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The craft of improvisation at the organ has survived a long period of dormancy and is experiencing a strong resurgence in the twenty-first century. This project seeks to establish a precedence for the value of notated music as a resource in learning improvisation, and then, through music analysis, provide examples of how that process can develop. The result of the ideas presented here is a pathway whereby any disciplined organist can learn to imitate composed music, assimilate the musical ideas, and innovate through the act of spontaneous improvisation.
ContributorsHoward, Devon (Author) / Marshall, Kimberly (Thesis advisor) / Ryan, Russell (Committee member) / Kocour, Michael (Committee member) / Norton, Kay (Committee member) / Rockmaker, Jody (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
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The unmeasured Fantasias by Johann Gottfried Müthel appear as part of a collection of pedagogical exercises to foster improvisation. The information he gives in the notation of his fantasias can be elucidated with a historiographical interpretation of musical rhetoric. Müthel developed musical figures and contrasting textures in accordance with contemporary rhetorical principles of inventio, dispositio and elaboratio. An analysis of Müthel’s G-minor Fantasia provides a link between musical rhetoric and performance, as seen through its improvisatory gestures. Issues of performance practice that arise in the G-minor Fantasia are the execution of ornaments, rhythmic alterations, registration, and articulation. This paper explores primary sources contemporary to Müthel to make sense of these issues. The unmeasured Fantasias are written for a keyboard with pedal. At the time that they were written, the pedal fortepiano and pedal clavichord were seen by musicians such as Carl Phillip Emanual Bach to be the superior instruments for performing improvisations. While the notation and texture of the Fantasias suggests that Müthel intended them for organ, a consideration of the possibilities provided by the fortepiano suggests that it may be more suited to conveying aspects of the galant aesthetic.
ContributorsMealey, Natalie (Author) / Marshall, Kimberly (Thesis advisor) / Ryan, Russell (Committee member) / Rockmaker, Jody (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
Description
Fingerboard study is an essential component of the college guitar curriculum. A Course on Guitar Fingerboard Melody and Harmony is a method to acquire and integrate fundamental music vocabulary for the guitar performer, interpreter, improvisor, and composer, the end goal being mastery of musical vocabulary to enable artistic freedom and creative depth. This class design facilitates a solid foundation of fundamental components and provides a framework for further study and integration. It offers a concise yet intense course that consolidates, codifies, explores, and applies scale, interval, and chord vocabulary through interpretive, compositional, and improvisational engagement. This project aspires to contribute to the discipline of guitar, its canon, and its pedagogy. This programmed curriculum offers a comprehensive one-year, two-semester, college-level course on fundamental music vocabulary on the guitar fretboard. Its design facilitates a solid foundation for fundamental musical components, equips the student with a working scale and chord vocabulary, reveals how vocabulary is generated on any fretted instrument, and provides a framework for further study and integration. Semester one facilitates in-depth scale and interval study, while semester two investigates triads and seventh chords, reflecting one, two, three, and four voices textures. Each unit contains lessons, assignments, and integration activities. This document provides both teacher edition, units one through four, and student workbook, units five through eight.
Students of A Course on Guitar Fingerboard Melody and Harmony can expect dramatic strides in their understanding of musical vocabulary, its applications, and their abilities to associate and engage in real-time interpretative, compositional, and improvisational contexts. Fingerboard knowledge greatly enhances sight reading skills and enables the interpreter to find fingerings that express the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic character of any particular musical gesture, and consequently, an entire composition. Guitar composers will be most effective when they know the possibilities and parameters of musical vocabulary on the instrument. Often, the study of vocabulary can inform and expand a composer's sonic palette and conception. For improvisers, fingerboard comprehension allows access to any interval, scale, arpeggio, or voicing the ear desires, regardless of where they happen to find themselves on the instrument in that unique moment.
ContributorsZweig, Phillip (Author) / Kim, Ji Leon (Thesis advisor) / Swartz, Jonathan (Committee member) / Rockmaker, Jody (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
Description
Light Emerging is a symphonic dance suite in five movements. The work’s approximate length is 25 minutes; it is scored for flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, horn in F, trumpet in C with loop pedal, trombone, percussion, electronic percussion, piano, strings, and fixed media. Each movement of the dance suite is written to be performed as a standalone piece or together as one multimovement work. The music showcases open quintal sonorities layered in conflicting substructures, which contract into denser brooding passages and transform into tonal fanfares.
Attempting to capture the essence of how humanity uniquely experiences light and assigns personification to it, the composer presents light and dark as the main characters in a grand ballet of good and evil. Prism (Movement I) is an overture that is constantly shifting and evolving. A rainbow of colors is presented by the various orchestra members, as timbral and pitch evolutions showcase the ever-changing perspectives of a prism held to light. Yin/Yang (Movement II) explores the relationship between light and dark. The solo clarinet represents light breaking through the darkness as its colorful flourishes pierce through the brooding fixed media. Sunrise (Movement III) captures the impressive majesty of light bursting over the dark horizon in the early morning. Lux (Movement IV) is a dance of light, using solo trumpet and a chorus of phantom trumpets. Light Eternal (Movement V) expresses the deep need for humans to worship that which is unknown and eternal, and the power of light to overcome the dark. The “March of Eternal Light” signals our end in this world and the journey to the beyond.
Attempting to capture the essence of how humanity uniquely experiences light and assigns personification to it, the composer presents light and dark as the main characters in a grand ballet of good and evil. Prism (Movement I) is an overture that is constantly shifting and evolving. A rainbow of colors is presented by the various orchestra members, as timbral and pitch evolutions showcase the ever-changing perspectives of a prism held to light. Yin/Yang (Movement II) explores the relationship between light and dark. The solo clarinet represents light breaking through the darkness as its colorful flourishes pierce through the brooding fixed media. Sunrise (Movement III) captures the impressive majesty of light bursting over the dark horizon in the early morning. Lux (Movement IV) is a dance of light, using solo trumpet and a chorus of phantom trumpets. Light Eternal (Movement V) expresses the deep need for humans to worship that which is unknown and eternal, and the power of light to overcome the dark. The “March of Eternal Light” signals our end in this world and the journey to the beyond.
ContributorsJohnson, Brice (Author) / Rogers, Rodney (Thesis advisor) / Rockmaker, Jody (Committee member) / Suzuki, Kotoka (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019
Description
This project explores the cultivation of artistic methodologies centered in embodied movement practices. I worked in collaboration with dancers to inform the development of a movement vocabulary that is authentic to the individual as well as to the content of the work. Through the interplay between movement and subconscious response to elements such as writing, imagery, and physical environments I created authentic kinesthetic experiences for both dancer and audience. I submerged dancers into a constructed environment by creating authentic mental and physical experiences that supported the development of embodied movement. This was the impetus to develop the evening length work, Flesh Narratives, which consisted of five vignettes, each containing its own distinctive creative process driven by the content of each section. This project was presented January 29- 31, 2016 in the Fine Arts Center room 122, an informal theatre space, that supplemented an immersive experience in an intimate environment for forty viewers. This project explored themes of transformation including cycles, concepts of life, death and reincarnation, and enlightenment. Through the art of storytelling, the crafting of embodied movers, and the theory of Hauntology, the viewer was taken on a journey of struggle, loss, and rebirth.
ContributorsGerena, Jenny (Author) / Standley, Eileen (Thesis advisor) / Rosenkrans, Angela (Committee member) / Britt, Melissa (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2016
Description
The ASU School of Dance presents Emerging Artists I, February 9-12, with works by guest artists, dance faculty, and students, performed at Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.
ContributorsSedlack, Kate (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Costume designer) / Bormann, Megan (Dancer) / Brack, Ashley (Dancer) / Hauk, Chelsey (Dancer) / Koeppel, Alex (Dancer) / Pesque, Julia (Dancer) / Roberts, Cassie (Dancer) / Roethler, Eva (Dancer) / Spenceley, Jenni (Dancer) / Trujillo, David (Dancer) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Artistic director, Choreographer, Lighting designer, Costume designer) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Technical director, Set designer, Lighting designer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer) / Swayze, William (Sound designer, Composer) / Archambault, Jared (Stage manager) / King, Natalie (Dancer) / Skrentny, Adrian (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Costume designer, Set designer, Dancer) / Bajromovic, Saban (Musician) / Parsons, Niamh (Musician) / Cortez, Sarah (Dancer) / Galindo, Rolanda (Dancer) / Kenworthy, Julianna (Dancer, Choreographer, Costume designer) / Kriston, Jordan (Dancer) / Wong, Jennifer (Dancer) / Taylor, Michelle (Choreographer) / Hart, Keira (Lighting designer) / Smith, Vanessa (Costume designer, Dancer) / Chesley, Andrea (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Costume designer, Dancer) / Chappman, Richard (Composer, Performer) / Childers, Emily (Dancer) / Cortez, Maggie (Dancer) / Howe, Martha E. (Choreographer) / Blake, Casey (Lighting designer) / Blukis, Audrey (Dancer) / Holcman, Sarah (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Costume designer, Set designer) / Lecuona, Margarita (Musician) / Santaolalla, Gustavo (Musician) / Aste, Cuti (Musician) / Lobos, Jorge (Musician) / Zamora, Maria Esther (Musician) / González, Polito (Musician) / Lindl, Roberto (Musician) / Sternke, Amy (Dancer) / Anderson, Laurie (Musician) / McGloin, Aaron (Lighting designer) / Bingle, Meghan (Dancer) / Jordan, Paul (Dancer) / Kuo, Alexis I-Cheng (Dancer) / Lederman, Christiana (Dancer) / Lerner, Kristin (Dancer) / Parish, Sara (Dancer) / Hatzis, Amy E. (Choreographer, Composer, Costume designer, Lighting designer) / Dumont, Marguerite (Dancer) / Ebling, Brett (Dancer) / Kettner, Lauren (Dancer) / Pannier, Nicci (Dancer) / Kelley, Jean (Costume designer, Dancer) / Monk, Meredith (Composer) / Kriston, Micah (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Costume designer) / Fox, Stacey (Cinematographer) / Herberger Institute School of Dance (Musician)
Created2006
Description
The ASU School of Dance presents New Danceworks I, October 20-23, with works by dance graduate students, performed at the Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.
ContributorsBlake, Casey (Choreographer) / Niehaus, AJ (Choreographer, Composer, Costume designer, Dancer, Set designer) / Fellenz, Aaron (Lighting designer) / Niehaus, Susan (Costume designer) / Bingle, Meghan (Dancer) / Rajko, Stjepan (Dancer, Dancer) / Ryan, Rachel (Dancer) / Wong, Siew (Dancer) / Hart, Keira (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Set designer, Dancer) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Lighting designer, Technical director) / Holcman, Sarah (Dancer, Performer) / Kriston, Jordan (Dancer) / Lederman, Christiana (Dancer) / McGloin, Aaron (Dancer, Performer) / Iglesias, Alberto (Musician) / Burnett, Cherie (Dancer) / Kelley, Jean (Dancer) / Kemmerer, Shelley (Dancer) / Piver, Harper (Dancer) / Richardson, Katheryn (Dancer) / Young, Liz (Choreographer, Costume designer) / Stevens, Sufjan (Composer) / Nielsdottir, Sigridur (Composer) / Shustankovich, Dmitri (Composer) / Everett, Mark Oliver (Composer) / Wainright, Rufus (Composer) / Coates, Steven (Composer) / Swayze, William (Sound designer) / Atwood, Laura (Lighting designer, Stage manager) / Burns, Tuey (Performer) / Howe, Martha (Performer) / Kenworthy, Julianna (Performer) / Maywald, Marilyn (Performer) / Parish, Sara (Performer) / Richardson, Kathryn (Performer) / Wajih, Sonja (Performer) / Tsukayama, Jennifer (Artistic director) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Galina, Mihaleva (Costume designer)
Created2005
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The ASU School of Dance presents Sharing Unimaginable Worlds: Spring Concert 2006, April 27-30, with works by dance faculty, alumni, graduate, undergraduate, and visiting artists, performed at Galvin Playhouse.
ContributorsBauer, Lindsey (Choreographer, Costume designer) / Atwood, Laura (Composer) / Vessey, Julia (Lighting designer, Dancer) / Adams, Shardai (Dancer) / Allred, Candice (Dancer) / Braun, Cc (Dancer) / Caban, Francesco (Dancer) / Evans, Laura (Mitchell) (Dancer) / Felix, Steven (Dancer) / Fisher, Rose (Dancer) / Gill, Kimisha (Dancer) / Howe, Martha E. (Dancer) / Hutchinson, Kade (Dancer) / Jones, Monique (Dancer) / McCaskill, Katie (Dancer) / McDonald, Maria (Dancer) / Manus, Nicole (Dancer) / Nielsen, Erica (Dancer) / Rajko, Stjepan (Dancer) / Robinette, Danae (Dancer) / Ross, Janie (Dancer) / Ryan, Rachel (Dancer) / Verrelli, Emily (Dancer) / Willis, Blaire (Dancer) / Zaksek, Brittany (Dancer) / Zeims, Ellie (Dancer) / Karpanty, Kimberly (Choreographer) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Lighting designer, Technical director, Lighting designer, Set designer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer, Costume designer) / Burnett, Cherie (Dancer) / Dessingue, Colette (Dancer) / Kriston, Jordan (Dancer) / Lathrop, Cerrin (Dancer) / Roberts, Cassie (Dancer) / Sedlack, Kate (Dancer) / Gandolfi, Tristan (Dancer) / Kettner, Lauren (Dancer) / Koretski, Marissa (Dancer) / Kuo, Alexis I-Cheng (Dancer) / McGloin, Aaron (Dancer, Lighting designer) / Reker, Steven (Dancer) / Scott, Jillian (Dancer, Choreographer, Dancer) / Schupp, Karen (Choreographer, Dancer) / Koch, Carolyn (Lighting designer) / Vanier, Luc (Director, Choreographer) / Burns, Christopher (Musician) / Maruszewski, Evan (Animator) / Ma, Shouze (Choreographer, Dancer, Artistic director) / Pärt, Arvo (Musician) / Bruch, Max (Musician) / Blukis, Audrey (Dancer) / Kelley, Jean (Dancer) / Parish, Sara (Dancer) / Bingle, Meghan (Choreographer, Dancer) / Flanagan, Mollie (Lighting designer) / Harrison, Lauren (Dancer) / Tonding, Tara (Dancer) / Lavista, Claudia (Choreographer, Costume designer) / Ruiz, Victor Manuel (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Costume designer) / Garcia, Jesus "Chui" (Musician) / Hart, Keira (Dancer) / Kemmerer, Shelley (Dancer) / Kenworthy, Julianna (Dancer) / Lederman, Christiana (Dancer) / Milam, Nichole (Dancer) / Richardson, Kathryn (Dancer) / Smith, Vanessa (Dancer) / Swayze, William (Sound designer) / Herberger Institute School of Dance (Musician)
Created2006
Description
The ASU School of Dance presents Poetry Both Fierce and Fragile: Spring Concert, April 19-22, with works by guest artists, dance faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students, performed at Galvin Playhouse.
ContributorsMesman, Travis (Choreographer, Dancer) / Coltrane, Ravi (Musician, Performer) / Perdomo, Luis (Performer) / Gress, Drew (Performer) / Strickland, E.J. (Performer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer) / Sandstrom, Philip W. (Lighting designer) / Nagrin, Daniel (Director) / Tovson, Kristin (Choreographer) / Basting, Samantha (Dancer) / Malan-McDonald, Sara (Dancer) / Mapes, Aileen (Dancer) / Keuter, Cliff (Choreographer, Set designer, Costume designer) / Kaplan, Robert (Musician) / Parish, Sara (Costume designer, Dancer) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Lighting designer, Set designer, Technical director) / Moses, Robert (Choreographer) / Branca, Glenn (Musician) / Cardoza, Alicia (Dancer) / Howe, Martha E. (Dancer) / Massiah, Monique (Dancer) / Doherty, Kelley (Dancer) / Harrison, Christina (Dancer, Performer) / Mooney, Elina (Choreographer, Artistic director) / Ettinger, John (Musician) / Hester, Michael (Musician) / Smith, J. B. (Musician) / Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald (Dancer) / Ma, Shouze (Dancer) / Limon, Jose (Choreographer) / Kodaly, Zoltan (Musician) / Watt, Nina (Director) / Lee, Ming Cho (Costume designer, Set designer) / McGloin, Aaron (Performer) / Balderamma, Andrew (Performer) / Baum, Doug (Performer) / Johnson, George (Performer, Performer) / McNamara, Caitlyn (Performer) / Sheldrick, Sarah (Performer) / Spondello, Alison (Performer) / Grabionowski, Nicole (Performer) / Hancock, Whitney (Performer) / Hauk, Chelsey (Performer) / Kosowski, Jenna (Performer) / Wooldridge, Holly (Performer) / Evans, Laura (Performer) / Mollicone, Karissa (Performer) / Felix, Steven (Performer) / Trujillo, Davey (Performer) / Bormann, Megan (Performer) / Clegg, Brittany (Performer) / DeVries, Debbie (Performer) / Sakolsky-Basquill, Lydia (Performer) / Schwab, Katies (Performer) / Koch, Carolyn (Production manager) / Swayze, William (Sound designer)
Created2007
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The ASU School of Dance presents Emerging Artists I, February 15-18, with works by guest artists, dance faculty, and undergrad students, performed at Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.
ContributorsTsukayama, Jennifer (Choreographer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Dessingue, Colette (Costume designer, Dancer) / Ammerman, Mark (Lighting designer, Set designer) / Burnett, Cherie (Dancer, Choreographer, Costume designer, Lighting designer) / Doherty, Kelly (Dancer) / Lathrop, Cerrin (Dancer, Choreographer, Costume designer, Lighting designer) / Scott, Jillian (Dancer, Choreographer, Costume designer, Lighting designer) / Happel, Nancy (Choreographer, Costume designer) / Brahem, Anauar (Musician) / Kuo, I-Wen (Costume designer) / McGloin, Aaron (Lighting designer, Stage manager) / Kuo, Alexis I-Cheng (Dancer) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Choreographer) / Albeniz, Isaac (Musician) / Nitz, Ryan (Performer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer) / Vessey, Julia (Lighting designer, Set designer) / Wajih, Sonja (Dancer) / Scott, Laurie (Lighting designer) / Faciana, Maria (Dancer) / Roberts, Cassandra (Dancer) / Millford, Tobie (Musician) / Massiah, Monique (Dancer) / Roberts, Cassie (Dancer) / Van Buskirk, Kelly (Dancer) / Allred, Candice (Choreographer, Costume designer, Lighting designer) / Adams, Shardai (Dancer) / Caron, Bridgette (Dancer) / Hammer, Michelle (Dancer) / Hughes, Whitney (Dancer) / Kozulla, Ashle (Dancer) / Blukis, Audrey (Dancer) / Mc Caskill, Katie (Dancer) / Mooney, Elina (Artistic director) / Koch, Carolyn (Production manager) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Technical director, Set designer) / Swayze, William (Sound designer) / Murphey, Claudia (Artistic director)
Created2007