃm a grande procura de pessoas em participar destes agrupamentos na cidade. Na UFC, criou-se em 2008 um projeto de extensÃo do curso de licenciatura em mÃsica da UFC denominado pela sigla GMPACC, tendo a coordenaÃÃo do Prof. Dr. Erwin Schrader e sob minha regÃncia a partir de 2009. O grupo possui como proposta oferecer uma formaÃÃo humana e musical atravÃs das prÃticas percussivas em contexto colaborativo, principalmente, para jovens das escolas pÃblicas do bairro de Messejana. Desde o ano de 2009 atà 2012, certifiquei que alguns integrantes fazem parte do projeto desde o inÃcio das atividades e vale reforÃar que o grupo nÃo à voltado apenas para atividades carnavalescas como se apresenta, normalmente, no cenÃrio percussivo em Fortaleza. A partir dessa permanÃncia dos ritmistas no grupo pude indagar sobre o que caracteriza e como acontece o processo contÃnuo de formaÃÃo humana e musical dos integrantes permanentes no GMPACC (UFC) sob uma perspectiva de EducaÃÃo Musical no perÃodo dos anos de 2009 a 2012. Para realizaÃÃo desta pesquisa tÃm-se como suporte teÃrico autores como Ribeiro (1996) e Miranda (2009) sobre a temÃtica dos contextos percussivos no Brasil; Prass (2004) e Schrader (2011), com pesquisas sobre percussÃo e educaÃÃo musical; e Matos (2008) e Freire (1996), trazendo uma perspectiva sobre processos formativos e prÃticas colabortivas. A metodologia serà de abordagem qualitativa e com o delineamento de estudo de caso. Os instrumentos de coleta dos dados serÃo o levantamento bibliogrÃfico, acesso a documentos e aplicaÃÃo de entrevistas, tendo como mÃtodo de anÃlise as fundamentaÃÃes teÃricas iluminando os dados levantados a partir das entrevistas. Assim, esta pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar o processo contÃnuo de formaÃÃo humana e musical dos integrantes permanentes no GMPACC (UFC) sob uma perspectiva de EducaÃÃo Musical no perÃodo dos anos de 2009 a 2012, esperando contribuir para uma melhor compreensÃo do espaÃo formativo educacional atravÃs da percussÃo na UFC, os aspectos formativos na educaÃÃo e o fazer musical criativo que a prÃtica percussiva em contexto colaborativo poderà propiciar ao campo da EducaÃÃo Musical. / This research has as its central theme the continuous process of the human and musical education of the members of âGrupo de MÃsica Percussiva AcadÃmicos da Casa Caiada (GMPACC)â {Academics of the Whitewashed House Percussion Music Group [AWHPMG]}. The interest in this aspect arose from my own experience with percussion activities at the university, in non-goverment organisations (NGOs) and âMaracatuâ groups, in the city of Fortaleza. I was able to observe that from 2006 there has been a significant increase in the appearance of percussion groups focussed upon activities in the carnival period as well as a great demand for people to participate in these groups in the city. At CFU (Cearà Federal University) an extension project was created in 2008 to the CFU\'s Music HND Course known by the initials AWHPMG, under the co-ordenation of Prof. Dr. Erwin Schrader and conducted by me since 2009. The group has as its objective to offer a human, musical and artistic education through percussion activities in a collaborative context, especially for young people of the state schools of the Messejana neighbourhood. Since 2009 and until 2012, I confirmed that some members have been part of the project since it began its activities and it is fitting to stress that the group in not focused only upon carnival activities as it is usually presented in Fortaleza\'s percussion scene. From this constancy of group\'s rhythm section I was able to ascertain what characterises the continuous process of human and musical education and how it occurs with the permanent members of the AWHPMG (CFU) through the perspective of Musical Education in the period of the years 2009 to 2012. In order to carry out this research there were in the role of technical support authors such as Ribeiro (1996) and Miranda (2009) with regard to the theme of percussive contexts in Brazil; Prass (2004) and Schrader (2011), with research on percussion and musical education; and Matos(2008) and Freire (1996), bringing together a perspective of formative and educational processes. The methodology will be by way of a qualitative approach and with the guidelines of case studies. The instruments of data collection will be a bibliographical survey, access to documentation and the application of interviews, having as analytical method the theoretical fundaments linked to the discourse of the interviewees. Thus, the objective of the research aims analyse the continuous process of the human and musical education of the âpermanent membersâ of the AWHPMG (CFU) under a perspective of Musical Education in the period between 2009 and 2012, aiming to contribute towards a better understanding of the formative educational environment through percussion at CFU, of the formative aspects of education and creative musical practice which percussion activities in a collaborative context may provide the the field of Musical Education.