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In order to cope with the decreasing availability of symphony jobs and collegiate faculty positions, many musicians are starting to pursue less traditional career paths. Also, to combat declining audiences, musicians are exploring ways to cultivate new and enthusiastic listeners through relevant and engaging performances. Due to these challenges, many community-based chamber music ensembles have been formed throughout the United States. These groups not only focus on performing classical music, but serve the needs of their communities as well. The problem, however, is that many musicians have not learned the business skills necessary to create these career opportunities. In this document I discuss the steps ensembles must take to develop sustainable careers. I first analyze how groups build a strong foundation through getting to know their communities and creating core values. I then discuss branding and marketing so ensembles can develop a public image and learn how to publicize themselves. This is followed by an investigation of how ensembles make and organize their money. I then examine the ways groups ensure long-lasting relationships with their communities and within the ensemble. I end by presenting three case studies of professional ensembles to show how groups create and maintain successful careers. Ensembles must develop entrepreneurship skills in addition to cultivating their artistry. These business concepts are crucial to the longevity of chamber groups. Through interviews of successful ensemble members and my own personal experiences in the Tetra String Quartet, I provide a guide for musicians to use when creating a community-based ensemble.
ContributorsDalbey, Jenna (Author) / Landschoot, Thomas (Thesis advisor) / McLin, Katherine (Committee member) / Ryan, Russell (Committee member) / Solis, Theodore (Committee member) / Spring, Robert (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2013
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The performance of Charles Ives's art songs can be challenging to even the most experienced singers, but to beginning singers, they may be even more so, due to such twentieth-century aspects as polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones. However, Ives used previously existing material, often familiar hymn tunes, as the foundation for many of his art songs. If beginning students first are exposed to this borrowed material, such as a simple hymn tune, which should be well within even the most experienced singer's comfort range, they can then learn this tune first, as a more simplistic reference point, and then focus on how Ives altered the tunes, rather then having to learn what seems like an entirely new melody. In this way, Ives's art songs can become more accessible to less-experienced singers. This paper outlines a method for researching and learning the borrowed materials in Ives's songs that utilize them, and reviews materials already commonly used by voice teachers to help beginning students learn their music. By combining this method, which focuses on the borrowed materials, with standard practices teachers can then help their beginning students more easily learn and perform Ives's art songs. Four songs, from the set "Four Hymn Tune Settings" by Charles Ives are used to illustrate this method.
ContributorsRuhleder, Kathleen (Author) / FitzPatrick, Carole (Thesis advisor) / Dreyfoos, Dale (Committee member) / Carpenter, Ellon (Committee member) / May, Judy (Committee member) / Schildkret, David (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
ContributorsWytko, Joseph (Performer) / De Kant, Ronald (Performer) / Roux, Robert Joseph, 1949- (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Nagell, Ann (Performer) / Hamilton, Robert, 1937- (Performer) / Pagano, Caio, 1940- (Performer) / Wright, Anita (Performer) / Petrich, Mary (Performer) / Schmidt, David (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1987-03-16
ContributorsJiang, Danwen (Performer) / McLin, Katherine (Performer) / Swartz, Jonathan (Performer) / Buck, Nancy (Performer) / Landschoot, Thomas (Performer) / Rotaru, Catalin (Performer) / Schuring, Martin (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Pagano, Caio, 1940- (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2006-03-26
ContributorsLeek, Anne (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Rausch, Jack (Performer) / Bacon, Thomas (Performer) / Spinosa, Frank, 1930- (Conductor) / Kliewer-Britton, Darleen (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Doan, Jerry (Performer) / Peterson, Craig C. (Director) / Chamber Singers (Performer) / Chamber Orchestra (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1991-09-14
ContributorsMay, Judy (Performer) / Doan, Jerry (Narrator) / Perantoni, Daniel (Performer) / Smith, J. B., 1957- (Performer) / Wytko, Joseph (Performer) / Lockwood, Ralph (Performer) / Hamilton, Robert, 1937- (Performer) / Meyer, Janice (Performer) / Wright, Anita (Performer) / LaMonica, Michael (Performer) / Anthony, Jeffrey (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1989-11-07
ContributorsCampbell, Andrew (Pianist) (Performer) / McLin, Katherine (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Schupp, Karen (Performer) / FitzPatrick, Carole (Performer) / Cosand, Walter, 1950- (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2008-01-19
ContributorsBronkhorst, Julia (Performer) / McLin, Katherine (Performer) / Buck, Nancy (Performer) / Gardner, Joshua (Performer) / Campbell, Andrew (Pianist) (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2013-09-16
ContributorsSchuring, Martin (Performer) / Campbell, Andrew (Pianist) (Performer) / McLin, Katherine (Performer) / Buck, Nancy (Performer) / Micklich, Albie (Performer) / Cueva, Darren (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2013-09-29
ContributorsCampbell, Andrew (Pianist) (Performer) / FitzPatrick, Carole (Performer) / McLin, Katherine (Performer) / Buck, Elizabeth (Performer) / Schuring, Martin (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Ericson, John Q. (John Quincy), 1962- (Performer) / Micklich, Albie (Performer) / Dreyfoos, Dale (Narrator) / Peterman, Jeremy (Graphic technician deprecated, use Artist)) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2013-01-30